Friday, September 30, 2005

And so it goes...

A Summary of News From Around the World:
Sorry.  I am under the weather today and it makes my thoughts turn to the grim side.

Bookmaker blasted over 'Last Supper' ad
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power was fending off the wrath of Christians in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Ireland on Friday over an advert depicting Jesus and the Apostles gambling at the Last Supper.

Foetuses found at Bogota airport
Colombian police have found the bodies of three human foetuses hidden in statues destined for the United States.

Abortionist accused of eating fetuses
A Kansas City abortionist is out of business after investigators discovered a grisly house of horrors at his clinic – with fetuses kept in Styrofoam cups in his refrigerator and one employee accusing him of microwaving one and stirring it into his lunch.

Sources: Priest killed Hudson funeral home workers
Prosecutors said they will present strong evidence in a hearing next week that will officially declare the case of a double murder at a funeral home in Hudson, Wis. closed.

Dutch ‘marriage’: 1 man, 2 women
The Netherlands has legalized polygamy in all but name, granting a civil union to a man and two women.
Victor de Bruijn, 46, of Roosendaal "married" both Bianca, 31, and Mirjam, 35, in a ceremony Friday, the Brussels Journal reported.

In the immortal words of fictional FBI detective Fox Mulder, “Did you really think you could summon the devil, then ask him to behave?” (X-Files, Die Hand Die Verletzt, first aired Jan 27, 1995.)