Around The World - A Quick Read

Have you ever heard the mob phrase, "Let him sleep with the fishes?" Well maybe that is more common than we know.

Expecting Fish, Pet Store Gets Corpse

Philadelphia - Employees of a Pennsylvania pet store expecting a shipment of tropical fish and salt water got a man's dead body instead.

I wonder if he had concrete chained to his feet?



I have found my church. I'm moving to Alabama:

'Sex' Sermons Cause Stir in Rural Alabama

It's one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the urban scene.

It's another thing when a small-town congregation puts up billboards with the phrase "Great sex: God's way" on rural highways to promote a sermon series. You can't even legally buy beer in Cullman County, and a preacher is talking about S-E-X on Sunday morning?

Daystar Church, whose congregation has grown dramatically under pastor Jerry Lawson, has run up against the sensibilities of a conservative north Alabama community with a month long focus on sex.

If you build it they will come:

Lawson is the lead pastor at Daystar Church, which is affiliated with the Church of God and draws about 2,000 people on Saturday nights and Sunday to its $5.7 million campus on a hilltop beside I-65. People come from as far away as the northern suburbs of Birmingham, 45 miles to the south.

The church's attendance is slightly larger than the entire population of Good Hope, which has three other churches in its town limits and five others within a stone's throw. The community is a mix of farm homes, middle-class subdivisions, mobile home parks and a few McMansions.

Daystar was a country church called Glory Hill Church of God when Lawson arrived nearly nine years ago. The church "relaunched" itself in the pattern of an urban megachurch in 2002 — there's Starbucks coffee in the lobby and video screens everywhere — and took off.
"In the next seven years 100 people became 2,000 people," said Lawson, who sports the hip, young megachurch look — short hair, a goatee and dark clothes, minus a tie.

Churches have been talking about sex and sexual purity more often. In November, the Rev. Ed Young of the Fellowship Church based in Dallas drew nationwide attention by challenging married couples to have sex for seven straight days in the name of strengthening marriages

Say hallelujah and give me that old time religion.

And remember this:
Follow Your Dreams!
Except that one where you're naked in church.




The F.B.I can't find Jimmy Hoffa's body but the Japanese found Harlan Sanders:

Colonel Sanders pulled from river after 24 years
Statue taken from KFC by crazed Japanese baseball fans after 1985 win.


Tokyo - He was covered in mud when pulled from the river, and had lost both legs and hands, not to mention his glasses. But Colonel Sanders still had his trademark smile, 24 years later.

A statue of the KFC mascot has been found in a river in Osaka, a city official said Wednesday, nearly a quarter century after being tossed in by crazed baseball fans who felt the image of restaurant founder Harland Sanders resembled a key team member.

"He was apparently found standing upright." Many fans feel the team has been plagued by the "curse of Colonel Sanders" since his effigy was submerged in 1985.

His Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants around the globe have suffered as well since he left the scene.

KENTUCKY:
Five million people,
Fifteen last names.


Have you ever noticed how people like to emulate celebrities? Not that I consider the Octomom a celebrity though some must:

I suspect this Octomom impersonator, who bears a striking resemblance, will be appearing in Vegas soon.