Another in a series of people who should not be allowed to have children

CT mom hangs self, poisons daughter
2011-06-29 09:31

Johannesburg - Two bodies were discovered in Tamboerskloof on Tuesday, after a mother apparently poisoned her child before hanging herself, Cape Town police said.

Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut said the bodies were found in the home they shared at 09:30.

The 42-year-old woman's body was found hanging from a staircase railing, while the body of her 8-year-old daughter was found in her bed.

The circumstances surrounding the deaths were being investigated, Traut said.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/CT-mom-hangs-self-poisons-daughter-20110628

'Sea monster' in China

55-foot 'sea monster' washes Up In China

A massive sea creature has washed up on a beach in Guangdong, China. So badly decayed it cannot be positively identified, the "sea monster" is 55 feet long and weights approximately 4.5 tons, according to The Sun.

Upon seeing a photo of the carcass, three marine biology experts — Scott Baker of Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute, Bill Perrin, senior scientist for marine mammals at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Bob Brownell, senior scientist for international protected resources with the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration's Fisheries Service — all think it's a whale.

Read more: http://www.cosmostv.org/2011/06/55-foot-sea-monster-washes-up-in-china.html#ixzz1QjBgdks9

Anyone for a Santaco budget airline?

Taxi industry wants to launch airlineSapa | 29 June, 2011 10:0710

The taxi industry wants to expand into other transport modes including buses, trains and even airplanes, the SA National Taxi Council (Santaco) says.

"We will be launching a low-cost airline," Nkululeko Buthelezi, business development officer for Santaco, told potential investors and reporters in Johannesburg.

"I can see some of you rolling your eyes because of how our taxi drivers drive... I can assure you we won't allow our taxi drivers to drive (the planes)." The airline would be officially unveiled on September 16 and take to the skies by November.

Buthelezi said the routes Santaco was looking at, such as Lanseria to Bhisho, made sense for their customers, who often made a 14-hour road trip for a funeral and had to return five hours later.


http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/06/29/taxi-industry-looks-to-skies

Nature can be Freudian on occasion

The wind did Zuma no favours at election time.

Thanks to David Blood for this!

African volcano seen via satellite

This is a volcanic eruption in Eritrea, on the fault line of the Great Rift.

95-year-old woman has to take off her nappy for airport security

A woman filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security alleging that her 95-year-old mother was asked by Transportation Security Administration officials to remove her adult diaper in order to comply with a pat-down search.

The incident reportedly took place June 18 when Jean Weber's mother, who is in the final stages of leukemia, was attempting to fly from Northwest Florida Regional Airport to Michigan to visit family members. Weber's mother required the assistance of a wheelchair to pass through the security.

Weber said that her mother was detained for 45 minutes. She was first taken into a glass-partitioned area for a pat-down and then to another private room for additional screening. Weber said that security personnel emerged from the room and asked that her mother remove the diaper, which was soiled, in order to complete the search. Weber took her mother to the bathroom and removed the diaper; Weber's mother did not have another clean diaper with her.

http://overheadbin.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/26/6951679-tsa-asks-95-year-old-woman-to-remove-diaper-for-pat-down

Retail in SA will never be the same

Walmart's first specials include a 32-inch Samsung LCD TV slashed to R3499 from R4799.00 at Game; Premier white bread at R6.29 at Makro (from R6.50), and 15 litres of Dulux Weatherguard paint cut by R76 to R449.

After fears about job losses and threats to local manufacturing that Walmart's buyout of Massmart might bring, Pattison said Massmart now estimates it will create 15000 jobs over the next five years, and source an additional R60-billion worth of food and other consumer goods locally.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/sundaytimes/2009/09/10/walmart-declares-war

Come again? Horse semen cocktails? Nay!

Apple-infused horse semen shots might not be an obvious chaser to spring rolls, but they are causing a stir at the Green Man Pub where they are being served.

The shots are part of the central Wellington pub's entry in the nationwide 14th annual Monteith's Beer & Wild Food Challenge.

While the rest of the meal of seared Asian duck and pork and paua spring rolls sounds delicious - it is the Hoihoi tatea, or horse semen drink which is on everyone's minds.

Green Man Pub chef, Jason Varley, said the drink was proving most popular with women.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/5176745/Women-flock-to-take-horse-semen-shots

Obama gets free ride where Bush was torched

 It is amazing how the media, having taken George W Bush to pieces for so much as farting incorrectly, has given Obama a free ride for a year.

Check this as he pays tribute to a dead solder as being a live medal recpient:

(NECN) - The White House is admitting President Barack Obama made a painful mistake in an address to soldiers in Fort Drum, New York.

The president misspoke about a medal of honor winner coming home alive, says Obama spokesman Josh Earnest. That soldier, Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti of Raynham, Massachusetts, was killed in action.
   
Earnest notes Obama paid tribute to Monti in March of 2010, but Salvatore Giunta was the first living recipient of the medal among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Video here

http://www.necn.com/06/25/11/Obama-makes-Medal-of-Honor-error/landing_newengland.html?blockID=537460&feedID=4207

Cars II is going to be huge

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-cars-2-205544

Years after Cars was released, we get Cars II. It hit the box office hard yesterday, doing more than $20m on opening day. My son and wife dote on Cars, so we can hardly wait for Cars II.

Trailer here:


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-preview-cars-2-bad-teacher-205163

Truck hits train in US ... stunning images and video

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43528942/ns/us_news-life/

CHURCHILL COUNTY, Nev. — A semitrailer plowed into an Amtrak train at a railroad crossing on a rural northern Nevada highway on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens, authorities said.

The truck driver and at least one person on the train were killed in the 11:25 a.m. accident on U.S. 95 about 70 miles east of Reno, said Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dan Lopez.

And chilling video footage here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43528942/ns/us_news-life/#slice-2

Sean Connery's keyboard

http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/sean-connerys-keyboard-281t

And look at which burger company is coming to town October 21

Kader and Mulholland on the same billboard

Kader introduced OBE and it failed.

Mulholland fought it tooth and nail from before its introduction.

http://www.witness.co.za/index.php?showcontent&global[_id]=26866

Sunday Times columnist Steven Mulholland voiced concerns that OBE was replacing reading, writing and arithmetic with projects, portfolios and performances. The essential shortcoming of OBE, he argued, was that it refuted the need for competition and individual excellence bec­ause its workings were group-based and aimed at promoting self-esteem. Children would not learn basic skills because they would not be taught them. Instead, the system would produc­e a generation of confident illiterat­es.

And this:


http://www.btimes.co.za/97/0608/columns/columns2.htm

There they are on the same Finweek billboard on the N1.

Pic to come if I can take it timeously.

Woman cooks baby in microwave

http://yhoo.it/lQ2ksV

California mom accused of killing baby in microwave
Reuters

– Tue Jun 21, 9:28 pm ET

SACRAMENTO, Calif (Reuters) – A California mother was arrested and charged with murder on Tuesday after police said she cooked her baby in a microwave.

Ka Yang, 29, was taken into custody three months after her week-old baby was found dead, Sacramento Police spokesman Sgt. Norm Leong said.

Leong said it took several months to determine the child's burns did indeed come from a microwave, using medical analysis and findings from three other U.S. cases.

Among them was a case involving Dayton, Ohio, woman convicted this year of baking her baby in a microwave.

Yang's baby was found dead at the family's residence on March 17, after a male relative called to report the incident, Leong said.

Child welfare workers have since removed Yang's three boys, who are all under age 7, from her home, Leong said.

Dr Oetker's pizza now the best selling in Italy

My good friend Monique asks how a pizza can sound like an orthopaedic shoe. Well, here's more:

* It's made by a German-owned company in Lancashire
* It's damned good
* Due to our import duties and taxes and profiteering, it costs us 100% what it costs in the UK. One pound 39 there, R35 here. Roll on, WalMart!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jun/21/how-good-dr-oetkers-pizza


The bestselling shop-bought pizza in Italy, and indeed in 33 other countries around the world including Britain, is made by a German-owned food company on an industrial estate just off the M6 in Leyland, Lancashire.
For lovers of fresh, non-industrial, locally sourced food – and hopeless romantics who continue to believe that if anyone knows a good pizza when they see one, it should surely be the Italians – this does not, on the face of it, look like good news.
But according to figures from Information Resources Incorporated, Dr Oetker's thin-crust frozen Ristorante pizzas now account for fully 20% of the Italian ready-made pizza market, with the tuna, four-cheese and mushroom toppings leading sales.

If you think you've tasted a crap burger before ...

http://bit.ly/jZINGh

Consider this Japanese invention. A burger made from real shit.

A new spin on biblical law (thanks to David Blood)

 Open Letter To Dr. Laura
In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.

The following response is an open letter to Dr Laura, written by a Professor at  University of Virginia, and posted on the Internet. It's funny, as well as informative:

Dear Dr Laura:

Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination ... End of debate.

I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them.
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighbouring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify?
Why can't I own Canadians?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of Menstrual uncleanliness - Lev.15: 19-24. The problem is how do I know? I have tried asking, but most women take offence.

4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odour for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odour is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?

6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination, Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?

9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16.

Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14).

I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I'm confident you can help.

Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.
Your adoring fan,
James M. Kauffman
Ed.D. Professor Emeritus,
Dept. Of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education
University of Virginia

PS - (It would be a damned shame if we couldn't own a Canadian)

What you can get away with if your name is Mandela or Zuma

There's what you know, and who you know. Grrr! (Ta to wife Karen for this Tweeted post.)


http://www.fin24.com/Opinion/Columnists/Jan-de-Lange/Stripped-bare-20110621

But while all these fine announcements were being made, large trucks with teams of workers and welding equipment dismantled the enormous steel infrastructure and equipment and carted it away. Now that Aurora is no longer in control and the famished staff is no longer frightened of them, dozens of photos of this kind of "entrepreneurship" are coming to light.

"It looks as if Aurora never had any intention of entering the mining industry. Their business is actually scrap metal," says Gideon du Plessis, deputy head of Solidarity, who realised for the first time in April last year – seven months after Aurora took over control of the mines – that the mines were being stripped.

Robbie's willy seen by 82 300

http://www.channel24.co.za/Music/News/Raunchy-Robbie-Williams-willy-woes-20110620

Los Angeles - Robbie Williams accidentally flashed his penis to 82 300 fans.

The Take That star was performing his solo section at the group's concert at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday when his penis popped out of his trousers during a raunchy routine of Rock DJ.

$1 bank robbery to get free healthcare in prison

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/nc-man-allegedly-robs-bank-health-care-jail/story?id=13887040

N.C. Man Allegedly Robs Bank of $1 to Get Health Care in Jail

By KATIE MOISSE
June 20, 2011

A 59-year-old man has been jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police report.

Jackass star killed

Jackass star Ryan Dunn killed in car accident at 34

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2005872/Jackass-star-Ryan-Dunn-killed-car-accident.html#ixzz1PpVXRZUq

What SMSes really cost you

The Irish Times - Thursday, June 16, 2011Taxing text messages

Madam, – Hats off to Michael Noonan for refusing to consider Aodhán Ó Ríordáin’s text message tax proposal (Home News, June 13th). SMS messages are almost unimaginably overpriced as it is. A single SMS, which is after all just a small packet of data, is limited to 160 7-bit characters, or 140 bytes. At 13 cents a text, this works out at over €970 a megabyte. If all data transmission were charged at this rate, it would cost almost €10,000 to watch a five-minute video on YouTube. If more people knew this, perhaps they would be less inclined to participate in the phone networks’ multibillion euro text messaging rip-off.

With the ever-increasing availability of entry-level phones with access to the internet (at rates altogether more reasonable than text messaging’s €970/Mb), coupled with the ability to use e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Skype or any number of other services to send messages to anyone in the world with a similarly capable phone for no extra charge, it can’t be long before the 20-year-old SMS system is consigned to the scrapheap. I suspect a tax on each message, aside from being an obvious instance of regressive taxation, would only hasten this process.

We undoubtedly need to raise more money for the exchequer. Perhaps this might better be done by properly collecting existing taxes, rather than imposing technologically and economically dubious new ones? When it comes to such proposals, there is a big difference between thinking outside the box, and saying whatever comes into your head. – Yours, etc,

TOM FLYNN,

Marchmont Road,

Edinburgh.

Tony Leon reports from Buenos Aires

The DA recently won our ward. Tony Leon views local DA man Darren Bergman as one of his protégés. This is the latest in a series of interviews with leading figures. Do look out for further interviews of this nature.

Q: You are now hobnobbing (so to speak) with some of the world's great leaders. What is this like, relative to debating in parliament?
A: Actually, I met many of the "good and the great" (and several of the not so good or great) world leadership during my political and parliamentary career-ranging from late French President Francois Mitterrand to US President Bill Clinton. I think the two greatest leaders I met (aside from Nelson Mandela, whom I got to know very well during his presidency) were the Dalai Lama, whom I trekked off to Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas to meet, and the late Pope, John Paul II. My ambassadorship has been, for obvious reasons of location, more focused on South America, where I have spent some time with the three presidents of the countries to which I am accredited: Pres Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of Argentina, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay and El Pepe Mujica of Uruguay. So, it's pretty much a Spanish-speaking version of what I had previously encountered. Diplomatic life is very different from parliament - more nuanced, more behind the scenes, less confrontational.

Q: Your record is one as a combative MP. Would you agree with this statement?A: I like to think of myself as a "conviction politician", but confrontation on some key issues when I was at the helm was absolutely necessary. When I stood up to Thabo Mbeki on questions such as AIDS and Zimbabwe, not to mention failures of delivery, it was absolutely necessary to sharpen the discourse. At that time, the media was mostly supine and civil society was often invisible. I am pleased that both have recovered their mojo.

Q: You are now a paid employee of the government you fought for so long. How have you reconciled this in your own conscience?A: When President Zuma offered me an ambassadorship, he said to me: "It is absolutely essential that South Africa is represented overseas by people other than ANC members." I agree with that sentiment, and it is in that spirit that I accepted this appointment and have conducted myself abroad. I am the emissary of a country, not a party. Accordingly, our embassy has been highly successful here in promoting the interests of all South Africans and our trade and tourism and sporting interests - all of which are important here, and all of which have improved considerably on my watch. I have neither changed my political allegiance or beliefs, but I strongly believe that leaders of all stripes, be they DA or ANC, can in good conscience advance the prospects and prosperity of South Africa abroad.

Q: Please describe daily life in Buenos Aires.A: Buenos Aires is a vast city of 12 million-plus people: home to a quarter of the total population of this big (eighth largest in the world in terms of land mass) country. So, from traffic jams to political demonstrations, daily life can be a challenge. It is also Spanish-speaking, so English will only get you so far! But I spend a fair amount of time in the embassy, directing our staff of 27 people, attending to various trade and diplomatic matters, and quite a bit of time, out and about, meeting government officials, giving speeches and taking the pulse of the body politic here. On weekends, we (my wife Michal and I) spend time with our dogs (we live in a vast apartment opposite a huge park, where they enjoy being walked) or trying out new eating experiences with friends.

Q: How do you feel the DA has developed under Helen Zille?A: That's a good question. I hope to provide a definitive and exciting answer when my term expires here! Judging from the recent election results, I would say the DA is doing very well under Helen Zille and has extended its reach. I am pleased the party is building on the foundation which I and others laid in the very challenging years between 1994 and 2007. It's not just good for the DA, it is also good for the democratic prospects of South Africa. – Frank Heydenrych, Linbro Park

Great Father's Day cartoon

Andrew Seldon has asked me to post on this

Andrew is one of many people who believe that a planet called Nibiru is going to extinguish life. At his request, I post this.


http://bit.ly/jKMAMi

While the Sun is setting down in the left side of the Video, Nibiru/Planet X clearly appears in the sky as a bright orb from the right side.

Lightning strike at launch pad

That was close! A fixed camera at launchpad B at Kennedy Space Center (which is being torn down/modified) captured an amazing lightning strike earlier this week.

http://www.universetoday.com/86851/yikes-lightning-strike-near-ksc-launchpad/

Life through a lens

As my wife Karen points out, she and Monique Verduyn are the two favourite ladies in my life.

These pics were taken by the late Alex Daligand many years ago.

The distance of time has not aged either of them.

Be afraid, very afraid

Good riddance to Weiner's wiener

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/defiant-no-longer-weiner-resigns-sex-scandal-212544359.html

 Defiant no longer, Weiner resigns in sex scandal

APBy ANDREW MIGA - Associated Press,KAREN ZRAICK
NEW YORK (AP) — Defiant and combative no longer, New York Rep. Anthony Weiner soberly announced his resignation from Congress on Thursday, bowing to the furor caused by his sexually charged online dalliances with a former porn actress and other women.

Another in a series: some people should not be allowed to have children

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My wife Karen has posted on last night's eclipse

http://linbropark.blogspot.com/2011/06/karens-posting-of-eclipse.html

Devastating report on Sunday Times' editorial standards

 The Sunday Times is for many people the most important paper in South Africa.

It has made some terrible errors, but the editorial team holds itself above accountability. Whoever screws up gets promoted.

Finally, someone has had the courage to crack the report Daily Maverick requested over and over again. It shines a light on a self-serving institution that is giving the ANC all the ammo it needs to ram damaging media legislation down our throats.


http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=145945

Images of last night's lunar eclipse

http://linbropark.blogspot.com/2011/06/images-of-last-nights-lunar-eclipse.html

Many more pics to come

I need to start cycling again

Especially in Santiago.

http://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/other/2011/06/13/naked-cyclists-pedal-for-change

Coming soon, hopefully

One of the great experiences of cycling in the US was Burger King (relative to McDonald's). Flame-grilled burgers are better. Burger King when I was there cost 99c, and it filled you for the day. My daughter and wife simply rave about the quality and content of the burgers. Consensus: we need good, competitively priced fast food.

Could be coming here, now.

And not a moment too soon. Steers' prices are right through the roof.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=145867

Zapiro on our looming banana republic

These guys want to run the country ...

... but they can't even protect their own website.

And now, the Weiner doll!

Complete with Blackberry accessory.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/weiner-doll.html

Weiner doll crashes website

June 14, 2011 | 12:08 pm

Weiner doll crashes websiteA Rep. Weiner doll released recently is so popular it's causing loading problems on the website HeroBuilders.com.

The Oxford, Conn., company, which in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden released a Rambama doll (a mix between Rambo and President Obama), has also created G.I. Joe type dolls in the likenesses of  Sarah Palin, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Unlike the previous creations, the Weiner doll comes in two styles. For $39.95 customers can purchase the standard Anthony Weiner action figure, but for $10 more, collectors can nab an adults-only Weiner doll that claims to be an anatomically correct version of the disgraced congressman.

And for those who wish to get an accessory for the action figure, for the low price of $18, one can purchase a toy BlackBerry to complete the tribute to the New Yorker who has been told to resign by top leaders on both sides of the aisle.

Shattering news: Hefner's latest marriage is off

 

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-hugh-hefner-crystal-harris-playboy-20110614,0,66467.story?track=rss

Sad news today at the Playboy Mansion: Playmate Crystal Harris is not marrying Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, according to Hefner himself.

Giraffes, as captured by Karen

I have the artistic capability of a shrew.

My son James is gifted.

My wife Karen has such skill.

My daughter Nicky is sublimely gifted.

Karen saw this when she took our toddler Matthew to the zoo.

Wonderful pic.

My son's art

My son James is enormously gifted artistically. Me, I can't draw a straight line or play anything but the radio.

He is doing art classes with Cecile Louw in Linbro Park.

This was his first completed work. He thinks it's humbug. I think it's fabulous.

The world's first portable computer

The idea of a portable computer was postulated in 1968. It saw the light of day 13 years later. The Osborne 1 weighed around 12kg, had 64k RAM, a 12cm screen, ran the CP/M operating system and came with a number of programs, including SuperCalc, WordStar and MS Basic. It cost R18 000 at today's prices. Osborne filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy two years later.

Top analysis of Weiner's ongoing exposure of himself

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/opinion/13douthat.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212

Despite “his occasional illusions of omnipotence, the narcissist depends on others to validate his self-esteem.” His innate insecurity can only be overcome “by seeing his ‘grandiose self’ reflected in the attentions of others, or by attaching himself to those who radiate celebrity, power and charisma.”

This is a depressingly accurate anticipation of both the relationship between Weiner and his female “followers,” and the broader “look at me! look at meeeee!” culture of online social media, in which nearly all of us participate to some degree or another.

Facebook and Twitter did not forge the culture of narcissism. But they serve as a hall of mirrors in which it flourishes as never before — a “vast virtual gallery,” as Rosen has written, whose self-portraits mainly testify to “the timeless human desire for attention.”

And as Anthony Weiner just found out, it’s very easy to get lost in there.

Zapiro on the government's communications strategy

This must be the most expensive w*nk of all time

Aaron's Inc workers

Record $90m payout after boss allegedly hits employee with genitals

A US federal jury in Illinois awarded $US95 million ($90 million) to a woman who said she was the victim of a sexual harassment campaign.

She claimed her boss hit her on the head with his genitals before allegedly throwing her down on a couch and masturbating on her chest.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/record-90m-payout-after-boss-allegedly-hits-employee-with-genitals-20110613-1fzmv.html#ixzz1P8QQgsGh

Latest on Weiner ... this is too funny for words

He is finished politically. Open only if you want a darned good laugh.


http://photos.tmz.com/galleries/anthony_weiner_at_the_congressional_gym#tab=most_recent

Unortunate headline: No 2 in an ongoing series

Injury Shuts Down Colon's Revival

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/sports/baseball/colons-injury-overshadows-yankees-victory.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha27

Now look who wants us to bail him out

He's one of the richest men in the world. He has hundreds of millions stashed away. He has his own private airport. He presides over the highest rate of AIDS in the world. He takes a new bride every year. His people live on an average R7 a day. He is trying to appropriate much of Mpumalanga. He is the worst ruler in the world, and one of the most despotic. He is entirely unaccountable. His government is bankrupt due to his profligacy.

And he wants R10 billion from us. Note how proudly the local paper trumpets the fact that he's coming to Zuma with begging bowl in hand.

Our chances of giving it to him and getting repaid?

Great headline (thanks again to David Blood)

Crack in windshield

(Thanks to David Blood, who has a sublime sense of humour.)

I AM STILL TRAUMATISED

I'm driving along on the highway at 100km/h, minding my own business, when out of nowhere there's this big crack in my windshield! I swerved right, and then left, and it was still right there!

There are just NO words for this!

Windows has been around a long time ...

But not this long. The weirdest error I have ever seen from Windows (and there have been a few);

This was the Drakensberg on Thursday (thanks to David Blood)