The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi died on Sunday after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys. SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.
So it wasn't the monkeys that killed him but the fall ...
The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by. One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques. The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests. But the problem has persisted.
Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts. Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat.
Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
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A few years ago monkeys broke into South Block, (part of the enormous Raj era building complex that houses various minstries) and had an overnight ball inside the Indian Defence Ministry.
Files stamped "top secret" were scattered all over the place
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This is the South Block dome
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Substitute Teacher Fired For Showing 'Simpsons' Movie
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- New Haven school officials have fired a substitute teacher for showing an alleged bootleg copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders. School officials said they had warned 30-year-old Aquil Abdul-Salaam that the PG-13 rated film isn't appropriate for children. "Not enough violence?"
Officials said Abdul-Salaam admitted showing the movie to students at Beecher School between mid-September and Oct. 4. Beecher School is for children in grades kindergarten through seventh grade. I didn't know what else to do! It was a fourth grade class called "Modern Civilization" and I'm just a sub, not a Philosophy Professor!
The movie is rated as inappropriate for children under 13 and contains mild profanity, nudity and adult humor including scenes during which two male police officers share a kiss and the Bart character skateboards naked. "What's the big deal? There weren't any Mohamhead cartoons!"
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This is a little nutty. Anyone who thinks third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students don't watch the Simpsons has been living in a cave. I am going to guess that some over-protective parent complained.
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Plenty of substitutes use videos as a pacifier. They are paid little more than the minimum wage and are expected to make sure no one is injured and that the children are not utterly without adult supervision.
But despite the fact that many elementary schoolers may have seen the Simpsons, that is no reason for the school to sanction it by showing it at any time. Plenty of parents of elementary school children watch R and X rated films with them. That doesn't mean I want my kid doing it or my tax dollars paying for it.
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Honestly, I couldn't read much into it, this really disturbs me; still, as for the dutroux affair, much has been written about the "strange" aspects of it, and Belgium actually has what is known as the believers, IE the people who think there's more to it than a simple lone sexual predator (by the way, marc dutroux himself was a rapist who had preyed on young girls, but everything indicates he was not a pedophile himself).
Anyway, between the dutroux affair, the Brabant killers, and the ballets roses, Belgium appears to be one deeply rotten country, with a dark, dark underbelly.
This comes from a Paranoid Conspiracy Theory website, but it does make good points. It's up to you to decide what you believe. Beyond the Dutroux Affair
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If true, it only means that Europe can sink under its own weight without any help from Islam. Rather a disturbing but not altogether unforeseen notion.
There is always a tension between the evil caused by leaving enemy cells up and using them to find more enemy cells.
This will remain a central dilemma in dealing with terrorism, child abuse, organized crime and a host of other societal ills. My only comment is that those allowed to roam such dark corridors unfettered during the course of ongoing investigations should be rewarded with a bullet in the brain for their troublesome misdeeds.
I'll freely confess that this article forces me, once again, to measurably recalibrate my tolerance for homosexuals. The same "closet" mentality that conceals homosexualism can just as easily serve another far more perverse and utterly intolerable master like pedophilia. NAMBLA and other gay abominations like it are inadequately protested by the homosexual community, much like how terrorism goes uncondemned by the vast majority of Muslims. In both cases, it is a damning silence and one that ill serves their demands for equality in society.
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"NAMBLA and other gay abominations like it are inadequately protested by the homosexual community, much like how terrorism goes uncondemned by the vast majority of Muslims. In both cases, it is a damning silence and one that ill serves their demands for equality in society."
In both cases, it is the silent assent (hat tip to St. Thomas More) that actually allow the overt evil to exist.
A close look at the repeated light sentencing of pedophiles in the Northeast U.S. is certainly suggestive of a "network" of some sort. Perhaps the Feds should look at this.
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People in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been warned to check their rosary beads, after discovering hundreds of them had been sold with secret satanic symbols on them.
Locals in the town of Siroki Brijeg said that the rosaries, which have pentagrams and upside-down crosses marked on them, are difficult to spot until they are examined closely. And they fear that hundreds or even thousands of them may have been bought unwittingly by Christian families after satanic groups smuggled them into stocks of rosaries in local shops.
KANO: Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts. It took me eight months to build this one, he said, sweat pouring from his forehead as he filled the radiator of the banana yellow four-seater which he now parks in the grounds of his university.
The chopper, which has flown briefly on six occasions, is made from scrap aluminium that Abdullahi bought with the money he makes from computer and mobile phone repairs, and a donation from his father, who teaches at Kanos Bayero university.
It is powered by a second-hand 133 horsepower Honda Civic car engine and kitted out with seats from an old Toyota saloon car. Its other parts come from the carcass of a Boeing 747 which crashed near Kano some years ago.
Quality slightly-used parts from Boeing ...
For a four-seater it is a big aircraft, measuring 12-metres long, seven-metres high by five wide. It has never attained an altitude of more than seven feet.
The cockpit consists of a push-button ignition, an accelerator lever between the seats which controls vertical thrust, a joystick that provides balance and bearing. A small screen on the dashboard connects to a camera underneath the helicopter for ground vision, a set of six buttons adjusts the screens brightness while a small transmitter is used for communication. You start it, allow it to run for a minute or two and you then shift the accelerator forward and the propeller on top begins to spin. The further you shift the accelerator the faster it goes and once you reach 300 rmp you press the joystick and it takes off, Abdullahi explained from the cockpit.
He said he learned the rudiments of flying a helicopter from the Internet and first got the idea of building one from the films he watches. I watched action movies a lot and I was fascinated by the way choppers fly. I decided it would be easier to build one than to build a car, he said pacing the premises of the security division of the university which he uses as hanger for his helicopter.
He hoped - and still does hope - that the Nigerian government and his wealthy compatriots would turn to him and stop placing orders with western manufacturers.
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I just received an email stock offering from him. Think I'll get in on the ground floor!
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No way I am flying in the things, but it really is a pretty impressive achievement.
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He hoped - and still does hope - that the Nigerian government and his wealthy compatriots would turn to him and stop placing orders with western manufacturers.
With seven feet max altitude, I have doubts. But he may be on a track to build something one day that is not thusly limited.
GK, thanks for the link. It is not in stars for me to fly a copter. ;-)
Gov. Eliot Spitzer's order to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens in New York has enraged voters and Republican officials. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has started a major political fight over immigration by ordering state officials to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens, prompting at least one county legislature to defy the executive order and pushing toward a showdown in court.
The embattled governor's order has drawn some acerbic commentary, including a cartoon showing Osama bin Laden as a New York City taxi driver. After spending months trying to deflect charges that he used state police to target the Republican leader of the state Senate, Mr. Spitzer appears eager for a fight over this contentious issue.
"The rabid right that wants to pile on and use this to demagogue the issue will not carry the day in New York state," he said recently. "Those who view this as a political issue once again are taking the state in the wrong direction."
As opposed to Elliott who views this as ... a political issue.
The driver's license issue has once again put the governor at odds with New Yorkers. When New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who inJune abandoned the Republican Party, criticized the order recently, the Democratic governor shot back that the mayor was "dead wrong, factually wrong, legally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong."
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani joined the list of opponents this week. "Governor Spitzer should not give licenses to illegals," he told the Republican Jewish Coalition on Tuesday. "It doesn't make sense."
Perhaps Elliott could explain why this makes sense?
The issue heated up late last week, when the Monroe County legislature defied the governor and ordered its county clerk to require anyone seeking a driver's license to provide a valid Social Security number. The decision runs counter to Mr. Spitzer's order, in which illegal aliens with valid foreign passports would be eligible to obtain a state driver's license. Again, Mr. Spitzer was defiant: "I hate to say it the clerks have to enforce it," he said. "The clerks who issue driver's licenses are agents of the state. They do not make state law on this. State government does."
In another move, 29 clerks, all but one a Republican, voted to oppose the plan, with 13 vowing to directly disobey the governor, even if ordered to comply. The clerks said their offices would be hard-pressed to determine the legality of applicants.
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"The clerks who issue driver's licenses are agents of the state. They do not make state law on this. State government does."
Law? You mean like aiding and abetting a crime, obstructing justice, and conspiracy? Just exactly what do the federal statutes say?
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The New York Times has a completely different take on this story, just skips over the issuing of ID's to illegals.
NM started doing the exact same thing quite some time ago. This didn't make the news.
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NY ID should not be allowed to gain access to airlines flights. Shut em off. Then watch the pitchforks and torches. Spitzer's a dirtbag
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"Steamroller" Spitzer was already a thug who makes Richard Nixon look like a Boy Scout, but this disaster is the last straw and his approval ratings reflect that. There are public interest groups in New York that are investigating the possibility of establishing recall elections to interdict the governor before he can do any further damage.
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GOD DAMN it is a disease.. pernicious pandering politicians...
SHUT THE F'N BORDER and DEPORT ILLEGALS!
/caps rulzzz!
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Perhaps Elliott could explain why this makes sense?
Oh come on now, the reason is simple, MONEY,CASH, MOOLAH.
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Frank G, have you seen anything from TSA about what they are going to do? The new law makes getting a drivers license in Georgia a real trial by fire, had to find my birth certificate and apply for a new Social Securtity card among other things. I agree, the New York drivers license should no longer fit the requirements for ID for air travel.
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Substitute Teacher Fired For Showing 'Simpsons' Movie
Gov. Eliot Spitzer's order to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens in New York has enraged voters and Republican officials. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has started a major political fight over immigration by ordering state officials to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens, prompting at least one county legislature to defy the executive order and pushing toward a showdown in court.
