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Note the rather unfortunate ad placement...  Police say that a gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Col. Jorge Mejia, chief of Peru's anti-kidnapping police. He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth $60,000 a gallon. Mejia said the suspects told police the fat was sold to intermediaries in Lima, the Peruvian capital. While police suspect the fat was sold to cosmetic companies in Europe, he could not confirm any sales. Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications. Yale University dermatology professor Dr. Lisa Donofrio speculated that a small market may exist for "human fat extracts" to keep skin supple, though scientifically such treatments are "pure baloney." At a news conference, police showed reporters two bottles of fat recovered from the suspects and a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim. Suspect Elmer Segundo Castillejos, 29, led police to the head, recovered in a coca-growing valley last month, Mejia said. Mejia said Castillejos confessed that the gang would cut off its victims' heads, arms and legs, remove the organs, then suspend the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below. Six members of the gang remain at large, Mejia said, adding that in addition to the five killings the suspects confessed to, the gang may be involved in dozens more. Castillejos told police that the band's fugitive leader, 56-year-old Hilario Cudena, has been killing to extract fat from victims for more than three decades. At least 60 people are listed as missing in Huanuco province, where the gang allegedly operated, this year alone, though the province is also home to drug-trafficking leftist rebels. Tags: crime, gross, jesus fucking christ
Current Location: Chicago
Current Mood:  Ugh
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My sister Olivia is coming to Houston for an extended Thanksgiving tonight. Apparently, I foolishly said in an e-mail upon the inquiry if someone would be willing to pick Liv and chicken up from a redeye flight, "Celosa will be overjoyed to pick up chicken."
Celosa, it turns out, can't drive. So tomorrow morning, at 6:03, Chicken and Liv land at the Houston Intercontinental airport, and Celosa and I, with a sleepy Graham and Crianza, will be there to pick them up. We're going straight from the airport to the ranch.
I've heard that my parents are going to make the trek to Lexington tomorrow morning to pick up barbeque at Snows, so the early morning may be worth it. Plus, naps at the ranch are always appropriate, so sleep deprivation can be well made up for.
This week always sucks. I think that the holiday is just coming up, and with relatives already making it here, it's hard not to feel that way. But I have a few more days of work, and actual work to do.
And then things get crazy quick. The Christmas Tree Cutting Party is in two weeks, and we're getting ready for it this weekend. Thanksgiving is already caused some drama, as my mom has threatened to monkey around with the turkey. And I have no idea what to get anyone for Christmas.
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Last night was charity theme night, benefitting the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, a great charity that helps uninsured musicians in Austin. Unsurprisingly, some of the stories we heard to encourage us to go all-out for charity were about some reasonably big-name indie musicians. It's kind of shocking to realize how many musicians you've actually heard of can't afford health insurance. Keep that in mind the next time you have cash to spare (or hear how great our health system is). Our division raised more than $750 and the league as a whole broke $1000. I don't know what the total numbers were. For singing stuff, we had Sassy finally get up and sing, giving us a very geeky David Duchovny, which I was shocked to realize I knew from somewhere. Second round, Jennifer sang a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song that I didn't know but has convinced me to check them out, and in the third round we were all Deadly Sins (which I totally just typoed as "Seven Deadly Sings") for a hangingfire-led rendition of It's a Sin. hangingfire split the group round with a team that did Dancing Queen, but to our shock and surprise we won the week. It only moved us into next-to-last place in the standings, but we came in second from there last season. The moral of this story is we do better when we sing and do the silly stuff we like and don't worry about the standings. I'm all in favor of this plan, because I have silly stuff that I still want to do. Tags: sing or die
Current Mood:  pleased
Current Music: Chumbawamba, Without Rhyme or Reason (The Killing of Harry Stanley)
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- I had a dream last night that I was trying to exchange some American money to Canadian dollars at a hockey game but the machines kept giving me piles of dimes in return. Then I had to get in line to try to exchange it with an actual person but was dismayed (yet oddly excited!) to find a large line of gay Norwegians in front of me. Why can't I just have normal sexy ASkars dreams? Jeezo. - I watched some more Star Trek extra last night. ( Do I still need to cut for these? ) They are all so adorably precious and also I think I have a crush on that Scottish AD. ♥ - While I don't have my own Tumblr, I do enjoy looking at them and not just because there are a lot of ones dedicated to hot hot hotties on my RSS feed. Paper Tissue is currently one of my favs at the moment. It's very eclectic and mostly I just find myself saying preeeeeeeeeeeeeetty. Sooooooooooooooooooo much work to do before my vacation. Soooooooooooo much not caring. Current Mood:  bored
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Seems our old friend reality_hammer is none too happy with the USPSTF and their hotly-debated opinion that most women under 50 don't need yearly mammograms: "The left is frantically trying to downplay this ill-advised "advice" recently given out by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (which is a prototype for what kind of panels that would govern all manner of health care procedures in the various bills being considered by Democrats in Congress).
"But the truth is already out there: this is just a thinly disguised rationing plan [...] Ironically, the increasing wait-times of past years have been used by the left as a justification for government takeover! o_O Now, as a guy married to a 40-something woman myself, I still believe that annual mammograms are a good idea for all women in her age group (and HHS Secretary Sebelius agrees, by the way), but it seems to me that Hammer's little tirade here has a few holes in it, politically speaking: 1) The USPSTF is an independent panel of private-sector medical experts. It has no authority to "plan" - much less legislate - anything. At all. 2) The Obama administration itself has nothing whatsoever to do with the conclusions and/or recommendations set forth by the USPTF, and no obligation to abide by said recommendations. At all. 3) The USPTF ("the protoype for governing panels," in Hammer's words) was first convened in 1984 under the not-so-socialist eye of his personal idol, Ronald "Ketchup is a Vegetable" Reagan. 4) The mammogram study in question was originally commissioned in 2007. Under George W. Bush. Sidenote: If Hammer has read even one page of the "various bills" he mentions above, I am Lawrence of Arabia. :) Give this guy (and even more so his wild-eyed doppelganger) the chance, and they will take any item on the newswire and try to blame it on Obama. Just wait 'til the next earthquake, school shooting, industrial accident or football injury and you'll see... Wasn't it just about a year ago that the wingnuts were ranting about how liberals "blame everything bad on Bush"? Hm. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to more vital matters, like the president bowing to Akihito. Outrageous, I tell you! Tags: dumb americans, health care, lying liars, reality_hammer, right-wing hack, women
Current Location: Chicago
Current Mood:  Amused
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Just another Al Gore-style scare tactic, I'm sure:  The world's oceans, which normally gobble up carbon dioxide, are getting stuffed to the gills, according to the most thorough study to date of human-made carbon in the seas. Between 2000 and 2007, as emissions of carbon dioxide skyrocketed, the amount of human-made carbon absorbed by the oceans fell from 27 to 24 percent. In terms of ocean processes, "that's a pretty large drop, and the trend is pretty clear: The ocean can't keep up with [human-made carbon]," said study leader Samar Khatiwala, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. ( Read the rest... )Tags: climate change, dumb americans, global warming, oceans, science
Current Location: Chicago
Current Mood:  Shit
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22-year-old Svajunas Beniukas, who posted a video of himself throwing a dog off a bridge, has been hunted down by outraged animal lovers on the Internet.  In the grainy video footage, Beniukas is seen standing on a bridge clutching the dog and bragging about how he will prove that "dogs can fly." Then, horrifyingly, he raises the dog over the railing and lets go, sending it hurtling to the pavement below where it can be heard crying in pain. Miraculously, the dog - named "Pipiras" ("Pepper" in English) - was rescued by a passerby and is being treated for multiple fractures and internal injuries from which he's expected to recover. The video clip quickly circulated in Lithuania where it was shot, causing outrage among viewers (who soon began a search reminiscent of the hunt for cat torturer Kenny Glenn). Working with the authorities, the online investigators determined that the dog was dropped from a bridge in the Vilkija district. Police then worked with users of a local website to identify Beniukas, who - on learning of the manhunt - turned himself in to police. As it turns out, Beniukas was already a suspect in a robbery that had been committed earlier. As for the motive, Pipiras had allegedly killed some of Beniukas's mother's chickens, so Beniukas stole the dog from its owners and took it to the bridge to exact his revenge. He's been charged with animal cruelty and faces a year in jail if convicted. Police later issued a statement thanking users of the website http://www.15min.lt/ for helping them identify the culprit. Thanks to dwaleberry for the link. Tags: animal abuse, asshole, crime, dogs, justice, loathsome people
Current Location: Chicago
Current Mood:  Shanks A Lot
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