TINY MINDS

Archive for October, 2006

Perhaps he can even pick up a new baby to raise whilst there…

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Actor Wesley Snipes, indicted by U.S. authorities for tax fraud this week, is filming a movie in the African country of Namibia which has no extradition treaty with Washington, officials said on Friday.

“It is confirmed. He is definitely here,” Edwin Kanguatjivi, chief executive officer of the Namibia Film Commission, said by telephone. “He has been in Namibia since the end of August.”

It’s just too dangerous.

Students at Willett Elementary School in Attleboro can no longer play tag during recess. The same goes for touch football and other unsupervised “chasing” games.

The school’s principal said there’s too much risk of injury to children during games like tag.

The school board is considering requiring football padding, hardhats, and eye-protectioin goggles for the students, as well. “Who knows, a kid could trip, or bump into another child, and that would be terrible,” posited one idiotic school board member.

Apparently, Mikhail Gorbachev is not clear on the concept of how walls work, or the purposes for which they are erected:

“You remember President Reagan standing in Berlin and saying, ‘This wall should be torn down,’” said the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner. “Now the United States seems to be building almost the Wall of China between itself and this other nation with which it has been associated for many decades and has had cooperation and interaction with.”

Well, Mickey, the big difference, as you may recall, is that East Germany built their wall to keep the poor bastards IN — not to fend off millions of West Germans fleeing to the economic paradise of the East.

Does he really think Americans are that stupid? Even after getting his Soviet ass handed to him in the ’80′s?

LMATY (Reuters) – The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank” on its new notes, officials said on Wednesday.The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge ($15) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

The move has drawn the ire of the Central Asian state’s politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether.

“The mistake … is not just a spelling problem — it has political undertones,” a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.

"We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language."

Language is a contentious issue in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhs were encouraged to speak Russian, which is written in Cyrillic script, during Soviet times but since independence in 1991, the country has seen the Kazakh language as a national symbol.

The Kazakh word for bank is the Cyrillic form of "bank." On the new note, the word was written with an alternate Kazakh form of the letter K, which has a slightly different pronunciation.

I can not imagine how many beers it would take to make me think this was a good idea.

Man found trapped in hotel air-conditioning duct
BY TIM CHAPMAN AND ERIKA BERAS
tchapman@MiamiHerald.com

Miami Beach fire-rescue units were called to the Shore Club, 1901 Collins Ave., about 5 a.m. today when hotel employees discovered a man trapped inside an air-conditioning duct.

It took an hour and a half for fire-rescue workers to cut through three layers of drywall to get to the man, who was, according to police, clad in a bathing suit.