What weird news stories make you either laugh out loud, or just say "huh?'

[Rowan MacD]

The Three Kings of the Nativity story were actually sorcerers. They were magicians, priests of the Zoroastrain religion of Persia. The word "magi" (as in the Three Magi) is the plural of magus, meaning "wizard" in Old Persian. It is from this root that the word "magic" is derived.

Cool...You wonder if the Church has any comment 

[Rowan MacD]

   The Deathstar is here!.... Nah.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-planet-sized-object-spotted-near-mercury-154443870.html

[Archer]

That was interesting.  Swamp gas . . . with robust muscles.

           

[Rowan MacD]

  They kill women for adultery just on the on the word of the husband or the husbands' family; this should not surprise me. 

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'

APAP – 2 hrs 59 mins ago


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.

The Saudi Interior Ministry says in a statement the execution took place Monday, but gave no details on the woman's crime.

The London-based al-Hayat daily, however, quoted Abdullah al-Mohsen, chief of the religious police who arrested the woman, as saying she had tricked people into thinking she could treat illnesses, charging them $800 per session.

The paper said a female investigator followed up, and the woman was arrested in April, 2009, and later convicted in a Saudi court.

It did not give the woman's name, but said she was in her 60s.

The execution brings the total to 76 this year in Saudi Arabia, according to an Associated Press count. At least three have been women.

[Francisco Paula]

This one is a week old but didn't see it so had to post it.

I guy tried to rob and carjack from a ufc mma fighter. The mug shot is priceless

http://www.mmamania.com/2011/12/5/2613893/convicted-felon-carjack-mma-fighter-chicago-beat-up-shot

[Archer]

Karma is a beach. 

This one may get a "huh" out of a few . . . http://www.aclu.org/indefinite-detention-endless-worldwide-war-and-2012-national-defense-authorization-act

[Merlin the Elder]

  They kill women for adultery just on the on the word of the husband or the husbands' family; this should not surprise me. 

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.....

Kinda reminds me of pre-Revolution America ...

[Rowan MacD]

  They kill women for adultery just on the on the word of the husband or the husbands' family; this should not surprise me. 

Saudi Arabia executes woman convicted of 'sorcery'

...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.....

Kinda reminds me of pre-Revolution America ...

Long, long ago, in a little town called Salem...

[Rowan MacD]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/patients-bottles-cell-phones-buzz-lightyear-stuck-inside/story?id=15124289

Don't know about anyone else, but I've never been this 'lonely and bored'.

[Merlin the Elder]

Rowen, I have run across several people with their head stuck up their...well, you know what I mean. It's apparently a lot more common than you might think. I've never been that lonely or bored either...

[Rowan MacD]

  And the Midwest crime spree continues!

Thief Gets Away With Truckload Of Margarine

1:31 pm CST December 13, 2011

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The search is on for a thief who slipped away with a truckload of margarine bound for a Target warehouse in Cedar Falls.

A semitrailer packed with the spread, about $50,000 worth, disappeared last weekend from a truck stop in Elks Run, near Waterloo.

The Black Hawk County sheriff's office says the driver left the trailer at the truck stop to wait until the warehouse had space. Another truck was slated to pick up the trailer for the last leg of the journey.

Authorities say sometime Saturday night, a thief hooked up the trailer and drove off with the margarine. The theft was discovered Sunday morning.

No arrests have been reported.

[Archer]

How do you collapse a nation's economy and why was this story not all over every mainstream news source until there were some answers ?  huh ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttSmZknU9mI

[Merlin the Elder]

Pardon me, but if it's coming from Glen Beck, I'm not even considering it to be accurate information. I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.

[Archer]

Pardon me, but if it's coming from Glen Beck, I'm not even considering it to be accurate information. I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth.

 

I'm not a fan of his either and that was not a purpose for showing the source.  That story was on some other media sources also but it dried up.  No answers provided from media that I could find, if those bonds were forged; if another nation was responsible or if they were real and being dumped from the inside.  FOX news is not presented as reliable in any way.  The story of the movment of those bonds, (stolen, dumped or forged)  in Europe itself is what we should be interested in knowing answers about.  For that one to go quiet should cause some "huh".  If they were forgeries, why not have media say so ?   The years of origination is interesting also.   How old the bonds were and from what time period, did you catch that info ?   Informants are not always likeable people yet, they still solve crimes and produce some gems of value from time to time.  

[Archer]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/indefinite-military-detention-bill-passes_n_1152114.html

Ahhhhhh ! ! !