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What with the Maryland legislature wanting to steal unused gift certificates for revenue and Democrats across the country clamoring for more and more taxation, I thought it would be a good idea, as a public service, to post this video I found of secret meetings where British Liberals brainstorm about new things to tax...Click here for the shocking details!WARNING! Brief animated nudity content.

NEW YORK (Oct. 17) - There was no Halloween bogeyman in the closet for one Brooklyn woman - just a 7-foot-long python in her toilet. Nadege Brunacci was washing her hands in her bathroom before dawn Monday when she glanced back and saw the slithering serpent peeking out from her toilet, most of its body hidden in the pipes. "I turned on the light and screamed," Brunacci, 38, told the New York Daily News. "It still makes my heart race." Brunacci slammed down the lid, put a heavy box on top of the toilet and began calling for help, which...

CINCINNATI, Aug. 24 A 10-year-old boy who said he hated snakes killed a 10-foot python at petting zoo by stomping on the reptile's head. Scott Braunstein, a reptile handler who brought the snake to the St. Bernadette Festival in Amelia, Ohio, last weekend, said he was shocked by the boy's violence, The Cincinnati Enquirer said Thursday. The snake, named Popcorn, was a non-poisonous albino Burmese python. Braunstein, who operates House of Reptiles in Dry Ridge, Ky., said the boy approached him and told him that he hated snakes. The child then raised his leg and stomped down on the snake's...

One Wayward Reptile Apparently Ate Cat Big snakes on the loose have a Pennsylvania community in an uproar after one of the wayward reptiles apparently ate a cat. One python was found on Wednesday in an industrial park in Bristol Township. Then, Animal Control officers spent part of Thursday searching for another snake in Bristol, Pa. Both incidents have residents asking where the snakes are coming from. Kerryann and Steve Sanocki's friends call them the crocodile hunters because they are known for rescuing wild animals. "Isn't she beautiful?" Steve Sanocki asked as they brought the snake out to show. It's...

Photos of a snake caught on an electric fence on a sheep & cattle station near the NSW town of Nyngan....Some tourists on holidays came across the snake caught in an electric fence, being continually shocked, and getting very angry!

Firefighters responding to a small basement fire Thursday morning were startled to find a 10-foot python, two cobras, tarantulas and an assortment of other creatures inside. "It was like out of a science fiction scene," said Lt. Ed Ireland, whose engine company responded to the Queens blaze. The fire, whose cause hadn't been determined, was reported at about 11:20 a.m. in the borough's Corona section. Once it was extinguished and the smoke cleared, Ireland noticed the python writhing near his feet. In cages and tanks, there also were two small alligators, frogs, turtles and tarantulas, he said. All the creatures...

CHRISTIANS in Wales have reacted angrily to plans to turn controversial comedy Life of Brian into a musical. It is nearly 30 years since the Monty Python film, satirising the life of a man mistaken for Jesus, provoked condemnation from church and chapel congregations around the world who claimed it was blasphemous. A ban on screening it in Swansea cinemas stood for 17 years and was only lifted in 1997. But yesterday campaigners vowed to hold fresh protests should the proposed new musical ever be staged in Wales or the UK. Their ire came as it emerged founding Monty Python...

Scientists in Florida are puzzling over a 13-foot Burmese python that scarfed down a 6-foot alligator before its stomach ruptured. The snake apparently tried to swallow the gator whole -- and then exploded. Scientists stumbled upon the gory remains last week. The species have battled with increasing frequency -- scientists have documented four encounters in the last three years... "Encounters like that are almost never seen in the wild. ... And here we are, it's happened for the fourth time," Mazzotti said. In the other cases, the alligator won or the battle was an apparent draw. "They were probably evenly...

A 14-foot python bit its handler and tried to drag her into its cage during a show at an aquarium, and wouldn't release the woman until a police officer zapped the reptile with a stun gun. Alison Cobianchi, 18, was taking Chloe, a Burmese python, out of her cage for the daily snake presentation Saturday at the Tarpon Springs Aquarium when the snake wrapped itself around her arm and waist. Visitors and aquarium employees kept the nonvenomous snake from pulling Cobianchi into the cage, but couldn't make it release its grip. Police were called to help. "We either had to...

UNIONTOWN, Pa. -- A police officer used a Taser to subdue a python that had wrapped itself around a man's arm and would not let go. Steve Crilly, 47, was feeding a rat to the eight-foot-long albino Burmese python, which belongs to his daughter, when it when it bit his left hand and wrapped tightly around his left arm Wednesday night, Uniontown patrolman Ray Miller said. "The snake was on his arm and was eating his hand," Miller told the Herald-Standard of Uniontown for Friday's editions. Crilly "was very calm, considering there was a good bit of blood," he said....

A startling discovery of 70,000-year-old artifacts and a python's head carved of stone appears to represent the first known human rituals. Scientists had thought human intelligence had not evolved the capacity to perform group rituals until perhaps 40,000 years ago. But inside a cave in remote hills in Kalahari Desert of Botswana, archeologists found the stone snake [image] that was carved long ago. It is as tall as a man and 20 feet long.

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK -- Wildlife managers in Everglades National Park typically spend hours trying to catch nonnative Burmese pythons that have invaded the swamp. On Monday, they set one free. Using a radio transmitter implanted in the 10-foot snake, biologists hope to track its movements and find other snakes for removal.

I write to you in my capacity as secretary of the World League of Despots. It is with great pleasure that I am finally able to extend an official invitation to you to join our ranks. For many years, we have watched your efforts to fulfil the requirements necessary to join our number. From the start, we were greatly impressed by your disdain for democratic principles - the way you wrested power from the democratically elected candidate in the 2000 election, and again in 2005 when you managed to swing what was clearly going to be a victory for your...

LANESVILLE, Ind. -- A 23-year-old man who was caring for a 14-foot snake in southern Indiana was found dead Monday night. Officials did not know how the man died and would not speculate. The body of the man, identified as Patrick Von Allmen, was to go to the Kentucky Medical Examiner's Office in Louisville for an autopsy Tuesday. Mark Farmer, an Indiana Department of Natural Resources spokesman, said Von Allmen was found in a shed in Lanesville and that the 14-foot reticulated python was found loose in the shed. The snake was captured and returned to the man's family. Indiana...

A year after two bodies were discovered locked in gruesome embrace deep in the marsh, a television documentary attempts to solve a mystery since burned into Everglades lore. Did a giant python really explode after swallowing an alligator? And what ate the snake's head? The National Geographic Explorer show examines what happened last September when a 13-foot Burmese python ate a six-foot gator in Everglades National Park. The extraordinary encounter was captured in a memorable, macabre photo that captivated the public and experts alike and -- for a week, at least -- made ''alligator-python'' among the most Googled phrases on...

foot amethystine python in a cage in my house. He was as big around as three or four garden hoses. One day, I stuck my hand into his cage to retrieve a rat he'd dropped, and, seeing movement near his prey, he nailed my forearm. I'm a hockey player and I consider myself fairly quick, but the strike was lightning fast. He dug in and I started bleeding. Was it painful? Well, he has about eighty needlelike teeth, and he left a U shape on my arm. So I'd say yes.

KETCHUM, Idaho - It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket — with the electrical cord and control box. The blanket must have gotten tangled up in the snake's rabbit dinner, owner Karl Beznoska said. He said he kept the blanket in the 60-pound reptile's cage for warmth.

The Monty Python Abusive Voice Keychain. This is Holy Grail style, so the 17 sayings included in this…ahem…elegant little device might not be suitable for granny. OK? £8.99 from next month.From Play.com: Abusive sayings include: Button your lip, you ratbag! Come on you worm...you miserable little man. Come at me then...come on, do your worst, you worm. Death awaits you all! With nasty, big, pointy teeth. Don't come here with that posh talk you nasty stuck-up twit! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! I wave my private parts at your aunties. What is it...

NEW YORK -- A seven-foot-long python caused a scare in Lindenhurst, where she almost ate a duck in Firemen's Park. Then the huge snake put quite a fight while resisting capture at the hands of the Suffolk County police. Officials at the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the young female python, about two to four years old, was resting comfortably Thursday at an undisclosed location. The 80-pound snake will be evaluated this week by a herpetologist and will likely be adopted by a licensed, out-of-state wildlife rehabilitator. The Burmese snake -- which normally makes...

A 13-foot Burmese python is headed to the Florida Everglades, except this one's every move will now be tracked. To better understand the presence of pythons in the Everglades, scientists at Davidson College in North Carolina inserted a tracking device inside the animal. Everglades Park research technicians will follow the snake's movement and study how the reptile adapts to its new environment. Pythons, elusive creatures which are difficult to find and capture, are rapidly becoming the new predators of the swamp. Just last year, a 13-foot python was found with a six-foot alligator halfway down its body. So far, scientists...