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Astronauts The New Only Ones...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?

That was the question on some minds after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested in Orlando this month on charges she tried to kidnap and kill a woman she regarded as her rival for another astronaut's affections.

It turns out NASA has a detailed set of written procedures for dealing with a suicidal or psychotic astronaut in space. The documents, obtained this week by The Associated Press, say the astronaut's crewmates should bind his wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie him down with a bungee cord and inject him with tranquilizers if necessary.

Astronaut James Reilly, who is flying on space shuttle Atlantis next March, said it is unlikely a U.S. astronaut would lose it in space. Space tourists who pay the Russians $20 million to go to the space station are another matter, he said.

"I think we stand a greater chance of someone getting a little nuts with the space tourists that fly occasionally because it's less rigorous," Reilly said."

Yeah. They're SO rigorously screened they'd never, say, drive 950 miles wearing diapers and carrying a mallet, rubber tubing, duct tape, and pepper spray just to have a chat with a rival.

Never.

SACRE BLEU!

Report: Case against Landis in jeopardy as Frogs frigged the procedure...

NBCSports.com staff report

According to a report in the L.A. Times, the anti-doping case against Tour de France champion Floyd Landis could be in jeopardy after multiple errors by the French laboratory that produced the incriminating results.In one of a number of errors, the lab may have allowed improper access to the cyclist’s urine samples. According to the report, two technicians were involved in both the original urine analysis and a second, validating test. This is prohibited by International lab standards to ensure accuracy.It is not yet clear whether the technicians’ conduct will disqualify the findings. A similar error by the same lab in 2005 resulted in the dismissal of doping chargers against Spanish cyclist Inigo Landaluze in December.If the doping charge is upheld, Landis will be stripped of his Tour de France title and face a two-year suspension.

File This Under: Well Gee, It Was In China, And Therefore Only A Matter Of Time, Eh?

Tiger kills girl at Chinese zoo

A six-year-old girl has been killed by a tiger at a zoo in Kunming in south-western China's Yunnan province.

The girl was posing for photographs with the tiger when it was startled by camera flashes and pulled the girl's head into its mouth, state media said.

Staff beat the tiger until it released the girl, but she had suffered a crushed skull and died in hospital.

The zoo has stopped allowing visitors to pose with its tigers for a charge of $2 (£1), Xinhua news agency said.

The girl was identified as Rui Xin. Her mother was bitten on the arm while trying to rescue her.

A local newspaper said the zoo had been charging visitors for the opportunity to pose with the tiger since May 2005.

And THIS Under OUCH

Bears eat keeper who took their bile

A Chinese man has reportedly been killed and eaten by six bears in Shulan, Jilin province.

Han Shigen earned a living by extracting bile from the gall bladders of his captive live bears, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

He was attacked on Monday morning while cleaning the animals' cage, Xinhua said, quoting the Beijing News.

Xinhua said the animals were so enraged that two hours passed before it was deemed safe enough to remove his body.

Many parts of the bear, including the brain and spinal cord, have long been used in traditional Chinese medicine.

The most coveted part is the bile within the gall bladder, which can often be more expensive that the equivalent weight of narcotics.

Bear bile can fetch an estimated $1,000 per kilo in Asian markets.

The bile is extracted in an excruciatingly painful process which involves slicing into the animal's flesh and "milking" the substance with a tube.

The bile is then used for everything from hair shampoo to wine, as well as medicinal treatments for various intestinal and cardiac-related complaints.

And Last But Certainly NOT Least...

Cheney warns on Chinese build-up

Mr Cheney said Australia's stance on terrorism had earned respect

"US Vice-President Dick Cheney has expressed concern over China's military policies, saying they were at odds with the country's stated peaceful aims.

On a visit to Australia, he praised China's role in a nuclear deal with North Korea but criticised its military build-up and anti-satellite tests."

Psst? Dick? Corner the market on bear-bile and they'll come crawling!

The British Three-point plan to stamp out gun crime

"The Home Office has announced a three-point plan to tackle gun crime following a series of shootings in south-west London.

Two teenagers, Billy Cox from Clapham North and James Smartt-Ford from Streatham, were shot dead within two weeks of each other.

The announcement follows a gun crime summit chaired by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street yesterday attended by senior police officers, representatives from community groups and voluntary organisations.

The plan focuses on tough punishments for those who use people to look after weapons, improved technology for linking weapons to crimes and more money to community groups."

The Messenger One-Point Plan For Reducing Gun Crime:

Let armed citizens fight back. The fox hunters went into an absolute tizzy when informed that their hallowed sport was no longer humane enough for the likes of a wussified Britain, and precisely where WERE these guys when the UK was disarming the nation?

Thinking along the lines of a Jim Zumbo?

Oh.

New Orleans On An International Scale...

"The country of Uganda plans to send about 1,500 troops to Somalia as part of an African Union peace-keeping force. The goal is to stabilize the weak government of Somalia, with the hope that the warlords will voluntarily disarm. Hopefully, Ugandan troops will be more successful in Somalia than they have in their own country.

For months now, Ugandan army troops have been garrisoned in the northeast part of the country under orders to disarm the local populace—pastoral, cattle-herding tribes known as the Karamojong. The army is attempting, and failing, to quash an uprising which was caused by prior attempt to disarm the same tribes.

But in its effort to "disarm," the Ugandan army, supported by tanks and helicopter gunships, is burning down villages, sexually torturing men, raping women, and plundering what few possessions the tribespeople own. Tens of thousands of victims have been turned into refugees. Human rights scholar Ben Knighton has used the term “ethnocide” to describe the army's campaign.

This is not the first time the central government in Kampala, Uganda, has persecuted the Karamojong. During the Idi Amin regime, the Karamojong were selected as special targets for genocide. Against Amin's armies, their traditional bows and arrows were futile. So its' understandable why they'd be reluctant to voluntarily lay down their weapons.

This time, the pretext for the "disarmament" of the Karamojong is United Nations gun control. The Ugandan military is trying to round up every last firearm in Karamoja, supposedly for Karamojong's own good.

The procedure is euphemistically called “forcible disarmament.” It works something like this: The misnamed Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) will torture and rape Karamajoong, after which some Karamojong might then disclose the location of some hidden guns. Or the army will burn down a village, after which it might find some guns in the ash left behind."

Dictators, scaremongers, thieves, rapists, and leftists, simply despise the idea of their intended victims being capable of defending themselves. Matters little where in the world it happens, the modus operandi remains the same. Bear this in mind after Hillary convinces a few million soccer mom's to register then vote for her, and find the strength to aid us in balancing these numbers with patriots.

An Exclusive From Cookie...

First look at Anna Nicole's casket.

What A Deal!

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NYU's Young Republicans Trashed By NYC's Old Moonbats

"Wesley Chan, a freshman at New York University, did his part to further the new college fad of defending America from yet another "invasion."

With fellow members of NYU's Republican club, Chan, who hails from New Jersey, joined yesterday in a bizarre exercise called Find the Illegal Immigrant.

"My parents came to this country from China the legal way: They waited their turn in line," Chan said, offering a patriot's pose to the throng of reporters and cameramen camped near Washington Square Park.

Chan stood out as one of the few nonwhites among a few dozen young Republicans who had turned out for what was more of a public relations stunt than a game.

Across the street, a far larger crowd of several hundred angry NYU students found nothing to laugh at.

"It's degrading and racist," said Dalia Yedidia, a freshman from San Francisco. "These people are trivializing a serious problem. They're showing pictures of Mexicans and their children running across the border, so it's clear who they're trying to target."

Well of course it is, you cluefree example of loonatic dhimmitude. All people of good will are trying really really hard to target illegal aliens, most of whom happen to be of Spanish descent. But Dahlia can be easily enough forgiven due to her youth, but not the author of this disgusting piece of racist trash who calls himself Juan Gonzalez. Americans wish for a free country where members of the human race may divest enough of the trappings of their country of origin to become assimilated into the greatest experiment ever told.

Entering the country as a criminal isn't the best of resumes, nor is "writer" Gonzalez propensity to dig deep into out country's past to drag out the Chinese Exclusion Act so as to make the American-Chinese lad of the above story appear to be as cluefree as Mr. Gonzalez himself is. Mr. G singled out an individual because of his race, tried making him into a laughing stock for not knowing the sins of the past, which of course are forever included within the modern loons repertoire to confuse the realities of the present.

Illegal immigrants are invading, weakening, and killing us. Certain liberal venues were weak minded enough to give those of Spanish origin entitlement after entitlement so as to attract their vote, and it is because of this free pony ride thought process that we now find ourselves even debating so obvious a problem. It is NOT a fad to wish to defend America, you callous cretin. A relative handful of youngsters happen to somehow escape your evil desires to cherrypick history in order to turn the melting pot into a circle jerk of fiefdoms fighting for supremacy, and it galls you to no end, doesn't it?

This Is Why I Could Never Give Good Fudd

Available at the NRA Store. $59.95. Plus shipping.

Yes.

An "Antler Candy Dish".

Good Lord but I'd hate to see an NRA-Approved commode.

And they think AR's are ugly?

Quick Hit

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(Not available in NJ, NY, or CA., nor endorsed by Jim Zumbo.)

Flamers Flame For...

Care of: Chas

"The emerging field of social neuroscience, the study of what goes on in the brains and bodies of two interacting people, offers clues into the neural mechanics behind flaming.

This work points to a design flaw inherent in the interface between the brain’s social circuitry and the online world. In face-to-face interaction, the brain reads a continual cascade of emotional signs and social cues, instantaneously using them to guide our next move so that the encounter goes well. Much of this social guidance occurs in circuitry centered on the orbitofrontal cortex, a center for empathy. This cortex uses that social scan to help make sure that what we do next will keep the interaction on track.

Research by Jennifer Beer, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, finds that this face-to-face guidance system inhibits impulses for actions that would upset the other person or otherwise throw the interaction off. Neurological patients with a damaged orbitofrontal cortex lose the ability to modulate the amygdala, a source of unruly impulses; like small children, they commit mortifying social gaffes like kissing a complete stranger, blithely unaware that they are doing anything untoward."

Bullswaddle. Flamers are wannabe Marines.

Without the stones.

Next

Police Shooting

Two suggestions:

1.) Practice some mores to hit a vulnerable spot.

2.) Failing that, drop them sissy 9 mm's and get a fohtay.

And yes, Blogger continues to say that such videos cannot be automatically posted here because, well, they're working on it.

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Egypt blogger jailed for 'insult'

An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president.

Abdel Kareem Soliman's trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt.

He had used his web log to criticise the country's top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator.

A human rights group called the verdict "very tough" and a "strong message" to Egypt's thousands of bloggers.

Soliman, 22, was tried in his native city of Alexandria. He blogs under the name Kareem Amer.

A former student at al-Azhar, he called the institution "the university of terrorism" and accused it of suppressing free thought.

The university expelled him in 2006 and pressed prosecutors to put him on trial.

'Slap in the face'

During the five-minute court session the judge said Soliman was guilty and would serve three years for insulting Islam and inciting sedition, and one year for insulting Mr Mubarak."

Hmm. I salute you, Mr. Soliman, and in your name hereby offer the following:

Mubarak SUCKS.

And, as a matter of payback however minuscule, I'll post the same condemnation of pig-fellating Mubarack weekly, until you are released from prison, with the unmistakable inference that it is unfortunate to EVER trust someone named Mu, or Barack.

Dick Morris Offers Yet Another Tidbit On His Favorite Topic...

Hillary Rodham, aka The Oval Orifice. (TM)

Hillary and her boys realize that all that Obama has to sell is his purity. He’s like Evian water. He has no particular taste, he's just the un-cola — the opposite of the vicious, destructive, partisan politics that pervades our country and turns off the voters.

Purity is a high standard, particularly for a politician, especially for one who is running against a Clinton. And purity is the easiest thing to sully. Just a drop of ink in a bottle of Evian makes it “dirty” and undrinkable.

So what Wolfson and Hillary are trying to do is to pollute Obama with the remarks of his supporter, to show that he is just like the rest of ‘em — a politician after all. The Wolfson attack is a calculated strategy. It's designed to bring the Obama candidacy back to earth.

But there was a problem in implementing their master plan: Obama wouldn’t play. He's run only a positive campaign and has wisely refrained from saying anything that smacks of a negative against Hillary. He doesn’t need to. The ranks of those who are willing to point out her obvious shortcomings are so legion that Obama doesn’t need to add to the chorus.

Killer Chimps Make Spears, Hunt Bushbabies

Chimpanzees are capable of making spears to hunt other primates and have been seen using the weapons to apparently kill bushbabies for meat, scientists announced today.

The researchers based their findings on observations of omnivorous chimpanzees that dwell in savannahs similar to those from which humanity's ancestors are thought to have emerged.

"It is not adult males, but young chimpanzees, including adolescent females, who are exhibiting this behavior," Jill Pruetz, a primatologist at Iowa State University, told LiveScience.

Iran Will Create Women-Only 'Paradise Island'

No men allowed!

That's the sign Iran hopes to post on a new island paradise it hopes to create for female tourists only, according to a report in a Tehran newspaper.

"The island of Arezou, one of the 102 islands in the Oroumiyeh Lake, will be equipped especially for women," a municipal official in the West Azerbaijan province, identified only as Aghai, was quoted as saying by the Tehran Emrouz newspaper.

All public transportation, restaurants and facilities on the island will be staffed only by women, officials said. Oroumiyeh Lake is located near the nation's border with Turkey.

"There will be no men on the island," the official said. "It will also boost tourism in the area."

"The construction of hotels, small restaurants and medical centres under the management of women is one of the specifications for this island, which is the first such in the country," Aghai said.

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Not all that difficult to predict who'll be spending a lot of time there...

Ole' Jimbo Is Getting One Helluva Chuckle From All 'A That There Ruckus...

Gresham: Talking with my good friend Jim Zumbo. He's the hunting editor of Outdoor Life, and has his own TV show on the Outdoor Channel, and he and I have hunted together various places over the years. And, uh, you're occasionally, it's a bad deal when you watch a friend have a train wreck or a car wreck, and I just watched Jim step in it big-time. Is that fair, Jim?

Zumbo: (Chuckles) Totally fair. Absolutely.

Gresham: OK

Zumbo: Never seen anything like it.

Gresham: Basically posted, you just wrote something on your blog, on the Outdoor Life blog, and it just caused a firestorm like I've never seen before, and essentially it was...

Zumbo: What a legacy to put on my tombstone, huh?

Gresham: Oh my gosh! Well, I've got to tell you, the thing that has probably has ticked people off the most, is when you said an AR15 is a "terrorist's rifle."
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Head on over to The Smallest Minority to see it all, including one laugh-riot pic entitled "Night Of The Living Fudd". Mr. Zumbo was tossed nothing but softballs over at Tom Gresham's Gun Talk, and after I get done Googling the shite out of Gresham maybe we can see who HIS sponsers are.

Just joshin'. It's perfectly cool to side with an old friend no matter how much of an asshole he might be. Scary part about the whole filmflam is the fact that Mr. Z STILL doesn't have a clue, and this might be indicative of a lot of the Fuddites earning a living...from us...today.