This is the true cost of War
"An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children who will never be born."
"Do we scream in the night when it touches our dreams? No, We don't dream about it because we don't think about it; we don't think about it because we don't care about it."
Dalton Trumbo
Los Angeles
January 3, 1970
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Firefighters who say they were ordered to ride in last year's gay pride parade, despite their moral and religious objections, are threatening to sue the city unless officials stop forcing municipal employees to march in the parade.
"The fact that they are not supporters of gay rights doesn't mean that they're not going to put out a fire at a gay person's home,"
BERLIN (Reuters) - Race medics at the Berlin marathon saved the life of a collapsed heroin addict when they mistook him for a competitor. "He smelled of alcohol, but he was wearing running shoes. We thought he was a runner. The Berlin marathon probably saved his life." |
A horror of birds and beans
. . . There is one thing that fills him with dread, and causes him to retch and shake uncontrollably. Baked beans.
Mawdesley, 40, has never eaten baked beans, and says that he would have to be offered more than £10,000 just to consider consuming one. Cold beans in a can, hot beans on toast - they all send him over the edge. Just seeing a picture of them makes him feel sick, and he is not a fan of charitable individuals who bathe in them.
He avoids supermarket aisles that might be piled with tins of them, and has a particular loathing of the Heinz brand - "I think it's the colour of the can".
New law passed to block concert suicide
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) -- The hard-rock band Hell on Earth had said that a suicide by a terminally ill person would take place during a concert Saturday to raise awareness of right-to-die issues.
In response, the city council met Monday morning to unanimously approve an emergency ordinance making it illegal to conduct a suicide for commercial or entertainment purposes . . .
Band leader Billy Tourtelot has vowed that the concert and suicide will still take place at an undisclosed location in the city, broadcast live on the band's Web site ( http://www.hellonearth.net/ .)
Six record labels including Sony, BMG and Virgin said Sarah Ward was sharing 2,000 songs through the KaZaA P2P network exposing her, at $150,000 per offense, to $300,000,000 in penalties. But not only had she never downloaded a song, but as a a Macintosh user, she couldn't even run the KaZaA software, which only runs on Windows.
"We reserve the right to refile the complaint against Mrs. Ward if and when circumstances warrant,"
| Inventor comes up with banana lunchbox |
A German man has invented a special lunch box for bananas.
Detlef Kruse says he came up with the idea to protect his lunch time snack.
"I'd take a banana in to work each day, and eventually, you get angry because they end up all brown and mushed up."
Recent Comments