January 10, 2005

These Just In

BURNING LOVE: A WOMAN who allegedly stabbed her partner six times because he repeatedly played an Elvis Presley song will face a West Australian court today.


AP SHUTTERBUG hung up on weird crotch shots:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION: Thousands gathered on a beach Tuesday to celebrate Benin's once-banned Voodoo, slaughtering animals and welcoming revelers from Brazil and the United States, including descendants of slaves who took the religion to the Americas centuries ago.

At a ceremony in the southern town of Ouidah, Voodoo high priestess Nagbo Hounon Gbeffa sacrificed a goat, a rooster and a chicken as divine offerings.

"I'm very moved," said Faith McDouglas, a 37-year-old nurse from Omaha, Neb. "I've understood many things regarding my origins, because I'm a descendant of slaves." Translation: 'Would you like an antibiotic or can I just slit a chicken's throat for you?' -- Thousands Gather for Voodoo Day in Benin

WE WARNED MOM ABOUT TOO MUCH WEATHER CHANNEL: The mummified body of a woman who didn't want to be buried was found in a chair in front of her television set 2 1/2 years after her death, authorities said. -- FOXNews

OBVIOUSLY MISSED THE MOVIE: Luciano Mares, 81, of New Mexico said he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it, reports AP.

"I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house," Mr Mares told AP from a motel room.

The burning mouse ran beneath a window of the house and the flames quickly spread throughout the house. All the home's contents were destroyed. -- AP

WHAT'S COKING?: The School Dinners star [Jamie Oliver] said: “The kitchens in London are filled with drugs. And the cocktail of hot oil, sharp knives and cocaine is f****** lethal. -- Kitchens awash with coke

THE DELUGE?: Climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by a massive freshwater pulse into the North Atlantic that occurred at the beginning of the current warm period 8,000 years ago. -- Researchers confirm role of massive flood in climate change

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"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.

Sooo...as global warming melts the Ice, and the freshwater runoff flows into the North Atlantic, heat distribution is impaired and we get...Global cooling...which causes glaciers to grow...which causes global warming...which causes...glaciers to melt...which causes...global cooling...Is that what I'm reading? Sort of like a feedback control loop in oscillation around a setpoint.

Posted by: Doug In Colorado at January 11, 2006 9:49 AM
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