“Brandon, Mississippi will go down in history as the town where the Westboro Baptist Church met its match.

A couple of days before, one of them (Westboro protestors) ran his mouth at a Brandon gas station and got his arse waxed. Police were called and the beaten man could not give much of a description of who beat him. When they canvassed the station and spoke to the large crowd that had gathered around, no one seemed to remember anything about what had happened.

Most of the morons never made it out of their hotel parking lot. It seems that certain Rankin county pickup trucks were parked directly behind any car that had Kansas plates in the hotel parking lot and the drivers mysteriously disappeared until after the funeral was over. Police were called but their wrecker service was running behind and it was going to be a few hours before they could tow the trucks so the Kansas plated cars could get out.

A few made it to the funeral but were ushered away to be questioned about a crime they might have possibly been involved in. Turns out, after a few hours of questioning, that they were not involved and they were allowed to go on about their business.”

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/a-simple-way-to-stop-westboro-baptist-church-funeral-protesters

“It’s an embarrassment of sorts for Canada: the Taliban springs more than 470 prisoners from a Kandahar City jail this week – a facility fortified by Canadians against such escapes.

Canada spent at least $4-million upgrading Sarpoza prison and training its staff after a previous jailbreak by the Taliban in 2008 that freed more than 800 inmates.

But late Sunday night and early Monday morning another 475 prisoners escaped Sarpoza through a secret 300-metre tunnel that the Taliban said it spent five months digging.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/canada-will-continue-to-plug-away-despite-afghan-jailbreak-harper/article1999402/

The U.S. military says Casio F-91W watches like this one have been used in terrorist bombings by members of al-Qaida, according to Guantanamo Bay files released by WikiLeaks.

by Lauren Frayer

“It’s a simple, water-resistant digital watch that retails for about $11. But beware: It could sell you out as al-Qaida.

A new batch of WikiLeaks files from Guantanamo Bay reveals a secret checklist U.S. investigators used to figure out whether detainees were really al-Qaida members. Among the criteria was the kind of wristwatch they were wearing.

The U.S. military lists the Casio F-91W model — a cheap plastic watch available all over the world — as a “suspicious item” on par with military transceivers, satellite phones, huge wads of cash and secret notes from al-Qaida facilitators.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/26/how-can-you-tell-someone-is-al-qaida-look-at-his-watch/

Dr. Donald Annino, Jr. with Mark Hunter prior to surgery. (Photo courtesy: Lightchaser Photography/BWH)

BOSTON (CBS) – “Surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital have given a soldier from Indiana a new face.

30-year-old Army Private Mitch Hunter of Indianapolis was left severely disfigured after saving a woman’s life during a car accident ten years ago. He pushed a live wire off her and suffered a severe shock. It left him with a severely scarred face, a prosthetic nose and leg.

A team of more than 30 physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists and residents worked for more than 14 hours to replace Hunter’s face last week.”

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/04/26/soldier-gets-full-face-transplant-at-brigham-and-women%E2%80%99s/

TERROR leader Osama bin Laden has escaped a US plot to bomb him in his hideout, it was claimed yesterday.

Supporter Abu al-Fatah claimed the al-Qaeda chief had foiled a US mission to track him in his lair.

He claimed a computer memory stick containing interview questions sent to Bin Laden contained a tiny tracking beacon.

Its signals would have helped America target his location with an accurate unmanned drone attack.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3400411/Kill-Osama-Bin-Laden-plot-rumbled.html

“TEENAGE thieves targeting vans parked on a council estate forced open the doors of one – and were confronted by four SAS men on a stakeout.

The SAS surveillanced team was on a night-time counter-terrorism training exercise in Manchester. A source said: “The lads each had a machine gun and a side pistol with live ammunition to make it realistic. They saw these scrotes coming for some time.

The lads decided they would teach them a lesson if they did get into their van, which is exactly what happened.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3544485/Thieves-targeting-vans-on-council-estate-are-confronted-by-four-SAS-men-on-a-stakeout.html

“Adding wool to kevlar makes a lighter, stronger and cheaper bullet-proof vest.

WOOL HAS MANY PROPERTIES ideal for fashion; this natural fibre is warm, elastic fire- and static-resistant, and easy to clean. But new research has uncovered a new use: making body armour even more bullet resistant.

Scientists at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology school of fashion and textiles discovered that a blend of wool and kevlar, the synthetic fibre widely used in body armour, was lighter and cheaper and worked better in some conditions than kevlar alone.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/wool-adds-strength-to-bullet-proof-vests.htm

“Sometimes things have to die. Most of the time they don’t, but sometimes they do.

If someone is threatening your life, the life of someone you care about, or even an innocent person that you have the ability or capacity to help, and you do nothing you are a coward and complicit in the act of violence.

Am I saying you should go crazy and shoot everything that looks at you wrong? Of course not.

Have a damn spine, though. As much as we want mean and violent things to stop in the world, want alone won’t help. I’m not a God guy, but the saying still applies: “Pray to God, but row to shore.”

Guns have many other purposes other than causing death. Much the same way that Bittorrent has many uses other than illegal copyright infringement.

I’ve fired thousands of rounds of ammunition in my life and I have never killed anything. (Except indirectly, by eating meat from the grocery store- and I accidentally ran over a turtle once)

I have a bittorrent client installed and I don’t infringe on copyrights. I own a car that can go fast and I don’t speed. I have a mouth capable of shouting fire in a crowded theater and have never done so. I own a computer capable of doing damn near anything and I can’t recall doing anything particularly bad.

Every aspect of your lifestyle was paid for at the expense of another life. The best one individual can hope to do is accept this sacrifice, and hope to mitigate the damage to others now, and in the future.”

– Author Unknown