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not knowing him
responsibility sue for "men's
reproductive rights"
States. You know the cliff-jump picture? Well, that's the
view from those same cliffs.
Excerpt:
Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" today for its role in hauling Tehran
before the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program.
But the United States and its European allies said Iran's nuclear intransigence left the world no
choice but to seek Security Council action. The council could impose economic and political
sanctions on Iran.
The statements were delivered to the 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy
Agency, which is meeting to focus on Tehran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.
Smart move, Iran. Does the "the streets will run red with the blood of the innocent" cliché come next?
This is to all crazy guys in Iran: The U.S. doesn't need to do war with you. That is what the EU and Israel
will probably resort to (not that I think Bush has realized that yet). Israel will turn the desert to glass before
even have a chance to watch a parade celebrating your nuke-program.
It will be a Mid-East apocalypse and the more you puff up you chest the sooner they are all going to kill
you. It's not about saving face, it's about self preservation at this point.
Excerpt:
As U.S. and Russian diplomats tried to bridge a widening rift over Iran's nuclear programs and
other issues, such as the Middle East, trade and democracy, Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused Iran of dispatching elements of its Revolutionary Guard to stir
trouble inside Iraq.
"They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq,"
he told a Pentagon news conference, citing operations by the Al Quds Division of Iran's
Revolutionary Guards.
Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials have previously complained of Iranian complicity in the
movement of explosives across the border into Iraq, but Rumsfeld had not mentioned Iranian
forces before.
Is it true? Beats me, but I wouldn't put it past them.
More and more I see this guy's prediction coming to fruition (if you ignore the fact that even he though
Saddam had WMDs)
abducted
this. This one is from the aftermath of the commando
storing that abducted 50 security personnel but you can
always just make up your own caption. That's how
screwed Iraq is.
Excerpt:
Gunmen wearing commando uniforms of the Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry on Wednesday
stormed an Iraqi security company that relied heavily on Sunni ex-military men from the Saddam
regime, spiriting away 50 hostages. The ministry denied involvement and called the operation a
"terrorist act."
Police and the U.S. military, meanwhile, reported finding the bodies of 24 men garroted or shot in
the head, most of them in an abandoned bus in a tough Baghdad Sunni neighborhood.
They also reported the deaths of at least 13 others across Iraq, including a U.S. soldier and a
Marine.
When are our "leaders" going to admit that they have reached the point of no-return and that Iraq was is and
always will be the biggest blunder in American history?
Are troops only going to leave when the level of violence doubles again? Triples? Ho much more of an
escalation does there have to before we close shop?
come out graphically and thoroughly documenting his alleged steroid
use
Excerpt:
His reputation is destroyed as definitively as any superstar in memory, his past irrevocably
tarnished, his present turned into a living nightmare of recrimination, his future reduced to a
series of equally distasteful choices.
Perhaps literally finished, in terms of his career. The newly released exposé by San Francisco
Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams — the Woodward and Bernstein of
the steroids scandal — is so thoroughly damning, and so scrupulously documented, that's it's
hard to comprehend how Bonds could even proceed with the upcoming season, knowing the
ridicule and scorn that lies ahead as he tracks Hank Aaron's career home-run record.
If Bonds thinks the world is against him now (and clearly he does), he hasn't seen anything yet.
Not now that the dark, dirty secrets of his too-good-to-be-true late-career surge have been
revealed in the new book by Fainaru-Wada and Williams, "Game of Shadows," excerpted this
week in Sports Illustrated.
My question is this: If Barry was using steroids before and is not now and still has tremendous season
what will be the excuse for why he hit 50 HRs and had a .700 OBP?
Excerpt:
Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters,
were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine church fires across Alabama.
Federal agents said the defendants claimed the first few fires were set as "a joke" and the
others were started to throw investigators off the track.
If it is supposed to be funny I guess I just don't get it.
Excerpt:
David Wells gave up Barry Bonds' 701st home run. He doesn't want the Giants slugger to pass
Babe Ruth's total of 714.
"No. Not really,'' the Boston Red Sox left-hander said Wednesday, one day after excerpts of a
book were released alleging that Bonds used steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds needs seven homers to pass Ruth for second place and 48 to overtake Hank Aaron for
the top spot.
Wells praised Bonds' baseball skills but said he should "be a man and come out and say that he
did it'' if he used steroids.
assaulting people
Excerpt:
A woman has filed a claim that she was sexually abused more than 40 years ago by Bishop
William Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops and leader of the
Spokane Diocese.
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Skylstad issued a statement Wednesday categorically denying the accusation, saying he has not
violated the vow of celibacy he took 47 years ago.
The claim was filed against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane on Dec. 27 by a woman who
said she was under the age of 18 when Skylstad sexually abused her at St. Patrick's Parish and
at Gonzaga University from December 1961 to December 1964
Example number 2.
Excerpt:
As the Irish government prepares to launch an inquiry into child sexual abuse in the Catholic
Church, new figures from the Dublin area show that more than 100 priests have been accused
of sex abuse.
The report, from the Archdiocese of Dublin, records 350 accusations of abuse against 102
priests since 1940. The number of accusations is likely to grow in the course of the 18-month
government inquiry, since the Church has encouraged victims who have never registered
complaints to come forward.
There is nothing in the Bible that requires priests to be celibate. Why does the Catholic church
just let priests marry and maybe they wouldn't attract so many creepy, perverted men into "the
calling."
Perverts can be very religious (obviously), but the Catholic Church's doctrine invites repressed, guilty
perverts in hopes of being absolved by entering the priesthood hoping that they would be cured for
devoting themselves to their church and their God. Instead sane men, ones that want to have sex, stay
away from the priesthood because they fall in love, get married and have families... Leaving the pervs
behind to run things.
Orleans
garage sales taking place in the 9th Ward yesterday
Excerpt:
Much of the controversy has focused on 10 words: "I don't think anybody anticipated the
breach of the levees."
President Bush made the statement in a television interview last Sept. 1, three days after
Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and inundated much of New Orleans.
Yup. Bush trying to save $71 million in levee maintenance last year resulted in $500 BILLION in damage.
It's like when you put off getting new pads for your brakes and then one day on the way to the store the
metal grinding sound of caliper on rotor becomes unbearable and then your car won't move anymore
become the two have become one. So trying to save yourself $60 results in a $1,000 break job.
warning labels
Excerpt:
The House moved closer Wednesday to stripping many warnings from food labels, potentially
affecting alerts about arsenic in bottled water, lead in candy and mercury in fish, among others.
Pushed by food companies seeking uniform labels across state lines, the bill would prevent
states from adding food warnings that go beyond federal law. States could petition the Food
and Drug Administration to add extra warnings, under the bill.
Tuesday it was the 4th Amendment, Wednesday it was the 10th. I thought Republicans were the ones
always talking about "state's rights." Then again, I guess that only applies to slavery as far as they are
concerned.
Excerpt:
The bodies of 18 men -- bound, blindfolded and strangled -- were found in a Sunni Arab district
of Baghdad, apparent victims of the sectarian turmoil gripping Iraq that threatens the formation
of a coalition government.
words)
Excerpt:
North Korea's missile program has emerged a global 'threat', the United States said, after the
Stalinist nation reportedly test-fired two missiles amid a stalemate in nuclear talks.
Washington urged Pyongyang to abide by a moratorium on missile tests and return to six-nation
talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons drive.
Let's not forget that as it stands right now, N Korea is Bush's fault. Clinton had nipped that in
the bud and Bush decided that if Clinton was for it, he was against it.
Clinton got them to agree to shut down their weapons producing reactors and allow inspectors. Bush
withdrew inspectors and gave them money to start up their weapons producing reactors. It just didn't make
any sense.
violence
Excerpt:
Days after the bombing of a Shiite shrine unleashed a wave of retaliatory killings of Sunnis, the
leading Shiite party in Iraq's governing coalition directed the Health Ministry to stop tabulating
execution-style shootings, according to a ministry official familiar with the recording of deaths.
The official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because he feared for his safety,
said a representative of the Shiite party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq,
ordered that government hospitals and morgues catalogue deaths caused by bombings or
clashes with insurgents, but not by execution-style shootings.
That's it. If you just market as it there is no civil war then there won't be one. It is just like a little kid
covering his eyes. If his eyes are covered, he's invisible.
Excerpt:
Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff says President Bush knew him well enough to joke with him
about weightlifting. "What are you benching, buff guy?" Abramoff said Bush asked him. The
president has said he doesn't know Abramoff.
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Abramoff said he finds it hard to believe Bush doesn't remember the 10 or so photos he and
members of his family had snapped with the president and first lady.
"He (Bush) has one of the best memories of any politician I have ever met," Abramoff wrote in
an e-mail, according to Vanity Fair's April issue being released this week. "Perhaps he has
forgotten everything. Who knows?"
Abramoff is the worst kind of guy to be associated with. He's the type that says to himself, "if I'm going
down I am taking all of you with me." I wouldn't doubt if some rather incriminating paper trails to the
president and others in Congress and the Senate start appearing from Abramoff's defense team and
offices.
where their penises have been are taking "men's reproductive rights"
to the courts
a cat. But a child I fathered? Come
on. That's ludicrous."
Excerpt:
Contending that women have more options than they do in the event of an unintended
pregnancy, men's rights activists are mounting a long shot legal campaign aimed at giving them
the chance to opt out of financial responsibility for raising a child.
The National Center for Men has prepared a lawsuit — nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men — to
be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer
programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend's daughter. The suit addresses
the issue of male reproductive rights, contending that lack of such rights violates the U.S.
Constitution's equal protection clause.
The gist of the argument: If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising
a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the
financial responsibilities of fatherhood. The activists involved hope to spark discussion even if
they lose.
Yeah, no judge is going to go for that. What are you willing to bet that all these guys are Republicans?
Excerpt:
A Philadelphia-based group that promotes creationism is planning to go door to door in Dover,
York County on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Michael Marcavage, the director of the conservative organization Repent America, said his
group is visiting Dover because they "want to be where the enemy is diligently attacking."
Last election, Dover voters elected a school board that is against the teaching of intelligent
design in biology class.
Intelligent design states that the universe is so complex it must have been designed.
Are hurricanes designed? Those are very complex. So are tectonic plates, convection cells in a cup of
coffee, wind patterns over mountains, hydrostatic equilibrium inside stars, differentiation in a planetary
body... None of that was designed. Natural law just make it happen. 3.5 billion years since the first cells
of life appeared... A lot can happen in 3.5 billion years, even several mass extinctions where life basically
had to start over from square one.
The people who claim that life is too complex to occur naturally don't even understand what complex really
is. if they could understand the complex they would know that God wouldn't design bed bugs to commit
homosexual rape just to reproduce.
Excerpt:
The CIA signaled Tuesday it likely will fight the release of highly classified presidential
intelligence briefings that Vice President Cheney's former top aide wants to use in his defense
against perjury charges.
Gathering the materials sought by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff,
would take up to nine months, Marilyn Dorn, a CIA information review officer, said in a sworn
statement filed in U.S. District Court.
Dorn said the CIA believes disclosure of the information would damage national security and
wants a chance to be heard in court before any material is turned over to Libby, who is charged
with lying in the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.
Sigh. Is anyone ever going to held accountable for anything?
campaign ever
Excerpt:
Mexico's National Women's Institute launched a series of ads on Wednesday that feature
blowup sex dolls dressed as office workers, in a bid to counter sexual harassment in the
workplace.
The television part of the campaign - which also includes billboards and radio ads - shows the
wide-mouthed sex dolls dressed as secretaries, sitting at desks or photocopiers as men leer at
them or try to grope them.
sun is only about 10-15 million degrees)
Excerpt:
Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees
Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.
This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin, and also
hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say.
They don't know how they did it.
Dude!
good luck at your next job
Excerpt:
An expensive night out at Scores cost a Missouri businessman his job, but his final tab for the
evening in the topless temple will remain a secret.
A confidential settlement was reached in a lawsuit over a $241,000 American Express bill rung
up at the club on Oct. 22, 2003, said attorney Donald David, who represented the strip club. The
settlement was reached among Scores, American Express, Savvis Inc. and Savvis' former CEO
Robert McCormick.
Excerpt:
A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart in federal district court in Atlanta in a fight
over his T-shirts that compare the retailer's business practices to the Holocaust.
Charles Smith has been marketing shirts that read, "I (heart) Wal-ocaust" T-shirts. Wal-Mart filed
a cease-and-desist order in an attempt to make him stop printing the shirts.
Fight it, dude. I love your stuff.
Clemens is going to kill some Africa players today.
They really have impressed me. A bunch of middle aged guys and 17-18 year-old kids holding their own
against major leaguers like that. My hat is off to you.
a good team.
Australia 10-0 on Tuesday, Venezuela kicks them in the teeth 6-0.
Cuba/Netherlands. The two biggest dark horses face each other. My money is on Cuba
Italy/Dominican Republic. Italy has a good team but the DR is powerful beyond belief. Everyone else is
lucky that Vlad and Manny are sitting this one out or else they would destroy everyone.
Venezuela/Australia. Venezuela hands down.