midnight in the old woods

passing along bits of the world, one passage at a time

Jul 3
“Mike can be very persuasive when it comes to appetizers,” said John Spence, one of eight diners swayed by Bradshaw’s closing arguments. “There was a split among the eaters, with four people wanting hot wings and four wanting nachos. In the end, though, Mike convinced us all, beyond a reasonable doubt, that nachos was the appropriate verdict.” Lawyer Friend Makes Strong Case For Nachos | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

“It ended when a beekeeper obliterated a ball of bees that followed a queen bee under a ballgirl’s jacket that was slung over the back of a chair down the left-field line.” Un-bee-lievable: Bee swarm delays Astros’ 7-2 win - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

Jul 2

Piro raised bin Laden in his last conversation with Hussein, on June 28, 2004, but the information he yielded conflicted with the Bush administration’s many efforts to link Iraq with the terrorist group. Hussein replied that throughout history there had been conflicts between believers of Islam and political leaders. He said that “he was a believer in God but was not a zealot … that religion and government should not mix.” Hussein said that he had never met bin Laden and that the two of them “did not have the same belief or vision.”

When Piro noted that there were reasons why Hussein and al-Qaeda should have cooperated — they had the same enemies in the United States and Saudi Arabia — Hussein replied that the United States was not Iraq’s enemy, and that he simply opposed its policies.

Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran - washingtonpost.com

“Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts of the interviews released yesterday. The former Iraqi president also denounced Osama bin Laden as “a zealot” and said he had no dealings with al-Qaeda.” Saddam Hussein Said WMD Talk Helped Him Look Strong to Iran - washingtonpost.com

Chet Bannister, Pig Wrestler “I don’t eats ‘em, I just rassles ‘em.” (via New Healthier Pigs | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
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Chet Bannister, Pig Wrestler “I don’t eats ‘em, I just rassles ‘em.” (via New Healthier Pigs | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

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Jun 29
“He was rated #34 of the most influential people in the world on the 2009 Time 100 list.” T-Pain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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