1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament

2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down

3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store

4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day

5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter

6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet

7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen

8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing

9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armor

10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow

This photo was taken in Queensland, Australia.

Any comments?

Michael Vick, who was featured in this blog a while ago, is the most hated athlete, according to a popularity poll.

According to a CNBC report, the Q Scores company, which does this kind of popularity poll, has rated Vick as the moist disliked sports personality.

The next five places in the negative list are occupied by Tiger Woods, Terrell Owens, Chad Ochocinco, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.

These polls are conducted on a national level. I would assume there are regional differences, so Vick probably fares better in the Philadelphia area.

I’m using this platform to tell about the Twitter bug.

If you, after log on, see strange graphics, like very large letters, or your background is darker than usual, you’re hit. If you see Tweets that have just a block of colors, it it a trap.

BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU MOVE YOUR MOUSE.

If your home page looks unusual, there is a link right at the top of the page. Don’t go over this.

You need to navigate you mouse avoiding these areas.

You might have accidentally tweeted something. Move you mouse around the display area of your browser, e.g. where you have your icons and toolbars. Go to the right over the browser slider and approach the text link where you can get to the page of all your own tweets.
You will easily recognize the bad tweets – they occupy a large area of the page. Using the slider shift the display to the end of such tweet. Approach this section from the right. You might remember if the mouse is over the bottom right corner of the tweet, an icon will appear, with which you can delete a tweet, or undo a retweet. Do this. It will delete that (re)tweet not only from your list but also from the recipient’s lists. That will help them too.

Use the browser refresh button, or enter “twitter.com” as the URL address into the browser. If it looks good for you, you’ve done your part.

The New York Post reports today, that Pastor Terry Jones might cancel the event if President Obama gives him a call. Or the State Department or the Pentagon.

How much convincing does he need?

If you do a Google Search on his name and select the option “Latest”, you’ll see that almost every second someone posts something on the Internet, many of them just voicing their disgust with the plan. And Hillary Clinton and General David Petraeus already voiced her concerns. Also lets not forget the FBI memo.

Or does he want to convince them? After all, he already demonstrated his persuasion power in the past.

Oh well well well

It turns out that the pastor organizing the Koran burning event has a history in Germany.

I quote here :

Former church members are still undergoing therapy as a result of “spiritual abuse,” … Jones urged church members to beat their children with a rod and also taught “a distinctive demonology” and conducted brainwashing. Terry Jones appears to have a delusional personality.

There was a climate of fear and control in that church.

Well – that doesn’t look like a religion of joy.

You know if you point to somebody most of your fingers are pointing back to you. In truth he is a religious extreme.

He has also a keen sense of history of Germany. He apparently considered Cologne “a city of Hell that was founded by Nero’s mother,” while he thought Germany was “a key country for the supposed Christian revival of Europe.

I suspect he got the book-burning idea also from Germany’s past, from some 70-80 years ago.

He was ousted from his congregation there last year.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemns threats by a Florida church to burn Korans on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

A follow-up on this

The FBI has issued a warning

It’s getting serious, folks.

This is from CNN:

In protest of what it calls a religion “of the devil,” a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an “International Burn a Quran Day” on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The Dove World Outreach Center says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11 victims and take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and Facebook page, it invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book at the church from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Now, wasn’t the 9/11 attacks  performed by terrorist? Criminals who used the Islam as a pretext and excuse to justify their acts? I’m not a Muslim, but as far as I know the Quran is not endorsing terrorism. Some want to turn the clock back, and not get in step of what the other cultures have accomplished (after all, the Quran is an old book, but so is the Bible), but terrorism? I don’t think so.

America is proud to have freedom of speech and religion. In that sense, Pastor Terry Jones of the DWOC can believe and say anything he wants (well almost anything, there are always limits for everything, but that is not the point).

However, the book-burning event reminds me of Nazi-Germany of the 1930s, not exactly a model for freedom and democracy.

Does it look like religion of joy, when he plans a book-burning event? It looks more like his is a religion of hate, something that he claims the Islam is.

He said he wants the world to get rid of religious extremists. I suggest he starts closer to home.

Not to mention, that this endangers Americas mission in Afghanistan, which is just to get rid of the terrorist who use religious extremism as an excuse for their acts. Understandably General David Petraeus is worried about the consequences of the book-burning plans.

Pastor Terry Jones is a classic example fitting in this blog.

Breaking News

Several sports franchise owners have come together and announced the formation of a new sports league.

This new sport is a blend of MLB and UFC, and will be called “Ultimate Baseball League”, or “UBL” for short. It is a mix of America’s favorite pastime and mixed martial arts.

After running some test games it is believed there is a huge demand, according to market research.

This video from a recent “test game” shows what this sports is all about:

UFC: you had your time in the sun, now it’s time to step aside!