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Crazy NASA.....
by Guest Urbanhog- 2 replies
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I received this from my old school teacher whom we have since became good friends (I guess it's pretty unusual becoming mates with ex-teachers uh? ) The Difference between Focus on Problems and Focus on Solutions: When NASA began the launch of astronauts into space, they found out that the pens wouldn't work at zero gravity (ink won't flow down to the writing surface). In order to solve this problem, they hired Andersen Consulting (Accenture today). It took them one decade and US$12,000,000. They developed a pen that worked at zero gravity, upside down, under water, in practically any surface including crystal and in a temperature range from below freezing to over…
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i seen this in the paper once - piss funny 'man found dead at bustop' Police found the body of a man slumped at a bus stop in cork, england.His body had been there sometime detectives say..... but get this POLICE SAY THE MAN MAY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR A BUS AT THE TIME! um no shit holmes ::
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Source: The Mercury AUSTRALIA is on an international terrorist hit list, according to United States ambassador Tom Schieffer. In an exclusive interview with the Herald Sun, Ambassador Schieffer said Osama bin Laden had listed Australia for terrorist attack. In a wide-ranging interview he also said America was running out of patience with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Mr Schieffer will today tell a Melbourne business lunch that a war with Saddam can be averted by a strong united stance by the international community, backed by the threat of war. But yesterday Mr Schieffer revealed Australia's support for East Timor had made us a terrorist target. "It has not…
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I was looking through the encylopedia. Encarta, microsoft style, when I came across an entry for Reffer Madness. I thought I'd cut and paste it here for a gander. cheers................ Reefer Madness Reefer Madness, motion picture about the dangers of marijuana smoking. Released in 1936, this film tells the story of Bill and Mary, two ordinary teenagers looking for a good time. The local drug dealers give them some joints and soon everyone in school is over at Bill's house. The teens experience extreme reactions to the drug and are prone to strange hallucinations, which lead to sex, murder, and crazy piano playing. The school principal chides Bill for his saggin…
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Growing in Afghanistan
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Busted!: Afghan Farmers to Harvest Marijuana =>Posted by: logos. =>Thursday, September 12 @ 16:20:00 MST Source: Herald Tribune KHANA ABAD, Afghanistan (AP) - Obeying a Taliban edict, many marijuana cultivators in Afghanistan stopped growing their crops when the hardline Islamic militia was in power. Now some of those farmers are back in business. They're so open about it that fields of sturdy marijuana plants, some nearly seven feet tall, line part of the main road leading west from Mazar-e-Sharif, the biggest city in northern Afghanistan. Resin from the plant, also known as cannabis, is concentrated to make hashish. With the main harvest expected in one t…
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Source: Working Assets By Bill Berkowitz Every day Mary Lucey takes AIDS medications to stay alive. Without medical marijuana she gets so nauseous she can't keep the pills down. Lucey, a veteran activist and Interim AIDS Coordinator for the city of Los Angeles, serves on the board of the L.A. Cannabis Resource Center. When the LACRC was raided by the DEA in October, 2001, Lucey lost her safe, reliable source of medicine. Jim and Roni Bowers and their children, religious missionaries working in South America, were in a plane shot down over Peru on April 20, 2001. It was a U.S. government-coordinated "drug interdiction" that went bad and Roni and her one-year-old daugh…
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