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- Iran has enriched uranium
- Karachi blast kills many
- Crazy Berlusconi loses and is now
challenging election
- *permanent headline* More die in Iraq
- Cheney is challenged by national paper!
- Seattle is most educated city
- Saudi Arabia becoming more liberal?!?!
- Lots of space-related news
- Editorial: Bush cried wolf, broke law
- Sharon is now a vegetable
- Oil prices may hit $100 a barrel
- Skilling commits perjury
- Rumsfeld sucks, say generals
Spring Break (Photo: Lauren Klopp)
Excerpt:
Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a landmark in its quest to develop
nuclear fuel, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today, although he insisted his
country does not aim to develop atomic weapons.
In a nationally televised speech, Ahmadinejad called on the West "not to cause an everlasting
hatred in the hearts of Iranians" by trying to force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment.
The announcement came ahead of a visit to Tehran this week by Mohamed ElBaradei, the head
of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, who is trying to resolve the West's standoff with Iran. The
U.N. Security Council has demanded Iran stop all enrichment activity by April 28. Iran has
rejected this, saying it has a right to the process.
Enriching uranium isn't that hard. You just heat it and put it in a centrifuge and the different weights of
uranium separate themselves. Actually, i am surprised it took them this long to do it. Now the question
remains; are they going to make plutonium with it? That is not much harder as the uranium now needs to
be bombarded with neutrons. Once they do that then it is really time to worry. In reality they could have
plutonium by next week.
Remember, people, a bunch of primates without computers were able to build nukes in the 1940s. It isn't
as hard a process as one might think in this day and age.
Excerpt:
Karachi - Fifty-seven people were killed by a blast at a religious meeting in the Pakistani city of
Karachi on Tuesday, and police are probing whether two suicide bombers carried out the
attack, said an official.
"Information we have received from hospitals and police suggest that the death toll is 57," said
Salahuddin Haider, spokesperson for the government of southern Sindh province.
"There is a possibility that there was more than one suicide bomber, we have received two
heads and their bodies are missing," he added.
"We are looking into the possibility whether there was one suicide bomber or two."
Interior minister Aftab Sherpao earlier said that at least 47 people had died in the blast, while
Karachi police said it was a suicide attack targeting the leadership of a key Sunni Muslim group.
You know what? I think a lot of people who are religious just may be plain crazy. How does blowing people
up at a prayer service or on a bus or at a subway station get you into heaven? Muslim extremists better
hope the evangelicals are not right because if they are they are going to be spending the rest of eternity
with a bunch of homos and Jews in hell.
under the impression that it was his politics and not the videos of him
humping limo drivers or eating his own boogers in public that did it.
Excerpt:
Two pieces of legislation that Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's government was proud of
played a role in his election defeat.
One of the first laws promoted by Berlusconi's government after he came to power in 2001
gave Italians who live abroad the right to vote by mail and made them a new constituency,
represented by six senators as well as 12 lawmakers in the lower house, the Chamber of
Deputies.
But the vote from Italians abroad proved decisive in this week's election, giving center-left
economist Romano Prodi the critical four Senate seats he needed to win, 158-156.
Berlusconi is a nut-job. Other than trying to eliminate the competition for his TV networks and doing things
like trying to eliminate his paying taxes he did a great job... For a fascist crazy person...
Excerpt:
Bitter rivalry between two powerful clans for leadership of Iraq's Shiite Muslims snarled efforts
Tuesday to agree on the next prime minister, the key issue that is blocking a national unity
government. Meanwhile, the U.S. military reported the deaths of five more soldiers, including
three killed Tuesday in a roadside bombing north of the capital.
The latest casualties raised the U.S. death toll so far this month to at least 31 — the same for all
of March, according to an Associated Press count.
Neither side showed any sign of compromise over Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, leaving
negotiations deadlocked four months after elections for a new parliament that the Bush
administration hopes can improve stability and lessen the need for U.S. troops.
Violence took at least 23 lives Tuesday. A car bombing killed five people, and three others died
when a bomb exploded on a minibus, both attacks in Shiite areas of the capital, police said.
Police also found the bodies of 24 people — apparent victims of sectarian death squads. Most
of the bodies were found in Baghdad but it was unclear when they died, police said.
I like how this news gets pushed to the back pages because of our now impending war with Iran just like
what happened with news coming out of Afghanistan when we started stepping up our rhetoric with Iraq.
Excerpt:
Vice President Dick Cheney is among the most secretive members of the Bush administration.
But he's been in his bunker long enough. It's time for him to answer some questions--and not in
the friendly venue of Fox News.
Given the allegations about his role in the surreptitious disclosure of classified information
related to the war in Iraq, Americans have a right to hear his story. The best way to get it is by
an unscripted news conference in which the vice president confronts all the questions that
have been raised. For him to remain silent amid the current turmoil suggests that he--or the
president--has something to hide.
Cheney has long been suspected of involvement in revealing the identity of CIA agent Valerie
Plame--whose husband, Joseph Wilson, had publicly disputed the Bush administration on
Saddam Hussein's supposed attempts to obtain uranium for nuclear weapons. The vice
president's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, has been indicted on perjury and
obstruction of justice charges over conversations he had with reporters about Plame.
Last week, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald filed a brief that says Libby also leaked secret
information from a CIA report on Iraq. According to this account, Libby says the vice president
instructed him to tell a reporter that a key finding of a 2002 intelligence assessment was that
Iraq was "vigorously trying to procure" uranium from Africa. The brief also says Libby was told
by Cheney that President Bush had personally authorized the disclosure of this classified
material.
That's how it is done. Now don't be like every other journalist in the nation and leave it at that. Go and get
some answers!
they were smart enough to actually build some public transportation
and subsidize the ferries...
Excerpt:
College graduates are flocking to Seattle, lured by a captivating combination of work and what's
available after work.
It's the best-educated big city in America, according to Census Bureau estimates: 51.3 percent
of all Seattle adults 25 and older hold bachelor's degrees or better.
Between 2000 and 2004, according to the bureau, the number of Seattle residents with college
degrees increased by 11 percent — three times the rate of the city's overall population growth.
What's happening in Seattle is part of a national trend, according to an Associated Press
analysis. Educated Americans are gravitating to the country's big cities, chasing jobs and
culture and driving up home prices.
That's one reason why home prices may be rising. Another might be that people buy homes they can't
afford in hopes that in a year the market will have gone up that much more that they can sell and make a
profit. Al la Orange County.
There is no way a population who averages $40,000 year in wages can afford $500,000 for the average
home. The math just doesn't work. How is someone who is making $3,000 a month going to pay for a
$6,000 a month mortgage?
Excerpt:
Challenger Romano Prodi's center-left coalition won the Italian parliamentary election, official
results showed today, but Conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi refused to concede
defeat.
The Interior Ministry assigned Prodi's coalition four Senate seats chosen by Italians voting
abroad, giving him the margin he needs to win both houses of Italy's parliament. But shortly
afterward, Berlusconi said: "Nobody now can say they have won."
Final returns had already given Prodi's coalition — an unwieldy alliance ranging from Catholics
to communists — the lower Chamber of Deputies, although Berlusconi's forces had already
contested that result.
Italy hasn't elected anyone to a second term ever. What makes loopy Berlusconi so certain that he's more
special than the 50 other governments Italy has had since WWII?
Excerpt:
Saudi Arabia — The all-black abayas have splashes of bold, glittery color. The book fair opened
its doors to once-banned books. And stuffy government-run TV stations have started to play
music, forbidden for decades.
In the seven months since Saudi Arabia's new monarch, King Abdullah, took the throne, there
have been small but striking signs that he is leading his country toward more openness.
"He wants to turn this nation from a one-way country in which conservatives have the upper
hand into a two-way state where both liberals and Islamists can express themselves," Saudi
analyst Dawood al-Shirian said.
No one expects Abdullah's ride to be smooth, though. He needs to keep the reform momentum
going despite reported differences within the royal family over the pace and direction of
change.
In addition, he must worry about militants still active in Saudi Arabia. Islamists are expected to
create trouble because of the perceived dilution of their power as more voices are allowed to
be heard.
The March book fair is an example. For the first time, female writers met their fans, shoppers
bought formerly banned books dealing with communism, sex and other delicate topics, and
families went together during newly designated family days. In previous years, the 14-day fair
was a male-only event, with a few half-days set aside for women.
"King Abdullah sent a powerful message during the book fair that indicated that everyone, and
not only the religious establishment, will be involved in decision-making," al-Shirian said.
Well, I'll be dipped. Who knew that a leader in that place would have the balls to do something like this.
Now he just needs to put some money into the infrastructure of the non oil-rich regions of Saudi Arabia to
quell the discontent and breeding ground for religious extremism for there.
Baby-steps.
visible from Earth!
Excerpt:
As part of the plan to put robot explorers -- and, later, people -- on the moon, NASA will crash a
spacecraft into the lunar surface in 2008. The explosion should be visible from Earth.
A team announced Monday that an additional mission, known as LCrOSS, has been added to the
first planned flight of the long-term lunar project, which will send the Lunar Reconnaisannce
Orbiter on a mapping project.
NASA said that the LRO launch vehicle had extra space, so proposals were sought for an extra
mission. LCrOSS was chosen from 19 submissions.
In that project, the SUV-sized upper stage that will take the equipment from Earth orbit to the
moon will then crash into a crater near the moon's south pole. A follow-on craft will then be able
to analyze the material as it flies through the debris.
Mission managers said they would look for water, water vapor and hydrogen, among other
elements and minerals.
The crash should create a 17-foot-deep crater and a plume of debris that reaches more than 30
miles high.
Amateur astronomers should be able to watch the material rise, officials said.
Bitchin'!
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sucked
Excerpt:
A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a US$218 trillion phone bill and was
ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.
Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father's phone line in January after he died and
settled the 84 ringgit (US$23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.
But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent
telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the
newspaper reported.
It wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya's father's phone line was used
illegally after after his death.
"If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I'm ready to face it," the
paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can't wait to face it," he said.
nothing on this Plame thing?
First, Ambassador Wilson damages the White House's war effort by revealing that his mission to explore
the ties between Niger and Saddam found nothing. So "someone" in the White House leaked the info that
Wilson's wife is a CIA agent (I don't know how that helps anyone).
Wilson and his wife, Valerie Plame, go nuts that her cover has been compromised (as well as the cover of
anyone she has ever had contact with!). The media picks it up and the Bush administration starts acting
like they care with Bush saying himself:
"If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. And if the person has violated law, the
person will be taken care of."
(Way to carefully choose your words there, Bush)
So Bush dials 911 and has millions of taxpayer dollars go into investigating who could have done this.
Many grand jury testimonies later it is revealed that both Bush and Cheney were the ones who said, "leak
that information, Scooter my boy!" Since Bush approved the leaking of material "technically" that makes
the information no longer classified. If Bush knew that from the beginning why did he call for an
investigation? Why are millions of tax dollars going into this?
That, my friends, is calling wolf, yelling "fire" in a theater, making prank calls to 911 and it is against the law.
Impeach already!
Flash Memory Barbie?
actually going to learn after the second half of class number two
Excerpt:
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University plans to offer a course this summer on intelligent design, using textbooks by
leading proponents of the controversial theory of origins.
The Ivy League school's course – "Evolution and Design: Is There Purpose in Nature?" – aims
to "sort out the various issues at play, and to come to clarity on how those issues can be
integrated into the perspective of the natural sciences as a whole."
The announcement comes just half a year after Cornell President Hunter Rawlings III
denounced intelligent design as a "religious belief masquerading as a secular idea."
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings
Proponents of intelligent design say it draws on recent discoveries in physics, biochemistry
and related disciplines that indicate some features of the natural world are best explained as
the product of an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.
Supporters include scientists at numerous universities and science organizations worldwide.
Taught by senior lecturer Allen MacNeill of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department,
Cornell's four-credit seminar course will use books such as "Debating Design," by William
Dembski and Michael Ruse; and "Darwin's Black Box," by Michael Behe.
Why? Teaching Intelligent Design is like teaching alchemy or spontaneous generation. There is no point
because it doesn't exist.
of Columbia into civilization
Excerpt:
NAKED and armed only with blowpipes, members of Colombia's last nomadic indigenous tribe
emerged from the Amazonian jungle and gathered in the central plaza of a remote town, saying
that Marxist guerrillas had threatened to wipe them out.
"The guerrillas told us they did not want to see us ever again," said one of the few Indians that
spoke any Spanish, as the members of the Nukak Maku tribe walked into the town of San Jose
de Guaviare, situated deep in the southern jungles.
The tribal group, 76 in total, of whom 27 are children, had been fleeing guerrillas for two
months, moving through the dense jungle on foot, surviving as they have done for centuries
on what the Amazonian forest provides. One of the women was heavily pregnant and delivered
a baby boy on arrival.
Yet another reason why drugs should just be legalized in the US.
shooting himself in the foot in front of a bunch of kids during a
gun-safety demonstration is embarrassing. He shot himself in the
foot. Shot. Foot. Himself. Video. While talking about how to handle
a gun.
Excerpt:
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him
shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over
the tape's release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he's become a laughingstock
due to the embarrassing clip's distribution.
Really? That is embarrassing, huh? Do you know what wouldn't have been even more embarrassing? If
you had shot one of those kids by accident, you knob.
birthday and it is not who you think!
Excerpt:
Cheeta the chimp, star of a dozen "Tarzan" movies in the 1930s and 1940s, celebrated his 74th
birthday with sugar-free cake.
Although healthy and active, Cheeta is diabetic. "He had a good time. The party went real
good," said keeper Dan Westfall, operator of the primate sanctuary Creative Habitats and
Enrichment for Endangered and Threatened Apes - or CHEETA.
Representatives from a Spanish film festival also showed up for Sunday's party to present
Cheeta with the first award of his career - an International Comedy Film Festival of Peniscola
prize.
Cheeta has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest
chimp. Chimps rarely live past the age of 40 in the wild, but can reach 60 in captivity.
The graying, 150-pound Cheeta, one of six primates at the desert sanctuary 110 miles east of
Los Angeles, is very active and "he still has every tooth in his head," Westfall said Monday.
Asked about his typical day, Westfall said one of Cheeta's favorite activities is riding around
with him in the car. He also likes to paint, what Westfall calls "ape-stract" pieces that are sold to
raise money for the nonprofit sanctuary.
Westfall adopted Cheeta in 1992 from his uncle Tony Gentry, an animal trainer who worked in
Hollywood and obtained Cheeta from Africa in the 1930s.
*collective* "ahhh..."
Excerpt:
Israel's cabinet on Tuesday declared ailing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon permanently
incapacitated, marking the official end of his five-year tenure.
Sharon, 78, suffered a devastating stroke Jan. 4 and has been in a coma since. After the stroke,
Sharon's deputy, Ehud Olmert, immediately stepped in as his temporary replacement. Olmert
has since won national elections as leader of the centrist Kadima Party, and has become the
designated prime minister, assigned the task of forming a coalition government.
Tuesday's declaration was largely symbolic in nature, since Olmert has been Israel's de facto
leader since January and medical experts believe Sharon's chances of recovery are extremely
slim.
This should be a lesson to everyone. Don't be obese and don't be evil because you will spend the rest of
your days as human exhibit with bead sores and a feeding tube
Excerpt:
On December 13, 2005 Apple filed suit against "Does 1-20" in a Santa Clara California court. The
company obtained a court order that allows it to issue subpoenas to PowerPage (and
AppleInsider) for the names of the "Does" who allegedly leaked information. A nice Christmas
card from the company that I have loved and supported for years.
But Apple didn't subpoena me directly, they instead set their legal sights on the low hanging
fruit - my ISP - a small company that was handling my email and Web hosting in addition to a few
other clients. What's sad about Apple's approach here was that their attorneys attempted to
intimidate a small host/developer/ISP with legal threats that look pretty daunting when coming
from a company with US$14B in revenue on their balance sheet.
At issue was a series of stories that I ran in October 2004 about an upcoming product that was
in development. Was it the next great PowerBook? Maybe the a red hot iPod? Maybe a killer
new version of the OS? Nah. The stories about a FireWire breakout box for GarageBand,
code-named "Asteroid." Yawn.
Every astronomer loves their Macs. I have no idea why. They are expensive, impossible to upgrade and
don't even have the ability to right click. Not only that but now hackers are taking aim at the MacOS
because they realized that no one has ever done it before and exposing a multitude of holes in the
programming (just like when hackers finally decide to go after Mozilla and Firefox). Sometimes I need a
floppy drive, Steve, because all I need to do is get an article from my laptop to my desktop and I don't want
to burn a whole CD to do it!
Excerpt:
Caltech's cannon was "rescued" Monday from its temporary spot on the MIT campus, where it
was the center of the latest in a series of prank exchanges involving students at the two
schools.
The 130-year-old, two-ton cannon was removed from its traditional post outside Caltech's
Fleming House dormitory on March 28, by MIT pranksters who carried fake work orders and
posed as professional movers to get past Caltech security.
Shortly after disappearing, the cannon surfaced in the middle of the MIT campus in Cambridge,
Mass. -- about 3,000 miles away -- "wearing" a huge replica of an MIT school ring.
Ah, isn't that so much better than many pranks from jock-related universities?
Excerpt:
Russia's leading space company on Tuesday laid out an ambitious plan to send manned
missions to the moon by 2015, build a permanent base to tap its energy resources and dispatch
a crew to Mars between 2020 and 2030.
The vision presented by Nikolai Sevastyanov, the head of state-controlled RKK Energiya, relies
on attracting private investment. But the company's lack of government support calls its
feasibility into question.
"We believe that we can fly a manned mission landing on the moon before 2015 funded by
sources outside the state budget," Sevastyanov said at a news conference.
Russian government officials have spoken vaguely in support of future moon and Mars
missions but have made no specific commitments.
In January 2004, President Bush outlined a plan for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon
by 2020 and then on to Mars and beyond.
Well, now we are competing with the EU, Japan, India and China on getting back to the Moon and putting
our feet on Mars. Let's do it already!
start trading oil in Euros, people
Excerpt:
An influx of fresh fund buying and geopolitical worries will most likely push oil prices to new
record highs soon, analysts said on Tuesday, while the most bullish predicted prices to
eventually climb to $100 (57 pounds) a barrel.
Supply concerns in Nigeria, Iran and other key oil-producing countries have ignited U.S. crude
prices <CLc1>, up 13 percent this year and within $2 of the all-time record high of $70.85,
reached in late August 2005 in the wake of hurricane damage in the United States.
Analysts predicted the market to rally even further as high oil prices have failed to reduce
global demand.
"It is pretty clear that we can break $70 without too much problem," said Deborah White, an
analyst at SG CIB Commodities in Paris.
"We have been getting a massive injection (of investment fund money) in the commodity
markets. It is very clear from the price action that they haven't stopped."
Analysts said prices could peak at around $80 a barrel, a level that matches inflation-adjusted
prices set after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Why is oil going this high? The only reason I can thing of is that too few control oil production, distribution
and refinement. It is time for a good ol' Justice Department anti-trust crackdown. I would love to pay $4 a
gallon if $3 of it were taxes going toward education and transportation infrastructure. I don't like paying $4
a gallon when it all goes to line the pockets of Bush and his buddies in the oil business and the rest of the
world gets nothing out of it.
Excerpt:
The former chief executive of Enron Corp. told a federal jury here Tuesday he had no motive to
launch a massive conspiracy, as prosecutors allege, because he already had money, fame and a
fast-growing business.
In his second day of testimony, Jeffrey Skilling shifted between explaining Enron's business
practices and repeatedly denying any wrongdoing. He contradicted former Enron executives
who previously testified for the government on a stream of critical points.
He never, for instance, told ex-finance chief Andrew Fastow, "Get me as much of that juice as
you can," he said, telling the jury that he never would use the term "juice" in the context of
manipulating financial results.
Under questioning by his attorney, Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling retained the calm composure and
earnest tone that marked his first day of testimony. He told jurors that by 1999, when he
supposedly began committing fraud, Enron was doing great, his personal fortune had reached
$100 million and he cared little about acquiring more prestige. "I'm not that kind of guy," he said.
"Are you consumed by greed?" his lawyer asked.
"No, I was consumed by this company," Skilling replied, saying he was such a true believer that
his car's license plate said "WLEC." That stood for "World's Leading Energy Company," Skilling
explained.
Skilling faces 28 criminal counts of conspiracy, fraud, lying to auditors and insider trading, while
co-defendant Kenneth Lay, Enron's former chairman, faces six counts of fraud and conspiracy.
They stand accused of propping up the firm through lies and deceptive accounting so they
could retain their lofty positions and cash in stock.
Much of Skilling's testimony Tuesday involved denying the indictment against him point by
point. He never misled his board, or told anyone to lie, he said. He did not manipulate budget
targets, or create artificial requirements for growth. "That is absolutely not true," he said.
Setting growth targets is perfectly normal, he said.
Asked if he ordered the company's 1999 fourth-quarter earnings boosted a penny a share to
meet Wall Street expectations, he said he had "absolutely no recollection" of that. In the
second quarter of 2000, when earnings were allegedly inflated again, Skilling said he was on
vacation in Africa, and believed the numbers were accurate upon his return.
Well, what I want to know is when "Kenny-boy" Lay is going to take the stand and commit his perjury. All
those guys have sold their soul. They just want more money for the sake of having more money. If they
didn't they would have gotten real degrees rather than MBAs
checks defends Rumsfeld from former generals who think Rumsfeld is
dipshit who needs to be fired
Excerpt:
The top U.S. military officer on Tuesday defended Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld against
three retired generals demanding his ouster, and denied that the United States invaded Iraq
without sufficiently weighing its plan.
Standing next to Rumsfeld at a Pentagon briefing, Marine Corps Gen. Pete Pace said critics
could legitimately question the defense secretary's judgment but not his motives.
"People can question my judgment or his (Rumsfeld's) judgment," Pace said. "But they should
never question the dedication, the patriotism and the work ethic of Secretary Rumsfeld."
Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton and Marine Corps
Gen. Anthony Zinni have recently separately called for Rumsfeld to be replaced. This comes as
opinion polls show eroding public support for the 3-year-old war in which about 2,360 U.S.
troops have died.
What I don't understand is why Republicans choose men like Rumsfeld and Cheney to be the defense
secretaries when they themselves have never served in the armed forces.
Also, can you ever remember a time when people that surround the president were as well known as the
president himself? It's kind of weird.
people for listening to Buddy Holly in the 1950s
Excerpt:
YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Calling hip-hop culture “the greatest attack on the youth of
the world,” EX Ministries founder Elder G. Craige Lewis charges rap stars like 50 Cent, Jay-Z,
Snoop Dogg, Ja Rule, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and the Three 6 Mafia with hiding Satanic images
in their music.
Hip-hop music has devilish intent, he told audiences at Yokosuka Naval Base and Yokota Air
Base last weekend.
“The devil has a plan to deceive this country through music,” Lewis told the 60 people at
Yokosuka’s Little Theater on Sunday. “It started with heavy metal, but that only attracted a
demographic of white, suburban kids. Hip-hop has global appeal. It’s an entire culture of
clothes, music and lifestyle. You listen to the music while the lyrics promote killing, drugs, sex,
crime, idolatry and violence.”
The only thing evil about modern hip-hop is that it sucks. Give me NWA, Public Enemy, RunDMC, Ice-T
and the Fat Boys over any of these guys today. They just blow goats on the talent scale.
As for metal: They just do the Satan thing to get a rise out of retard preachers like the dude in the article.
I remember at some Christian conference that I had to go to this guy did a whole talk on how White Zombie
were Satanists and wanted us all to worship the devil with him. I pointed out that Rob Zombie is as much a
follower of Satan as David Duchovny is an FBI agent. He didn't get it. These are roles people play to
make lots and lots of money. That's it. Plus, White Zombie rules.
Excerpt:
Restaurants serving meals in triangle-shaped plates. Artisans crafting wooden key-chains in
the shape of pyramids. Shopkeepers hawking T-shirts saying "I have a pyramid in my backyard."
Pyramid-mania has taken hold of this small Bosnian town as residents seek to cash in on claims
by an archaeologist that it may host Europe's only ancient pyramid.
"Our expectation are high. This could be our oil well," Vehab Halilovic, who has started carving
pyramids on wooden souvenirs like flutes and pipes.
No pyramids are known in Europe, and there are no records of any ancient civilization on the
continent ever attempting to build one.
However, Bosnian archaeologist Semir Osmanagic _ who has spent the last 15 years studying
the pyramids of Latin America _ claimed last year that there is evidence of one here in his
Balkan homeland and conducted some research on the site.
He plans to carry out new excavations this week on a hill overlooking Visoko that may
definitively prove or disprove his theory. Osmanagic says the hill has four perfectly shaped
slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, a flat top and an entrance complex.
Under layers of dirt, Osmanagic found a paved entrance plateau, underground tunnels and
stone blocks.
Osmanagic believes the hill was shaped by the Illyrian people, who inhabited the Balkan
peninsula long before Slavic tribes conquered it around A.D. 600. Little is known about the
Illyrians, but Osmanagic thinks they were more sophisticated than many experts have
suggested.
I am curious to see how this turns out. I don't know of any pyramid building cultures who constructed just
one pyramid. This should set the archeology word on its head for a while
Thank You.