] Roy Horn, half of the Las Vegas duo Siegfried & Roy, was
] able to move his hands, feet, and give a "thumbs-up"
] signal Monday, hospital officials said, three days after
] being mauled by one of his tigers during a show.
]
] University Medical Center officials said 59-year-old Horn
] was still in critical condition.
]
] He suffered massive blood loss in the incident, the
] officials said, and also had a stroke after the mauling.
]
] The accident happened Friday night about halfway through
] Siegfried & Roy's show at the MGM Mirage Hotel and Casino
] on the Las Vegas strip.
]
] Denise Previti, who was watching the show as part of her
] honeymoon trip, said Horn introduced a 7-year-old white
] tiger named Montecore to the audience, and then let go of
] the animal's leash.
]
] The tiger started to head offstage, Previti told CNN's
] Anderson Cooper, and Horn tried to direct it back to
] center stage.
]
] "You could tell it didn't want to go, so he had the
] leash, he was trying to get it to sit and face the
] audience, and he had his arm out in front of him," she
] said.
]
] "The tiger bit his arm, [and] he's hitting the nose of
] [the] tiger with the microphone, trying to get it off,"
] she said. "After that it's kind of a blur, but it seemed
] like he almost sat down or leaned back gradually, and
] then the tiger bit his neck

it IS true - you can NEVER trust a "domesticated" wild cat. These guys have LIVED with these big cats for 30 years like they are house pets. If Siegfried and Roy cant tame them, they cannot be tamed!

CNN.com - Tiger tamer gives thumbs-up - Oct. 6, 2003

The phaomnneil pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod
are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and
lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig, huh?

naet ltilte ticrk!

] Smart bombs and "surgical strikes" would ensure a
] soldier's quick return. State of the art equipment would
] keep our soldiers safe. Billions of dollars for the
] Department of Defense would ensure that the compensation
] of our men and women in uniform would match their
] sacrifice for their country.
]
] Two hundred and ninety-one deaths later, with the war in
] Iraq officially "over,' active duty military still have
] no dates set for their return home. Soldiers are dying
] due to shortages of supplies, like bulletproof vests. The
] Bush administration's proposed cut in combat pay came
] with a simultaneous call for the Iraqi resistance to
] "bring 'em on." Already inadequate services for veterans
] are suffering further cuts, making the return home
] scarcely safer than the tour of duty.
]
] In the eyes of many military families a contract has been
] breached, a promise has been broken. And these families
] are making sure that those who broke their trust are
] called to answer for their betrayal.

And we wonder why "incidents" in Iraq are increasing? They want to come home, and they've instead been sent off to New Vietnam.

AlterNet: They Volunteered, Didn't They?

] The true scale of American casualties in Iraq is revealed
] today by new figures obtained by The Observer, which show
] that more than 6,000 American servicemen have been
] evacuated for medical reasons since the beginning of the
] war, including more than 1,500 American soldiers who have
] been wounded, many seriously.
]
] The figures will shock many Americans, who believe that
] casualties in the war in Iraq have been relatively light.
] Recent polls show that support for President George Bush
] and his administration's policy in Iraq has been
] slipping.
]
] The number of casualties will also increase pressure on
] Bush to share the burden of occupying Iraq with more
] nations. Attempts to broker an international alliance to
] pour more men and money into Iraq foundered yesterday
] when Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, brusquely
] rejected a French proposal as 'totally unrealistic'.

What? You mean our goverment hasn't been releasing accurate numbers? Who knew.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | America's hidden battlefield toll

] In any good community, people take care of each other. If
] someone is robbed, people put in what they can to help
] them out. Therefore, I am planning to raise $2,000 for
] this girl (the cost of her settlement), because I think
] she's been robbed by the RIAA. Other folks tend to agree
] with me.

Datatype: Raising $2000 for that 12 year old...

] Christian pastors here at Landover Baptist thought their
] tireless efforts to warn Americans about the carefully
] disguised homosexual agenda targeting toddlers through
] Disney cartoons was working. They thought that since
] President George W. Bush, a devout Christian who attends
] a Bible church regularly and believes in the same
] three-headed God (Father, Son, and flying side-kick, The
] Holy Ghost) took office, that Americans were finally
] waking up. Our pastors took for granted that Americans
] understood that Jesus is not above sending little
] children straight to Hell for watching cartoons. It
] wasn't until Pastor Deacon Fred heard that millions of
] American children were being lured like zombies in a
] trance to see the new Disney film, Finding Nemo, that he
] decided to speak out against it.
]
] "Walt Disney would be spinning in his grave if he knew
] his animation studios were full of giggling homosexuals,
] doodling and talking about silly colors and little
] fishies for their latest film," said Pastor Deacon Fred
] last Sunday. "But as we all know, Walt Disney never made
] it to Heaven. Although he hated Jews almost as much as
] the Apostle Paul did, he never took the time to accept
] Jesus Christ as his personal savior. So Mr. Disney is
] burning in Hell right now and God melted his eyes right
] out of his head.

I *love* Landover Baptist Church! One of the all-time greatest spoof sites I've seen.

Children are Finding Nemo Instead of Finding Jesus, and the Homos at Disney are to Blame!

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RENO, NV, August 13 - Reno police arrested a local man for possession of stolen property after a traffic stop involving a motorized bar stool.

Reno police pull over speeding bar stool

] RIVIERA BEACH, Florida (AP) -- Capt. Jeff Ardelean uses
] night-vision goggles to scan the shoreline. A grainy dark
] blob emerges from the bright whitecaps of the waves and
] crawls onto the gray sand.
]
] Shrouded in darkness, a loggerhead sea turtle drags her
] heavy body with her front flippers about 50 feet (15
] meters) up on shore. Her body strains each time she drops
] three or four pinkish-white eggs into the sandy hole. In
] all, she'll leave between 75 and 125 eggs, cover them
] with sand and lumber back into the sea.
]
] Ardelean's job is to make sure those eggs remain
] undisturbed until they hatch. He oversees 18 state
] wildlife investigators who patrol southeastern Florida
] shores for turtle egg poachers.
]
] "After you watch a turtle go through all that, that's
] when you get the satisfaction," Ardelean said.
]
] All five species of sea turtles in Florida are protected,
] and the loggerhead is a threatened species. The stretch
] of beach where the loggerhead laid her eggs is one of the
] most poached in Florida. The eggs, considered an
] aphrodisiac in some Caribbean cultures, are eaten raw or
] soft-boiled with salt and red pepper.
]
] Nearby are two active black markets for the eggs, one in
] Riviera Beach and another five miles (eight kilometers)
] south in West Palm Beach.

Patrolling for turtle egg poachers

] An amusement park operator was killed Saturday when his
] hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up
] as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a
] fence.

Ouch!

CNN.com - Man killed when hair catches on roller coaster car - Aug. 17, 2003