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One way to live longer
Sex or rather the lack of it has been the reason a Ukrainian man has lived to be 116 years old, he claims.
Grigoriy Nestor, from the village of Stariy Yarichev, close to capital Kiev, said: “According to my Christian beliefs there is no sex before marriage, so I never had a wife.
“People that were not married like me live longer. People who get married just argue all the time, and that’s not good for your health.
“I believe that’s why I have lived so long, that and the fact I have never been curious.
“People who know too much always come to a nasty end. Better to stay stupid and not wonder too much about anything.”
He told local newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda he had only been to school twice when he had visited his local primary school for two days and learned to write his name.
He added: “The less you know, the longer you live. Ignorance is long life and happiness.”
His entire life has been spent tending his goats, he said.
This story reminds me of the Woody Allen movie, “Everything you always wanted to know about sex * but were afraid to ask”. In the movie, Gene Wilder playing a Doctor, falls in love with a sheep. Classic comedy!
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Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling
In another indication of how poorly the Bush Administration is managing the occupation of Iraq, The New York Times today reported that seven out of eight projects previously declared as successes, were in fact no longer operational.
The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success , in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections , were no longer working properly.
At the airport, crucially important for the functioning of the country, inspectors found that while $11.8 million had been spent on new electrical generators, $8.6 million worth were no longer functioning.
The list goes on, Expensive hospital equipment, water purification systems; even a barracks for an Iraqi Special Forces unit lay in waste.
Granted the total cost of $150 million for the eight projects inspected is a drop in the bucket compared to the total $30 billion the US has committed to the rebuilding program. But 7 out of 8 projects in the initial inspection that are a total waste is not a very good indication of how the program is being managed.
The new findings come after years of insistence by American officials in Baghdad that too much attention has been paid to the failures in Iraq and not enough to the successes.
Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, commander of the Gulf Region Division of the Army Corps, told a news conference in Baghdad late last month that with so much coverage of violence in Iraq “what you don’t see are the successes in the reconstruction program, how reconstruction is making a difference in the lives of everyday Iraqi people.”
I would beg to differ that 7 out of 8 projects that are non-functional can hardly be considered a success.
Of course as is usual in the Bush administration, everybody is pointing fingers at somebody else for the failures.
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Japanese Organized Crime now in the Shark finning business
Columbian Naval Officials seized a boat off the country’s pacific coast that contained 2 tonnes of fins from endangered sharks including hammerheads, silkies, oceanics, white fins, black fins, fox shark and reef shark.
The Colombian-flagged vessel was stopped 18 nautical miles from Malpelo Island, a natural world heritage site off Colombia’s Pacific coastline.
Cartels led by Japanese and Colombians are said to be behind the big business of shark fins in the Colombian Pacific.
“The Asians control the routes and the markets, and they intimidate the local fishermen and distributors who are paid a pittance per kilo,” about 30 dollars, said a Colombian official with the Environmental Crimes Investigation Group, who asked not to be identified.
Officials estimate that around 350 ships — mostly from Japan, Taiwan, Ecuador and Mexico — fish for the prize in Colombian waters.
Shark fins have now become a major black market commodity, so much so that it is now just behind drugs in terms of major organized crime. This is a sad reality caused by Asian society’s demand for a bowl of soup.
Are the people (and there must be a lot of them!) who are paying up to $150 per bowl of Shark Fin Soup so narrow minded, selfish, and ignorant that they don’t realize what their ’status symbol’ soup is doing to OUR oceans?
Over 100 million sharks are slaughtered per year, just so you can have a bowl of soup! What’s wrong with you people? No seriously, what part of this don’t you understand?
Read the atrocity against this animal here
Enough is enough already!
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It seems there are Dicks all over the Government!
Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said while speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, “The information we had in the intelligence committee was not the same information being given to the American people. I couldn’t believe it.”
Even though he was angered by the information being fed to the public by the White House, he claims he wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it anyway because he and other members of the intelligence committee were sworn to secrecy.
The White House responded by saying Congress had access to the same intelligence and voted overwhelmingly to go to war.
Mr. Durbin, whose floor comments were part of the debate before yesterday’s passage of an emergency war-funding bill, said he and half the Democrats on the intelligence committee voted against the war over concerns of the White House’s “very flimsy case, but it was given to the American people as a proven fact.”
Once again, somebody is lying.
So which scenario properly fits?
1)The CIA is totally inept in it’s intelligence gathering capabilities.
2)The CIA information is accurate, but it is intentionally misinterpreted or ignored by the Bush Administration to fuel their war mongering desires.
Unless of course we consider a third possible scenario; that being scenarios 1 plus 2 equaling a total and complete betrayal.
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