Certified Witchdoctors for all my needs
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete has condemned witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity.
…”Sometimes, word spreads around that body parts of people with certain physical attributes like bald people or albinos contribute greatly to attaining quick prosperity,” Kikwete said in a monthly state of the nation speech late on Wednesday.
“These killings are shameful and distressing to our society,” he added.
…Kikwete blamed charlatan witchdoctors, many masquerading as traditional healers, for extracting body parts such as genitals, tongues and breasts.
Really, folks: your families deserve the very best. So always look for the Good Hut Keeping(c) Seal of Approval on your next witchdoctor visit.
…cease?
Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete has condemned witchdoctors who kill albinos and harvest their body parts in the hope it will bring prosperity.
He said 19 albinos had been murdered since March 2007, and another two were missing presumed dead in the east African country.
Targeted by birth.
I don’t know. Maybe it’s me, but is this something that needs to be broadcast in the media?
Secret Service: McCain Is Not Protected
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. John McCain travels the campaign trail without Secret Service protection although he is the Republican Party’s likely presidential nominee, the agency’s director told Congress on Thursday.
Obviously I’m doing something to spread this information, but it seems to me the cat’s a bit out of the bag at this point.
“I wouldn’t be anywhere else in the world!”
CBS News 1994: Mugabe Reassures White South Africans
But if you’re not from here, I’ll bet you have no clue just how ‘slow’ we’re talking. Take one of our news stories this week, for instance. This old boy wrote the book on ‘slow’.
With friend dead, man says he took a nap
A man told Santa Rosa sheriff’s investigators that he found a dead friend lying in his front yard Tuesday but decided to take a nap rather than calling authorities.
William Hutson, 43, of the 1600 block of Balogh Drive in Gulf Breeze found Charles Scott Boylan’s body about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Scott Haines said.
But the Sheriff’s Office didn’t learn a body was outside Hutson’s home in Magnolia Manor until a mail carrier found it about 4 p.m.
…Hutson was arrested on a tampering with evidence charge after telling investigators he picked up a shotgun near Boylan’s body, went back inside his home and went to sleep on a couch, Haines said.
Boylan, 47, of Gulf Breeze suffered a gunshot blast to the chest, but investigators are not sure how he suffered the fatal wound, Haines said.
Haines said the gun belonged to Hutson, but he didn’t know how the gun ended up outside near Boylan’s body.
During the 6 o’ clock news, the breathless announcement of the body’s discovery by the mail carrier (including mention of the gun-induced gaping chest wound) was followed by a ominously intoned:
“The Sheriff’s department says the death is suspicious.”
Do tell.
We all just floatin’ down a lazy river…
And they couldn’t pay me eNOUGH to be there. God help those folks.
Police take journalists from Zimbabwe hotel
Troops surround hotel housing foreign reporters covering election
Security agents and paramilitary police in riot gear surrounded a hotel housing foreign journalists on Thursday.
A man who answered the phone at the hotel said they were taking away some reporters.
The man’s a vicious lunatic who’s been backed into the proverbial corner. And the collective blind eye the world has shown him is responsible for the demise of one of the few garden spots of Africa..
So said our illustrious Governor.
“…and that’s why I’m going to switch my vote to her opponent if he gets more votes.”
Per NBC’s Tom Winter, Gov. Jon Corzine, a Clinton superdelegate, just said on CNBC’s Squawk Box that he reserves the right to change his vote from Hillary Clinton if she doesn’t have the popular vote. He stopped short of saying that he definitely would change his vote if she lost the popular vote and he did strongly emphasize that Sen. Clinton would win the popular vote in the end.
Yes, a firm man of principles, a fighter for what is right, ever willing to bravely go…where the winds of public opinion carry him.
You can always tell when Argentina has economic unrest, because they always start up this stuff
BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands, which remain in British hands after the 1982 war between the two countries, is “inalienable,” President Cristina Kirchner said Wednesday.
“The sovereign claim to the Malvinas Islands is inalienable,” she said in a speech marking the 26th anniversary of Argentina’s ill-fated invasion of the islands, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off shore.
The April 2, 1982 invasion prompted then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to deploy naval forces to retake the Falklands, known as the Malvinas in Spanish.
No, they’re known as “Las Malvinas” in Argentina.
Gee, could this bloody flag waving couldn’t be related to this is any way, could it? Fausta gives some clear and prescient background to La Evita Segunda’s time-tested ploy.
Historians saw the invasion as an attempt by Argentina’s ruling military junta, which was then in power, to divert attention away from domestic problems.
Thank goodness for those historians!
Or should I say Lorry
Pigs have escaped after a lorry carrying them crashed on an Aberdeenshire road.
Drivers have been warned to expect delays after the accident happened on the A92 at Lathallan, Johnshaven, at about 0830 BST.
Injuries were unknown but a vet was called out to attend.
Grampian Police said that the road would be closed for several hours in both directions and that diversions were being set up.
Some of the pigs escaped into nearby woodland, but all were accounted for.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has scheduled a news conference to issue an apology to anyone offended.
And the people said “Protect Thy Brain”
Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.
The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why.
A vital barrier between the brain and the main blood supply of rabbits fed a fat-rich diet was protected in those given a caffeine supplement.
UK experts said it was the “best evidence yet” of coffee’s benefits.
I just hate demented bunnies.
Drink coffee.
If you won’t do it for me, do it for the bunnies.
We have a running joke in the coffee business about China, and most industries share some variation of it. People look at China and think “If I could get everyone in China to drink just one cup of coffee per week, that would be an extra 1.3 billions cups consumed per week or nearly 68 billion more per year and I would be a gazzillionaire!” Businessmen have been having this dream for hundreds of years and it’s never really panned out for any of them, mostly because they ignore inconvenient facts like China’s autocratic rulers or the population’s complete lack of disposable income. Once the eyes get glassy with the ‘vision’ they cease to see very clearly.
This came to my mind today because I was having an email exchange with a nice fellow who wrote to me about a comment I left at HotAir basically scoffing at the amount of fencing that will be in place on the Mexican border by the end of this year. His point, which is valid, is that obviously a lot of the border is the Rio Grande, which is rather difficult to fence, and that the rate of construction is actually not that bad for politicized government projects and that every speed bump is a good speed bump and, to quote, “Add up enough speed bumps, and you get real security benefits.”
He is correct of course that the glacial pace does have a lot to do with how things get done (or not done) when the Govt.’s involved, and even more so when those seeking to derail it are aided and abetted by the media and the courts and billionaire foreigners. And the “speed bump” theory will deter some folks and raise the risks which will deter even more.
However, I do think that a lot of the grumbling from the right is justified given the tepid reluctance of our supposed Representatives to act on the clearly espoused ‘Will of the People’ on this issue, especially Mr. “I’ll-build-the-goddamn-fence-if-that’s-what-they-want” McCain.
Much like those starry-eyed businessmen who fantasize about the Chinese the leadership of the GOP has fallen under the sway of the dream that somehow poor welfare-dependent illegal immigrants from Mexico who were poor welfare-dependent peasants in Mexico will magically act and vote like the immigrants from Cuba who arrived poor but were from middle-class, entrepreneurial backgrounds in Cuba.
It ain’t gonna happen.
Oh, they are both very hard working; there’s no doubt the Mexicans/Hondurans work very hard at the low wage jobs they get here. But there is a key difference: the current crop of illegals work very hard to survive.
The Cubans worked very hard to prosper.
And therein lies the reason that the former will always vote opposite the latter.
So Friday I started out with the decent Portuguese wine below, but as it took me a little longer than I had reckoned to get the burgers ready I had to open another bottle.
I hate that.
Anyhow, in keeping with our “Bing is a cheap bastard” theme I found this Australian Madison Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 for $7
Now, a quick glance at the calendar tell you that we’re only 3 months into 2008, and even granting our dear friends Down Under the benefit of their seasons being bass-ackwards from ours this wine is at best, what, 6-7 months old at most? So I wasn’t expecting much.
I was very pleasantly surprised. For $7 this beats the pants off of many $15 wines I’ve had. It has some nice tannins and good cabernet flavor, with some hints of leather at the end (just the way Ken likes it). I’ll definitely pick up a few more bottles just to confirm this experiment…this could be a very good buy.
Oh, and those cheeseburgers you see in the background were very yum.
I’m trying to find some decent reds under $10, and the Bottle King in town had this on sale for about $9 I think.
Groval Touriga Nacional 2005
Many of the Portuguese reds I’ve had in the past have had a nasty, corky bite to them, so I approached this one carefully. The aroma was soft and cherry-like, and the first few sips confirmed that. There’s not a lot of flavors here, and that’s ok. If you want a simple, smooth wine with soft cherry and raspberry flavors than you could do a lot worse than this. There’s not much body or tannin structure, but again that’s ok; at this price point ‘character’ tends to mean ‘blech’. I’ll buy this again.
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Sigh.
(h/t to Insta…I guess. Bastard.)
Heck, I’d still take the $980 and be happy, though…
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