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July 27, 2009
July 24, 2009
Hunting Albinos
It seems like our species always on the look out for another group to oppress, hunt, and ensure a thoroughly miserable existence:
"In a small town in the East African nation of Burundi, a group of people live in fear of being savagely murdered at any moment. They are always on guard night and day maintaining shifts of who keeps watch.These people are not criminals on the run but victims of mother nature.
They are among a dwindling number of albinos who have been in hiding since early 2009 when more than a dozen of them were slaughtered for body parts that are later sold to witch doctors for use in potions.
July 22, 2009
Made In China
Babies
Sure, Ok
July 03, 2009
Luck
From CNN:
"t was Christmas Eve, 1971, when Koepcke, then aged 17, and her mother boarded a Lockheed Electra turboprop for a flight from Lima, Peru, to Pucallpa in the Amazonian rainforest. Her parents, both famous zoologists, ran a research station in the jungle studying wildlife.The airline, LANSA, had already lost two aircraft in previous crashes. "We knew the airline had a bad reputation," Koepcke told CNN, "but we desperately wanted to be with my father for Christmas, so we figured it would be alright."
The flight was supposed to last for less than an hour and for the first 25 minutes everything was fine, Koepcke recalled.
"Then we flew into heavy clouds and the plane started shaking. My mother was very nervous. Then to the right we saw a bright flash and the plane went into a nose dive. My mother said, 'This is it!'"
An accident investigation later found that one of the fuel tanks of the Lockheed Electra had been hit by a bolt of lightning which had torn the right wing off.
"We were headed straight down. Christmas presents were flying around the cabin and I could hear people screaming." Video Watch Koepcke tell her dramatic survivor's story ยป
As the plane broke into pieces in midair, Koepcke was thrust out into the open air:
"Suddenly there was this amazing silence. The plane was gone. I must have been unconscious and then came to in midair. I was flying, spinning through the air and I could see the forest spinning beneath me."
Then Koepcke lost consciousness again. She fell more than three kilometers (two miles) into the jungle canopy but miraculously survived with only minor injuries. Ninety-one other people aboard Flight 508 died."
James Dean Safe Driving Public Service Announcement
Thanks, Jim.
Bayer Heroin
Did you know Bayer held the trademark for"Heroin," once promising Doctors (who believed them for a while) that it was a non-addictive alternative to Morphine? You do now.
July 02, 2009
Minorities In Heaven
I bet his parents are really smart, too. Wherever you find this degree of lobotomy, you know there's a cheap beer swilling-brain trust filling the kid's head up with the highest quality rhetoric over the evening meatloaf.
July 01, 2009
A Message
