Despite the recent outrage over Congressional attempts to "
redefine rape" for the purpose of abortion funding, South Dakota's legislature has stepped the controversy up even further: a party-line panel has sent to the floor for a full vote
HB 1171 - "An Act to expand the definition of justifiable homicide to provide for the protection of certain unborn children."
Mother Jones considers the legal potential: "
This could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions."
posted by XQUZYPHYR
on Feb 15, 2011 -
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Scientists find a 'mummified' Hadrosaur in North Dakota "He looks like a blow-up dinosaur in some parts," said Phillip Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester in England who is leading the inquiry. "When you actually look at the detail of the skin, the scales themselves are three dimensional. . . . The arm is breathtaking. It's a three-dimensional arm, you can shake the dinosaur by the hand. It just defies logic that such a remarkable specimen could preserve."
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posted by Uther Bentrazor
on Dec 3, 2007 -
52 comments
Before 1969, the
city of Zap was best known as the punch line of a joke about three towns in North Dakota that sounded like Rice Krispies—
Zap,
Gackle, and
Mott. But when student body president
Charles "Chuck" Stroup at
North Dakota State University needed an alternative to Fort Lauderdale while stuck in North Dakota for spring break, he enlisted the help of some
student journalists at the
Spectrum newspaper to promote the
"Zip to Zap," an event that became the
only "official" riot in the history of North Dakota. The tiny coal mining town originally looked forward to the impromptu "Zip" festival, which had so much advance buzz that the
Wham-O toy company created a toy called
Zip Zap in honor of the imminent event. Unfortunately, after throngs of students descended on Zap, the only two bars in town quickly ran out of beer, and the
North Dakota National Guard was called into extinguish the bonfire, beer brawls, and riot that ensued. For more info about about how the "Zip to Zap" fit in context with the 1960s zeitgeist, look
here,
here, and
here.
posted by jonp72
on Nov 20, 2007 -
10 comments
