WEST HARTFORD — Former NBA player Manute Bol and his wife were arrested on disorderly conduct charges after telling police they shoved each other during an argument at their home on Boulevard.

Bol, 45, told police his wife, Ajok Kuag, 27, threw a phone at him and punched him in the head during a fight Saturday night, according to a police report.

The couple, who have been arrested in previous domestic incidents, went together Sunday to police headquarters to report the incident.

In June 2004, Bol, who is 7 feet 7, suffered serious injuries, including several broken bones and cracked vertebrae, when the cab he was riding in hit a guardrail and rolled over on Route 2.

The driver - who was killed in the crash - was drunk and had a suspended license, police later found.

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - A nearly 50-foot tall cross erected last week next to a church hasn’t delighted some of its neighbors, who see the towering cross as a distraction.

The cross, made from a bridge I-beam and a 35-foot crossbeam and letters 3-1/2 feet tall which spell out “Jesus Saves,” was erected last Monday outside Cross Tabernacle along U.S. 41.

Members of the church on Terre Haute’s north side see the cross as a symbol of their religious mission, and concede that it dominates the local landscape.

“It is in-your-face evangelism,” said Keith E. Taylor, pastor of the 1,400-member church. “I couldn’t preach a better sermon than what that cross is doing.”

Mike Dowell, a co-owner of JJ Smith Flower Shop and Gardens, which owns land next to the church, said he wishes someone from the church had talked with him before the cross was built.

“It overpowers our property that we are trying to sell and our business that has been there over 150 years,” he said. “It is good to have some type of religion, as religion is good for the human soul, but I don’t like people trying to shove their religion down my throat. That is overkill.”

Cross Tabernacle’s cross is small compared with a 198-foot tall cross that a Baptist church has along Interstate 70 in Effingham, Ill.

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Some might think professional bodybuilders are freaks. But who do professional bodybuilders call a freak? Who is the freak’s freak? Answer: Greg Valentino, The Most Hated Man in Bodybuilding.

Greg gave an interview with some Bodybuilders magazine or website. He’s been accused of taking Synthol whatever that is, but denies he did. He does take steroids.

Greg says: “I’m in my 40’s. I trained for 25 years without ever touching a drug. Then when I took roids — I’ve taken roids for over six years now — my body just exploded. ”

This photo was shown on the Comedy Central’s Daily Show. They showed him and said, “What do you think this guy was arrested for? Hint: It wasn’t estrogen!” Then they showed him on tape and said, “Local police found that this guy was doing steroids. What, did you think he was storing nuts for the winter in those arms?”

Best part…
I have a video where I’d hit a blood vessel with an injection and it had exploded my blood vessel. It just kept bleeding and bleeding and I couldn’t do anything about it. Even after they stuck me in jail, they couldn’t do anything about it and when I came out my arm was humongous. My left arm was like 29 inches (up from 27″). But it wasn’t muscle, it was like a balloon in there. So I videotaped myself pulling all this blood out of there.

If you care to read the interview, here it is. Fair amount of language.

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Update: I’m pretty sure Tonya Harding took the same stuff.

Drop your can of coke? Afraid to open it? Don’t worry, just snap (or thump) the sides of the can and not the top. It works, watch the video. This action dislodges the bubbles attached to the side of the can and they float to the top. When the can is opened, the gas simply escapes.

Dena Schlosser, 37, is on trial for capital murder in the slaying of her daughter Margaret in November 2004. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Strangely, her pastor told jurors that mental illness is really demon possession that cannot be cured with psychiatry or medicine. “I do not believe that any mental illness exists other than demons, and no medication can straighten it out, other than the power of God,” said Doyle Davidson, the 73-year-old minister of the Water of Life Church that Dena and John Schlosser attended several times a week.

Davidson said he hardly knew the family, although John Schlosser testified earlier that he and his wife talked with Davidson days before the attack and that the pastor was the first person he called after it.

Truly a pitful situation for the Schlosser family, but the real question is this: Is Schlosser a believer? If so, then Pastor Doyle would agree that the Holy Spirit dwells in her. I don’t think the Holy Spirit and a demon will coexist.

Previously showcased here, let’s check in on the Daily Dancer and see what he’s got going on.

What is going on is that it seems like the bed pillow is a permanent fixture on the couch? Same goes for that big blue ball.

2/10/06
New season of American Idol, but he hasn’t watched it b/c he’s too busy with work, dancing, and video games. One song he enjoyed most was in season 3 when Diana did a Gloria Estefan song. “Today, I dance to that same song. Enjoy!”
Turn the Beat Around

2/8/06
Bathtub is in need of repair, so instead of dancing and getting sweaty, he lets his “wonderful common-law mother-in-law take the stage.” He lives with his girlfriend, but when does that mean her mother becomes your common law mother in law? Anyway, move over Jessica Simpson, b/c These Boots are Made for Walking.

2/6/06
He watched the lame Rolling Stones halftime show and decided to dance to the same song the Stones started with. He appears shirt-less and wearing black sweats in the photo.
Start Me Up

1/26/06
In what is the most disturbing videos, he dances to Funk #49. You’ll notice a tear across the knee in his pants as the video starts. He proceeds to rip the pants and ends up playing air guitar with his pants leg. He writes a day later: “How did you like yesterday’s pant ripping? You know, I had only one try to get that right, and it turned out pretty good. Actually, my intent was to tear the leg off from the knee down. But, what I got was an awesome guitar.”
Funk #49

More of the Daily Dancer including the Thong Song (fully clothed nonetheless).

This story is five months old, but still funny…

OMAHA, Neb. — An Omaha man mowed an obscenity into his lawn, and now his neighbors are upset because they don’t want their children to see the nasty language.

The homeowner, who neighbors told KETV NewsWatch 7 has the last name Miller, cut a two-word expletive into his front lawn after being warned by the city about excessive grass and weeds around his house. His house is near 68th Street and Park View Lane. The phrase is about 30 feet long across his yard.

“I saw the neighbor’s yard with some derogatory statements mowed into the yard,” said neighbor Traci Tunzer.

Down the hill, neighbor Bernie Horstmeyer said he is in disbelief:

“When I first saw it, I saw the big U, and I had to back up just to see if that’s what it really said,” he said.

Link to story with video. Although they won’t say what was written, it’s pretty obvious with the “U” usage.

Reminds me of another neighbor vs neighbor story featured a while back here on Festville.

“From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago.

“We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people,” said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. “It not only made me feel special, but it gave me a sense of transcendental identity, an identity with God.”

A few years ago, Loayza said, his faith was shaken and his identity stripped away by DNA evidence showing that the ancestors of American natives came from Asia, not the Middle East.

“I’ve gone through stages,” he said. “Absolutely denial. Utter amazement and surprise. Anger and bitterness.”

For Mormons, the lack of discernible Hebrew blood in Native Americans is no minor collision between faith and science. It burrows into the historical foundations of the Book of Mormon, a 175-year-old transcription that the church regards as literal and without error.

For those outside the faith, the depth of the church’s dilemma can be explained this way: Imagine if DNA evidence revealed that the Pilgrims didn’t sail from Europe to escape religious persecution but rather were part of a migration from Iceland — and that U.S. history books were wrong.

Critics want the church to admit its mistake and apologize to millions of Native Americans it converted. Church leaders have shown no inclination to do so. Indeed, they have dismissed as heresy any suggestion that Native American genetics undermine the Mormon creed.”

Very interesting story continues on LATimes.com including a tribe of Jews who sailed from Jerusalem to the New World in 600 BC,

Dayspring Church is located in Germantown, MD. It advertises its rustic retreat center as a place for silence.

After more than a year of debate, Dayspring’s environmentally conscious leaders agreed that some of the deer feasting on vegetation on the church’s 206-acre property had to go. The church turned to a group of hunters led by a former D.C. police officer and chose shotguns instead of bows to make the killing go quicker.

“We’re trying to do this as humanely and lovingly as possible,” said Jim Hall, a self-described “earth minister” who takes care of the land.

Some church members and neighbors took a different view.

“I feel that it is violent, and I feel that Dayspring is a holy place,” said Jennie Gosche, a Kensington resident and member of the Eighth Day Faith Community in the District, which is affiliated with Dayspring. “I feel that violence is never the answer to any problem.”

All 16 Dayspring Church members took part in the decision as to whether to have a hunt, Hall said, using a Quaker tradition known as the “discernment process.” Over a year and a half, they researched, debated, prayed and did plenty of “listening to the spirit” before securing a hunting permit, Hall said.

But the discernment process did not produce a unanimous decision.

During the hunt, Andrea Burgard, a church administrator, joined two other employees in silent prayer for the deer. “These particular deer are part of our church community,” Burgard said. “So deciding to shoot them is like deciding to shoot some community member.”

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I could have saved them a year and a half of their time. They should have researched the Bible a little quicker. Acts 10:9-16

HARTLAND, ME — A Hartland man was treated at a Pittsfield hospital after he nailed himself to a cross. The 23-year-old man apparently was trying to commit suicide Thursday evening in his living room, the Bangor Daily News reported.

Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong said Monday that no charges will be filed. “There is no crime here,” he said.

Police said the man appeared delusional and told them he had been “seeing pictures of God on the computer.” He told them he had not seen the hit movie “The Passion of the Christ,” which depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Lt. Pierre Boucher said the man took two pieces of wood, nailed them together in the form of a cross and placed them on the floor. He attached a suicide sign to the wood and then proceeded to nail one of his hands to the makeshift cross using a 14-penny nail and a hammer.

“When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911,” Boucher said.

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David Hasselhoff - California Girls

Sweet video from the David with lots of classical Knight Rider action!