h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've always despised jazz anyway

Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper published 23rd July Saturday blamed
muslim extremists for the Oslo Massacre:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1555335

Bet the editor was hacked off when he found it was a home grown nutter!

From the BBC News page:

Most Popular Stories

1: Forklift drops $1m wine shipment
2: Music world mourns Winehouse loss

The Independent correspondent Martin Hickman suggests there is no
conspiracy in the death of phone-hacking whistleblower journalist
Sean Hoare. Apparently according to Sean Hoare's doctor he should
have been dead sooner:
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/martin-hickman-was-sean-hoare-killed-by-the-murdoch-empire-the-short-answer-is-no-2317226.html

Norwegian madman states it was an anti-muslim protest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14280210

Incidentally, why is my post still gone? Would whoever yikesed it please come to my personal space and explain themselves?

For something completely different, here's a case of a savage marsupial having to be subdued with pepper spray after attacking an old lady.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-26/police-capsicum-spray-roo/2810552

Cute and cuddly, that's what kangaroos aren't.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14289114

Won't stop me believing in Donnie Darko

Just to show it´s not just the catholics which are the problem, here´s a story about sexual abuse by buddhist monks:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-monk-sex-cases-20110724,0,7057292,full.story

I wonder what the sound of one hand abusing sounds like...

Lockerbie bomber seen on TV rally

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14300687

"Introducing him at a televised rally of members of Megrahi's tribe, the presenter said his conviction was the result of a conspiracy.

He said his release had been a victory against oppression."

I kinda lost track of how this story was going.

Did we get the oil and gas or not?

I thought they agreed to have some of our weapons...although I think they were expecting to buy them rather than be given them free issue...

Ah right

They wanted them blunt end first?

Well arriving at less than the speed of sound at least...

I've been on pre-mod, everything was slow

But returning to the subject. How is the terminal disease that was going to kill him in 6 moths progressing? Miracle cure?

A glowing testament to the superiority of the Libyan NHS.

That, or they gave him moth balls.

I think we should applaud the advances in medical care that Libya is obviously making. Hospitals must be quiet if they have time for all that research.
Did the Guinness man travel to Libya to recover from his Altzheimers?

NATO targets food stores in attempt to starve out Western Libyan population:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/25/libya.fighting/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://www.newsday.com/news/un-libyan-areas-under-gadhafi-rule-face-shortages-1.3051888?qr=1