dingus5 cited for high moral thought
"Well, I'm done with my paper and I have placed you in the fifth stage of moral reasoning based on what my psych book says. Your responses were the hardest to place but the stage is called social contract orientation. People at this level imagine alternatives to their social order. This is usually because it sucks." -Nut_Buster
| Four-year-old in court for fraud |
A court in Bangladesh has granted bail to a four-year-old boy who appeared before it on a fraud charge.
It's believed that Abu Zafar Al Nasib is the youngest person to have come before the courts in Bangladesh.
The New Age newspaper says the boy sat on his father's lap at the magistrates court in Bogra during his appeal for bail.
Nasib was granted bail in exchange of his thumb impression on the bail paper.
Nasib is one of a group of eight people accused of fraud in a land related case.
BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID
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By Emma Pryer | |
GEORGE W Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims. His wife Laura also allegedly tried cannabis in her youth. Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s. She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either." Other acquaintances allege that as a 26-year-old National Guard, Bush "liked to sneak out back for a joint or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine". Bush has admitted being an alcoholic but, asked during the 1999 election if he did drugs, he said: "I've told the American people that years ago I made some mistakes." Kelley says that the Bush family covered up scandals because of their wealth and influence. She claims George W started drinking at school and continued at Yale university to overcome shyness. Former student Torbery George says in the book: "Poor Georgie. He couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded." Another says: "He went out of his way to act crude. It's amazing someone you held in such low esteem later became president." |
By Geeta Pandey
BBC correspondent in Delhi
Angry eunuchs in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are protesting against a state-run insurance company which they allege has refused to issue an insurance policy to a eunuch.
A spokesman for the Life Insurance Corporation at their headquarters in Bombay has denied that eunuchs will not be sold insurance. But a senior official who requested anonymity told the BBC that, according to the company rules, only men or women can apply for insurance. He said that, going strictly by the rules, applications from eunuchs are normally rejected.
There are estimated to be about 500,000 eunuchs, hermaphrodites and transvestites in India.
It needn't be a Eurocentric world
Australian Stuart McArthur drew his first upside-
down map in 1970. Why? Well, why should Europe be
at the top anyway? His teacher told him to re-do
his assignment if he wanted to pass. 40 odd years
later and he's sold 350,000 copies of the buggers.
Iraq extends ban on Al-Jazeera network
05 September 2004 10:45
The Iraqi government has extended a ban on the Arab television station, Al-Jazeera.
In a statement, the Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, said Al-Jazeera had not complied with a temporary order issued last month which prohibited the station from broadcasting on grounds that it incited racial hatred.
Mr Allawi said the station had continued to broadcast from within Iraq despite the closure order.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - In the latest sign of relaxing sexual mores in China, the prospect of orgasms and better sex has led scores of Chinese women to sign up for tests of "female Viagra" at a Beijing hospital.
"More than 200 female volunteers had registered by the end of August to act as guinea pigs for clinical testing by the Beijing. University No. 1 Hospital," Xinhua news agency said.
"Organisers realise that more independent and outspoken Chinese women are paying attention to the quality of their sex life, a long-time taboo in Chinese society."
"Most are middle-aged career women."
A survey conducted a decade ago concluded that 50 percent of Chinese women did not achieve orgasm during sex.
| Dog has ears insured for £30,000 |
A German basset hound with the longest dog ears in the world, has had them insured for £30,000.
Jack, owned by Carsten Baus, has ears that measure a total of 13.07 inches.
Baus said Jack soon became the talk of their small town, but not all responses were favourable.
"All of a sudden taking him for walkies was like walking the gauntlet," said Baus. "People scolded us and accused us of cruelty to animals, when Jack's ears are really just a freak of nature."
Alaska Supreme Court Restricts Marijuana Search Warrants 9/3/04
It's getting tougher and tougher for cops in Alaska to bust people for pot. Since the state Court of Appeals last year reaffirmed a 1975 Supreme Court ruling legalizing the possession of marijuana for personal use in one's own home, police have been unable to arrest people for possession of less than four ounces in their homes. Now, an August 27 Court of Appeals ruling holds that police cannot seek or execute a search warrant for a person's home for marijuana unless there is reason to believe there are more than four ounces of it.
The ruling came in the case of Leo Richardson Crocker Jr., who was charged with "controlled substance misconduct" after police searched his home and found marijuana and grow equipment. A lower court ruled the search warrant should never have been issued because there was no evidence Crocker possessed more than four ounces of marijuana, and the Court of Appeals last week upheld that ruling.
The Court of Appeals decision in State v. Crocker is available at http://touchngo.com/ap/html/ap-1949.htm online.
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On November 2, 2004, Alaska voters will decide whether to regulate marijuana or keep it in the criminal market. Specifically, the initiative has the following three provisions:
http://www.regulatemarijuanainalaska.org/home/
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