The funny news of the day!

[Pujah.]

This kind of news makes me go like :rolleyes: :mad:

 

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Blair Won't 'Give One Inch' to Terrorists

 

LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed Tuesday not to "give one inch" on British policies in Iraq or the Middle East, and said his government is determined to toughen laws against terrorists and their supporters in the wake of attacks on London's transit system.

 

Police investigating last week's failed bombings seized a car in north London and said they were examining suspicious material from an apartment linked to two suspects - an Eritrean-born Briton and a Somali who both have lived in Britain since childhood.

 

Opposition politicians backed the government on fighting terrorism, but warned that civil liberties could be eroded by one of the anti-terrorism powers sought by police: the right to hold suspects for three months without charge.

 

In his monthly news conference, Blair lashed out at critics who say Britain's participation in the U.S.-led war in Iraq has made the country more of a target. Polls suggest a majority of Britons share that view, overwhelmingly so among Muslim residents.

 

Blair said that while terrorist groups use the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to recruit and motivate followers, "I think most people understand that the roots of this go much deeper."

 

"Let us expose the obscenity of these people saying it is concern for Iraq that drives them to terrorism," Blair told reporters. "If it is concern for Iraq, then why are they driving a car bomb into the middle of a group of children (in Iraq) and killing them?

 

"Whatever excuse or justification these people use, I do not believe we should give one inch to them, not in this country and the way we live our lives here; not in Iraq; not in Afghanistan; not in our support for two states, Israel and Palestine; not in our support for the alliances we choose, including with America."

 

Blair met with Conservative Party leader Michael Howard and Liberal Democrat chief Charles Kennedy to discuss legislation aimed at preventing a repeat of July 7 bombings in London that killed 52 people and four suspected suicide bombers. Four similar bombings failed on July 21.

 

Blair said having consensus on the legislation will send "an important message to the terrorists of our strength, our determination and our unity to defeat them."

 

Among proposals the government plans to put before Parliament in the fall is to outlaw "indirect incitement" of terrorism, including praising those who carry out attacks. That is aimed at extremist clerics accused of radicalizing disaffected Muslim youth in Britain.

 

The law also would make it illegal to receive training in terrorist techniques in Britain or abroad, plan an attack, or engage in such activities as obtaining bomb-making instructions on the Internet.

 

The opposition is broadly supportive but has qualms about the request from police to extend the period that terrorist suspects may be held without charge from 14 days to three months.

 

"That is a long time to hold someone without charge, and possibly just release them after that," Howard said.

 

Blair said his "basic posture on this is to support the police and security services unless there are good reasons not to, and there may be."

 

But he also said the threat from al-Qaida and other extremists is different from that posed in the past by groups like the Irish Republican Army, which waged a campaign of bombings and shootings in Britain for decades.

 

The transit bombers would have preferred to leave 550 people dead instead of 52, Blair said. "In America, it could have been 30,000 instead of 3,000, and they would prefer that. My entire thinking changed from Sept. 11 ... you have a different form of terrorism."

 

Police released the names of two of the four suspects in the failed July 21 bombings, and the government said the pair were immigrants who moved to Britain as children of refugees.

 

Armed officers raided an apartment Monday in north London where one of the two was a registered tenant, according to the local authority, and police said the flat was "associated with" the second suspect. A police spokeswoman said unspecified material found in the home Tuesday was being examined.

 

Officers also seized a white VW Golf in the general area of the apartment in connection with the investigation, the spokeswoman said. No explosives were found but the car was impounded for further examination, she said.

 

The Home Office said one of the identified suspects, Yasin Hassan Omar, a 24-year-old Somali, arrived in Britain in 1992 at age 11. He is suspected of attempting to blow up a subway train near Warren Street station.

 

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said and suspected of trying to bomb a bus, is a naturalized British citizen from Eritrea. He was granted residency at age 14 in 1992 and citizenship last year.

 

Said's relatives issued a statement saying he moved out of the family's northwest London home in 1994 and had rarely visited.

 

"We were shocked when we saw Muktar's picture in the national news," the family said. "We immediately attended the police station and made statements to the police. We would suggest that anyone with information contacts the police."

 

A neighbor described Said as a devout Muslim who once gave her a pamphlet on Islam.

 

"He asked me if I was Christian or a Catholic because my family come from Ireland," said Sarah Scott, 23. "I said I was neither, that I was atheist. He said I should (believe in God) and that he was going to get me some information."

 

"He talked about evil spirits. He said there were a lot of evil spirits around because everyone was evil around here," Scott added.

 

Here is the source

[FatB]

Woman Accused Of Groping Airport Screener

A 62-year-old woman who was upset about being searched at an airport shoved a security screener and then grabbed her breasts.

 

Noisy School Kids Have Mouths Taped

Australian educational authorities are investigating claims that noisy school children had had their mouths taped shut to keep them quiet.

[STOIC]

Bomber duo lived on UK welfare

Bruce Wilson

London

27jul05

 

LONDON police yesterday identified two of last Thursday's failed bombers, who were living on welfare, and the flat they used to make the bombs.In a day of fast-breaking developments, Scotland Yard also released details of a plastic food container found in the flat that could be a vital clue.

They believe the explosives were mixed and carried by the bombers in similar containers, a brand sold in only about 100 outlets across Britain.

 

The two bombers were identified as Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, from the war-torn Horn of Africa nation of Somalia; and Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, thought to be from the troubled northeast African nation of Eritrea.

 

As polls show growing public concern about Britain's Muslim community, the fact that Omar has been paid almost $60,000 in state benefits over six years is likely to cause more outrage.

 

He appears to have been living free in the one-bedroom flat in the northern suburb of Southgate after receiving political asylum.

 

The bombs were believed to have been assembled there.

 

Muktar, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, moved in with him two years ago.

 

A neighbour, Sammy Jones, 33, said she saw the two men carrying unmarked boxes into the ninth-floor flat and asked them what they were.

 

Ms Jones said they claimed it was wallpaper stripper.

 

Other neighbours said the two had recently been joined by a third man, and the three used to kick a football about in a nearby park.

 

Omar had recently begun wearing Muslim robes.

 

Police are now convinced there were five bombers, after deciding a fifth ditched a bomb near Wormwood Scrubs jail in west London.

 

They have not identified the other three.

 

Five people have been arrested in connection with the two bombing attacks on London on July 7 and 21, but none was directly involved, police said.

 

Muktar's father, believed to have been in London for 10 years, was also being quizzed.

 

Police allege Muktar was the bomber whose device failed to explode in a No. 26 bus in Hackney, East London, while Omar had tried to blow up an Underground train between Oxford Circus and Warren St, central London.

 

The news is likely to provoke calls for a thorough investigation into Britain's generous political asylum policies.

 

It is likely all bombers in the second attacks were admitted to Britain as asylum-seekers.

 

The killers in the July 7 attacks were either of British or British-Pakistani origin and British citizens.

 

Intelligence sources said yesterday it was likely all the second bombers had connections with Somalia or northeast Africa.

 

Police raided the flat in Southgate in the early hours of Monday, sealing off three floors of the building.

 

It was then, according to sources, they found the clear plastic food container with a white lid that could be an important lead.

 

Police remain puzzled as to why nobody has come forward with information on the four suspects whose pictures have now been all over the media since last Friday.

 

They believe the four certainly have gone to ground and are being protected, which means the cell may be well organised and extensive.

 

Police last night made a new and urgent plea for public help after saying no sightings of the bombers had been reported since witnesses saw them fleeing on Thursday.

 

An inquest opened yesterday on the innocent Brazilian bystander Jean Charles de Menezes, the young electrician killed by police on Friday at Stockwell station, the bombers' jumping-off point.

 

That coincidence was seen as a possible reason the police squad that killed Mr Menezes, 27, was apparently on a state of high alert or, as one source put it, jumpy.

 

The inquest was told Mr Menezes was shot eight times, rather than the five that had previously been reported, once in the shoulder and seven times in the head. The hearing was opened and adjourned.

 

Prime Minister Tony Blair expressed sympathy and regrets over the death.

 

Britain has promised to deal "sympathetically and quickly" with a claim for compensation from the family.

 

"We are desperately sorry for the death of an innocent person and I understand entirely the feelings of the young man's family," Mr Blair said.

 

Bomber Lived on UK welfare!

[Kashafa]

She's worth 40 goats and 20 cows

Throw in a camel or two...It's a wrap ! Click it here

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Kenyan says he offered

Bill Clinton 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago -- and is still waiting for an answer.

 

Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor told the East Africa Standard newspaper last week that he wrote to Clinton asking for Chelsea's hand in 2000 during the then-president's visit to Kenya.

 

Chepkurgor, a 36-year-old elected city councilor in Nakuru, recounted writing to the U.S president through the Kenyan government.

 

He described his plans for a grand wedding presided over by South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He named then-President Daniel arap Moi and the president of his university as references.

 

"Had I succeeded in wooing Chelsea, I would have had a grand wedding," he told the Standard in an interview published Friday during Clinton's recent visit to Kenya.

 

Chepkurgor said his letter praised Clinton's leadership and commended his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, for standing by her husband "like an African woman" in the face of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

 

The electrical engineering graduate said he promised to pay his would-be father-in-law 20 cows and 40 goats in dowry for his only daughter in accordance with African tradition.

 

But he said the letter prompted security checks -- on him, his family and his classmates, and he was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Nairobi for a meeting that he missed because of his graduation from university.

 

A National Security Intelligence Service officer told the Standard the letter probably never made it out of the office.

 

"We gathered that this man was a teetotaler and a staunch Christian who seemed to have been struck by Chelsea, and I thought maybe he just took the joke too far," he said.

 

Chepkurgor vowed to remain single until he gets an answer to his proposal to marry Chelsea, 25.

[Warrior of Light]

^^^^ That really made my day.

 

Came across disturbing news but couldnt help laughin out loud.

 

Woman hits alleged rapist where it hurts

story

[Jacpher]

A would-be rapist sustained injuries to his penis after his victim bit him.

Ooch! No doubt he deserves but it hurts. Can you believe the whole village calling her Naagtii ninka goosatay! What a name.

 

This woman should open up a school and teach women self-defence course.

[Pujah]

Texas Man Aims to Visit Every Starbucks

 

By CHUCK BROWN

The Associated Press

Monday, August 8, 2005; 6:26 PM

 

OMAHA, Nebraska -- Documenting a caffeine-powered quest to visit every Starbucks in the world has become the mission of a Nebraska attorney.

 

Bill Tangeman, 32, of Kearney, who was a journalist before going into law, is making a documentary film about a Houston native who goes by the name Winter, who set out in 1997 to get a caffeinated drink at every corporate-owned Starbucks store on the planet.

This is what I call THE MISSION

[Legend of Zu]

PORN CAN MAKE U BLIND..!!!!

 

check the link

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16278979-13762,00.html

 

 

Cheers

[rudy-Diiriye]

funny thing is that i got an msn message invitation to do a webcam chat from xalimoos that i never knew...

 

next, was just a plain horror!!! showing her body parts!..loool.. plz! stick to basics.. like xishoood and stuff like that... we aint gaalo!!

:confused: :confused: it aint worth it!! believe me!

[STOIC]

Folklore or fact? Cup of java adds jolt to sex life

By HELENA OLIVIERO

Cox News Service

Friday, August 19, 2005

ATLANTA — Coffee — that black caffeine in a cup. Better than sex?

 

For many coffee drinkers, the brew beats the bedroom, with 42 percent of those in a recent survey reporting that coffee is more or equally important in any given week as sex.

 

The survey, commissioned by Dunkin' Donuts, also found that coffee drinkers reported more robust romance, with two-thirds of respondents saying they had sex once a week or more. Only 58 percent of non-coffee drinkers reported as much action, according to the survey, with more than 1,200 respondents.

 

After water, coffee is the world's most popular beverage, with more than 400 billion cups consumed annually. According to legend, the drink got its start in Ethiopia, when a goatherd tried some coffee beans after he noticed his goats eating them and then acting unusually frisky. It hit Europe in the 1600s and, over the centuries, has faced opposition, with some naturalists claiming coffee made men overly randy, according to Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup, a consulting company for coffee.

 

"There is this folklorish thing about espresso and sex," said Bruce Milletto, Bellissimo's president. "I have been to Italy 20 times and I don't know an Italian who wouldn't have an espresso at the end of a meal. It gives you a boost and you go home and something might happen."

 

Hmm.

 

We decided to saunter into a Starbucks and ask our own random sample of coffee aficionados about the sensual charms of a cup of joe.

 

"I think it's real attractive to see a guy sip coffee from a smooth ceramic cup," said 18-year-old Nora Kayden, a Starbucks barista whose favorite coffee of the moment is a peppermint misto.

 

George Robertson, 32, said coffee has become synonymous with a first date.

 

"Coffee is a good icebreaker," Robertson said. "Instead of dinner and a movie, the first date is meeting for coffee."

 

OK, fair enough. But what about coffee helping your sex life?

 

So we approach the married George Dimitrios, who downs at least two double espressos every day.

 

"Look, lady," said Dimitrios, "coffee ain't no Viagra."

 

 

Helena Oliviero writes for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

 

PS: This is my morning sickness today Will coffee beat stage fright hmmm?.I have a power point presentation today-will see!.

[Legend of Zu]

Hehehe... the funniest match...wonderful world of soccer!!!...

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BELGIAN women's football team SK Berlaar had to stomach a 50-1 defeat against rival KV Mechelen because their goalkeeper had opted to attend a music concert instead, a local newspaper said.

 

"Our keeper went to Pukkel Pop. That's why," substitute goalkeeper Charlotte Jacobs told Het Laatste Nieuws. KV Mechelen scored their first goal after only four seconds. "At half-time the score was 27-0. But after half-time we were able to recover."

 

"We had to stomach only 23 goals and we scored once ourselves, right at the end. They allowed us to score. That was sweet of them"

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^^^ classic..heheh

 

cheers

[LuCkY]

^Indeed and how sad.

[Janna]

The funnys of the day is finding out that Adolf Hitler wanted to place all Jews in Madagcasar. And also him wanting to invade Britain.

[MR ORGILAQE]

was watching a documentary last night about George Bush and his speech when he was talking about Terrorists he said

"they do not stop planning ways to hurt us,and neither do we"

 

I sometimes wonder when i listen to that man

[Suldaanka]

The mayor of the Austrian town of F--king has asked tourists to stop stealing the road signs. Mayor Siegfried Hauppl said the town recently voted against changing its name. "F--king is F--king," he said

'Stop stealing our F**king signs'

 

 

A gang of prisoners has tunnelled out of a Brazilian jail - only to emerge in the prison yard. The 67 men emerged just 30 centimetres short of the main wall. Guards were waiting for them.

Prisoners nearly tunnel out of jail