I'm starting this because some links just can't be classified as randomly stupid.  "Interesting" on the other hand is a conveniently ambiguous adjective.

So let me start off...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051130/od_nm/pope_limbo_dc

The Pope giveth and the Pope taketh away.

So where exactly are they going to put all of the babies that are already in limbo?

/loves Catholicism *cough*

Umm I just want to say that I posted this story first in the stupidity post...for good reason

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(Gives credit where credit is due)

Oops, sorry Pat!  I've been behind on my reading...

The Pope calls a meeting of all the cardinals.  When they have all assembled at the Vatican, he takes them into the meeting hall and states, "I have some really fantastic news and some very terrible news."  Of course, all the cardinals want to hear the good news first, so the Pope tells them, "Jesus Christ has returned to the world.  The time of judgement is at hand, and our faith in his existence is justified."

After the commotion dies down a bit, one of the cardinals speaks up, asking what the terrible news is.  The Pope replies, "He was calling from Salt Lake City."

-b0b
(...snickers.)

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/05/051206001323.v7bezwpo.html

OMFG tell me that doesn't look like a dinosaur to you?!  Also how can they tell it's a mammal if it's a mystery animal?

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So I was looking at the picture of this "dino" the wrong way...what I thought was the head is really the tail of some new "cat-like spiecies"...sorry I'm a moron.

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http://www.alias.com/eng/etc/fake_or_foto/index.html

Fake or Photo?

I got 10 outta 10, then 4 outta 4 bonus wee!

Can't fool me you sneaky animators.

9 out of 10

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa011402a.htm?1

Our Ica stones are on here too along with a bunch of other artifacts that prove man was more advanced at one point in time...

Fav line:

"What are we to make of these finds? There are several possibilities:....Our dating methods are completely inaccurate, and that stone, coal and fossils form much more rapidly than we now estimate."

Ha ha ha...Really?  Ya think?!

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Come on, Eric, tell us how you really feel.

-b0b
(...points to the soapbox.)

Eric! its essay time, baybee!

Woman suffocates under pile of clutter...

http://www.local6.com/news/5917330/detail.html

Stupid question, but where the heck was her husband at over the past fifteen years?  At some point (like, I dunno, before the stuff reached the ceiling) he should've had a freakin' dumpster out front.  Throw that crap out!  Mental disorder or not, if I had to live there, it'd better be clean.

How could someone allow this to happen?  Were they both out of their bloody minds?  Crazy...

-b0b
(...wowzers.)

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(...welcome to the People's Republic of America.)

You think that's funny...go to the site it links to...

(I'm not linking here you lazy bastards *evil laugh*)

http://nytimes.com/2006/01/13/national/13baby.html?ei=5094&en=965005cbf6337137&h...

Insteresting article about how America will soon have 300 million people...obviously I could not say citizens seeing that around 12 million or so are probably illegal and thus are not actual citizens

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http://contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/gay%20rights%20group%20ameri...

American Idol is homophobic?

Well that's news to me...I thought American Idol was pretty homo?

Are the gays watching the correct program?

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(Briney...care to answer?)

Somehow, I don't think "next-generational" is a word.

-b0b
(...Heil Grammar!)

http://www.scimag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=030&ACCT=3000000100&ISSUE=0508&RELTYPE...

Cezar is number 0...because he has all 10 of these assimalated into his collective.

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(All hail Cezar!)

These guys sound like Unitarians.  "Can't we all just get along?"

-b0b
(...no thanks.)

Well it's kinda hard when most of Congress owns stock, profits, or takes bribes from the oil industry.  Anyways, I thought this was America?  Land of capitalism...and profits?  Is there a monopoly involved...cause if not...why should we regulate a company for making money?  Should we regulate IPods so they won't make as much money?

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Socialism anyone?

I'm down.

On a lighter note...police beat down another black male!

http://ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=91485

Where's Jonny....oh he's dead?  Uhh well get me Tio Cockrin then!

If the ribs don't fit...you must aquit!

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(Is shock!...SHOCKED I SAY!)

http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-usb-devices-ever/

Top 10 weirdest USB devices.  These are kinda cool.  And yes, Briney don't worry, you can your friend favorite is number one.

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Self destruct button?  It must be mine!

-b0b
(...needs to figure out how much 4,000 yen is.)

Yanno, since they said the George Foreman was fake, I'm almost thinking about buying a cheap George Foreman grill and a USB heater and trying to integrate the two.  It's been far too long since I've wielded a soldering iron, so I might just have to give it a try.

-b0b
(...would probably hurt himself in the process.)

Uproar over armed firefighters killing chickens by homes
By Christa Jenkins
Herald Writer

HIGH SPRINGS — After seeing High Springs firefighters toting rifles through a neighborhood and shooting at chickens last week, residents said they are infuriated.

The southwest sector of town between Southwest Fourth Avenue and Poe Springs Road has had a chicken problem for years.

Many residents said they were upset not that the chickens were killed but the manner in which the situation was handled last Wednesday, Feb. 1.

Residents said they were not notified that the shooting would happen, that they worried about the safety of their children and pets, and that firefighters ran through private property without permission.

When the shooting was over, residents said they were left to deal with injured chickens and a bloody mess.

City officials, however, said that multiple safety precautions were taken, including having the city’s police chief on the scene with a safety perimeter in place.

The Animal that Defied Classification

Starting about two years ago, the city began to receive complaints from residents living in the southwest area of town between Southwest Fourth Avenue and Poe Springs Road, said City Manager Jim Drumm, himself a previous resident of the area.

At that time, as many as 50 wild chickens that nested in the woods surrounding the area had begun to leave the woods and cause trouble for residents.

Roosters crowed at street lights at all hours of the night. Hens tore up yards and left feces in them for residents to step in. The fowl stood in the streets and upheld traffic.

When the cars in the neighborhood were parked, the chickens flew atop them to roost and left scratches.

Some residents even complained that they were afraid to leave their homes because the roosters were aggressive and chased people.

It was a mess for the growing city, Drumm said.

After receiving numerous complaints, city officials attempted to gain the help of Alachua County Animal Control but were declined because the organization only handles domestic animals and pets.

Since the chickens were wild, Animal Control would not help, Drumm said.

So officials went to the Florida Wildlife Commission instead, but that government agency labels chickens as farm animals and refused to help, Drumm said.

“These animals sometimes fall through the cracks of what anybody can do,” Drumm said.

With complaints still coming in, officials decided to take action themselves.

Code enforcement officials were first enlisted to capture the animals, but the chickens’ speed and ability to fly made attempts nearly impossible.

Officials asked for agile teenagers to volunteer to capture the chickens, and one boy did succeed in capturing a couple, but it was still a limited success.

“They are wild animals, and they are very good at escaping and flying,” Drumm said.

Traps with high quality feed inside them were put out to lure in the chickens, but after a hen was captured, roosters started to guard the traps and keep chickens away from them, Drumm said.

Officials put alcohol in the birds’ food to try to slow them down, but that didn’t work either, Drumm said.

While officials considered the option of using other types of drugs or chemicals in a similar manner, they worried about the possible effects it might have on pets in the area.

Officials tried to get more ideas by speaking with other city officials and police officers who had similar problems.

Residents were asked if they owned the chickens, but no one said they did.

While no one claimed the chickens as their own, residents often take in chickens during the daytime, Drumm said.

Nearly a year after first attempts to solve the problem, officials were running out of options, and residents were getting impatient, Drumm said.

The chickens would have to be shot, Drumm said.

“We actually tried many avenues to capture them,” Drumm said. “It was our last option to consider shooting them.”

The City’s Last Option

It was the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 1 that Janet Lashells, a friend of David Smart, who resides on Southwest 2nd Place, was horrified to see firefighters running through yards and shooting the chickens.

“Those chickens in the neighborhood never bothered us,” she said.

A barn close to the area is home to a group of wild kittens that Lashells and Smart feed, Smart said.

The food inadvertently attracts many chickens to enter the barn, and Smart thinks this would have been a better way to go about catching the chickens, he said.

“I realize that they had to do something, but I think they could have handled it differently,” he said.

According to Smart, there were between 50 and 75 chickens in the area previous to the shooting, and he has seen very few since then.

“It sounded like a war zone over there,” he said. “It was pretty bad.”

Some residents said they were angry that they were not notified beforehand that officials would be shooting guns in the neighborhood.

Jenni Callahan, a resident on Seventh Avenue, said she wishes she was warned about the shooting so she would know to keep pets inside.

She witnessed the events while on her lunch break and later returned home to find two shot and injured chickens taking shelter near her house, she said.

One had been shot in the leg and another in the wing, she said.

“I just don’t feel people should be running around with .22s in a neighborhood,” she said.

Joan Lenne, another resident of Seventh Avenue, said that firefighters ran through her back yard without informing her first or gaining her permission.

Lashells was worried for the safety of pets in the area and any people who happened to be outside, she said.

“Anything that was moving, they were shooting,” she said. “There’s blood all over the place.”

But many safety precautions were taken to ensure an accident-free day, Drumm said.

Safety and Legality Issues

Officials decided to take action on a morning that school was in session, and most children would be at school and away from the area.

They used rifles with a small caliber specially made to not travel far, and firefighters only made clear shots that were low to the ground to avoid ricochet.

Firefighters were chosen over policemen because firefighters were able to assist without being pulled away from active duties, and they were also ready and willing to help, Drumm said.

Those who assisted had backgrounds in hunting and handling firearms, Drumm said.

Additionally, Police Chief Ray Kaminskas was at the site to secure the perimeter from people, pets and everything else not a chicken.

“I understand the concern, but we try to make it as safe out here as possible,” Kaminskas said.

This was also the reason that residents in the area were not notified beforehand that officials would be present to shoot the chickens, Drumm said.

Officials feared that if they announced the event, onlookers would be present and would be put at risk.

“We were hoping not to have anybody in the area,” he said.

According to Drumm, the city employees involved attempted to stay in the streets, which are city-owned property, by herding the chickens into those directions.

Since the streets in the area are often very narrow, it appears that residents’ yards start at the edge of the road, when in fact the legal roadway is 60 feet wide.

Additionally, Drumm said, there were several residents who came out of their homes and tried to assist the firefighters with directing the chickens.

In these cases, the firefighters may have entered residents’ yards with their permission.

City code allows code enforcement actions to be carried out even on private property, so even if the firefighters did have to enter residents’ yards, it was still within the city’s legal right to do so, Drumm said.

It was also legal to discharge the firearms within city limits, Drumm said, because Police Chief Kaminskas had given his authority to do so, and he was there to supervise.

The city code also allows nuisance birds that are within city limits to be destroyed, Drumm said.

Firefighters targeted the roosters, since they seemed to be a greater part of the problem than the hens.

When residents began to come outside and question the firefighters, officials decided to quit for the day so that they wouldn’t endanger those people, Drumm said.

End Results

In the end, about eight chickens were killed, and one chick was captured and donated to the Camp Kulaqua Zoo for their children’s education program.

Additionally, firefighters located several nesting sites.

Although the problem was not completely taken care of, Drumm said, officials can use these nesting sites to capture more chickens in the future.

Also, since many of the roosters were killed, hens will not have many opportunities to create future hatchlings, Drumm said.

“They will live out their life and not move on to additional generations,” he said.

City officials are still seeking more alternatives with how to handle the chicken problem.

After hearing about the events last week, a man from Gilchrist County called officials to tell them that he has a Labrador Retriever rescued after Hurricane Katrina that can catch chickens without injuring them, Kaminskas said.

Officials tested the dog out on Tuesday, Feb. 7, and had positive results, he said.

Anyone else with ideas on how to approach the chicken problem is welcome to call, he said.

“I just want them gone,” he said. “If someone wants to come out here and catch a chicken, they can.”

Problems with wild chickens in cities often begin when people move from the country to the city and attempt to bring their chickens along, Drumm said.

But they are difficult to keep in small yards and often break free.

Other times, problems arise from parents who give their children baby chicks for Easter. The kids then set the chickens free when they get big.

Wherever their origin, the wild chickens that still roam free in the area seem to have evaded defeat once again.

“We’ve been listening to roosters for over a year,” said Joyce LaCagnina, a resident of the area. “And they’re still crowing.”

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Rumor has it that the operator of the machine was told to set it for 4 feet of snow, but refused. He was subsequently shot by the Vice President.

-b0b
(...thinks it's typical how Bush sends white snow to oppress the working man.)

Maybe Harrison Ford will come back to play Indy???  or Maybe ol Spiely will use a lot of special effects like his budy Lucas does!  Either way, with too many special effects or no Ford...I'm predicting a stinker.  Not to mention this will be the third movie in a row that has not done very well, War of the Worlds, Munich, then this one.

Also a comment on the horrible movie that will be Posideon....anyone know if the director always puts big waves into his films.  He's directed Perfect Storm (snooze!) and now this....both having to do with giant waves!

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(Hates Hollywood)

I hope Jar Jar shows up, just so Indy can kick his #@%%@#!.

-b0b
(...meesa gonna DIE!)

Yeah just like Lucas said that he would "never sacrifice plot for special effects"

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You mean he does want it hated by fans, a steamy pile of crap that destroys every fiber of our childhood in a matter of a few hours?  Also he doesn't have 3 chances to make it not suck!

Wow, I smell lawsuit.

I've looked into the game and it looks pretty sweet. The intro movie that was made for the game was made seperately by another production house called Visual Promotion. Games usually hire a seperate company to do their cinematics, or have a whole seperate division devoted to just cutscenes.

The game itself doesn't look like it is a ripoff of LotR, but the bloody intro movie sure is. I'm trying to figure out how to get a hold of the game studio, Webzen, because it prolly wouldnt be good for them to have this attached to their game when it is finally released.

That op-ed piece is just a bunch of unsupported hand-wringing.  Every time a state considers concealed carry or "castle doctrine" legislation, the hippies start screaming about "blood running in the streets" and the "return of the wild west."

It's never happened.

If you want to see what you can expect with the passage of concealed carry legislation and castle doctrine laws, just look at the states that have already done it.  Crime drops steadily as the adoption of those laws by "good guys" increases.

-b0b
(...thinks this is an open and shut case.)

This one is going to make Briney cry...

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-b0b
(...loves how they got so specific about the brand of gum.)

One word....Hippies!

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The art world is a bunch of BS. Some moron art dealer prices the dang thing on the value of the artist, his/her concepts and utter bull. These elitist morons look at these splotches and say "ooo, how avante-garde, how groundbreaking. Its so different from the normal classical way of thinking. What an innovator!" Blam, 1.5 million dollar splotches of paint.

I hate everything the art community stands for and believe me im in the thick of it.

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You've got to love dumb criminals.

-b0b
(...certainly does.)

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-18-dork-pride_x.htm

"Lo and behold I saw them...riding through the sky.  And I saw the seventh sign on the End.  It was a pale horse, and upon him sat a half man, half Vulcan.  In his right hand was an inhaler, in his left hand was a slide rule.  Then the man spoke in a nazzly voice, "The final sign of the end...when geeks are considered cool!....Glovin!"

Revelations 14:6c...the secret chapter....the jocks got rid of it in 1611.

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MediaMaster wrote on Mar 6^th, 2006 at 8:11pm:


Nothing unexpected there.  There isn't a widely-used OS on the market that couldn't be pwned in under 30 minutes with all ports open to the Intertron.

Don't rely on your OS to save you.  Put a decent firewall in front of your boxen and restrict ports to what is absolutely necessary.  If you've got more than four or five publicly-accessible ports, you need to distribute your resources better.

-b0b
(...thinks the test was sheer propoganda.)

I don't usually follow Google ad links, but I was just too curious about this one:

http://www.worldslastchance.com

It was my understanding that worship on Sunday originated from Emperor Constantine of the Roman Empire. It had something to do with Sunday being the  Roman day honoring the sun god Apollo.

Preach to the choir bob, I'm listening.

I don't know if I still have it or not.  I got it about the same time I got my free "prayer rug" from those crackas in Illinois.  Weird.

Ellen G. White was truly a messed up woman.  She gets busted in the head with a rock and starts having visions, and people somehow think it's because she was blessed by the Holy Spirit.

Riiiiiight.

-b0b
(...shakes his head in disbelief.)

Dang you got screwed on both sides...that's too bad.

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http://www.rapidnewswire.com/candownload.htm

Blast!  How am I not beating the Canadians just by myself?  I feel like such a failure! 

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Who did you think was going to play it?  William Shatner?

-b0b
(...notes this doesn't necessarily mean he'll have the lead role.)

My guess is the main character will probably be Indy's child and/or protegé.  He'll be in the movie, but as a secondary character.

-b0b
(...wouldn't bet on it, though.)

I know this isn't really a news article but it's still pretty cool I think.

http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth_dl.asp

"Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment."

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http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=1734490&page=1
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How very relavent. I'm so glad this surfaced just as dissent regarding the Iraq war grows worse. Thank you oh wise and wonderful government for reminding us that Saddam helped Bin Laden commit the 9-11 attacks. Too bad Bin Laden has been out of the picture since 2001, probrably killed in an Afghani bombing run. If we didn't have that enemy to constantly be in fear of/hate, how could the US go about its emperialistic business? They might as well release a video of "Bin Laden" talking about accepting funds from Saddam... while we are at it let them release a tape talking about how great Iran is, and how Iran is helping Al Queda.

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http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=4666005&nav=menu241_2

When will we learn!  Hammers in the hands of young children could lead to them accidently hammering themselves or volunteering for Habitat For Humanity.  Soon they'll be carrying them to school and running amuck with them...OH WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

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http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/3/emw364381.htm

Go New Yorkers...the truth is coming out.  The dam is about the be broken and the deluge will be wraught forth, if the govt global boys don't do something soon.  Like pray to Molec or get Satan on it again.  Maybe we need another "terrorist attack" to get us to stop asking questions, maybe a nuke in LA or smallpoxs in NY or Chicago?

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(Giving the good ol boys some pointers)

Basically go to prisonplanet.com and it's all right there, esp. on the righthand side.  There are free showings of the CNN shows or you can download them at my fav torrent site http://torrents.conspiracycentral.net

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/30/abuse.payoff.ap/index.html


This article got me going on a rant this afternoon. Hush money and then letting that creep continue on hurting your child?! These are the kind of people that bring down the human race as a whole.





cait
     (....is cruising CNN right now)

http://www.defense-update.com/products/t/trophy.htm

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Its not a forcefield, but it intercepts rockets and rpg's incoming to the tank.



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Pretty cool.

Bahaha, they hit Kennedy!

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Couldn't have happened to a better target!

-b0b
(...wonders if he spilled his scotch?)

Imagine how much pr0n you could download at that speed...

-b0b
(...8.8GBPS?  Scwing!)

"You've reached the end of the Internet.  Turn back now."

-b0b
(...remembers that one well.)