After Anna Briley kicked her boyfriend out of their east Nashville home, the jilted lover took out his frustrations on her pet pig, "Bacon Bit."
Houston had claimed self-defense and said the pig was "messing with his bike and tried to bite him," according to a police report. Police were called to the couple's home at 2614 Flamingo Drive by someone reporting that Briley was gone and Houston was beating the pig in the head and spraying water in its ear with a hose. When police arrived, Bacon Bit was lying motionless on the floor, wet and bleeding with abrasions over its entire body.
Bacon Bit survived the attack.
Houston, in exchange for his deal with prosecutors, was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge. He was originally charged with aggravated animal cruelty, a felony. He has to serve 11 months and 29 days of probation, take anger management classes and perform 20 hours of community service.
He also was ordered to stay away from Briley and Bacon Bit.
First he was missing and now he is gone. Mayor Robert W. Levy of Atlantic City resigned effective today. The city learned Tuesday why and where Mr. Levy took an indefinite medical leave, putting this resort city in municipal limbo for nearly two weeks. He has been under investigation by federal officials regarding his military service in Vietnam.
Mr. Levys lawyer, Edwin J. Jacobs, said today during a televised news conference that Mr. Levys medical problems plus the investigation made it impossible for him to stay in office. Mr. Levy has concluded that public confidence is so eroded by these circumstances that the only responsible action is to step down, Mr. Jacobs said. He does so with great regret and with apologies to his supporters, to the people of Atlantic City, and to his family and friends.
In his resignation letter to the city clerk, Mr. Levy said he had been trying to resolve his differences with the Veterans Administration and the federal government, but whatever the outcome, I am no longer able to discharge my duties as mayor.
Did he return the city's SUV?
Mr. Jacobs said on Tuesday that Mr. Levy had been home for almost a week, and that he had spent the week before in a clinic that specializes in treating substance abuse and depression.
Best wishes, Mayor Levy. I hope you get the help that you need.
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NYSlimes: Democrats may be concerned that the embarrassing episode could affect this falls elections, including the races for the State Legislature, where all 120 seats are up for grabs.
Even Gov. Jon S. Corzine seemed to endorse Mr. Levys resignation. When asked, Mr. Corzine told reporters in Trenton, I think if the mayor isnt fulfilling his obligations, hasnt lived up to the oath of office, I think thats probably the appropriate step. ROLF!
Mr. Jacobs would not say whether the mayors absence was related to his admission last fall that he had misrepresented his military service in Vietnam. After a series of articles in The Press of Atlantic City, the mayor conceded that although he was in the Army, he was not in the Special Forces.
The United States attorney for New Jersey, Christopher J. Christie, is investigating whether Mr. Levy used the misrepresentation to collect larger payments under his military pension.
solo reference, did the NYT decide to fluff away their demoCrap's "Military Problem".
The odd thing is that Levy had a decent record without adding.... shhh, double-zero-dark-thirty-way-SOGGY-Missions-in-Laos etc.... yet decided to add Mystique to his own good record just to spite it.
there's more if you care to add...
The Missing Atlantic City mayor.. hummm I wonder if he did any business with Tony Soprano?
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Im tryin to make me go to rehab
I said no, no, no
Yes I been black, but when I come back
You wont know, know, know
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MORE kangaroos should be slaughtered and eaten to help save the world from global warming, environmental activists say.
"The label on the jar says 'Skippy' all right, but that's not peanut butter!"
The controversial call to cut down on beef and serve more of the national symbol on our dinner plates follows a report on curbing greenhouse gas emissions damaging the planet.
Greenpeace energy campaigner Mark Wakeham urged Aussies to substitute some red meat for roo to help reduce land clearing and the release of methane gas from flatulent cattle and sheep.
"It is one of the lifestyle changes we can make," Mr Wakeham said.
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O Kangaroo, O Kangaroo,
Be grateful that you're in the zoo
And not transmuted by a boomerang
To zestful, tasty kangaroo meringue.
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IMHO, iff OWG = GLOBAL WELFARE STATE [Euro WORKFARE?] > mankind will need its Geneticists and other XPerts to [globally-extraglobally]expand its food resources. Milyuhns and Zilyuhns of WILDEBEESTS, etc. in AFrica may have to be culled to prevent dying from thirst, ala WORLDNEWS, wid much of it going to waste. GOOD for the local enviro and perhaps GM-improved Bug-zillas and Ant-Rexes, but not for the hungry humans of African + World. PREDATORY GIANT PRO-ENVIRO BUG-ZILLAS, versus CHICKEN-FLAVORED GIANT BARBIED ROOS - D *** NG IT, ITS A QUANDRY.
PLYMOUTH, Ind. A fourth-grade teacher's aide resigned after he was accused of trying to staple a piece of paper to a student's forehead.
Plymouth school district Superintendent John Hill would not identify the aide or the class at Jefferson Elementary School. "We're just sorry that it happened," Hill said Wednesday night. "We don't expect our people to behave in that manner. That person is no longer employed by the school corporation."
Principal Bob Remenih said he could not comment on a student or personnel matter. But Natalie Wilson, the fourth-grader's mother, told the South Bend Tribune that the principal called her shortly before her daughter got on the school bus Monday, more than three hours after the incident occurred. "I should have been told immediately," Wilson told the newspaper. Wilson said her daughter told her she had picked up a Post-It note from the floor and stuck it to her forehead. The aide told her to remove the paper from her forehead or he would staple it there permanently. When the student failed to remove the paper, the aide approached her with a stapler and pushed it against her forehead, Wilson said.
There were "two holes in her head," the mother said. "It actually punctured her skin. This was not an accident."
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They need to do a better job of vetting the people who either teach, administer or work as helpers at schools. Fingerprinting is mandatory in Catholic schools now, even for the parents if they want to help out. That's a start but I guess there will always be a few idiots we miss.
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Supermarket shoppers may soon be cruising the aisles with "intelligent" trolleys that warn them if they're buying too much junk food, technology experts say.
They have something like this at the local mart we shop at: only the plasma screen simply pushes advertising and 'healthy eating' tips. I still want to dump the whole thing into the frozen food bin and leave it amisdt the cans of OJ.
While many would be happy enough if they could simply get their trolley to go in a straight line, the high-tech model will be fitted with a computer screen and barcode scanner. It will read each product's individual code to give customers information about calories, nutrition, ethical sourcing and the environment.
U.S. technology services company EDS outlined the concept in a study paper published this week. It said the screens would reduce the need for lots of packaging for food, helping stores to tackle environmental concerns.
Good idea. We've spent 100 years figuring out how to package food to keep it from spoiling. Let's throw all that away.
"Shoppers want barcode readers on their trolleys to calculate the nutritional content and tell them when they have blown their calorific budget," said EDS's Sion Roberts, director of consumer industries and retail.
First thing I want to know when I've got a big spoon in the chocolate-chip cookie dough ice cream is exactly when I've blown my 'caloric budget', so I know that I can keep going.
"It's high-time that the humble barcode is recognized as a practical and cost-effective solution to consumers' thirst for information."
Mind you, the consumer information was already listed on the ... packaging. Which we'll no longer have.
Research carried out by food industry body IGD on behalf of EDS found that a third of shoppers want barcode scanners fitted to their trolleys. Most prefer to get information from labels on the food, according to the survey of nearly 1,000 people.
Like I was just saying. Read it quick and make a decision, rather than waiting on Windoze SC (shopping cart edition) to read the barcode, freeze in a blue screen, reboot, and display the nutritional information in a font too small to read ...
Some shoppers are already using advanced trolleys. Trials of touch-screen computers on shopping carts have been trialed in stores in the United States.
Touch 'em once nice and hard and they break, but then, you knew that.
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I remember a 'Candid Camera'-type show, in which they pranked people at the gas pump by continuing to increment the pump after they had stopped pumping, and they couldn't make it stop.
Bad idea. People went red with rage, and fists were flying. It did not stop when they were told that it was just a prank and their gas was free--they wanted to hurt somebody. Big men, small women, it didn't matter. It had crossed the line.
If some shopping cart starts telling me not to buy something, it is going to be a broken shopping cart real quick.
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"Shoppers want barcode readers on their trolleys to calculate the nutritional content and tell them when they have blown their calorific budget,"
I call Bulls*t! Shoppers want no such thing. Ever notice how the scanners no longer tell the world the item you just bought? Now they just shout out the price, and even that gets complaints. Shopping technology is already too nosy. The first grocers that adopt this would find an unsustainable rate of "failure" on these carts.
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Just another step toward the P.C. "food police" being implemented. I wouldn't mind a bar code scanner at all, but ONLY for the purpose of telling me what my running total cost will be at checkout.
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Man, I'll bet the bums can't wait for these high tech beauties in which to squire around all their earthly possesions. They'll become bum status symbols...
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maybe they can get some "spinners" for their wheels too!
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"Man, I'll bet the bums can't wait for these high tech beauties in which to squire around all their earthly possesions. They'll become bum status symbols..."
with any luck we will get a talking shopping cart to prevent the bum heist:
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...The first time a toddler gets into that little seat and decides to 'play' with a plasma screen and then breaks it, I have a feeling that this won't last long after that.
Mike
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LIE:
"Shoppers want barcode readers on their trolleys to calculate the nutritional content and tell them when they have blown their calorific budget."
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Research carried out by food industry body IGD on behalf of EDS found that a third of shoppers want barcode scanners fitted to their trolleys.
Yep a completely unbiased poll, we asked all the people in sales and research, got a 30% favorable response, (By the way, we're having a reorg in sales and research, for some reason 70% will be leaving shortly)
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Right, like I'm going to scan every item that gets thrown into the basket.
Are they going to put in a cover that won't open until you scan an item?
Wonder what will happen when the first Little League or Soccer Mom buys 15 bags of chips & cookies and a couple cases of soda for the team celebration.
This is the kind of s*** that gives big business a (deserved) bad name.
Are they going to try and prevent me from carrying a hammer when I use one of these?
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First thing I want to know when I've got a big spoon in the chocolate-chip cookie dough ice cream is exactly when I've blown my 'caloric budget', so I know that I can keep going.
After all, without those extra calories how're you gonna make it through the whole quart?
Man, I'll bet the bums can't wait for these high tech beauties in which to squire around all their earthly possesions. They'll become bum status symbols...
Heh! You know how the hardcore types hitch together a couple of carts? I call those trains "low budget RVs".
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This will only spurn a whole new line of anti-intelligent trolley zappers (like they have for cell phones) so that fat people can shop without guilt. They are un-locking the SIM cards on iPhones over in Europe and selling them for up to Euro 900 even though the buyers know that the next upgrad is unlikely to work on their unlocked phone. I expect the same thing with the grocery cart.
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with any luck we will get a talking shopping cart to prevent the bum heist:
"I'm sorry Dave, you can't do that."
Already there - just without the talking. One of my local supermarkets has a perimeter system that locks up cart wheels if they stray beyond the line.
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xb, at least *that* system is there to keep folks from stealing the physical carts (an epidemic by my house). My worry is that the system will be programmed to lock up if you buy "too many calories" or "too much unsaturated fat".
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Why the heck do consumers even have choices? The government knows best what is good for them. The proles should show up at the commissary, be issued their daily ration, and shut up. There are too many choices, many of them bad. It would be better if there were only healthy foods on the shelves.
/sarcasm
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Is just me, or does anyone else think "HANS SOLO SEALED IN CARBONITE", or "JANE JETSON AND EARTH'S [ = Corsicant's] FIRST SKY CITY"??? D *** NG IT, WNY "CORSICA" - WHATS WRONG WID THE NAME SARDINIA = SARDINIA CITY?
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One thing you guys are forgetting is that stores don't want to buy this crap. Take a wild guess at the cost of a cart, even one made of mostly plastic. Now throw on a computer, scanner and a plasma screen? No store wanting to keep their slim profit margin is going to waste capital buying these things.
Hillary!Care - Coming soon to a hospital near you? Take a look at the comment section below the article - and remember: It's "free"!
Appalling standards of care and a catalogue of failures contributed to the deaths of 331 patients in the worst outbreak of a hospital superbug ever recorded in the NHS, a report has found. Crowded wards, a shortage of nurses and financial problems led to 1,176 people contracting Clostridium difficile over two and half years at three hospitals in Kent. Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary today described the failures as a "scandal", and said he would send the damning report to all hospital bosses in Britain so lessons would be learned.
Though the superbug was rife on the wards, managers failed to act. Isolation units were not set up, nurses were so rushed they did not have time to wash their hands and patients were left in soiled beds. Bedpans were not decontaminated properly and beds were not cleaned as well as they should have been. The health watchdog, the Healthcare Commission, concluded that the infection probably or definitely killed at least 90 patients and was a factor in the deaths of a further 241. Fourteen patients who died were found to have C.diff but it did not contribute to their deaths. In total 345 people died with the infection.
Mr Johnson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Kent outbreak was an isolated incident, and not the result of hospital staff becoming preoccupied by Government targets. "To suggest that in this particular incident, this reflects what's happening in the NHS across the country is absolutely wrong," he said.
"There are nurses and clinicians across the country who have dealt with the targets... but kept the highest safety standards."
The report said some patients at the hospitals run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Hospital Trust should have made a full recovery from their initial illness. But they caught the bug and died. Police will determine if there are grounds for criminal charges.
In May 2004 the chief executive of the trust, Rose Gibb, told the BBC she had known about the cleanliness problem for six months. But by September last year the hospitals were in the grip of their second outbreak. Ms Gibb resigned on Friday before the release of the report. The commission found cases where the patient probably died as a result of their C.diff infection but it was not mentioned on the death certificate. The number of people who died also turned out to be far higher than declared to the media and the commission.
Last week the chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, wrote to all doctors telling them to ensure hospital infections were routinely included on death certificates. Gordon Brown has announced a raft of measures to improve cleanliness in the NHS. The commission report said managers at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust were too focused on hitting Government targets and were cutting nursing staff and closing beds to balance the books, contributing to the problem.
The first of two outbreaks affected 150 patients between October and December 2005. Even though the number of new cases doubled, managers did not notice. A further 258 patients contracted C.diff in a second outbreak from April to September 2006 but an isolation ward to care for infected patients was not set up until four months into the outbreak. At the time of the outbreaks, the trust was carrying out a programme to save £40 million over three years and the report said there was intense pressure to reduce beds. It ended last year almost £5 million in the red.
The care of patients once they had contracted the infection was poor, they were given unsuitable medication and were often dehydrated or underfed. The shadow health secretary, Andrew Lansley, said: "Centrally imposed waiting list targets have become such a burden on hospital staff that they have less time and fewer resources to protect patients."
Dr Malcolm Stewart, the medical director of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, said infection control had improved dramatically in the last six months.
He said: "We are sorry about what happened and are determined to continue to reduce levels of the infection."
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This problem is not, and will not be, limited to UK or other NHS hospitals. The evolution of superbugs and the decreasing effectiveness of antibiotics threatens to undo much of the medical progress of the 20th century.
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Just a couple years back, a opinion section writer in the Wall Street Journal chronicled his and his wife's experience with British hospitals when she suffered a heart attack during a vacation there. He compared and contrasted the care she received in the follow on care at American hospitals upon their return. Each had their pluses and minuses. One thing that drew comment was the less than 'Pasteur' cleanliness of the British facilities. Guys, this a a basic health lesson from the 19th Century. It's a simple protocol. Yet, the "professionals" [on both sides of the Atlantic] don't seem to get it. Cause it's been just a month since a report on American doctors and health personnel failing to engage in simple hand washing between patients. I guess in the era of super duper drugs and ever increasing insurance, it's too much of a bother. Of course the dead will never know.
When I lived in the UK I had private insurance and used it agressively for some minor surgery. I got to pick the hospital and surgeon based on quality, schedule, etc. Got in and got out but that is not the normal rule for NHS folks.
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The newspaper cited friends of the other woman and qualified its report saying if proven true, it could devastate the campaign. An Edwards spokesman told the Enquirer the allegations are false, absolute nonsense. The Enquirer said the woman refused repeated requests for comment.
The Enquirer reported that a friend says the woman told her, The affair started about 18 months ago. When they met at a bar, sparks flew immediately. She never expected it would turn sexual since John is married and is running for president. But it soon did - and she fell for him.
The friend said the woman said she knew there was no way he was going to leave Elizabeth, a wife battling cancer. Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and last March announced it had returned. She kept campaigning, speaking out in her husbands defense against political attacks.
The Enquirer claims possession of a bombshell e-mail in which the woman confessed to a friend shes in love with John, but its difficult because he is married and has kids. In another e-mail, the Enquirer said she wrote: Last night and this a.m., he actually has amazed me. He is a great man. My heart is loud and my head is silenced. But the womans friend said both she and John began to feel real guilty and they decided to end it.
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If he did it--and that's still if at this point--he's a pig.
I also hope someone gets curious about who tipped of the Enquirer about this. I'm not a gambling man, but I'd lay money down that the Hillary! campaign was the source.
If Edwards sinks or disappears, does it benefit Hillary? You'd think no--she doesn't want a clarified head-to-head race against Obama. But Obama is counting on Edwards to do the dirty work of taking Hillary on. ... The ideal outcome for Obama would be if Edwards loses most of his support yet stays in the race long enough to go on the attack.
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I wouldn't trust the National Inquisitor to get a recipe for a peanut butter sandwich right.
If this story is in fact true, or if another candidate turns out to be a cad, then the candidate should withdraw from the race.
This issue reminds me of the Gary Hart campaign in 1988. I remember when Hart got caught in Monkey Business, people wondered what the big deal was, why adultery should make him enelgible for office.
Well, if he can't keep it zipped, he's a lousy security risk.
If he's willing to do something out of selfishness that may result in public humiliation for his family, including the woman he's sworn to love and protect and cherish, then he doesn't have the character to serve the public.
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So what? NOW officially endorsed a sitting president who's commitment to the institution is all relative. Heck, she can run for his old Senate seat and possibly the office itself. It's a big strategy these days. Now if this was a Republican, that's all a different story. No toe tapping about it. /sarcasm off
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re #2: mom, my major objection to Gary Hart was that he was too stupid to hold major office. He challenged the press to find him in a compromising situation. They did. If I had been running for office, and challenged the press to catch me cheating, the only woman I would have been alone with -ever- would be my wife. Maybe my mother or grandmother. No one else.
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Folks, this has Sydney Blumenthal written all over it. He is the anti-Rove of dirty Democratic politics and HIllary's go-to-guy for a stunt like this. He probably set it up the way Rove set up Mary Mapes and Dan Rather. And since it is "emails to a friend" doesn't it remind you of Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky? Suprised that Drudge didn't report it.
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Wonder if Anna and Bacon Bits were involved??????
Christian residents of Hadyara village on the outskirts of Lahore fear their church will be razed by a growing Muslim mob angry that Christian prayers were aired by loudspeaker during Fajr prayers on Wednesday.
Christian villagers say young men armed with steel bars and guns stormed the New Apostolic Church, established before Partition, in the morning. They beat up worshippers including a child and damaged property, and alleged that announcements were made through mosque loudspeakers asking Muslims from nearby villages for a final attack. Other announcements urged businesses and farmers not to allow Christians on to their properties.
Public representatives and local police at the scene have been able so far to stop such an attack, and more policemen were reported to have been sent to Hadyara on Wednesday night.
Union Council 65 Nazim Maqsood Ahmad said he and other public representatives had visited the area and tried to calm people on both sides.
The Human Liberation Commission of Pakistan condemned the incident and urged senior Lahore police officials to protect the Christians.
Senior police officials denied knowledge of the incident.
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If you fail to protect the Christians, there is nothing that I can defend Islam against.
A retired air vice-marshal of the Pakistan Air Force, Chaudhry Lateef Kamra, was shot dead Wednesday by a single unidentified accused outside of his office.
Kamra, 78, retired around 20 years ago from the Air Force and started working as the director of Jason Construction Company.Clifton Town Police Officer (TPO) Azad Khan told Daily Times that Kamra had disputes with people from other companies and also with people who purchased land or property from the deceaseds company. It could have been one of these people, the TPO said. Kamra left his house, located in DHA Phase V, as usual and got to his office in Phase II around 11:00 a.m., said Khan. Kamra sustained four bullet wounds and died on the spot. According to some witnesses, the accused was alone and appeared around 25 to 35 years old. He was on a motorcycle and was standing near Kamras office when Kamra got there. He fled on his motorcycle after opening fire. Kamras body was taken to JPMC. FIR No. 387/07 has been lodged against the unidentified accused on behalf of the deceaseds daughter, Dr Samina.
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Three women have been hurt by falling into Tate Modern's latest installation - a crack in the floor. At 548 feet long, up to three feet deep and 10inches wide, it zigzags the length of the Turbine Hall and has been described as a highly original work of art. But visitors have already paid the price for failing to heed warning signs. And a builder said if he had been responsible for the crack he would be sued for health and safety breaches.
One young woman had to be dragged out by friends after falling into the crack in the floor but was otherwise unharmed. A few minutes later, another visitor to the gallery, who thought the crack was painted, also fell in - this time injuring her wrist.
One observer said: "Instead of art imitating life, here it's threatening life."
It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!
Colombian artist Doris Salcedo's work Shibboleth, nick-named Doris's crack, is the latest controversial installation in the Tate's massive Turbine Hall. The 550ft crack runs along the length of the floor in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It starts as a hairline fracture and widens to about a foot across. . . .
The crack is said to represent (choose one)
(a) the gullability of the gallery's board of trustees, who could be fooled into paying for anything, no matter how stupid, as long as you call it "art"
(b) the artist's lack of imagination and talent
(c) the wanton destruction of the earth by the Bushitler-Haliburton administration's illegal invasion for oil (which means that this humble crack is, like, speaking truth to power, man!)
(d) the tendency of intellectual elites to keep digging when they hit bottom
(e) the division problem of integrating immigrants into European society.
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The installation cost about £300,000 and took more than six months to complete.
Yes, once again, I am in the wrong business.
Please adress all personal injury lawsuits to "controversial" artist Doris Salcedo...
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Don't tell FEMA; they will bring in a gajillion trailers and force all the art to live in there while they bribe officials to not fix the place.....
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The Tate also showed this magnificent bit of "Art":
"Tracey Emin shows us her own bed, in all its embarrassing glory. Empty booze bottles, fag butts, stained sheets, worn panties: the bloody aftermath of a nervous breakdown. By presenting her bed as art, Tracey Emin shares her most personal space, revealing shes as insecure and imperfect as the rest of the world."
It later sold for around $250,000. Proving, once again, that we're all in the wrong business.
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The best part is that the same two "performance" artists who pissed in DuChamp's "Fountain" urinal, also had a pillow fight on Emin's bed. I could learn to like those guys.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
After Anna Briley kicked her boyfriend out of their east Nashville home, the jilted lover took out his frustrations on her pet pig, "Bacon Bit." 
PLYMOUTH, Ind. A fourth-grade teacher's aide resigned after he was accused of trying to staple a piece of paper to a student's forehead. 
Supermarket shoppers may soon be cruising the aisles with "intelligent" trolleys that warn them if they're buying too much junk food, technology experts say.
Christian residents of Hadyara village on the outskirts of Lahore fear their church will be razed by a growing Muslim mob angry that Christian prayers were aired by loudspeaker during Fajr prayers on Wednesday.
A retired air vice-marshal of the Pakistan Air Force, Chaudhry Lateef Kamra, was shot dead Wednesday by a single unidentified accused outside of his office.
