Dogs vs. Cops (with guns)

The mayor states, "This box addressed to my wife, with drugs in it" seems to have triggered the drug raid. Why the police opened fire on the dogs..... who knows?

I really think that there is a fine line between this story and an Onion sketch.

Just when I had kicked the habit.....

Oh no.... they've only gone and put a mmorpg Star Trek in the pipeline!

I've been clean for 3 months. I gave up my Warcraft habit and have been enjoying a life brimming with free time. No more stressful instances or repetitive grind for little or no gain (okay, no gain!).

and now..... they are trying to lure me back!?

Damn their cold (marketing) logic!!!!

Addictive?

Okay.. so Vistabay believes these are the top 10 most addictive drugs (in the world).

1. Heroin

2. Cocaine

3. Methamphetamine

4. Nicotine

5. OxyContin (Oxycodone)

6. Demerol (Meperidine)

7. Vicodin (Hydrocodone)

8. Valium (Diazepam)

9. Xanax (Alprazolam)

10. Ritalin (Methylphenidate)

Okay.. well 1st off they have fallen into the mistake of "the World" = USA.

I also see they have not listened to Brian Ferry's warning that LOVE is the drug we should all be concerned about. He's a musician, so he should know all about what's going to be in the top 10. Plus, they don't (and can't) quantify how much physical or psycological addiction someones going to have to any drug.

But.... people will always love their lists.

(seems like every other TV show is a List TV countdown show)

(Oh and the picture is a police van steaking-out a chemists shop... yes, a bit random, I know)

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside......

The 30-metre (98 ft) long blow-up church -- staffed by priests ready to take confession -- will debut on Saturday on the Adriatic coast in the Molise region, an organiser said.
"There will be four or five people singing, with music about God," said Chiara Facci with Catholic group Sentinelli del Mattino. Night time activities, which will not include Mass, will run from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The first attempt to inaugurate the inflatable church last month on the holiday island of Sardinia failed after strong winds forced organisers to relocate, she said.
Big cities like Rome and Milan empty in August, when Italians head to the beach for summer holidays, leaving streets empty and many businesses closed. Churches are hardly immune, and also see their congregations thin.
On the Mediterranean coast, nuns from a convent near the southern Italian city of Naples have relocated to beach cabins to join holidaymakers saying the rosary. An adjoining altar was set up under two tents.
"The concept of a beach-convent is something that is appreciated by vacationers and the nuns themselves," priest Antonio Rungi, who helped spearheaded the initiative, told Italian news agency ANSA.

Prison food sure is yummy...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An inmate scheduled for execution in October says he's so fat that Ohio executioners would have trouble finding his veins and he might not be properly anesthetized.

HIS LAWYERS cite a document filed by a prison nurse in 2003 that said Cooey had sparse veins and that executioners would need extra time. Cooey is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 267lb, according to the lawsuit.
Cooey, 41, was sentenced to die for raping and murdering two University of Akron students in 1986. A federal judge granted him a last-minute reprieve in 2003. In April, he lost a challenge to Ohio's lethal injection process when the U.S. Supreme Court said he had missed a deadline to file a lawsuit.
Cooey's execution is scheduled for Oct. 14.
In his latest lawsuit, attorneys for Cooey say a drug he is taking for migraine headaches could diminish the effectiveness of the first of three drugs Ohio uses in its execution process. Cooey's use of the drug Topamax, a type of seizure medication, may have created a resistance to thiopental, the drug used to put inmates to sleep before two other lethal drugs are administered, That's a real concern for Cooey, his public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday. "All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating," she said.

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I'm neither 100% for or against the death penalty but if I had to find a way to end this killer's life

Hmmmm... how about up'ing the dose? No? Okay, well I bet he's going to hang quite easily, with all that weight, his neck would snap like a twig? Pump him full of amphetamines until October? If I'm finding it hard to sympathise with a rapist and murderer's plight it's just because I had a bad day.

Ssssshhhhhhh....!!!! I'm reading

Just a quinth of the way through it, so far.

I am deeply saddened, in the knowledge ,that this was the last Dark Sun book. As you all know, I am a mul who cares with all my heart for the Tablelands and Athas although the existence of this book escaped me until a year ago. I finally sourced a (cheap enough) copy from Canada.

So far, The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King has not disappointed. Okay, Lynn Abbey seemed to have disregarded previous sourcebook descriptions of Urik and has made the city her own. I found her first book The Brazen Gambit quite a struggle to get in to... it seemed to have a very slow pace and displayed too many emotional updates on the characters for a Dark Sun novel. Eventually I got past that and began to appreciate how well she had fleshed out the city of Urik (especially the ranks of the Templarate).

I certainly don't agree with her belief that elves would ride on kanks or that the Oba of Gulg is a weak sorcerer queen. She also paints a picture of a rather magic free Athas where the templars rarely cast any spells for fear of asking for their sorcerer king's magic. Even in her Athas the druids use little or no magic. Elemental clerics seem to want to deify acts of nature... but rarely (if ever) cast magic. Not a mention of any Veiled Alliance or barely any mention of defilers. Hardly anyone uses the way... this is where I begin to wonder Lynn was ever sat down and told any basics about the world of Athas.

Okay, so if you can look past all this... then what you are looking at is a stripped down very basic version of Athas. Athas minus the common use of psionics and magic.

..... and so far an interesting wee book.

WORST super hero EVER!!!!!

NEW YORK -- He calls himself "Jimmy Justice," a self-styled "cop-arazzi," armed only with a video camera as he prowls the streets of New York looking for law enforcement officers who are breaking the law. His targets are illegally parked city government vehicles -- particularly cars of traffic cops blocking bus stops, sitting in "no parking" zones or double-parked. Cop cars blocking fire hydrants make him
particularly incensed.

Oh dear... with all the other injustice in the world... he's focused on illeagal parking!? So does he just delete the tapes of cops beating down perps or taking back-handers?

Must be witchcraft

"Pedophillias dreamus"

Once again Harry's lack of paying attention in the Defence against the Dark Arts class got him into a whole heap of trouble.

Time to varmit.......

Ate something you shouldn't have?
Fear not!
This image is a natural emetic.....

Fat hotspots

People of England (sadly that's the only info I have) here is a map of your land with all the info that you'll ever need on where to go to find a fatty.

Think of this as public service brought to you via the SUN. (It's about half way down the page)

Now you can increase the chances of meeting the oversized partner of your dreams or maybe you'll just know where the best place is to find a £5 all-you-can-eat buffet? Local councils are already girding their loins and thinking about the road repair bills.

I'm calling you out!!!

In the battle of the interweb crazies there can be only ONE!

I've set my head on fire! Now, show me what you've got!

Yes, one day we will all see a man eating his own head..... and what a sad day that will be.

Only ONE use for the new Toyota Winglet....

Yes.... now get yourself one white bedsheet and cut out two eyeholes. Jump on the new Toyota Winglet and Voila! You have yourself one scary ghost that glides around your neighbourhood at a terrifying 3.7mph.

"3.7mph!?" I hear you cry? Yes... sadly we will not see any spectacular Winglet crashes on You Tube... *sigh*

Worlds oldest joke - apparently not the French?

The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests toilet humor was as popular with the ancients as it is today.
It is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."

A 1600 BC gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snofru, comes second -- "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish."

The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the Anglo-Saxons -- "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key."


From Reuters

So: What's brown and rhymes with Snoop? ......... Dr. Dre.
I also like: The 7 dwarves are in a hot tub all feeling Happy! Happy leaves, so they all feel Grumpy instead!

Oh I gotta stop before my sides split :)