Iraq marks one year since execution.

Benazir Bhutto’s son, Bilawal Zardari to lead Pakistan People’s Party.

Iranian nuclear plant to launch in 08′, “Half of the capacity of the Bushehr nuclear power plant will be launched in the summer of the coming year,” IRNA quoted Mottaki as saying.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.  ~African Proverb

BENITO MUSSOLINI - CLARA PETACCI - PAVINI

“War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. “

“THE WICKED WILL TAKE THE JUST MEN AND BURN THEM IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY; AND THAT WHICH THE FIRE DOES NOT CONSUME AND THE WIND DOES NOT CARRY AWAY, THEY WILL THROW INTO THE WATER. “

THE HANGING AND BURNING OF SAVONAROLA AND TWO FOLLOWERS IN THE PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA IS RECORDED IN THIS DETAIL OF A PAINTING BY AN UNKNOWN ARTIST WHO SHOWED THEM DANGLING FROM A GIBBET, IT’S ARMS LOPPED OFF TO DESTROY ITS RESEMBLANCE TO THE CROSS. SAVONAROLA, THE LAST TO BE HANGED, HAD MERCIFULLY DIED MOMENTS BEFORE THE FIRE SPRANG UP; HIS EXECUTIONER PAUSING TO CLOWN BEFORE THE THRONG, NEGLECTED TO LIGHT THE PYRE IN TIME. AS THE FLAMES ROSE, THE DEAD MAN’S RIGHT ARM JERKED UP AND THE PALM OPENED, TWO FINGERS EXTENDING IN A GESTURE OF BLESSING. AFTERWARD THE ASHES OF ALL THREE MARTYRS WERE TOSSED INTO THE ARNO.

22. COFFIN has always symbolized death. It is found on tracing boards of the 18th century and, in that time, constituted a part of the esoteric symbolism.

23. SKULL AND CROSS-BONES are symbols of mortality and death and are so used in French degrees.

24. SPRIG OF ACACIA. The acacia tree is supposedly the shittah wood of the Old Testament. The name is sometimes spelled Cassia. It has long been used as a symbol of immortality.

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Benazir Bhutto died after gunfire and a suicide bomb attack targeted her at a campaign rally outside the Pakistani capital on Thursday. Twenty others were also believed killed in the attack.

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Do not throw your weight into a stroke whilst your opponent is on guard — whilst he is well placed to parry or evade it.

II

Adjust your end to your means.

III

 Exploit the line of least resistance — so long as it can lead you to any objective that would contribute to your underlying object.

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Large Outsider (Chaotic, Evil)

Hit Dice: 26d8+468 (585 hp)

Initiative: +3

Speed: 30 ft., climb 30 ft.

AC: 37 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +10 insight, + 15 natural), touch 22, flat-footed 34

Attacks: Slam +39 melee

Damage: Slam 3d8+21 and 2d6 acid

Face/Reach: 5 ft. by 5 ft./10 ft

Special Attacks: Acid, circle of cold, constrict 3d8+21 plus 2d6 acid, create slime, drown, engulf, improved grab, spell-like abilities

Special Qualities: Amorphous, blindsight 120 ft., circle of darkness, DR 30/+5, immunities, outsider traits, SR 30, summon oozes, summon tanar’ri, tanar’ri traits Saves: Fort +33, Ref+ 18, Will +24 Abilities: Str 39, Dex 16, Con 47,Int 24, Wis 24, Cha 20

Skills: Alchemy +20, Bluff+31,Climb +22, Concentration+44, Diplomacy +26, Hide+25, Intimidate +35, Intuit Direction +33, Knowledge(arcana)+33, Knowledge(religion) +20, Knowledge(the planes) +20, Listen +33.Move Silently +29, Search+33, Sense Motive +33, Spellcraft +33, Spot +33, Swim +40

Feats: Boost Spell-Like Ability, Combat Reflexes, Dark Speech, Iron Will, Power Attack, Quicken

Spell-Like Ability: Verminfriend

Climate/Terrain: Any land and underground

Organization: Solitary-

Challenge Rating: 20

Treasure: Quadruple standard

Alignment: Chaotic evil

Advancement: -

Juiblex, known as the Faceless Lord, is a loathsome demon of slime and ooze. Even most demons shun him, and the demon princes are said to refer to him contemptuously as the ”lord of nothing.” He is among the weakest demon lords but is a terrifying foe nonetheless. He embodies many of the horrible abilities of various slimes, oozes, and puddings, and he commands impressive magical powers as well.

The domain of Juiblex is his by right of power-he has driven everything from the Slime Pits except the various slimes and oozes that teem there. Nevertheless, a few demons hezrous, mainly-pay him enough fealty that they bring victims for Juiblex and his slimy brood to hum and feed on.

Juiblex often appears as a 9-foot-tall cone of jelly and slime striated with black, green, and a disgusting mixture of brown, yellow, and gray. At other rimes, Juiblex is nothing but a seething pool of animate ooze. In any form, pulsating red eyes that look in all directions cover Juiblex completely.

Juiblex’s symbol, hardly ever used, is that of a pseudopod dripping slime.

• [Monty walks into the bathroom and looks in the mirror: in the bottom corner, someone has written “Fuck You!”]

Monty: Yeah, fuck you, too.

Monty’s Reflection: Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this whole city and everyone in it.

Fuck the panhandlers, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back.

Fuck squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job!

Fuck the Sikhs and the Pakistanis bombing down the avenues in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores and stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. Slow the fuck down!

Fuck the Chelsea boys with their waxed chests and pumped up biceps. Going down on each other in my parks and on my piers, jingling their dicks on my Channel 35.

Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English?

Fuck the Russians in Brighton Beach. Mobster thugs sitting in cafés, sipping tea in little glasses, sugar cubes between their teeth. Wheelin’ and dealin’ and schemin’. Go back where you fucking came from!

Fuck the black-hatted Chassidim, strolling up and down 47th street in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling South African apartheid diamonds!

Fuck the Wall Street brokers. Self-styled masters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gecko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for fucking life! You think Bush and Cheney didn’t know about that shit? Give me a fucking break! Tyco! Imclone! Adelphia! Worldcom!

Fuck the Puerto Ricans. 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin’ parade in the city. And don’t even get me started on the Dom-in-i-cans, because they make the Puerto Ricans look good.

Fuck the Bensonhurst Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, and their St. Anthony medallions. Swinging their, Jason Giambi, Louisville slugger, baseball bats, trying to audition for the Sopranos.

Fuck the Upper East Side wives with their Hermés scarves and their fifty-dollar Balducci artichokes. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. You’re not fooling anybody, sweetheart!

Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don’t want to play defense, they take fives steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago. Move the fuck on!

Fuck the corrupt cops with their anus violating plungers and their 41 shots, standing behind a blue wall of silence. You betray our trust!

Fuck the priests who put their hands down some innocent child’s pants. Fuck the church that protects them, delivering us into evil. And while you’re at it, fuck JC! He got off easy! A day on the cross, a weekend in hell, and all the hallelujahs of the legioned angels for eternity! Try seven years in fuckin Otisville, Jay!

Fuck Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and backward-ass, cave-dwelling, fundamentalist assholes everywhere. On the names of innocent thousands murdered, I pray you spend the rest of eternity with your seventy-two whores roasting in a jet-fueled fire in hell. You towel headed camel jockeys can kiss my royal, Irish ass!

Fuck Jacob Elinski, whining malcontent.

Fuck Francis Xavier Slaughtery, my best friend, judging me while he stares at my girlfriend’s ass.

Fuck Naturel Rivera. I gave her my trust and she stabbed me in the back. Sold me up the river. Fucking bitch.

Fuck my father with his endless grief, standing behind that bar. Sipping on club soda, selling whiskey to firemen and cheering the Bronx Bombers.

Fuck this whole city and everyone in it. From the row houses of Astoria to the penthouses on Park Avenue. From the projects in the Bronx to the lofts in Soho. From the tenements in Alphabet City to the brownstones in Park slope to the split levels in Staten Island. Let an earthquake crumble it. Let the fires rage. Let it burn to fuckin’ ash then let the waters rise and submerge this whole, rat-infested place.

Monty: No. No, fuck you, Montgomery Brogan. You had it all and then you threw it away, you dumb fuck!

[He tries to rub away the words.]

 

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myna or mynah , common name for a type of Asian starling found chiefly in India and Sri Lanka and known for its power of mimicry. Most familiar is the hill myna, Gracula religiosa, a large (12-15 in./30-38 cm), glossy black bird with yellow head wattles. It is a forest dweller and lives mostly on fruits. In the wild state its calls vary from low chuckles to loud whistles; when trained it is a better mimic than the parrot. The common myna of S Asia, genus Acridotheres, is smaller (10 in./25 cm) and not so good a mimic. The Papuan myna is found on the islands of the S Pacific. Some species, such as the Buli mynah, are highly endangered. Mynas are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Sturnidae.

1799 George Washington, the first president of the United States, died in Mount Vernon, Va., at age 67.

2003 Al Gore concedes the presidential election.

1981 Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967.