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# UK'S 1999 Crop Circle Season Had Some Surprises - Year's Best Featured
Spectacular Details Never Seen Before: http://caus.org/ccr110899.htm
@ Images: http://cropcircleconnector.com/1999/Avebury/Avebury99a.html and
www.cropcircleconnector.com/1999/StantonStBernard/Stantonstbernard99a.html
: Have you improved your crop-circle designs lately? Are you adding great,
specftacular details? Do the voices in your head offer aesthetic advice??
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Animals-R-Us:
# Pets Cut Dangerous Surges In Blood Pressure. ATLANTA (Reuters) Facing
a stressful task? Trade your husband or wife for a dog or a cat. NOW!!
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/08/odd-health-heart-pets
: Would you rather have a cat, a dog, a husband, a wife, a robot, or me?
Do you raise your companions' blood pressure? Do they raise yours? How?
# Psychic: Dog may have been military leader in past. (AC) She paid $15 to
learn about her Boston terrier's previous lives, but was shaken by the
revelation about Amanda the dog. "Goodness, who knew?" she asked. Does
atrocity lurk in every pet? http://www.azcentral.com/news/1108pet.shtml
: Is your pet a reincarnated mass-murderer, demagogue, conquistador? Who?
Who's your favorite historical figure to have been reincarnated as y'r pet?
# British Reporter 'Tortured With Branding Iron.' LONDON (Reuters) An award-
winning TV documentary maker who exposed extreme elements within Britain's
Animal Liberation Front (ALF) said he was kidnapped and tortured with a
branding iron. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991108/08/odd-crime-branding
: Would you rather brand animals, reporters, lawyers, aliens, robots, me? Do
you brand/torture many of your adversaries? Do they brand/torture you? Why?
# School-spirited Texas teens spray-paint animals. To "celebrate" the big
upcoming football game, high school kids spray-painted cows and pigs (in
green & gold, the school colors), and fatally beat some animals, including
ten prize-winning turkeys. http://dallasnews.com/metro/1107met5turkeys.htm
: Do you have a love/hate relationship with animals? Do voices in your head
direct your attitudes/behavior towards animals? Should animal activists burn
HS students with branding irons? Is it OK to molest a pig who was Hitler in
a previous life? Is spray-painting animals good for your blood pressure? Eh?
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# Woman to fight her "blessed day" discipline. Her bosses told her to knock
off the "blessed day" business, but Liz Anderson is determined to keep it
up. She hired a lawyer to file a religious discrimination complaint. "My
telling people to 'have a blessed day' is not taking anything away from
anybody:" http://starnews.com/news/citystate/99/nov/1107st_blessed.html
: Do you annoy people with your verbal blessings, exorcisms, curses, other
spiritual statements? Do others annoy you with such language? Will you sue?
# 500 Falun Gong sentenced to slave labor, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561966743-f73
# Also: China building Falun Gong cases, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561950702-24e
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# Five men arrested after scary "supernatural encounter." Dressed as Ninja
warriors for martial-arts practice, the guys pounded on a minister's door
at 2 a.m. after they were confronted by a beast-like demon. "We just
wanted to talk to the pastor because Shaun was pretty spooked" - but the
cops were called: http://www.courant.com/news/archive/Nov7-ctnews6.stm
: Have you encountered any demons lately? Did you run to a pastor? Were you
exorcised, busted, cursed, obliterated? Are you a beast-like demon? Really?
@ THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO BEING PSYCHIC at least declares its honest
regard for its readership: http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/book-review.html
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# BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS - Jesus expelled from class - 'Poster' boy, 7, fights
decision with crayons, lawsuit: http://nypostonline.com/news/17606.htm
$ 'Brave New Schools' - Get this expose of the public school system:
https://locked.webforums.com/forums/secure.o-read/msa64.211.html
: Have you promoted your belief system in a tax-supported venue lately? Do
you mind if your taxes support the promotion of other people's beliefs? Eh?
@ Harry Keeler's mysteries give us a world that is idiotic, to be sure,
but also pleasingly weird and lunatic. Here are crimes whose solutions
are exquisitely unreal: http://www.sfbg.com/lit/october99/index.html
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Vatican vs. Scotland - Church blasts end to ban on promoting homosexuality:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&pg=/et/99/11/8/nchu08.html
Cardinal backs gay discrimination - Scottish parliament to repeal legal ban:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561967501-de4
: Have you promoted sexuality lately? Would you rather promote celibacy? Do
other peoples' sexualities annoy you? Do you annoy others with your sexual
attitudes? Should you be banned from promoting your sexual agenda? Have you
accomplished anything by promoting your sexual agenda, other than finding
sympatico partners whom you can fuck/suck/slurp to your heart's content?
# Virgins Sought For Safe Sex: Wealthy men want young girls, not condoms:
www.scmp.com/News/Asia/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-19991106025353182.asp
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Y2K-a-Rama:
# Y2K Cash Withdrawals Pose Risk. Many seniors are pulling money from banks
due to Y2K fears. Cops say some have been mugged, robbed. Others have been
preyed upon by Y2K scam artists. Others are taking out too much money and
hiding it at home. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg581.htm
# PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO - Y2K conmen drugging victims? Cops think herb-
laced cigarettes enable swindlers. Or are the victims just real dumb?
www.scmp.com/News/Front/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-19991108014039988.asp
# Y2K - U.S.: It appears we're ready for Y2K, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561948855-47d
# Y2K - Italy Plan For Y2K: : Hope for a miracle; see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561969981-843
# Y2K - 37 Major European Airports Branded Safety Risks By US Report:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kairports_p.htm
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"[There] is the distinct possibility that [future males] might not exist
at all, except in sperm banks, stored in insulated metal vessels at -197
degrees. Radical biologists (that is, people with knowledge of biological
research, who also happen to have radical views on sexual politics) now
see the male of our species as technically expendable, and a few of them
are looking into the possibility of putting this theory into practice..."
--H.Rheingold, BRAVE NEW MALE, in EXCURSIONS TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MIND
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