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Just in time for Halloween comes this photo taken by a hunter's camera last month, set up on a tree with an automatic trigger in Pennsylvania. The hunter was aiming to photograph deer, but snapped this thing instead. Sasquatch groupies claim it's a teenage Bigfoot. Game officials claim it's a bear with a bad case of mange. I think it's the first filmmaker who disappeared in "The Blair Witch Project" -- with a bad case of mange.
... when you have a pre-made sign ready to stick in the window to close quickly in case of earthquake, like this store in San Jose near Tuesday night's magnitude 5.6 temblor.
Totally badass Donald Pleasence battling Michael Myers (and battling him, and battling him...)
A super-cool sneak preview of my column coming out in Tuesday's Los Angeles Daily News: After careful consideration, I've given my blessing to Turkey opening a can on the PKK -- with one caveat. Read on:
"'I am not ordering you to attack; I am ordering you to die,' Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is quoted as telling his troops in the 1915 battle of Gallipoli, in which British and French forces were prevented from taking Istanbul with heavy casualties.
So seems the motto of Kurdish rebels who keep ambushing Turkish soldiers on the Iraqi border, racking up a Turkish body count of 42 in the last month as well as kidnapping eight soldiers.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has embraced a death wish.
Tanks have massed along the Iraqi border, just waiting for the word go. On Oct. 17, the Turkish parliament voted 507-19 in favor of going into Iraq to rout the PKK. And just days ago, Gen. Yasar Buyukanit said, 'We are determined to make those who cause this sadness grieve with an intensity that they cannot imagine.'
...I've thought about the WWAD - what would Ataturk do? - and weighed my months of resistance to Turkish military action in Iraq, believing as many do that this would only jack up a country that's already on shaky ground.
However, the WWAD has won out..."
There's always time to be Paris Hilton the jailbird, complete with stuffed Chihuahua stuffed in a prison-stripes handbag!
The Russians try to unravel the mysteries of gender differences:
"A woman does not have a man’s habit to scratch her noggin when she thinks of an answer to a confusing question, for example. Women do not like to show they are confused. They never want to ruin their hairdo with that gesture either.
Women will never understand why footballers stand in a line with their hands crossed before a penalty kick during a match. In addition, women never shudder when a male character gets kicked in the groin in a movie.
...After taking a bath, a woman grabs a towel and makes a turban on her head from it, at least for one minute. The reasons of such a weird Oriental ritual are unknown.
A woman does not get mad when her underwear gets stuck between her buttocks. Women joyfully wear those items of torture called bikinis."
I now feel the elation Steve Martin's "Jerk" felt at being included in the phone book: Check out my Wikimmortality.
From Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Web site:
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Thursday that the Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to resolve differences through dialogue and welcomes any suggestion to this end.
President Ahmadinejad made the remark in a meeting with a group of blind persons....'Unfortunately, our enemies cannot tolerate to see our success and try to throw obstacles in our way,' said the president."
The picture at the link is priceless, too, with some poor sunglassed guy standing next to Mahmoud. ("There are no blind people in Iran!") Of course, this also opens the floor up to all sorts of cracks, like about the blind leading the blind...
From Moammar Gadhafi's Darfur "peace talks" today, which weren't really talks because rebel leaders didn't show up, and one side can't sit there and make peace with itself:
"'The government of Sudan is proclaiming as of now a unilateral cease-fire in Darfur,' said Sudanese chief envoy Nafie Ali Nafie. 'We shall not be the first ones to fire arms.'
...Chief U.N. negotiator Jan Eliasson and his African Union counterpart, Salim Ahmed Salim, told reporters several rebel leaders were expected to 'trickle in' during the next few days. While slow to start, the talks aimed to build a dialogue that could lead to a more solid peace deal, they said."
A colleague just wondered aloud if Boutros Boutros-Ghali ever went to Walla Walla, Wash.
Rebel style at its finest -- not only are the reflective Oakleys a mean touch, but we're digging the wrap that actually looks like it's a pair of camouflage pants wrapped around this dude's head. Rage Boy in Pakistan could take a cue from his style -- though it does look as if this stood up, he'd tip over from the sheer weight on his noggin.
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