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I was watching this program and the commentator said "The driver was driving like a valve."

Sorry I lost him! May be a new bit of jargon which I don;t understand. Help please!


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Pope And Israel

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Bethlehem – Ma’an – Despite the diplomatic immunity that Pope Benedict XVI enjoys throughout the world, Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport security officials insisted on inspecting all the pontiff’s luggage when he left the Holy Land last Friday, according to the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv.

According to Ma’ariv’s report, which appeared on Tuesday, the pope’s attendants were asked to put all the gifts he received during his weeklong visit through an X-ray machine. The aides were also questioned at the airport.

Ma’ariv said the pope’s entourage at first refused the search, causing an argument that threatened to snowball into a diplomatic crisis. But after long discussions and the intervention of high-level officials, the pope’s attendants agreed to have their luggage checked in the X-ray machine.

Security officers noticed the pope’s personal physician carrying a bag with a cooler, and after inspection they found it contained four containers of blood of the pope’s blood type kept in case of emergency.

"We are responsible for the safety of millions of passengers who use the airport every year, and we receive official directives on how to do our job," Israeli airport authorities commented on the incident.

This shows how the Israel treat everyone, EQUAL, init?

http://www.uruknet.de:80/?s1=1&p=54429&s2=21


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Soldiers Tale

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“I came over here because I wanted to kill people…I mean, I thought killing somebody would be this life-changing experience. And then I did it…I mean, you kill somebody and it's like 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'…I just want to go home alive. I don't give a [expletive] about the whole Iraq thing. I don't care….See, this war is different from all the ones that our fathers and grandfathers fought. Those wars were for something. This war is for nothing."

Bad apple?

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/140155/disturbing_account_of_wanton_rape_and_murder_in_iraq_emerges_from_trial_of_u.s._vet/?page=entire



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Perfection Comes At A Cost The Boffins Say

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I am poor dull and take it as it comes. One of the top optimists in and around me. If I go to the station and find the last train is already gone, I think it might me late and hang around the empty platform for hours. I thought I was a lost case in humanity. And I read this:

Perfectionists — that is, those who expressed "a strong motivation to be perfect" and revealed a tendency toward "all or nothing thinking" — were approximately 51 percent more likely to have died during the life of the study than those with more reasonable self-expectations. Those who were rated high on neuroticism — for instance, those who reported often feeling tense — did even worse: Their risk of death nearly doubled compared with those with a more relaxed disposition.

In contrast, "risk of death was significantly lower for high scorers in conscientiousness, extraversion and optimism," reports lead author Prem S. Fry, a research psychologist at British Columbia's Trinity Western University. She notes that previous research has found that "perfectionism exerts a great deal of stress on health," while optimism "is viewed as a stress-alleviating factor."

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/140159/do_perfectionists_face_early_deaths_new_study_suggests_yes/?comments=view&cID=1218605&pID=1218599#c1218605




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Gurkhas Of UK

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I heard this morning that the UK gov has overturned the decision about the Gurkhas to live in UK. I cried with tears running down my cheeks without feeling ashamed as a man. "Boys Don't Cry" a stupid person said and I don't believe in that. I cry for anything which moves me and I am happy that I am human with emotions. Does it mean I am not English with the famous 'stiff upper lip', I wonder. Who the hell cares?

During the training the Gurkhas were told that they have to jump out of a plane at 20,000 feet. They talked amongst themselves and a spokesman came up with an argument that, they will not mind jumping at 10,000 feet instead of 20,000; until he heard that they all going to jump with parachutes.


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Just for example, on June 27, 1941, a colonel in the staff of the Germany's Northern Army Group in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas passed a petrol station surrounded by a crowd of people. There were shouts of bravo and clapping, mothers raised their children to give them a better view. The officer stepped closer and later wrote down what he had seen. "On the concrete courtyard there was blonde man aged around 25, of medium height, who was taking a rest and supporting himself on a wooden club which was as thick as an arm and went up to his chest. At his feet lay 15, 20 people who were dead or dying. Water poured from a hose and washed the blood into a drain."

The soldier continued: "Just a few paces behind this man stood around 20 men who -- guarded by several armed civilians -- awaited their gruesome execution in silent submission. Beckoned with a curt wave, the next one stepped up silently and was (…) beaten to death with the wooden club, and every blow met with enthusiastic cheers from the audience."

Orgy of Murder Like a Lithuanian National Ceremony

When all lay dead on the ground, the blonde murderer climbed on the heap of corpses and played the accordion. His audience sang the Lithuanian anthem as if the orgy of murder had been a national ceremony.

How could something like that happen?

I have dreams like this. And I am not blond. Was it real I wonder?

From: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,625824,00.html#ref=nlint



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Members Of Parliament

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I am very interested in the tough time the MPs, the law makers of this fine country is having. Don't you?

I was in the shop taking money from the customers who were flocking in to get their groceries. Was happy for the shop but I was bored out of my wits. There was excitement in the air for some as the elections were due. M Thatcher time. I was not interested in politics at that time as I was not even old enough to vote. This big important looking man with a few others walked in to the shop and walked straight through without shopping. Ahhhh I thought bloody boozers with money in their pockets. The big man stopped and introduced him as Waldergrave and I thought who the fuck? He said he is standing for the parliament in our area. And asked me, "So, What do you think about the MPs and the parliament?"

I said, "Yeah I let the children play." And turned to the next in line.

He walked out puzzled and lost, but I did see a bit of a narky smile on one of the minders.


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TV Seriously

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There I was watching this serious program about climate change and the bloody commercials came on. I wanted to take a leak anyway and I went to the loo. Poured myself a glass of wine and checked the phone for the texts, replied one and then the program started. Frigging heck, I cannot remember where we left off before the commercials.

Another time I was watching this Mcdonald TV (as My mate says) and there were no commercials and I wanted to go for a pee and I had to cross my bloody legs. Damn what the hell can I do?

I know a perfect solution. All serious programs should be shown in channels without the bloody commercials, everone goes to the loo before it starts etc etc and all Mc donald TV in the channels with commercials and you don't worry. Every ones happy. Will you?


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Can You See The Irony

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Pakistan: 751 militants killed, 29 troops martyred in operation: ISPR:

Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj. General Athar Abbas Tuesday said

Funny init? The militants are saying 29 government troops killed and 751 soldiers matyred. I likes it.

From: http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=214793

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I bin Thinking

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I think the Brown's man got exposed for those emails because he was trying to bully the daily telegraph for the exposure of MP's expenses.


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Whisling Who?

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An orangutan in Heidelberg Zoo has attracted attention after teaching himself to whistle. Now the 14-year-old ape has recorded his first CD.

Although somewhat underrated as a musical technique, a spot of whistling can often add a certain something to a song. Who can forget Otis Redding's poignant whistling on the soul classic "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" or the haunting whistle refrain on the fall-of-the-Wall rock anthem "Wind of Change" by Germany's Scorpions?

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Outsourcing

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Barack Obama's planned trip to Germany in June is not going to be an official state visit. German diplomatic sources told SPIEGEL ONLINE that the US president is planning a private trip in which he will go on a personal search to places of importance for his family history.

It looks like Merkal is going to lose the elections in June? You will see what I mean here>
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,623130,00.html#ref=nlint


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Wish I Knew

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An ex­plo­sion in space de­tected April 23 marks the most dis­tant, longest-a­go event and ob­ject known, as­tro­no­mers say.

Ob­jects seen fur­ther away in space al­so ap­pear as fur­ther back in time, since it takes time for their light to get he­re.

The new­found burst, des­ig­nat­ed GRB 090423, was de­tected by the Swift sat­el­lite, an in­stru­ment of NASA and two col­la­bo­rat­ing or­gan­iz­a­tions. The 10-sec­ond burst was seen in the di­rec­tion of the con­stel­la­tion Le­o, or the Li­on.

Con­stel­la­tion Le­o is some stars as seen by the eye looks like a Lion. I have looked at it and it is very difficult to see a lion there unless someone draws it and still it is not complete, compared to Orion the soldier, with a belt and a baynet attached to it. Ha Ha. The stars are from about 36 light years to 5,722 light-years away, according to yahoo answers.

So now we have another object which is 15 billion years away. Wow!

The light waves from the burst are es­ti­mat­ed to have been stretched to 8.2 times their orig­i­nal length, a fac­tor that es­tab­lishes this as “most re­mote gamma-ray burst ev­er de­tected, and al­so the most dis­tant ob­ject ev­er dis­cov­ered—by some way.”

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090428_grb

This happened according to the article about 13 billion years ago. So it takes that amount of time to reach Earth. Can this make some thing happen to the Earth or the atmosphere today as it hits us?






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Swine Flu HINI

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Your Fear Will Make Some People VERY Rich in Today's Crumbling Economy

Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) is approved for treatment of uncomplicated influenza A and B in children 1 year of age or older. It is also approved for prevention of influenza in people 13 years or older. It’s part of a group of anti-influenza drugs called neuraminidase inhibitors, which work by blocking a viral enzyme that helps the influenza virus to invade cells in your respiratory tract.

According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future10 -- and that's without a pandemic outbreak.

More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.
Swine flue is extremely convenient for governments that would have very soon have to dispose of billions of dollars of Tamiflu stock, which they bought to counter avian flu, or H5N1. The US government ordered 20 million doses, costing $2 billion, in October, 2005, and around that time the UK government ordered 14.6 million doses. Tamiflu’s manufacturer, Roche, has confirmed that the shelf life of its anti-viral is three years.

As soon as Homeland Security declared a health emergency, 25 percent -- about 12 million doses -- of Tamiflu and Relenza treatment courses were released from the nation's stockpile. However, beware that the declaration also allows unapproved tests and drugs to be administered to children. Many health- and government officials are more than willing to take that chance with your life, and the life of your child. But are you?

http://articles.mercola.com:80/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx

Czech newspapers are questioning whether the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus -- distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter -- were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.

Because of laboratory protocols that are routine for vaccine makers, mixing a live virus biological weapon with vaccine material by accident is virtually impossible.

Baxter flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1 (the human form of avian flu) were received by labs in the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovenia. Initially, Baxter refused to reveal how the vaccines were contaminated with H5N1, invoking “trade secrets.” After increased pressure, they then claimed that pure H5N1 batches were sent by accident.

But in the Czech Republic, reporters are investigating whether the contamination was part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic.

From: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/03/26/Were-Tainted-Vaccines-a-Conspiracy-to-Provoke-a-Pandemic.aspx

In an experiment designed to mimic events that could launch an influenza pandemic, a synthetic influenza virus made by combining an H5N1 avian flu virus with a human flu virus turned out to be no more contagious in an animal model than the natural H5N1 virus, US scientists are reporting this week.

Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made two hybrid viruses and infected ferrets with them, according to a report to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The viruses failed to spread from infected ferrets to healthy ones in neighboring cages.

"We found that they [the viruses] were not able to transmit efficiently," said CDC researcher Dr. Jackie Katz, speaking at a Jul 28 teleconference. "In fact, they were also not as able to cause severe disease as the original H5N1 virus."

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jul3106reassort.html

US says not testing travelers from Mexico for flu 26 Apr 2009 17:19:55 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - The United States is not testing airplane travelers from Mexico for the swine flu virus that has heightened fears of a possible pandemic, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday.

"Right now we don't think the facts warrant more active testing or screening of passengers coming in from Mexico," she said at a White House briefing.

(Editing by Patricia Zengerle)

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