The Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay: one year on the lam so far!
'In the hours after a monkey on the lam fell into a woman's pool and then swiped some fruit from her backyard tree, fans of the wily primate cheered it for avoiding capture. "Go little monkey, go! No cages for you," wrote a guy named Jack on the "Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay" Facebook fan page.' AP 24 March 2010 'The story has all the elements of the classic TV series and movie, "The Fugitive." There's a dogged pursuer, and a clever suspect who refuses to be caught. All it lacks is a one-armed monkey to play the role of...
Irish Catholic Church Sets Up Premium Rate Sex Line for Priests
Well, Holy God. It's not often we hear news that truly gobsmacks us here at Blather High Command, but this week we've seen news that suggests that the Catholic Church is about to exit the dark ages: DUBLIN: The Catholic Church in Ireland said on Thursday that it had opened a Vatican-backed hotline for sexually confused priests, in an effort to address the abuse scandals that have rocked the country over the last few decades. The hotline, which will be staffed by retired nuns, and part-funded by the taxpayer and premium phone charges, aims to help relieve sexually frustrated members...
Evil Blairite British Torture Regime for the Purpose of Beating Human Beings to Death
'The latest documents emerged during the inquiry into Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel worker beaten to death while in the custody of British troops in September 2003. The inquiry is looking into how interrogation techniques banned by the Government in 1972 and considered torture and degrading treatment were used again in Iraq. Lawyers believe the new evidence supports suspicions that an intelligence unit - the Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT) which operated in Iraq - used illegal "coercive techniques" and was not answerable to military commanders in Iraq, despite official denials it operated independently.' '...officers running the operation claimed to...
Have ye ever heard tell of the Hollyhill Poltergeist?
'Twas the night of the nineteenth of March, 2010, when good and evil battled it out in the County Cork, at the site of a dreadful astral haunting, where time and space were bent into an incomprehensible shape so awful yer spine would flee your body out of fear. 'A SHAMAN will perform an exorcism on a council house tonight, amid claims that it is haunted by a poltergeist.The occupants of the house at Hollyhill on Cork's northside have fled, saying it is occupied by an evil spirit that is determined to keep them out.' Ye can read more of...
Nestle: Palm Oil and the Orang-utan – viral video banned!
News just in from Greenpeace in the UK, where a bunch of orang-utans have taken over Nestlé headquarters! Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction. We all deserve to have a break - but having one shouldn't involve taking a bite out of Indonesia's precious rainforests. We're asking Nestlé to give rainforests and orang-utans a break and stop buying palm oil from destroyed forests. The above YouTube video has been pulled - due to a complaint by Nestlé. Oops, are they...
Whining Bishop with No Right to Complain Attempts to Pass the Buck
Ah, the 'everyone else was doing it' excuse, the latest in a long line of self-pitying proclamations from the Catholic Church since they were caught red-cocked covering up systemic child rape in Ireland: 'CATHOLIC BISHOP of Elphin Christopher Jones has accused the media of being "unfair and unjust" to the Catholic Church through a concentration on the handling by church authorities of the clerical child sex-abuse issue."Could I just say with all this emphasis on cover-up, the cover-up has gone on for centuries, not just in the church... It's going on today in families, in communities, in societies. Why are...
The Power of LIES
'Seven in 10 Americans believe that Iran currently has nuclear weapons, according to a new national poll' says CNN. This despite denials about the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is safeguarding all of Iran's nuclear material. This also despite all of the United States' intelligence agencies consistently saying that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons programme (pdf). Yes, it has been only politicians and their media who say Iran has a nuclear weapons programme. Iraqi WMD all over again, and the majority are falling for it. But now the IAEA...
Moving Statues: Asdee, Co. Kerry, Ireland, 1985
Another moving statues video to add to the collection.
Obama-sponsored Nuclear Holocaust is One Step Nearer
Reuters: 'Russia said on Friday it would deploy Iskander tactical missiles in its Kaliningrad exclave if it felt there was a direct European threat to Moscow...Poland's decision to deploy on its soil U.S. Patriot interceptor missiles as part of an anti-missile system in Europe has again alarmed Moscow. Warsaw said last month it would station the Patriot missile battery in the northern city of Morag, near Kaliningrad.' Read the full story. Note the absurdity: 'Warsaw's decision'. Yeah, right. These are U.S. missiles. The Poles may have announced it but it's the U.S. that wants to place missiles 35 miles from...