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Just stumbled upon this recently –

In Germany the term “Arschgeweih” is commonly used for this which literally translates to “ass antlers”…

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I can’t wait for the late night comedians to comment and make sketches on the walk off of Christine O’Donnell’s CNN interview with Piers Morgan

She should have held a press conference instead (no questions allowed). Or do interviews with the “fair and balanced” network only.

On the other hand ….

She is back in the head lines. Like she was when she made the famous “I’m not a witch” ad – which by the way she said she regretted listening to the campaign consultants who advised her to do the ad.

The guy who walked in front of the camera – you can see only his back in the shadow – was this on of these advisers?

She wanted only to talk about her new book, which she hopes “will be an inspirational tool for the grassroots conservative movement”.

So I’m guessing Tea Party?

I already decided not to buy the new book, but if one of you folks get a hold on it (not buy, just borrow), maybe you can tell me if she has a word or two about the Voting Rights Proposal of a fellow Tea Party member.

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Judson Phillips, president of prominent Tea Party group Tea Party Nation, has a terrific idea: “The Founding Fathers… put certain restrictions on… the right to vote… you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense”.

Here is the complete quote:

“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”

Why stop there!

Originally, minorities and women were not allowed to vote either. And slavery was commonplace.

But if you have voted or plan to vote for the tea party, this might be your last chance. To vote I mean, unless you have some property under your name (Trusts, shared ownership of a company owning property don’t count).

Under the new proposed rules, the votes will be counted according to the dollar amount of the property, divided by the number of entities sharing this property (value determined by the bank).

The Turkmenistan government, ruled by President/Dictator Gurbanguli Berdymuchamedow, has reported that there was an explosion of fire crackers in a department store in Abadan, about 16 kilometers northwest outside the capital Ashgabat, close to the border with Iran. According to the report 13 people were killed in the accident that happened on July 8.

Here is some video evidence of this incident.

That is quite some firework, isn’t it. The sound needed to travel about 6 seconds until it reached the recorder, so the scene is about 2 kilometers away. Mind you, that there is already a big plum of smoke at the incident site, and how loud the boom is.

More details about this incident here and some follow-ups here and there

An update to this series…

As CBS news reported, “the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) has encouraged gun shops to sell thousands of assault rifles and other weapons destined for Mexican drug cartels.”

Does it get any better than this?

The excuse was, well, we give them to the small guys, and we track them so we get to the big fish.

Problem is, tracking guns on the move appears to be difficult. Until they are used in a crime, such as the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona last December.

We are not talking about small things here. Over 1600 firearms worth over $1 million were sold on Phoenix-area gun-shops, among them 178 AK-47-type assault rifles and three Barret 50-caliber rifles to one suspect alone.

So, was it worth while?

That depends whom you ask. For the gun-shop owners, of course. For the drug cartel, sure.

As for the stated goal to take down drug cartels – not so fast. After 15 months of operation the ATF still “hope” evidence collected so far will help one day.

In the meantime ….

Ten stupid traffic laws from around the country..

10. It is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while operating a vehicle. (Alabama)

9. Horn honking is not permitted as it might scare horses. (Mississippi)

8. Before proceeding through the intersection of Douglas and Broadway, a motorist is required to get out of their vehicle and fire three shot gun rounds into the air. (Wichita Kansas)

7. Any motorist driving along a country road at night must stop every mile and send up a rocket signal, wait 10 minutes for the road to be cleared of livestock, and continue. (Pennsylvania)

6. It is illegal to have a sheep in the cab of your truck without a chaperon. (Montana)

5. If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle. (Florida)

4. Prohibits elephants from strolling down Market Street unless they are on a leash. (San Francisco California)

3. Cars may not be driven in reverse. (Glendale Arizona)

2. Taxi drivers are prohibited from making love in the front seat of their taxi during their shifts. (Massachusetts)

1. It is illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians. (Memphis Tennessee, similar ones in New Orleans Louisiana, Waynesboro Virginia )

Found this interesting article on CNN’s website.

One of our intentions here at BrainTurnedOff is to report on stupid behaviors of sometimes so-called or wannabe celebrities.

Now we can accept something like a love affair. There are numerous of those, and this of course the food for some paparazzi. Celebrities should expect that – it is after all them who strive for celebrity status.

Where we come in is when cover ups occur. Like the one of Manchester United footballer Ryan Giggs mentioned in the article. He got a “super-injunction” from a British court that would punish anyone in their jurisdiction to even report about the alleged affair, true or not.

Now this thing was made public because a member of the British parliament revealed that in one of their sessions. He can do that because of some privilege MPs enjoy.

So what does this injunction mean? Can we mention what an MP mentioned in the parliament? Was is broadcast on TV? Wouldn’t that be an contempt of court?

In today’s world with twitter and facebook it does not help much to prevent the spread of a rumor.

In fact, if you try to cover it up that way, the more curious people are going to get what the fuss is all about.

Wouldn’t it be nice that someone who has been caught having an affair would admit that he (or she) enjoyed it. They may be sorry, okay, but please have the courage to admit that they enjoyed it at least in that moment.

I thought that the failure of the Doomsday prediction would be the end of it – not the end of the world, but the end all such predictions.

But now Mr. Camping says: “We’re not changing a date at all; we’re just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this. But on October 21, the world will be destroyed. It won’t be five months of destruction. It will come at once.”

So we have just 5 more months to prepare.

You should get your invitation by then in your mail.

But keep in mind he was wrong before. The judgment day on Sept 6, 1994 did not happen because of a “mathematical error”, and changed to this past Saturday. Now he says “we have to be a little more spiritual about this”.

Now he says. Why didn’t he say this before?

Camping said Family Radio would now drop its high-profile countdown to the Apocalypse, and concentrate on “religious music and God’s word”.

This sounds more like retracting. As if he cannot stand the heat of scrutiny.

You know, he is 89 years old. Like one commenter said a few days ago, leave old cranky grandpa alone.

As you well know by now, the Doomsday prediction for this past Saturday was simply wrong.

It just didn’t happen.

There are some opinions why that was. I won’t go into the religious reasoning details. As you might know, I’m not that religious, so I won’t try to get into this.

A few notes though:

(1) As I was watching the chatter on the internet I noticed the rolling of the concerns from East to West. It was New Zealand/Australia first reporting that the time for the start of the rapture has past.

This raises the question about the timeline. I know it was predicted for 6 p.m, but no timezone indicator. As this type of thing goes global I would have expected more precise information (which I didn’t see). It could have been UTC or PDT (as the minister is located in California).

(2) For some reason I believe that this was an event by invitation only. I didn’t get any invitation in my mail, and by judging what actually did (or did not) happen this time – or on the previously predicted judgment day back in 1994 – nor did anybody else.

As many internet marketer will tell you, it is important to have a mailing list for successful promotion of your products. Without that you’re just less trustworthy and the people won’t buy from you.

So this is it.

The world is coming to an end starting today, May 21, 2001.

At least according to Harold Camping, an 89-year-old leader of the ministry Family Radio Worldwide.

He has predicted, that starting today a five-month destruction of humanity will commence this Saturday with a Rapture, in which believers will ascend to heaven. “Whereas this five-month period will be an enormous horror story for those who have not been raptured, it will be a time of great joy and wonder for those who are raptured,” according to the Family Radio website.

Camping uses a mathematical formula linked to prophecies in the Bible. He once predicted Sept. 6, 1994 as Judgment Day.

I don’t remember that day. Do you?

In case you’re wondering what happened that day, see here.

Important for these people involved, certainly. But otherwise?

Just in case, you may prepare for the things to come following this advice