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    The weekly prize for the weirdest headline goes to (drum roll) THE GUARDIAN.

    Three-legged dog with cancer saves baby otter in Minnesota river drama.



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    Thanks for the chuckle.....

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    Another coup from The Guardian:

    Stonehenge builders ate undercooked offal, ancient faeces reveals.

    Parasite eggs found in 4,500-year-old human faeces suggest the builders of Stonehenge took part in winter feasts that included the internal organs of animals, researchers have revealed. The huge stone circle of Stonehenge is thought to have been built around 2,500BC, with evidence suggesting the builders were housed at a settlement known as Durrington Walls, about 2 miles away. The site was predominantly occupied in the winter months, and appears to have been used for between 10 to 50 years.

    Experts say they have discovered intestinal parasites in ancient faeces – or coprolites – recovered from the prehistoric rubbish dumps of Durrington Walls, offering new insights into the lives and diet of those who constructed Stonehenge.
    The giant pits were dug into hard chalk forming a ring 2km across. The team says the preserved stools are not only the oldest coprolites in Britain to contain parasites, but the earliest evidence for parasite infection in Britain where the species of the hosts are known.

    “It is the earliest where we know the origin of the person who went to the toilet,” said Dr Piers Mitchell, of the University of Cambridge, a co-author of the study.


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    Arby’s manager accused of urinating in milkshake mix
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    Mon 16 May 2022 17.01 EDT

    A manager at an Arby’s fast-food restaurant in Washington state has been accused of urinating into a milkshake mix that might then have been served to dozens of people.

    Police in Vancouver, across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon, said they uncovered footage of the 29-year-old man peeing into a bag of milkshake mix as they were executing a search warrant on his phone as part of an investigation into child sex abuse images, the Columbian newspaper reported.

    The manager made one court appearance last Wednesday on child abuse image allegations and another on Friday, for a new allegation of second-degree assault with sexual motivation, after police said they found the 16-second urination video. According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Clark county superior court, the video’s metadata showed it was recorded on 30 October at an Arby’s in Vancouver’s Mill Plain neighborhood.

    The manager acknowledged to investigators that he urinated in the milkshake mix bag at least twice, but said he was “almost sure” he threw the bag out. He said he was working alone in the restaurant that night and that he did it for sexual gratification.


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    George W Bush accidentally admits Iraq war was ‘unjustified and brutal’ in gaffe

    Former president makes slip when speaking at his presidential library in Dallas on Wednesday

    Julian Borger in Washington
    Thu 19 May 2022

    Sigmund Freud was unavailable for comment, but George W Bush saying Iraq instead of Ukraine when condemning “a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion” certainly suggests he still has a lot on his unconscious mind.

    The former president jokingly attributed the slip to his 75 years, but there has always been a faulty connection between his brain and his tongue. There are whole books full of “Bushisms”, like his boast that people “misunderestimated” him, and how much he felt for single mothers “working hard to put food on your family”.

    There may have been something Freudian about his 2004 warning that America’s enemies “never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we”. And then there was the time he was thanking an army general for his service in 2008, telling him he “really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq”.

    Bush has already told us that the fiasco of Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction still troubles him.

    “No one was more shocked and angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons,” he wrote in his memoir, Decision Points.

    “I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.”

    But Bush sought to justify the 2003 invasion anyway, on the grounds that Saddam Hussein was a vicious despot “pursuing” weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and therefore the US was safer without him in the world.

    The 43rd president was making a similar argument to an audience at his presidential library in Dallas when he made his gaffe on Wednesday.

    Bush was making a distinction between a democratically elected Volodymyr Zelenskiy, “the Churchill of the 21st century”, and the rigged elections and despotism of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where the absence of checks and balances led to “the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq – I mean Ukraine”.

    The audience laughed along, but the mistake was a reminder that the world is still living with the consequences of that invasion. It broke Iraq and set off a sectarian civil war in which hundreds of thousands of people died.


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    I'm not really smiling over this gaffe.

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    Man arrested after Mona Lisa smeared with cake

    Man, 36, placed in psychiatric care after painting’s display case covered in cake in apparent climate protest

    Agence France-Presse in Paris
    Mon 30 May 2022 08.54 EDT

    A 36-year-old man has been arrested and placed in psychiatric care after he smeared a glass screen encasing the Mona Lisa with cake in a purported protest against artists not focusing enough on “the planet”.

    Officials at the Louvre Museum in Paris, where the enigmatic portrait holds pride of place, declined to comment on the bizarre incident on Sunday, which was captured on several phones and circulated widely on social media.

    The work by Leonardo da Vinci, which has been the target of vandalism attempts in the past, was unharmed thanks to its bulletproof glass case.


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    Quote Originally Posted by TSherbs View Post
    I'm not really smiling over this gaffe.
    Me either. The American version of hereditary monarchy is absurd, as Thomas Pained opined. Apparently Patrick is not moving forward. The former president would have done us all a lot better had he stuck to owning his gifted baseball team.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chuck Naill View Post
    The American version of hereditary monarchy is absurd, as Thomas Pained opined.
    Is he related to William Hurt?

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    Have no idea.

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    You are impervious to humor.

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    Or just didn’t get your point …lol!

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    Irish exorcist calls for extra help for people oppressed by evil spirits

    Fr Pat Collins says there is urgent need for ‘deliverance ministry’ amid ‘crisis of meaning’ in Ireland

    Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

    Thu 9 Jun 2022 11.16 EDT

    The appeal for help sounds like it was channelled from the TV show Stranger Things. “Exorcist: trained teams needed in parishes to fight evil spirits.”

    It is, however, the splash headline in this week’s Irish Catholic, Ireland’s biggest-selling religious newspaper. Fr Pat Collins, a priest of the Vincentian order and a prominent Dublin-based exorcist, told the weekly there was an urgent need for “deliverance ministry” to help people who feel oppressed by evil spirits.

    “As Ireland has secularised, there is a crisis of truth, and a crisis of meaning – people are getting into all kinds of things they wouldn’t have got into before. As a result, people are more open to spiritual forces that can be negative.”

    Unlike exorcism, which is conducted by priests given special permission from the Catholic church, deliverance ministry is prayer for people who are distressed and wish to heal emotional wounds, including those purportedly caused by evil spirits.

    Collins said Irish bishops recognised the need. “The demand is much greater than the supply.”


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    Geico ordered to pay Missouri woman $5.2 million after she contracted STD in a car

    By Jalen Beckford, CNN

    June 9, 2022

    (CNN)A Missouri woman was awarded $5.2 million in a settlement from insurance company GEICO after contracting a sexually transmitted disease from her partner in his vehicle, which was insured by the company, court documents show. The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld that award this week.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chip View Post
    Geico ordered to pay Missouri woman $5.2 million after she contracted STD in a car

    By Jalen Beckford, CNN

    June 9, 2022

    (CNN)A Missouri woman was awarded $5.2 million in a settlement from insurance company GEICO after contracting a sexually transmitted disease from her partner in his vehicle, which was insured by the company, court documents show. The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld that award this week.


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    Aside from the absurdity of the circumstances and the claim itself, the thing about this story I thought funny (if I read the opinion correctly) is that the court simply upheld the $5.2M arbitration.

    Everything seems to have an arbitration clause (like a car purchase). Presumably this is because the business thinks it's to their advantage. In this case, it wasn't; and the business wanted to take it to court. "Tough shit", said the judge.
    "A truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged."

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    Based on that verdict, GEICO is probably changing some of the terms of their auto policies to exclude STDs and pregnancy.

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    Plenty of strange stuff in the news.

    Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient

    Blake Lemoine, the engineer, says that Google’s language model has a soul. The company disagrees.

    By Nico Grant and Cade Metz

    June 12, 2022

    SAN FRANCISCO — Google placed an engineer on paid leave recently after dismissing his claim that its artificial intelligence is sentient, surfacing yet another fracas about the company’s most advanced technology.

    Blake Lemoine, a senior software engineer in Google’s Responsible A.I. organization, said in an interview that he was put on leave Monday. The company’s human resources department said he had violated Google’s confidentiality policy. The day before his suspension, Mr. Lemoine said, he handed over documents to a U.S. senator’s office, claiming they provided evidence that Google and its technology engaged in religious discrimination.

    Google said that its systems imitated conversational exchanges and could riff on different topics, but did not have consciousness. “Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our A.I. Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims,” Brian Gabriel, a Google spokesman, said in a statement. “Some in the broader A.I. community are considering the long-term possibility of sentient or general A.I., but it doesn’t make sense to do so by anthropomorphizing today’s conversational models, which are not sentient.” The Washington Post first reported Mr. Lemoine’s suspension.

    For months, Mr. Lemoine had tussled with Google managers, executives and human resources over his surprising claim that the company’s Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, had consciousness and a soul. Google says hundreds of its researchers and engineers have conversed with LaMDA, an internal tool, and reached a different conclusion than Mr. Lemoine did. Most A.I. experts believe the industry is a very long way from computing sentience.


    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/t...e=articleShare

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    Trump Jr urged fans to sign his father’s birthday card (only if they send a donation)

    The former president’s fundraising efforts after the 2020 election are under scrutiny by the House January 6 committee




    ‘I know it would mean so much to him to see YOUR NAME on his OFFICIAL Birthday Card,’ Trump Jr told supporters.

    Victoria Bekiempis
    Wed 15 Jun 2022

    Donald Trump Jr has reportedly invited his father’s backers to sign the ex-president’s online birthday card, so long as they donate money to his fundraising group.

    According to Insider, Trump’s eldest son made this pitch in an email to supporters, writing, “My father has done so much for this great Country, and I know it would mean so much to him to see YOUR NAME on his OFFICIAL Birthday Card.” Trump was born on 14 June 1946.

    The email contained a link that lets Trump loyalists write a message to him. However, they have to pledge a minimum $1 donation to send their good wishes.

    The email comes amid increasing scrutiny of Trump’s fundraising efforts after the 2020 election. The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection said that Trump’s campaign amassed about $250m post-election, while asking for assistance in funding legal challenges to the election results.

    Two Trump campaign aides told the committee, however, that the “Official Election Defense Fund”, as it was described in multiple fundraising emails, did not formally exist. “The big lie was also a big rip-off,” committee member congresswoman Zoe Lofgren commented.

    “He intentionally misled his donors, asked them to donate to a fund that didn’t exist and used the money raised for something other than what it said,” Lofgren later told CNN.

    Lofgren also said that Donald Trump Jr’s fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle, received $60,000 for her 2.5-minute speech at a rally shortly before the January 6 riot. Her appearance was allegedly paid for using funds from this “Election Defense Fund”.

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    Capitol Police Arrest Triumph the Insult Comic Dog



    The police at the United States Capitol have arrested members of a production team for the CBS show “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” who were filming a segment featuring a salty canine puppet voiced by the comedian Robert Smigel.

    The Capitol Police said on Friday that they had arrested seven people in a hallway of the Capitol Building on Thursday night, at a time when the building was closed to visitors. The people had been told to leave the building earlier in the day, the police said.

    CBS said that Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the puppet that Mr. Smigel has voiced for years, had been at the Capitol on Thursday with the production team when they were detained by the police. At the time of the arrest, the team had finished prearranged interviews with members of Congress and were filming “final comedy elements” in the building’s hallways for an upcoming segment on “The Late Show.”

    The seven people were later charged with unlawful entry, and an investigation is now underway in consultation with Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, the Capitol Police said, adding that more criminal charges may be filed. Mr. Graves’s office could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday night.

    The arrests in the Longworth House Office Building occurred at a time when Congress is holding televised hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, in which supporters of President Donald J. Trump violently stormed the Capitol complex.

    Word of the arrests was sure to provide weekend fodder for pundits, comedians and politicians. Some social media users said it was ironic that the production team members might be punished more than some of those involved in last year’s attack.

    The Fox News host Tucker Carlson took a different view, saying on Friday night that Mr. Colbert’s producers had “committed insurrection” at the U.S. Capitol building. “It’s exactly like what happened on Jan 6., so we’ll take a close look at what the punishments are,” he told Fox viewers.


    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/u...e=articleShare
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    Ah, the ugly beauty of false equivalencies. Carlson's a git on a stick.

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