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"It wasn't staggering around and we didn't breathalyze it but there were two little bottles of Schapps in the immediate vicinity," said Otruba.

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amadeus said:

What a hoot.

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Formaldehyde said:

In slightly related news, a chihuahua has been terrorized by a great horned owl who tried to abduct him, and likely would have if the owner hadn't tugged on his leash. The dog is now afraid to go out at night.

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2011/jan/19/chihuahua-vs-owl-ends-in-tie/

We can only speculate this owl was also drunk.

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RedRalph said:

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RedRalph said:

Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnpCpBfPY_o

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SuperJay said:

Wait, the cops didn't even breathylize the owl! They have no legal basis for this arrest! I demand a WWFACLU attorney address this abuse of police authority!! Law enforcement must be held accountable for violating this owl's avian rights! The German police hate its freedom!

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amadeus said:

What a hoot.

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DinoCrisisFreak said:

Maybe the Chihuahua should press charges?

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan is expected to sign a formal agreement with the United Nations today to stop the recruitment of children into its police forces and ban the practice of boys being used as sex slaves by military commanders.

Stung by Afghanistan's inclusion on the United Nations' blacklist of countries where child soldiers are commonly used, like the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, government leaders are expected to sign an undertaking with Radhika Coomaraswamy, the secretary-general's special representative for children and armed conflict, during her visit to Kabul today.

As part of the Afghan tradition of bacha bazi, literally "boy play," boys as young as 9 are dressed as girls and trained to dance for male audiences, then prostituted in an auction to the highest bidder.

In all, 13 countries are on the U.N. list of those with "grave violations against children in armed conflict." In most of those countries the groups responsible are rebels and insurgents.

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Abaddon said:

How much would they pay for these boys? An why boys?! Why not use young girls if you're only going to dress them up as that?

Some perverse half-arsed attempt at covering that they are not homosexual paedophiles?

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The Chinese Discover Jews and Israel and Can’t Seem To Get Enough

Tel Aviv — Back in 1991 Chen Yiyi was, as he puts it, a “bored” law student at Peking University. At the time, China was in the process of formalizing relations with Israel, and the Chinese Education Ministry and Israel’s Foreign Ministry selected his university as the site of China’s first Hebrew course taught by visiting Israeli teachers. When the class fell short of its eight-student enrollment target, Chen was persuaded to sign up to boost its numbers.

Little did Chen know at the time that he was embarking on a career in what would soon be a burgeoning field within Chinese academia: Jewish studies.

Chen, who is now director of Peking University’s Institute of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, teaches a Bible course at his school that is billed as a class in Tanach, using the Hebrew word for the Bible and drawing upon Jewish interpretations. Now in its eighth year, the class can accommodate a maximum of 200 students each session, but it regularly has 500 students sign up.

“People see it that the best students of the best university need to know about the cornerstones of other civilizations, and the cornerstone is Tanach,” Chen said.


Chen — whose accomplishments include translating the Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua into Chinese — was part of a delegation of 10 Chinese scholars of Jewish studies who visited Israel for a weeklong study tour in mid-January. The academics brought with them stories of their bursting-at-the-seams lecture halls and classes where Tanach, Hebrew and even Aramaic are studied, despite the fact that the field of Jewish studies essentially didn’t even exist in China 20 years ago.

The trip, the first of its kind, came on the heels of a separate seminar in Shanghai in December, where 35 Chinese policy-makers, government advisers and academics met with Israeli scholars to explore Israeli politics, history and culture. Both reflect the growing Chinese fascination with Judaism and Israel that extends from intellectuals to the general public.

“The interest in Jews and Israelis goes way beyond business, way beyond technology, to a wish to understand what the Jewish nation is all about,” said Ilan Maor, joint vice president of the Israel-Asia Chamber of Commerce and a former Israeli consul general in Shanghai.

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