To lighten the thoughts a bit -- from NRO
A leading agricultural show ended in disarray when a young woman performed an impromptu striptease among the cattle lines.
As security officers at the Royal Welsh Show rushed to the scene and tried to restrain her, she was hosed down with water normally used to wash the cattle, preventing them from getting a grip on her. The stripper ended her table-top performance by throwing her thong into the crowd, which was returned on the end of a pitchfork.
The incident happened at a party on Tuesday night held amid cattle lines belonging to breeders from the Welsh Black Cattle Society.
The 102-year-old society, whose patron is the Prince of Wales, said it was outraged at hearing of the "unsavoury" event, and was investigating the claims.
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You should see what strippers do with farm animals in Tijuana , unsavory indeed!
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Hey Gort, don't make fun of the magazine that "made and financed the first 'Cow Census' ever undertaken in the United States".
YJCMTSU
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Hrruumph. An ancient Welsh mid-summer ritual conducted to ensure that the beasties would be properly prepared for autumnal fertility rites. They finally got the stiff necked Christians to quit burning the lasses at the stake for these practices, but they still complain. Maybe they can get the Archbishop of Canterbury to oversee the next invocation of the local spirits, unless hes, of course, too busy bowing in Mecca.
Sen. John Kerry on Monday will propose requiring all Americans to have health insurance by 2012, "with the federal government guaranteeing they have the means to afford it."
The Massachusetts Democrat, whose name is figuring prominently in 2008 White House speculation, will repeat his 2004 presidential campaign call for expanding the federal Medicaid program to cover children.
Keep talking John, Mr. Rove wants you to keep talking ...
In a speech scheduled for midday Monday at Faneuil Hall in Boston, he will advocate creating a program to cover catastrophic cases so an employer providing insurance doesn't have to pass the cost to his other workers, and offering Americans the ability to buy into the same insurance program used by federal workers, such as members of Congress.
Kerry will propose to pay for the program by repealing tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration that benefit those earning over $200,000 annually. He is not expected to immediately elaborate on how he would get his insurance mandate enacted into law. "One of my biggest regrets is that fear talk trumped the health care talk, and that we are less safe abroad and less healthy at home because of that," Kerry will say according to the prepared text of remarks he planned to deliver.
Never mind the collapsing WTC towers, the dead Americans, the 50 million people liberated from fascism, and the Mad Mullahs.
The battle for Minnesota's open U.S. Senate seat is turning into one of the closer races of the 2006 election season in a state once ruled by Democrats but trending Republican in recent years. Even Minnesota's Democratic state chairman, Brian Melendez, told The Washington Times that "this state is about evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. It has become more conservative-leaning in recent years. It's not a state that either party can take for granted."
A little more than three months before Election Day, independent voter polls show Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy trailing Democratic Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar by five percentage points in a contest for the seat held by retiring Sen. Mark Dayton, a Democrat. Mr. Kennedy calls Mr. Dayton "a fringe liberal who got nothing done and wasted the Senate seat for six years." A SurveyUSA election poll of 700 Minnesotans showed Ms. Klobuchar leading Mr. Kennedy 47 percent to 42 percent. Independence Party candidate Robert Fitzgerald, who could be the spoiler in the race, drew 8 percent. The poll, conducted last week for several statewide television stations, has a margin of error of four percentage points.
Earlier this month, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published its Minnesota Poll showing Ms. Klobuchar with a 19-point lead. The Kennedy campaign said the poll has a notorious history of being "skewed against Republicans." Mr. Kennedy, who is in his third term in the House, is attacking Ms. Klobuchar as someone far to the left of Minnesota's political mainstream. He said he will be an independent voice in the Senate, citing his vote against President Bush's proposal to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and his opposition to the president's No Child Left Behind education act.
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I question if these states have become "more" conservative. I doubt that is true. They may have become more "republican" - but that probably has less to do with changing attitudes than it does with the fact that the Democratic party is run by a bunch of wacked out moonbats with ideas that sound like they came from the insane asylum. Whipping up your base to hate Bush is not a party platform.
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A single program can cost billons. So maybe with housing values (property values) increasing and he wacked a few billion dollar line items - it's not that hard to believe. If you remove the corrupt fingers out of medicare, roads, govt, education, etc. contracts - it could easily save billions.
New Delhi - India's President Abdul Kalam says he has not seen a movie for 50 years because he spends so much time reading scientific literature, a report said on Monday.
"You won't believe it but it's true," Kalam, 74, told Radio Kashmir in a weekend visit to revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, The Hindu newspaper reported.
Kalam, father of India's nuclear missile programme who was named president in 2002, said he had not watched a movie in the past 50 years because he was literally wedded to his scientific research, according to the newspaper.
Kalam was nicknamed "missile man" for leading the scientific team who developed missiles to deliver India's atomic warheads.
The bachelor teetotaller, son of an illiterate boatman, is a staunch advocate of homegrown technology as a cure for many of India's problems
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A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
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"I haven't seen a movie for 50 years"
You ain't missed much, honey.
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looks like Chief Dan Georges' younger sister
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KASHMIR: Inside the sanctum sanctorum of the historic Maharani temple here, a diminutive-looking priest recites holy verses loudly. At first glance, he looks like any other Hindu priest, but in reality he is a devout Muslim. Thirty-year old Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh is the caretaker and priest of the 91-year old temple, which houses a Shiv Lingam and idol of Goddess Parvati.
A lingam, for those not familiar, is a doinker...
He has been the priest of this Hindu temple for the last 14 years. Interestingly, he is well-versed in both the Gita and the Quran. He offers Namaaz regularly and also performs aarti at the temple. When everyone left the valley, I was the only person who took care of this temple. Since then I am performing pujas regularly at this temple. And my antecedents have never been questioned. People respect me more when I tell them that I am Muslim, said Sheikh.
Sounds like someone out of Kipling's India...
The Maharani temple also known as Mohineshwari Shivalalaya was built by Mohini Bai Sisodhia, the wife of erstwhile ruler of Kashmir Maharaja Hari Singh, in 1915. The temple had a regular priest until the onset of militancy in the area. After the migration of the pandits, Sheikhs uncle became its priest and caretaker. Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh took over 14 years ago. Since then, he has donned the mantle of priest of this historic temple. The temple remains open everyday from 6am to 9pm. Aarti is performed twice a day for devotees, mostly the tourists. After performing aarti, I offer namaaz, said Sheikh.
Parvati, Shiva, and Allah presumably don't mind as much as the local turbans...
The custodians of the Maharani temple are paying him a paltry sum of Rs 1600 monthly to sustain his family. I have no other income. But the devotees who come to know about my religion sometimes offer some money as a token of gratitude, he said.
Sheikh however, rues that the government has not done anything for him despite the fact he has kept the flame of secularism alive in tough times. My residential quarter suffered damages during the October 8 quake. But not a single penny came my way. The pseudo secularists are being felicitated and Im not even been recognised, he lamented.
Hindu devotees are grateful to him for setting a precedent of Hindu-Muslim unity. All religions preach brotherhood. God is one and he does not discriminate. It makes no difference for us who leads our prayers, said Asha Sadhu Dimri of Pune. Sheikh has also brought another Muslim relative to serve the temple. We consider it our duty to serve the people no matter which religion caste or creed you belong to, said Manzoor Ahmad, a gardener at the temple.
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Pity this is an exception, like the "mench" in Seattle.
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Sen. John Kerry on Monday will propose requiring all Americans to have health insurance by 2012, "with the federal government guaranteeing they have the means to afford it."
