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Pagan horns.

Asterisk where left frontal lobe and flower in hair should be.

Florida Man decries competition.

Man in Thailand Goes on Rampage in Temple, Dies After Being Impaled by Buddha Statue
AsiaOne | March 13, 2024 | Khoo Yi-Hang

A man in Thailand who went on a violent rampage at a temple in the Chonburi province died after being impaled by a Buddha statue.

On Feb 27, the 49-year-old man, who went by the name Ek, had taken methamphetamine in the temple with his friend – a monk at the temple who goes by the name Best, reported Thai media outlet Thaiger.

Ek then attacked Best with a fluorescent tube. While the latter ran away to seek help, Ek went on to smash statues in the temple, before fleeing into the main hall.

When the police arrived at the temple, Ek had locked all the doors and windows in the main hall, preventing officers from entering.

As they suspected Ek might have a weapon, the police waited outside and attempted to convince Ek to surrender himself.

However, there was no response from the man.

When they broke down the door and entered the main hall, the police found Ek lying in a pool of blood, with a Buddha statue pierced through his chest.

According to investigations, he had tried to climb and deface the largest statue in the hall but slipped and fell, landing on the sharp end of another statue below, South China Morning Post reported on Wednesday (March 13).

The statue’s head had pierced his heart and lungs.

According to residents in the Banbung district of the province, Ek had stayed with Best at the temple for a few days before the incident, Thaiger reported.

Best told the police that he took drugs with Ek and agreed to leave the monkhood for his misconduct.

♪ “Bodhisattva; would you take me by the glands?” ♪

At his apartment, they found Ek’s parrot.

Kobe Bryant Memorial Riddled With Spelling Errors To Be Repaired After More Than a Month of Ridicule From Fans
Blaze Media | 3/14/2024 | Andrew Chapados

The Los Angeles Lakers have finally announced that they will correct errors on the Kobe Bryant “Black Mamba” memorial statue outside Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, the team announced.

The errors included the misspelling of two players’ names, Von Wafer and Jose Calderon. Wafer played for the Lakers at the time while Calderon played for the Raptors. Calderon’s last name was misspelled as “Calderson,” while Wafer’s first name was labeled “Vom.”

. . . unless you’d prefer the pat-down.

I’m getting depressed by all these current news reports, with their negative waves.

I need to imagine Mika’s surprise at seeing me in my Superman/firecracker pajamas. Too bad she has a closed set.

Democrats Vote Unanimously To Include Illegal Immigrants In Census
AMAC Newsline | 14 Mar, 2024 | Stephen Katte

Senate Democrats have unanimously defeated Sen. Bill Hagerty’s (R-Tenn.) proposal to bar illegal immigrants from being counted in the national census, warning that their numbers go toward informing the apportioning of House seats and the Electoral College.

Soon after President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he signed an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to determine the population of each state in the United States without regard to whether residents have lawful immigration status.

The amendment, which would be added to the Equal Representation Act that Sen. Hagerty proposed last month, would require the Census Bureau to include a citizenship question in any future census. Anyone who isn’t a U.S. citizen, including people with temporary visas and green cards, would then be excluded from the ballot for congressional district and Electoral College apportionments. Census data is collected every 10 years.

The proposal was attached to the $460 billion government spending package that was passed on Saturday.

The measure was shot down 45-51 after failing to get even a single Democratic vote.

How about counting them as 3/5th of a person for apportionment purposes?

Air Force General Reveals ‘Alarming’ Number of Drones Crossing Into US Airspace at Southern Border: ‘Over 1,000 a Month’
nypost.com | March 15, 2024 | Victor Nava

More than 1,000 drones per month are crossing into US airspace near the border with Mexico, a top general told lawmakers Thursday. 

The number of unmanned drone incursions is “alarming” and presents a “growing” potential threat to national security,  Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot, the commander of North American Defense Command and US Northern Command, said during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. 

“The number of incursions was something that was alarming to me as I took command last month,” Guillot said in response to a question from Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC).

“I don’t know the actual number – I don’t think anybody does – but it’s in the thousands,” he added. 

When pressed by Budd on the timeframe the general was using to make his estimation, Guillot responded, “We can probably have over 1,000 a month.”

The top NORAD official noted that while the number of incursions alarms him, he hasn’t “seen any of them manifest in a threat to the level of national defense.” 

“But I see the potential only growing,” Guillot warned. 

Mexican cartels have been using drones to track the location of authorities along the US-Mexico border in order to more easily smuggle humans and drugs, according to US Customs and Border Protection officials.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez told the House Oversight Committee in February of 2023 that in her Texas sector alone, more than 10,000 drone incursions and 25,000 drone sightings had been reported in the last year.

“The adversaries have 17 times the number of drones, twice the amount of flight hours and unlimited funding to grow their operations,” Chavez told lawmakers.

Someone please remind me: why do we even have a military?

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