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After all, how are we to successfully wage a war of unprovoked aggression when such "leaks" reveal all our tricks and flimsy justifications for senseless and adrenalin-pumping murder to every 13-year-old who has access to YouTube? How can we stand by our plausible cover stories when videos like this impugn our self-created credibility? Yes, when our expendable, fleshy killing machines see an Iraqi man with a camera, what other choice do they have than to tell their superiors he has a weapon and request to "engage" him, and any other Iraqis who happen to be in the vicinity? How else are they supposed to raise their "kill count", I ask you??
It boggles the mind.
© on imageJason Levin, leader of Crash The Tea Party
"Our plan is not to shout them down," Levin told me yesterday, "but to infiltrate them and push them farther from the mainstream."
The scheme reads like a sequel to "Being John Malkovich": Levin's group of protesters plan to get in the heads of tea partiers at the Tax Day Tea Parties nationwide Thursday and manipulate them right out of relevance. They'll dress like tea partiers, talk like tea partiers and carry signs like tea partiers. In fact, according to Levin they'll be completely indistinguishable from tea partiers, except for one thing -- they won't be out-crazied by anyone.
Tina Fey hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and, of course, reprised her role as Sarah Palin -- complete with Palin's new leather jacket.
The bit was a spoof ad for the "Sarah Palin Network," featuring shows such as, "Hey Journalist, I Gotcha," and original movies that "aim for the heartland," such as, "My Daughter Only Sprained Her Ankle, You Can't Seriously Be Considering Euthanizing Her."
The bit was a spoof ad for the "Sarah Palin Network," featuring shows such as, "Hey Journalist, I Gotcha," and original movies that "aim for the heartland," such as, "My Daughter Only Sprained Her Ankle, You Can't Seriously Be Considering Euthanizing Her."
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The Sun said the pair was reported to have dressed in full sheepskin fleeces, complete with heads, to lie low among farm flocks.
Robbers Maximiliano Pereyra, 25, and Ariel Diaz, 28, allegedly stole the sheep hides from a ranch after breaking out of an Argentinian maximum security prison in La Alameda a week ago.
They managed to evade the 300 police on their trail, despite locals seeing them running through fields at night, The Sun said.
A secret hoard of lewd pamphlets written to titillate the common man more than 300 years ago have been discovered in a manor house.
Known as Chapbooks the bodice-ripping yarns were found hidden in the library of Townend House at Troutbeck in the Lake District.
The pamphlets had been shoved behind a collection of straightforward books, presumably to hide them.
Chapbooks - the name derives from 'chapmen' the door-to-door peddlers who sold this type of literature - told racy tales of amorous advances, love and marriage.
The pamphlets were printed on cheap paper so thin that hardly any have survived the ravages of time.
Known as Chapbooks the bodice-ripping yarns were found hidden in the library of Townend House at Troutbeck in the Lake District.
The pamphlets had been shoved behind a collection of straightforward books, presumably to hide them.
Chapbooks - the name derives from 'chapmen' the door-to-door peddlers who sold this type of literature - told racy tales of amorous advances, love and marriage.
The pamphlets were printed on cheap paper so thin that hardly any have survived the ravages of time.
Police have arrested two women at an British airport after they reportedly tried to smuggle a corpse onto a flight.
Police said Tuesday the women were detained at Liverpool's John Lennon airport "on suspicion of failing to give notification of death" of a 91-year-old man.
The BBC and other British media reported that the women placed the man, a relative of theirs, into a wheelchair and covered his face with sunglasses in a bid to get him aboard a flight to Berlin.
The women, aged 41 and 66, were detained Saturday and have been released on bail. They have not been charged and police say inquiries are continuing.
Police said Tuesday the women were detained at Liverpool's John Lennon airport "on suspicion of failing to give notification of death" of a 91-year-old man.
The BBC and other British media reported that the women placed the man, a relative of theirs, into a wheelchair and covered his face with sunglasses in a bid to get him aboard a flight to Berlin.
The women, aged 41 and 66, were detained Saturday and have been released on bail. They have not been charged and police say inquiries are continuing.
Vultures in the Everglades - birds known primarily for dining on the dead and decaying - have developed an appetite for something unusual: Car parts.
Windshield wipers, door seals and - especially scrumptious - sunroof seals. Anything rubber, but vinyl will do, too.
The birds, mostly black vultures native to much of the Southeast, have trashed cars and trucks of visitors and the Everglades National Park staff, as well as the occasional boat at Flamingo, an outpost on Florida Bay. The park has received seven complaints and one lawsuit seeking $700 to cover repairs, but most damage goes unreported.
The problem isn't unique. Vultures across the country have munched on cars, roof shingles, pool screens and an array of stuff for reasons that biologists admit remain a mystery. The park has tried several anti-vulture schemes, yelling at birds, even dangling dead ones upside down - a scare-vulture that has worked well in many spots.
Windshield wipers, door seals and - especially scrumptious - sunroof seals. Anything rubber, but vinyl will do, too.
The birds, mostly black vultures native to much of the Southeast, have trashed cars and trucks of visitors and the Everglades National Park staff, as well as the occasional boat at Flamingo, an outpost on Florida Bay. The park has received seven complaints and one lawsuit seeking $700 to cover repairs, but most damage goes unreported.
The problem isn't unique. Vultures across the country have munched on cars, roof shingles, pool screens and an array of stuff for reasons that biologists admit remain a mystery. The park has tried several anti-vulture schemes, yelling at birds, even dangling dead ones upside down - a scare-vulture that has worked well in many spots.
The man was given a £120 fine after being caught on camera veering into the bus lane to dodge a traffic queue.
But instead of paying up the driver claimed that he was 'forced' to swerve into the bus lane to avoid an alien spaceship which was 'hurtling towards him' in Southwark, south London.
He told parking appeals bosses that he would 'never normally' use a bus lane, but that he had to take 'avoidance action' to swerve the UFO.
Parking chiefs rejected his appeal, telling him the camera did not catch the UFO, and forced him to stump up the fine.
Other bizarre claims revealed by Southwark Council include a motorist who told them he wasn't liable for a parking fine because he was colour blind and thought a yellow line was blue.
He told parking appeals officials that because of his disability he had 'no idea' that parking was restricted.
Again, his appeal was rejected on the grounds that 'everybody knows not to park on double lines, regardless of colour'.
But instead of paying up the driver claimed that he was 'forced' to swerve into the bus lane to avoid an alien spaceship which was 'hurtling towards him' in Southwark, south London.
He told parking appeals bosses that he would 'never normally' use a bus lane, but that he had to take 'avoidance action' to swerve the UFO.
Parking chiefs rejected his appeal, telling him the camera did not catch the UFO, and forced him to stump up the fine.
Other bizarre claims revealed by Southwark Council include a motorist who told them he wasn't liable for a parking fine because he was colour blind and thought a yellow line was blue.
He told parking appeals officials that because of his disability he had 'no idea' that parking was restricted.
Again, his appeal was rejected on the grounds that 'everybody knows not to park on double lines, regardless of colour'.
© John Medina, WireImageDeepak Chopra: the world shaker!
"Had a powerful meditation just now -- caused an earthquake in Southern California," Chopra wrote to his nearly 179,000 Twitter followers shortly after the quake.
And then, to clarify: "Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake," he tweeted. "Sorry about that."
