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Hmm, you can pull that shit on a woman and her mother fairly easy. I think Big Chief would go home with a dent in his head if he picked anyone I know.
#3
the common Jackalope in Musth is a Must to Avoid!!
The Common Georgia Swamp Rabbit that almost killed President Carter is a puny Hamster by comparison!!
True Story:
A charging Jackalope in Musth once sliced my left huevo off; luckily it was saved and then sewn back on again *Thank Gawd*, and thanks to those Female EMTs and Doctors I still have a whole pair.
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Last I heard, Big Foot is alive & winning swimming meets in Beijing.
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I for one do believe I saw a genuine FLORIDA/SOUTHERN SWAMP APE many years ago - even as we speak, many Western Perts routinely fail to find the corpses of African Gorillas, Asian Orangutans, North American Grizzles-Black Bears, etc. One should also expect that, as per their Region/Continent-specif natural survival strategies over the millenias, so-called BIGFOOT = YETI, etc? MAY HAD UNDERGONE NORMAL PHYSICAL/ANATOMICAL + BRAIN CHANGES [proteins] = IMPROVEMENTS VV THEIR ANCIENT SIMIAN ANCESTORS???
E.g. "MORGELLONS" > will Mankind devol "back to the future" and dev FEATHERS/WINGS? = FISH SCALES + WEBBED FEET [Kevin Costner = WATERWORLD], perhaps even a HYBRID WINGED/FLYING FISH = FEATHERED [Flying]FISH???
D *** NG IT, LOOKS LIKE THE SUN WANTS US TO BE US PARA-MARINES = [naturally]AMPHIBIOUS + AIRBORNE???
Turkish police closed off main traffic routes in Istanbul during Iranian President Ahmadinejads visit because of a potential threat against him, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Saturday. Heavy security was brought in during Ahmadinejads visit on Thursday and Friday paralysing much of Istanbuls road network because of large traffic jams. Many residents and tourists were stranded by the road closure. Gul apologised for the traffic situation but said Istanbul police had informed him of a possible threat that they could not ignore.
Ahmandinejad also regretted the problems caused, Press TV reported. "I declare my love for the Turks. I am very sorry for the uneasiness felt by Turks and tourists, and I apologise to the Turkish people," the Iranian president said.
LONDON: A Scottish teenage girl has alleged that she was paid £100 to marry a Pakistani in a sham marriage after he was forced to leave Scotland.
Before being deported, Shafiq Chaudhry proposed 17-year-old Claire Given, who worked at his family kabab shop in Catrine, Ayrshire, in a tele-conversation from the Dungavel detention centre, the Sunday Mail reported.
The report said Claire accepted his proposal despite having known him for only about a few weeks and agreed to marry him in the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir town of Mirpur.
"I don't know why I went ahead with it. I didn't love Shafiq and I didn't really want him. I was just stupid and naive," Claire admitted.
"Shafiq was in Scotland on a six-month visa but had over stayed for three years. Last June he was stopped for driving without a license following which the authorities discovered that he was staying illegally."
"I first met him at his uncle's house in Glasgow and we were together for a few weeks but he was seeing someone else and we broke up before he was taken to Dungavel. He phoned me from there last July and proposed. I was drunk and agreed to go to Pakistan and marry him. His Uncle Farooq arranged everything," Claire alleged.
Claire said Farooq arranged the wedding last November. "In the time I knew Shafiq I only had sex with him once - on our wedding night. Then he arranged for me to have my contraceptive implant removed at a private hospital," she alleged.
"I felt pressured into doing that but I agreed. In Pakistan the women do what the men say. We never had sex again. I didn't want to be 17 and pregnant," Claire said.
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Most images of Gaza, home to about 1.2 million Palestinians, are war-torn sketches of violence and bombings, not images of surfers and sand. But this is exactly the scene the lens of American filmmaker Alex Klein focuses upon. His camera points toward the edge of the water, where there's freedom in the surf and the sounds of gunfire are muted. "I went to Israel on a skateboard trip four years ago, and I met Arthur Rashkovan, an Israeli pro skater who started the group Surfing 4 Peace," said Klein, a skater from San Francisco. "At that time he brought 10 surfboards into Gaza and has now decided to up the ante and bring in 22 more as a peace offering between the two surfing communities."
This inspired Klein to spend two months making his first documentary film, "God Went Surfing With the Devil" following the lives of surfers in Israel and Palestine. Klein prepared to cross into the Gaza Strip, which sits ominously and precariously next to Israel, with optimism. "We weren't humanitarian workers or journalists. We were just young guys with a camera," Klein said. "But, we were very lucky, and we ended up meeting with a retired general in the Israel army, who got us military visas."
"Edward Chase, the director of photography, and I got a ride down to the border from Rashkovan," Klein said. "As we approached the border, Rashkovan said, 'I want you to take down these numbers before you go. I know this guy - call him if you get kidnapped. He can negotiate with anyone.'" With the numbers safely tucked away, Klein crossed the border into war-torn territory. Convincing the Israel forces that surfboards were good for humanity was tricky. "The main problem was that the Israel Navy was concerned that the surfboards constitute as a security threat," Klein said. "But we were saying that you want these young males participating in recreation, as opposed to picking up rifles."
Getting into Gaza proved to be easier than getting out. On his way to one last interview with the surfers - and about two hours before he was supposed to leave - Klein was arrested. "This police officer approached us and then did this whistle thing, and all the Hamas officers with machine guns started crowding around and pointing to our cameras," Klein said. The officers were concerned that he had taken photos of the police station, which is a major security risk. Klein offered to show the officers the photos, but they declined, calling for an armed truck to take him to the police station - "the last place that I wanted to go," Klein said. "Everything everyone warned us about was happening." Making matters worse, Klein's Jewish last name was on his passport, a detail he hoped would go unnoticed. To add to his problems, his car had a 400-year-old archived copy of the Torah, and there was a bottle of whisky in his backpack, which is highly illegal.
The officer walked in and started firing off questions in Arabic. "I think he understood English and was just seeing what we would say," Klein said. "Admittedly, our purpose of making a documentary about surfers did sound ridiculous, and after five minutes he realized that we were far too dumb to be any intelligence agents." Hence the term "useful idiots"
The scene quickly turned from tense to relaxed. "The officer got a huge smile on his face and said, 'Welcome to Gaza, have you had a nice day? We are very sorry there has been a huge misunderstanding,'" Klein said. Backtracking out of the Hamas police headquarters, past martyr posters, jihad graffiti and heavily armed men, the filmmakers started their way out of Gaza.
Klein's not saying what happened to the 22 surfboards. "You're going to have to see the film. It's interesting how things played out," he said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Turkish police closed off main traffic routes in Istanbul during Iranian President Ahmadinejads visit because of a potential threat against him, Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Saturday. Heavy security was brought in during Ahmadinejads visit on Thursday and Friday paralysing much of Istanbuls road network because of large traffic jams. Many residents and tourists were stranded by the road closure. Gul apologised for the traffic situation but said Istanbul police had informed him of a possible threat that they could not ignore. 
Most images of Gaza, home to about 1.2 million Palestinians, are war-torn sketches of violence and bombings, not images of surfers and sand. But this is exactly the scene the lens of American filmmaker Alex Klein focuses upon. His camera points toward the edge of the water, where there's freedom in the surf and the sounds of gunfire are muted. "I went to Israel on a skateboard trip four years ago, and I met Arthur Rashkovan, an Israeli pro skater who started the group Surfing 4 Peace," said Klein, a skater from San Francisco. "At that time he brought 10 surfboards into Gaza and has now decided to up the ante and bring in 22 more as a peace offering between the two surfing communities."
