another Icon died!!! RIP Lady Page

Mes condoléances pour ton amie Yannick!

made:found 710ml Rockstar Burner in joltlike containers (and bought 3!!!)

non, ok je vais préciser 2 main qui ont chacune 4 doigts + 1 pouce par main

et

2 pieds 5 orteils par pied...

made: le petit Simon qui va naître aujourd'hui :) (le fils a mon frère)
j'espère que il va avoir 10 doigt et 10 orteils et que il va être en santé...

Made: My Dead Spaces have arrived (at least the first bunch of them)

made: chainsaw-hand props over 75% complete and should be ready for Blacklight unless major unexpected problems arise

made: Fallout 3

ruined: still some back pain, will probably not do two dragonboat teams next year like I was thinking since even if I really love this sport it really caused me back problems

Villagers from Julah in Tejakula, Buleleng, tow (see photo) a pregnant
cow behind a boat into open sea as part of a local traditional ritual.

The cow, which is five months pregnant, was thrown out to the sea about
3 kilometers from land Monday. The villagers believe the animal was
impregnated by a village elder.

During the ritual the man, who was caught red-handed having sexual
intercourse with the cow two months ago, joined the boat trip in order
to throw away his clothes to to symbolize him discarding his sins.

Julah customary village head Ketut Sidemen said the ritual, called gamya
gamana, or freak weeding, and had been conducted there for generations.
The decision to perform the ritual was made a local residents meeting.

In line with customary regulations, the perpetrator, identified only as
PS, 70, was sanctioned to fund the expensive ceremony, which aimed to
cleanse him of any bad influences.

Luh Ketut Suryani, a professor and activist, deplored the sancation
against PS.

She said drowning a cow was baseless because sexual intercourse between
a human being and am animal could not cause pregnancy due to the different
chromosomes and genes of the two.

"The cow is not guilty, why shoud it be drowned? Why don't just use a
symbol like what was done by the perpetrator?" she said.

Suryani's said she was concerned dealt with the financial situation of
the owner, who lives below the poverty line.

"The cow, which has a high price, had to be thrown away. It will be a
pity for the owner, who is already poor and is now forced to lose his
priceless belonging." -- JP/Alit Kertaraharja


Copyright © 2008 The Jakarta Post - PT Bina Media Tenggara. All Rights Reserved.

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quoi!!?, ça existe des mauvaises raisons pour boire?

Damn, my riding went to the Liberal ( Marc Garneau ) This is in my opinion the worst possible result. It was for me really a "anybody but the liberals". So for me the good news is that the got less than 80 MP.

I don't think that the NDP and the conservatives are perfect ( I know I am a minority here not to think that the conservative are not evil incarnate ) but both of them a really a lot less corrupt than the liberal, who have always been more about trying to find more and more ways to send money to their friends (sponsorship anyone...). Yet I was also dissatisfied with the environmental plan of the conservative which I found was not ambitious enough and the NDP which has position that are not always very realistic.

And even if I voted green in the provincial election I could never vote for Elizabeth May, because she never was anything else than a liberal in green clothing.

I think the best medication for him would be a massive amount of lead...seriously that kid, I mean thing...should be euthanize.

Just want to say like DrN said that I am really intersted in your Intellivision II!!!

Still not sure what I will do, yet the confidence vote is still nice!!

Made: amazing week-end at the Quebec Cup (Dragon Boat competition)
Made: was asked by the coach of a men team that finished 6th at the world championship in Malaysia to be part of their team next year
ruined: missed Pirate of the Rave, I was too tired and too much in pain from the paddling
ruined: return to work after a week of vacation

Made: Motorhead and the Misfits tonight!!!!!!!!!!

Carotte

Unbelievable!!!

:) trop gentille :)

tu va faire une super maman quand tu va avoir des enfants :)

Tu peux pas savoir a quel point je te comprend... une des raisons que j'ai commencer a prendre pas mal de photos dans les party!!!

Hey, I rewatched it recently and you forget the blue blood of the diva...

So that long lost jokes not remain so lost...
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made: Hier au fouf, pretty cool it was!! fesait trop longtemps j'avais pas fait la fermeture au Fouf...faut croire que j'avais perdu mes bonnes habitudes:p

C'était BugTracker...maintenant il est chez EA Mobile :p

Made: Hardcore underground au Saphir a soir

Faut vraiment être pourrit en sale pour voler les toutous à des enfants!!!!j'te souhaite vraiment de trouver c'est qui...

By Chris Buckley

BEIJING (Reuters) - A pretty girl who shot to fame at China's Olympic opening ceremony was a photogenic front for the real singer, who was rejected appearance-wise in the "national interest", Chinese media reported on Tuesday.

Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke has been celebrated across China as the angelic voice with the cute face who sang "Ode to the Motherland" at Friday's opening extravaganza.

But a director of the opening ceremony, Chen Qigang, told state television Lin's voice was overdubbed by the singing of the real child singer Yang Peiyi, said the government-run China News Service.

"Yang Peiyi missed out on selection (to appear at the ceremony) because of her external appearance. It was for the national interest," Chen was quoted as saying.

China has gone to extraordinary lengths and expense to ensure a picture perfect Games.

An official disclosed on Wednesday that some of the scenes of fireworks broadcast at the opening were pre-recorded.

Among sections pre-recorded were parts of a stunning series of firework "footprints" across Beijing that led to the Bird's Nest stadium where the four-hour spectacular was staged, Games Executive Vice President Wang Wei told reporters.

But getting one child to appear as the face of another was a step too far, some Chinese said in comments posted on the Internet.

"Why worry so much about appearances? All seven-year-olds are angels," said one.

(Additional reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Ralph Gowling)
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I guess it is hard to expect too much from a religious society like Saudi Arabia with no respect for women considering them as nothing more than temptresses and where men are seen as having so little self-control that all kind of temptations must be hidden.

But damn keep the pets out of [ this...Ca ] and Dogs have nothing to do with these religious delusion

Earlier this week in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, a ban was [1] announced on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public, because of men apparently using them to make passes at women. Bloggers both inside and outside the kingdom have responded with disbelief.

The head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, who are known as the muttawa or religious police, explained that the commission was simply enforcing a previously [2] issued religious edict.

[3] Ahmed, a Saudi blogger, says:

I have been trying to avoid writing about the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice lately because, frankly, why beat a dead horse? But this one is just too good to miss… Now I’m not particularly a fan of cats and dogs. My friends who are pet owners know this, and they usually keep their pets away when I visit them. It’s not like I have anything against these animals but I just have this fear of getting too close to them. Still, this decision is just idiotic.
But before we get more into this, let’s go back a little bit. This whole ban thing has actually started in Jeddah two years ago. At the time, Jeddah’s Commission said that young Saudis who go out in streets with their pet dogs are violating of the Kingdom’s culture and traditions, and allegedly causing distress especially to families with young children. (But) the ban was never implemented. … However, although Riyadh and Jeddah are two big cities in the same country, they can be quite different on matters like these. The Commission is much, much more powerful in Riyadh than in Jeddah and therefore I expect this ban to be fully implemented in the capital.
Of course it is needless to say how ridiculous this whole thing is. The reason the Commission presented for the ban is kind of a joke, really: “because of men using them as a means of making passes at women,” they said. So you go and ban dogs and cats? How about punishing those so-called men? I guess you are too busy invading people’s privacy and controlling their lives to bother with few men who use their pets to annoy others.

[4] American Bedu, an American woman and former diplomat now married to a Saudi, says:

I believe there are much more serious issues that need to be focused and acted upon instead of the impact pets may have on bringing the opposite sex together.

[5] Sabra, an American living in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, doesn't have the energy to say much about this issue - but she tells us an anecdote about an animal being protected in the street:

I'm not even going to weigh-in on this one. I'm just gonna shake my head and mutter to myself that I live in a “LFZ.” [Logic Free Zone.]

I saw something rather sweet two days ago when The Kids and I were out for our morning walk. As we rounded the corner to walk down one of the alleys there was a young boy - a Saudi boy - and a cat. The young boy - maybe six or eight years old - saw me coming with my small Great Dane and bouncing black fur-ball of energy Standard Poodle and quickly bent down and scooped up the cat - as if protecting the cat from being used as a live squeak-toy and walked between two houses out of sight. I never, ever would let my Kids get close enough to a cat to harm it - and I had tight control of both leashes - a reflex whenever I spot a cat. It was just really touching - heart-warming even - the way the young boy thought to and made such an effort to ensure the cat's safety. [And, for the record, some of the “wild and stray” cats here - of which there ARE many - would be like buzz-saws on the muzzles of my two Kids if I ever allowed the Kids to get close enough.]

However [6] Grace, an American woman working in Riyadh, can see the point of limiting the number of stray animals:

Look, I have to say this. There are so many street cats here roaming around the DQ [Diplomatic Quarter] that my former feline friendliness has been replaced with total disgust as the one eyed cat comes popping out of the trash can as I walk by on a daily basis. I walk into my apartment building and kitties bolt out the front door of the common area. Outside the grocery store a pile of baby kittens are nursing on an equally disturbing pile of trash. Call it cultural differences but I must say, in general, they do clean things pretty well here and have a great trash service. But the cats are just allowed to breed at will and being here does allow me to appreciate animal control.

[7] John Burgess, a former US foreign service officer who blogs about Saudi Arabia, posted about this subject, and then in the comments section joked:

BTW, contrary to the beliefs of some, there is no etymological relationship between the words ‘mutt’ and ‘muttawa’.

Finally, [8] Aafke, a Dutch blogger, provides us with a guide to using pets for mating:

So especially for those unlucky people stuck in a place where pets are going to be forbidden, here is a crash course in how to use pets for maximum result. … Why does the ”Pet-Thing” work? Apparently humans, and other animals, are programmed to go all ”Aaaaahhhhh, Cuuuute” when confronted by small fluffy little cute harmless somethings looking into our eyes. So use that programming and get your pet home before it’s too late! And of course for everybody else bend on some really scintillating, steaming, hot, sexy, romantic encounters: Read [8] This!






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Je sais pas pourquoi, mais j'ai la subtile impression que c'est une choses qui va me me suivre longtemps ça :p (au moins ça m'aura appris de pas TROP boire quand je suis vraiment trop down et alimenté aux riz depuis genre deux mois)

Ruided: Nothing specific, juste plusieurs petits désapointements qui me rendent un peu down aujourd'hui et qui mis ensemble donne un "fmeh!!!" de taille moyenne
Made: l'epluchette de Ariane et Dave qui arrive bientot!!!

The best national anthem est encore selon moi celui de l'Union Sovietique!!!

Congratz, welcome to the glamorous world of videogame...

Sorry, but by her own action she is a public figure...

And the publicity only shows her for a few seconds and she does not say anything so I guess we did not see the same publicity from McCain, because he did not "manipulated the speech of a known socialite" in the one I saw

Paris Hilton reading? that is science fiction... I am pro democrats, but when I see her like that I think I would vote McCain. She is so fuckin pathetic. She created her(brain dead) image and should not complain when other people use it!

But I still think Clinton was the best candidate

Well, it is the season... and here a email I received... si il y a des gens intéressés
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(ENGLISH FOLLOWS)

Nous sommes en pleine saison des mamans et des bébés chats. Nous recherchons des familles d'accueil pour accueillir des chattes en gestation ou avec leurs petits. Leur conditions les rend plus fragiles aux maladies, il est donc important qu'ils soient dans un environnement plus adéquat que celui du refuge.

Si vous pouvez accueillir des pensionnaires, S.V.P. communiquez avec le programme des familles d'accueil au (514) 735-2711, poste 2237 ou par courriel à pfa_fp@spcamontreal.com.

Un grand merci.

Louise Allard
SPCA
Coordonnatrice des bénévoles

***********

This is the high season for cat moms and babies. We are looking for foster homes for these little ones. The shelter environment is not the best they can have for these animals more fragile due to their condition. It is very important for them to be in a better environment like a good home.

If you can foster them, please contact the Foster Program at (514) 735-2711, ext. 2243 or write to pfa_fp@spcamontreal.com.

Thank you so much.

Louise Allard
SPCA
Volunteer Coordinator

Man, can we start counting the number of threads Bliss starts to create in order to start some shit? He HAS to be reaching the Freezer levels soon...

Heh.

And digg has to do with videogames, how? Because of tech news? Most actors don't read celebrity magazines. Do you insult them as well? :D

Yeah for sure, was planning on doing some cleanup before. but if you don't mind you are always welcome to my hobbit hole