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NMG: A Dinky and Un-Affordable Car
The Price? Outrageous and un-affordable! Like all the good solutions to beat the gas albatross.
$30,000.00 per dinky little car. Try harder,
Meyers Motors
Friday, October 3, 2008
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Murder Gets Brides for Dead Men
On 4 January, three men in the western Chinese province of Shaanxi were arrested for killing two young women to sell their corpses as “ghost brides” for dead single men, a custom known as minghun dating back to before the Han dynasty.
In the yellow-earth highlands of western China, there is a belief that young men and women who die unmarried should go to their graves accompanied by a recently deceased partner to be their spouse in the afterlife. It is thought that the unmarried dead will often haunt the living in dreams and can ruin the prosperity of future generations.
Yang Donghai, 35-year-old peasant, confessed to killing a woman bought from a poor family for 12,000 yuan (£785) last year. Yang said he was “tricked” into buying the girl, who was mentally handicapped and unable to care for herself. Realising she was not marriage material for himself, Yang hatched a plan with Liu Shengha to recover his losses. They made contact with “Old Li”, Li Longsheng, an undertaker in Xixian county known for trading dead women for “ghost weddings”. Yang and Liu poisoned and then strangled the girl, selling the corpse to Li for 16,000 yuan. Emboldened by their success, Yang and Liu, with help from Hui Haibao, lured a prostitute to an abandoned courtyard in the city of Yan’an where they strangled her and sold her to Li on 3 December for 8,000 yuan. “It’s a good thing we broke the case when we did, otherwise who knows how many women would have been murdered? These guys found a get-rich-quick scheme,” said the chief of police in Yangchuan county.
From Fortean Times
Something not discussed during the Olympic coverage as part of the cultural legacy of the Chinese.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Gravel is Dirt
Get a load of the Alaskan traitor:
Mike Gravel, a former two-term senator from Alaska and fringe Democratic and Libertarian presidential candidate<, urged people to stalk a federal prosecutor and his family in order to get criminal contempt charges dropped against Sami Al-Arian, an exclusive audio tape obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism shows.Gravel, 78, spoke at a forum with Al-Arian's wife and two of their children Friday evening in Washington, D.C. During his remarks, he focused attention at the prosecutor driving the case:
Gravel: "And so what I would say, if there is somebody within the sound of my
voice who has the time to do it, find out where - is it Gordon? Who's
the, what's his name?"Audience member: "Gordon Kromberg."
Gravel: "Find out where he lives. Find out where his office is. If you've got some chutzpah - which is a word that you don't hear often - if you've really got it, find out where he lives, find out where his kids go to school, find out where his office is; picket him all the time. Call him a racist in signs if you see him. Call him an injustice. Call him whatever you want to call him, but in his face all the time. They can't take the heat; deliver it to them. We have to stop laying down to these injustices."
The full story is here.
Mexican Army Invades Arizona
Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.
Story here.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Progress on Scooter, Part I
Total Schmuck
stay the course on lower interest rates?????
Why don't we all just chip in and buy Mr. Bernanke some nuts?
He could sure use them.