Category: You Decide

‘Capitalist’ student auctions off virginity
by ninemsn staff
NewsNineMSM
September 10, 2008

A 22-year-old woman who is planning to auction off her virginity in order to pay for her college tuition says she has no ethical hang-ups about the plan.

The woman, using the pseudonym Natalie Dylan, will auction herself through the website of the enormous Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in the US state of Nevada.

“We live in a capitalist society … why shouldn’t I be allowed to capitalise on my virginity?” Ms Dylan was quoted as saying in the New York Daily News.

“I understand some people will condemn me … but I think this is empowering. I’m using what I have to better myself.

The pretty brunette has already finished her undergraduate degree in women’s studies at Sacramento State University and plans to start a master’s degree.

Speaking on shock jock Howard Stern’s New York radio show, Ms Dylan said she got the idea from a Peruvian woman who auctioned her virginity and received a $1.5 million bid. Continue reading “So much virginity, so little time…”

Legal bid to stop CERN atom smasher from ‘destroying the world’
by Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
September 5, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk

The world’s biggest and most expensive scientific experiment has been hit by a last minute legal challenge, amid claims that the research could bring about the end of the world.

Critics of the Large Hadron Collider – a £4.4 billion machine due to be switched on in ten days time – have lodged a lawsuit at the European Court for Human Rights against the 20 countries, including the UK, that fund the project.

The device is designed to replicate conditions that existed just a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, and its creators hope it will unlock the secrets of how the universe began.

However, opponents fear the machine, which will smash pieces of atoms together at high speed and generate temperatures of more than a trillion degrees centigrade, may create a mini-black hole that could tear the earth apart.

Scientists involved in the project have dismissed the fears as “absurd” and insist that extensive safety assessments on the 17 mile long particle accelerator have demonstrated that it is safe. Continue reading “Big Bang Boom? Will the CERN Atom Smasher Create a Mini-black Hole That Could Tear the Earth Apart?”

Update from the New York Post, September 1, 2008: Palin Admits Her 17-Year-Old Daughter is Pregnant. The father-to-be describes himself on his MySpace page as “a f – – -in’ redneck”.

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BabyGate: Explosive Details
by ArcXIX
Daily Kos
August 31, 2008

Yesterday, the nation at large was introduced to Sarah Palin’s fraudulent claims of maternity by numerous photographs, video, and a timeline that made even those accepting of the ‘official’ story turn their heads in confusion.

The revelation that had been whispered among the Alaskan legislature was explosive. Sarah Palin is not the mother of Trig Palin. Her daughter is the mother. Scarce if any refutations to the contrary have come forward, and now damning incidents and evidence has come to light.

Mothers of the world have reeled back in disgust and horror at Sarah’s dangerous and possibly fatal story of flying 4000 miles even as she was supposedly in the process of entering labor a month early. Sarah needs to honestly answer for her lies, promptly.

Read more of today’s Daily Kos story here. Read yesterday’s story here. Both are full of photos and videos.

thanks Erin

Submitted by Jeremy “Lügarshz” Bloom. Text is from Google Sightseeing by Alex, August 22, 2008:

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Face of Cowboy Jesus Found in Desert!

The proof is now clear for all to see – Jesus was a cowboy! As demonstrated by this ridiculously large example of Pareidolia in the Australian Outback.

These images have been colour-adjusted for clarity.

Actually, you’re not just seeing things, this is in fact Mundi Man, and not only is he really there, but he might just be the world’s largest work of art. The vision of an artist known as Ando, he covers a staggering 4 million square metres – meaning that his smile alone is as wide as the Empire State Building is tall!

The image of an anonymous ‘stockman‘ (Australian cowboy) was chosen to represent those who pioneered the Outback plains of Australia. Unfortunately, it seems that whatever method Ando used to put our cheery-looking cowboy here hasn’t lasted too well, as he seems to be slowly fading away”¦

thanks to adrbr

From Nancy Weber: My sister-in-law writes…

Tell me this is really Joey Skaggs!

Joey Skaggs writes…

It’s a good one. But, alas, it’s been cancelled…

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Italian priest organizes beauty contest for nuns
Yahoo! News
August 24, 2008

Rome – An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the stereotype that they are all old and dour.

The “Miss Sister 2008” contest will start in September on a blog run by the Rev. Antonio Rungi and will give nuns from around the world a chance to showcase their work and their image.

“Nuns are a bit excluded, they are a bit marginalized in ecclesiastical life,” Rungi told The Associated Press after Italian media carried reports of the idea. “This will be an occasion to make their contribution more visible.” Read more.

And read today’s article about the cancellation.

photo: The Age