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News Briefs 04-04-2011

Hey, hey! It’s so good to finally be back! Being off the internet for a solid month was weird. For one thing, I discovered how awful tv programming has become. I still have a lot of catching up to do, so sorry if there are any repeats in today’s news.

A big thanks to Russell S.

Quote of the Day:

Life is made up of the most differing, unforeseen, contradictory, ill-assorted things; it is brutal, arbitrary, disconnected, full of inexplicable, illogical and contradictory disasters which can only be classified under the heading of ‘Other news in brief’.

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), Pierre et Jean, 1888

  1. Witch trials
    [quote=]The academic claims she faked these episodes to break free from the tight social restraints put on her at the time and to become a local celebrity.

    ‘Being possessed allowed her to misbehave without consequence, move from invisibility to notoriety within her community and attack her elders at will,’ he said.[/quote]

    Well….duh….

    1. Witch trials
      How about that next witch article?

      In March 2009, the TSA assistant director told [Carole Smith] he was investigating a threat of workplace violence.

      He said that her former mentor, Mary Bagnoli, reported she was afraid of Smith because she practised witchcraft.

      She accused Miss Smith of following her on the highway one evening after work and casting a spell on the heater of her car, causing it not to work, though she later admitted she had not actually seen Miss Smith’s car.

      Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much prefer Carole Smith be the one looking for possible bombs on my plane than Mary Bagnoli.

      1. Well…
        That’s just hilarious. Something tells me they were looking for an excuse to fire this poor woman, and her religion became the scapegoat. I call shenanigans! That’s racist!

  2. catastrophic events
    Yeah a fine article. Now people believe that excess CO2 in the atmosphere is resulting in bigger earthquakes.

    Not so long ago the common thinking for quakes was to blame insufficient prayer, or inaccurate prayer.

    If this is supposed to be progress, then we are in trouble.

  3. A treasure for Monday!
    One of the best newsdays in a while… and I’ve just begun sorting it!

    Re: Another mystery of Ancient Egypt: For a poor, malnourished, unmummified weaver, teenaged boy, Nakht, had an extensively personalised high-end coffin.

    What a story! It reminds me of those we used to see on the silver screen of the poor child from the bad end of town that made good and captured the hearts of all those who were better off, all around him!

    Re: Is this the grave of Robin Hood?

    How could there have never been a Robin Hood when even here in the midst of the 21st century, we still hold up those who will occasionally steal from the rich to give to the poor? Poaching royal deer is not unlike those who today hunt on state and federally reserved land… off limits to the very people who pay for its upkeep.

    Re: How can rational scientists think their analysis of petroglyphs will ‘rock creationists’ claims’ that humans lived with dinosaurs?

    The explanation sounds like just one more excuse to disavow creationism and religion. This is not to say that man and dinosaur DID live side-by-side, but this retelling is just as hokey as that homework my dog ate (the dog I didn’t have at the time) back in the 1970s.

    Said now… time to dive back into the list!

    1. Hokey retelling
      Spot on!

      The point of my headline was that merely stating ‘the dinosaur’s legs’ are just a stain on the rock isn’t likely to convince anyone who doesn’t ‘believe’ in carbon-14 dating (among other things).

  4. Yabba Dabba Doubtful!
    I don’t understand why the article refrained from posting an actual photograph of the ‘dinosaur’ pictograph. Were they fearful that people wouldn’t find their explanation convincing enough? 😉

    Here’s another theory to explain the pictograph, without invoking to images copyrighted by Hanna Barbera: how about a shaman’s hallucinogenic vision brought by the ritual use of psychoactive substances?

    1. photo of dino pictograph

      I don’t understand why the article refrained from posting an actual photograph of the ‘dinosaur’ pictograph.

      You’ll understand when you see these photos of the actual pictograph in question — courtesy of The Daily Mail.

      That cleared everything right up, wouldn’t you say? 😉

    1. Hey!
      [quote=Kathrinn]Welcome back Kat – I’ve missed your wonderful newslists.

      Regards, Kathrinn[/quote]

      Yeah, those Monday news briefs were terrible while you were away Kat…
      😛

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