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Beethoven may have been accidentally poisoned to death – by his own doctor. The composer was given an overdose of lead by his doctor, Andreas Wawruch, a pathologist who examined strands of his hair has claimed. Concentrations of the metal in his body 'spiked' every time he was treated by Dr Wawruch, according to forensic expert Christian Reiter. Those lethal doses of lead – contained in what was supposed to be a 'soothing' cream – fed through to the composer's already diseased liver, ultimately killing him, Mr Reiter said. Historians agree that Ludwig van Beethoven was a sick man in the years before he died, aged 57, in 1827. Doctors only realised the composer suffered from cirrhosis of the liver after a post-mortem examination. But Mr Reiter said that in attempts to ease the composer's suffering, Dr Wawruch repeatedly punctured the abdominal cavity – and then sealed the wound with a lead-laced poultice. The poison would not have been enough to harm a healthy person but were lethal to someone so frail as Beethoven, says the pathologist. 'His death was due to the treatments by Dr Wawruch,' Austrian researcher Mr Reiter told the Beethoven Journal. 'You cannot blame Dr Wawruch – how was he to know that Beethoven already had a serious liver ailment? 'Dr Wawruch did not know his treatment was attacking an already sick liver, killing that organ.' This odd story comes out of Australia. Apparently this artist, Priscilla Bracks is getting flack for her depiction of morphing Osama into Jesus. She's denying trying to offend anyone by saying, "Absolutely not, no, no. I am not interested in being offensive. I am interested in having a discussion and asking questions about how we think about our world and what we accept and what we don't accept," she said.
Bracks told The Daily Telegraph her double portrait was not meant to compare Jesus with bin Laden, but was a commentary on the way the terror leader was treated in the media. Describing him as a "common criminal", Ms Bracks made the bizarre assertion that bin Laden - whose whereabouts are unknown - should be extradited and put on trial. This sparks no debate with me. The painting of Jesus is just that, a painting. There's no known real image of Jesus, unless you wanna count the Shroud of Turin, but that's a whole other story, isn't it? This'll just stir the Christian pot again, won't it? Leona Helmsley from the famed Helmsley Hotels, known as the Queen of Mean, has died and left $12 million dollars to her DOG! That's a lot of kibble......but not only that, when her white Maltese, Trouble, kicks the bucket, she wants the dog buried with her in her mausoleum. She's also left $3 million to have her mausoleum steamed and cleaned at least once a year. Geez, how much does that cost? And how many generations will have to continue to do this job, probably cussing at her each time? Don't you think that money will eventually be absorbed by the cemetary? I remember back in the 80's when she was called out for treating her employees like dirt. And then going to jail for tax evasion. I was a travel agent then, working at an ad agency, where I booked alot of people into hotels in New York. I always tried to avoid her hotels. Oooh, and in her will she snubs two of her grandchildren for "reasons that are know to them". What did they do that was so bad, I really wanna know.....Do you know of anyone who has a nasty will story? And the other two grandchildren got $10 million, but only if they visit their father's grave, once a year. That shouldn't be too hard. Who's gonna make sure they do it. The attorneys? The heads of the trust? I'm still having a hard time fathoming what the heck the dog is gonna spend $12 million on....any clues? A diamond crested dog house? Her own hotel room with room service? A pet jet....? Watching reruns of the Colbert Report today, I saw author Andrew Keen, discussing his book The Cult of the Amateur, How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture. Now I haven't read the book, but I find what he has to say very intriguing. From the NYTIMES article, it points out that Google search results — which answer “search queries not with what is most true or most reliable, but merely what is most popular” — can be manipulated by “Google bombing” (which “involves simply linking a large number of sites to a certain page” to “raise the ranking of any given site in Google’s search results”). It even mentions more of us are relying on sites like Wikipedia with amateurs being the writers versus Encyclopedia Britannica run my educated scholars. Does this mean the world is dumbing down? Also quoting from the article: “What you may not realize is that what is free is actually costing us a fortune,” Mr. Keen writes. “The new winners — Google, YouTube, MySpace, Craigslist, and the hundreds of start-ups hungry for a piece of the Web 2.0 pie — are unlikely to fill the shoes of the industries they are helping to undermine, in terms of products produced, jobs created, revenue generated or benefits conferred. By stealing away our eyeballs, the blogs and wikis are decimating the publishing, music and news-gathering industries that created the original content those Web sites ‘aggregate.’ Our culture is essentially cannibalizing its young, destroying the very sources of the content they crave.” Do you agree with this? Are we going to be in trouble culturally if we don't takle this seriously? Are we just a hungry advertising conglomerate, and it's all about the buck? Corpse Abuse Alleged After Man Found Near Coffin MONESSEN, Pa. -- A Monessen man allegedly broke into a funeral parlor and tampered with a female corpse before getting caught in the act, police said.
Roderick Jones, who police said was convicted of abuse of a corpse in 1999, is facing new charges stemming from the alleged incident on Sixth Street in Monessen last month.
Funeral director Johnny Draper said he left the Draper Funeral Home on July 13 to talk to some friends across the street for about 10 minutes,
When Draper noticed a light on in the basement, he went back inside -- and that's when, according to a police affidavit, he found Roderick Jones lying next to the coffin of a woman whom Draper had been preparing for burial.
According to the affidavit, one of the deceased woman's legs was up in the air, her stockings had been removed and the plastic covering her body had been torn open.
Draper said Jones was lying down near the casket in an attempt to hide, but Draper said he was able to restrain the man until police arrived.
Draper said the funeral home has a top-notch security system in place, and there has never been a break-in before. He also said he believes he made it back into the building before the corpse was abused.
According to police, Jones has a history of burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief, along with the 1999 conviction in an unrelated case in Charleroi.
Jones is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison, charged with abuse of a corpse and burglary, police said. Petrified 12,000 year old walrus penis will be touring the country. Coming to a town near you soon. Being the seeker of anything weird an odd, this story comes right out of a Beverly Hills Auction House....Believe it or not, the buyer was Ripley's, the chain of oddity museums. It was trapped under the Siberian permafrost for more than 12,000 years, and discovered by fossil hunters who at first mistook it as a mammoth tusk. It's gonna be hard to make safe jokes about this one......but let it ensue, and be careful with your wording.
Norm: How will he do that? Chris: Have you ever read the book called "Left Behind?" Norm: No. Chris: You should! They have sold over 20 million copies of the book, because it is the truth! It describes exactly what will happen. One day the Lord Jesus calls his children home, and they are carried straight to heaven! Airplanes crash because their pilots have vanished. Cars run into phone poles. This is exactly what is described in the Bible. Norm: The people completely vanish? Chris: Yes. All that is left behind is their clothes, their jewelry and their hearing aids! The believers are transported directly to heaven! Norm: Their naked bodies are transported to heaven? Chris: Yes! Norm: There are six billion people on the planet. They each weigh about 150 pounds or so. Are you telling me that God lifts a trillion pounds of human flesh off the planet in an instant? Chris: Absolutely not! Only the believers are transported! Norm: OK, half a trillion pounds? Chris: Yes! Norm: And where does this half a trillion pounds of flesh go? Chris: To heaven! Norm: To heaven... where is that? Chris: It is in another dimension, of course! God lives in heaven! Norm: How do all the bodies get to this "other dimension" called "heaven"? Do they float up into the sky and then travel through the vacuum of space? Chris: No, silly! They are dematerialized and then rematerialize in heaven! Norm: So you are saying that half a trillion pounds of naked human flesh are somehow "dematerialized" out of our universe, and then they "rematerialize" in "another dimension" called "heaven?" And the "dematerializing" process somehow distinguishes between natural human flesh and unnatural things like clothing and hearing aids? Chris: Yes! Norm: So... what if the person has artificial heart valves, a couple of stents and two titanium hip joints? Are those ripped out of his body and left behind with his jewelry? Chris: Yes! Norm: And what happens to that poor person, whose heart collapses and whose legs are now flopping around detached from his pelvis? Chris: The book doesn't really talk about that... I imagine God would fix them up! Norm: And what about all the people whose bodies are wracked with cancer and AIDS and emphysema? Chris: God fixes them all up too! Norm: And what about all the decrepit 80-year-old bodies? Chris: God gives them new, young, beautiful bodies! Norm: And what about all the people whose bodies have died and decomposed? Chris: God gives them young, new, beautiful bodies too! Norm: So why bother transporting the bodies of the believers to heaven? Why not just give everyone a new, young, beautiful body and leave their old bodies on earth? Chris: The Bible says that your body is transported to heaven! It is right there in black and white in the "Left Behind" books! That is God's will! Norm: OK, so heaven is full of people whose bodies or corpses or whatever have been "dematerialized" from earth, and then "rematerialized" in "heaven." And then the dematerialized/rematerialized bodies are discarded, and they are replaced with new, young, beautiful bodies? Chris: Yes! Now you understand the power of the Lord Jesus Christ! Norm: What happens next? Chris: The believers all live in heaven in peace, harmony and joy for eternity! Norm: What is heaven like? Chris: We get to reunite with all of our dead friends and family members! We get to meet our ancestors for the first time! Norm: Really? Chris: Absolutely! Norm: What about people like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin? Chris: Everyone is there! You can talk to anyone all through history! Plus you get to meet God and Jesus. I can't wait to meet Jesus! Norm: That sounds like fun. What else? Chris: Well, the streets are paved in gold! It says so in the Bible! And everyone has a big house! And you can eat whatever you want and not get fat! And really, you just do anything that makes you happy! Everyone is always happy! After listening to a conversation like this, it should be obvious to all of us: Heaven is imaginary. It is all completely imaginary. Simply talk to Christians about heaven. Ask them to describe what heaven is like, and how they will get there. You will be able to feel the absurdity of this notion in two different ways:
We imagine that we have "souls," fabricate the concept of "eternal life" and then fantasize a place called "heaven," complete with streets of gold, calorie-free foods, frolicking virgins and whatever else we can come up with. Christians imagine it so vividly and repeat the fantasy so often that they actually believe it to be reality. How bizarre can the fantasies get? Fly to Cairo and take a look at the Great Pyramid. There is the pyramid itself -- still one of the largest man-made objects on earth. In addition there is the whole mummification process, the disassembled boats, the sacred artwork and so on. All of this was designed to help the pharaoh reach the afterlife. We look at it now and we all know, with absolute certainty, that it was a complete and total waste of time. The Egyptian notion of the afterlife was a fantasy. The Christian notion of the afterlife is a fantasy in exactly the same way. Heaven is completely imaginary, just like God. Not only can you walk down the streets of your favorite city (for me, Chicago) with Google Earth, you can now look into the "heavens" through the new Google Sky. Nebula, galaxies, planets, and constellations. OH MY! I got this in an email, and it's pretty darn Funny. It's a 2:45 min. video about Will as a lazy apartment dweller late on his rent. The knock on the door is his landlord Pearl. She's two years old. Here's a follow up link from People.com about how they did this to a two year old. Thank goodness it's the perfect parrot age. They repeat, but they forget just as quick too. When I first moved here, one of the first newsmen I saw was Rusty Shoop....I think he was at KERO 23 at the time, if I'm not mistaken. I started to love watching the news again here in this strange town, after moving here from Chicago, thanks to this man.
I know he's been ill and he's on medical leave, but our family misses him and his style. Hope you're doing better Rusty, our thoughts are with you. Does anyone have an update on how he's doing? I guess Queen Creek, AZ is a conservative town. Kicking a 13 year old outta school for drawing a picture of a gun. This story makes me go, HUH? You best not be drawing any pictures of knives, I guess. Or tanks, or hand grenades...ok I get the point, but this certainly seems extreme for the boy to be made an example. Now all the kids are thinking about guns because someone made a big deal out of it. Normal kids, I hope, don't think about such stuff on a daily basis....thank you America...other kids in other countries (middle East) don't have to worry about guns drawn on a piece of paper, they have to worry about real ones. I think a paper airplane can do more damage than a picture of a gun. The paper airplane "can put your eye out". My littlest pup thinks it's gross when I pat her tootie and say, you have a cute little bootie. She most always says, "you're weird". I tell her she's just a few years away from thinking a boy's butt looks cute. Then she'll add, "EWWWW!". So imagine me finding this article today, about a a new jean store that will be putting in a "Butt Cam", in Phoenix. This is so you can see how darn good your derriere looks in your jeans. Oh, I can't wait till she comes home from school today, just so she can read this one. And again, I'm pretty sure, she'll just say, EWWWWW! That's what nine year old say all the time, right? Along with "you're weird"? Recently, I've gotten into finding all the weird and odd news. Today, I found this story out of Australia. Apparently, the husband and daughter gave the Australian women a camel for her 60th birthday. She was killed by the exotic young camel, when it tried to mount her. A quote from the article, "Camel expert Chris Hill said he had no doubt the camel's behavior was sexual. Now there's only one animal I would be interested getting amorous with and that would be a dolphin.....don't ask me why, I dunno. ~eee eee eeee~ Everyone has good days and bad. Seems I'm having a reflective day, which consists of not really feeling that great, pain wise. And I'm hating the pain meds. I'm thinking I'd rather be in pain, than have the headaches they're giving me.
Surgery on my ankle was a month ago today. I'm already on my second cast. And the doc informed me this week, he's going to put, yet, another cast on in three weeks. I wasn't expecting him to say that. So I'll be able to say I've had every color cast available. That's the nicest thing I can say. The negative things I can say are many. I'm not a good patient. I don't like anyone having to do anything for me. Worse is, having to tell my family what needs to be done. What's important to me, is not important to anyone else. With the exception of my husband, he's been bending over backwards, and tolerating it all....the man needs some kind of special award for tolerating my doodoo. My twelve year old and nine year old were great for the first couple of weeks. (Pretty much like all the other times I've had surgery). Taking care of mommy was fun. Well, its lost its momentum for them. And it's leaving me very frustrated. I'm trying my best to "let it go". That's my mantra. But my house looks like a white trash trailer right now. That's my eyes, I know. It's just me outta control, not being able to do anything. You'd think I'd be able to enjoy the break, but NOOO. Hubby doesn't see the mess like I do, but he does help more than ever *wink*. Typical man, I don't think so? And the kids, well, they just don't give a hoot about a clean home. So, I feel like Hitler, ordering everyone around to help keep the house picked up. And all I see is them rolling their eyes, but still doing it, because they know it'll make me happy. Still they grumble under their breaths. That's the kids. But today they're doing the cleaning, because they are having a High School Musical 2 Party tomorrow. One last shindig before school starts. I've felt like I've ruined their summer because of my disability. School starts MONDAY, YEAH! Hubby took me and my oldest pup to her Jr. High orientation today. I think what annoyed me the most about that was the principal welcoming us, and then redoing the announcements AGAIN in Spanish. I *DO* get it, my child is going to a school where she's one of the minorities now. The school is 87% Hispanic and 14% White and 9% Black. My kids will be able to handle diversity, and that's a good thing. Again, this is just me being frustrated about my situation. I've been like this for three years. Only able to walk a little, then I'd be in major pain. I'd have a surgery, first time was for a break, I was up and around pretty quick, but it never felt better. The second time I needed an ankle fusion. I was down for two months, and back on my feet after, but still unable to walk any longer than just around the block without major pain. This is my, hopefully, last surgery. A revision of the ankle fusion. This has been such a long road. My kids were 6 and 9 when all this started happening. They must tell their friends that their mom is sick all the time, because that's all they can remember. I don't want to be known as the sick mom anymore, dadgummit. Ok, I'd like some wine now.....I'm done whinning. Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to me, to be a small statured leader. But to seem him today half naked on vacation, changes my mind. These shots are from Sibera, and what looks to be beautiful country. Here's the *LINK* to the hot pics of a world leader. I saw this today at Science Daily, and I find it VERY interesting....so I thought I'd share....Did Life Begin In Space? New Evidence From CometsScience Daily — Recent probes inside comets show it is overwhelmingly likely that life began in space, according to a new paper by Cardiff University scientists.  Artist's impression of the Deep Impact comet probe. (Credit: NASA) Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and colleagues at the University's Centre for Astrobiology have long argued the case for panspermia - the theory that life began inside comets and then spread to habitable planets across the galaxy. A recent BBC Horizon documentary traced the development of the theory.
Now the team claims that findings from space probes sent to investigate passing comets reveal how the first organisms could have formed. The 2005 Deep Impact mission to Comet Tempel 1 discovered a mixture of organic and clay particles inside the comet. One theory for the origins of life proposes that clay particles acted as a catalyst, converting simple organic molecules into more complex structures. The 2004 Stardust Mission to Comet Wild 2 found a range of complex hydrocarbon molecules - potential building blocks for life. The Cardiff team suggests that radioactive elements can keep water in liquid form in comet interiors for millions of years, making them potentially ideal "incubators" for early life. They also point out that the billions of comets in our solar system and across the galaxy contain far more clay than the early Earth did. The researchers calculate the odds of life starting on Earth rather than inside a comet at one trillion trillion (10 to the power of 24) to one against. Professor Wickramasinghe said: "The findings of the comet missions, which surprised many, strengthen the argument for panspermia. We now have a mechanism for how it could have happened. All the necessary elements - clay, organic molecules and water - are there. The longer time scale and the greater mass of comets make it overwhelmingly more likely that life began in space than on earth." The new paper, The Origin of Life in Comets, by Professor Wickramasinghe, Professor Bill Napier and Dr Janaki Wickramasinghe is to be published shortly by the International Journal of Astrobiology. Ten Thousand Murdered at God's Command
After Joshua died, the Israelites asked the LORD, "Which tribe should attack the Canaanites first?" The LORD answered, "Judah, for I have given them victory over the land." The leaders of Judah said to their relatives from the tribe of Simeon, "Join with us to fight against the Canaanites living in the territory allotted to us. Then we will help you conquer your territory." So the men of Simeon went with Judah. When the men of Judah attacked, the LORD gave them victory over the Canaanites and Perizzites, and they killed ten thousand enemy warriors at the town of Bezek. While at Bezek they encountered King Adoni-bezek and fought against him, and the Canaanites and Perizzites were defeated. Adoni-bezek escaped, but the Israelites soon captured him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Adoni-bezek said, "I once had seventy kings with thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them." They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there. The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it, killing all its people and setting the city on fire. (Judges 1:1-8 NLT)
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10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt. 8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God. 7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees! 6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky. 5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old. 4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving." 3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity. 2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God. 1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian. .....
Did anyone catch this story today at seatlepi.com? A Catholic priest faces an indecent exposure charge after jogging in the nude about an hour before sunrise. The Rev. Robert Whipkey told officers he had been running naked at a high school track and didn't think anyone would be around at that time of day, a police report said. He told officers he sweats profusely if he wears clothing while jogging. "I know what I did was wrong," he said in the report. Whipkey did not return phone messages. His attorney, Doug Tisdale, told the Daily Times-Call of Longmont that Whipkey had no comment. Whipkey, 53, was arrested around 4:30 a.m. June 22 in this town about 20 miles north of Denver. The Archdiocese of Denver said it takes the incident seriously but is awaiting the outcome of the case. Whipkey remains an active priest. If convicted of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor, he would have to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said.
I say, WHAT? He sweats profusely, well, how about ya just wear some super absorbent cotten shorts, Father? Give me a break, he wanted to feel his dangle free in the breeze.....now, he may end up a registered sex offender, for a MISDEMEANOR. |
