Islamofascist terrorist groups must be getting desperate if they’re using attackers of this pathetic caliber:
In the other attack — the first in living memory by women in Egypt — the two veiled women opened fire on the bus in southern Cairo but missed, Cairo’s Security Director Nabil el-Azabi said.
They missed a bus. Further reports suggest the terrorists cancelled plans to attack the broad side of a barn.
Why can’t misfortune like this ever happen to Big Ten football referees?
Robert Hoyzer had already lost his reputation, his job, his friends and his girlfriend. On Friday he lost any hope of a career as a referee in Germany.Banned for life by the German Football Association (DFB), Hoyzer is the disgraced referee at the centre of the country’s worst match-rigging scandal in three decades, a saga that has embarrassed the hosts before next year’s World Cup finals.
Even though the DFB dropped a 50,000-euro ($64,620) fine imposed on Hoyzer because of his co-operation with state prosecutors and DFB investigators, the 25-year-old may still face much higher civil claims for damages from clubs and fans.
The godless repressive Beijing government has declared Rockets star Yao Ming a “model worker,” just in time for May Day:
“Before, I thought model workers only recognized ordinary people who worked tirelessly and without asking for anything in return,” the 24-year-old Yao said through his agent. “Now the award also includes someone like me, a special kind of migrant worker. That’s a sign of progress.”
Yao went on to say, “There, I said it. Now please don’t execute my family.”
Now let’s hear from average folks in that enlightened workers’ paradise:
“What’s the point of understanding it? They will never pick one of us,” said Wei Yanzhou, 42, a welder from Hubei province who is helping to build what is expected to be the tallest building in Beijing.Wei works about 12 hours a day, seven days a week for about $100 a month. If he takes a sick day, the boss deducts the day’s wage from his pay.
Wei considers himself lucky. Many migrant workers receive no wages at all from employers who claim to be bankrupt or disappear with laborers’ hard-earned money.
At the end of the day, workers like Wei are shuttled back to factory dorms where they sleep more than a dozen to a small room. There is no hot running water, no heat or ventilation and little food.
“We eat cabbage three times a day. Sometimes the rice has sand in it,” said bricklayer Zhu Zhou, who looks a decade older than his 40 years. “We see meat maybe twice a week. We don’t even get enough drinking water, never mind a shower.”
Happy May Day.
[Hat-tip: Kevin Whited]
Just when you thought airport security couldn’t get any more absurd:
Penguins walk through a metal detector. Friggin’ penguins.
A pair of penguins from Sea World in San Antonio were traveling with their handler through the Denver airport. Security personnel made the handler remove the potential Antarctic al-Qaeda operatives from their carrying case and walk them through the metal detectors, holding up the line of human passengers.
A few questions immediately spring to mind:
Meanwhile, your friendly neighborhood TSA troglodytes let Homo sapiens passengers slide through security with guns.
COURREGES ADDS: Matt, I wouldn’t be so trusting with penguins. They could be the minions of a certain Batman villain:
Just sayin’.
Click pic for story.
This is one seriously screwed-up kid:
A third-grader stuck 19 schoolmates with her mother’s diabetes blood-testing needle this week, and one pricked student tested positive for HIV on a preliminary test, officials said.
Wow. But it might not be as bad as it looks:
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of HIV infection after a needle stick is low, with an average of one in 300 cases leading to infection.
Just one in 300? So I guess a needle-exchange program won’t really stop the scourge of AIDS, will it? Hmmm?
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