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Gayquakes
So one of the ultra-theocratic parties in the Israeli government has decided that gays are responsible for a series of recent, and exceedingly minor, earthquakes.

recently.

Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas Party, said the tremors had been caused by lawmaking that gave "legitimacy to sodomy".

Israel decriminalised homosexuality in 1988 and has since passed several laws recognising gay rights.

Two earthquakes shook the region last week and a further four struck in November and December.

Mr Benizri made his comments while addressing a committee of the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, about the country's readiness for earthquakes.

He called on lawmakers to stop "passing legislation on how to encourage homosexual activity in the state of Israel, which anyway brings about earthquakes".

Ahh, that pesky seismic activity caused by gays.

Honestly, is gay sex such a mystery to these people that they think it can cause the tectonic plates to move?

Source: BBC News

Those Wacky Serbs
So the Serbs aren't happy that, after a decade of UN administration where nobody tried to exterminate their entire race, the Kosovar people have declared independence.

Gee, I mean, why would they hold a grudge against the government that tried to slaughter their families with tanks?

They torched our embassy in Belgrade in response to the United States recognizing the new nation of Kosovo.

Of course, sometimes arson and rioting goes south....

Rioters set fire to the US embassy in Belgrade on Thursday, killing one person, while more than 90 people were injured in clashes with Serbian police in unrest following Kosovo's independence.

The burnt body found in the embassy was not identified, but an embassy spokeswoman said the person was not a staff member.

"All embassy staff are accounted for," Rian Harris said.

*Nelson voice*
Ha-Ha!

Source: Raw Story

Jerks
A cop in Arkansas has apparently been caught on an old tape using a taser on a cow.

Would a cow even feel an ordinary taser? Their skin is exceptionally thick. They walk through electric fencing all the time.

So not just a jerk, but possibly an incompetent one.

Source: Raw Story
Cables

Looks like the cables that failed around the Middle East may have been sabotaged after all, at least some of them.

Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday.

"We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago," the UN agency's head of development, Sami al-Murshed, told AFP.

Sabotage, not, not terrorism.

I just don't see your radical groups severing net access. It's not all that, err, scary.

Source: Raw Story

Morons
Morons at an English restaurant left an obscene message on the bill for a couple of customers who complained about poor service.

Ten friends found the abusive and sexually-explicit message on their bill at Joe Delucci's Italian restaurant in Bird Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire.

Diner Clare Watkin said she thought it was written after they complained about poor service.

I think she might have a point.

Source: BBC News