Category Archives: Asia

Too Far For North Korea

April 2, 2013 – 2:43 pm

According to the BBC UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said the North Korea “crisis has gone too far” after Pyongyang announced plans to restart its main Yongbyon nuclear complex. In late-February ex-Laker and Piston rebounder Dennis Rodman paid a visit to North Korea. The retired basketball star met with Kim Jong-un to discuss basketball and [...]

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The Cardiac Danger of Illicit Sex / Asia

January 19, 2013 – 8:48 pm

Several years ago while surveying 5,529 heart attack deaths in Asia, Dr Wong Teck Wee discovered that 34 fatalities occurred during sex and 27 of those deaths occurred while the male was engaged in an act of illicit sex i.e. adultery. The Universiti Putra Malaysia cardiologist concluded from these findings that stress of illicit sex [...]

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THE BLESSING OF THE LIZARD KING by Peter Nolan Smith

January 19, 2013 – 8:44 pm

Monitor lizards are native to SE Asia. These carnivorous predators are related to the famous Komodo Dragon and varanid lizards are cooperative hunters like raptors in JURASSIC PARK. According to the Bangkok Post monitor lizards cluster in the city’s secluded water pipes and up to two hundred of the two-meter long beasts reside in each [...]

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Singapore Air NO NO

January 18, 2013 – 4:06 pm

Back in the 1950s more adventurous western travelers to Singapore frequented Bugis Street to view the Pearl of the Orient’s notorious cavalcade of beautiful transvestites. The laissez-faire atmosphere of the sex entrepot was an affront to the city-state’s puritanical President and by the late 1980s Bugis Street had been sanitized of perversion and by the [...]

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$500 Million Painting

January 18, 2013 – 2:42 pm

An art dealer friend of mine received an email from a 20-year-old Singapore artist asking $500 million US for his painting THE BRAIN. Here is the email: Half a Billion Dollars for a Painting is a World-Record* “If any artist has had any precedence in history, his art would no longer be unique and thus, [...]

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