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Jewish World Review
News of the Weird: The Continuing Crisis
By
Chuck Shepherd
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• Germany's Green Party temporarily transcended mainstream environmental goals in June and specially demanded that the government begin regulating sex toys such as dildos and vibrators. Those devices, it said, contain "dangerously high levels of phthalates" and other plastics that can cause infertility and hormone imbalances. The party called for sex-toy regulation that is at least as strong as the regulation of children's toys. [Spiegel Online, 7-1-2011]
• "This is a clear case where making something environmentally friendly works for us," said Lt. Col. Jeff Woods, the U.S. Army's product manager for small-caliber ammunition. He told Military.com in May that new steel-core 5.56mm cartridges not only "penetrate" (kill) more effectively, but are less environmentally toxic than current lead-core ammo. [Military.com, 5-5-2011]
• Judge Giuseppe Gargarella has scheduled trial for later this month in L'Aquila, Italy, for seven members of Italy's national commission on disaster risks who (though supposedly experts) failed to warn of the severity of the April 2009 central-Italy earthquake that killed 300 people. Judge Gargarella said the seven had given "contradictory information" and must stand trial for manslaughter. (One commission member had even recommended a high-end red wine that citizens should sip as they ignore small tremors -- which turned into a 6.3 magnitude quake.) [The Guardian (London), 5-26- 2011]
• The veterans' support organization Home for Our Troops had recently started to build a 2,700-square-foot house in Augusta, Ga., to ease life for Army Sgt. 1st Class Sean Gittens, who had suffered concussive head injuries in Afghanistan and is partially paralyzed. However, in June, the Knob Hill Property Owners Association, which had provisionally approved the design, changed its mind. "The problem is," one association member told the Augusta Chronicle, there are "5,000-square-foot homes all the way up and down the street" and that such a "small" house would bring down property values. "It just doesn't fit." [Augusta Chronicle, 6-22-2011]
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Previously:
• Compelling Explanations?
• Ironies
• Government turns TLC into crime, fine
• The Pervo-American Community; truly bizarre historical trivia
• Coincidence?; Catch-22; Unclear on the Concept
• Jobs-for-life; Bats' Rights
• Government in Action!
• Ironic twist on ‘affirmative action’; Ah, art!
• Names in the News (For Immature Readers Only, Please!); Pathetic losers
• The continuing crisis, con't; The Pervo-American Community
• The Continuing Crisis
• New meaning for ‘adult toy’; OOPS! Wrong crime
• THE NERVE!
• Police Blotter
• Recent Confusing Headlines; People With Issues
• Unclear on the Concept
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• Respect all cultures!?; screwed for something he didn't
• Least Competent Criminals; He's full of . . . .
• MORE Questionable Judgments
• Questionable Judgments
• Cultural Diversity
• White men can …; Cutting-Edge Research
• Undignified Deaths; Recurring Themes
• People Different From Us --- And Most!; Leading Economic Indicators
• Civilization in Decline: Growing Up Early
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit!
• Life lessons for make-believe world; Armed and Clumsy (all-new!)
• Recurring Themes; Update
• You just had to open that yap of yours, didn't you!?
• Ironies
• Fan-atic$; Unclear on the Concept
• Easily Offended
• Criminals With Chutzpah; Least Competent Non-Criminals
• Almost (Deservedly) Dead in Bed; Gee, whiz genius; They Call it Art!
• More of your Government in Action!
• Government in Action!
• The Aristocrats!
• Oops!
• The Continuing Crisis
• Bright Ideas
• OOPS!
• People With Issues
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; Inexplicable
• Can't Possibly Be True!, II
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• T-moo-I!; Unclear on the Concept
• Creme de la Weird; Least Competent Gun-Handling
• HUH!?; Questionable Judgments
• Our screwed-up world
• The Classic Middle Name (all-new!); Unclear on the Concept
• Least Competent Patient; Rights of the Disabled
• Procreation Interventions; Weird Animals
• Who says we're in a recession!?; Navel Observatory
• Fine Points of the Law; Medical Marvels
• How the Saudis hold beauty contests; The Entrepreneurial Spirit!; Noses Know
• Cliche Come to Life; art!?; worse
• I Demand My Rights!; Signs of the Times
• Compelling Explanations; 'Wrong' Impressions
• Ironies
• Least Competent Criminals
• HUH!?
• When government bombs; Bizarre ‘art’
• Chutzpah!
• Pakistan finds a use for ‘transgendered’; People With Issues
• Least Competent Criminals; Usual consequence for an unqualified student
• Why Unions Are Unpopular; Score One for Death Penalty Advocates
• Those who don't know when to shut their yap
• Overreaching
• Oops!; Wheeee!
• Least Competent Criminals; Last Words
• Inexplicable
• HUH!?
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• Zero Tolerance?; Willing to go to Indonesia to cure for emphysema?
• FANatic; what a putz — literally!
• The ultimate loser; chutzpah X2
• Illegals become animals; When ‘grow up!’ is not just a rebuke
• 'Good Housekeeping' for the bomber set; evolutionary hardiness in American drinkers?
• In case you are getting sentenced; when a ‘best friend’ betrays
• Clever victim outwits thief
• Do names portend the future?
• Questionable Judgments
• They are definitely not US!
• Smooth Reactions; Least Competent Criminals
• People With Too Much Money
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Product Giveaways
• Weird Science
• Whoever said life is fair?
• Creme de la Weird; The Litigious Society
• Ironies
• Least Competent Criminals; Classic weirdness
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; The Weirdo-American Community
• Pathetic creeps
• Government in Action!
• People Different From Us; Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time
• Not So Bright Ideas
• No Sense of Shame!
• Yikes!
• Change, the old fashioned way; Another ‘Sovereign’ Citizen
• Elusive Perps; The Country Afraid of Its Own Shadow
• More ‘Can't Possibly Be True!’
• Inexplicable
• Can't Possibly Be True
• Things that make say ‘HUH!?’
• Least Competent Criminals; Classic
• SICK! SICK! SICK!
• Questionable Judgments
• All cultures are equal?
• Feeeeeeeh!
• Least Competent Criminals; She's repulsive, they're jealous
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit; Not Your Father's Scotch
• Science on the Cutting Edge
• Privacy v. ‘art’; The Continuing Crisis
• Recurring Themes; A News of the Weird Classic
• People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals
• Economics and witchcraft; Ironies
• From victims to tourist attractions; Wacky lawsuit
• Compelling Explanations
• Least Competent Criminals; People Who Ran Over Themselves
• Surprise!; 'That Was Easy!'
• Government in Action!
• Bizarre ‘art’
• Getting Old, Young; from the archives
• Undignified Deaths
• Bright Ideas; Least Competent Criminals
• Oops!; Failed to Think It Through
• The Continuing Crisis; Beloved Banker
• The ear has a ‘G-spot’
• Respect for All Cultures?
• First Things First
• Questionable State Regulation; Can't Possibly Be True
• Unclear on the Concept; Least Competent Criminals
• Where down is up; Can't Possibly Be True
• Least Competent Criminals; Things that Make You Say: Huh!?
• News That Sounds Like a Joke
• Cultural Diversity; eggs-ellent! (from the archives)
• News from Islam-land; Latest Cutting-Edge Research
• Those Ingenious Western Spies!; Cultural Diversity
• Can't Possibly Be True; Motherly Love
• Least Competent Criminals; Questionable Judgments
• This mafia really are animals; out of control businesses
• Science on the Cutting Edge
• Daring New Products
• Least Competent Criminals; from the archives
• If Life Gives You …
• Their Crimes Fit Their Names; Bright Ideas
• Latest ‘Rights’; Compelling Explanations
• One of the world's most bizarre conferences; delicious ironies
• Thinning the herd; Downgrade Cut Short; from the archives
• Cleverest Non-Humans; Medicare In Action
• Oops!; The Weirdo-American Community; Least Competent Criminals
• Life Imitates a Drew Barrymore Movie; Weird Science; Questionable Judgments
• Questionable Judgments; Great, ahem, Art!
• Fine Points of the Law; Thank Goodness for Narcissists
• Cliches Come to Life; First Things First; Fine Points of the Law
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; Suspicions Confirmed; Yikes!
• Do They Know?; Yikes!
• Catch-22 Catches Disabled Veteran; The Continuing Crisis; Best Not to Ask Why
© 2011, Chuck Shepherd. Distributed by Universal Uclick
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