Quote:MANILA, Philippines - The last search and retrieval operation of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for the bodies of victims of the sunken M/V Catalyn B was cancelled when the buoy marking the location of the wreckage was stolen by a still unidentified person.

PCG spokesperson Lt. Commander Arman Balilo said yesterday that the marker, which was attached to an orange buoy, lies 221 feet below sea level.

The divers needed to make only one more dive to confirm if there were still bodies in the vessel. But when they arrived in the area at around 9 a.m., the buoy could not be found.

(01-26-2010, 11:23 AM)Twin-Skies Wrote: Buoy marking MV Catalyn B accident site stolen
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=543951

Quote:MANILA, Philippines - The last search and retrieval operation of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for the bodies of victims of the sunken M/V Catalyn B was cancelled when the buoy marking the location of the wreckage was stolen by a still unidentified person.

PCG spokesperson Lt. Commander Arman Balilo said yesterday that the marker, which was attached to an orange buoy, lies 221 feet below sea level.

The divers needed to make only one more dive to confirm if there were still bodies in the vessel. But when they arrived in the area at around 9 a.m., the buoy could not be found.

Honestly, what kind of a sick fuck would do this?
They should seriously consider reintroducing keelhauling as a punishment for these matters.

(01-26-2010, 02:32 PM)NiX Wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5197440.stm

Sleeping with women makes you stupid.

Quote:Bed sharing also affected dream recall. Women remembered more after sleeping alone and men recalled best after sex.

Quote:Marijuana plants worth P1.4 billion to be burned today
(The Philippine Star) Updated January 27, 2010 12:00 AM

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga , Philippines – Maj. Gen. Lino Horacio Lapinid, chief of the Armed Forces’ Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom), will lead the burning of uprooted marijuana plants worth about P1.4 billion at the Wallace Air Station in San Fernando, La Union today.

Lt. Col. Allan Ballesteros, of the 1st Air Division of the Philippine Air Force here, said the fully grown marijuana plants were uprooted from various areas at the boundaries of Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Benguet as part of Oplan Farmville (named after a farming game on the Facebook social networking website).

Jointly behind Oplan Farmville, which went on full blast last Jan. 20, were the Armed Forces, Philippine National Police, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, and National Bureau of Investigation. – Ding Cervantes, Jun Elias

Quote:Perhaps it's not that surprising that a mother in Menifee, California, asked the Menifee Union School District to ban all copies of the 10th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary after her child stumbled across the term "oral sex." What is surprising, indeed horrifying, is that district officials immediately complied with her request, and pulled all dictionaries off classroom shelves throughout the Southern California school district, which serves 9,000 kids, kindergarten through eighth grade.

District officials said on Friday that they are forming a committee to consider a permanent classroom ban of the Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. District spokeswoman Betti Cadmus said that school officials will review the dictionary to decide if it should be permanently banned because of the "sexually graphic" entry. "It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature," Cadmus said. (Isn't that just what those fourth and fifth graders like to do?!)

Apparently some parents and free-speech advocates believe that district officials are overreacting. No kidding! Let's put this in perspective: every year, public schools across the country receive hundreds of requests from parents, public officials and activists to remove books they consider inappropriate. Between 1990 and 2008, the American Library Association logged more than 9,600 requests to take books away from library shelves, summer reading lists and school classrooms. Most of these challenged books remain on the shelves.

(01-27-2010, 10:54 AM)arch_angel Wrote: sadly, the grim reality of it is most parents that are on the same batch as ours, are really like that. they're terribly narrow minded and conservative, also really resistant to change. its like trying to move an entire cliff (fedor can do it btw)

(01-27-2010, 11:05 AM)Fox Wrote: They can all the books they want. Sooner or later, that kid is bound to find to learn the facts of life one way or another. They're just prolonging the inevitable.

(01-27-2010, 10:44 AM)Serene Wrote: Which one? Burning of weed without making good use of it or having useful books banned out of libraries?