Category: Out Of This World

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…

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…

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>

<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…

<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…

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…

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…