A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman’s religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the country.
U.S. District Judge Raymond J. Dearie ruled Wednesday that Mamie Manneh’s faith didn’t preclude her from applying for permits to import exotic food or explain why she misled officials.
What possibly could be the dangers of importing (endangered) monkey meat? It’s not as though their physiology is like ours.
A strong earthquake cut power lines and sent panicked residents in eastern Indonesia running out of their homes toward higher ground, officials and witnesses said.
The Indonesian Meteorology and Seismology Agency warned that with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2, the quake was strong enough to cause a tsunami.
There were no immediate reports of giant waves and the agency lifted the tsunami warning within an hour.
Cleverest link to AGW wins bragging rights. Or maybe they’ve legalized gay marriage?
Was it a meteor falling from space?
Officials think that might be what residents saw shooting through the Alaska sky near Tok on Monday afternoon.
A tremendous explosion, like a sonic boom, drew some people outside, where they watched irregular contrails scribe a path in a clear sky.
At her home four miles west of Tok, Kathy Olding was loading a large sled with firewood to haul to her house when she was startled by an explosion.
My guess? Aliens returning to reclaim Bristol Palin’s latest child.
Comment by Dr. Charles Richter on 1/3 @ 3:27 pm #
AGW causes an increase in seismic activity.
I win!
What’s the prize?
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/3 @ 3:32 pm #
Bragging rights, Doctor. But, you know, suggest a mechanism.
Comment by Dr. Charles Richter on 1/3 @ 3:39 pm #
Uh, um, er, the increase in temperature causes the expansion of the tectonic plates resulting in shear fractures at their joints; yeah, yeah! that’s the ticket!
Countdown until Al Gore’s camp followers begin using this; 5, 4, 3, 2…
Comment by Sdferr on 1/3 @ 3:45 pm #
I thought it was the decrease in temperature over the Yellowstone caldera which entailed a chilled sphincter like shrinking there, setting off a cascade of a blizzard of mini-quakes, which in turn sought Gaiaic equilibrium on the other side of the world, thus releasing pressure in a moderately large tremor in Indonesia Doc?
Comment by Diogenes on 1/3 @ 3:51 pm #
Gaia’s lack of equilibrium is well known and documented in my day; why she couldn’t walk a balance beam to win the olympics!
Comment by Sdferr on 1/3 @ 3:55 pm #
You’re a faking Diogenes, since we all know chicks weren’t allowed in the Olympic arena on penalty of death!
Comment by Dr. Charles Richter on 1/3 @ 3:56 pm #
Hmmmm. You put forth a plausible theory sir. But it has one major flaw; it precludes me from winning! So, taking a cue from the AGW crowd, I’ll simply repeat mine continuously, hoping that it will gain traction in the mainstream media.
Factually correct; not so important. ABility to bring me gain; vital consideration!
Comment by Diogenes on 1/3 @ 4:03 pm #
B-But, Gaia was flat chested, so she passed for a man; and when asked why she had only a wispy mustache, she reminded them of her adolescence, and claimed that she shaved three times a day!
As far as the lack of equipment? She claimed a frightful act at the hands of Ares when he found out that Aphrodite was interested in her.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/3 @ 4:09 pm #
What did she say to allay their fears engendered by her persistent attempts to get them to change their personal habits (you know, the smoking, the nose picking, the farting and laughing about it, etc.), Diogenn, hmmmm? How’d she pull that one off, pray tell?
Comment by Diogenes on 1/3 @ 4:15 pm #
Gaia had more of a tolerant outlook back then; after all, she had a bit of a mis-spent youth herself! And she’d been known to rip many a good one in the old days; surely a by-product of all those gyros and souvelaki.
Comment by urthshu on 1/3 @ 4:36 pm #
Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
Mutilated monkey meat
Dirty little birdie feet….
Comment by Sdferr on 1/3 @ 5:10 pm #
NOT your Gaia, Diogenes! (h/t Theo Spark, entirely SFW)
Comment by Dave E. on 1/3 @ 5:15 pm #
What is really happening here is that an increasing amount of CO2 is being absorbed into the oceans. That CO2 is then being absorbed by whales. Eventually one whale releases a massive fart and under the law of hear one, play one, the entire pod releases their own massive cascade of farts. The deniers are lying and telling us that these events are earthquakes.
Comment by comatus on 1/3 @ 5:29 pm #
Diseased nature oftentime breaks forth in strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth is with a kind of colic pinch’d and vex’d by the imprisoning of unruly wind within her womb, which, for enlargement striving, shakes the old beldam earth and topples down steeples and moss-grown towers.
Just sayin, as the Bard hath called it: Queef.
It’s anthropogenic, it’s global, and godamercy, it is warming.
Comment by parsnip on 1/3 @ 5:48 pm #
HAHAHA rethuglikkkans shut up! Haliburton made that quake with the jews to kill mulsims & take thier OIL! Daddy never loved me! Hows that “surge” working now? Palin sucks!
Comment by Rob Crawford on 1/3 @ 6:14 pm #
Hmmmm… sounds like a family gathering.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 1/3 @ 8:50 pm #
It’s obvious: The stampede of people leaving Wyoming due to the incredibly crappy weather has unbalanced the North American craton, causing earthquakes from Yellowstone all the way to Indonesia. Last one out turn off the lights!
And importing endangered monkey meat is probably a violation of “CITES”, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species [seriously].
Comment by Swen Swenson on 1/3 @ 8:57 pm #
Oh.. Although it should go without saying: If we have weather it’s Climate Change. Thus, AGW has caused the Indonesian earthquakes. Ta Da!!
Comment by Dan Collins on 1/3 @ 8:57 pm #
I thought that they were leaving because Cheney’s returning soon.
Comment by Sdferr on 1/3 @ 8:59 pm #
What I want to know about the endangered monkey meat is how the hell they know it’s actually an endangered monkey if it was only discovered at the meat stage? For that matter, if actually at the meat stage and lacking all bone etc, how do they know it’s a monkey at all?
Comment by gebrauchshund on 1/4 @ 12:26 am #
Because it tasted funny? Oh wait, sorry, that was the clown meat.
Comment by Rusty on 1/4 @ 10:24 am #
#21
That’s enough of your monkeyshines!
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