Category: Out Of This World
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Interesting Tactic
So, you defend yourself in court, lose, then appeal to a higher court that your <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050407/ap_on_fe_st/odd_appeal" target="_new">lawyer was incompetent</a>. Awful interesting way of doing things.<br />n<br />nBy the way, I wondered how he proved up his mining claims on Mars? It seems like that would be a little difficult.<br />n<br />n<b>Equal opportunity means everyone…
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Who’s Rights
Now here is a new debate that I have heard nothing about until now, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5490-2005Mar27.html" target="_new">Pharmacists' Rights (free subscription required)</a>. This amounts to a Pharmacists right to deny a women a birth control prescription if it violates their personal moral or religious beliefs. <br />n<br />nHow smart it is to jump into a conversation…
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Details
I'm not real sure I want to know the details of this story.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050317/ap_on_fe_st/stolen_sheep" target="_new">Football Player Caught With Stolen Sheep</a><br />n<br />nSounds a little odd to me.<br />n<br />n<b>Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Henry David Thoreau</b>
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Images
<img width='110' height='74' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/elebabtl.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' />I have enough of a working knowledge of Artificial Insemination of cows that the whole image in my mind of performing such a procedure on an <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ELEPHANT_INSEMINATION?SITE=APWEB&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" target="_new">elephant</a> is an image I really don't want in my head. Do you want to know what image is…
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Health
<blockquote>Alongside life-size posters of Hindu nationalist leaders, Indian political activists can now buy lotions, potions and pills to cure anything from cancer to hysteria to piles — all made from cow urine or dung.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050301/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_india_cows" target="_new">cow urine and dung</a> are healthy. I get a real healthy dose (no pun intended) of this…
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Weird
This one is from the too weird to be true file. <br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&u=/ap/20050221/ap_on_re_eu/stolen_swimming_pool&printer=1" target="_new">Thieves Steal Built-In Swimming Pool</a><br />n<br />nA Norwegian family returned to their mountain cabin for the first time since November and found their swimming pool installed 20 years ago was gone.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>"It must have been a terrible job to…
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Crime
I so thank <a href="http://wulfgar.typepad.com/a_chicken_is_not_pillage/2005/01/logic_gone_terr.html">Wulfgar</a> for bringing <a href="http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2005/01/20/opinion/opinion5.prt" target="_new">this</a> to my attention. I didn't think a newspaper, especially one from Missoula, could print such common sense.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>What we hate is unequal protection – Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005<br />n<br />nSUMMARY:Legislators ought to repeal, not expand, law protecting some crime victims more than others. <br…
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Plans
While <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/18/build/state/30-brucellosis-end.inc" target="_new">removing all the bison</a> from Yellowstone National Park will Remove the brucellosis threat it poses, I don't really see the National Park Service and the American public allowing Montana to destroy or remove all the Bison from the park. What fantasy world is Governor BS living in to think the public is…
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Children
An interesting <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57876-2005Jan7.html" target="_new">take on the problem</a> of Social Security running out of money. It isn't that there are more older people and fewer people paying in or ever increasing benefits. No the problem is real simple, not enough kids being born. The solution to Social Security going bankrupt? Subsidize parents to have more…
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Tsunami
The <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/12/27/build/world/30-asia-quake_v.inc">force of mother nature</a> is truly astounding. I mean what can you say when faced with devestation of this magnitude. No matter what the failsafes we build in this world, mother nature will outwit them and wreck destruction. It has always been that way and will continue to be that way. Unbelievable.<br />n<br…