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Maybe they know something we don’t.

Hey, if it works….

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The Johannesburg Road Agency is in talks with suppliers to try and stop thieves targeting its shiny new traffic lights for the SIM cards they contain.

The Agency has been forking out thousands of rand on phone calls the thieves subsequently make using the snaffled SIMs.

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Another sign of the End Times.

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“The gist of the copyright dispute between the parties is whether Plaintiff’s virtual horses infringe on copyrights associated with Defendant’s virtual bunnies.” Yeah, so you know you’re in for a treat.

Prime candidates for culling from the gene pool.

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Be the first on your block….

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Let heaven and nature sing.

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Bugarach, population 189, is a peaceful farming village in the Aude region, southwestern France and sits at the foot of the Pic de Bugarach, the highest mountain in the Corbières wine-growing area.

But in the past few months, the quiet village has been inundated by groups of esoteric outsiders who believe the peak is an “alien garage”.

According to them, extraterrestrials are quietly waiting in a massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end, at which point they will leave, taking, it is hoped, a lucky few humans with them.

Most believe Armageddon will take place on December 21, 2012, the end date of the ancient Maya calendar, at which point they predict human civilisation will come to an end. Another favourite date mentioned is 12, December, 2012. They see Bugarach as one of perhaps several “sacred mountains” sheltered from the cataclysm.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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Let’s see, it’s the Republicans’ fault that he can’t stop Obama from doing an end-run around Congress. Right.

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A farmer unwittingly shot two suspected burglars who were allegedly targeting a cannabis factory, which he didn’t know existed, on his property.

British news is always more interesting than American news.

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I’m curious as to how they plan to enforce this. After all, these are organized bodies of criminals we’re talking about here.

This reminds me of the notion of California solving its budget deficit by taxing growers of marijuana — which is (last time I looked) illegal to start with.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

You may ask: How can a whole city sink in Wisconsin? Well, read the book and find out.

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In a society hypersensitive about gender issues to the point of psychosis, a rape accusation is perhaps the worst claim you could lodge against someone short of adding that their victim was underage. But although certain gender-crazed pompom girls insist that false rape accusations are a vicious patriarchal fiction, by one estimate about half of all official rape complaints are entirely fabricated. Merely searching the word “false” alongside “rape” on Google News will yield a fresh crop of verifiably bogus allegations nationwide with each new sunrise. Try it if you don’t believe me.

At around 2 p.m. on August 20th, Wilen and Ardin walked together into a Stockholm police station. Both women told police of how Assange had, against their expressed wishes, ridden their naked golden haunches bareback and rubber-free. They both said they were alarmed about possibly having contracted STDs from him but that he’d refused their requests to be tested.

Oops.

Did you catch that? For both girls it was consensual, but suddenly it wasn’t consensual, but he wasn’t violent, but then again he wouldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer, but neither of them are afraid of him, anyway, even though he’s twisted.

Assange now faces charges in Sweden for what is legally known there as “sex by surprise.”

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Following in such unimpeachable footsteps, Ardin once reportedly filed a sexual-harassment complaint against another student for looking at his notes and not paying attention to her—while she was apparently giving a lecture on sexual harassment!—and thus using “male suppression techniques” to make her feel inferior and unwanted. When the male student learned of the complaint, he apologized to Ardin, who filed a NEW harassment complaint arising from his apology.

‘Oh brave new world, that has such people in’t!’

Whether or not he was set up, and whether or not it was the CIA, doesn’t seem all that important to me. One would think that a globetrotting David seeking to slay the American Goliath would have the good sense to keep his dick in his pants. But in this case, he apparently made the mistake of penetrating a radical feminist seeking to bring the patriarchy to its knees.

The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley;
And that is why wise men don’t leave their dicks astray.

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To quote George Carlin: ‘If you nail together two things that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it.’

For Professionals Only.

Makes Congress look like a kindergarten recess.

The Other McCain sometimes points and laughs.

Before we go wading into that troll-infested argument, however, let’s pause to consider a remarkable fact: Interpol is now issuing warrants for men who fail to wear condoms.

Perhaps Julian Assange should convert to Catholicism and ask the Pope to testify on his behalf.

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Perhaps they need to make the acquaintance of the Wicker Man.

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Or you could just open the fargin door yourself.

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At least 120 white farmers in Zimbabwe have returned to the land by setting up farms under leasehold deals with the black beneficiaries of Robert Mugabe’s land seizure policies.

These people are certifiable idiots. Let’s hope they don’t breed and pass their defective genes on to future generations. (Fortunately, in Zimbabwe they probably won’t live that long. But still.)

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Obviously, those are the guys doing denial-of-service attacks on their hosting providers.

It’s all so clear to me now.

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Keisha Buchanan, the former Sugababes singer, says the success of the middle-class Kate Middleton with Prince William has given her hope with Prince Harry.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Megan McArdle enjoys the irony.

Perhaps you have to be familiar with New York politics to understand how truly bizarre this story is: 1199 is dropping its health care coverage for children.  1199 is the extraordinarily powerful local health care workers’ union which has pushed New York State’s Medicaid reimbursements into the stratosphere.  The state not only has much higher than average Medicaid enrollment, but also spends more per-enrollee than any state but Alaska.  Every time a governor tries to cut into, say, the funds for home health care workers, the union runs tear jerking ads which imply that the governor is trying to end health care for everyone in the state.

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Now we have a case where a group is trying to rate games for an entire religious body. Kotaku, a video game blog in the Gawker network, posts this interesting tidbit about how a group in the Middle East has launched a ratings system for games based on the tenets of the Islamic faith.

Wonder what sort of rating they give scenarios where Marines are blowing away jihadists.

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But the latest theory suggests that the great navigator, who died in 1506 after four voyages to the New World, was in fact of royal blood: the son of King Vladislav III who was supposedly slain in the Battle of Varna in 1444.

In his third book on the subject Manuel Rosa, who has spent 20 years researching the life of Columbus, suggests that Vladislav III survived the battle with the Ottomans, fled to live in exile on the island of Madeira where he was known as “Henry the German” and married a Portuguese noblewoman.

Mr Rosa believes a conspiracy was agreed to hide Columbus’ true origins and to protect the identity of his father. “The courts of Europe knew who he was and kept his secret for their own reasons,” the researcher at Duke University, North Carolina said.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

I think it’s a variant on the Polish Joke, personally.

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The new, updated, Politically Correct Ebenezer Scrooge.

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Dude, it’s been a long day.

Gotta love Australians–even the animals.

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ake, for instance, what just went down on Planet Calypso, where one of Entropia’s wealthier players has sold off his interests in a “resort asteroid” for an eye-popping $635,000.

The seller is Jon Jacobs, also known as the character ‘Neverdie’. He originally purchased the asteroid in 2005 — eventually converting it into the extravagant resort ‘Club Neverdie’ — for the then-record price of $100,000. For those keeping score, that’s a gain of over $500,000 in just five years. In nerdier terms, that’s an ROI of 535%. Match that, Citibank.

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If you’re looking to improve your child’s chanting skills or enhance their moon dancing, Lincolnshire may soon be the place to go – as the county decided this week to let individual schools decide on the teaching of pagan doctrine.

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A homosexual sperm donor who fathered two babies by a lesbian after placing an advert in a magazine is now engaged in a legal dispute over access to the children.

Not your grandfather’s Britain. Not even close.

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Everything bad is good for you.

Don’t like what scientists tell you? Wait a week or two, and they’ll reverse their opinions. (Unless grant money is involved, as with ‘climate change’. That’s cast in concrete, with enough rebar to built a new Bismarck.)

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Army cadets have been banned from carrying rifles on a Remembrance Day parade amid fears the weapons might “upset” onlookers.

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It’s hip, and trendy. Christian? Not so much.

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Life imitates art.

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British news is always more … interesting than American news.

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British news is always more interesting than American news.

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And, of course, there’s always the Death Star Pumpkin.

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Slow news day.

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Patrick Acton, 57 has created a massive replica of Minas Tirith, the city from JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, using 420,000 match sticks. Acton, from Gladbrook, Iowa, spent 3,000 hours building the 8ft by 8ft structure.

Some people need to get a life.

A sign of the End Times.

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Slow news day.

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Diversity, ya know?

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A dog abandoned by its owner after it was born as a hermaphrodite is looking for a home after having a sex change operation.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that….

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Only a handful of cabins have yet to be sold on a cruise that is to follow the route of the Titanic to mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship.

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Counsel: What is your name?

Chrysler: Chrysler. Arnold Chrysler.

Counsel: Is that your own name?

Chrysler: Whose name do you think it is?

Counsel: I am just asking if it is your name.

Chrysler: And I have just told you it is. Why do you doubt it?

H/T Wheels Within Wheels.