Non-profit organization AHAVA, the association for saving animals, put out a call Thursday for volunteers and funds to save hundreds of dogs and cats that have been abandoned in the South as residents flee their homes from the barrage of deadly rockets.
According to the AHAVA, more than 40 dogs and some 70 cats have already been rescued from the region, 3 of them in serious medical condition.
The association said that it desperately needs temporary homes for the animals, as well as families that are willing to adopt them. In addition, the organization needs donations of food and medicines and pet owners who are willing to donate their animal's blood.
Those interested in helping can leave a message at 09 958 88 33 or email animalsavers@gmail.com.
Sex fest scheduled to be held on 'International Orgasm Day' and seeking to promote world peace called off after owner of venue meant to host event caves in to threats
Yoav Zaitun
| Published: | 12.24.08, 00:13 / Israel Culture |
After weeks of preparations for the largest sex event of its kind in Israel, organizers were forced to cancel it this week due to public pressure and threats exerted on the owner of the venue where the sex fest was to take place.
The event in question, which was scheduled to take place on "International Orgasm Day," aimed to bring together some 250 participants seeking to promote world peace through multiple orgasms reached by masturbation or sex.
The orgy was organized by the Raelian movement, a UFO religion whose followers believe humankind was created by aliens. The group's spokesman, Kobi Drori, said that the orgy was meant to include straights, gays, lesbians and bisexuals, all of them over 18.
"The purpose of the event was to try and bring world peace through mass orgasm, this by experiencing consensual sex and natural, uninterrupted pleasure. It was important to make love without feeling guilty or shy," he explained.
Drori protested the fact that nowadays the words "war," "violence" and "murder" have become more legitimate than "sex," "orgasm" and "pleasure."
"It should be the other way around. Several years ago an Iraqi boy whose limbs were amputated was shown on TV and everybody treated this as if it was okay, but when Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the Superbowl the American nation was appalled.
"We wanted to put into practice the saying 'make love, not war'."
According to Drori, the orgy was just the first in a series of events dedicated to promoting this objective. On January 22 the movement will hold a conference on sexuality and masturbation with experts and writers in the field.
He also vowed that the cancelation of this year's orgy would not deter the Raelians from setting up another sex fest next year.
The Raelian movement has several hundreds followers in Israel and some 70,000 members worldwide.
"We don't believe in demons, ghosts and gods," said Drori. "The group's primary goal is to inform humanity, without attempting to persuade, regarding scientific messages that deal with the origins of life on earth.
"The second goal is to expedite the establishment of a society based on the principles of non-violence, solidarity, self-fulfillment and pleasure. To establish one global currency, one global government and harness science to the service of humanity, and not against humanity," he concluded.
First you must learn to pronounce the city name.... It is Bawl-mer or Ball-tee-more, depending on if you live north or south of Rt. 40.
Next, if your road map is more than a few weeks old, throw it out and buy a new one. If it is a Howard County map and is a day old it is already obsolete.
On Monday you don't wash your clothes, you warsh them. Before you eat a meal you don't wash your hands, you warsh them in wooder.
Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere, Baltimore has its own version of traffic rules...."Hold on & pray." There is no such thing as a dangerous high-speed chase in Baltimore ... we all drive like that.
All directions start with... "The Beltway...."....which has no beginning and no end. The morning rush hour is from 6am to 11am, the evening rush hour is from 1pm to 7pm... Friday's rush hour starts Thursday morning.
If you actually stop at a yellow light you will be rear ended, cussed out, and possibly shot. When you are the first one on the starting line, count to 5 when the light turns green before going to avoid crashing into all 5 drivers running the red light in cross-traffic. However, if you don't go as soon as it turns green, you get the finger, a blowing horn, or both.
Construction on I-97 is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment. Interesting that it's called an "interstate," it runs only from the Beltway to Annapolis. Opening in 1992, it has been torn up and under re-construction ever since. (Does former Gov. Glendenning have any relatives who build highways?)
All unexplained sights are explained by the phrase "Oh, we're in GLIMBURNIE!"
If someone actually has their turn signal on it is probably a factory defect. Car horns are actually "Road Rage" indicators. All old ladies with blue hair and Buicks have the right of way. PERIOD
All roads mysteriously change their names as you cross intersections. A trip across town (north to south) will take a minimum of four hours, although the tunnel does have, on occasion, more than one lane open. But never on holiday weekends.
The minimum acceptable speed on the Beltway is 85mph, anything less is considered downright sissy. The Beltway is our daily version of NASCAR.
If the humidity is 98+ and the temperature is 98+ it's May/June/July/August/September. If it is 10 degrees, it is Orioles Opening Day. If it is 110 degrees, it is opening day at Ravens Stadium.
If you go to a football game, pay the $75.00 to park in the "Ravens Lot." Parking elsewhere could cost up to $7500.00 for damages, towing fees, parking tickets, etc.
If some guy with a flag tries to get you to park in his yard during Preakness ... run over him! It's probably not his yard anyway.
1. You could pick crabs before you could walk.
2. From snow to hurricanes to heat waves, you've seen every kind of weather imaginable.
3. 695 gets you everywhere.
4. You stress the "Oh" in the U.S. National Anthem.
5. It's "DC", not "Washington"; "Hopkins", not "Johns Hopkins", and "goin' downa' ocean" means you're off to Ocean City, Bethany, or Rehoboth.
6. You've had relatives imprisoned at Ft. McHenry.
7. Half your high school graduating class went to College Park.
8. The opening of a Wegman's was the greatest thing to happen to your city in ten years.
9. You put Old Bay on everything.
10. You hate the Yankees, the Steelers, and especially the Colts.
11. The murder rate is higher than the graduation rate.
12. You can go 1 inch beyond the city line and know that you're out of the city.
13. You don't wash your clothes, you "warsh" them.
14. You can pronounce "Havre de Grace." (Not the French way, the Baltimore way.)
15. You've gotten lost and ended up in the projects.
16. You know that The Power Plant is not for the production of electricity.
17. You're pissed off that we have to share our only airport with DC (I mean, don't they already have 2?)
18. You remember when the Orioles were good.
19. You say "wuder", not "water".
20. On September 11, when you heard terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, you thought they meant the tower by the Harbor.
21. You know where to get the best crabs, crab cakes, and crab soup.
22. You eat snowballs, not throw them.
23. Cal Ripken was your childhood hero.
24. You're considered a Southerner when visiting New England, and you're a Yankee when visiting the South.
25. Distance is measured in minutes.
26. You know when to avoid the Bay Bridge.
27. Every one of your parents' childhood memories revolves around a Colts game.
28. A Berger is not something you grill.
29. Your Senator's website features a recipe for crabcakes.
30. You can spot a Baltimore accent immediately.
31. You watch a John Waters or Barry Levinson movie and recognize someone.
32. Artscape is the event of the season.
33. Five homicides is a good day for your town.
34. Lacrosse ain't no city in Wisconsin.
35. School is out when there's an inch of snow, but when you can't get out of your driveway you somehow have to go.
36. You know what Natty Boh is.
37. The idea of crabs without Old Bay makes you sick.
38. You think living 45 minutes from the nation's capital, 1.5 hours from Philadelphia, and 3.5 hours from New York City is the greatest thing in the world.
39. You think HBO's "The Wire" isn't violent enough.
40. Your car has a bumper sticker that says "BLIEVE HON"
41. The Washington Monument in your city is not a white obelisk.
42. You go to The Fudgery at The Harborplace just to hear singing.
43. You didn't realize that horses race at Preakness.
44. You leave the U.S. and people ask you where you're from, you reply "near Washington" to avoid confusion.
45. You love your city and share this group with all your friends from Baltimore.
