The Silver State Chronicles

Funky Chinatown Action!

Just when you think that liberals/leftists can’t get nuttier, they come through again!  Read this absurd story. I just hope a couple of Chinese guys don’t wander onto this blog entry and get me arrested for racial aggravation!

The story is courtesy of our friends at ThirdAge.com…

Kung Fu Fighting British Singer Arrested On Grounds Of Racial Aggravation

A ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ singer in Britain has been arrested on the grounds of racial aggravation after apparently offending two passers-by of Chinese origin with his rendition.

British man Simon Ledger says he fears he will end up with a criminal record for performing the 1974 disco classic at a seafront bar on the Isle of Wight in the UK on Sunday, reports The County Press.

The 34-year-old, who lives in Shanklin, regularly features Carl Douglas’ 1974 number one hit in his set when he performs at the Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown.

But, after striking up the melody in front of customers at the weekend, he noticed a man of Chinese origin walking past with his mother, making gestures at him and taking a picture on his mobile phone.

Later on Sunday evening, Mr Ledger was dining at the Dragon Pearl Chinese restaurant in Shanklin when he received a call from the police saying they wanted to meet him.

He was then arrested and bailed pending further enquiries, The County Press reports.

An Isle of Wight police spokesperson confirmed, “A 34-year-old man from Shanklin was arrested on suspicion of causing harassment, alarm or distress under section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986.”

As a result of his arrest, Mr Ledger has found himself on the front page of British national newspaper The Sun today.

Mr Ledger told The Sun, “We were performing ‘Kung Fu Fighting,’ as we do during all our sets. People of all races were loving it, Chinese people have never been offended before.”

Ledger continued, “I honestly cannot believe how much this has been blown out of all proportion. The last thing I want is to be portrayed as a racist because I certainly am not.”

Singing and performing for more than 20 years, Mr Ledger has played on cruise ships in the past.

He also starred on former British entertainer Michael Barrymore’s popular TV program, ‘My Kind of Music’ several years ago.

The performer said he “couldn’t believe it when I was actually arrested,” reports the County Press.

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A clearly mentally ill woman does what she must to cope…

A South Korean lab with no ethical limitations whatsoever has taken advantage of a mentally cracked woman.  Those mad scientists took this poor, unbalanced woman for $50,000 and delivered five clones of her beloved dog, Booger.

Let’s be clear – despite the rantings of Bernann McKinney, the original Booger is dead.  Booger didn’t come back in any meaningful way.  She may wail that the clones recognize her, but they don’t.  It’s all in her cracked mind.  At best they can be considered Booger’s identical siblings, that’s all.  They don’t have Booger’s memories.  They may look like Booger, but they are not.

Booger is dead.

Bernann, not only didn’t Booger come back, but Booger will never come back. Frankly, taking just a casual look at you, I’m sure he enjoys the sweet release that death offered him – it’s preferable to a lifetime with you.  Perhaps you should have adopted a few dozen cats to fill the void in your lonely, sad life.

I have no doubt that Bernann probably isn’t married and hasn’t had a meaningful relationship with a human being in a long time, maybe in all her life.  How could she?  She gets no credit from me – in fact, from a certain point of view I think her machinations have dishonored the memory of the real Booger, not honored it.

Lady, you’re Cray-Cray.

Yahoo reports…

Booger is back: Woman receives 5 cloned puppies

By HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press Writer

Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world’s first successful commercial canine cloning service.

Seoul-based RNL Bio said the clones of Bernann McKinney’s dog Booger were born last week after being cloned in cooperation with a team of Seoul National University scientists who created the world’s first cloned dog in 2005.

“It’s a miracle!” McKinney repeatedly shouted Tuesday when she saw the cloned Boogers for which she paid $50,000.

“Yes, I know you! You know me, too!” McKinney said joyfully, hugging the puppies, which were sleeping with one of their two surrogate mothers, both Korean mixed breed dogs.

The team of scientists working for RNL Bio is headed by Lee Byeong-chun, a former colleague of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who scandalized the international scientific community when his purported breakthroughs in cloned stem cells were revealed as fake in 2005.

Independent tests confirmed the 2005 dog cloning was genuine, and Lee’s team has since cloned more than 20 canines.

But RNL Bio said that its cloning was the first successful commercial cloning of a canine.

“RNL Bio is commencing its worldwide services with Booger as its first successful clone,” the company said in a statement.

McKinney contacted Lee after Booger died of cancer in April 2006. She had earlier asked U.S.-based Genetics Savings and Clone to clone her dog but the company shut down due to lack of demand in late 2006 after only producing a handful of cloned cats and failing to produce any dog clones.

The Korean scientists brought the dog’s frozen cells to Seoul in March and nurtured them before launching formal cloning work in late May, according to RNL Bio.

Lee’s team have identified the puppies as Booger’s genuine clones, and his university’s forensic medicine team is currently conducting reconfirmation tests.

McKinney said she was especially attached to Booger because he saved her life when she was attacked by another dog three times his size. The incident resulted in her left hand being severely injured, and also damaged her leg nerves and stomach. Doctors later reconstructed her hand and she spent part of her recovery in a wheelchair.

McKinney said Booger acted as more than just a canine companion as she recuperated from the attack.

Her dog pulled her wheelchair when its battery ran out. He opened her house door with his teeth and helped her take off her shoes and socks, even though she never trained him to do so.

“The most unusual thing about Booger was that he has a unique ability to reason,” she said. “He seems to understand I couldn’t use my hands.”

McKinney, a screenwriter who taught drama at U.S. universities, said she will take three of the cloned dogs to her home in California and donate the others to work as service dogs for the handicapped or elderly. She said she lives with five other dogs and three horses.

RNL Bio charges up to $150,000 for dog cloning but will receive just a third of that sum from McKinney because she is the first customer and helped with publicity, said company head Ra Jeong-chan.

Ra said his firm eventually aims to clone about 300 dogs per year and is also interested in duplicating camels for customers in the Middle East.

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K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

Yep, that world class mental giant, Bob ‘Yusef’ Herbert, was caught with his slip showing on ‘Morning Joe’ on MSNBC this morning.  At one point, he demands to know exactly why he thinks about large phallic symbols when he sees images of that hunky Barry Obama.  Using his own word, “POW!”

It must be seen to be believed.

Herbert is so delirious by his unbridled, runaway passions that he insists he sees The Washington Monument and the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the commercial.

Now, I know I am one of those Americanos who embarrasses Barry by going to places like Germany and not speaking German.  All I can manage is ‘Merci Beaucoup,’ which I admit doesn’t get you very far on the streets of Berlin!

But unlike world-class minds like Bob Herbert, even I know the difference between the Washington Monument & The Leaning Tower of Pisa, and The Victory Column in Berlin.

Yep, poor Bob misidentified The Victory Column for both The Washington Monument and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.  I particularly like the self satisfied look on Herbert’s face as he invites an incredulous Pat Buchanan to “run the ad again and take a look at it!”

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