ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A blind Turkish pensioner has been sentenced to a 26-day reading and writing course at his local public library after he failed to vote on time in an election for his village cooperative, his son said Friday.


A prosecutor in the province of Kutahya in northwest Turkey sentenced Ismail Canseven, 73, to the education course after he did not show up for the election of the cooperative’s board of directors in May, Isa Canseven told Reuters.



“What am I going to do in a library? I can’t see out of either of my eyes, and I can’t read or write anyway,” Friday’s edition of the Hurriyet newspaper quoted Ismail as saying.



Isa Canseven, 42, said he would appeal against the sentence served on his father. “My father can only find the bathroom by holding on to a piece of string we’ve tied to the (bathroom) wall,” he said.



In Turkey, people are obliged by law to vote in elections.

A case of the law going nuts!
Although it would be interesting to see what truly happened if a similar law was enacted in the US. Would you really want people who can’t be bothered to vote in the first place actually voting? Perhaps if a similar law was enacted in the US it would also have a required test based on knowledge of the issues.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Scientists at a U.S. weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives in a project they say could have far-reaching applications for U.S. homeland security and the Iraq war.

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico said they trained honeybees to stick out their proboscis — the tube they use to feed on nectar — when they smell explosives in anything from cars and roadside bombs to belts similar to those used by suicide bombers.

Researchers in the program, dubbed the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project, published their findings on Monday.

By exposing the insects to the odor of explosives followed by a sugar water reward, researchers said they trained bees to recognize substances ranging from dynamite and C-4 plastic explosives to the Howitzer propellant grains used in improvised explosive devices in Iraq.

Ok.. so I either get a mental picture of some cop with a bee on a leash or they are going to release two billion bees into Iraq and see which cars they go after so now I have a bunch of troops running after a swarm of bees. I would be wrong.. they are going to carry shoeboxes with bees in them..

Haarmann said the bees could be carried in hand-held detectors the size of a shoe box, and could be used to sniff out explosives in airports, roadside security checks, or even placed in robot bomb disposal equipment. He said the next step would be to manufacture the bee boxes and train security guards in their use.

Dont forget to take the bees home with you and feed them!

The wife asks, “Do you know her?”

“Yes,” sighs the husband, “She’s my ex-girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up seven years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since.”

“My God!” says the wife, “Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?”

I bet women everywhere are wishing their partners had a tongue like this.

Could also be a drunken frat party

Because even nature has a sense of decorum.

Caption Contest!! Although I will probably only get one response
Give me your best caption for this picture.

Happy Turkey Day!

BOGOR, Indonesia – A renowned black magic practitioner performed a voodoo ritual Thursday to jinx President George W. Bush and his entourage while he was on a brief visit to Indonesia. Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest, stirred their blood with spice and broccoli before drank the “potion” and smeared some on his face.

Was it voodoo or was the man just hungry?? I mean it is Indonesia after all lol