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He just wants to rock and roll all night, and part of everyday!
What we would like to think Roger Tullgren looks like.
A swedish heavy metal fan has managed to prove what many a suburban mother has already suspected - being a heavy metal fan is a disability.
Roger Tullgren, 42, from Hässleholm in southern Sweden has had his
musical preferences officially classified as a disability. The results of
a psychological analysis enable the metal lover to supplement his income
with state benefits.
Occupational psychologists determined that "Roger feels compelled to show his heavy metal style" and to attend over 300 concerts last year, which resulted in his dismissmal from his job and eventual reliance on welfare.
The manager at his new workplace, where he works as a dishwasher, allows him to go to concerts as long as he makes up for lost time at a later point. He is also allowed to dress as he likes and listen to heavy metal while washing up.
You have got to be kidding me. Its like a Mr. Show sketch come to life!
Padma Lakshmi is Proof that Salman Rushdie is in league with the Devil
Salman Rushdies, who lives under a constant death threat, doesn't care because his wife, Padma Lakshmi, is really, really freaking hot.
Once again Salman Rushdie has a price on his head.
The British governments recent decision to give Rushdie, the controversial author of the now infamous book "The Satanic Verses", the status of Knight has renewed anger in the Muslim community and the bounty placed on his head.
Iranian hardliners have recently revived calls for Rushdies murder. Mehdi Kuchakzadeh, a Tehran MP, declared: “Rushdie died the moment the late Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini] issued the fatwa.”
The Organization to Commemorate Martyrs of the Muslim World, a fringe hardline group, offered a reward of $150,000 (£75,000) to any successful assassin.
When reached for comment Rushdie, whom we really haven't reached for comment, didn't actually say, "Fatwa? Fatwa!? Who gives a crap about a Fatwa! I mean seriously! Have you seen my wife!? Dude! She is soooo freaking hot!!"
California Dreamin'…
So you're a young, ambitious and success obsessed all American serial killer, where do you go to make a name for yourself?
According to an article by Michael Newton at Crimelibrary.com
(don't act like you've never been there) you would apparently head towards
southern California. According to Newton, southern California has laid claim
to ten percent of all the worlds identified serial killers between 1950
and 2000.
Yeah baby! Sun, sand and serial killin'!!
New uses for a Good Book…
An inmate in Florida tried to commit suicide by hammering an ink pen in to his left eye with a Bible. Police tasered the inmate to prevent him from further harming himself.
The 28-year-old's eye was not seriously injured. After being treated, he was brought back to the jail, strapped down and placed on suicide watch.
This guy brings a new meaning to the term "bible thumper."
Rimshot please.
[ba-doom-chee]
Google and Brazilian Indians ponder the kicking of some logger ass…
Just an excuse to refrence the crying Indian from the 70's PSA commercial?
A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture images to help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its Amazon reservation. Although the project is still in the planning stages, the tribe's chief and Google Inc. hope they can reduce illegal rainforest destruction where government enforcement is spotty at best.
I really don't have a joke here. This actually sounds like a great thing - bravo Google Earth, bravo Brazilian Indian tribal chief.
Still, it does give me the vaguest of excuses to break out a reference to that crying Indian from the 70's Public Service Announcement on pollution.
And a vague excuse is all the excuse I need.
Troop support?
Jimenez had applied for a green card for his wife, Yaderlin, whom he married in 2004, Boston's WBZ-TV reported Tuesday.
Their attorney, Matthew Kolken, said the woman illegally entered the United States from the Dominican Republic in 2001. Her husband's request for a green card and legal residence status for her alerted authorities to her situation.
“I can't imagine a bigger injustice than that, to be deporting someone's wife who is fighting and possibly dying for our country,” Mr. Kolken told the station.
SING IT WITH ME! "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free..."
***in all fairness... An immigration judge has put a temporary stop to the proceedings since Spec. Jimenez was reported missing. So i guess, they won't try to deport her until after he is found either dead or alive. Um, ok, I guess that's the compassionate thing(?)
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