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Sexual healer dies aged 128

An Indonesian woman who was famous across Asia for her supposedly supernatural powers of sexual healing has died at the age of 128, according to her family.

Mak Erot developed a family business empire offering penis extensions and cures for other sexual maladies using the power of Muslim prayer and a cocktail of 141 herbs. One of her 40 grandchildren, Haji Saifuloh, 37, explained that the secret was revealed when Mak Erot prayed for 141 days following the death of her mother in the 1940s.

"Her prayer was answered with this gift of sexual healing," he said. A voice from the spirit world told his grandmother, "You can cure anyone who has a small penis or whose penis has died. You can cure them!"

Her early patients were occupying Japanese soldiers during the Second World War and the first clinic opened in 1945. The enterprise grew as dramatically as Mak Erot claimed her patients did. Now there are several clinics around the country including Haji Saifuloh's, which he recently moved to a Jakarta hotel to take advantage of the extra parking.

The Telegraph recently visited the ill-lit room in the hotel where he practises his skills. A collection of wooden phalluses which patients can choose between as a model for their own was on display.

"Doctors are amazed with the results of our herbs," he boasted. "The famous sexologists have given our clinics the thumbs up."

He said that "countless" satisfied customers have paid him £40 each for a 30-minute consultation. "It always works," he claimed.

The claims made for Mak Erot's powers were large and, whatever their truth or otherwise, found a wide audience of believers. Indonesian newspapers carry many advertisements for imitators seeking to associate themselves with her talents.

Earlier this year her fame reached the silver screen in the teen comedy "Between you, me and Mak Erot". In the film the young protagonist launches himself on a series of sexual adventures but his partners find the encounters unrewarding. His problems worsen when he consults one of Mak Erot's imitators rather than the old lady herself.

"The audience laughed all the way through," said Suyadi, 68, a cinema employee.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/you-write-the-caption--190208-784174.html

The possibilities are endless

I CALL IT THE ABSENCE OF HONOR

Dönek John McCain, ki: karaktersiz biridir.



Different hero, different war
John McCain's first wife won't say a harsh word about the man who dumped her. Is she a spineless wimp or a quiet hero?

http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/03/06/carol/index.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

I really don’t care if McCain’s trophy wife is proud of her country. She is just another GOP Stepford Wife as vacant as the previous ones. Whoopie for anorexic-looking Cindy McCain in her red $5000 Yves St. Laurent power suit, with her triple string of cultured pears, her bleached blond hair and her shiny new face-lift telling us she’s proud of America.

Cindy sometimes looks like a wax replica of a political spouse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfbygWnBTqo

What does it say? Ist just an ad spot?

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The movie: the Kite Runner

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/movies/04kite.html?_r=1&oref=slogin