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So over the top it must be a spoof? You make the call.

That's a cached page, by the way; I guess the page just got linked by a lot of people because it won't come up.

If you add up the name 'George Bush' in Hebrew letters it comes out:

G = 3 (gimel)
e = 5 (heh)
o = 70 (ayin)
r = 200 (resh)
g = 3 (gimel)
e = 5 (heh)
B = 2 (beth)
u = 70 (ayin)
s = 300 (shin)
h = 8 (cheth)
total = 666 (Antichrist)

I would challenge anyone to find another powerful world leader, either now or in the past, whose name adds up to 666 in Hebrew.

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But hold on, because we’re not through yet. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The computer you're using to read this can only understand numbers, and ASCII is the numerical representation of a character such as ‘B’ or else an action of some sort. If you add up Bush's name in ASCII, you get 71+101+111+114+103+101 for George, 87+97+108+107+101+114 for Walker, and 66+117+115+104 for Bush, which adds up to a total of 1617 = 1+6+1+7 = 15 = 1+5 = 6.

To recap: George Bush's name is equal to 666 if we use the Hebrew letter equivalents. It is also equal to 666 if we use the two most commonly used systems in numerology as well as in ASCII code.

(George Bush has another name that is often used to identify him politically. HeÂ’s a Republican from Texas. If you add up Republican in the most commonly used Pythagorean system you get 9+5+7+3+2+3+9+3+1+9 = 51 = 5+1 = 6. If you add up Texas you get 2+5+6+1+1 = 15 = 1+5 = 6. And if you add up Texas Republican you get 15 + 51 = 66.)

(Ever wonder why George Herbert Walker Bush Sr. left the 'Herbert' out when naming his son? George = six letters, Walker = six letters, and BushJr (or 'Busche', which was the original German spelling of their name) = six letters. = 666. Once again, the number of the beast.)

But hold onto your hat, because we are far from finished.

Consider my hat held, sir!

Revelation says the number of the beast (the Antichrist) is 666 – it does not say this is only the number of his name, though that could be part of it. Let's continue with the second number used by numerologists, the date of his birth.

Mr. Bush was born July 6, 1946. If you add up all the digits in his date of birth you get 7+6+1+9+4+6 = 33 = 3+3 = 6.

The third number used by numerologists is the "fate" number. Many numerologists find the fate, destiny or ‘lucky’ number by simply taking the day of the month of your birth (and reducing if necessary) – since Bush’s birth day is the 6th of July – no reduction is necessary.

But just to make sure, the other way of finding the fate number is by adding the individual components of the date of birth to a sum before reducing. BushÂ’s birth date is 7/6/1946 = 7+6+1946 = 1959 = 1+9+5+9 = 24 = 2+4 = once again, our third 6.

"One plus one plus two plus two equals six," Miss Scarlett said in Clue, although I'm not sure how she figures into this. She certainly does look like an Antichrist's concubine, though. And the Devil likes scarlet. And a generous rack.

But what does Nostradamus have to say? Glad you asked!

century 6 quatrain 13

A doubtful man shall not come far from the reign

The greatest part will uphold him

A capital will not consent that he should reign.

His great chair he shall not be able to maintain.

This one is pretty straightforward, and it concerns the man who tried to stop the AntiChrist's rise to power: "A doubtful man shall not come far from the reign" = Everyone doubted Gore had a chance, but he ended up nearly capturing the presidency. "The greatest part will uphold him." = He won the popular vote. "A capitol will not consent he should reign" = The right-wing US Supreme Court in Washington stopped the counting of votes in Florida to ensure Gore's defeat. "His great chair he shall not be able to maintain." = He's now also lost the office of Vice President.

Oh, yeah: And he notes, of course, that Bush is part of the Merovignian blood line, going back to Jesus I guess, and thus is technically (?) Jewish, or something, which a lot of of people imagine the Anti-Christ will be.

So, apparently I am, as all of you are, minions of the Anti-Christ, the son of Lucifer Himself.

Damnit. I should have listened to my mother and gotten that stupid G.E.D. Now I'm a thrall of Satan.

Serves me right!

Thanks, I guess, to Mark in Mexico.

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A South African woman has invented the "Rapedex," a circle of burr-like teeth, that will bite into the penis of a rapist, and can't be removed without surgery.

"It will make the men think twice," she told Sapa of the invention that grew from "filing away" passing comments over the years.

A client she was consulting when she was a blood cross-matcher for a transfusion service, remarked one day "if only I had teeth down there", she related.

And while on call in hospitals and privy to corridor talk, she overheard a surgeon joking about a man who had caught his penis in his trouser zip.

"I filed the teeth and the zip away (comments) in my mind and played around with it," she said.

After conducting research on rape, she eventually selected an engineer and a developer. Only identified as "Bert" and "Piet", they came up with the polyurethane device.

The product was tested on models of penises and vaginas and then given to women to test for comfort.

Presumably there were no tests on men to test for comfort.

Cool idea... although some chick in the fantasy book Thieves' World had a similar device. Although I think that one was an interuterine penile guillotine. Now thats' old school justice.

One question: what if a woman is willing to have sex but forgets to take it out? I can really see that "ruining the mood."

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Is there no end to the Zionists' cunning machinations?

Thanks to Sundries Shack.

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The Kinks' Catch Me Now I'm Falling, also known as Captain America Calling, at least to me.

Just thought I'd share.

Over and over again. Both the long and short versions.

It kept going through my head after 9/11. The lyrics were pretty damn spot-on:

I remember, when you were down

And you needed a helping hand

I came to feed you

But now that I need you

You wonÂ’t give me a second glance

Now IÂ’m calling all citizens from all over the world

This is captain america calling

I bailed you out when you were down on your knees

So will you catch me now IÂ’m falling

Help me now IÂ’m calling you
Catch me now IÂ’m falling
IÂ’m in your hands, itÂ’s up to you
Catch me now IÂ’m falling

I remember when you were down
You would always come running to me
I never denied you and I would guide you
Through all of your difficulties
Now IÂ’m calling all citizens from all over the world
This is captain america calling
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now IÂ’m falling

Help me now IÂ’m calling you
Catch me now IÂ’m falling
IÂ’m in your hands, itÂ’s up to you
Catch me now IÂ’m falling

When you were broke you would come to me
And I would always pull you round
Now I call your office on the telephone
And your secretary tells me that sheÂ’s sorry,
But, youÂ’ve gone out of town.*

This is captain america calling
This is captain america calling

Help me now IÂ’m calling you
Catch me now IÂ’m falling
IÂ’m in your hands, itÂ’s up to you
Catch me now IÂ’m falling

*Alternate Lyric:

I stood by you through all of your depressions
and I lifted you when you were down
now it's your chance to do the same for me
and your secretary tells me that
you've gone out of town

I guess the Katrina disaster makes me think of it too, except now Captain America can help its own (scan down for a list of relief charities).

On My Wavelength Update-- Tres writes:

The thing that makes me feel as if my Cheerios have been pee'd upon is that I have yet to hear of any relief efforts being offered from our "friends" throughout the world. Lord knows we've put it out there for any of them time and time again.

That's sort of what I'm thinking.

Again, the lyrics:

I never thought that you would let me down

But the next time youÂ’re in trouble

Better not come running to me

Just So You Don't Think I'm Calling America A Weaking Update: Some ass-kicking Captain America lyrics:

When Captain America throws his mighty shield

All those who chose to oppose his shield must yield

If he's led to a fight and a duel is due

Then the red and the white and the blue will come through

When Captain America throws his mighty shield!

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Add that factoid into the likely case that many of the poorest (who are disproportionately black) didn't or couldn't flee from the city, and it puts the black face of looting in better context.

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When Al Gore toured some scene of a natural disaster -- a flood, if I recall correctly -- he sagely opined that it was due to global warming.

Because, you know, floods didn't happen before we had a lot of automobiles.

But cranks see evidence for their theories everywhere. As in Ghostbusters, when true believers Aykroyd and Ramis discover a vertical stack of forty or so books in a library.

"It's classic poltergeist book-stacking activity!" one exclaims.

"Yes," Bill Murray deadpans, "because no human being could possibly have stacked books like this."

Over at Tech Central Station, James K. Glassman similarly deadpans, "Yes, no flood or storm or hurricane could possibly have devastated a city absent 'global warming.'"

The "Reality-Based Community"

Making up reality as we see fit since 2000. It's better that way.

Order Will Be Restored: Greg Gutfeld declares martial law at the Huffington Post, in order to control the ideological looting rampaging through that site.

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At least that's the case that Wonkette makes, based on a not-subtle difference between two captions of people photographed taking goods away from shops.

She may have a point -- there may be unconscious racism (or conscious racist animus) which causes some to see white looters just doing what they need to feed their babies, and black looters just using the cover of chaos as an opportunity to boost some bling. And, I guess, that should be kept in mind.

Still, it doesn't seem like this is very strong evidence to go indicting the very liberal legacy media on, especially given their drive for "diversity" in the newsroom.

Racism is bad, mmmkay? But I can only quote William F. Buckley, Jr., writing about the left and their love of hate-crime legislation: "If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate."

Edit: I originally wrote they were both AP captions. They're not. One's AFP and one's AP.

Thanks, Allah.

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There's a monkey on the loose in Ohio:

The bulletin issued by police in the southwest Ohio town of Springdale describes the subject as two feet tall, weighing eight pounds, clad only in blue pants and prone to sleeping in trees.

Dillion, a circus monkey, fled into a nearby woods early on Monday after being frightened by a train whistle...

The ACLU immediately issued a press release slamming local authorities for engaging in "species profiling."

Thanks for Pussy Dave From Pussy Garfield Pussy Ridge for keeping up on the escaped-monkey news.

Link from KnownUnknowns, which also has something interesting. That picture of the subway flasher has only shown his face, usually, leading some to say, "Well, the picture doesn't prove anything."

But apparently that picture was cropped by most of the media, presumably for reasons of taste. KnownUnknowns has an uncropped original, showing the location of his right hand, which is definitely making some sort of move to, as Kenny Loggins so eloquently termed it, the Danger Zone.

Hey Now! Update: Someone pointed out that his hand isn't just suspiciously close to the Danger Zone. In fact, you can see his weiner.

Karol's picture is bigger and has a higher resolution, and yeahp, there's no mistaking what that is poking out of his zipper. It's either an erect penis or a bald duck with a bad case of varicose veins.

Not Karol's Picture: She linked to it, but it appears that's a flicker site owned by the quick chick who clicked the dick-pic.

Thanks to Alex, who's a real bear on dork-spotting. Must have gone to a British boarding school or something.

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Many are distinguishing between looting for suvival-goods -- water, food, diapers, etc. -- and simply looting for profit -- DVD players, jewelry, etc.

I think that's a fair distinction. Anyone caught in the disaster area doesn't have the goods-delivery system they've come to depend upon, and they simply don't know when the National Guard or relief organizations will come to help distribute them.

Notions about the rule of law tend to go out the window when you don't know if you'll have drinkable water in two days' time, or if your baby will have milk.

One woman shown repeatedly on CNN looting a store had her arms filled with what look like Huggies or something. Obviously she's not planning to make a financial windfall in the high-profit black-market trade in disposable diapers with elastic gatherers and super-absorbant Flexi-Wings (TM). (She also attempted to cover her face with pack of diapers, which demonstrates shame, which is a mark in her favor.)

Of course, looters take property from its rightful owner, and from others who may need the property too. But allowances have to be made when people are literally in fear about whether they'll drink or eat in the next couple of days.

"You loot, I'll shoot" is a nice sign, but I hope there's some discretion used here. Almost every shopowner will be made whole through insurance, after all.

On the other hand, those looting ATM's, jewelry stores, and electronics stores are simply theives acting on opportunity, and should be treated as such. And, yes, shot if they do not submit peaceably to arrest, whether a police arrest or citizen's arrest by a shopowner.

Allowances have to be made on the other side of the ledger, too. Those who wish to defend their property can't rely on civil authorities to enforce order during a period of chaos, either.

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