Quote: Aaron @ February 26 2009, 5:51 PM GMTPolitical correctness is the greatest evil the world has ever faced.
Weird things you have read about. Page 60
always gotta be one better.
Quote: Bad dog @ February 26 2009, 5:47 PM GMTI saw this a couple of weeks ago. What have the police got to do with it? Enforcing political correction is perhaps an easier task than chasing real criminals.
It would be the Daily F**king Mail to come up with a story like that. You know they really wanted to title it: "POLICEMEN ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO BE GAY INSTEAD OF RIDDING OUR STREETS OF CRIMINALS, PAEDOS AND BLACKS"
Anyway, this article is hilarious. The Irish Times published it, and it blames women for causing the credit crunch:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0225/1224241774267.html?via=mr
Feminists would be fuming if they read that!
Quote: NickTheDon @ February 26 2009, 7:00 PM GMTIt would be the Daily F**king Mail to come up with a story like that. You know they really wanted to title it: "POLICEMEN ENCOURAGING CHILDREN TO BE GAY INSTEAD OF RIDDING OUR STREETS OF CRIMINALS, PAEDOS AND BLACKS"
Hold on now, they didn't make that up, it's a fact about what the police were doing. OK so the paper puts its own spin on it, but the facts are there underneath that.
That Irish Times article shows that truth is stranger than fiction, how absolutely bizarre! 
Oestrogen-crazed acquisitiveness? So only women want things? Might was well blame ducks for rain.
Quote: Gavin @ February 26 2009, 6:03 PM GMT
Well, apart from your bodily emissions, obviously.
Now this would make for an interesting day:
In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz, Adm. Timothy Keating, head of the U.S. Pacific Commands, said that the military is prepared to shoot down any North Korean ballistic missile -- if President Obama should give the order.
"If a missile leaves the launch pad we'll be prepared to respond upon direction of the president," Keating told ABC News. "I'm not a betting man but I'd go like 60/40, 70/30 that it will, they will attempt to launch a satellite. There's equipment moving up there that would indicate the preliminary stages of preparation for a launch. So I'd say it's more than less likely."
"Should it look like it's not a satellite launch -- that it's something other than a satellite launch -- we'll be ready to respond."
Intelligence reports suggest that North Korea is preparing a long-range missile test. Earlier this week, North Korea announced its plans to send a satellite into orbit as part of its space program.
However, many in the international community assert that North Korea's satellite test is simply a means of concealing a long-range missile test -- a move that would flare existing tension in the region.
You mean I've been living near this place all this time and I haven't seen it yet?
Trading two children for a bird landed three people in jail in Louisiana, authorities say.
The biological mother, who was not involved in the alleged trade, is to be interviewed by authorities Friday. Investigators seek further details about a case that they say unfolded this way:
Paul and Brandy Romero advertised that they were selling their pet cockatoo for $1,500.
A woman named Donna Greenwell responded and said she wanted to buy the bird. Greenwell then told the Romeros that she was taking care of three children whose biological parents were going through a separation.
Greenwell proposed selling two of the couple's children to the Romeros for $2,000, saying that her job as a truck driver made it hard to take care of the children, said Capt. Keith Dupre of the Evangeline Parrish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana.
The parties allegedly negotiated a trade involving the two kids, the bird and $175.
An anonymous tipster contacted authorities after the children began living with the Romeros.
As a result, Greenwell and the Romeros were arrested February 21 and charged with aggravated kidnapping, Dupre said.
The children were well taken care of when they were with the Romeros, who badly wanted children, according to Dupre.
Greenwell said she needed the cash for a lawyer to handle adoption paperwork, authorities said.
She had placed the third child with another Louisiana couple, Dupre said, but he didn't know whether bartering was involved.
The two children were ages 4 and 5, according to CNN affiliate WGNO.
Police did not identify the biological parents, and no other information was available. The children have been placed in foster care.
Call it a wild guess, but I have a hunch he didn't survive.
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A monk carrying a Tibetan national flag and shouting slogans set himself on fire in south-central China on Friday and then was shot at by police, a human rights group reported.
Police fired three shots at the monk, but it was not known if any hit him or whether he survived, said Matt Whitticase, spokesman for the London-based Free Tibet organization.
Bloody blimeys.
And a (btw probably disturbing for some people) pic. If the link actually works. http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/8757/4558f063.jpg
Awesome.
Is the photo actually of him?
I believe so, yes.
If so, that is brilliant. Although the article does kind of read like he was extinguished still inside the bar.
Ouch!