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I’m pretty sure this is from some kind of mythic story, isn’t it?

After the marriage contract was signed, the ambassador attempted to kiss his bride-to-be. It was only then that he discovered her facial hair and eyes.

via Arab ambassador discovers bride is bearded and cross-eyed behind veil – Telegraph.

Oh boy – of course I want one.  Reminds me of Kliban’s dog language translator where all the dogs are running around barking, then, when you turn the translator on, it shows them all saying “Hey”, ”Hey”,”Hey”,”Hey”,”Hey”,”Hey”.  This might be bigger than the iTablet.

or not:

Puppy Tweets is a plastic tag with a sound and motion sensor that you attach to your pet's dog collar and connect its USB receiver to your computer. Then you create a Twitter account for your dog and enjoy updates all day from Sparky or whatever its name is on your computer or smartphone.

via Mattel takes innovation to the dogs with its Puppy Tweets – Jan. 21, 2010.

All right – I am a dumbass – I thought they were talking about the owners of Indian motorcycles.  Oops: via FT.com / UK – Harley revs up to attract Indian fans. Guess I should have known better if the Financial Times was discussing it.

Harley-Davidson is the latest of the world's motorcycle brands to target the Indian consumer. The country is the world's second-largest two-wheeler market after China, with sales of 3.52m units in the first half of the fiscal year ending next March, up 15 per cent against a year earlier.

Watch the deer on the bed and playing on the plastic sheet. Too funny:

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Rarely the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree of life:

THOMSON, Ga. – An east Georgia man trying to get revenge on his estranged girlfriend by firebombing her home was being held without bond after he threw the device into the wrong house, police said.

via Hey, you with the firebomb! Wrong house! – Criminal weirdness- msnbc.com.

From Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire:

Taking Coburn At His Word

Think Progress caught a chilling moment on C-SPAN this morning. A “teabagger,” apparently taking Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) at his word, called in tears, worried that his prayers for Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) to die before the early morning procedural vote on health care had backfired. The caller was distraught over the absence of Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK).

So funny it is sad.

From DRTSmith – it doesn’t get much more touching than this (unless a Bully did it)

or click here (it’s a flash card)

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I guess that, since he couldn’t make any more laws about how people should act in the bedroom, he had to do a little exploring on his own:

A South Carolina prosecutor has been dismissed after a traffic stop in which he was found with a gentlemen’s club employee in his car, officials said.

Roland Corning, a former state legislator working as an assistant state attorney general, was stopped Monday by a Columbia, S.C., police officer after Corning had pulled his sport utility vehicle into a secluded area where police had “received past complaints in ref. to illegal activity, i.e. sex acts and drug abuse,” The (S.C.) State reported Wednesday.

via S.C. official loses job after traffic stop – UPI.com.

I’m with Weinstein but the suit just sounds very funny.  Unfortunately, on the serious side of this, the proseltyzing is terrible and possibly worse, seems to carry over into some of the USAF decision making.  Their senior leaders seem to never miss a chance to spout ridiculous predictions about the effect of bombs and other high-tech solutions to war, often forgetting the men and women who eventually have to make them work.

Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, said he wants Gordon Klingenschmitt, a former U.S. Navy chaplain, to “stop asking Jesus to plunder my fields … seize my assets, kill me and my family then wipe away our descendants for 10 generations.”

via MRFF Head Sues Over ‘Death’ Prayers.