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The BBC Japanese News Review Yahoo News

Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura professed a belief on UFOs and affirmed he believes it is a matter of nation defense. Japanese fighters stand ready to intercept suspicious objects in Japanese airspace.

Absurd, on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin.

UFO, Unidentified Flying Object, anything that is not definitively identified is a UFO. That is not to say it must be alien or even extraterrestrial in origin. Simply that no one can say give a supported explanation for what it is. Most are small meteors or debris from terrestrial events.

Flying saucers, ummm… sure. OK, there are billions of stars in the universe and we are discovering more and more with planets orbiting them. Chances are there is other life in the universe somewhere where there is life there is going to be some form of higher life eventually. Where there are higher life forms there is bound to be intelligence. The universe is billions of years old so chances are there are civilization that are far older or more advanced then human life on this planet. But to be able to get here? That is a long way and would take a long time. Please do not say warp drive, hyperspace or slipstream. I’ll have find a way to scratch your eyes out with my spectral de-clawed paws, or bite you with my jagged chipped tooth the vet got a wrong end of. (He-he I apparently bit like a pit bull just clamp down and don’t let go. Dumb vet touched my belly! No one but Tail Stomper had that privilege.)

Ok, assuming they have the technology to get here and remain undetected, what are fighter jets going to be able to do to their ships? Anything that gets from one star to another is going to have some heavy duty shielding against radiation and space debris. You really think a little thing that can’t even get out of orbit is going to scare them?

And why the assumption they’re hostile? What could earth have that they need? Water? Besides the tons of it floating around the asteroid belt (we have no way to defend) you think they can get from one star to another and they haven’t figured out how get hydrogen and oxygen to combine? Metal? Again the asteroid belt, out there undefended. In case you haven’t noticed you humans have pretty much trashed the whole planet!

Company? Wow! I have to think there is better company out there. Unless maybe they are seeking kitty company? That would be worth the effort.

Some guy in Italy paid $330,000 for a 3.3 pound chunk of fungus someone’s dog dug up under a tree. I find this truly disturbing. That you humans will eat roots and vegetables let alone fungus is disturbing enough. Have some pride you’re at least partially carnivores! But paying a small fortune for a chunk of fungus is just obscene, for that much money a village in some third world country could have bought cat food and litter for their fur friends for a decade, or maybe fed their kids for a year or two.

Man ‘Marries’ Dog to Beat Curse

According the Times of India and BBC New and AFP (whatever that is)

Slow news day?

I’m all for atoning for one’s lapses in judgment, but I’m thinking the poor bride deserves more than a bun for breaking his curse.

This just brings up so many questions. Is he precluded from taking a human wife too? Does he have to support her puppies from previous relationships? In the final article the truth comes out he just using his poor bride to break the curse, he intends on taking a human bride once the curse is gone. Absolutely shocking.

India seems to have many strange wedding customs.

Back in June some people in the southern city of Bangalore threw a wedding for a couple of asses. I hope they gave them more than a bun to eat, for saving them from drought.

Silly humans.

Tail Stomper is on a roll. She finally got this BLOG software installed on the hosting, and she found a template generator, and she even modified the template to suit my liking, and she copied the old post over from Blogger!! I’d kiss her but I’m dead and that probably wouldn’t go over so well. Might be pretty funny though.

She also baked her kitten a chocolate chip yogurt cake from scratch, with chocolate butter cream frosting.

You must be kidding!

But Mom! The other 61-year-olds get an allowance!  (News story no longer available from original source.)

If the son is sixty-one then, how old is Mom? In her late seventies at least!!

I understand living with her, that makes sense. But the allowance? What the heck?

And complaining about her cooking? ABSURD!!! He’s more than old enough to be cooking for himself in fact he should be cooking for her!

NOTE: Copied from a previous BLOG on Nov. 8, 2007

A Melbourne Australian school refused to enroll a five year old because of his surname is Hell.

MELBOURNE, Australia - The Hell family says it may tell a Catholic school in
Australia where to go after it objected to enrolling their son because of his
name.

Officials said the boy had been offered a place at the St. Peter the
Apostle school in the southern city of Melbourne after discussions between the
principal, the parish priest and the family over his name.
Talk about judging a book by the title. (News story no longer found on the at the original site.)

I believe this foolishness speaks for itself, but I’ll comment anyway. Maybe should force everyone with odd names to change it to suit our sense of order. Maybe everyone should be called Jack or Jill Smith or Jones? Imagine all the problems that would solve…

NOTE: Migrated from a previous BLOG Nov. 8, 2007

After all his appeals were denied Philip Workman’s last meal request was for a vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person. The request was denied. On the grounds that money is to be spent on inmates and can’t be given to charity. Although the spokes person for the prison acknowledged that there is no rule against it.

So the state of Tennessee is willing spend as much as $20.00 and allow the prisoner to make a special request for the meal, but the money has to used on the prisoner.

What a terrible waste. What an incredibly callous society we have become. We’ll spend money to feed a man we are about to kill but we won’t allow him to make the smallest gesture of remorse or compensation to society? Absurd, completely and utterly absurd!

Someone will invariably want to make this about the execution, but it is not it about the execution. It is about the executioners, the people of this country. We are very much in danger of losing what sets us apart from those we execute. Is it worth it?

Before What?

Before I figured out my darned human Tail Stomper is never going to figure out how to use any of the damned content management systems that come with the hosting… and will never update my page regularly… I have resorted to this ready made BLOG system. ~Oh, don’t be too hard on her, she’s had a crappy run the last year or so. Her husband was taken by aliens, I died, she took in a homicidal gray tuxedo cat, she had some health scares and lastly her boy has managed to mangle his knee up pretty good. Oh yeah, and her roof is shot and her antique car is making funny noises…

Now I had more then this but in the interest of moving forward let’s just take the best.

The Best of My Previous Proof:

Prisoner Sues God for Breach of Contract!

Romanian prisoner Pavel M. is suing God for failing to protect him from the Devil. The claimant is claiming that his baptism was a binding contract and God was supposed to protect him from the evil. I guess he didn’t read the disclaimer at the end of the contract about personal responsibility.

Satanic Turtle Survives Fire

Absurd Turtle Story I couldn’t make this up if I tried.

Meow… right. The Devil burned down your pet shop and left a marked turtle as the sole survivor. Because..?

The Devil likes to confuse us by playing practical jokes? Maybe all turtles are in league with the Devil and this one sold out all his friends for the notoriety? Maybe it’s just a very lucky or unlucky turtle with food coloring on his back.

Poor turtle, like many sole survivors he is now blamed for the tragedy he barely escaped. Absurd!

The only devils we have to fear are the devils in our own hearts.
~I have seen this attributed to Gandhi, but I could not find verification.

I present the question of: Big Rock or Curse of Biblical Proportion?

As part of a Millennium celebration, a large granite boulder was inscribed with portions of a 500-year-old curse. The 1069 word curse, issued by Archbishop of Glasgow Gavin Dunbar in 1525, was aimed at a group of people known as the Reivers. The Reivers were rebels, brigands, familial groups or outlaws, depending on whose version of events you read, they inhabited an area of land, know as the Debatable Lands.

Recently one of the town fathers, in Carlisle City where this boulder is on display, put forth a motion to remove it, because it has brought disasters of Biblical Proportion, to the city.

Read the curse in modern English, or if you prefer the original version. My humble thanks to the furless ones who wore out their paws typing out the Monition of Cursing.

I’m at a loss for which is more absurd, the curse itself or a town father blaming a rock for the town’s troubles.

Rocks by nature are quiet souls moved along by nature or more ambulatory souls. They can be quite painful stuck in ones paws, but this is not by intent of the rock. Rocks have no intent. They are born of the inner turmoil of the Earth or by gravity and time, either way they are passive observers.

So the rock cannot be causing the town’s troubles. Perhaps it is the shame of issuing such mean spirited curse. Or the hypocrisy of doing so in the name of a Savior that preached forgiveness. Perhaps the troubles are not so unusual at all, and people just want to be rid of a reminder of unpleasant days.

Any way you bat the rock, it is Proof of Life’s Absurdness.

Update: The rock will stay city councilors voted to keep the ‘Cursing Stone” where it is.

They were quite surprised by the international publicity. I’m sure the extra kibble from the new tourists will help smooth things over.

A local psychic, Charlie Kennedy, performed a ceremony to cleanse the rock of the negative energy. She believed that troubles came from the words written on the rock.

Hopefully that will be the last we hear of the absurdly cursed rock.

NOTE: Imported from an older BLOG Nov. 8 2007