With video: Two female Michigan lawmakers silenced after vagina, abortion comments

State Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, left, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, were scolded over their remarks related to abortion. / File photos

 

Freedom of speech has it limits – at least in the state House of Representatives.
State Reps. Lisa Brown, D-West Bloomfield, and Barb Byrum, D-Onondaga, were told today that they wouldn’t be recognized to publicly speak on any matters before the House because of comments they made Wednesday during an emotional debate on a bill that puts new restrictions on abortion providers.MORE HERE!!

 

Two Hundred Years of Surgery

Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly worked out. Nonetheless, over the past two centuries, surgery has become radically more effective, and its violence substantially reduced — changes that have proved central to the development of mankind's abilities to heal the sick. MORE HERE.

Ye olde vampire slaying kit: Victorian oak box complete with wooden stakes, garlic paste and vials of holy water up for auction

• Casket contains set of rosary beads, three glass bottles containing holy water, holy earth and garlic, and a book of common prayer dated 1857
• Macabre artefact expected to fetch up to £2,000 

By Tom Gardner
PUBLISHED: 05:51 EST, 7 June 2012 | UPDATED: 07:57 EST, 7 June 2012

They say you can never be too prepared... but even for the most superstitious person this may be overkill.
A 19th century Vampire slaying kit, which includes a wooden mallet and four oak stakes, glass vials of holy water and garlic paste is expected to fetch up £2,000 when auctioned later this month.
The macabre artefact also has a percussion cap pistol - invented in the 1830 - and a steel bullet mold, all carefully crafted to offer the best protection against any creatures of the night.

Precautions: The case contains 1) a rosary 2) crucifix 3) a handwritten psalm (Luke 20:27) 4) a pistol 5) four oak stakes 6) a bottle of consecrated earth 7) a common prayer book 8) a wooden mallet 9) silver bullet mold 10) a cloth 11) two glass bottles containing garlic paste and holy water

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155799/Vampire-slaying-kit-1890s-complete-wooden-stakes-garlic-paste-vials-holy-water-comes-auction.html#ixzz1xI6Iv8hO

Are you sure digging him up is a good idea? Archaeologists find Bulgarian 'vampires' from Middle Ages with iron rods staked through their chests

By Daniel Miller
PUBLISHED: 07:50 EST, 5 June 2012 | UPDATED: 12:46 EST, 6 June 2012

If you thought vampires were simply the stuff of myth and legend - and perhaps the odd teen horror film - think again.
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced through the chest with iron rods to keep them from turning into the undead.
They are the latest in a succession of finds across western and central Europe which shed new light on just how seriously people took the threat of vampires and how those beliefs transformed into the modern myth. 

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Find: Two skeletons, believed to be those of suspected Medieval vampires, were discovered with iron poles plunged through their chests in the Bulgarian Black Sea town of Sozopol

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154837/Vampire-skeletons-unearthed-Bulgaria-iron-stakes-plunged-chests.html#ixzz1xI5okIZ2

Old portraits of children with creepy 'ghostmothers' in the background show how far mums would go for a good photo

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 20:58 EST, 6 June 2012 | UPDATED: 20:59 EST, 6 June 2012

In the early days of photography, many well-off families jumped at the chance to have their precious children's likeness captured for eternity.
The one trick that they had to deal with next, after finding photographers willing to set up the bulky equipment and travelling to the portrait location, was getting the little babies to sit still for the entirety of the session.
As a result, many photographers enlisted the help of the children's mothers, with often creepy outcomes.

Tricks: Mothers covered themselves in black cloth and hold their children upright while getting portraits taken back in the 1800s, resulting in odd figures in the photos

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155681/Old-portraits-children-creepy-ghostmothers-background-far-mums-good-photo.html#ixzz1xI59doFG

Tombstones from long ago surfacing on S.F. beach

Carl Nolte

Friday, June 8, 2012

Strong winds and shifting sands have uncovered an eerie reminder of San Francisco's past: discarded gravestones and broken tomb markers used decades ago to shore up the Ocean Beach seawall.
The tombstones became visible this week, including bits and pieces of marble and granite that once marked the final resting places of citizens long dead.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/07/MNTO1OUK8J.DTL#ixzz1xI4YmoAd

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Friends say classmate killed self after bullying on sexuality

ASHLAND CITY, TN (WSMV) -

Students at a local school are grieving a classmate. Friends say the young man took his own life because he couldn't take any more bullying.

And they say school officials knew about the torment but didn't do enough to stop it.

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It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - James Stewart - George Bailey's Speech to Potter & the Loan Board

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Jimmy Cliff - The harder they come, studio version

Tally ho chaps! First-ever British surfer caught on film taking to waves on home-made board... in 1929

• Experts say the two-hour video footage is a 'national treasure'
• Clip shows adventurer on homemade 8ft board carved from balsa wood
  

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Riding the waves: Some of the earliest ever video of surfing which shows Lewis Rosenberg on a surfboard at Holywell Bay in Newquay, Cornwall

Forever 21 Pulls Kurt Cobain Flipper Tee Copy From Market

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Kurt Cobain on stage in 1993

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Shepherds who bit off lambs' testicles at special farming event hit by violent 'food poisoning' bug

By Gavin Allen

Last updated at 2:16 PM on 9th December 2011

Two shepherds who bit off lambs' testicles as part of a special farming event were hit by a violent food poisoning bug.

The stomach-churning case was documented by the Wyoming Department of Health after it investigated the mini-outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis.

The pair, who had taken part in an event in which 1,600 lambs were to be castrated over several days, ended up with punishing vomiting and diarrhea, stomach cramps and fever. One of the men was affected worse than the other and spent a night in hospital. MORE HERE!

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Mouth method: A shepherd castrates a sheep with his teeth in the TV show Dirty Jobs - these are not the two men who fell ill

Fatal attraction: Europe's top cemeteries

Rick Steves

Friday, December 2, 2011

When I'm traveling in Europe, I often see stupid "torture museums" that are cleverly marketed. They make lots of money by appealing to the lowest desires of dumbed-down travelers, even though none of them has any real artifacts. If you're looking for the macabre side of Europe, skip these hokey rip-offs and visit a cemetery — they're authentic, artsy, and oozing with history. Here's a list of some of my favorites. More here!

Paddy & Friends with Zin (from Madame Edwarda) on vocal

Raspberries Go All The Way Mike Douglas Show 1974

Bitch Boys - Min automobil - Punk Gala - Stockholm 2010