Tuesday, April 08, 2008

A Different Flavor of Crazy



SAINI SUNPURA, India - A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday.

The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali's facial features are duplicated — she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes.

Rural India is deeply superstitious and the little girl is being hailed as a return of the Hindu goddess of valor, Durga, a fiery deity traditionally depicted with three eyes and many arms.

Up to 100 people have been visiting Lali at her home every day to touch her feet out of respect, offer money and receive blessings, Singh told The Associated Press.

"Lali is God's gift to us," said Jaipal Singh, a member of the local village council. "She has brought fame to our village."

Village chief Daulat Ram said he planned to build a temple to Durga in the village.
Different Loons.. same lunacy..

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And while I'm here, and because I don't want to make a seperate post about this..

I was just doing some reading at Atrios' blog.. and he linked to a story about "media narratives" and the link he provided is dead. I immediately thought of a snarky remark and went to leave it in the comments.. and was assulted by numerous off-topic whines..

That's trolling... or better defined.. that's off-topic whining..

Posting a substantiated on-topic remark that contradicts the blog author's point of view is NOT TROLLING.

Stupid fuck

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