IMHO VBG: March 27, 2007

Panda Poop to Do Double Duty in China

March 26, 2007

...Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of fiber-rich panda excrement into high quality paper.

Liao Jun, a researcher at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in Sichuan province, said the idea came to them after a visit to Thailand last year where they found paper made from elephant dung. They thought panda poop would produce an even finer quality paper, he said...

...The Chiang Mai Zoo in northern Thailand already sells multicolored paper made from the excrement produced by its two resident pandas. Making paper there involves a daylong process of cleaning the feces, boiling it in a soda solution, bleaching it with chlorine and drying it under the sun.

http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ContentGuid=8486443b-7026-448d-ab3b-5c4870759b73

2nd-hand flatulence prompts new butts-out policy
'No one could smell anything when the pub was full of cigarette smoke'
March 26, 2007

Scotland's ban on smoking in pubs has backfired, so to speak, on a regular customer whose constant habit of breaking wind has now resulted in his expulsion from his favorite watering hole.

Stewart Laidlaw, 35, is being barred from Thirsty Kirsty's in Dunfermline, Fife, for failing to control his flatulence.

"No one could smell anything when the pub was full of cigarette smoke," Laidlaw told Wales on Sunday. "I never used to complain about the smell of their cigarette smoke, but now everyone complains about me. It's just a natural thing. What can I do about it? I must be the first person in the country to get banned from a pub for passing wind. But it's not a title I want. I certainly don't see it as funny."

…John Thow, the landlord at the pub, is blasting back, saying the long-term flatulence was beyond a joke.

"It is just disgusting," he told the Press. "He revels in this and does it all the time and it's absolutely foul, it would make you sick. Since the smoking ban he's made a career out of this. He has been warned and asked politely to stop it on many occasions...

"He will clear the pub out usually and he thinks it is very funny…” http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54888

Another story about noxious gas...
Only 24% Consider Al Gorebal-warming Gorebal Warming Expert

…while his film is now an Academy Award winner and he is a celebrity activist, just 24% of Americans consider Gore an expert on Global Warming. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of 1,000 adults found that 47% say he is not an expert on the topic.

In fact, just 36% of Americans say that Gore knows what he is talking about when it comes to the environment and Global Warming. Thirty-one percent (31%) say he does not know what he is talking about while 33% are not sure. Women, by a 2-to-1 margin, say Gore knows what he is talking about. Men, by a similar margin, say he does not. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2007/March/alGoreGlobalWarming.htm

Parents banned from school's homosexual seminar

March 26, 2007

… Massachusetts parents were barred from observing a homosexual indoctrination seminar at a high school..

Newton North High School in Newton recently hosted "ToBGLAD," an acronym for "Transgender Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day." Brian Camenker of the group MassResistance says he was told by the school's principal that no parents were allowed to attend the all-day lectures and workshops facilitated by homosexual activists…

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/parents_banned_from_schools_ho.php

Europe Shariatized: Wife-Beating Legitimized by German Court

3/26/2007

The wife’s lawyer, Barbara Becker-Rojczyk, could not believe her eyes: a German judge was invoking Kuran in a German legal case to assert the husband’s “right to castigate” his wife. The meaning was clear: “the husband can beat his wife,” Becker-Rojczyk commented. She decided to go public with the case last Tuesday because the judge was still on the bench, two months after the controversial verdict was handed down. The judge was subsequently removed from the case, but not from the bench. In reality “mainstream Muslims” do nothing of the sort. New York Times’ claim notwithstanding, the original sources for “true” Islam—the Kuran and Hadith—provide ample and detailed evidence on Islamic theory and the sources of Shari’a practice that remains in force all over the Islamic world today. According to orthodox Islamic tradition, the verse invoked by the German judge (4:34) was revealed in connection with a woman who complained to Mohammad that her husband had hit her on the face, which was still bruised. At first he told her to get even with him, but then added, “Wait until I think about it.”

...The same “essence” was reiterated in similar terms last July by Jens Orback, the Swedish Integration [sic] Minister, who declared in a radio debate on Channel P1, “We must be open and tolerant towards Islam and Muslims because when we become a minority, they will be so towards us.” (funny how we have to be tolerant of Muslims but they don't have to be tolerant of us)

To all forward-looking Europeans it must be a welcome sign that continental courts are catching up with the leader in sharia compliance, Great Britain. A key tenet of sharia is that non-Muslims cannot try Muslims...

(Excerpt) Read more at

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/newsviews.cgi/Islam/Europe_Shariatized_.html?seemore=y

Yep, something to look forward to.

The next two should ruffle some feathers… hahahahahahaha!!!

Why feminism 'could be bad for your health'

25 March 2007

or years, feminists have fought for equality, believing it is the key to a better society.

Now researchers have found that parity between the sexes may be bad for your health.

A study in Sweden, arguably one of the most egalitarian countries in the world, discovered that men and women who are equal are more likely to suffer illness or disability.

Those who earn the same are also more likely to become unwell or suffer a disability....

...They suggested that women's health could be damaged by greater opportunities for risky behaviour as a result of increased income combined with the stress of longer working hours...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444573&in_page_id=1770

Housework cuts breast cancer risk

29 Dec 2006

…housework can help women substantially to cut their risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study.

Researchers analysed data from 218,169 women, aged 20 to 80, in nine European countries, looking at a range of activities, including work, leisure and housework.

Pre-menopausal women who did housework were 30 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer than pre-menopausal women who did none, while post-menopausal women who did housework were 20 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who did none…

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1925022006

Older Coffee Drinkers May Have the Edge

March 22, 2007

Summary: In people over 65 without high blood pressure, increased caffeine intake is associated with reduced cardiovascular mortality.

Introduction: Whether coffee drinking causes or prevents cardiovascular disease has been a controversial matter. Some studies point one way, some another. Now researchers have suggested the differences may be related to the ages of the subjects studied. Thus elderly people are more likely than younger persons to experience postprandial hypotension - a fall in blood pressure after meals - that shows a relationship with coronary events and mortality. Maybe coffee, which raises blood pressure, could prevent this effect? This hypothesis has been tested in a study done by New York scientists recently published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Here's a summary of the study.

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