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2003-08-09 Iraq
Saddam’s vanishing act ’helped by magic powers’
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Posted by Â·com 2003-08-09 1:41:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Arrrggghhh. Forgot the article link:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-760106,00.html
Posted by Â·com 2003-8-9 1:48:46 AM||   2003-8-9 1:48:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks 'com, that was worth the wait. Of course Saddam will be caught, Task force 20 now knows to look for Japanese and Chinese occultists and stop wasting time rounding up body guards.
Posted by Gasse Katze 2003-8-9 5:20:53 AM||   2003-8-9 5:20:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sometimes I get confused, do we have troops in the Middle East or the Middle Ages
Posted by Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire 2003-8-9 10:45:50 AM||   2003-8-9 10:45:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes.
Posted by Â·com 2003-8-9 10:58:43 AM||   2003-8-9 10:58:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Makes sence. I was wondering how Sad Saddam could last so long. I use stones like that all the time.
Posted by Lucky 2003-8-9 12:33:35 PM||   2003-8-9 12:33:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Mine's green...
Posted by Fred  2003-8-9 1:21:46 PM||   2003-8-9 1:21:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah - having stones always helps in time of stress. Is that why they call you Lucky? ;-)
Posted by Â·com 2003-8-9 1:23:14 PM||   2003-8-9 1:23:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Fred - Green, huh? That must be a soothing, calming, peace stone, then, being green and all. Prolly from Venus. You could get a red one to go with it, kinda like a set. And it would prolly be from Mars and protect you in battle. I wonder what blue stones are all about? Maybe they don't have any special meaning, so they're frustrated or something.
Posted by Â·com 2003-8-9 1:28:48 PM||   2003-8-9 1:28:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I think the blue ones have to do with Saturn and they protect the aged from... ummm... something. I'm gonna get one when I go into the old folks' home.

Next year.
Posted by Fred  2003-8-9 4:11:03 PM||   2003-8-9 4:11:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 A stone that protects you from bullets? The Secret Service is going to be interested in this.

As for Sadaam, we can't shoot him, but we can still beat him with truncheons, right?
Posted by Charles 2003-8-9 4:45:33 PM||   2003-8-9 4:45:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Makes you wonder if Uday, Qusay and a bunch o' others there had yellow stones. Small ones. Really small, and never got bigger no matter how often they were rubbed.
Posted by Steve White  2003-8-9 4:49:43 PM||   2003-8-9 4:49:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Fred - I had me a pair of them blue stones when I was in Saudi. Moved here to Chiang Mai and they turned real pinkish and healthy-looking in just a few days. Like phreakin' magic. I've heard stories 'bout those Old Folks Homes - pretty wild stories. Coulda been "sexed-up" reporting, though, I dunno. Sounded like mebbe they're up there with Club Med Martinique - a singular highlight in my personal, uh, um, experience. Yeah, that's the word. After the first week, I needed to go back to The World to recover.

Charles - Too True - truncheons, zaps, brass knucks, "telephone calls" hooked up to his shrunken li'l stones, lions, The Shredder™. Lotsa options available for the dedicated - oh, uh, that's his guys we're describing - so, uh, nevermind! Just say "Gitmo™!" and all he knows will be yours. :->

SW - Prolly like, uh, raisin-sized, ya think? And yellow - good call, methinks, spot-on!
Posted by Â·com 2003-8-9 5:26:12 PM||   2003-8-9 5:26:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 PD,

Chiang Mai... Sigh.

I think I'll go take a cold shower.
Posted by Fred  2003-8-9 5:37:47 PM||   2003-8-9 5:37:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#14  Yeah, but be careful who you buy your stones from. I bought some a couple years back and after telling a friend about them he asked to see them. I dropped me trousers and pulled the string.

DOH! I guess I bought the wrong ones. Beads, stones same difference, right?
Posted by Paul 2003-8-9 6:21:22 PM||   2003-8-9 6:21:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 There was an old lady back in Louisiana, where I grew up in the late 1950's, early '60's, that was just a bit TOO spot-on! Weird woman! Learned a lot from her about voodoo and witchcraft. For some reason, she liked me, and talked to me a LOT! You have to remember - she told me she was over a hundred, and I believe she was. She talked about being a slave before the Civil War, and knew far too much for just show. Couldn't read or write, but could recite the entire Gospel of John from memory, and never missed a word. Lived off what she could forage, and a few fish and small game I brought her from time to time. Scared me sh$$less a couple of times. Seven of the eleven things she told me would happen have, so I'm not willing to say she didn't have some skill at fortelling the future.

In Sadsack's case, it's probably a mixture of popycock, fantasy, and wishful thinking. Makes for good propaganda, though - "I know what you're thinking, and it's not good..." Personally, I believe it's only a matter of time before one of his "own" betrays him, just because they get tired of the tension of having him around.
Posted by Old Patriot  2003-8-9 7:11:23 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2003-8-9 7:11:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 OP - Okay, man, tell me you're not into Santeria, Rastafarianism, or Voodoo/Vudun - puhleeze! If you don't see a reasonable explanation, sans the ooga-booga stuff, I'm gonna be very disillusioned with you! ;->
Posted by Â·com 2003-8-9 8:54:27 PM||   2003-8-9 8:54:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Sounds like when Reagan was in the neverlands and Nancy and the astrologer were runnng the country and we ended up with Bush I after Reagan went to the Multimillion Dollar Rest Home paid for by rich people with an agenda
Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-8-9 11:26:56 PM||   2003-8-9 11:26:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 PD - Yadae was something else, I tell you! She was funny at times! She told me one time (I remember, because it was a really unusual day - snow!), that most of what she did was encourage people to think what she wanted them to think, and let it go from there. Today, we call it psychological warfare, but at 16, I wasn't terribly aware of that phrase. She was, in effect, admitting to me she was at least partly a phoney, but because the people she did things for didn't know that, they treated every word from her as gospel! She did have an uncanny knowledge of herbal cures, and as far as I know, no one she ever treated got worse, and most got better. I have no explanation for some of the things I learned from her, and may never fully understand it, but be careful - I DO know how to put a curse on you that will make ALL your hair fall out, and I mean ALL - even the hair in your ears! 8^)
Posted by Old Patriot  2003-8-9 11:42:53 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm]  2003-8-9 11:42:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 OP - I'm one of the lucky ones - I have a full head of hair and always will. The ears bit is a rude surprise!

Some people are just plain savvy and can size up another in a heartbeat. Many become successful con-men, I guess, and others do well at poker, eh? Some can see the writing on the wall - some hereabouts have shown that talent! In combination, which is what Yadae sounds like, I guess it takes on a spooky quality. I just wanted to be sure you hadn't "tipped" on me / us!

Now as for that curse, fire away! It's dirt cheap to get a haircut here - but even cheaper if I don't need one at all! Focus on the ears, m'kay?

Grins, bro - it was a fun read!
Posted by Â·com 2003-8-10 12:06:08 AM||   2003-8-10 12:06:08 AM|| Front Page Top

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