Georgia House Outlaws Genital Piercing For Women
Associated Press
ATLANTA -- Genital piercings for women were banned by the Georgia House as lawmakers considered a bill outlining punishments for female genital mutilation.
Amendment sponsor Rep. Bill Heath, R-Bremen, was slack-jawed when told after the vote that some adults seek the piercings.
"What? I've never seen such a thing," Heath said. "I, uh, I wouldn't approve of anyone doing it. I don't think that's an appropriate thing to be doing."
The ban applies only to women, not men.
China proud of mobile death wagons Die Zeit Leather seats, stereo system, even a small refrigerator - by Chinese standards the bus made by the Japanese automaker Toyota is equipped with near luxuries. Nevertheless, almost no one has voluntarily gone into the rear cab of this new vehicle, because anybody who rests on the couch doesn't get out alive. The bus is the latest achievement of the Chinese criminal justice system: a mobile execution chamber. From the outside, the execution Toyota differs in no way from an ordinary police wagon. Inside there are comfortable seats for the public prosecutor and judge, who can monitor events in the rear half of the vehicle on a modern flatscreen display, separated by a soundproof wall." Article in German.
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174 YEARS AGO TODAY
Mar 26 1830
Joseph Smith publishes The Book of Mormon, after translating it from golden plates turned over by the angel Moroni. This divine scripture was the account of the lost tribe of Israel, which had sailed from Canaan across the seas to North America around 2250 B.C.
These transplanted Hebrews established a vast civilization and were even visited by Jesus, who established a ministry there.
Moroni was the last of the valiant Nephite prophets and eyewitness to their total destruction. He wandered across the Americas, keeping the records safe while hiding from the Lamanites. He finished the sacred history, adding his heartfelt final farewell. The Book of Mormon tells how he hid the golden plates in the earth at Hill Cumorah. They remained safe until Moroni, as a heavenly messenger, returned in 1827 and delivered the sacred records to the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Smith maintained that the text contained in the tablets were written in "Reformed Egyptian" which he read by means of two magic stones from the Old Testament, the Urim and Thummim.
After the book was translated, the angel came and repossessed the gold plates.
ASHINGTON, March 25 — Laughter filled the room Wednesday night at the annual dinner for radio and television correspondents when President Bush displayed a photograph showing him down on his hands and knees looking under furniture in his office and saying, "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!"
Ukrainian Defence Minister Yevhen Marchuk has said that several hundred of his country's missiles are unaccounted for.
The weapons were supposed to have been decommissioned in the years that followed the break-up of the USSR.
But it is now being claimed that there is no record of them being destroyed.
"Unfortunately strange things happen," Mr Marchuk said
| Nuns on the run |
Six nuns have gone on the run after they were unable to pay escalating bills at the convent they ran in Romania.
A police spokesman said: "The priest has asked us to trace the women and we agreed to, but they have vanished without trace.
"Most of the debt is to the local electricity company, as well as a construction firm that did some work on the convent and a supplier of religious symbols. They could face fraud charges if caught."
Dog Burnings In Arvada, Jefferson County Investigated
Story by thedenverchannel.com
ARVADA, Colo. -- Somebody is going around setting puppies on fire.
A worker at the Bally's Health Club smelled something burning. At the back of the gym he spotted a small dog on fire in the stairwell.
The dog had its legs bound and a fire accelerant had been poured on it.
| Artist wants to be fed to piranhas |
Karl Friedrich Lentze, 56, has written to the country's zoos to ask if they would feed his body to the piranhas once he's dead.
Zoo director Günther Nogge said: "It's a great idea. But if you want to carry it out for educational purposes then it would be better if you were fed to the piranhas alive, they're not as keen on dead flesh and prefer their food live."
Lentze said: "They could always poke my body with sticks to get me moving and get the fish interested."
| Enrique Iglesias says he may have world's smallest penis |
Enrique Iglesias says he may have the smallest penis in the world.
His confession came as the 28-year-old was asked if he would go naked on an album cover, says The Sun.
He said: "Maybe I've not got the biggest penis in the world. Maybe if you had the biggest penis in the world, you would sell records. But I don't. I could actually have the smallest penis in the world out there."
The star is engaged to tennis player Anna Kournikova.
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