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Day: July 20, 2005

Do You Take This Dog To Be Your Lawfully Wedded Husband?

You’d think this was a joke, but it’s not.

Warding off evil eye: Baby married to dog

A baby girl in West Bengal was married off to a dog “to ward off the evil eye” that her father feared due to a premature appearance of her teeth.

Six-month-old Disha married her canine groom Pomi Monday at a Hindu ceremony at Polba village in Hooghly district.

The marriage was conducted for the girl’s “well-being” as she had grown teeth before her “annoprasan” or “rice ceremony” – a function when the baby is fed solids for the first time.

Reports said the girl’s father Kamalendu Bandopadhayay, who works in a court, was advised by some priests to conduct the marriage. The man spent about Rs.40,000 on the ceremony.

Pomi, who wore a floral garland for the occasion, is likely to be looked after by his new “in-laws”.

The girl’s mother was against the ritual, but her objections were reportedly overruled.

Oh where I could go with this story. The possibilities are endless…

Today It’s The SFPD, Tomorrow – The New York Times Bestseller List

An over the top police blotter write-up:

He had not run for very long before he realized the two cops were only pacing him. They could see something he could not. With each frantic step a sense of dread nagged at him. The more calm and calculating they were, the further behind he left his common sense, and his panic ratcheted up. As he ran, the black and white radio car glided silently along behind like a predatory whale.

Via Boing Boing.

The Anti-Clinton

Beldar: “Dubya doesn’t parse language and he really sucks at dissembling. He doesn’t wonder what the meaning of “is” is. He’s not a lawyer. Dubya is the anti-Clinton. These are some of the very things that I — and, I believe, tens of millions of other Americans — like best about him.”

Moveon.org: We Heart Roberts

Talk about a load of crap. In less than 30 seconds after Bush announced John Roberts as his Supreme Court nominee, Moveon.org released this greatest hits list on the conservative judge:

  • Roberts has been associated with some of the most fringe and extreme views of the Republican Party for years.
  • He has supported the “takings” philosophy of the extreme right, which calls for government to compensate polluters.
  • He believes Roe should be “overturned,” and won the case that gagged doctors so they could not even discuss abortion with their patients.
  • He opposed clean air rules and worked to help coal companies strip mine mountaintops.
  • He tried to stop Congress from strengthening the Voting Rights Act.
  • He worked to keep injured workers from receiving disability. And no wonder, he’s regularly been associated with corporate, far right legal groups in America – the Washington Legal Foundation, the Federalist Society, and the so-called National Legal Center for the Public Interest.

And those were the nice comments.

Freakin idiots.