Racecourse to ban use of whip

" Bosses of the National Hunt course at Towcester Racecourse in Northamptonshire England have announced they will outlaw the use of the controversial stick in all meetings from October 5 2011. Riders...

Authoritarian Upbringing, Indulgent Upbringing, and Clarity

The purveyors of the authoritarian model of raising children like to claim that indulgent upbringing breeds criminals and monsters. The purveyors of the indulgent model of raising children like to claim that authoritarian upbringing breeds violent people who cannot...

Malaysiain Model To Be Caned For Drinking Beer

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old Muslim part-time model, has been sentenced to a caning after admitting to having a beer in a nightclub last year, and has become the first woman in Malaysia to be given...

MPs to vote on smacking ban in UK

The UK parliament is today to consider a measure to ban hitting children as punishment. The bill would give children the same protection against physical assault as adults, eliminating the defense for parents of "reasonable punishment," which allows physical assault against...

Guilty of cruelty, the Muslim who ordered boys to flog themselves

A Muslim, Syed Zaidi, in a landmark British legal case, has been convicted of cruelty after ordering boys to flog themselves with a bladed whip. It is not illegal for a person over 16 years of age to whip...

NBC, ABC and CBS to tone down 'upfront' advertising sales events

The networks are still having a tough time as viewership remains down after the writer's strike, and the sluggish economy is making advertisers hesitant to spend."TV lineup presentations to advertisers are being scaled back because of the sluggish economy and lingering...

Majority Whip Jim Clyburn calls Bill Clinton Behavior a bit Bizarre

SC Congressman Clyburn calls Bill Clinton's Behavior a Bizarre Lately During the Primary here in South Carolina Former President Bill Clinton stated that Barrack Obama did well here because other...

15 inch Gigantor Digital Photo Frame

"Godzilla size frame ATTACK! When this 15″ Digital Photo Frame arrived at the ThinkGeek world headquarters of doom we thought to ourselves “That is one huge-ass photo frame”… and we’re thinking that you’re going to feel the exact same way when you’re viewing...

Stripper Mistakenly Sent to School, Whips Teen

Why something like this never happened to me I don't knowThe only spanking I ever got was from a Nun in Catholic School "Officials at a U.K. high school were aghast after a stripper visited a student during class...

PPC (Pay Per Click) Interview with Aman Singh

"Some weeks back I received a telephone call. Some hours later I hung-up the phone after having one of the best conversations with an individual with whom I have never met. The man at the other end of the phone was Aman Singh one of the best kept marketing secrets within the...

Clinton Blurs the Battle Lines on Surge Politics

"Craig Crawford’s Trail Mix: Clinton Blurs the Battle Lines on Surge Politics By Craig Crawford | 8:30 AM; Aug. 21, 2007 | Email This Article If Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York was signaling...

What Do You Listen to on Orbit? Astronauts Take iPods

"It's the ultimate high, orbiting 210 miles above the Earth in the space shuttle watching the planet whip by at 17,500 mph and listening to your favorite music. Every astronaut on the space shuttle Endeavour has an iPod. NASA certified the MP3 players for flight about a year...

Rabid Religious Fervor

Flagellant contracts rabies, shares blade.Flagellation, self-mutilation and crucifixion re-enactments are widely practiced around the world, but such activities carry risks beyond the obvious: rabies is transmitted though blood infection. The frightening element here is the...

Go back to your skipping rope

"Why is skipping so good? I went out and bought a brand new leather boxing skipping rope on the weekend and I have been torturing myself with rope jumping ever since. This simple form of exercise is so effective I might never go for a run again (kidding)! For a long time I...

Ian Barker's debrief on Vinson rescue: Three very long days in Antarctica

"JG Ian Barker's debrief on Vinson rescue: Three very long days in Antarctica 11:46 am EST Feb 15, 2007 (ThePoles.com) "We are under the tent, we have no stove, we have some with frostbite. Our situation is desperate, please, please come and get us. I can't move them by...

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