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[Mar. 11th, 2009|04:55 pm] |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_re_us/cave_home
ST. LOUIS – An eastern Missouri family expects they'll be able to stay in their home built inside a cave after accepting an offer of a private mortgage contract. Curt Sleeper said Tuesday that a New Jersey-based business offered a 15-year loan with a low interest rate that should allow the family to keep their home in Festus, about 30 miles south of St. Louis.
"We're excited about it." To celebrate: "We're throwing a party at a friend's cave," he said.
DO WANT |
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| Creationist time paradox |
[Mar. 6th, 2009|01:06 pm] |
An idea:
Way off in the future, time travel has been invented. Some wag decides to try and steal a dinosaur skeleton from a museum, gets caught, and in a panic travels to the distant past - and buries the skeleton there. Which is then uncovered, examined, analysed, and eventually winds up in the museum from which it will be stolen.
Thus, dinosaurs are not real, but are in fact the product of a temporal anomaly, with their apparent age the product of a constant looping through time. This proves that evolution is wrong and quantum physics is of the devil.
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I should so work for the Discovery Institute.
In other news, I'm still alive, life is still dull, the world continues much as it ever has. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 6th, 2008|12:01 pm] |
solar powered vibrator from Libida
Integrate alternative energy technology into the bedroom with what may be the first solar-powered vibrator.
The Solar Sensation vibrator will charge in sunlight (5hrs) and artificial light (100w bulb 24hrs). It has three speeds and it will run 2.5 hours on a full charge (if you should last that long). A great way for avid users of vibrators to save tons of batteries while putting a smile on their faces.
Touch yourself, not the planet? |
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[Dec. 3rd, 2008|04:45 pm] |
"grampa? hands. srsly." |
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[Nov. 5th, 2008|08:23 pm] |
I'm not yet ready to put any kind of faith behind Obama.
However. After too many years smugness, preaching and fundamentalist shit:
FUCK YOU REPUBLICANS |
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| California man arrested in 'anthrax' mailings |
[Nov. 2nd, 2008|06:18 am] |
California man arrested in 'anthrax' mailings
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A California man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sending hoax letters labeled "anthrax" to scores of media outlets, the FBI said Wednesday, warning that many of the threats may still be in the mail.
Marc M. Keyser, 66, sent more than 120 envelopes containing a compact disc that had a packet of sugar labeled "Anthrax Sample" along with a biohazard symbol, the FBI said in a news release. The CD was titled "Anthrax: Shock & Awe Terror."
Keyser was taken into custody without incident at his home in Sacramento on three counts of sending a hoax letter, the FBI said. At least some of the packages had Keyser's return address on them, said FBI agent Steve Dupre.
There's fail.
Then there's epic fail.
Then there's this guy. |
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[Oct. 7th, 2008|03:22 pm] |
Homosexuals should carry warning tattoos, says chaplain
The Rev Dr Peter Mullen, who is rector of St Michael’s Cornhill and St Sepulchre without Newgate in the City, said in an internet blog that homosexuality was "clearly unnatural, a perversion and corruption of natural instincts and affections, and because it is a cause of fatal disease".
He wrote: "Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS."
The Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Richard Chartres, said the posting, which has since been taken down, was "highly offensive". The Rev Mullen, 66, was told on Friday that he could face disciplinary action.
Peter Tatchell of gay rights group OutRage! said he should resign.
The rector, who has written for The Daily Telegraph, insisted that he meant no harm: "I wrote some satirical things on my blog and anybody with an ounce of sense of humour or any understanding of the tradition of English satire would immediately assume that they’re light-hearted jokes."
Mr Mullen is also listed as the chaplain to the London Stock Exchange. However, an LSE spokesman said it was a historical title. "There are no formal links between us and him in any way."
*facepalm* |
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[Sep. 24th, 2008|08:28 pm] |
Frankie Boyle is a regular on Mock the Week and a very funny, very wrong man. |
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[Sep. 5th, 2008|05:45 pm] |
pwned.
(apologies for recent absence; having internet problems at home. expensive internet cafes are expensive.) |
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[Aug. 17th, 2008|04:54 am] |
I am in something of a state of shock. Yesterday I started having problems with my computer - it would load up, tell me it was waiting to complete installing updates, freeze, reboot, repeat.
Today I tried to use the inbuilt repair system from the people I got the computer from. And unlike every other inbuilt repair system I've ever used...
It worked.
(It was some folks called The Tech Guys, if you're interested. They were prompt in helping out when I had hardware problems last year also. They're like tech support, but they actually fix stuff.) |
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| Fucking banks |
[Aug. 8th, 2008|11:04 am] |
Dear Banking Folks,
I realise that, when sending a PIN out to customers, security is a major concern. I appreciate having measures in place to prevent it from being read by random strangers with malevolent intent.
However, doing so in a way that makes it actually illegible is perhaps a step too far.
On a related note, if your machines are going to lock up your account after incorrectly entering said pin a number of times, they could at least have the decency to offer a warning first.
Yours,
Disgruntled. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 29th, 2008|12:50 pm] |
Does the American flag belong in church?
New York - I've attended church weekly all my life, and virtually every congregation with whom I've worshipped displays an American flag. It often stands close to the communion table, probably a church's most sacred spot. Some denominations even recite the Pledge of Allegiance – multiple times. One church I visited in the Midwest began Sunday School with the Pledge but apparently lacked faith it would stick. We interrupted morning worship with another recitation.
All in all, American Christians seem as devoted to their government as Ruth was to Naomi. But should they be? Do either the flag or the Pledge have any place in the Lord's house? Is congregational commitment to the republic for which these emblems stand consistent with Biblical Christianity? Is political power? |
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[Jul. 28th, 2008|09:59 am] |
The building this is painted on is probably going to be demolished soon, so I decided to get the photo while I could. It makes my happy happen. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 20th, 2008|11:39 am] |
Get rich quick scheme #384: Uniquorn.
(Tastes just like the real thing or your money back!) |
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[Jul. 9th, 2008|12:22 pm] |
Vatican 'regrets' female bishops decision
(CNN) -- The Vatican said Tuesday it regrets the decision by the Church of England's governing body to allow the ordination of women as bishops.
General view of the Synod Assembly Chamber during the General Synod Session.
General view of the Synod Assembly Chamber during the General Synod Session.
The move by the Anglican Church's General Synod "is a rift to the apostolic tradition" of ordaining only men as bishops, the Vatican said in a statement, and is another obstacle to reconciliation between Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
"This decision will have consequences on the dialogue which had brought good fruits," the Vatican statement said.
The General Synod passed a resolution Monday night that allows women to become bishops, acting over the objections of traditionalists who argued that Jesus only wanted men in leadership positions.
Some traditionalists have threatened to abandon the Anglican Church for the Roman Catholic Church if women become bishops. Several hundred Anglican priests made that move when women were first ordained 16 years ago.
...ugh. |
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