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…for the Danes!
According to this report, the Danes are the happiest people in the world with a mean score of 4.24! Our sunny little isle ranks 31st on the report with a mean score of 2.72. This puts us behind Thailand, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Brazil. It also means that the Danes are considerably happier than us! Funny how the nation builder press did not report this new item. For some reason, Zimbabwe was the most unhappy nation on Earth with a mean score of -1.57. The global average was 1.57.
The Danes have done it again! Three cheers!

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Lucky Number Three: Festively Soaring Up, Up and Away

Kent Couch’s 2007 Balloon-Powered Lawn Chair Flight
In 2006, Kent Couch had to parachute out of his lawn chair, after having popped too many balloons. And in 2007, he flew 193 miles to the sagebrush of northeastern Oregon, which was a little bit short of his goal. After the 2007 flight, Couch stated, “I’m not stopping till I get out of state.”

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Television Report: The 2007 Balloon-Powered Lawn Chair Flight
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The 2007 Balloon-Powered Lawn Chair Flight

Lucky Number Three: Soaring Up, Up and Away

This was Kent Couch’s third balloon-powered lawn chair flight. Riding in his lawn chair that was supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Couch took off last Saturday in his third attempt to fly from central Oregon all the […]

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This stone tablet, which contains writings dated to the decades before the birth of Christ, is thought by serious scholars of the subject to be a significant discovery.
The tablet itself is not a new discovery–it was purchased 10 years ago from a Jordanian dealer in antiquities by an Israeli/Swiss collector who, while himself an expert on Hebrew antiquities, was unaware of its importance until recently when it was shown to Ada Yardeni, a specialist in Hebrew writing.
“She (Ms Yardeni) was overwhelmed. ‘You have got a Dead Sea Scroll on stone,’ she told me.”

Read the article in today’s NY Times or in the Times Argus (Montpelier/Barre, Vermont).

David Jeselsohn and the tablet.

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Dark Skies wrote an interesting post today on
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CNN reports a fake priest was caught trying to hear confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica and was tried by a Vatican tribunal, a Vatican judge said in an interview published Saturday.
Real True Internet News held a video conference with our correspondent in Rome, Father Guido Sarducci, who explained the incident.
“You could fool the Vatican police, you could fool churchgoers, you could maybe even fool the Pope; but you cannot fool God. This fake priest, he was very stupid, thinking he could fool God; who is the boss of priests. It doesn’t matter what you do. You could put on a big floppy hat, a priest suit, a fake mustache, whatever. God still sees who you are. I’m surprised this priest impersonator didn’t just burst into flames when he entered the holy area of the church. I bet it was Jesus who saved him. You know how God is always […]

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Sri Lanka won the Asia Cup beating India by 100 runs in the final at the Karachi stadium in Pakistan a short while ago. Spinner Ajantha Mendis became the first bowler to take more than 5 wickets is an Asia Cup match. Sanath Jayasuriya scored a century for the Lankans.
via Wijeya Newspapers

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Ranjith Wijewardene wrote an interesting post today on
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Roy Ratcliffe - The Case of Gilad Atzmon and those who want him boycotted
By Mary Rizzo • Jul 5th, 2008 at 21:58 • Category: Gilad Atzmon, Mary’s Choice, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Religion, Zionism
The First of Two Parts WRITTEN BY ROY RATCLIFFE
The catalyst leading to the production of this paper was the suggestion of a boycott of an Exeter University student ’Friends of Palestine’ event in May 2008. The suggestion was made by at least one Exeter Socialist because it was alleged that one of the participants, Gilad Atzmon, is an anti-Semite. The charges against Gilad Atzmon were extended to include links with other alleged anti-Semites, Fascists and Holocaust deniers. We were not urged to read the actual articles by Gilad Atzmon, but to read polemics against him.
This was not the first time such remarks had been made, but it was the first […]

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Venus Williams was born on June 17,1980.On July 5th she won the wimbledon final.on that day she was 28 years and 19 days old.The age adds up to 47.Interestingly her occult number is 47

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A man claiming he had enough explosives to “blow up several city blocks” was arrested Saturday after threatening to kill himself in a bizarre standoff at a Gillette gas station.
Police say Torrey Lowrey, 30, pulled into the Kum & Go on Westover Road and Skyline Drive at about 1:30 p.m. He paid for gas and then walked around the station for more than an hour mumbling to himself. At about 2:50 p.m., Lowrey told a man pumping gas that he had a gun and wanted to kill himself.
A crush of patrol cars swarmed the gas station as police tried to coax Lowrey out of his Budget rental truck, but he refused to budge, telling officers he had a gun taped to his hand and several explosives that would “blow up several city blocks,” police Sgt. Andy Boisvert said. Minutes later, Lowrey surrendered.
Boisvert said police confiscated two rifles, a shotgun, two […]

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The distraction of combating espionage by President Dmitry Medvedev’s agents makes it significantly more likely that one of the many Islamist terror plots will succeed, Whitehall officials believe.
The warning comes after it was revealed last week that Russia is now considered the third most serious threat facing the country. The “league table” of threats to the nation’s security is headed by al’Qa’eda terrorism, with Iranian nuclear proliferation second.
Britain has raised the problem posed by Russian agents at diplomatic levels, but the concerns were dismissed. “The Government has spoken to Moscow and asked them to stop but their response is ‘everyone spies on everyone [else]’,” one senior security source said.
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BRITAIN’S top spy wasn’t the subject of an assassination attack, according to police.
Alex Allan, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, which has responsibility for GCHQ, is critically ill in a coma after being taken to hospital on Monday. It’s not known what caused the 57-year-old civil servant to collapse but a spokesman for the Metropolitan police said his collapse is being treated as ‘non-suspicious’. Mr Allan was appointed head of the JIC in November. As the Government’s top intelligence official he is responsible for taking reports from agencies including GCHQ, the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6 and MI5.
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