Some moron up in NY was keeping one of these things as a "pet" and apparently it got too much to handle. Only 5" long, capable of jumping 3', very aggressive, with fangs 1/2" long.

..."These do not make good pets," SPCA Chief Roy Gross said Friday. "They are very aggressive."...

...can move very quickly, are unpredictable and are more likely to bite than other tarantulas...

...The spider's venom is not poisonous but its bite is painful, like being hit with a hammer, Denemark said...

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When Dr. Evil runs out of shark pools to drop the good guys in:

Colorado Men Arrested on Suspicion of Using Rattlesnakes as Hit Men to Collect Debt

The men were allegedly trying to kill Matthew Sowash, owner of Amateur Poker Tour in Wheat Ridge because he owed them $60,000, the Rocky Mountain News reported. [snip]

The plan was to build a wooden box for Sowash to stand in that would hold the snakes, and "the lid was to be built to allow Sowash's legs to be put inside but not pulled out." The plan was to leave the rattlesnake-bitten Sowash on a hiking trail.

...and if that didn't work, they were going to cover him in honey and bury him in an ant hill.

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We got the guest bloggin thing going on, and we also have three new co-bloggers, who apparently are hungover or something...

So here's a Saturday night sports open thread to chew on.

I'll start it off. I was surprised to see Texas come in with a preseason ranking ahead of Michigan. I mean, Texas lost to Ohio State, those homos from Kansas State, and A&M last year.

But they won their wussy bowl game.

Michigan bit the schwanz on OSU at the end of the season, and then coughed it up to USC in the Rose Bowl.

Heh. Heh heh. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.

oops. Sorry.

ahem.

Anyway, the Cowgirls are slappin around Denver in their second pre-season game that means nuthin, and the Texas Rangers still suck.

Flame on, sports fans.
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Research and dinner.

Gah. Who eats monkeys?

Natural Resources and Environment Minister Azmi Khalid told reporters Friday that Malaysia would lift a decades old ban on the export of long-tailed macaque monkeys.

More than a quarter million of the little buggers live Malaysian urban areas and snatch food from people, homes and fields. "The moment they have less food they attack anybody," he said.

Well I certainly don't blame the Malaysians. Who wants to live with a bunch of pissed off, food-grabbing monkeys? Not me. I don't want that. And trust me, pissing off a monkey is a bad idea.
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Three 1,000 lb. bombs obliterate Taliban terrorists. more...

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The AP is reporting that as a result of our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments nationwide are unable to obtain the ammunition necessary to train their officers.

“Troops training for and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year, contributing to ammunition shortages hitting police departments nationwide and preventing some officers from training with the weapons they carry on patrol." more...

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The AP is reporting that as a result of our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments nationwide are unable to obtain the ammunition necessary to train their officers.

“Troops training for and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are firing more than 1 billion bullets a year, contributing to ammunition shortages hitting police departments nationwide and preventing some officers from training with the weapons they carry on patrol."
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NEW YORK -

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," whose phony news coverage has long included phony "remotes" from war-torn Iraq, will be reporting from Iraq for real next week.

Giving its green screen a temporary rest, the Comedy Central series will air "Operation Silent Thunder: `The Daily Show' in Iraq," several onsite dispatches filed by Senior War Correspondent Rob Riggle.

source: Forbes

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I know, I know, the Castro is dead rumors have been flying every six months or so, for the past few years. But the guy's got to die, sometime, right?

I got the tip from Hot Air last night, which linked to Free Republic. I soon saw that Perez Hilton had blogged about it too, (We are hearing very loud rumblings...). I'm not sure who had it first, but I have a pretty good round-up of bloggers posting about it at Nice Deb.

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Does a comet have a 13 light year long tail?

I know it's been fun to play wackbash-a-tunnelingrodentmole lately with Beauchamp/TNR, but this is some real news for you dorks. A freakin' STAR with a fer-reakin' TAIL.

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