A year ago the crush can site was featured. They had sold 14 cans.
As of December 10, 2004, 33 CrushedCans Sold.
They’ve probably retired on the profits.
They’ve sold 14 so far. Why not help them get to 15.
They even have some pretty cool desktop wallpapers.
NEW YORK — Investigators probing the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq said Tuesday there was not enough evidence to show that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan knew of a controversial contract bid by his son’s employer.
But the report criticized the U.N. chief for not determining the exact nature of his son’s relationship with the Swiss firm.
Asked at a Tuesday news conferences if he was going to quit his post at the United Nations, Annan said: “Hell no.”
Source: Foxnews.com
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I didn’t know “hell no” was a term used in Ghana.
The Birmingham News Article
October 6, 1998
Macedonia, Alabama — The congregation of a small Jackson County church where a snake-handling evangelist died from a serpent’s bite this weekend won’t change its practices, the church’s pastor said Monday.
“We still believe in the same thing,” said the Rev. Billy Summerford, pastor of Rock House Holiness Church.
The Rev. John Wayne “Punkin” Brown Jr., 34, of Parrottsville, Tennessee, died Saturday night while handling a four-foot timber rattlesnake during a sermon, preaching on for a quarter-hour after he was bitten. His wife died of a snake bite three years ago.
On Saturday, Brown was clutching the snake in his right hand when it bit him on the middle finger of his left, between the knuckle and first joint, said Jackson County Sheriff’s Chief Investigator Chuck Phillips.
The Rev. Gene Sherbert, of Temple, Georgia, was next to Brown. “He looked at me and I knowed he was bit and I put it (the snake) back in the box,” he said.
Brown continued to speak but faltered about 15 minutes later, Sherbert said. The 50 to 75 attending the service gathered around Brown, prayed and tried to make him comfortable by putting an electric fan above him, he said.
Brown died within minutes.
“It was the hand of God. It was his time to go,” said the Rev. Carl Porter, a serpent-handling pastor of a church in Kingston, Georgia, who came to Rock House Holiness Church within a few hours after Brown died.
“He was really looking forward to that day anyway” when he would see his wife again, Porter said.
Porter, who took home Brown’s two snakes, said he plans to give them to Brown’s brother who lives in Newport, Tennessee.
Summerford, who has been bitten five times while handling snakes, said his church won’t change.
“The church is a believing church,” he said.
Serpent handling continues to be practiced in some churches, primarily in Appalachia. The members of at least three churches on Sand Mountain handle serpents, Porter said.
Summerford’s brother pastors another serpent-handling church in Jackson County. And his cousin, the Rev. Glenn Summerford, was the pastor of another — until his conviction in 1992 for attempting to murder his wife by forcing her hand into cages of agitated rattlesnakes.
This is from 6 years ago…
Custody of ’snake-bite orphans’ split between grandparents
February 12, 1999
NEWPORT, Tennessee (CNN) — A judge ruled Friday that grandparents will share the custody of five children whose parents both died handling snakes during church services.
During the school year, maternal grandmother Mary Goswick will have custody of the children, Jonathan, 12; Jacob and Jeremiah, 7; Sarah, 5; and Daniel, 4, the juvenile court judge ordered.
His ruling said that the paternal grandparents, John and Peggy Brown, who also believe in handling serpents, can have custody of the children during the summer and during holidays as long as they don’t take the children to services where snakes are handled.
John and Peggy Brown admit to taking their grandchildren to snake-handling services in the past
The Browns, who have their own snake-handling church in Marshall, North Carolina, have admitted that they have already taken the children to a snake-handling service, in violation of a previous order from the judge, but said they would refrain in the future.
Their son, John Wayne “Punkin” Brown Jr., a preacher from Parrottsville, Tennessee, had been bitten more than 20 times over an 18-year period before he suffered a fatal snake bite in an Alabama church last October. He was 34.
His 28-year-old wife, Melinda, mother of their five children, died of a bite in 1995 at a religious revival in Kentucky.
The book of Mark in the Bible’s New Testament calls serpent handling one of the “signs” that true believers must follow.
According to the National Safety Council’s data on accidents for 2000, 54 people died from the result of contact with hornets, wasps and bees. I would assume that most of those were allergic to bees.
Appearantly, death by spider or snake isn’t too deadly anymore.
Contact with venomous snakes and lizards - 12
Contact with venomous spiders - 5
Most people agree that Duct Tape can save you money on costly repair bills but did you know that you could create a wallet to hold all of the money you’ve saved? It’s not as difficult as it sounds and in just a few simple steps, you could be the proud owner of this year’s most important fashion statement (“Duct Tape is my life”).
You’ll need:
a roll of Scotch® Duct Tape,
a utility knife,
a ruler
background music (optional)
$105,000
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Square Footage: 1800
**This was Pedro’s house in Napoleon Dynamite!** This is a 2 bedroom/1 bedroom Spanish style duplex (Separate entrances). Beautiful renovation! It has new tile floors, countertops and tub surround, new cabinets, new furnace, new carpet, new energy efficient windows, new two-tone paint inside, new exterior paint, fireplaces, washer and dryer hook-ups in each unit, new blinds… On nice residential street. Cable hookups. 2 car garage. Extra storage for each apartment. Large space for garden.
This photo was taken near work at the new 5 Points West Library parking lot. Not only is it a sweet ride, but it would be sweet to ride in it.
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Years ago someone told me that if you played Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven song backwards that you could make out “satanic messages”.
Here’s a sweet site that not only has Stairway to Heaven but 9 other reversed songs.
