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24 Jan 2005 11:31 amNorway to kill 25% of its wolf population - leaving 15 individuals. Not much of a genetic pool for future survival. A recent study of the wider Scandinavian wolf population concluded there were 120 at the most.
Allah signed his name in the Sri Lanka tsunami - showing that Christians don't have an exclusive on seeing things in random patterns. Remember the Grilled Cheese Virgin Mary from a few weeks ago?
Diners are concerned about eating fish that fed on tsunami victims' corpses - Thai health officials have gone to great lengths to show a wary public they have nothing to fear. Officials have conducted regular tests on sea water and fish from affected areas, and in the battered coastal province of Phang-Nga, health ministry officials cut open the bellies of tuna, sea bass and other fish caught in the Andaman Sea to show there were no human remains inside. I'm assuming this is based on an extended taboo of eating human flesh, since there's no such issues with eating catfish in the American South ...
President Bush Flashes Satanic Sign - Yes, I'm from Texas and know that in Texas it means "Hook 'em Horns" and has been associated with the University of Texas for many, many years. In Europe it's Satanic, and President Bush should have known better than to flash it on world-wide television. Now it's grist for the 'Great Satan' anti-America propaganda mill.
WD-40 helps prevent cocaine use - Police in the English city of Bristol said Tuesday they have been advising pub and nightclub owners to spray the colorless lubricant on toilet seats and other flat surfaces in the lavatory that customers often use to snort drugs. "A chemical reaction takes place with the cocaine that causes it to congeal and become a mess so it's unusable ..." - though I'd be a little upset at finding a public toilet seat (or countertop) sprayed with WD-40 ...
Allah signed his name in the Sri Lanka tsunami - showing that Christians don't have an exclusive on seeing things in random patterns. Remember the Grilled Cheese Virgin Mary from a few weeks ago?
Diners are concerned about eating fish that fed on tsunami victims' corpses - Thai health officials have gone to great lengths to show a wary public they have nothing to fear. Officials have conducted regular tests on sea water and fish from affected areas, and in the battered coastal province of Phang-Nga, health ministry officials cut open the bellies of tuna, sea bass and other fish caught in the Andaman Sea to show there were no human remains inside. I'm assuming this is based on an extended taboo of eating human flesh, since there's no such issues with eating catfish in the American South ...
President Bush Flashes Satanic Sign - Yes, I'm from Texas and know that in Texas it means "Hook 'em Horns" and has been associated with the University of Texas for many, many years. In Europe it's Satanic, and President Bush should have known better than to flash it on world-wide television. Now it's grist for the 'Great Satan' anti-America propaganda mill.
WD-40 helps prevent cocaine use - Police in the English city of Bristol said Tuesday they have been advising pub and nightclub owners to spray the colorless lubricant on toilet seats and other flat surfaces in the lavatory that customers often use to snort drugs. "A chemical reaction takes place with the cocaine that causes it to congeal and become a mess so it's unusable ..." - though I'd be a little upset at finding a public toilet seat (or countertop) sprayed with WD-40 ...
