Lives in a Shoe

Secret, Coded Messages in Comics

Marvel comics have removed a book from circulation after fans spotted 'secret, coded anti-Christian and anti-Jewish messages' in the artwork.

The 212 messages are more or less inside baseball references to Indonesian politics.  But:

In another panel, Russian mutant Colossus is seen wearing a T-shirt featuring the words 'QS 5:51', said to stand for Quran Chapter 5, Verse 51.
Translated, the verse reads: 'O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.' 

 

 

 

 

Problem Solved.

Egypt Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has caused an outrage after blaming a diarrhoea epidemic sweeping through rural areas on women not keeping their breasts clean. - See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/egyptian-pm-blames-womens-unclean-breasts-clean-for-diarrhoea-epidemic/1070737#sthash.LGIUn0NA.dpuf

Egyptian PM blames outbreak of diarrhoea on women not keeping their breasts clean

The Egyptian prime minister has blamed a diarrhoea epidemic sweeping through rural areas on women not keeping their breasts clean.

Prime Minister Hisham Qandil said he had witnessed children suffering from diarrhoea immediately after they had been breastfed because their mothers hadn’t cleaned themselves properly...Women members present were noticeably uncomfortable as Qandil made the comments...

NOT TO WORRY -- in an effort to ease Mr. Qandil's concern, and with the sincere hope he will now STFU, I offer for consideration this marvelous French invention, apparently overlooked since the 30s.

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/09/breast-washer-right-here-get-your-breast-washer/

Urban Legends

As a girl entering my teens I shivered at hearing such urban legends as The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs, The Hook on the Car Door, The Tarantula in the Ratted Hairdo. These stories, passed from kid to kid, often had something to do with transmitting social values through icy fear.

 

Scariest of all was the Spanish Fly Story. Seems a couple went to a drive-in where the boy spiked the girl's drink with Spanish Fly which drove the girl to uncontrollable lust. The boy ran off, or variously was found prostrate from exhaustion -- but the girl was found bloody and dead from having pleasured herself on the gear shift.

 

Apparently the Saudi  Religious Council has heard the story too.

 

Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in "no more virgins", the country’s highest religous council, working with Kamal Subhi, formerly a professor at the King Fahd University has warned.  No. More. Virgins A-tall.

The report warns that allowing women to drive would ‘provoke a surge in prostitution, pornography, homosexuality and divorce’.

Within ten years of the ban being lifted, the report’s authors claim, there would be ‘no more virgins’ in the Islamic kingdom.

And it pointed out ‘moral decline’ could already be seen in other Muslim countries where women are allowed to drive.

Here's the best part:

In the report Professor Subhi described sitting in a coffee shop in an unnamed Arab state.

‘All the women were looking at me,’ he wrote. ‘One made a gesture that made it clear she was available... this is what happens when women are allowed to drive.’

Really, Proffessor Subhi?  All the women were looking at you?  Really?

Imagine all these Arab men in their keffiyahs whispering the story to one another in deep dismay, believing that in this universe there is something that will cause women to become sexually insatiable.  And it's a drivers license. 

 

Current Events

Man with dead weasel accused of assault

Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article

Hoquiam, Wash. – Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into an apartment and assaulted a man in Washington state. The victim asked, "Why are you carrying a weasel?" Police said the attacker answered, "It's not a weasel, it's a marten," then punched him in the nose and fled. ...

Be Sure to Wear Clean Underwear

End of world next Saturday -- begins with earthquake in Pacific Northwest.

Intersection of Frugality and Dementia

Many times I've emptied dryer lint into the trash while thinking "Hey, I could use this stuff to make a dog bed, maybe pad my bra..."    

 This woman made a mural of the Last Supper from dryer lint.

Laura Bell of Roscommon, Michigan -- we tightwads salute you. 

D'oh Canada

First They Came for Huckleberry Finn.... . . and now they've come for the rock band Dire Straits, the third verse of whose 1985 No. 1 hit, "Money For Nothing" is now banned from Canadian radio for using what officials called an "extremely offensive" word.

--From Robert Stacy McCain's article in the American Spectator.

Wussification of the West.  The tyranny of the perpetually offended.

Bizarro World

   Theocons and hedonistic liberals seem to be meeting somewhere in the middle for an amiable do-si-do.   Consider: 

   1.    Washington state, then the Feds, have ordered Four Loko off the market.  Why?  To protect the CHILD-ren.  Never mind that alcoholic beverages are already illegal to sell to kids or even to young adults under age twenty-one.  And never mind that a can of Red Bull and a vodka-rocks would have pretty much the same effect.  Banning a legal product for adult use on the basis that it's dangerous to children could apply to lots of things, like Happy Meals with toys inside, or fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods.  Oh, wait...    

    2.    Pat Robertson has advocated decriminalization of marijuana.  "We're locking up people that take a couple of puffs of marijuana....We've got to take a look at what we're considering crimes... I'm not exactly for use of drugs, don't get me wrong, but I just believe criminalizing marijuana and criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot...it's costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people."

 In other news, on Planet Htrae, Bizarro Lois Lane tugged on Superman's cape and messed around with Jim.

Girls Have Cooties But Old Ladies Don't

In late September last year, Saudi King Abdullah opened the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), billing it as the Arab world's most advanced university on the northern shores of Jeddah.

Hoping to attract high-level international talent, the king took a gamble, announcing the university would be the kingdom's first co-educational institution, with male and female students from over 60 countries studying side by side, unveiled women driving around the 14-square-mile campus, and no religious police on site.

Then came the fatwa calling for all "modernizers" advocating gender mixing in the kingdom to be put to death. "Whoever allows this mixing allows forbidden things, and whoever allows them is an infidel and this means defection from Islam," a highly influential cleric ruled. "Either he retracts or he must be killed."

...Sheikh A-Najaimi, another senior Saudi cleric who had publicly supported the Al-Barrak fatwa calling for the death of those supporting gender mixing, attended an International Women's Day conference in Kuwait last month.

A-Najaimi stands accused of eating, sitting and talking with the conference's female attendees for hours.

The sheikh justified his attendance by claiming that the majority of the women at the conference were menopausal, therefore he is permitted by Islamic law to interact with them. Islamic scholars disputed A-Najaimi's interpretation of the Sharia, Islamic law, arguing that a woman must be post-menopausal, uninterested in men, and decide on her own whether or not to announce her status.

When some of the female attendees announced that they were not, in fact, menopausal, the sheikh allegedly told them "you are post menopausal whether you admit it or not!"

 

Really Good Samaritan

Mar 26, 2010 11:00 pm US/Eastern

Police: Drunk Pa. Man Tried To 'Revive' Opossum

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) ―

 

State police have charged a central Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen giving mouth-to-mouth "resuscitation" to a long-dead opossum along a highway.