Ban on intentional flatulence

You could not make this shit up - no pun intended.

CAMDEN (Feb 1): The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: "flatus expelled through the anus." And while it's a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus.

"Strange, but true, thanks to a bunch of 8th grade boys, intentional farting has been banned from CRMS," the newsletter said. "It started out as a funny joke and eventually turned into a game. This is the first rule at CRMS that prevents the use of natural bodily functions. The penalty for intentional farting is a detention, so keep it to yourself!"

According to a group of seventh-grade students milling around downtown following Friday's storm-related early release, the eighth-graders' escapades are well known in the school.

"They would do it in science class and other places," said Jordan Tyler. "It's a natural occurrence and we all do it 16 times a day." (speak for yourself - ed)

http://knox.villagesoup.com/rewrite/108448.htm

I can't wait

This could be a very interesting collaboration :-

Mika: I want to work with Winehouse on her 'Jewish album'

Lebanese-born pop wonderboy Mika has offered to collaborate with Amy Winehouse should she come through with her rumored album of Hanukkah songs, the British newspaper The Sun has reported.

Mika, who has a Lebanese mother and American father, reportedly made the offer as "a statement."

The possibility of a Winehouse winter album was first mentioned last month, when producer Mark Ronson told Rolling Stone magazine that the two had discussed an album of Hanukkah and Christmas songs.

But the album may have to wait, as the Jewish songstress is currently in rehab for drug addiction, a fact which Mika acknowledges.

"I heard Amy will be recording an album of Jewish music once she gets well and I'd like to make a contribution to it," The Sun quoted Mika as saying.

"I really like her music. Think about this - me, a part-Lebanese artist working on a Jewish album. I think that's a nice statement.

"I'd like to make a statement some day."

Both Mika and Winehouse have earned critical and commercial success. Mika's debut album, Life in Cartoon Motion, has sold more than 4,000,000 copies worldwide, while Winehouse's Back to Black became a five-time platinum seller and garnered three Grammy nominations.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/950674.html

Saying of the day

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Genius of Hendrix

This is Hendrix at his best IMHO, a classic from Woodstock

A noble initiative

I love reading these sorts of initiatives amongst Israelis and Palestinians, it makes light of how the msm portrays their everyday existance. From first hand I can say that Palestinians and Israelis interact and cooperate on a daily basis.

Read on....

We are a group of Israeli and Palestinian individuals who were actively involved in the cycle of violence in our area. The Israelis served as combat soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinians were involved in acts of violence in the name of Palestinian liberation.

We all used weapons against one another, and looked at each other only through weapon sights; however today we cooperate and commit ourselves to the following:

• We no longer believe that the conflict can be resolved through violence


• We believe that the blood bath will not end unless we act together to terminate the occupation and stop all forms of violence.


• We call for the establishment of a Palestinian State, alongside the State of Israel. The two states can exist in peace and security one by the other.


• We will use only non violent means to achieve our goals and call for both societies to end violence.
  

Read it all

Lebanese Prime Minister blames Hezbollah

It is quite clear who is to blame for the current conflagration in the Middle East. Even the Lebanese Prime Minister thinks so:-

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738699.html

“Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora called Saturday for an immediate cease-fire with Israel, and asked for help in deploying the country's army in the south, from where Hezbollah has for days pounded northern Israel with Katyusha rockets.

"We call for an immediate cease-fire backed by the United Nations," said Siniora in an address to the nation. "We call to broaden the state's control over all of its territory, in cooperation with United Nations forces, in southern Lebanon." (editor: about time and best for all concerned, especially the Lebanese.)

Siniora also called on Lebanon to "work to recover all Lebanese territories and exercising full sovereignty of the state over those territories," Saniora said in a televised address to the nation.

His voice cracking with emotion, Saniora criticized Hezbollah without naming the group, saying Lebanon "cannot rise and get back on its feet if its government is the last to know."

"The government alone has the legitimate right to decide on matters of peace and war because it represents the will of the Lebanese people," he said.”

Israeli plants Palestinian flag on Mt. Everest

For those who follow the, mostly depressing, news from the Middle East - as presented by the MSM - here is a touching story of how Palestinians and Israelis can and do get along.


2 Israelis reach tallest point in the world as part of ‘Everest Climb for Peace’ expedition; one of them plants Israeli and Palestinian flags on summit as gesture to fellow Palestinian mountain climber who collapsed on way to top Tzadok Yechezkeli

Israeli mountain climber Dudu Yifrah of the “Everest Climb for Peace” expedition conquered the mountain from its Tibetan side at exactly 6:51 a.m. local time last Thursday after a grueling final climb of seven hours in -45 degrees weather.

Micha Yaniv, the second Israeli on the team, arrived two hours later.

Upon reaching the summit, Yifrah, a 32-year-old farmer from Kfar Shamai, proceeded to plant Israeli and Palestinian flags, thus keeping his promise to fellow mountain climber Ali Bushnaq, a Palestinian water engineer who currently resides in Abu Dhabi, who collapsed on the way to the top and was forced to wait for the others at 7000 meters (23,000 feet).

Bushnaq broke into tears when he heard of Yifrah’s gesture.

“Now he is my brother,” he said.

Yaniv, a father of two from Beit Zayit, described each step along the final hundreds of meters as “an eternity,” adding that the view from the top was “amazing.”

“Everything looks so small from here,” he told Yedioth Ahronoth from the summit.

Unsatisfied hashish buyer seeks German police help

This story kind of gives new meaning to the moniker stonehead.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 52-year-old man from the German town of Darmstadt tried in vain to get a refund for 400 euros ($475) worth of what he said was "bad marijuana" from his dealer before turning to the police for help, according to authorities.

The police then charged the man with violating drugs possession laws and confiscated the 200 grams of marijuana he brought with him to the police station, according to a report in Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday.

"It is un-usable," the man told police in the hope they would help him get his money back. Amounts of up to 30 grams of marijuana are allowed in most German states for private consumption.