Bird Cage

100s of animals seized from ‘zoo from hell’

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:46:33 +0000

Rabbits with various infections jammed into crates, unable to move their heads while sitting in their own feces. Rams and goats with overgrown hooves living in cramped quarters. Birds, ducks and chickens in cages. Those are among the scenes described by authorities at a 1-acre, fenced-in property in a residential neighborhood.

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Gear Puzzle

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:46:21 +0000

Jump on the gear across the room and start spinning it. Your job is to arrange gears on the pegs to transfer the motion across the room to lower the cage.

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“You are no longer Monks!” Beaten Myanmar prisoners told

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:46:01 +0000

Hundreds of Buddhist monks rounded up by Myanmar’s junta were beaten and kept in animal-like conditions without toilets or drinking water during days of interrogation, caged for more than a week, treated like animals.

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Mystery skeleton sticking out of iceberg off Newfoundland coast

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:45:46 +0000

Marine scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by bizarre photographs that appear to show the skeleton of a large mammal jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland’s east coast. The six pictures show what looks like a brown rib cage and spinal column, slightly bent, sticking out of a crust of ice.

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Here Are The GOP Emails That Went To Wrong Address - With Attachments!

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:45:22 +0000

Inept GOP’ers sent lots of emails to georgewbush.org instead of georgewbush.com. The .org site is anti-Bush and has published the emails complete with attachments such as the rapidly becoming infamous “caging lists” spreadsheets.

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Arabic Speaking Soldier Commits Suicide in Objection to Torture

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:45:10 +0000

Army specialist Alyssa Peterson was an Arabic speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at the Tal-afar airbase in far northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border. Peterson objected to the interrogation techniques used on prisoners. She refused to participate after only two nights working in the unit known as the cage. She shot and killed herself.

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Amazing Photo Rebuilding - Photoshop Move Over!

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:44:59 +0000

Wow! I came across this site via a blog entry. Check out the image inpainting section. Subtitles almost in-detectably removed. Cages removed and subject behind is rebuilt. This is incredible software. No Photoshop Used.

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Kansas GOP Chair Sends Party Email Boasting of Voter Caging

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:44:47 +0000

Kris Kobach, chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out a self-congratulatory litany of accomplishments. Among them was one particularly eye-catching item: ?To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!? Did we mention it?s illegal? And that Kris Kobach is proud to be doing it? …

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Ohio Election Stolen Again? State May Face 600K Voter Purge

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:44:28 +0000

Voting rights attorneys say hundreds of thousands of voters could be purged from voter rolls. Nearly 600,000 eligible voters could be placed on a caging list and challenged on Election Day, which could then result in their removal from the voter rolls without due process, in accordance with Ohio law.

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Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:44:05 +0000

When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught ? recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.

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