A doctor was testing his patient for dementia by asking some basic questions.
"Who is the president of the United States?" asked the doctor.
"Eisenhower," answered the patient.
"Eisenhower's dead," reported the doctor.
"Oh my god!" cried the patient, "Nixon's president!"
Jan Griffith's pet dog, Sophie Tucker (presumably named for the late entertainer), fell overboard from the family's boat in rough seas off the coast of Queensland, Australia in November. The dog was presumed drowned.
Now the dog has been found alive on uninhabited St. Bees Island by rangers. The dog evidently swam five miles from the position of the Griffith's boat to the island after going overboard in November. It has (apparently) been living off of feral goats on the island. The dog had been spotted on the island earlier, and was observed to be in poor shape. After rangers began discovering baby goat carcasses on the island, they noted the dog's condition had improved.
Family members have been surprised by Sophie's resourcefulness. A "house dog," Sophie had never been taught to hunt, and had never had to fend for herself.
"She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she's done, she's swum over five nautical miles, she's managed to live off the land all on her own," Griffiths said.
Rangers finally succeeded in capturing the dog, and reunited it with her family. The Griffiths met the rangers' boat when it arrived at the Australian mainland from the island. Sophie was in a cage on deck.
"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told the national AAP news agency.
"She wriggled around like a mad thing."
"We wish she could talk, we truly do."
Absent of speech, one can only speculate on Sophie Tucker's adventures. Did she do the backstroke, or dogpaddle the five miles to St. Bees Island? From what inspiration does her dogged determination spring? Does she plan to use her new-found hunting skills on the mainland, or will she live a dog's life in the Griffiths household?
hxxp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090406/od_afp/australiaanimaldogoffbeat
The Vermont Senate and House of Representatives yesterday overrode a veto by governor Jim Douglas to pass legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Vermont.
Vermont now joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa as the only states in which gay marriage is legal. California briefly recognized gay marriage last year, until voters rejected it in an amendment to the California constitution in November. Vermont is remarkable, however, in that it is the first state to legalize gay marriage by popular vote, rather than court order. Even more remarkable is that the Vermont legislature passed the bill over Republican governor Jim Douglas's veto with a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate.
The legalization of gay marriage in Vermont comes less than a week after the Iowa Supreme Court declared gay marriage legal in that state.
The District of Columbia also passed legislation legalizing gay marriage yesterday. The D.C. City Council voted 12-0 to legalize gay marriage within the district. However, D.C. must have all of its legislation approved by Congress, a body in which it does not even have any representation. Although Congress is now dominated by Democrats who may be sympathetic to the cause of gay rights, it is not inconceivable that Congress might reject the vote of the D.C. council.
Vermont invented the concept of gay "civil unions" in 2000, as a means of granting some sort of legal recognition to same-sex couples. When Vermont's gay marriage law goes into effect September 1, 2009, the state will no longer issue same-sex civil unions.
BTW, according to Tony Perkins, we're out to destroy civilization itself!:
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Tuesday condemned the votes in Vermont and Washington.
"Same-sex 'marriage' is a movement driven by wealthy homosexual activists and a liberal elite determined to destroy not only the institution of marriage, but democracy as well. Time and again, we see when citizens have the opportunity to vote at the ballot box, they consistently opt to support traditional marriage," Perkins said.
"The radical left wants to destroy the traditional union of one man and one woman across the country and they will not rest until they do so. The marriage amendment movement has been many times more successful than the same-sex 'marriage' movement," Perkins added.
hxxp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_vermont
hxxp://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/07/dc.marriage/
I notice that when I read through categorized lists of porn movies the category "Fetishes/Perversions" contain the same (repetitive) subject matter ie: water5sports, scat, feet,etc. I would think that the very nature of the category would invite a nearly endless variety. I'm always looking for my particular fetish, which is not really exotic, to no avail. My best guess as to the reason for this is that persons with fetishes are wary about revealing them. What do you think?
I agree. Fetishes, almost by definition, are not logical (or even often explicable). There probably are endless varieties out there. But people are reluctant to admit to their own peculiar fetishes, out of fear of appearing too extreme. You're risking rejection from a bunch of rejects (i.e., we gays), and that's a hard thing with which to deal.
If you live in Great Britain, Big Brother IS watching!
Starting today (6 April 2009), the contents of every email sent and the IP address of every website visited by everyone in Britain will be stored by ISPs for a year. Police and national security services will be able to access the information "to combat crime and terrorism."
The surveillance comes as part of an EU directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, and which Britain pushed hard to get through the EU.
Phil Noble of NO2ID (a privacy advocacy group) says "This is the kind of technology the Stasi would have dreamed of."
"We are facing a co-ordinated strategy to track everyone's communications, creating a dossier on every person's relationships and transactions.
"It is clearly preparatory work for the as-yet un-revealed plans for intercept modernisation."
-Phil Noble
The "Intercept Modernisation Programme" is the British plan to store virtually all internet traffic information in Britain in a centralized location, to which police and intelligence services will have ready access.
It's not clear to me to what extent other EU countries are participating in the internet surveillance program. It appears to be mandatory for all ISPs within the EU. Britain has been spinning the monitoring program to its public as a necessary imposition from Brussels, even though the legislation was drafted by Britain, was introduced into the EU parliament by Britain, and Britain was instrumental in pushing the legislation through the EU.
British secuity services became paranoid after the London bombings of 7 July 2005. They have become convinced that comprehensive monitoring of the internet activities of all British citizens is necessary to secure the nation from terrorism.
A Home Office spokesman said: "It is the Government's priority to protect public safety and national security. That is why we are completing the implementation of this directive, which will bring the UK in line with our European counterparts.
"Letters will go out to communication service providers telling them that it is coming into force. We are talking across the board, to all communication providers."
British officials have said communications data have played a "vital part" in a wide range of criminal investigations, such as finding the killer of 11-year-old Rhys Jones, a Liverpool schoolboy shot dead in 2007.
"Without communications data, resolving crimes such as the Rhys Jones murder would be very difficult if not impossible."
hxxp://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/technologynews/5105519/Internet-records-to-be-stored-for-a-year.html
hxxp://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Intercept_Modernisation
I agree with raphjd.
Jockstaps are made for jocks, and look okay on fit guys.
Of course, fit guys look even better without the jockstraps, IMO! ;D
I am no expert about the meaning of tattoos, bokoto, but I don't think the flaming eight ball has any connotations of sexuality.
But this post deserves a pic!
marslander, you're NOT going to get the angryyoungmen videos with ANY of the video download tools suggested.
The swf player streams the videos online, it doesn't download a video file to some temporary location on your computer. There is no video file stored locally for you to retrieve.
That does NOT mean that you can't copy the videos, however. What you need to do is install a serial screen grab utility like CamStudio. Such a tool takes serial screenshots of a portion of your screen (say, for example, the window in which the video plays) and records the audio output for the same duration. The software then recreates the movie by re-assembling the serial screenshots and sound back into a movie.
You will lose a small amount of resolution this way, but it is not generally noticeable. And there is no way any site of any kind can ever block this kind of copying. It is not illegal to copy videos by this technique in the USA (it is legally equivalent to photographing your screen with a video camera).
CamStudio is just an example. Google "free screen grabbers" and find something that suits you.
I did read somewhere (maybe I'm wrong, or maybe I just wanted to read it), that vista users would be able to update to 7 "for free".
I might be wrong, though
Microsoft will definitely NOT be giving away free versions of Win 7 to all users of Vista. If you purchase a NEW computer with Vista pre-installed after June 30, 2009 (I believe), you will be able to upgrade your copy of Vista to Windows 7 at no cost.
Microsoft has yet to announce what an upgrade from Vista to Win 7 will cost, or even what a fresh copy of Win 7 will go for.
Within the last 10 days, six gay men in Iraq have been shot dead for the crime of homosexuality. On March 26, four men in Sadr City were disowned by their families, then executed by their tribes. On April 2, six additional gay men were shot.
The killings evidently come in response to tribal meetings in which Iraqi tribal members have decided to crack down on queerness. A cafe in Sadr City - said to be a popular meeting spot for gays - was also burned.
hxxp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/05/gay.deaths.iraq/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
Police have called her the most dangerous woman in Germany. Her DNA has been found at the scene of no fewer than six murders, and one unsolved death. Serial murders by females are extremely rare, but the DNA evidence appeared incontrovertable. A person's DNA is unique, not shared by anyone else on Earth (except, of course, an identical twin). The mystery woman's DNA was popping up at scenes investigated by very different police departments in very different cases around Germany. That made it hard to blame the DNA results on contamination or poor collection technique by the investigating departments. Moreover, the cases played out over a period of no fewer than 16 years. Over this time the mystery woman's DNA turned up at multiple murders, including the strangulation of a pensioner. When the mystery woman's DNA showed up at the scene of a murdered policewoman in Heibronn, police became concerned that their murderer had crossed the line to become a cop killer. They offered a 300,000 reward for information leading to the woman's arrest.
Now, police say the mystery DNA woman probably does not exist. Or, more precisely, she may be an employee of a company which made components for the DNA sampling kits which the German police use to obtain their DNA samples. Doubts about the woman's existence began to surface after her DNA showed up in association with the victim of a fire in the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Unable to identify the fire victim, police there sampled documents the dead person had handled, hoping to get a DNA match. They did. The document swabs matched the DNA of their mystery murderess.
This was getting a little too incredulous for police, so they resampled the burn victim's documents a second time. This time, no match - and no mystery woman's DNA.
Police now suspect that their DNA sampling equipment may have been contaminated, possibly at the point of manufacture. They're now sampling thousands of "sterile" cotton swabs, and are analyzing the DNA of workers in a cotton swab factory.
The justice minister for the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Ulrich Goll, believes the case is now closed. He thinks the DNA found at the scene of the crimes is probably due to contamination at the factory.
"It shouldn't have happened," he told a regional radio station said.
"The investigators are not to blame. They can't tell if a cotton bud has DNA sticking to it."
The head of the union of police officers in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Josef Schneider, admits that "if the trace does belong to a woman working in the factory, it'll be very embarrassing".
hxxp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7966641.stm