The Vicious Babushka

Doofus of the Day: Man hurt after homemade rocket explodes during party stunt

A 62-year-old Michigan man was severely burned when a homemade rocket strapped on his back exploded while he slid down a snowy hill on a sled, authorities said this week.

The rocket stunt was the grand finale on Saturday during the man's annual sledding party at his Oakland County, Michigan, home, the sheriff's department said.

"He is known for doing 'crazy things' at his parties," an Oakland County sheriff's department statement said. "On this date, after consuming an unknown quantity of alcohol, he constructed a device out of a motorcycle muffler and pipe."

Inside the makeshift rocket, the victim placed gunpowder, heads from matches and gasoline. He donned a helmet and took a sled to the top of a snowy embankment.

"He asked another person to light a wick and then began to sled down a hill. At some point during the ride downhill, the device exploded. The results of the explosion were second-degree burns to the victim's face," the sheriff's department statement said.

No one else was injured during the incident.

Read more at CNN.
 

Strange Lights in the Sky Over Brooklyn: Jews in Space

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (WPIX) - Some people in Brooklyn are convinced aliens are swooping in for a little New York night life.

Video posted on YouTube Monday shows two unknown objects floating above Williamsburg.

The person who posted the video writes, "Spotted from my backyard in Williamsburg. I watched for about 40 min. so I could tell they were moving but very slowly. They sort of looked like stars but were hanging too low and the blue one was a bit too sparkly."

The next night, the very same user posted another video, this time capturing odd objects flying over another part of Brooklyn.

"Something odd floating in the skies over Bushwick," the person writes.

A majority of the comments posted on YouTube tend to dispel the fact it may be a hovercraft carrying extra terrestrials.

"To the eye it looked more like a plane's headlight," one person wrote. "It was too low."

So far, it has not been determined what the strange objects are.

WPIX

 

IDF Soldiers Get Stink-Proof Socks

JERUSALEM — Israel's foot soldiers are getting new odour-free socks that can be worn for two weeks straight without smelling or stinking up the feet, the Maariv daily reported on Thursday.

"It may sound ridiculous... but this is a very important issue that causes many problems during training," the newspaper quoted Brigadier General Nissim Peretz, the commander of the Israeli military's logistics division, as saying.

The socks, which will be distributed to all new infantry recruits beginning in March, also prevent athlete's foot -- "a nuisance with which every soldier is very familiar," the paper said.

The fabric includes metal components to keep bad odours and fungal infections at bay, it said.

AFP.

Ahmed & Salim: How the Terrorist Stole Christmas

Enjoy.

Introducing "Kabbalah" Vodka, "With Christian Infants"

A short time ago the company “EZ Protocols” announced a start-up of vodka brand that is called “Kabbalah vodka – with Christian infants” – the newest quality benchmark on the super premium segment of the Russian market. The vodka is expected to have a distinguished wheat flavor. Special water, enriched in silver, gold and platinum ions along with neat and stylish design will bring anyone back to the best traditions of a ritual table. As a present, every bottle has a unique handmade infant inside, which is made of fortified glass.

English Russia

I Can Haz Cholent?

 

 Soldier sent to detention for cooking on Shabbat after cat ate his meal

Kfir brigade soldier about to eat Shabbat meal finds out a cat has 'tasted' their meal. Soldier offers to cook new meal, gets caught, sentenced to 20 days in detention for violating IDF rules

A combat soldier from the Nahshon battalion was sentenced to 20 days in detention, after he found out a stray cat "tasted" his Shabbat meal and decided to cook a new meal, despite IDF's strict orders that forbid cooking on the holy day.

Last weekend, the soldier and his friends, who serve with the Kfir division, entered the base's dining room, and intended to eat from a pot of cholent (meat stew) that was cooked according to the Shabbat regulations.

However, before they managed to dig in, the soldiers were surprised to discover that a cat ate out of the pot. The soldier, who refused to eat from the tainted pot, offered instead to make a light meal for him and his friends.

As his luck would have it, during the meal preparations, one of the kitchen's staff arrived and instructed the soldier to stop cooking immediately.

Details of the incident were handed over to the battalion commander, who decided to put the soldier on trial and sentenced him to 20 days in detention for violating IDF orders.

"There are clear orders about observing the Shabbat, and even if the food was inedible there are other options to get food without desecration of the Sabbath," said IDF sources.

Read more at YNet.

EPIC FAIL: Would You Buy a Phone From This Company?

 

Who would buy anything from a company called POS? 

Friday Special: Only In Israel

 

Ad says: "Friday Special: Buy 30 liters of gas and get a free challah!" 

The Islamist and the Unbeliever

 

Drybones blog h/t Newt

Racism and Anti-Semitism Pass for "Humor" at Oregon College

 

PORTLAND, Ore. – A student editor at a college campus-run humor publication in Portland says he and others plan to be more cautious when making decisions about the newspaper's content after running a phony article that said students at another college killed all the Jews at their school.

Glenn Harrison, a student at Reed College and an editor and writer for The Pamphlette, said in an e-mail to The Oregonian that the student-run newspaper's staff has repeatedly apologized for hurting or offending people on campus with the article, which was meant as satire.

"We were negligent as editors and members of the community," he wrote. "We are now more aware of the effect of our writing, and we will be exercising more cautious editorial judgment going forward."

The article appeared last week, and it took aim at students at Lewis & Clark College, another private liberal-arts school in Portland. Anti-Semitism is a sensitive issue at Lewis & Clark, where swastika graffiti was found in the library bathroom a few weeks ago.

The article carried the headline "LC students kill Jewish people."

It begins: "In what is being called a 'tragic, but all too predictable' event, the staff of The Leaphlette, a student humor publication at Lewis & Clark College, have been accused of rounding up and gassing all of the Jews on their Portland, OR, campus."

The phony article goes on to describe students asking the chemistry department for a chemical to conduct "Jewsperiments" and a "towering crematorium" where the library once stood.

The same edition of The Pamphlette had another article titled, "Getting ready for Black History Month." The satirical list of preparations included: "Photoshop myself into other people's Kwanzaa pictures and put them up around my house."

Read more at AP News.

The Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage

Most Bizarre Kaparos Story Ever!

The following is a press release from an animal shelter claiming to have ‘rescued’ a poor chicken named ‘chesed’ from sacrificial slaughter during Kapores in a Crown Heights seminary. Yes its real, a quick skim through the pages of the shelters website has a saved duck named Mishka, and cow named Nikki.

Today, as millions of Jews observe Yom Kippur, Farm Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection organization, rescued a chicken, named Chesed, meaning mercy or loving-kindness in Hebrew, from sacrificial slaughter during the Jewish ritual of kapparot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This chicken will join the more than 200 other chickens the organization has rescued from kapparot rituals in New York City and the surrounding boroughs over the past three years.

The chicken was rescued by Brooklyn resident Wayne Johnson, who witnessed a massive kapparot gathering at a seminary in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn on Saturday night. At 9:30 p.m., a large truck transporting approximately 2,000 chickens, packed four to a crate, arrived at the seminary. A long line of people waited to purchase chickens for $13 apiece, which they then swung over their heads while reciting a prayer before taking them over to a table where a butcher slit their throats with a knife. Around 11 p.m., a man shoved a chicken into the arms of Johnson, who had made it known he did not approve of the inhumane ritual, and told him he could have the bird. Johnson gladly accepted the frightened chicken and took him to his Brooklyn Heights home to await safe transport to Farm Sanctuary’s shelter in upstate New York. Halfway through the subway ride home, Johnson says the chicken began to relax and nestled into his arms.

Read more at CrownHeights.info

I wonder if their "rescue farm" is anything like the PETA facility for dogs and cats.

I can't wait for PETA's massive protest at Eid Al Adha. (WARNING: Some photos at the link are graphic)

Doofus of the Day: What Passes For "Humour" in Ireland

 Drunken Paddy Mick Mocks Jesus

"Six million? I would have got 10 or 12 million out of that. No f**kng problem! F**k them. Two at a time, they would have gone. Hold hands, get in there! Leave us your teeth and your glasses"

Tiernan crosses line with Holocaust rant

Irish comedian Tommy Tiernan is no stranger to controversy but his comments about Jews in front of a clapping and laughing audience at the recent Electric Picnic festival crossed a new line and are sure to provoke outrage in Ireland's Jewish community.

The 40-year-old prefaced his outburst by saying that what happened on a comedy stage was "about allowing whatever lunacy is inside you to come out in a special protected environment where people know that nothing they say is being taking seriously".

He then continued: "But these Jews, these f**king Jew c**ts come up to me. F**king Christ-killing bastards. F**king six million? I would have got 10 or 12 million out of that. No f**king problem! F**k them. Two at a time, they would have gone. Hold hands, get in there. Leave us your teeth and your glasses."

Tiernan made the comments at the Electric Picnic music festival on Saturday 5 September while taking part in a question-and-answer session in the Hot Press chatroom.

Following an interview with Hot Press writer Olaf Tyar­ansen, a member of the audience asked Tiernan if he had ever been accused of being anti-Semitic?

"Going by your Nazi joke and your odd Israeli joke, have you ever been accused of being anti-Semitic?" asked the audience member.

Tiernan replied: "Have I ever been accused of being anti-Semitic? I certainly have, yeah. In America, these two people waited for me after a show. I used to do this joke about… the Jews say they never killed Jesus, and the joke was, I would say the line, 'Well, it wasn't the f**king Mexicans,' was the joke, like. Yeah, Jewish people came up to me afterwards..."

Read more at Tribune.ie h/t wolfhound

Three men walk into a bar: a Frenchman, an Italian and an Irishman. Each orders one beer. Three flys fly into the bar and one fly lands in each man's beer.

The Italian man plucks the fly out of his beer, says "tutto e bene" (all is well)" and drinks the beer.

The Frenchman shows his beer with the bug still inside it to the bartender and demands another beer.

The Irishman yanks the bug out of the beer, grabs it by it's wings, shakes it while yelling

"Cough it up, you wee theivin' bastard!"

One of my best friends in high school was Katie McLean, who was thrown out of the Catholic school for cussing at a nun. She had some of the best Irish jokes ever!

The Jewish Way to Open a Garage Door

Iranians: The Juice are Behind Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy

The Israeli government has allegedly used its influence in American politics to strengthen the rumors about US President Barack Obama's birthplace.

On Monday, well-known investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's entrenched alliance with the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), various neoconservative groups and fundamentalist Christian organizations had made it "very easy for him to bring this whole canard back" about allegations that Obama has been born in Kenya rather than the United States.

"And it looks like he has done that as a way to put political pressure and try to tip Obama off his high favorability ratings at the present time," he added.

The Constitution bars people born outside the US from running for president. Obama's birthplace has been verified as Hawaii by the island state's Health Department and the president has presented his birth certificate online.

The claimants to the contrary, called 'birthers', are lead by California attorney Orly Taitz who has filed in the federal court Kenyan papers, which certify that Obama is Kenyan-born.

The Washington-based journalist said that "just after this fake birth certificate came out, she [Taitz] pops up in Tel Aviv two days later."

"She is originally from Moldova, very closely tied to Likud, Netanyahu and also Foreign Minister (Avigdor Lieberman) who is also a native of Moldova," he told Russia Today.

Asked about the Israeli motive for the move, the Washington-based journalist said "The Netanyahu government is very upset with Obama over the Obama administration's insistence that there be a freeze on settlements including in East Jerusalem [al-Quds]. So that couples with the reticence of the Obama administration to take any military action against Iran, which Netanyahu's government favors, has brought this old story back to life."

Presstv.ir

Wayne Madsen is a full-blown, completely batshit-whacko insane moonbat, who makes Glenn Beck, Cindy Sheehan and Medea Benjamin look like rocket scientists.

World's Largest Matzah Ball Cooked in NYC

Oy vey! This is a matzo ball to make you kvell.

Weighing 267 pounds and measuring 29.2 inches in diameter, the biggest matzo ball in the world was unveiled Thursday and served up to hungry lower East Siders.

The giant kosher creation was schlepped across the city with a police escort after spending 19.5 hours on a slow boil in a custom-made 100-gallon New Jersey kettle.

It was created to raise awareness and money for a charity basketball game at Madison Square Garden between the New York Knicks and Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv.

Profits from the Oct. 18 game will benefit the Migdal Ohr, an orphanage in northern Israel.

"What's better than this in New York City?" said Noam Sokolow, owner of Noah's Ark Original Deli on Grand St., who helped organize the event.

"Big Apple, big matzo ball, big basketball game."

The massive orb was lifted out of its kettle by two dozen workers with a special soup sling.

They heaved it into a large protective crate for the trip from Teaneck, N.J., to Manhattan in a 24-foot freight truck.

Five men unloaded the ball and walked it up a red carpet to the front of the deli, where it was unveiled in a giant bowl.

Read more at NY Daily News

Terrorist Gang Seethes Over Bruno Scene

Terrorist threat to Sacha Baron Cohen over Bruno ridicule

Sacha Baron Cohen has stepped up his security after being threatened by a terrorist organisation that is angered at its portrayal in the film Brüno.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian militias in the West Bank, said it was “very upset” that it featured in the film starring Baron Cohen’s homosexual fashionista alter ego.

Baron Cohen’s Austrian character ridicules the terrorist group when he attempts to get himself kidnapped during a meeting with Ayman Abu Aita, who is identified in the film as the leader of the Martyrs’ Brigades.

The London-born actor is reportedly taking the threat seriously and has improved security arrangements for himself and his family in preparation for violent reprisals.

The Martyrs’ Brigades has issued a statement to a Jerusalem-based journalist including a veiled threat against Baron Cohen, 37. “We reserve the right to respond in the way we find suitable against this man,” it said. “The movie was part of a conspiracy against the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.”

The group condemned the use of the interview with Mr Abu Aita. “According to what we checked there was was no meeting about the real context of the film,” the statement said. “This was a dirty use of our brother, Ayman, and we don’t accept that the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades is part of the film.”

The group is alleged to be responsible for dozens of suicide bombings and shootings. It has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the European Union and United States. Baron Cohen’s Austrian character is shown telling Mr Abu Aita: “I want to be famous. I want the best guys in the business to kidnap me. Al-Qaeda is so 2001.”

Read more at Times Online

Nuremburg Nixes Nazi Gnome

German prosecutors have launched an investigation into whether a garden gnome with its right arm raised in a Heil Hitler salute breaks the law.

The golden gnome has gone on display at an art gallery in Nuremberg, the Bavarian city that hosted huge Nazi party rallies before the Second World War and the major war crimes trials afterwards.

Walter Traeg, a spokesman for the Nuremberg public prosecutors office, said that investigators had to ascertain whether the gnome breached post-War laws banning Hitler salutes and other Nazi symbols.

But he said that they may decide it is in fact a piece of art ridiculing the Third Reich.

“It is also a question of art a bit .. and a garden gnome,” he said. “It will also depend on what the artist and the owners of the gallery have to say for themselves about the whole thing."

The gnome is the work of Ottmar Hoerl, the 59-year-old president of the city's Academy for Fine Arts. Mr Hoerl said that he first designed the Nazi gnome for an exhibition in Belgium.

"Portraying the German 'master race' as garden gnomes was an ironic gesture," said Professor Hoerl, who created a stir six years ago by placing 7,000 green hares in Nuremberg's main market square.

But Arno Hamburger, who represents the town's Jewish community, called it "utterly tasteless". "The joke stops here," he told the Bild newspaper.

Times Online

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