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[X-Files]

ASTONISHING video of a UFO flying over President Barack Obama’s historic inauguration has appeared on the internet.

The video shows a dark object flying past the Washington Monument as nearly two million people* gathered to witness America’s first black president be sworn into office.

Link to photo

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2165801.ece

 

 

* Or not. See other thread.

[X-Files]

His Bishop's hat, it is made of ass.

 

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/200...ust0123-ON.html

 

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's relations with Jews risked a new crisis Friday after an excommunicated British bishop - reportedly in line for rehabilitation - said that historical evidence "is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed" during World War II.

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Rabbi Ricardo Di Segni said it is "inconceivable*" the pope didn't know Williamson's views.

 

 

*You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[Marek Tucan]

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's relations with Jews risked a new crisis Friday after an excommunicated British bishop - reportedly in line for rehabilitation - said that historical evidence "is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed" during World War II.

 

He has a point - estimatedly half of the Jewish victims of Holocaust was not deliberately gassed but deliberately starved and deliberately shot

[Archie Pellagio]

He has a point - estimatedly half of the Jewish victims of Holocaust was not deliberately gassed but deliberately starved and deliberately shot

 

And don't forget buried alive, drowned, beaten...

 

Of course the figures of six million gassed are false!

 

I suppose we should be thankful dickheads like him can't breed though...

[Marek Tucan]

I suppose we should be thankful dickheads like him can't breed though...

 

Can't marry, unfortunately can breed unless he has the equipment removed or disfunctional

[Unreal John]

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican's relations with Jews risked a new crisis Friday after an excommunicated British bishop - reportedly in line for rehabilitation - said that historical evidence "is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed" during World War II.

 

He has a point - estimatedly half of the Jewish victims of Holocaust was not deliberately gassed but deliberately starved and deliberately shot

 

Perhaps the reports that the "bishop" is in line for rehabilitation are as accurate as the bishop's historical studies.

 

(November 29, 1905 – March 25, 1991), better known as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, was a French Roman Catholic archbishop. Following a career as an Apostolic Delegate for West Africa and Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers, he took the lead in opposing the changes within the Church associated with the Second Vatican Council.

 

In 1970, Lefebvre founded the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), which is still the world's largest Traditionalist Catholic priestly society. In 1988, against the orders of Pope John Paul II, Lefebvre consecrated four bishops to continue his work with the SSPX. The Holy See issued a statement that Lefebvre had thereby incurred the automatic excommunication that canon law applies for such actions. His supporters and some canonists deny this.

 

The "bishop" is one of Lefebvre's consecrations, not recognized by the Church. If he were rehabilitated, it would be as an ordinary priest, a condition that it seems most unlikely that he would accept even should the church decide to accept him back. Links led on to this

 

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/articles/a0000226.shtml

 

article, which tells me more than I want to know about "Bishop" Williamson. Note that he is also one of the nutcases who believes that 9/11 was a government plot.

Edited January 24, 2009 by Unreal John

[BansheeOne]

Seems he dunnit.

 

Pope rehabilitates Holocaust denier, angering Jews

Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:53pm EST

 

By Philip Pullella

 

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict rehabilitated on Saturday a traditionalist bishop who denies the Holocaust, despite warnings from Jewish leaders that it would seriously harm Catholic-Jewish relations and foment anti-Semitism.

 

The Vatican said the pope issued a decree lifting the excommunication of four traditionalist bishops who were thrown out of the Roman Catholic Church in 1988 for being ordained without Vatican permission.

 

The four bishops lead the ultra-conservative Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), which has about 600,000 members and rejected modernizations of Roman Catholic worship and doctrine.

 

The Vatican said the excommunications were lifted after the bishops affirmed their willingness to accept Church teachings and papal authority.

 

In healing a 20-year-old schism that had wounded the Catholic Church, the decree looks set to spark one of the most serious crises in Catholic-Jewish relations in 50 years.

 

"We have no intention of interfering in the internal workings of the Catholic Church, however, the eagerness to bring a Holocaust denier back into the Church will cast a shadow on relations between Jews and the Catholic Church," Israel's ambassador to the Vatican Mordechai Lewy, told Reuters.

 

One of the four bishops, the British-born Richard Williamson, has made a number of statements denying the full extent of the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews, as accepted by mainstream historians.

 

In comments to Swedish television broadcast on Wednesday, he said "I believe there were no gas chambers" and only up to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, instead of 6 million.

 

Williamson said: "I believe that the historical evidence is hugely against 6 million having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler."

 

Israel-based Rabbi David Rosen, head of inter-religious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, told Reuters:.

 

"The late Pope John Paul II called anti-Semitism a sin against God and man. The denial of the overwhelmingly detailed documentation of the Shoah is anti-Semitism at its most blatant.

 

"In welcoming an open Holocaust denier into the Catholic Church without any recantation on his part, the Vatican has made a mockery of John Paul II's moving and impressive repudiation and condemnation of anti-Semitism," he said.

 

VATICAN DEFENDS DECREE

 

Asked about Williamson's comments, chief Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said they were "totally extraneous" to the lifting of the excommunications.

 

"This act regards the lifting of the excommunications, period," Lombardi told reporters.

 

"It has nothing to do with the personal opinions of a person, which are open to criticism, but are not pertinent to this decree."

 

Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, told Reuters: "At a time when the Vatican should have sided with the victims it acted instead to desecrate their memory.

 

"This was an act of moral debasement unworthy of a moral institution. For this Vatican political expediency trumps ethical and human considerations," he said.

 

Catholic-Jewish relations were already severely strained over the figure of wartime Pope Pius XII, who Jews have accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust. Jews have asked the Vatican, which denies the charges, to freeze the procedure that can lead to his sainthood pending more study of wartime records.

 

Pope Benedict has already made several gestures of reconciliation to the schismatic group, including allowing the unconditional return of the old-style Latin Mass.

 

That move also angered Jews because the ceremony includes a Good Friday prayer for their conversion.

 

(Editing by Jon Boyle)

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/i...E50N19320090124

[X-Files]

For seventy years, a prayer book moldered in the closet of a family in France, passed down from one generation to the next. Its mildewed parchment pages were stiff and contorted, tarnished by burn marks and waxy smudges. Behind the text of the prayers, faint Greek letters marched in lines up the page, with an occasional diagram disappearing into the spine.

 

The owners wondered if the strange book might have some value, so they took it to Christie's Auction House of London. And in 1998, Christie's auctioned it off—for two million dollars.

 

For this was not just a prayer book. The faint Greek inscriptions and accompanying diagrams were, in fact, the only surviving copies of several works by the great Greek mathematician Archimedes.

 

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id..._for_Archimedes

[Archie Pellagio]

Teenager poses as cop, goes on patrol

 

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24964224-401,00.html

 

Teenage boy dresses as police officer

Goes on patrol with official cop

Rides in squad car for hours before busted

A TEENAGE boy dressed as a police officer went on patrol in a squad car with a qualified cop for five hours before he was busted.

 

The 14-year-old walked into a Chicago police station and managed to secure an assignment. He did not have a gun, issue any tickets or drive the patrol car, Associated Press reported.

 

Assistant Superintendent James Jackson said the boy's deception was only discovered after the patrol ended.

 

Officers noticed his uniform didn't have an official star.

 

Police said they were investigating how the "serious security breach" went undetected for so long.

 

Deputy Superintendent Daniel Dugan said the boy looked older than 14, and was motivated by a desire to be an officer rather than malice or "ill intent", Associated Press reported.

 

He also took part in a program for youth interested in policing, and would have been familiar with some procedures, police said.

 

 

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Edited January 26, 2009 by Luke_Yaxley

[X-Files]

A GERMAN man is being treated in hospital after he lost control of his car and crashed into a church ROOF.

Photo at http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2172809.ece

[Jeff]

That's gonna leave a mark.

 

Toothy raccoon bit off manhood

By STAFF REPORTER

Published: 26 Jan 2009

 

A FEISTY raccoon has bitten off a pervert’s PENIS as he was trying to rape the animal.

 

Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with pals when he leapt on the terrified – but toothy – fur ball.

 

“When I saw the raccoon I thought I’d have some fun,” he told stunned casualty surgeons in Moscow.

 

Now Russian plastic surgeons are trying to restore his mangled manhood.

 

“He’s been told they can get things working again but they can’t sew back on what the raccoon bit off," said a pal.

 

“That’s gone forever so there isn’t going to be much for them to work with."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2172612.ece

[KingSargent]

That's gonna leave a mark.

 

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2172612.ece

Gud vork, Comrade Coon!

[toysoldier]

That's gonna leave a mark.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2172612.ece

 

yep, striking one for many goats/chickens/sheep all around the world.

[X-Files]

yep, striking one for many goats/chickens/sheep all around the world.

 

What was the name of that little freak animal-fcuker we had hanging around...? <Rhetorical question>

 

*

 

A man who became trapped beneath his own sofa for two days, says he survived by

sipping from a whisky bottle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/engl...set/7853328.stm >

Edited January 27, 2009 by X-Files

[X-Files]

'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world

An 'immortal' jellyfish is swarming through the world's oceans, according to scientists.

Last Updated: 12:26PM GMT 27 Jan 2009

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/...-the-world.html

 

Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion."

[Corinthian]

'Immortal' jellyfish swarming across the world

An 'immortal' jellyfish is swarming through the world's oceans, according to scientists.

Last Updated: 12:26PM GMT 27 Jan 2009

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/...-the-world.html

 

Dr Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute said: "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion."

 

This?

 

 

Or more like this?

 

 

[Bearded-Dragon]

RAF 'ordered to shoot down UFOs'

The RAF has tried to shoot down suspected UFOs as part of a Government directive, it has been claimed.

 

By Daily Telegraph Reporter

Last Updated: 1:24AM GMT 27 Jan 2009

A former member of staff at the Ministry of Defence says alien craft have been fired at by the British military. ;

 

Pilots have apparently fired upon the unidentified objects without success since the 1980s, according to Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence's UFO project.

 

"There was a faction in the MoD who said 'We want to shoot down a UFO and that will resolve the issue one way or another'," he told The Sun.

 

"We know of cases where the order has been given to shoot down - with little effect to the UFO."

 

Mr Pope claimed that the RAF only attempted to engage when the mysterious objects were perceived to be a threat.

 

He said: "In the case of UFOs, whether the object is causing a threat is very much a pilot's judgement call. The public won't know unless it comes down in a heavily populated area."

 

The MoD refused to comment.

 

Earlier this month, residents in the Lincolnshire Wolds were left puzzled by the destruction of a wind turbine within hours of several sightings of strange glowing orbs.

 

At least half a dozen residents reported seeing the orange-yellow spheres, which some witnesses claimed were trailing tentacles.

 

Dorothy Willows, who lives a mile and a half from the wind farm, said she saw a "low-flying object skimming across the sky towards the turbines" on January 4.

 

The following morning, a 213ft glass fibre turbine was left crippled, with locals reporting hearing a loud bang like thunder.

 

One of the £1 million turbine's 65ft blades was ripped off and another severely damaged

[Source]

[Jeff]

Poisonous Fish Testicles Send 7 Japanese Diners to Hospital

Tuesday , January 27, 2009

AP

TOKYO —

Seven diners in northern Japan fell ill and three remained hospitalized Tuesday after eating blowfish testicles prepared in a restaurant not authorized to serve the poisonous delicacy.

 

The owner of the restaurant in Tsuruoka city, who is also the chef, had no license to serve blowfish and was being questioned on suspicion of professional negligence, police official Yoshihito Iwase said.

 

Blowfish, while extremely poisonous if not prepared properly, is considered a delicacy in Japan and is consumed by thrill-seeking gourmets.

 

Iwase said the seven men ordered sashimi and grilled blowfish testicles at the restaurant Monday night.

 

Shortly after, they developed limb paralysis and breathing trouble and started to lose consciousness — typical signs of blowfish poisoning — and were rushed to a hospital for treatment, Iwase said.

 

A 68-year-old diner remained hospitalized in critical condition with respiratory failure and two others, aged 55 and 69, were in serious condition, he said.

 

"It's scary. If you go to a decent-looking restaurant that serves fugu, you would assume a cook has a proper fugu license," Iwase said, using the Japanese term for blowfish.

 

Blowfish poison, called tetrodotoxin, is nearly 100 times more poisonous than potassium cyanide, according to the Ishikawa Health Service Association. It can cause death within an hour and a half after consumption.

 

Three people died and 44 others were sickened by blowfish poisoning in 2007 — most of them after catching the fish and cooking it at home — according to the Health Ministry.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,483504,00.html

[Bearded-Dragon]

 

Lizard becomes father at age of 111

A reptile in New Zealand has become a father at the ripe old age of 111 after receiving treatment for a cancer that made him hostile toward prospective mates.

 

Last Updated: 5:48PM GMT 27 Jan 2009

Henry the lizard has become the proud father of 11 babies aged 111.

 

The tuatara, named Henry, was thought well past the mating age until he was caught with a female named Mildred last March – a consummation that resulted in 11 babies being hatched.

 

Tuatara are indigenous New Zealand creatures that resemble lizards but descend from a distinct lineage of reptile that walked the earth with the dinosaurs 225 million years ago, zoologists say.

 

An endangered species, the hatchlings born at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery will provide a badly needed boost to the tuatara's genetic diversity, said the gallery's tuatara curator, Lindsay Hazley.

 

Henry was at least 70 years old when he arrived at the museum, "a grumpy old man" who attacked other reptiles, including females, until a cancerous tumour was removed from his genitals in 2002, said Hazley.

 

"I went off the idea he was good for breeding," said Hazley but once the tumour was removed, "he was no longer aggressive."

 

The museum now has 72 of the reptiles after 42 hatchings in the past two years.

 

Hazley hopes to use Henry regularly in the breeding program that is helping expand tuatara numbers after they had been savaged by predators.

 

Tuatara are estimated to number about 50,000, most of them living in predator-free sanctuaries, including offshore islands.

 

A male Tuatara takes 70 years to fully mature but reaches sexual maturity about age 20.

 

While there's no scientific data on the lifespan of the ancient reptiles, "they go beyond 100 well and truly," Hazley said. "They can be around for 150 to 250 years."

[Source ]

[Corinthian]

Lizard becomes father at age of 111

 

Henry the lizard has become the proud father of 11 babies aged 111.

 

As is sometimes said over here: "My asim pa si lolo."*

 

* - more or less "Grandpa still has it." "Asim" meaning "sour" and I'll let you guess what that implies.

[X-Files]

PELAHATCHIE, Miss. -- Students at a Mississippi high school said a fellow student spoke in tongues and made grave predictions for her classmates for three days. Some of those predictions included when students would die.

 

http://www.10news.com/education/18209396/d...l.html?taf=sand

 

And in the poo-flinging department, we have:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28876852/

Some might say that a lawyer deserves this kind of treatment --- but, truly, no one does. A robbery suspect earned himself a mistrial when he smeared feces on his attorney and threw it at jurors. Defendant Weusi McGowan, 37, had somehow snuck a plastic bag filled with excrement with into the San Diego Superior Court building, Paul Levikow, spokesman for the District Attorney's Office, told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Edited January 28, 2009 by X-Files

[Michael Donnelly]

Now why do they have to play us like that? They can have their silly World Cup slot, most of the US doesn't care!

 

Mexicans turning to voodoo to beat United States

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/9141...P&gt1=39002

 

"An advertisement in the sports newspaper Record on Tuesday invited fans to clip coupons and redeem them at their local Radio Shack store for a voodoo-doll likeness of a U.S. player. The hope was that a little black magic might help Mexico break its decade of futility."

[X-Files]

'Office Space', Capitol-style

The Shaft evolved into office space years ago when Congress ran out of money building extra elevators in the Longworth House Office Building. The extra shaft was used as storage and then converted to office space to meet the needs of the ever-expanding congressional work force, Politico reported Tuesday.

*

Other quirky offices within the Capitol complex include a former cell from the Civil War, a former fallout shelter and a former bathroom with two urinals, Politico reported.

 

***

 

Did Australians try to kill U.K. queen in crash?

Ex-cop claims log was deliberately placed across train tracks during '70 visit

updated 6:02 a.m. ET Jan. 28, 2009

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28889514/

SYDNEY, Australia - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II narrowly escaped disaster in 1970 when a large wooden log was placed on a railroad track in an apparent attempt to derail her train as she traveled across Australia, a retired detective said Wednesday.

Former New South Wales state Detective Superintendent Cliff McHardy, 81, said the Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, were traveling through the Blue Mountains on April 29, 1970, when their train struck the log, which became stuck under the front wheels.

But the locomotive was not moving fast enough to become derailed, sliding about 200 yards before coming to a stop, said McHardy, who investigated the incident at the time.

McHardy said markings at the scene suggested the log had been deliberately rolled onto the tracks. A security train that swept the tracks an hour before the Queen's locomotive chugged through the area spotted nothing, he said.

McHardy's claims were first reported in his local paper, the Lithgow Mercury, on Jan. 22. He has since repeated the story to several other media outlets, including Australia's Macquarie Radio on Wednesday. He did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press.

A spokeswoman for the New South Wales police said officials were looking into McHardy's story to determine its validity.

McHardy said police investigating the incident were ordered to keep details quiet to avoid embarrassing Australia.

Edited January 28, 2009 by X-Files

[Mike Steele]

<h1 class="head">Hackers Crack Into Texas Road Sign, Warn of Zombies Ahead</h1> Wednesday, January 28, 2009

By Joshua Rhett Miller

 

i-hacked.com

 

 

Texas Dept. of Transportation officials confirm a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th Street in Austin was hacked into last week.

 

Tampering with portable road signs is illegal and potentially dangerous to drivers. It is a misdemeanor in Texas, with penalties ranging from fines to potential jail time. Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead."

 

Chris Lippincott, director of media relations for the Texas Department of Transportation, confirmed that a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th Street, near the University of Texas at Austin, was hacked into during the early hours of Jan. 19.

 

"It was clever, kind of cute, but not what it was intended for," said Lippincott, who saw the sign during his morning commute. "Those signs are deployed for a reason — to improve traffic conditions, let folks know there's a road closure."

 

"It's sort of amusing, but not at all helpful," he told FOXNews.com.

 

Lippincott said the hacked sign — manufactured by IMAGO — is owned and operated by the city of Austin. Texas Department of Transportation signs have not been affected, he said.

 

"It is always possible that it could occur, but we attempt to prevent hacking incidents," Lippincott wrote in an e-mail. He declined to comment on security measures to protect the state's signs from hackers.

 

Austin Public Works spokeswoman Sara Hartley said the incident was not initially reported to police, but will be shortly. The sign was reverted back to its original message within hours, according to Hartley, who insisted the signs are tamper-resistant and equipped with external locks.

 

"This sign was broken into, it was not just a 'walk up and change the sign' kind of thing," Hartley told FOXNews.com. "This is a new one for us, we've never had it happen before."

 

She said she did not know whether any other signs in the area had been altered.

 

According to the blog i-hacked.com, some commercial road signs, including those manufactured by IMAGO's ADDCO division, can be easily altered because their instrument panels are frequently left unlocked and their default passwords are not changed.

 

"Programming is as simple as scrolling down the menu selection," i-hacked.com reports. "Type whatever you want to display … In all likelihood, the crew will not have changed [the password]."

 

I-hacked.com warns readers not to try to alter the signs, which cost roughly $15,000.

 

ADDCO Chief Operating Officer Brian Nicholson told FOXNews.com that the company is sending out notices to customers on the potentially dangerous security flaw.

 

"It's incumbent upon users to change the default password and secure the sign with a padlock," Nicholson said. "We're having our engineers review this information."

 

In the meantime, if you're driving in Austin, you can rest assured: There are no zombies ahead.

[Michael Donnelly]

In the meantime, if you're driving in Austin, you can rest assured: There are no zombies ahead.

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/118764/