Snippets

Kiwi Pundit asks the very good question:

Would you give $1.2 million a year of your money to a woman in the thrall of a charlatan who claims to cure incurable diseases through ancient knowledge and magic? If not, why the hell would you vote for a government that does so on your behalf?

Indeed.

Danish teachers are refusing to stop an annual striptease by pupils despite a video of an onstage lesbian love romp ending up on YouTube. And yes, there is video at the link!

NNDB has a list of nicknames George W Bush has for various people. Most un PC is calling Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Bandar Bush. Blair is called Landslide and Maureen Dowd is Cobra. Oh yes Putin is Pootie-Poot – makes you glad Bush did not have to deal with Stalin!

Michael Ellis links to the story of John Brandwick who was told he had pancreatic cancer and would die within a year. As you would, you quit your job, and go on a year long holiday. Then after he had not died, the doctors said it wasn’t cancer just an inflammation of the pancreas. Mr Brandwick is now bankrupt however. Imagine when he got told. You’d be half delighted with joy that you are not dying, but half very pissed off.

The Herald reports on plans for an online Encyclopedia of Life which will catalog all 1.8 million known plant and animal species. What a great project. It would be great if they could also give GPS locations for each species so one could then pull up an area on a map and see all the species in that area.

Stuff reports that when Judge Michael T Sauer, who sentenced Paris Hilton to 45 days jail, walked into his parish church on Saturday, he was greeted by rapturous applause. Heh.