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REAL Fears beginning with "a"

Fears beginning with "a"

Ablutophobia: Fear of washing or bathing.

Acarophobia: Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.

Acerophobia: Fear of sourness.

Achluophobia: Fear of darkness.

Acousticophobia: Fear of noise.

Acrophobia: Fear of heights.

Aeroacrophobia: Fear of open high places.

Aeronausiphobia: Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.

Aerophobia: Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.

Agliophobia: Fear of pain.

Agoraphobia: Fear of 1) open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets 2) leaving a safe place.

Agraphobia: Fear of sexual abuse.

Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals.

Agyrophobia: Fear of streets or crossing the street.

Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects.

Ailurophobia: Fear of cats.

Albuminurophobia: Fear of kidney disease.

Alektorophobia: Fear of chickens.

Algophobia: Fear of pain.

Alliumphobia: Fear of garlic.

Allodoxaphobia: Fear of opinions.

Altophobia: Fear of heights.

Amathophobia: Fear of dust.

Amaxophobia: Fear of riding in a car.

Ambulophobia: Fear of walking.

Amnesiphobia: Fear of amnesia.

Amychophobia: Fear of scratches or being scratched.

Anablephobia: Fear of looking up.

Ancraophobia: Fear of wind.

Androphobia: Fear of men.

Anemophobia: Fear of air drafts or wind.

Anginophobia: Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.

Anglophobia: Fear of England, English culture, etc.

Angrophobia: Fear of becoming angry.

Ankylophobia: Fear of immobility of a joint.

Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers.

Anthropophobia: Fear of people or society.

Antlophobia: Fear of floods.

Anuptaphobia: Fear of staying single.

Apeirophobia: Fear of infinity.

Aphenphosmphobia: Fear of being touched.

Apiphobia: Fear of bees.

Apotemnophobia: Fear of persons with amputations.

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders.

Arithmophobia: Fear of numbers.

Arrhenphobia: Fear of men.

Arsonphobia: Fear of fire.

Asthenophobia: Fear of fainting or weakness.

Astraphobia: Fear of thunder and lightning.

Astrophobia: Fear of stars and celestial space.

Asymmetriphobia: Fear of asymmetrical things.

Ataxiophobia: Fear of ataxia.

Ataxophobia: Fear of disorder or untidiness.

Atelophobia: Fear of imperfection.

Atephobia: Fear of ruin or ruins.

Athazagoraphobia: Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.

Atomosophobia: Fear of atomic explosions.

Atychiphobia: Fear of failure.

Aulophobia: Fear of flutes.

Aurophobia: Fear of gold.

Auroraphobia: Fear of Northern lights.

Autodysomophobia: Fear of one that has a vile odor.

Automatonophobia: Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues anything that falsly represents a sentient being.

Automysophobia: Fear of being dirty.

Autophobia: Fear of being alone or of oneself.

Aviophobia or Aviatophobia: Fear of flying.

Posted: 3:35 PM, 11/1/2006 in Entertainment

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REMEMBER YOUR RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN

Amendment I.
Ratified December 15, 1791

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II.
Ratified December 15, 1791

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III.
Ratified December 15, 1791

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV.
Ratified December 15, 1791

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V.
Ratified December 15, 1791

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI.
Ratified December 15, 1791

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defence.

Amendment VII.
Ratified December 15, 1791

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII.
Ratified December 15, 1791

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX.
Ratified December 15, 1791

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X.
Ratified December 15, 1791

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Amendment XI.
Ratified February 7, 1795

The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.

Amendment XII.
Ratified June 15, 1804

The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate; —The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.— The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Amendment XIII.
Ratified December 6, 1865

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XIV.
Ratified July 9, 1868

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Amendment XV.
Ratified February 3, 1870

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XVI.
Ratified February 3, 1913

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Amendment XVII.
Ratified April 8, 1913

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.

Amendment XVIII.
Ratified January 16, 1919

Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

Amendment XIX.
Ratified August 18, 1920

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XX.
Ratified January 23, 1933

Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

Section 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.

Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.

Section 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.

Amendment XXI.
Ratified December 5, 1933

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

Amendment XXII.
Ratified February 27, 1951

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Amendment XXIII.
Ratified March 29, 1961

Section 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XXIV.
Ratified January 23, 1964

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XXV.
Ratified February 10, 1967

Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Amendment XXVI.
Ratified July 1, 1971

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XXVII.
Ratified May 7, 1992

No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States of America

Posted: 4:50 PM, 10/18/2006 in Radical Rantings

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What Your Car Says About You

Acura Legend I have always yearned to own the Buick of sports cars

Acura Vigor I wanted a Legend, but couldn't afford one

Audi 90 I enjoy extinguishing engine fires

BMW 318i I love my father, whose girlfriend is my age

BMW M3 I am practical with a huge debt

Buick Grand National I buy four new tires a week

Buick Park Avenue I am older than 34 of the 50 states

Cadillac Fleetwood I'm driving myself to the cemetery

Cadillac Eldorado I'm the saleswoman of the month for Mary Kay cosmetics

Cadillac Seville I'm a hairy-chested pimp with a fat gold chain

Chevrolet Camaro I enjoy beating people up to compensate for my inadequacies

Chevrolet Chevette I love to see peoples' reactions when I tell them I drive a 'Vette

Chevrolet Corvette I'm going through a mid-life crisis

Chevrolet El Camino I'm leading a militia to overthrow our overbearing government

Chrysler Cordoba I dig the rich Corinthian leather

Chevrolet Lumina Well, it was time for a new lease and the Dodge Stratus just wasn't for me

Datsun 280Z I've got a kilo of cocaine in my wheel well

Dodge Dart I teach 3rd grade special education and I voted for Eisenhower

Dodge Daytona I delivered pizzas for 4 years to pay for this car

Dodge Stealth I like this body style, but couldn't afford it as a Mistubishi 3000GT

Dodge Stratus Well, it was time for a new lease and the Chevy Lumina just wasn't for me

Ford Bronco I purchased this car during the Simpson trial, with the expectation that it
would appreciate in value when he was found guilty

Ford Crown Victoria I get a kick out of pulling up right behind people and watching them slow down to below the speed limit and sweat bullets until I turn off

Ford Explorer I'm a yuppie whose meaning of off-roading is setting down my cell phone to negotiate a construction cone

Ford Expedition As a red-blooded American, I feel obligated to consume as much fossil fuel as is humanly possible during my relatively brief and insignificant lifespan on this planet

Ford Excursion I was going to buy a Ford Expedition, but it's double-digit gas mileage just wasn't for me

Ford Fairmont (See Dodge Dart)

Ford Mustang I love to peel out while my teenage buddies cackle like idiots in the back seat

Ford Probe I can't afford a real sports car

Ford Windstar I have four children, all of whom play soccer

Geo Storm I will start the 11th grade in the fall

Geo Tracker I will start the 12th grade in the fall

Honda Accord I lack any originality and am basically a lemming

Honda Civic Gosh, with some stiff, low suspension, alloy wheels and a big chrome exhaust pipe, I've got a few people convinced this car is actually FAST

Honda Del Sol I have always said that half a convertible is better than no convertible at all

Honda Element I'm trying to cling to the fond memories of my childhood when I used to "drive" a cardboard refrigerator box

Hyundai Accent I wanted a new car, but only had enough money for a used car

Infiniti G20 I'm pretending to be rich

Infiniti Q45 I am a physician with 17 malpractice suits pending

Isuzu Impulse I do not give a rip about J.D. Power or his reports

Jaguar XJ6 I am so rich I will pay 60K for a car that is in the shop 280 days per year

Kia Sephia I learned nothing from the failure of the Diahatsu Corporation

Lincoln Town Car I live for Bingo and covered dish suppers

Mazda 323 I only drive to get somewhere

Mazda 626 I only drive to get somewhere, but decided I wanted to spoil myself

Mercury Grand Marquis My blue-haired wife insists I drive this speed, lest my
<insert malady here> become aggravated

Mercedes 500SL I will beat you up if you ask me for an autograph

Mazda Miata I do not fear being decapitated by an 18-wheeler

MGB I am dating a mechanic

Mitsubishi 3000GT I'm a rich pasty white guy who wears wrap-around sunglasses

Mitsubishi Diamante I don't know what it means either

Mitsubishi Eclipse I bought it because car with a spoiler this size has got to be the end-all, be-all of contemporary sports cars

Nissan 300ZX I have yet to complete my divorce proceedings

Nissan Maxima This car looked really stupid until I tinted the windows, installed fake
chrome hubcaps, and put a couple of crown air fresheners in the rear window

Oldmobile Cutlass I just stole this car and I'm going to make a fortune off the parts

Peugeot 505 Diesel I am on the EPA's "Ten Most Wanted" List

Plymouth Neon I'm incessantly bubbly and enjoy doing the macarena

Pontiac Fiero I wanted to challenge my patience and mechanical ability by purchasing a car that needs its engine dropped to change the spark plugs

Pontiac Trans Am I have a switchblade in my sock

Porsche 944 I am dating big-haired women that otherwise would be inaccessible to me

Rolls Royce Silver Shadow With all of this grandeur, Grey Poupon is a must

Saturn SL I was in the market for a cheap plastic car outfitted with an anemic powertrain whose engine tolerances are larger than the Grand Canyon

Saturn SC I wanted to own a plastic car, and a Saturn SL was out of my price range

Subaru Legacy I have always wanted a Japanese car even more than common sense

Toyota Camry I am still in the closet

Volkswagen Beetle I still watch Partridge Family reruns

Volkswagen Cabriolet I am out of the closet

Volkswagen Golf I'm an opinionated college kid who basically bought this car to use as a billboard for all of my wacky bumper stickers

Volkswagen Jetta I'm a single blonde in my twenties (of course the sunglasses are designer!)

Volkswagen Microbus My most cherished possessions besides this car are my tie-dyed
T-shirt, roach clip, and a tarnished 8x10 glossy of Jerry Garcia

Volvo 240 Sedan I voted for Gore, and am a member of the Sierra Club

Volvo 740 Wagon I am frightened of my wife

Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon I am only somewhat frightened of my wife

Volkswagen Type II Camper Bus hand painted to disguise the dents & rust At least I’m not driving a Toyota

Posted: 4:42 PM, 10/18/2006 in Humor

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New Words for the dictionary

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2005 winners:

Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. Glibido: All talk and no action. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

Posted: 10:28 AM, 10/17/2006 in Entertainment Comments (0) | Add Comment | Link

Who will Bush go after next???

WHO WILL BUSH GO AFTER NEXT?

by Tré Taylor

Milan - Because it sounds like Islam.

Vatican City - Why declare war on just one religion?

Russia - Because the cold war is unfinished business too.

Middle Earth - Middle East, Middle Earth - what's the difference?

Mexico - Tacos have been proven to explode in people's stomachs, and therefore they are considered to be massive destruction weapons.

Turkey - Why have both a country and an animal with the same name?

China - There are just too many Chinese, Bush can wipe out millions of them and they wouldn't even be missed. It would be like a sport for him.

Venezuela - Any dictator is always a good target! Moreover, they have even more oil to steal!

Tasmania - I know its only a state but why not...they're just strange people!

The Mythical City of Atlantis - Osama bin Laden could be hiding there.

Luxembourg - A country with a name this long has to be hiding something.

France - They didn't want to be part of the Coalition of the Willing. Osama bin Laden could be hiding there.

British Indian Ocean Territory - First three initials form 'BIO' which obviously means they are manufacturing biological weaponry.

Northern Ireland - Because the first three letters of Iran and Iraq are IRA.

Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft - - That Harry Potter kid looks like he could be a real threat when he gets older.

Hong Kong - For biological terrorism in the form of SARS.

Antarctica - Because it'll make a change from a bloody hot desert.

Nauru - Because it poses an unspecified threat to US security largely because George W Bush doesn't know where it is, or what's there.

7-11 - Osama bin Laden could be hiding in any of them.

Japan - Sony are planning to make little Saddam Furbies.

Monaco - It's small (only 2 sq km) and would make a great 'weekender'.

Canada - Listen folks, We are eventually going to run out of places to conquer so we might as well take these guys by surprise...We will sneak attack while the entire country is at a hockey game.

Bassas da India - A French colony with 'ass' in their name. Dubbya knows something is up here that must be stopped.

Dominican Republic - George W. Bush went to primary school with a boy called Dom who wasn't very nice.

South Sandwich Islands - Mmm ... sandwiches.

China - Because they FUND North Korea's military budget. (Oh, wait that's not funny, they really do).

Australia - They didn't seem to have any casualties in this war; they must've been helping Sadam.

Wales - Because, like the Iraqi country folk, they commune with sheep AND spit when they talk. Therefore they must be terrorists. Besides, they fight the Blairist wing of the USA by trying to retain a national identity (also Osama could be there staying with his aunt Gwyneth Byn Laden, in Llandudno).

New Zealand - Because they hide their intent to overrun other countries (ie Australia) by winging about how good it is at home! Who cares if Osama Bin Laden is hiding there. Nuke 'em!

Mars - It's hot, it's sandy. The sand is red, maybe because of the blood shed by all the oppressed people who live there.

England - Because, in the words of George W. Bush, "Them peoples can't keep teasing on me for my englishizing, if I destroy the place where English gets talked the mostest."

The Moon - Because we must destroy their cheese stash. It could be used to manufacture biological weapons. Who's to say Osama Bin Laden is not hiding there. It's a threat to us all!

Libya - They don't seem to be doing anything! Bomb them just in case.

Michael Jackson's Neverland - He's always invading things, obscenely high priced stores, supermarkets, our ears, kiddies. This monster has to be stopped. Also he does seem to look like a BIO experiment gone wrong.

Costa Rica - Jurassic Park is there. They're breading a whole army of dinosaurs!

Jupiter - They must be there. The planet's full of Toxic Gasses. Bio weapons, for sure, mm hmm.

A Dixie Chicks Concert - They are the axis of Evil.

Japan - Because subliminal terrorist messages are hidden in karaoke tunes.

France - Just for the heck of it! Besides they might miss and "accidentally" hit Germany.

Papua New Guinea - Have they actually ever been in a war? Nope, didn't think so. Too quiet for my likes, AND Osama could be vacationing there.

Liberia - It sounds a bit like lysteria, it reads a bit like liberation, plus it might have weapons of bus construction.

Alabama - It's not a country, but Osama Bin Laden could be hiding there. If he's not, at least we'll be doing our part to clean up the gene pool. Who'd miss it?

The Netherworld - Once we know Bin Laden is dead, why not do it again, just for the fun of it?

The Whales - They're big enough to conceal any number of terrorists.

Mexico - Their food is a form a terrorism.

The Pretzel Companies - The World NEED to be Bush-whacked for the safety of everyone. When someone eats a pretzel they have a one in four chance of choking. Just look at what they did to Dubbya a while ago. Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein have paid the pretzel companies to produce these weapons of mass destruction to millions of people the world over.

Posted: 10:13 AM, 10/17/2006 in Entertainment

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Strange Records

Quebec is the world’s leading exporter of asbestos.
The wingspan of a Boeing 747 jet is longer than the Wright Brothers’ first flight.
Each day, 14,000 tons of garbage are dumped into Fresh Kills, NY, the largest landfill in the world.
Astronaut Shannon Lucis spent 188 days in a row in space. That’s the American record.
The world record for passing gas was set on Japanese television, 3,000 times in a row.
The tallest man in the world was 8′11″ Robert Wadlow. He was just 22 when he died in 1949 from an infection caused by leg braces he needed to keep him on his feet.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

Posted: 1:35 PM, 9/22/2006 in Humor

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Strange Facts About Cartoons

Captain Kangaroo won five Emmy awards.
Kermit the frog has 11 points on his collar around his neck.
Pluto (the dog from Disney) was originally called “Rover”.
Wilma Flinstone’s maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal and Betty Rubble’s maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
If Barbie (the doll) was life size, her measurements would be 39-23-33.
Barbie�s (the doll) full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy.
The comic known as Peanuts was originally known as Li’lfolks.
The dog featured on a box of Cracker Jacks name is Bingo, the little boy is Jack.
Pinocchio is Italian for “pine eye”!
The first TV couple to sleep in the same bed was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Posted: 1:33 PM, 9/22/2006 in Humor

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Strange Facts About Health and Medicine

Your eyeballs are three and a half percent salt.
An adult has 206 bones, and a newborn has 300.
A sneeze leaves your body at 40 miles per hour.
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
You blink over 10,000,000 times a year.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
Pound for pound, your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body.
Your feet may be as much as 5 to 10 percent larger at the end of the day.
Theres more sweat glands on your feet than any other part of your body. An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.
The human brain is 80% water.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
Laugh and you’ll burn up three and a half calories, no joke.
An eyelash lives about 5 months.
Like finger prints, everyone’s tongue print is different!

Posted: 1:30 PM, 9/22/2006 in Humor

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Strange Facts About YOUR Food

The white powder on chewing gum is actually sweetened marble dust.
Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola per capita than any other nation.
Gum on postage stamps have from two to eight calories.
During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
Americans eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter and 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year.
It takes 548 peanuts to make a 12-ounce jar of peanut butter.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
The average American eats about seven pounds of potato chips a year.
When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
Russia’s best selling candy bar: Snickers.
The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
On average, each American ate 4.4 pounds of jelly last year.
Pound for pound (kilo for kilo), hamburgers cost more than new cars.
Some toothpastes contain antifreeze.

Posted: 1:28 PM, 9/22/2006 in Humor

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Stingray kills 'Crocodile Hunter' Steve Irwin

Stingray kills 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin

By BRIAN CASSEY, Associated Press Writer - 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.

Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called "Ocean's Deadliest" when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous barb on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

"He came on top of the stingray and the stingray's barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart," said Stainton, who was on board Irwin's boat at the time.

Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.

Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword "Crikey!" in his television program "Crocodile Hunter." First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity.

He rode his image into a feature film, 2002's "The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course" and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction.

"The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet," Stainton told reporters in Cairns. "He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, 'Crocs Rule!'"

Prime Minister John Howard, who hand-picked Irwin to attend a gala barbecue to honor President Bush when he visited in 2003, said he was "shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin's sudden, untimely and freakish death."

"It's a huge loss to Australia," Howard told reporters. "He was a wonderful character. He was a passionate environmentalist. He brought joy and entertainment and excitement to millions of people."

Irwin, who made a trademark of hovering dangerously close to untethered crocodiles and leaping on their backs, spoke in rapid-fire bursts with a thick Australian accent and was almost never seen without his uniform of khaki shorts and shirt and heavy boots.

Wild animal expert Jack Hanna, who frequently appears on TV with his subjects, offered praise for Irwin.

"Steve was one of these guys, we thought of him as invincible," Hanna, director emeritus of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo and Aquarium, told ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday.

"The guy was incredible. His knowledge was incredible," Hanna said. "Some people that are doing this stuff are actors and that type of thing, but Steve was truly a zoologist, so to speak, a person who knew what he was doing. Yes, he did things a lot of people wouldn't do. I think he knew what he was doing."

Irwin's ebullience was infectious and Australian officials sought him out for photo opportunities and to promote Australia internationally.

His public image was dented, however, in 2004 when he caused an uproar by holding his infant son in one arm while feeding large crocodiles inside a zoo pen. Irwin claimed at the time there was no danger to the child, and authorities declined to charge Irwin with violating safety regulations.

Later that year, he was accused of getting too close to penguins, a seal and humpback whales in Antarctica while making a documentary. Irwin denied any wrongdoing, and an Australian Environment Department investigation recommended no action be taken against him.

Stingrays have a serrated, toxin-loaded barb, or spine, on the top of their tail. The barb, which can be up to 10 inches long, flexes if a ray is frightened. Stings usually occur to people when they step on or swim too close to a ray and can be excruciatingly painful but are rarely fatal, said University of Queensland marine neuroscientist Shaun Collin.

Collin said he suspected Irwin died because the barb pierced under his ribcage and directly into his heart.

"It was extraordinarily bad luck. It's not easy to get spined by a stingray and to be killed by one is very rare," Collin said.

News of Irwin's death spread quickly, and tributes flowed from all quarters of society.

At Australia Zoo at Beerwah, south Queensland, floral tributes were dropped at the entrance, where a huge fake crocodile gapes. Drivers honked their horns as they passed.

"Steve, from all God's creatures, thank you. Rest in peace," was written on a card with a bouquet of native flowers.

"We're all very shocked. I don't know what the zoo will do without him. He's done so much for us, the environment and it's a big loss," said Paula Kelly, a local resident and volunteer at the zoo, after dropping off a wreath at the gate.

Stainton said Irwin's American-born wife Terri, from Eugene, Ore., had been informed of his death, and had told their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December.

The couple met when she went on vacation in Australia in 1991 and visited Irwin's Australia Zoo; they were married six months later. Sometimes referred to as the "Crocodile Huntress," she costarred on her husband's television show and in his 2002 movie.

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That's right....I copied this without permission..so sue me...and good luck getting anything of value.
I really liked this guy and all that he has done and enjoyed all of his shows.
So I will mourn his death with millions of others who feel the same way.

He did die doing what he loved best ... I only hope I can do the same.

Good-bye Steve....you *will* be missed.

Posted: 11:09 AM, 9/4/2006 in News

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Raise the Minimum wage...please

All I have to say is....it's about time and not soon enough with the cost of living being so high and now with gas prices over $3.00 a gallon.

Read on.....

House Republican leaders, giving in to political reality, plan a vote to raise the $5.15 minimum wage before leaving Washington this weekend for a five-week recess.

"Whether people like it or not, we need to go ahead with it," said Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., who supports the idea. "There's a general agreement among Republicans (opposing the raise) that `maybe we don't like it much, but we need to move forward with it just for political reasons.'"

The No. 3 House GOP leader, Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri, said the plan was to have a vote before week's end. But Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans leaders were working to pass the increase but that "no decisions have been made."

It was a decade ago, during the hotly contested campaign year of 1996, that Congress voted to increase the minimum wage. A person working 40 hours per week at minimum wage makes $10,700, which is below the poverty line for workers with families.

Democrats have made increasing the wage a pillar of their campaign platform and are pushing to raise the wage to $7.25 per hour over two years. In June, the Republican-controlled Senate refused to raise the minimum wage, rejecting a proposal from Democrats.

The chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee said the GOP would embrace the increase to $7.25 per hour and probably attach a proposal passed last year that would make it easier for small business to band together and buy health insurance plans for employees at a lower cost. Rep. Howard McKeon (news, bio, voting record), R-Calif., said the minimum wage bill probably will not include tax cuts such as a repeal of the estate tax.

It was not clear what other potential add-ons might soothe unhappy lawmakers and GOP opponents of a wage increase such as the small business lobby.

House Democrats cried foul on Thursday, saying Republicans planned to add "poison pills" for their business allies. Many Democrats oppose the small business health insurance legislation because it would overrule state laws requiring coverage for procedures such as diabetes care and cancer screenings.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California demanded a vote on a bill that would just increase the minimum wage. She spoke out against "the usual Republican poison pills of attaching tax cuts for the wealthy or other so-called sweeteners for the Republican special interests."

Inflation has eroded the minimum wage's buying power to the lowest level in about 50 years. Yet lawmakers have won cost-of-living wage increases totaling about $35,000 over that time. So House GOP leaders are bowing to the inevitable on the increase.

Forty-eight Republicans, many of them moderates or representing districts with large working-class populations, wrote Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., requesting a vote this week on an increase.

"It is time for Congress to take responsible action to raise the minimum wage and ensure our hardworking constituents can provide for their families," said the letter, drafted by Reps. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, and Frank LoBiondo, R-N.J.

Conservatives responded with a letter signed by 31 Republicans asking that no vote be held.

"Quickly increased labor costs unrelated to business conditions will encourag

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