Can't we all just...OWWWWWW!
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Southern California police said 1991 police beating victim Rodney King has been shot, but the wounds are not life-threatening. Rialto police Sgt. Don Lewis told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that King was hit in the face and arm by shotgun pellets on a San Bernardino street corner Wednesday night. He bicycled to his home in Rialto to call police and was taken to a hospital. That shotgun empty, Rodney?
Don't know. Lemme look...
Police said when they arrived at the home, King and others there appeared drunk and few were cooperative in providing information. Yeah, looks like Rodney's learned a lot...
San Bernardino police Lt. Scott Paterson tells the San Bernardino County Sun that the shooting may have involved a domestic dispute. Aw, jeez. The money running out, Rodney?
King was beaten by Los Angeles police in 1991 and the officers' subsequent acquittal on criminal charges sparked deadly rioting in 1992. Yes, so I've heard...
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Unco-operative 'friends' at the home? Huh. Maybe they were just getting along...at least Rodney is doing his part fighting global climate change and staying in shape with his bicycle.
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For those who don't know, there was no "Rodney" King until the arrest incident: he was known as Glen King for all his life. Defense lawyers chose to use his middle name because it sounded "blacker," and they wanted to play the race card.
Most people who are handed $4 million tax free, would say bye to the low life. "Glen" ain't most.
Bring me more beer, woman, or the goats git it!
WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) A man who was upset with his wife for not buying beer took vengeance by shooting the family's two pet goats, prosecutors say. Vengeance? Where's he think he lives, in friggin Gaza...
Peter W. Mischler, 48, was charged this week in Circuit Court with mistreatment of animals, possession of a firearm while intoxicated and disorderly conduct with a dangerous weapon. Or, as they call it in Wisconsin, "hunting"...
The complaint said Mischler came home Monday from hunting and became angry with his 22-year-old daughter for letting the goats out and making a mess. While she was talking on the phone to her mother, authorities said, he told her to tell his wife to bring home some beer, but his wife refused because she was already on her way home. Sure, hon. Sounds like just what ya need, more beer...
He then threatened to shoot the goats, according to the complaint. After his wife arrived home, she and the daughter heard four gunshots."He shot both of them. He killed Flash, and the officer had to kill Chloe," the daughter, Megan Mischler, said in a phone interview Wednesday. "I really don't understand why he shot them they didn't deserve it." They never do, honey. They never do...
She said her father had been most angry about the mess the goats made, not the beer. The Times would probably call him another bitter angry white man with a gun and a grudge. Probably a loner too...
Of course he's a loner, he has two fewer goats ...
The family is now grieving the loss of the two goats, Megan Mischler said."We took those goats swimming, we took them to Dairy Queen to get ice cream, they were completely leash-trained," she said, her voice trembling. "They were more than goats to us, they were more like a dog. And they didn't deserve this." Guns...beer...goats! When does it stop, Muldoon? When does it stop!
I dunno, sarge. Makes ya wanna puke...
Peter Mischler was released on $1,000 bond. When The Associated Press called the home Wednesday evening, his wife said her husband was not available for comment. Ah'll be sleepin it off, woman! Noterfy tha media ah'll be unnervailerble fer comment!!
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"More like a DOG" > don't know whether to keel sorry for their loss of family pets, or to declare war in righteous indignation in the name of all Dog/Dawg-kind???
A BRITISH man accused of being a serial flasher has told a court his genitals were very small and he would be too embarrassed to expose them. Michael Carney, 41, also showed the jury in Teeside Crown Court photographs as proof, the BBC reported.
"It causes embarrassment to myself, even to the point where it is with my wife. I wouldn't want myself to be seen in public like that," Carney told the court. "My genitalia are underdeveloped and it is so much smaller than average."
The defence didn't work because the father of two from Stockton in Teesside was convicted of seven counts of outraging public decency.
Not small enough, apparently ...
The jury was then told he had five convictions for sex assaults.
The court was told Carney exposed himself to passers-by while standing naked in the front window of his home. He was also spotted naked on the driveway of his home.
Judge Brian Forster told Carney he was likely to be jailed.
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I guess Carney thought the evidence wouldn't stand up in court. It was a close call though, the jury was laughing so hysterically that they barely could convict him.
THE retired Florida professor who invented Gatorade, the hydrating drink that created a multibillion-dollar sports beverage market, has died at the aged of 80.
Dr Robert Cade created the drink in 1965 to help rehydrate University of Florida athletes during games in the southern state's punishing heat and named it after the university's mascot, the gator. Gatorade became a worldwide success and spawned a generation of copycat sports beverages. It held an 81 per cent share of the $US7.5 billion ($8.5bn) sports drink market last year, according to Beverage Digest.
It has earned about $US150 million in royalties for the school, including an average of $US12.5m annually over the last five years, university spokesman Tom Fortner said today. . . .
According to the product's website, a university assistant football coach asked a team of scientists at the school to determine why players were being affected by heat-related illnesses. Dr Cade and his colleagues determined that fluids and electrolytes lost through sweat and carbohydrates used for energy were not being replaced. They created a carbohydrate-electrolyte formula in the lab to nourish the players during games.
University legend has it that the Gators football team began winning soon after the drink was introduced.
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I think Cade died of a broken heart after watching Red Bull muscle aside his age old monopoly on insanely overpriced chemically laced sugar-water.
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Legend also has it that Cade tried to give the rights to the University but was turned down. After it became a money maker the University then sued Cade for the majority of the profits.
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I forgot to add: Effin' lawyers and idiot professors!
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A DOG with a penchant for eating underwear has undergone emergency surgery to remove his latest meal from his stomach. Taffy, an 18-month-old springer spaniel who lives with owners Eubie and Sharon Saayman in Staffordshire, northern England, underwent an operation to remove the 40th pair of knickers he had scoffed.
Springers are kinda stoopid that way ...
Taffy's owners told the BBC and The Sun newspaper their dog seemed to be in pain after eating something.
Mr Saayman, a vet, performed a two hour operation to remove a pair of undies belonging to his 3-year-old son from Taffys stomach. Nine times out of ten nature takes its course, but this time he was in discomfort, Mr Saayman told The Sun.
Taffy, who reportedly has also eaten about 300 socks, 15 pairs of shoes and a key ring, made a full recovery after surgery. "We make jokes about it but it's actually very serious, Mr Saayman told the BBC. "If a dog gets an obstruction it can be life-threatening, so we try to keep things away from him.
"Whenever he picks things up we tell him off and hopefully he drops it before he swallows it."
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As I said in the latest diatribedirectivepleamissive post on the matter, and I quote:
'Animal antics are always welcome.'
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Apparantly the owners can't manage to close their sock drawer? Or put the laundry up higher than the dog can reach? This is stupidity beyond belief.
Global warming experts are using the works of British artist JMW Turner to try to track climate change over more than a century. Greek scientists have studied the colours in more than 500 paintings of sunsets, including many of Turner's 19th-century watercolours and oils, in hope of gaining insights into the cooling effects caused by major volcanic eruptions.
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Why not? Its about as reliable as any other of the 'science' being used to promote man made upcoming ice age [no, thats not it...] Global Warming [not that either...] Climate change.
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I recall reading last week that among the things they were investigating was a statement by a Monk that on a certain date the Wine froze in the chalice, this gives at least a rough estimate of temperature which was unrecorded before thermometers were invented.
Not as dumb as it first appears to use spectrum colors to determine such things as humidity, those famous artists were fanatics to get exactly the right color(s). and this long before anyone thought of spectrography.
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The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice discovered 23 black magic works buried in two graves in Al-Aqeefa district of Yanbu. A citizen had alerted the commission on the location of the black magic tokens and they were successfully pulled out of the graves.
Ibrahim Al-Jabbari, the local director of the commission, said the removed items had been placed around the heads and legs of the corpses. Among the items were knives and pieces of paper where magical spells were written. Al-Jabbari said in all the commission found more than 23 black magic works hidden inside deserted graves. The spells were written on knives and papers wrapped inside knots, next to the dead bodies.
A sorcerer who had repented told the commissions members about 11 magical works hidden inside graves.
Also, a citizen passing by the graves found another eight magical works by coincidence. I immediately reported to the commission after I found the magic works while walking between graves, said a citizen who wished to remain anonymous.
Authorities mobilized their security personnel to guard local cemeteries from further acts of dark magic. Saad Al-Subhi, a cemetery worker, said, We have intensive security all over the cemetery and if anyone tried to sneak into the cemetery he will get caught.
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So go do that voodoo that you do so well. Here's a shovel.
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I'm pretty sure that despite, or rather because, of that devotion (or supposed devotion) to islam, there's a strong belief in magic, sorcerers, fortune-tellers,... in the aptly-named magic kingdom, and I don't mean in the unudecated low-classes.
You're dealing with a culture armpit-deep in magical thinking and beliefs-based worldview.
I remember reading here, I think that was .com, but I'm not sure, in any case, it was an expat, talking about how the princes and royals and all were persuaded osama and co had bad juju and could affect them through wizardy or similar ways. I even remember reading here either in a comment, but possibly in a short article, about how the soody had "imported" black african marabouts (muslim wizards) to help them cover their rears.
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anonymous5089: Exactly. Puritanism makes for witch hunts but it also makes for witches. This sort of peasant rebellion is one of the only ways people can defy the authorities.
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I'm thinking black magic objects like a mysterious black stone encased in an enormous monolith fetishized by superstitious cultists from around the world who engage in bizarre perambulations in an atavistic rite of moon worship? I think the Saudi authorities should investigate. Who knows what sort of strange pseudo-religious fanatacisms they may uncover.
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AN INQUEST into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer ended in indecision last night, with a Jamaican jury unable to determine the cause of death.
The 11-member panel deliberated for about four hours before returning an "open" verdict, which means they decided they had not heard sufficient evidence to declare Woolmer's death an accident, a homicide or the result of natural causes. The jury foreman said the panel felt there were too many contradictions to reach a clear conclusion. The inquest had heard testimony from more than 50 witnesses and medical experts over five weeks. "We came to an open verdict because the evidence presented to us was very weak. There were too many what-ifs and too many loopholes," he said.
The jury was expected to decide whether anyone was responsible for the death.
According to police it will now be up to Jamaica's coroner, Patrick Murphy, to decide the cause of death. He refused to comment after closing the inquest.
Police authorities and attorney Jermaine Spence, who represented the International Cricket Council at the inquest, also did not speak to reporters. Jamaican police called off their murder investigation three months later, saying that three independent pathologists, from Britain, South Africa and Canada, concluded that the coach died from natural causes, most likely heart disease.
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This lawmaker is already under a bunch of fatwa 'death' sentences.
The more interesting thing is whether the issuance of the movie will result in death sentences for every infidel Dutch citizen (or maybe every infidel in the EU).
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So the film will be less than 10 minutes long, huh? There you have it, the Koran for dummies video version; everything you need to know about animal husbandry in the time it takes to microwave a bacon and cheese pizza.....
At least! Some common ground to start negociate with them!
TEHRAN (AFP) Iran said it plans to launch a crackdown on rap music, complaining that the words used by rap artists were "obscene", the state IRNA news agency reported Thursday.
"There is nothing wrong with this type of music in itself," the official for evaluation of music at the Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry, Mohammad Dashtgoli, was quoted as saying.
"But due to the use of obscene words by its singers this music has been categorised as illegal," he said.
"In coordination with the police, illegal studios producing this type of music will be sealed and the singers in this genre will be confronted," he said.
Dashtgoli said a large number of illegal rap singers have been already identified.
The Islamic republic's hardline officials have repeatedly complained about a "cultural invasion" by "decadent" western music which they believe diminishes Islamic values , whatever they might be.
The culture ministry official expressed his frustration that rap artists were finding low-cost ways to publish their music on the Internet. "We should find a solution for this."
Rap music has become increasingly popular amongst young urban males in Tehran, with explicit lyrics taking in social, political and sexual themes.
Producing albums and holding concerts in Iran requires official permission from the culture ministry and, needless to say, rap music is an underground phenomenon in the Islamic republic.
Nevertheless, rap albums are widely available on the black market with artists drawing inspiration from the Persian-language rap of the Iranian diaspora based in Los Angeles.
Iran is currently in the midst of its most severe moral crackdown in years, which has seen thousands of women warned for slack dressing, several bootleg music stores shut and "decadent" mixed-sex parties raided.
Conservatives have applauded the crackdown as a bold move to promote virtue but some moderates have questioned the value of the drive at a time when Iran's economic problems are hitting the poor hard.
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DO you think they might be listening to Outkast's B.O.B. [Bombs Over Bagdad]?
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Rap music has become increasingly popular amongst young urban males in Tehran, with explicit lyrics taking in social, political and sexual themes .....resulting in youth wearing baseball caps with the bills pointed in extreme angles, strange walking behavior, and mouth breathing.
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A BRITISH man accused of being a serial flasher has told a court his genitals were very small and he would be too embarrassed to expose them. Michael Carney, 41, also showed the jury in Teeside Crown Court photographs as proof, the BBC reported.
A DOG with a penchant for eating underwear has undergone emergency surgery to remove his latest meal from his stomach. Taffy, an 18-month-old springer spaniel who lives with owners Eubie and Sharon Saayman in Staffordshire, northern England, underwent an operation to remove the 40th pair of knickers he had scoffed. 
Global warming experts are using the works of British artist JMW Turner to try to track climate change over more than a century. Greek scientists have studied the colours in more than 500 paintings of sunsets, including many of Turner's 19th-century watercolours and oils, in hope of gaining insights into the cooling effects caused by major volcanic eruptions.
