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The Amazing Lyerbird

Add comment September 22nd, 2006

Take a look at the Amazing Lyerbird, you won’t believe this is real, but it is.

The Taliban Says…

Add comment September 22nd, 2006

The Taliban Says...

Support Mohammed Art
Take a look at the Muhhamed Image Archive, I have never seen most of these photos. What makes it especially fun is that Muslim extremists would love to chop our heads off for even looking at them. And please do not miss the “Emails From Readers section“, it’s full of email responses and death threats from pissed off Muslims, here is an example:

From: maqbool a
Subject: Pakistan will set you right

Pakistani law forces the people to respect the prophet of Islam. If they don’t they are hanged. Now we will bring an amendment to the constitution (our favorite pastime) and then this law will apply to all the inhabitants of all the worlds (AALMEEN). You just wait and see!

MAQBOOL

Chavez Calls Bush ‘Devil’

Add comment September 21st, 2006

Chavez
How the hell is our administration supposed to deal with people like this? We purchase 1.46 million barrels per day from Venezuela. So let me get this straight, Chavez calls President Bush the Devil, but yet his Country takes in billions of dollars in oil sales, does this mean Chavez has made a deal with the Devil? BTW, nice plug for Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance. Chavez is a fucking moron! I would ask everyone to boycott all citgo gas stations. Citgo is affiliated with oil that is imported from Venesuella.

Speaking through an interpreter, Chavez called on nations to rise up against what he called America’s hegemony. He even had some recommended reading for his colleagues: Noam Chomsky’s Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance.”It’s an excellent book to help us understand what’s been happening in the world throughout the 20th century,” Chavez said, “and what’s happening now.”

Chavez flipped through a transcript of President Bush’s speech from Tuesday as he lambasted the president’s talk of a freedom agenda in the world. The Venezuelan president got plenty of chuckles for making the sign of the cross and calling Bush the devil.

“And it smells of sulfur still today,” Chavez said. “Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum — the president of the United States, the gentleman whom I refer to as ‘the devil’ — came here, talking as if he owned the world.”

The United States had only a junior note-taker in the room to listen to the speech.

Relations between the United States and Venezuela — a key oil supplier — have been frosty for years, with Washington and Caracas often trading insults. Washington is also lobbying hard to keep Venezuela off the U.N. Security Council. Chavez is vying for an open seat on the council to have more clout in the U.N. system.

From NPR.org

UNION, Mo. September 20, 2006, 1:44 p.m. ET · The woman who authorities say slashed the throat of a young mother and then stole her baby was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and assault and ordered held on $1 million bond.

Franklin County prosecutor Robert E. Parks filed the charges against the woman authorities previously identified as Shannon Beck. Court documents name her as Shannon Torrez, 36, of Lonedell, but note that she is also known as Shannon Beck.

Earlier Wednesday, Stephenie Ochsenbine cradled her newborn daughter and told a national TV audience she couldn’t describe the feeling.

“The last several days have been draining, just exhausting. But I can handle anything now,” the 21-year-old woman said on NBC’s “Today” show, her neck bandaged after her throat was slashed during Friday’s abduction.

Asked what it was like to have her baby, Abby, back in her arms, she replied: “It’s indescribable.”

“She belongs with me,” Ochsenbine told MSNBC. “We’re doing great now, we’re whole again and she’s very content, actually. Said father James Woods: “I just wanted to hug her.”

The suspect was arrested Tuesday after her sister-in-law, Dorothy Torrez, contacted authorities. Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said she had recently miscarried a full-term fetus.

“She’s the hero,” Toelke said of Dorothy Torrez. “She’s the one that made it happen.”

Dorothy Torrez became suspicious when she noticed makeup on the forehead of the baby her sister-in-law was claiming to have delivered a few days earlier.

Authorities said she rubbed off the makeup and found a strawberry-red birthmark that matched the description provided by investigators who had been searching for the baby.

She contacted police, and hours later a healthy 11-day-old Abigale Lynn Woods was reunited with her parents. Shannon Torrez was taken into custody.

Ochsenbine told police Friday a woman entered her rural home, attacked her with a knife and stole the baby, who was a week old at the time.

During the search for Abby, investigators had profiled the abductor as someone who had a child die recently or as someone who could not have children.

Shannon Torrez lives just a few miles from Ochsenbine’s home near Lonedell, FBI Special Agent Roland Corvington said.

The suspect told her sister-in-law on Sunday that she had given birth, the FBI agent said. Visiting Shannon Torrez the next day, Dorothy Torrez persuaded her sister-in-law to take the baby to see a doctor, and on Tuesday the two women went to St. Louis for that doctor’s visit.

That’s when she discovered the birthmark and confronted her sister-in-law, who gave her the baby. Abby was handed over to authorities at about 5 p.m.

“An outstanding ending, obviously,” Toelke said. “You talk about a lead breaking the case, and this was it.”

Health care officials said it appears Abby had been well cared for.

The small rural eastern Missouri communities near where Abby was abducted celebrated her safe return. The clerks at a convenience store in St. Clair drew a cardboard sign that said “Welcome home Abby.”

“We were upset and now we’re excited and we can’t even concentrate,” clerk Debbie Young said.

“It was a tear-jerking time for the whole town,” said Regina Hampson, manager of the only gas station in town.

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Associated Press writer Jeff Douglas contributed to this report.