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This Man Has the Largest Penis in the World

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:29:59 GMT

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This Man Has the Largest Penis in the World: 13.5 in (34.29 cm) Erect!

We may not be so impressive as other species with our physical abilities: powerful muscles or weaponry like fangs, claws, horns and so on. But we have evolved to excel in one issue: sex. Not regarding sexual activity - as it has been shown that the bonobo (which is also wrongly named "dwarf chimpanzee") has more sex and much varied than the human being - but penis size.

Man is the ape, the monkey and the primate with the biggest penis!

it appears to be the New Yorker Jonah Cardeli Falcon (born July 29, 1970). His willy is 9.5 in (24.13 cm) flaccid, 13.5 in (34.29 cm) erect! The average human penis is 6 in (15 cm) long...

But the huge penis is not a blessing.

He lives with his mom and his whale penis, without a girlfriend for 12 years.

"When I meet people they find it hard to look me in the eye, they just see what’s in my trousers.

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Rememeber the ballooning priest???

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:18:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Never, Never try a cheap stunt...........

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The body of a Brazilian priest who floated out over the ocean suspended by hundreds of helium-filled party balloons, has been found off the coast of southeastern Brazil, police have confirmed.

The corpse of Father Adelir Antonio de Carli was spotted by a tugboat at sea near the city of Macae, three months after he disappeared while flying a contraption buoyed by balloons over the Atlantic Ocean in a fund-raising stunt.

"We were almost certain that it was the priest due to various elements, such as the clothes and material used in the balloon trip," Macae's chief of police, Daniel Bandeira, said on Monday. "The DNA only confirmed our suspicions."

The priest disappeared on April 20 after he called friends from his mobile phone to say he was about to crash into the ocean.

He staged the stunt to help raise money for a chapel for truckers in his highway parish.

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Music and Torture

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:16:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I don't have to be a prisoner of war to know Barney the Dinosaur Theme drive me nuts..

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

MUSIC ALLEGEDLY USED

White America - Eminem

Barney The Dinosaur theme

Enter Sandman - Metallica

Meow Mix advert theme

Sesame Street theme

Babylon - David Gray

Stayin' Alive- The Bee Gees

American Pie - Don McLean

Dirrty - Christina Aguilera feat. Redman

Source: Mother Jones magazine

Bob Ayers, security expert at Chatham House, says the aim of these techniques is to "destabilise and disorient the suspect in a way that doesn't physically harm the organism. It's not like hearing a Bach symphony, where you can flow along with the music. The idea is to have no variation: the same sounds over and over again."

Dr Michael Peel of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture adds: "Music is used to make the detainee aware that he has no control over what's going on in any of his senses. Deprivation of normal sensory stimulation and lack of control over one's environment is a disempowerment that eventually dehumanises people."

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How much is your Penis worth?

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:43:12 GMT

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BUCHAREST, Romania - A court has ordered a Romanian surgeon to pay $795,000 in compensation to a patient whose penis he accidentally severed during an operation.

In July 2004, Dr. Naum Ciomu made a surgical error while operating on the man's testicles, severing the penis instead of making an incision to the testicle.

The Bucharest Magistrates Court ruled Friday that Ciomu had been "superficial" in his approach to the operation, ordered the fine and handed Ciomu a one-year suspended prison sentence. The ruling can be appealed.

A piece of muscle from the man's arm has now been attached to where his penis was, but its function is aesthetic.

"You don't have to be an expert to realize that the 33-year-old victim does not have a good state of mind," said Mihai Olariu, the victim's lawyer.

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The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:49:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Lot's and lot's of Muslim. Now don't give me shit, I am merely stating a fact..

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FETHULLAH GÜLEN

Religious leader • Turkey

MUHAMMAD YUNUS

Microfinancier, activist • Bangladesh

YUSUF AL-QARADAWI

Cleric • Egypt/Qatar

ORHAN PAMUK

Novelist • Turkey

AITZAZ AHSAN

Lawyer, politician • Pakistan

AMR KHALED

Muslim televangelist • Egypt

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ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH

Religious theorist • Iran

TARIQ RAMADAN

Philosopher, scholar of Islam • Switzerland

MAHMOOD MAMDANI

Cultural anthropologist • Uganda

SHIRIN EBADI

Lawyer, human rights activist • Iran

NOAM CHOMSKY

Linguist, activist • United States

AL GORE

Climate change activist, politician • United States

BERNARD LEWIS

Historian • Britain/United States

UMBERTO ECO

Novelist, semiologist • Italy

AYAAN HIRSI ALI

Activist, politician • Somalia/Netherlands

AMARTYA SEN

Development economist • India

FAREED ZAKARIA

Journalist, author • United States

GARRY KASPAROV

Democracy activist, chess grandmaster • Russia

RICHARD DAWKINS

Biologist, author • Britain

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

Novelist, politician • Peru

STEPHEN COLBERT

Television host, satirist • United States

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Half of gun deaths are suicides

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:21:13 GMT

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ATLANTA - The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners use the weapons on themselves.

Suicides accounted for 55 percent of the nation's nearly 31,000 firearm deaths in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Public-health researchers have concluded that in homes where guns are present, the likelihood that someone in the home will die from suicide or homicide is much greater.

More than 90 percent of suicide attempts using guns are successful, while the success rate for jumping from high places was 34 percent. The success rate for drug overdose was 2 percent, the brief said, citing studies.

"Other methods are not as lethal," said Jon Vernick, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore.

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Settlement in NY lawsuit over NBC's 'Predator'

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:38:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What interest me in The predator series also makes me wonder if it is a set up. maybe we have been overzealous in trying to prosecute every person who ever chat in such site. I never doubt some of them is guilty but you still cannot prosecute someone for chating. I have a friend in college who once got so drunk and went on Greyhound. He accidentally brushed against a little girl. The parents screamed MOLESTATION and a MOP formed and beat the shit out of him. The police came and threw him in county jail for 5 days . It took another 2 years of legal fighting to clear his name before every charges was dropped.

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NEW YORK - NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed a televised sex sting by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" drove her brother to kill himself.

Patricia Conradt's lawsuit had claimed her brother, a suburban Dallas prosecutor, fatally shot himself after he was accused of engaging in a sexually explicit online chat with an adult posing as a 13-year-old boy.

The lawsuit claimed NBC "steamrolled" authorities to arrest Louis William Conradt Jr. after telling police he failed to show up at a sting operation 35 miles away.

NBC was working with the activist group Perverted Justice on the sting, in which people impersonating children established online chats with men and tried to lure them to a house, where they were met by TV cameras and police.

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Inside a Female-Circumcision Ceremony

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:42:51 GMT

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A girl is soothed by an attendant before her circumcision.

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The annual circumcision event begins and ends with prayer services.

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Tears are wiped from the face of a 9-month-old following her circumcision.

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A girl pulls on her undergarments after being circumcised.

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A girl cries as she is circumcised.

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The girl who was being soothed in the second photograph, after her circumcision.

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Robot for lonely men

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:45:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: About time, we have some GOOD TIMES with our toys.

Clip Source: www.nzherald.co.nz

TOKYO - She is big-busted, petite, very friendly, and she runs on batteries.

A Japanese firm has produced a 38 cm (15 inch) tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around US$175, with a target market of lonely adult men.

Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode".

"Strong, tough and battle-ready are some of the words often associated with robots, but we wanted to break that stereotype and provide a robot that's sweet and interactive," said Minako Sakanoue, a spokeswoman for the maker, Sega Toys.

"She's very lovable and though she's not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend."

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Topless on The Fourth of July

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:20:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I say let her , Here is a pic of her http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2008/06/jennifer-moss-the-naked-lady-pictures-and-videos/

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ASHLAND -- A woman seen frequently in Ashland riding topless on her bicycle says she plans to be in Ashland's Fourth of July parade free and independent of all clothing but a hemp G-string.

The Chamber of Commerce says that's contrary to the rules for the family celebration. She says she'll sue if she can't parade as she wishes.

Jen Moss has been known as "The Naked Lady" since she moved to Ashland in May from Ojai, Calif., drawn by the town's nudity laws. They specify only that people must cover their genitalia in a city park or the downtown commercial district, which means Moss need not cover her breasts.

The police in California, she says, harassed her when she rode her bicycle wearing a G-string and pasties.

Moss applied for an entry for the parade, which draws thousands each year.

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The secret language of Chinese women

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:09:40 GMT

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(02-29) 04:00 PDT Pumei Village, Hunan Province, C -- Nowadays, it would be called empowering women. But back then, centuries ago, it was just a way for the sworn sisters of this rugged and tradition-laden Chinese countryside to share their hopes, their joys and their many sorrows.

Only men learned to read and write Chinese, and bound feet and social strictures confined women to their husband's homes. So somehow -- scholars are unsure how, or exactly when -- the women of this fertile valley in the southwestern corner of Hunan province developed their own way to communicate. It was a delicate, graceful script handed down from grandmother to granddaughter, from elderly aunt to adolescent niece, from girlfriend to girlfriend -- and never, ever shared with the men and boys.

So was born nushu, or women's script, a single-sex writing system that Chinese scholars believe is the only one of its kind.

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The Average German

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:17:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The average Teuton family goes on holiday for two weeks a year, mainly within Germany, although their favourite destination is Majorca. He (45 years old) is 5ft 10in, she 5ft 5in. He is invariably overweight (83.5 kg) while she (67 kg and 42 years old) has mid-length hair, has sole responsibility for running the household and likes horoscopes and diet books. They both like Harry Potter.

Their favourite dishes - and these have not changed for years, despite globalisation's influence on the wide range of items now available - are lentils, curry wurst (sausage covered in curry powder and ketchup) and spätzle - egg pasta and schnitzel.

Germans even have a nickname for being average, 'null-acht-fünfzehn' - '08/15' - the name of the standard-issue machine-gun used by Wehrmacht soldiers in the Second World War.

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The average German...

· Has sex 117 times a year
· Wakes up at 6.23am
· Travels 24.5 miles a day
· Works 30.3 hours a week (41.4 hours in 1960)
· Drives a six-year-old silver metallic Volkswagen Golf which is washed nine times a year
· Walks towards the right when entering a shop
· Considers price to be more important than quality when shopping
· Has 971 sq ft of living space (a family of 2.2 people) which costs €408 a month in rent
· Dreams of stripping the woodchip wallpaper and laying down cherry or walnut parquet
· Takes 15 minutes to fall asleep
· Earns € 3,702 a month

Meet Mr and Mrs Average of Germany, whose profiles have been unveiled following the most comprehensive study ever to be carried out into the 'typical German'.

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Alabama sheriffs feed inmates on $1.75 a day

Sun, 18 May 2008 05:57:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When Etowah County Sheriff James Hayes died in October, thousands of dollars in jail food money went to his estate because it was kept in his personal accounts.

His successor, Todd Entrekin, said he and his wife took out a personal loan for $150,000 the day he took office to purchase jail food until his first state payment came through.
According to legislative researchers, the $1.75-a-day-per-inmate system in Alabama dates to 1927, back when sheriffs and other county officeholders in many states were paid fixed fees for services performed and were allowed to keep whatever was left over.

All but 12 of Alabama's 67 county jails remain on the fee system, with the state paying a total of $5 million to 55 sheriffs last year.
The $1.75 fee was fairly generous at the time, with a reasonable profit built into it for the sheriffs. Besides the $1.75, sheriffs get additional state payments of as much as $11.25 a day for the entire jail. But in a jail with hundreds of inmates, that works

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries.

Critics charge that Alabama is, in effect, paying law enforcement to skimp on food and may be rewarding sheriffs for mistreating prisoners.

The few sheriffs who would discuss the arrangement defended it as cost-effective for their counties and disputed any suggestion they are making a lot of money.

Sheriff takes out personal loan
The head of the Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, Ron Jones, said state auditors cannot determine how much some sheriffs are making off the system because the lawmen put the money in personal accounts.

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Doctors group backs marijuana

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:46:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: About time

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes, urging the government to roll back a prohibition on using it to treat patients and supporting studies into its medical applications.

The American College of Physicians, the second-largest doctors group in the United States, issued a policy statement on medical marijuana this week after it was approved by its governing body, the group said on Friday.

The group cited evidence that marijuana is valuable in treating severe weight loss associated with AIDS, and nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy in cancer patients.

"Additional research is needed to clarify marijuana's therapeutic properties and determine standard and optimal doses and routes of delivery. Unfortunately, research expansion has been hindered by a complicated federal approval process, limited availability of research-grade marijuana and the debate over legalization," the group said.

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Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:46:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Einstein, who was Jewish and who declined an offer to be the state of Israel's second president, also rejected the idea that the Jews are God's favoured people.

"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."
In his later years he referred to a "cosmic religious feeling" that permeated and sustained his scientific work. In 1954, a year before his death, he spoke of wishing to "experience the universe as a single cosmic whole". He was also fond of using religious flourishes, in 1926 declaring that "He [God] does not throw dice" when referring to randomness thrown up by quantum theory.

His

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.

A little known letter written by him, however, may help to settle the argument - or at least provoke further controversy about his views.

Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt. The letter went on public sale a year later and has remained in private hands ever since.

In the letter, he states: "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

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