Manbearpig is scaring the prostitutes

Manbearpig has got to be stopped.  He is scaring the hookers in Bulgaria.  This has got to stop.  I mean what are the men in Bulgaria suppose to do, sleep with thier wives????   What am I thinking, that just not right. 

Brothel owners in Bulgaria are blaming global warming for staff shortages.

They claim their best girls are working in ski resorts because a lack of snow has forced tourists to seek other pleasures.

Petra Nestorova, who runs an escort agency in Sofia, said: ‘We have hired students, but they are temps and nothing like our elite girls.’

Metro UK

Buying a new house can be exciting

Just look at what one family found at the old farm house they bought

ok, so imagine you live in portugal and your moving house. you find a lovely farm house set in a decent plot of land. the place has been empty for 15 years!

whilst exploring your new property you find a large barn in the trees. the door is padlocked shut and its all rusted solid. so you grind the padlock open………

and this is what you find inside……

I wish I was moving there

Strange lights seen

In South Carolina, many people saw some strnage lights up in the sky.  It could be meteorites or debris from the Chinese sattelite that was destryed.

What Was That? Strange Lights In Upstate Skies

POSTED: 6:30 am EST January 25, 2007

UPDATED: 12:33 pm EST January 25, 2007

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Dozens of WYFF 4 viewers called and e-mailed us to report seeing some strange blue lights in the night sky Wednesday.

The lights appeared at about 8:15 p.m., according to the reports.

Reports came from areas near Paris Mountain and also from Gaffney. "A blue light streaked across the sky in the Gaffney area. The light … moved from the Greenville-Spartanburg area toward Huntersville, N.C.," Terry Coyle said. "The object had a bluish green tail about two miles long." Law enforcement agencies also report receiving calls about the lights, and WYFF4.com correspondent Scott Wilson of Gastonia, N.C., also said he saw similar lights in the direction of the Upstate. While no definitive information is available, WYFF 4 Chief Meteorologist John Cessarich said the most likely cause is a group of meteors streaking into the Earth’s atmosphere. The color could be an indication of the composition of the meteors. Cessarich said that he was able to confirme there were military helicopters on routine training missions operating in Greenville and Pickens counties on Wednesday night, but there is no indication that those flights are related to the other sightings. There are reports of similar sightings from as far away as Europe. Click here for a story reported by the BBC about strange lights in the night sky above Wales.

WYFF

Hands off Brokeback Sheep !!!

This is just too good.  You are aware of all the flak conservatives take for opposing embryonic stem cell research and objecting to the push to eliminate Downs’ Syndrome in our time.  The recent recommendation by the medical powers that be that every pregnant woman be tested for Downs Syndrome comes to mind.  Why the need to know unless it is to facilitate abortion of the "defective" fetus? Opposition to ridding the world of Downs kids is seen as standing athwart women’s rights and the march of science towards a perfect world, right?    Talking about the dangers of eugenics makes us "anti-science" and idiotic, ignorant boobies, right? 

Well, now liberal folks are up in arms about research to change male sheep who prefer other males into rams who will breed and make some money for the farmer.  Horrors!!!   It might be used by selfish, homophobic human mothers on those things in the human womb!!  Can’t have that.  The research on sheep is being protested – it’s not even research on anything in the human family, born or unborn.    And they aren’t even killing the unborn sheep in utero .  Hattip to Opinion Journal  http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/

The Sunday Times – Britain

The Sunday Times December 31, 2006 Science told: hands off gay sheep Isabel Oakeshott and Chris Gourlay Experiments that claim to ‘cure’ homosexual rams spark anger SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of “gay” sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans. The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of homosexual rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes. It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the “straightening” procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch. The research, at Oregon State University in the city of Corvallis and at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, has caused an outcry. Martina Navratilova, the lesbian tennis player who won Wimbledon nine times, and scientists and gay rights campaigners in Britain have called for the project to be abandoned. Navratilova defended the “right” of sheep to be gay. She said: “How can it be that in the year 2006 a major university would host such homophobic and cruel experiments?” She said gay men and lesbians would be “deeply offended” by the social implications of the tests. But the researchers argue that the work is valid, shedding light on the “broad question” of what determines sexual orientation. They insist the work is not aimed at “curing” homosexuality. Approximately one ram in 10 prefers to mount other rams rather than mate with ewes, reducing its value to a farmer. Initially, the publicly funded project aimed to improve the productivity of herds. The scientists have been able to pinpoint the mechanisms influencing the desires of “male-oriented” rams by studying their brains. The animals’ skulls are cut open and electronic sensors are attached to their brains. By varying the hormone levels, mainly by injecting hormones into the brain, they have had “considerable success” in altering the rams’ sexuality, with some previously gay animals becoming attracted to ewes. Professor Charles Roselli, the Health and Science University biologist leading the research, defended the project. He said: “In general, sexuality has been under-studied because of political concerns. People don’t want science looking into what determines sexuality. “It’s a touchy issue. In fact, several studies have shown that people who believe homosexuality is biologically based are less homophobic than people who think that this orientation is acquired.” The research is being peer-reviewed by a panel of scientists in America, demonstrating that it is being taken seriously by the academic community. Potentially, the techniques could one day be adapted for human use, with doctors perhaps being able to offer parents pre-natal tests to determine the likely sexuality of offspring or a hormonal treatment to change the orientation of a child. Roselli has said he would be “uncomfortable” about parents choosing sexuality, but argues that it is up to policy makers to legislate on questions of ethics. Michael Bailey, a neurology professor at Northwestern University near Chicago, said: “Allowing parents to select their children’s sexual orientation would further a parent’s freedom to raise the sort of children they want to raise.” Critics fear the findings could be abused. Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Bioethics at Glasgow Caledonian University, who has written to the researchers pressing them to stop, said: “I don’t believe the motives of the study are homophobic, but their work brings the terrible possibility of exploitation by homophobic societies. Imagine this technology in the hands of Iran, for example. “It is typical of the US to ignore the global context in which this is taking place.” Peter Tatchell, the gay rights campaigner, said: “These experiments echo Nazi research in the early 1940s which aimed at eradicating homosexuality. They stink of eugenics. There is a danger that extreme homophobic regimes may try to use these experimental results to change the orientation of gay people.” He said that the techniques being developed in sheep could in future allow parents to “play God”. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the pressure group, condemned the study as “a needless slaughter of animals, an affront to human dignity and a colossal waste of precious research funds”. The tests on gay sheep are the latest in a long line of experiments seeking to alter the sexuality of humans and animals. Günther Dorner, a scientist in the former East Berlin, carried out hormone-altering tests on rodents in the 1960s in the hope of finding a way to eradicate homosexuality. In 2002, Simon LeVay, an American neurologist, claimed to have discovered that homosexual and heterosexual men had physically different brains. His tests on the corpses of gay men who had died of Aids were widely criticised. Julia    Note the fear that parents may try to "play God" by changing the sexual orientation of what is usually referred to as a blob of cells.  I thought mothers had a perfect right to do anything they wanted to an unborn fetus, right?  It’s just those idiot fish-eaters who want hands off the unborn, right?   Note also that PETA wants hands off the animals, too.  Meanwhile, no sympathy for the Downs kids being killed off.  Two Downs teens work at my local grocery store.  Why aren’t their lives, as they are, valuable to the reality-based folks? Maybe the gay community will join the Catholics in overturning Roe v Wade.   Wouldn’t that be something?

50 New Things We Learned in 2006

I missed a lot of these.  Some are amazing and others are funny.  Enjoy.

50 Things We Know Now (That We Didn’t Know This Time Last Year) 2006 Edition By JEFF HOUCK The Tampa Tribune  Published: Dec 26, 2006 Tons of cool new discoveries wash ashore in the media tide each year but fall through the cracks, what with all the coverage of Britney Spears’ undies and Tom Cruise’s wedding.  Consider this list – culled from dozens of news stories from 2006 – your chance to catch up. 1. U.S. life expectancy in 2005 inched up to a record high of 77.9 years. 2. The part of the brain that regulates reasoning, impulse control and judgment is still under construction during puberty and doesn’t shift into autopilot until about age 25. 3. Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night. 4. The 8-foot-long tooth emerging from the head of the narwhal whale is actually a type of sensor that detects changes in water temperature, pressure and particle gradients. 5. U.S. Protestant "megachurches" – defined as having a weekly attendance of at least 2,000 – doubled in five years to more than 1,200 and are among the nation’s fastest-growing faith groups. 6. Cheese consumption in the United States is expected to grow by 50 percent between now and 2013. 7. At 68.1 percent, the United States ranks eighth among countries that have access to and use the Internet. The largest percentage of online use was in Malta, where 78.1 percent access the Web. 8. The U.S. government has paid about $1.5 billion in benefits to thousands of sick nuclear-weapons workers since 2001. 9. Scientists have discovered that certain brain chemicals in our tears are natural pain relievers. 10. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover wrote a drooling fan letter to Lucille Ball in 1955 to tell her how much he enjoyed an episode of "I Love Lucy." "In all the years I have traveled on trains," he noted, "I have often wondered why someone did not pull the emergency brake, but I have never been aboard a train where it was done. The humor in your program last Monday, I think, exceeded any of your previous programs and they have been really good in themselves." 11. Wasps spray an insect version of pepper spray from their heads to temporarily incapacitate their rivals. 12. A sex gene responsible for making embryos male and forming the testes is also produced by the brain region targeted by Parkinson’s disease, a discovery that may explain why more men than women develop the degenerative disorder. 13. Ancient humans from Asia may have entered the Americas following an ocean highway made of dense kelp. 14. An impact crater 18 miles in diameter was found 12,500 feet under the Indian Ocean. 15. Americans spent almost $32 billion on toys during 2005. About a third of that was spent on video games. 16. A new planet described as a "super-Earth," which weighs 13 times as much as our planet, exists in a solar system 9,000 light-years away. 17. A gene for a light-sensitive protein in the eye is what resets the body’s "internal clock." 18. Australian scientists discovered a polyrhachis sokolova, which is believed to be the only ant species that can live under water. It nests in submerged mangroves and hides from predators in air pockets. 19. Red wine contains anti-inflammatory chemicals that stave off diseases affecting the gums and bone around the teeth. 20. A substance called resveratrol, also found in red wine, protects mice from obesity and the effects of aging, and perhaps could do the same for humans. 21. Two previously unknown forms of ice – dubbed by researchers as ice XIII and XIV – were discovered frozen at temperatures of around minus 160 degrees Celsius, or minus 256 Fahrenheit. 22. The hole in the earth’s ozone layer is closing – and could be entirely closed by 2050. Meanwhile, the amount of greenhouse gases is increasing. 23. Scientists discovered what they believe to be football-field-sized minimoons scattered in Saturn’s rings that may be debris left over from a collision between a comet and one of Saturn’s icy moons. 24. At least once a week, 28 percent of high school students fall asleep in school, 22 percent fall sleep while doing homework and 14 percent get to school late or miss school because they overslept. 25. Women gain weight when they move in with a boyfriend because their diet deteriorates, but men begin to eat more healthy food when they set up a home with a female partner. 26. Some 45 percent of Internet users, or about 60 million Americans, said they sought online help to make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives during the previous two years. 27. Of the 10 percent of U.S. teens who uses credit cards, 15.7 percent are making the minimum payment each month. 28. Around the world, middle-aged and elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than women in the same age group, a new survey shows. 29. The 90-million-year-old remains of seven pack-traveling carnivorous dinosaurs known as Mapusaurus were discovered in an area of southern Argentina nicknamed "Jurassic Park." 30. A group of genes makes some mosquitoes resistant to malaria and prevents them from transmitting the malaria parasite. 31. A 145-million-year-old beach ball-sized meteorite found a half-mile below a giant crater in South Africa has a chemical composition unlike any known meteorite. 32. Just 30 minutes of continuous kissing can diminish the body’s allergic reaction to pollen, relaxing the body and reducing production of histamine, a chemical cell given out in response to allergens. 33. Saturn’s moon Titan features vast swaths of "sand seas" covered with row after row of dunes from 300 to 500 feet high. Radar images of these seas, which stretch for hundreds of miles, bear a stunning likeness to ranks of dunes in Namibia and Saudi Arabia. 34. Scientists have discovered the fastest bite in the world, one so explosive it can be used to send the Latin American trap-jaw ant that performs it flying through the air to escape predators. 35. Janjucetus Hunderi, a ferocious whale species related to the modern blue whale, roamed the oceans 25 million years ago preying on sharks with its huge, razor-sharp teeth. 36. DNA analysis determined the British descended from a tribe of Spanish fishermen who crossed the Bay of Biscay almost 6,000 years ago. 37. Marine biologists discovered a new species of shark that walks along the ocean floor on its fins. 38. Most of us have microscopic, wormlike mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth. 39. The common pigeon can memorize 1,200 pictures. 40. The queens of bee, ant and wasp colonies that have the most sex with the largest number of males produce the strongest and healthiest colonies. 41. By firing atoms of metal at another metal, Russian and American scientists found a new element – No. 118 on the Periodic Table – that is the heaviest substance known and probably hasn’t existed since the universe was in its infancy. 42. A "treasure-trove" of 150-million-year-old fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that roamed the seas at the time of the dinosaurs was uncovered on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, about halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. 43. Sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday can disturb your body clock, leaving you fatigued at the start of the week. 44. Migrating dragonflies and songbirds exhibit many of the same behaviors, suggesting the rules that govern such long-distance travel may be simpler and more ancient than was once thought. 45. During the past five years, the existence of a peanut allergy in children has doubled. 46. Photos taken of Mars in 1999 and 2005 show muddy sand, indicating there may have been a flood sometime between those years. 47. A python was the first god worshipped by mankind, according to 70,000-year-old evidence found in a cave in Botswana’s Tosodilo hills. 48. Red wines from southwest France and Sardinia boast the highest concentrations of chemical compounds that promote heart health. 49. One of the most effective ways for athletes to recover after exercise is to drink a glass of chocolate milk. 50. Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to induce teeth growth in normal chickens – activating genes that have lain dormant for 80 million years. Sources: The Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Journal of Dental Research, Comte News, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Bereavement Magazine, James Cook University, U.S. National Institutes of Health, The New York Times, University of Oregon, Current Biology, Hartford Seminary, University of Nottingham, LucyLibrary.com, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Junior Achievement, Physorg.com, University of Chicago, Newcastle University, Forbes, National Geographic, University of Minnesota, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, MSNBC.com, Daily Record, Oxford University, New Scientist, Glasgow Daily Record, The San Jose Mercury News, Flinders University, Biology Letters, The Washington Post, University of Oslo, The Times of London, Indiana University, University of Manchester, Discovery.com

Find this article at: http://www.tbo.com/life/MGBUFCRF5WE.html Julia

Attack of the kller squirrels

Squirrels Go On Attack At South Bay Park

POSTED: 8:49 am PDT September 27, 2006

UPDATED: 8:57 pm PDT September 28, 2006

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — An aggressive squirrel pounced on a 4-year-old boy in an attack last week in Cuesta Park in Mountain View, Calif.

The attack happened as the boy’s mother unwrapped a muffin during a picnic.

The boy had to get rabies shot after the attack. He is still getting the shots.

The attack is not the first one reported at the park. Mountain View Community Services Director David Muela said that as many as six people have been bitten or scratched by squirrels since May, and that the attacks have become more ferocious in the last month.

read the rest here.

Stix

Mating with Yourself

Holy Moly!!  News out of England via the Times of London about the Brave New World that is no longer confined within the pages of the prophetic 1932 book of that name by Aldous Huxley.  Those wonderful little buggers called "stem cells" can make it possible for you to produce a child with yourself!!!!! It’s not going to be long before the tedious process of giving birth also becomes a reality. Here’s just an exerpt: 

FIRST LIVE BIRTHS FROM ARTIFICIAL SPERM   from Timesonline

Artificial sperm have been used to create living animals for the first time, in an experiment that promises to pave the way for a new era of fertility treatment.

Seven mouse pups, six of which survived to adulthood, were born in a laboratory in Germany after scientists fertilised eggs with sperm that had been grown from embryonic stem (ES) cells.

The births provide the strongest evidence yet that it will eventually be possible to use ES cells to treat infertile men who make no sperm of their own.      [SNIP]

Stem cell grafts could repair malfunctioning testes, or artificial sperm could be grown outside the body for IVF, while therapeutic cloning would ensure that the ES cells used carried the patient’s own genes.

Other experiments have suggested that artificial eggs can be made in the same way, though no offspring have yet been born.

In the longer term, it may even prove possible to produce sperm from female stem cells, and eggs from male ones, allowing homosexual couples to have children that bear the genes of both parents.

This would also enable a single man or woman to provide both the sperm and eggs needed to create an embryo, so that a person could essentially mate with himself or herself.

Reminds me of that song by David Bowie (I think): "Dancing with Myself". Read the whole thing ; it give me the willies.  I don’t recognize my world anymore.  Do yourself a favor and read Brave New World and the non-fiction Brave New World Re-Visited with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.  The world we know is fast passing away.  God help us all.

Julia

It’s illegal to have a flag on your car in England.

This has got to be on of the funniest things I have ever seen. During the World Cup officers at the wildlife crime office have said that the little flags that people put on cars can startle horses and other wildlife. 

H/T to Fark

England flags ‘frightening horses’

Paul Lewis
Thursday June 1, 2006
The Guardian

Motorists who attach England flags to their car windows ahead of the World Cup may wish to reconsider. According to police in Hampshire, dangerously executed displays of patriotism can scare wildlife, cause horses to bolt, and may result in criminal prosecution.

Officers at the force’s wildlife crime office warned yesterday that the "loud flutter" generated by car window flags was startling horses and other wildlife, particularly in the New Forest area.

They also stressed that if flags became detached from vehicles they could turn into "plastic missiles hurtling though the air" which could cause serious injury.

Mark Perryman of the Englandfans supporters’ club said: "If there is a serious health and safety issue it needs to be taken seriously. But I was at Old Trafford for England’s last match and about 25% of the cars carried flags. I didn’t see any of them flying off and blinding people."

In another development, Tesco last night lifted its ban on its delivery truck drivers displaying flags on their vehicles. The company changed its policy after pressure from staff and members of the public.

(source)

I have forgotten all the funny stories that Fark gets. Go and check it out.

Stix

Governor Motor City Madaman

I don’t really think he has a chance in hell of winning,but it would be fun to see.  He is a little too libertatian for my tastes,but it would be an interesting victory party.

H/T to Moonbattery

Ted Nugent: Off his rocker?

He owns 350 guns, wants to nuke Iraq and makes his friend George W look like a liberal. Now 1970s heavy metal star Ted Nugent has his sights set on a new target: entering US politics

Published: 28 May 2006

During the private inaugural party at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, in 2000, President George W Bush glanced across the room and recognised a man who – by his own account – has urinated on a nun, soiled his trousers for a week in order to avoid the draft, and been detained on a charge of indecent exposure, after experiencing difficulties with his loincloth in Little Rock, Arkansas. The President confronted him as a matter of urgency.

"When he noticed me," Ted Nugent recalls, "he was surrounded by these huge bankrollers from his campaign. He literally swept past all of them and said: ‘Laura! Look who’s here! It’s Ted!’ Then he hugged me and took me by the shoulders. He said: ‘Just keep doing what you’re doing. Don’t think that we don’t know what you’re up to out here. Stay on course. You’re doing great.’"

Like Jesus, Gandhi or Hitler, Nugent tends to inspire this kind of extreme reaction. He rarely gives interviews to the British press; the last time he did, some years ago, he managed what is possibly the most extraordinary achievement of his remarkable career – proving too right-wing for the Daily Telegraph.

Ted Nugent, 57, best known for his 1977 hit "Cat Scratch Fever", has sold 40 million records over four decades. The Detroit-born guitarist, once described as the missing link between Iggy Pop and the White House, used to perform dressed as a Neanderthal – a prophetic gesture, some would argue, given his emergence, in middle age, as an arch-conservative National Rifle Association board member, and obsessive hunter. Nugent, who has personally slaughtered all the meat he’s eaten since 1971, hosts two reality shows from the 300-acre ranch – just up the road from Bush’s compound in Crawford – where he lives with his second wife Shemane and son Rocco, 15. In 2004, while filming Surviving Ted, in which city dwellers strive to replicate his uncompromising lifestyle, he almost severed his (omega) leg with a chainsaw. The musician, who owns seven other properties in the US, arranged to meet me at a truck-stop café in the centre of this one-street Texan town. Famous for songs such as "My Baby Likes My Butter on Her Grits", "Pussywhipped" and "My Love is Like a Tire Iron", Nugent is not known for his intuitive connection to his feminine side; he arrives wearing a camouflage cowboy hat, his shorts supported by a belt housing a Glock revolver. I don’t, at this stage, notice the .22 which he will discharge in 45 minutes’ time.

We sit down to coffee, eggs and grits. Ted is 6ft 3in; to get a sense of his general demeanour you could do worse than imagine the body of John Wayne possessed by the spirit of Ian Paisley in one of his less conciliatory moods. He launches into a fevered monologue about how much safer Britain would be with more guns on its streets.

"Never has there been such an upsurge in crime since they confiscated all your weapons. Why don’t you arm yourselves? You Limeys have a zipper that’s locked in the closed position, because you don’t have a constitution. You’re rewarded for shutting the fuck up."

He explains his political philosophy which, as I understand it, is based on extending the death penalty to a far wider range of crimes than homicide, then arming any survivors to the teeth. He owns around 350 guns himself – more than one for every household in Crawford.

British police who don’t want to carry firearms are, Nugent says, "out of their minds. I say if somebody robs you, shoot ’em. I’d like all thieves killed. And all rapists. And carjackers. No more graffiti. No more…" – this next phrase is a Spoonerism, rather than some Texan term for gross indecency – "snatch-pursing."

"For an unarmed force," I suggest, "the British police have shot quite a few people. Did you hear about Jean Charles de Menezes?"

"That was horrible. An American cop would have just beat the shit out of him."

Nugent has had a Sheriff Deputy’s badge since 1982, and recently assisted with federal raids, "kicking down doors and arresting people". A keen admirer of fellow-guitarist Tony Blair, he abhors drugs, including alcohol, and maintains that he has never used such substances. He considers homosexuality morally wrong. He speaks about Muslims in a way which, were he to repeat it on globally networked television, might endanger his life. Nugent is aiming to run as Governor of Michigan in 2010.

read the rest here.

Stix

Deep Impact

If you live on the coast line of the Atlantic.  Take cover because ab 200 meter Tsunami is coming you way.  How do I know this.  Well, Eric Julien, author of La Science Des Extraterrestres (Science of Aliens), had the Aliens psychically sent to him.

‘Alien message’ sparks tsunami panic

By Ahmed El Amraoui

Thursday 25 May 2006, 13:15 Makka Time, 10:15 GMT   

A website warning of a tsunami has spread panic in Morocco, despite the government’s assertion that the alert was merely rumour – and the dubious nature of its source. 

read the rest here. 

The Ufological Research Centre said on its website last week that a tsunami could hit the Atlantic after a comet passes close to earth on Thursday, May 25.

Eric Julien, author of La Science Des Extraterrestres (Science of Aliens), claimed that the impact of a comet fragment would trigger powerful volcanoes in the Atlantic and generate a giant tsunami that would be destructive across the coasts of several countries, including Morocco.

Julien, who claimed to have received the information psychically, said that waves up to 200 metres high will reach coastlines of countries bordering the Atlantic.

Stix