Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off “evil eyes” and protect him from “black magic”, it emerged yesterday.

A spokesman for the President told the Dawn newspaper the goats were slaughtered as an act of Sadaqah – meaning “voluntary charity” in Islam, whereby one gives out money or the meat of a slaughtered animal to the poor to win Allah’s blessing and stave off misfortune.

“It has been an old practice of Mr Zardari to offer Sadaqah. He has been doing this for a long time,” the spokesman, Farhatullah Babar, told the paper.

Just had to share this one… was at Burger King today. The guy behind me in line ordered (for himself) two Double Whoppers.

Nutrition info, if you’re interested:

• 1840 calories
• 116g fat
• 38g saturated fat

Just seen on Life After People… a grocery store went bankrupt in the 90’s.  They just shut the doors and left.  A few months later the city had to go in and clean out the place.  The smell was so bad the people had to don haz-mat suits to get in the door.

Imagine a full sized grocery store that was just abandoned.  The milk alone…  eww.

Kevin T. Singer filed a lawsuit against officials at Wisconsin’s Waupun prison after a policy was initiated in 2004 to eradicate all Dungeons and Dragons game materials among concerns that playing it promotes gang-related activity.

I just ran to the post office, which gave me a chance to catch a few minutes of the Michael Medved Show.

One of the callers had a theory as to why Obama’s poll numbers are tanking, and it was just too good not to share.

Ready?  Obama’s numbers are in the toilet because the racist Republicans intentionally ran a team that they knew would lose (McCain/Palin), so they would later have the opportunity to make Obama look bad.

Plausible, I say.

I mean, more plausible than the explanation that the public is rejecting a man who has shown little to no leadership on anything, uses a teleprompter at an elementary school, thinks the correct response to the Mass. election is to attack banks, and thinks that the issue with the health care bill is that he hasn’t spent enough time explaining it to the public.  Obviously.

Paprika is a spice. That much I knew. However, what I did not know is that Paprika is made from ground dried bell peppers and chili peppers.

The kind I always had in the spice cabinet was pretty flavorless, so we used it more for coloring than for flavor.  But, paprika can range from sweet to spicy, based on the exact peppers it came from.

Source:  wiki

BK will begin opening casual dining restaurants that will serve beer.

Watching coverage of the Massachusetts senatorial election Tuesday night, I wondered if MSNBC was getting ready to cut off its cable signal to the state. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, positively enraged that Massachusetts dared to elect a Republican, delivered two hours of nonstop bilious rage toward the state’s voters, calling them “irrational” and “teabaggers,” engaged in “a total divorce from reality,” and hinting that they’re vicious racists to boot.

If you watched CNN or Fox News last night, you got a balanced analysis of how Republican Scott Brown pulled off the political upset of the century (or, if you prefer, how Democrat Martha Coakley blew a dead solid electoral lock). Yes, I said Fox News, without irony. To be sure, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity made it clear they were rooting for Brown. But their shows also included a steady parade of liberal-leaning guests — former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, former Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich, Democratic party strategist Mary Anne Marsh, NPR commentator Juan Williams and radio host Alan Colmes. And pollster Frank Luntz interviewed a panel of two dozen or so Massachusetts voters, most of them Democrats, about how they voted and why. Practically every conceivable perspective on the election was represented.

And on MSNBC, you got practically every conceivable expression of venom against Brown and anybody who voted him. From Maddow’s dark suspicions that the election was rigged — she cited complaints about a grand total of six ballots out of about 2.25 million cast — to Olbermann’s suggestion in the video up above that the same Massachusets voters who went for Barack Obama by a 62-28 percent margin had suddenly realized they helped elect a black guy and went Republican in repentance, the network’s coverage was idiotic, one-sided and downright ugly.