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Crack Addled Squirrels
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This is an old one, but a great one. Apparently in some places in South London (Brixton), New York, Chicago, anywhere where drugs is a bit of a problem, there are these squirrels that have become unusually aggressive in their search for drugs - having become, as it were, addicted to crack. Or, as I like to say, crack-addled squirrels.
Now there's more than a slight whiff of Urban Legend to this one, but it's been so widely reported that one can't held thinking that maybe, just maybe there's a slight grain of truth to it...but..., well, it's the media after all. Read with caution.
Links: The Sun (UK) - Squirrels go nuts on crack, The Guardian, The NY Times, Various YouTube videos on the Crack Squirrel Problem, Christine O'keefe Aptowicz performs Crack Squirrels, and finally, a seemingly irrelevant connection to Russia where they don't seem to have made the connection - Russian Squirrel Pack Kills Dog.
I couldn't make this stuff up.
A Bomb Under the Table
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"We should put a bomb under the table" he tells me, the Bosses nephew. "Blow it up. Kill them all".
He has a certain charm, this Italian accent, thick, he continues...
"Sure, at first everyone would be upset, they have family and children...but in twenty years they would thank us!"
He's right, of course. It's taken him a while to cotton on, but we serve, pander to and pamper, the worst clientelle in the city. Moneyed, yes, class, manners, education - 0. That's the thing about Calgary, you have money, you don't need the rest....
And the bomb under the table, it could be the start of a brave new world...
The Jersey Devil
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Forteana and Cryptozoology are interests of mine. Not, particularly, going out to look for Bigfoot or Nessie, but the folklore of it, and - in some instances, the mystery behind what it was people saw that made them believe or think as they did.
Like Ghosts or UFO's. I've never seen one, but I'd be curious to have the experience.
Here's an old legend - reported by various sources (none so convincingly recently) - The Jersey Devil. Curious.
Saint Osama Bin Laden
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Finally, when all the dust has settled and the 3 minutes wonder has disappeared off the media radar, a few notes.
Compare, first of all, The Rise and Fall of Bin Laden to the theory of the Scapegoat. Notice how what should have been long ago a call to examine and amend US foreign policy turned instead into the launch of several costly occupations and illegal wars.
And maybe challenge yourself with a few slightly more literate and informed views.
1) Michael Moore on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
2) Noam Chomsky on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
No, I don't count Michael Moore amongst the more literate and informed, but he's trying.
In the end, you'll just have to wait for the Disney Version to inform you of what really went on. They might have dropped suit for the trademark, but they're still gunning for the TV show, which should be about as informed as most of what Americans do.
Finally, some quotes from Osama Bin Laden (taken from BrainyQuote)
"We did not find it difficult to deal with Bush and his administration, because it is similar to regimes in our countries - both types include many who are full of arrogance and greed."
"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain."
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands."
**Note: The translation is probably considerably less fluid than the original, I'm guessing the translators preserved the literal flow of the quote at the expense of color and poetry.
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