Hikers find 140 buttered shoes

On a remote mountain, in Sweden, with half a kilo of butter in each shoe.

“If we knew who had done this we could make them clean this mess up,” Alf Kjaellstroem, a province spokesman told AP today.

“It’s not going to be pretty when the butter starts to rot. And we have to wait for the snow so we can get up there with the snowmobile.”

Let’s see. That’s 154 pounds of butter, plus seventy pair of shoes at let’s say 3 pounds per pair, making 364 pounds someone backpacked up a mountain.

Hmmm how would you react if, while backpacking in a remote area, you came across 140 shoes filled with butter? I expect I would carefully survey the area to ascertain not having been teleported to a different galaxy, whip out my trusty cell phone/camera and take several photos. Then, get the hell out of there! Heck for one thing, bears probably like butter…

The find was similar to one done by artist Yu Xiuzhen’s in 1996. His exhibit, Shoes With Butter <see photo>, was laid out in the Tibetan mountains surrounding Lhasa, China.

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October 25: Mass march in San Francisco and D.C.

Bring the troops home now
End the occupation of Iraq
Money for jobs, education & healthcare - Not war

This will coincide with the massive rally in DC the same day. Over 125 cities (so far) have organized caravans of buses going to DC. In addition, people will be arriving by plane from dozens of countries.

There will also be buses from LA to SF. The LA bus ride leaves at midnight on that Friday and returns midnight on Saturday. Hey, it’s the bus ride from Hell to be sure, but people get killed in Iraq every day, so what’s 10-12 hours on a bus?

The buses leave from LA City College where there is secure parking for $6.

You can buy LA to SF bus tickets online at the ANSWER LA website for $40.

SF march and rally

DC march and rally

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Ranking republicans tell Dubya, hey try to be a leader, ok?

President George W. Bush has lost control of Iraq policy because of infighting among administration officials, the leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Sunday.

The committee leaders urged Bush to take charge of U.S. postwar policy in Iraq.

“The president has to be the president, over the vice president and over these secretaries,” the chairman, Republican Sen. Dick Lugar, said during a broadcast interview.

This is extraordinary. Important Republicans are telling Bush he is a rudderless, ineffective leader and that things are getting worse not better.

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This ain’t adding up, Rush

Rush Limbaugh talkin about golf in July 2003:

I’ve played the Bob Hope three times and the AT&T twice. It wasn’t bad. It’s just the game is mental. Once you’ve mastered the physical aspect, not mastered, but 90 percent of the game, all of the other things being equal is mental, and for some reason, I just was not able to execute my swing today.

And I think it had nothing to do with physical characteristics. There’s nothing wrong with me.

This being the same Rush Limbaugh who just told us he became addicted to drugs because of chronic back pain.

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Many soldiers, same letter

Newspapers around U.S. get identical missives from Iraq

Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country. And all the letters are the same.

Imagine that, like it was some lunatic propaganda scheme from the Pentagon, or something…

And they were too dimwitted to use differently worded letters.

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Gaza raid leaves hundreds homeless

Palestinians are calling it a disaster area

Up to 1,500 Palestinians have been left homeless by the Israeli army’s two-day raid into the Rafah refugee camp, the United Nations estimates. 

A senior UN official who went to assess damage said it looked like there had been a severe earthquake at the densely-populated camp in the south of the Gaza Strip, with up to 120 homes demolished.

Civilian homes.

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