JOGJAKARTA: AUSTCARE and Australian Aid International (AAI) have partnered to send a team of medical personnel to Java, to help people injured in last Saturday’s earthquake. AUSTCARE and AAI are using the local Tigers motorbike club to travel to areas inaccessible by car, to reach people injured by the quake. The Tigers are volunteers, donating…
Corrupt Beijing doctors urged to pay back bribes
And they think this is going to work why?? OK, governments all do stuff just so they can look like they are doing something, but this seems like particularly brazen ineffectual hand-waving. BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) – Beijing health officials have called on corrupt doctors and other medical staff to hand over bribes taken from…
Is it really Shiloh?
From my oh-so-reliable source, the China Daily…. People magazine has outbid all other US weekly tabloids for $ 4.1 million to land the Angelina Jolie- Brad Pitt baby Shiloh pictures. All the weekly magazine editors were summoned to the offices of the Getty photo agency at Canal and Varick late Saturday night. “We were sequestered…
India's eunuchs seek new way
Castrated males are no longer recognized as male by Indian law, nor are they considered female. Sudha is dusky and wears a salwar kameez, a traditional dress for women in India, but no make-up. She is a eunuch (or “aruvani” as they now prefer to be called) and represents a group of transsexuals seeking respect…
Shananapocalypse boy surgery 'success'
The third arm of the Shananapocalypse boy has been successfully removed at Shanghai Children’s Medical Centre. (The little numbers on the photo refer to the surgery, not to the arms – you’ll have to go to the BBC story to see the explanation.) A two-month-old boy born with two left arms has successfully undergone surgery…
Fighting with fire…
Life has been incredibly busy lately and I’ve only had the opportunity to post small samplings of enjoyment for you guys…I haven’t been doing my homework either, but all that aside… Happy Number of the Beast Day!(6/6/6) Moms are afraid to give birth today. They are having a party in Hell and aside from that,…
There is apparently no God
For those of you who were wondering why Christians shouldn’t play with lions… cd KIEV (Reuters) – A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal’s enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday. “The man shouted ‘God will save…
It's Dildo
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Mexican Midget Rodeo
A LA institution…. Â What wonders are conjured, what rough magic promised by the phrase “Mexican Midget Rodeo”? Let us pause to savor that more slowly: Mexican . . . Midget . . . Rodeo. That is to say, a touring troupe of little people, renowned in their native land but unheralded in our own,…
Singing Tibetan nuns finish epic trek
I can’t help but picture “The Sound of Music….” Two Tibetan nuns have arrived in a hill town in northern India to meet their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. They arrived days after dramatically fleeing Tibet. One of the nuns has reportedly complained of being sick. Sources in the town of Dharamsala confirmed to the…