The interesting news thread.

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This thread won't have a specific topic and instead it is designed to be a catch all thread for interesting news articles folks would like to share here at poly. I'll kick us off. Archeologists have discovered what they believe to be the first evidence of homosexuality among cave men. No, joke. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...man-found.html For those of you who think racism is dead... A recent poll of Republicans in Mississippi found that 46% of Republicans in that state still believe inter racial marriage should be outlawed. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...=feeds-newsxml http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/p...MS_0407915.pdf And here in San Diego we seem to have our very own version of the D.C. Sniper and he's shooting at people on the freeway near my home which I drive every day to and from work. :\ http://www.sandiego6.com/news/local/...xirEQ-_kw.cspx Post some of your own interesting news stories and lets keep this thread going.

[SlowwHand]

I don't have a link, but did you see that if the government shuts down at all, the military won't get pay checks? How's that for bull****?

[Dinner]

Yeah. The politicians passed a bill making sure they still get paid even if they don't do their jobs but **** everyone else, right?

That's even worse then that one Republican tea bagger in the house claiming $178,000 of tax payer money just wasn't enough to live on.

[Dinner]

Bumped so that Mr Fun can see he was mucked. Hopefully others will post their interesting news stories in this thread rather then making a separate thread for each news story.

[The Mad Monk]

Why would you do that? Sound like a way to muddle everything.

[Dinner]

I thought it would be nice to have one new thread instead of dozens. Am I wrong?

[The Mad Monk]

I like the idea of gathering all the interesting news stories, for reference. I just think that commentaries for said stories belong in separate threads.

[MrFun]

Interesting news today . . . . .

I shaved earlier and now I'm going to go grocery shopping.

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A Royal Navy Sailor on HMS Astute (a nuclear powered submarine) shot and killed another sailor today. The sailor has been charged with murder.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/1-dead-after-shooting-aboard-uk-nuclear-sub/

Portugal is now saying it needs around $114 billion which is far larger then the previously authorized bailout. Our German posts should get their lube out because they're about to get ****ed in the ass.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/eu-says-portugal-needs-about-114-billion-in-aid/

Finally, a local story (for me) The estate of Dr. Suess, the famous children's book artist & writer, is going to release an unfinished work by the famous American artist over a decade after he died. I have very fond memories of Dr. Suess coming to my 3rd grade class and reading us his latest book at the time "The butter battle book". The man really cared about children and took his personal time to visit local schools to read to children and try to encourage them to both read and write books of their own. If only more people were like him in our modern age. Several of my friends also went to UCSD (though I got out of town to get away from everything I knew) who's central library was both designed and paid for by the estate of Dr. Suess (he started the process before he died but he sadly passed away before the project was completed). He was a scholar and a gentlemen.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/lost-stories-by-dr-seuss-to-be-published-in-september/

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Afghanistan: Gukha honored for lone fight against Taliban.

A Gurkha soldier has received one of the highest awards for bravery for single-handedly fighting off up to 30 Taliban trying to storm his position in Afghanistan.


Sergeant Dipprasad Pun got through more than 400 rounds of ammunition and an assortment of grenades during his extraordinary one-man stand on the roof of an isolated sentry-post.

At one point, when his gun could no longer fire, he resorted to battering one Taliban fighter, who was trying to scale the wall to attack him, over the head with the tripod of his machine gun.

The 31-year-old from Bima in western Nepal, has been awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.

He is the third generation of his family to be decorated for bravery after his father Purna, an Indian Gurkha, and his grandfather.

He is among more than 130 soldiers, marines and airmen being honoured for their bravery during a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan last summer.

Sgt Pun told yesterday how he was on guard duty at the base near Rahim Kalay in Helmand Province on September 10 last year when he heard a digging sound in the darkness in front of him.
Grabbing two radios, a GPMG (general purpose machine gun), his SA80 rifle, a grenade launcher and an arsenal of hand-held grenades he climbed onto the rooftop and opened fire.
With rocket propelled grenades and gun fire flying over his head from all directions he defended the position for more than 15 minutes, killing three Taliban and forcing the others to flee.
At one point the diminutive soldier turned around to see a “huge” Taliban fighter approaching him on the rooftop, a few feet away, having silently scaled the wall, and shot him.
While the mass of Taliban fired from an area of open ground, another crept into the compound and tried to climb the wall but he spotted him.
“I tried to fire my SA80 but it wouldn’t work,” he said.
“I don’t know if there was an obstruction or the magazine was finished.
“I threw my SA80 down and grabbed a sandbag but it wasn’t tied and all the sand dropped out.
“As I tried to jump into the sentry post I found a metal rod from the GPMG tripod and pulled it round and hit him.”
As he ran towards the Taliban fighter he gave a shout of “Marchu Talai” Nepalese for “I’m going to kill you”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/8405932/Afghanistan-Gurkha-honoured-for-lone-fight-against-Taliban.html

A bad ass, mother ****er.

[DaShi]

I don't have a link, but did you see that if the government shuts down at all, the military won't get pay checks? How's that for bull****?

Yup, and all those other government workers are worthless anyway. They shouldn't get paid even after the government starts up again.

[SlowwHand]

http://video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html

Next time you "think" you see a "bird" on a telephone line, better look closely!

US Air Force - MAV's

[Dinner]

I saw that last week sometime and I have to admit, if I hadn't seen a video of it flying, it would have looked good. The problem is it's mechanics of flight while flying still looks very fake (not like a real bird) but I imagine that will improve in time.

[SlowwHand]

If it's sitting on a power line, I doubt that you'd pay any attention.

[Dinner]

True.