Today's random wacky wiki is only a stub:
"San Sebastian Huehuetenango is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango."
"San Sebastian Huehuetenango is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Huehuetenango."
"US Marines will be court-martialled over the massacre of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha, it was reported last night.
The BBC said it had learnt that American soldiers would stand trial over the killings, on 19 November last year. The Pentagon is close to ending its inquiries into the deaths and seems likely to conclude that its troops have a case to answer.
The dead included women and children said to be as young as two. "
"Must be able to deal with SHOUTING
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"The coach of Iraq's tennis team and two players were shot dead in Baghdad on Thursday, said Iraqi Olympic officials.
Coach Hussein Ahmed Rashid and players Nasser Ali Hatem and Wissam Adel Auda were killed in the al-Saidiya district of the capital.
Witnesses said the three were dressed in shorts and were killed days after militants issued a warning forbidding the wearing of
shorts. "
porch dog
A person who frequently attacks others in speech or writing, but who poses no intellectual threat whatsoever. The motivation of this type of person can usually be accurately construed as a desire to be obnoxious and offensive.
Origin: The phrase 'porch dog' is
used to refer to dogs that sit on front porches and bark (vigorously and
fruitlessly) at passersby, but who pose no physical threat.
Yeah, that guy has a scathing response to just about everyone who posts in this forum. He's a real porch dog.
A judge's decision to sentence a 5-foot-1 man to probation instead of prison for sexually assaulting a child has angered crime victim advocates who say the punishment sends the wrong message. But supporters of short people say it's about time someone recognizes the unique challenges they face. Cheyenne
County District Judge Kristine Cecava issued the sentence Tuesday. She told Richard W. Thompson that his crimes deserved a long prison sentence but that he was too small to survive in a state prison.
Experiment:
Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results.
Hypothesis:
THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME
Holmavik is a small town in the western part of Iceland, by Steingrimsfjorour. It is the largest settlement in Strandir and serves as a centre of commerce for the county. Holmavik is part of the Holmavikurhreppur municipality and has 381 inhabitants (2005 census). Well-known people from Holmavik include the poet Stefan fra Hvitadal and the musician Gunnar Poroarson.
Carmela is moved by the sense of history in Paris, and the freedom of feeling inconsequential. 'When you actually die, life goes on without you. Like it does in Paris, when we're not here.'
Iraq War veteran Herold Noel suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and lives out of his car in Brooklyn. Using Noel's story as a fulcrum, this doc examines the wider issue of homeless U.S. military veterans-from Vietnam to Iraq-who have to fight tooth-and-nail to receive the benefits promised to them by their government.
It was a one-two encounter between Axl Rose and Tommy Hilfiger with no harm done, except for a bruiser of a little story.
The rocker and designer capped a Thursday evening out at a new club called The Plumm in Manhattan's Chelsea
neighborhood with midnight fisticuffs.
Surprisingly Hilfiger was the out of control guy who had to be escorted out by his own security guys
A high-school science teacher vowed Friday to continue telling his Inuit students about Darwin's theory of evolution, despite complaints from parents in the northern Quebec community of Salluit.
Education officials from the Kativik School Board said the principal of Ikusik High School cannot ban the teaching of evolution, since it is part of the provincial physical-science curriculum.
Alexandre April, who teaches French and physical science
to students in Grades 7 and 8, said he was told repeatedly by the principal to stop teaching evolution, for fear of hurting their students' religious beliefs.
The Pentecostal Church is active in Salluit, a community of just more than 1,100 people located beside Ungava Bay, on the northwestern coast of Nunavik.
A study published in the latest issue of Social Science Quarterly is the first to examine the effect of Wal-Mart stores on poverty rates. The study found that nationwide an estimated 20,000 families have fallen below the official poverty line as a result of the chain's expansion. During the last decade, dependence on the food stamp program nationwide increased by 8
percent, while in counties with Wal-Mart stores the increase was almost twice as large at 15.3 percent. 'After controlling for other factors determining changes in the poverty rate over time, we find that both counties with more initial Wal-Mart stores and with more additions of stores between 1987 and 1998 experienced greater increases (or smaller decreases) in family poverty rates during the 1990s economic boom period,' Stephan Goetz a Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics at The Pennsylvania State University states. Although Wal-Mart employs many people living in its communities, for most, the hours worked and the wages paid do not help these families transition out of poverty.via Cynical-C Blog
I went back and examined his look over the years and stumbled across a weirdvia J-Walk
phenomenon. Tom Hanks has bad hair. Go back and look at his early career and you'll see he has some of the worst chops this side of evil lesbian Rosie O'Donnell. But then, as if by magic, the hair got better when he started winning Oscars. And then it got wild again after he had got carte blanche as an actor.
Trivia Test Match is a British radio programme that aired originally during the early 1990s on BBC Radio and has subsequently been repeated more recently on BBC Radio 7. As its slogan stated, it combined trivia and the laws of cricket. It was hosted by longtime BBC cricket commentator Brian Johnston, who served as the 'umpire.'
Livin' the dream
A good response to 'how are you?' If you're really
livin' the dream, hold your right hand up in a 'rokk!' symbol (same as sign
language for 'I love you'). If you are hyper-livin', hold up both hands.
Can be shortened to 'livin' it.'
Q: Hey, Gina, how are you?
A:
I'm livin' the dream.
Q: Baby Helen, what's up?
A: (both hands up in
'rokk!' formation) Livin' it!
Still, the real trick is simply that stylists take incredible care with the food. Shopping can take days. If shooting a packaged product, the stylist will prepare five or more packages and choose the prettiest. Tools are used, from long, sharp tweezers, to dentist's tools and an array of brushes to make
surfaces perfect and to position each element in the most flattering light.
These are not lengths I will ever go to when preparing dinner for my family. It would be psychotic and I cannot imagine a future when I might ever have that kind of time on my hands.
Lisa is arrested for defying the new law in Springfield against teaching
evolution after Reverend Lovejoy is appointed by Mayor Quimby (at Ned Flanders's request) to be the town's new morality czar in charge of promoting creationism;
can a comment made in the show's first season come back to save her?
Unemployment insurance should be available to the unemployed. A minimum wage should bear some relationship to the cost of staying alive. Programs designed to reduce poverty should help the poor.
In a reasonable world, there would be no need to stress these points. They would be obvious.These days, more people are working part-time at multiple jobs. Yet Canada's unemployment insurance system (which the federal government calls
"employment insurance" to make it sound more positive) is available only to those who work in good, steady, full-time jobs — that is, to people who are almost never out of work. The result? Fully 60 per cent of out-of-work Canadians don't qualify for employment insurance. In Ontario, almost three-quarters of the unemployed don't qualify; in Toronto the figure is a stunning 80 per cent.
Even in St. John's, Nfld., which is routinely labelled the pogey capital of Canada, roughly half of the unemployed can't get employment insurance.
Ditto with the so-called minimum wage. In Ontario, it's so low ($7.75 an hour) that it leaves someone earning this wage well below the poverty line.
As for labour law, forget it. The report points out, correctly, that Ontario doesn't have enough inspectors to enforce its own Employment Standards Act, with the result that some bosses routinely defraud their workers — in some cases refusing to pay them wages owed.
"Since the Jacquemart-Andre Museum was refurbished and brought back to life five years ago, it's been the talk of the international art world. And even those die-hard Parisians who have never stepped foot into the Louvre love the Jacquemart, if only because it boasts the only restaurant where you can eat beneath an original Tiepolo ceiling.
A house-museum, whose five thousand works of art and antiquities range from the Lower and Upper Egyptian Kingdoms to the Italian Quattrocentro to the Dutch School of Old Master painting and the Rococo of Boucher, Fragonard and Greuze, the Jacquemart-Andre is in a class by itself. The sumptuous edifice, built in 1869 by the architect Henri Parent (second runner-up after Charles Garnier to the Paris Opera) was commissioned by Edouard Andre the sole heir to a colossal banking fortune. It was so colossal that in 1871, he and the Baron Rothschild ponied up in a single week--5 billion francs in gold as a war indemnity to Bismarck, a payoff that prevented the Prussian army's occupation of Paris. "
The habit of giving people nicknames leads to so much confusion in Spanish country towns and villages that the 600 inhabitants of Cedillo, in western Spain, have published their own phone book - using nicknames instead of real names.
It means that Johnny the Potato can be found under P for Patata while Luciana is under C for Chinita.
Not everybody in Cedillo is happy with the new phone book, however. A man known as "Baldy" and another called "Peg-leg" asked to be registered under their proper surnames.
We visited many churches, the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. We tramped through the Marais, strolled along the Champs-Elysees, rambled down le Mouffetard, shopped in St. Germaine, fought the crowds at Montmartre and relaxed at the Parc Monceau and the Luxembourg Gardens.
We ate at some of our favourite restaurants and discovered a new one - Camille in the Marais.
I gave a head rub and neck massage to a stranger sitting in a chair in a store, having mistaken him for Mr. Nag. Strange thing was he didn't react. When my sister pointed out my mistake I made an awkward apology to which the Mr. Nag-like guy responded, "But I was silent!" I guess he likes being fondled by Canadian women of a certain age. My sister and I fled the scene laughing as hysterically as teenagers.
We flew Zoom which was ok except for the movies, Big Mama's House 2, Yours, Mine and Ours and that one where Queen Latifa thinks she's dying. For this crap you have to pay 5 bucks for headphones! Luckily the flight attendant spilled a glass of orange juice all over me and paid me $15 cash so the movies ended up being free but they still sucked.
I'm sure I'm forgetting something....oh yeah, a pigeon laid an egg on Mr. Nag and a glass exploded in my sister's hand.
That's it for now, I'm still on Paris time.
Thought experiments, although abstract, possibly implausible and open to different interpretations, can have important repercussions on the way we think and act as individuals. They raise thorny questions about morality in medicine, war, politics and indeed in everyday life.
Is there a difference between killing someone and letting them die? Are consequences all that matter, or are there some things we should never do, whatever the outcome? By pointing out
inconsistencies in our thinking, or simply encouraging us to reflect on issues we usually ignore, they can sharpen our intellect and enrich our moral lives.
They are among the most popular paintings in the world but for decades they were
starved of natural light and displayed in a building likened to an oversized garden shed.
Now, after six years of renovation work delayed by archaeological mishaps, Claude Monet's giant Water Lilies are finally back on display at the Orangerie museum in Paris, in a space restored to match the French impressionist's vision of how his work should be hung.
There's no word on who broke up with who yet, but that's like trying to figure
out which monkey threw the first handful of poo after a giant monkey poo fight.
No matter what, everybody's still just a monkey covered in poo. Or in this case
a a giant douche bag. Which is sort of like a monkey covered in poo. Only
douchier. And baggier. And with less monkey poo. Okay, I think this it's safe to
say this is the worst analogy ever used.Via The Superficial