Monthly Archives: April 2005

Tips to Help You Help the Agribusiness Economy

Welcome to MyPyramid.org! USDA hopes the updated food pyramid, MyPyramid, will help to ease much of the confusion that has come from so-called "doctors" and "scientists" claiming that their independent, repeatable experimentation has shown red meat, processed foods, agrichemicals and … Continue reading

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Nothing New Under the Floor

A group of Australian farmers have won permission to open a ‘feet-first’ graveyard. The eco-friendly cemetery will bury the deceased vertically to save space and in bio degradable bags in a field to be used later as pasture. Tony Dupleix, … Continue reading

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It’s Better to be White in South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA: 2 GUILTY OF FEEDING VICTIM TO LIONS A judge handed down murder convictions for a farm owner and an employee who were accused of beating a rural laborer and then throwing him to 20 rare white lions. The … Continue reading

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The Sting is Mightier than the Sword

Thieves have been a constant affliction on human existence since our earliest ancestors snuck away from the site of a kill with an extra antelope shank under their loincloths. In the modern world this tendency continues, despite thousands of years … Continue reading

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ZZZZZZ Means NO in Oslo

OSLO (Reuters) – A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism. The 31-year-old man fell asleep on a … Continue reading

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Comic of the Day

We hope carpundit approves of this one; it seems to ridicule and offend everyone equally…

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Popeman Comics Kick Satan’s Ass

BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) – Pope John Paul II is being reborn in a Colombian comic book as a superhero battling evil with an anti-Devil cape and special chastity pants. The first episode of the "Incredible Popeman" is about to go … Continue reading

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Safari Tracks RSS

The browser wars refuse to die. After being a very satisfied two-year monagomous relationship with Safari, recently we have been having an on-again, off-again affair with Firefox. Now Safari, perhaps aware that her sheen and sparkle had started to fade, … Continue reading

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Dim Sum, Others Not So Dim

A disturbing item came across the news desk this morning, from the quasi-communist government of Hong Kong, via the New York Times, claiming that "eating many kinds of dim sum regularly may be bad for your health". This has caused … Continue reading

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Hot iPods Underground

Note to Subway Riders: Watch Out for Those iPods The iPod people seem to be everywhere these days, listening to Bach or 50 Cent, but nowhere do they appear more visible and at peace than on the subways. The train … Continue reading

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War Drivers Among Us

As an alternative to the WAG list of Boston area Wi-fi hotspots, the Dowbrigae has recently been consulting an interesting site called WiFiMaps.com. This site is the real deal, it mantains a constantly updated database of hotspots as reported by … Continue reading

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SS Investigating Bush-Shooting Skit

The red-hot rhetoric over Social Security on liberal talkradio network AIR AMERICA has caught the attention of the Secret Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Government officials are reviewing a skit which aired on the network Monday evening — a … Continue reading

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