WHNT-TV, Huntsville, AL: Alabama Lawmaker Wants To Ban "Gay" Books: "Alabama State Representative Gerald Allen is on record as wanting to ban gay marriage, but now he's turned his attention to the state's libraries--both public and school. Allen wants to pass a law to ban books with gay characters. He also wants textbooks that suggest homosexuality is okay out of state schools."
Since when did book burning become a "moral value"?
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
The Globe and Mail: Is it final Jeopardy for Jennings?
The Globe and Mail: Is it final Jeopardy for Jennings?: "With $2.5-million in his back pocket, the 30-year-old Jennings has earned the title of highest-earning player ever on a syndicated quiz show.
Yesterday, a two-minute audio clip was circulated on the Web, including the question that is reported to have stumped this king of quiz. Sudbury, Ont.-native Alex Trebek, Jeopardy!'s host, can be heard saying, 'The category is business and industry, and here is the clue, ladies and gentlemen: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal, white-collar employees work only four months a year?'"
The King has fallen.
Yesterday, a two-minute audio clip was circulated on the Web, including the question that is reported to have stumped this king of quiz. Sudbury, Ont.-native Alex Trebek, Jeopardy!'s host, can be heard saying, 'The category is business and industry, and here is the clue, ladies and gentlemen: Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal, white-collar employees work only four months a year?'"
The King has fallen.
Monday, November 29, 2004
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."
The blueprints for the NWO.
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."
The blueprints for the NWO.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."
The blueprints for the NWO.
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."
The blueprints for the NWO.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."
The blueprints for the NWO.
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned."
The blueprints for the NWO.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention
BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN plan demands more intervention: "The UN should be reformed to make intervention in failing states easier, a commission is set to recommend.
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned. "
The panel, which has examined how the UN could respond better to global threats, also calls for the Security Council to be enlarged, the BBC has learned. "
Saturday, November 27, 2004
Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on Long Island
The New York Times > New York Region > Burning Cross Left at Home of Interracial Couple on L.I.: "wakened by a loud bang and the ring of their doorbell, an interracial couple peered out the front window of their Long Island home at 3 a.m. yesterday and saw a cross burning on the front lawn.
They said they immediately called the Suffolk County police, but by the time officers arrived, rain had doused the fire. The police removed the cross, which was three feet tall and made from the slats of a picket fence. By yesterday afternoon, the only remaining trace was a charred circle of grass outside the building, a two-family house in the southwest corner of Lake Grove."
Dang liberals.
They said they immediately called the Suffolk County police, but by the time officers arrived, rain had doused the fire. The police removed the cross, which was three feet tall and made from the slats of a picket fence. By yesterday afternoon, the only remaining trace was a charred circle of grass outside the building, a two-family house in the southwest corner of Lake Grove."
Dang liberals.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi parties request poll delay
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iraqi parties request poll delay: "A group of leading Iraqi political parties has called for the 30 January national elections to be delayed.
More than 15 groups - representing mostly Sunnis, Kurds and secular Iraqis - urged a six-month postponement for the planned vote. "
Yea, well, there ya go.
More than 15 groups - representing mostly Sunnis, Kurds and secular Iraqis - urged a six-month postponement for the planned vote. "
Yea, well, there ya go.
Hobbits locked away as scientists argue - Science - www.theage.com.au
Hobbits locked away as scientists argue - Science - www.theage.com.au: "They may be tiny, but the hobbits - the extinct one-metre-high human species whose discovery rocked the palaeontology world last month - are provoking a giant barney among Australian and Indonesian scientists.
One of Indonesia's leading palaeontologists, Professor Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University in Jakarta, has grabbed the hobbit remains and locked them away in his safe, refusing to let other scientists study them."
I think this is going to be curious when they find out *why* he is hiding them...
One of Indonesia's leading palaeontologists, Professor Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University in Jakarta, has grabbed the hobbit remains and locked them away in his safe, refusing to let other scientists study them."
I think this is going to be curious when they find out *why* he is hiding them...
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
The Volokh Conspiracy - Sokal is an Id10t
The Volokh Conspiracy -: "Alan Sokal and the Social Text Parody:In 1996, physics professor Alan Sokal published a parody article on the social construction of physics in the journal Social Text. It turns out that Sokal's website has copies of the original article, the Lingua Franca article in which he came clean about his spoof, and other writings about the controversy both by Sokal and others."
This is the reason, a big part of it, why our society is so lost. Those 'in the know' about the closest details of the nature of the Universe, absolutely refuse to speak on it in any concrete terms. This allows the charlatans to step in and make all sorts of whacky claims while the physicists scratch their heads and say, "Hmm, I guess it is all energy...but that doesn't mean anything."
Ugh, and thus the need for people like myslef to do a bit of metaphor drawing.
This is the reason, a big part of it, why our society is so lost. Those 'in the know' about the closest details of the nature of the Universe, absolutely refuse to speak on it in any concrete terms. This allows the charlatans to step in and make all sorts of whacky claims while the physicists scratch their heads and say, "Hmm, I guess it is all energy...but that doesn't mean anything."
Ugh, and thus the need for people like myslef to do a bit of metaphor drawing.
Kevin Sites Blog
Kevin Sites Blog: "Since the shooting in the Mosque, I've been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As you know, I'm not some war zone tourist with a camera who doesn't understand that ugly things happen in combat. I've spent most of the last five years covering global conflict. But I have never in my career been a 'gotcha' reporter -- hoping for people to commit wrongdoings so I can catch them at it. "
This is the future of media folks.
This is the future of media folks.
International News Article | Reuters.com
International News Article | Reuters.com: "KIEV (Reuters) - Up to 200,000 protesters rallied outside an emergency session of Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday demanding authorities admit they cheated in a presidential poll which showed the country's Moscow-backed prime minister had won.
Parliamentary deputies began the session in response to calls from supporters of West-leaning liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko, who says he was robbed of victory in Sunday's second-round run-off. "
This is what MoW is all about.
Parliamentary deputies began the session in response to calls from supporters of West-leaning liberal challenger Viktor Yushchenko, who says he was robbed of victory in Sunday's second-round run-off. "
This is what MoW is all about.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Rebel attacks in Samarra kill 33
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Rebel attacks in Samarra kill 33: "The BBC's Claire Marshall in Baghdad says that on the eve of an attack on Falluja, events in Samarra seem to demonstrate that it takes more than a large scale military assault to bring a town fully under control."
Re-making the world with require more that just the 'ism' of the military.
Re-making the world with require more that just the 'ism' of the military.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
IBM Research | Resources | News | IBM scientists demonstrate single-atom magnetic measurements
IBM Research | Resources | News | IBM scientists demonstrate single-atom magnetic measurements
Making some progess on the quantum computing. Cool science.
Making some progess on the quantum computing. Cool science.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
Democrats accuse Bush of lying about his Air National Guard service
Democrats accuse Bush of lying about his Air National Guard service
Aaand we're baaack!
Just a quick update from the '30 year old history' squad.
Aaand we're baaack!
Just a quick update from the '30 year old history' squad.
Monday, August 16, 2004
HBO%3A Documentaries - Death In Gaza
HBO%3A Documentaries - Death In Gaza
Pretty amazing movie. It's not often you get to see such a powerful documentary wrapped in a snuff film.
Pretty amazing movie. It's not often you get to see such a powerful documentary wrapped in a snuff film.
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Monday, July 12, 2004
Saturday, July 10, 2004
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Stock markets historically do better under Dems than Reps. - Jan. 22, 2004
Stock markets historically do better under Dems than Reps. - Jan. 22, 2004
Kerry/Edwards: 2004.
"NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Plenty of Wall Streeters are Republicans. The party's policies are seen as better for big business and therefore better for the stock market.Any number of reasons for this one, but the numbers kind of speak for themselves.
'Democrats are seen as being pro-regulatory, and more willing to enact laws against Wall Street and laws against CEOs,' said Don Luskin, chief investment officer at Trend Macrolytics.
But here's Wall Street's strange little irony -- studies show the stock market performs better and tends to be less volatile when Democrats are in power. "
Kerry/Edwards: 2004.
The CD roars back from the dead | The Register
The CD roars back from the dead | The Register
Niiice.
"The CD is alive and well after all, it seems. In truth, it never really went away. CD sales have rocketed in 2004 - they topped 300 million units in in the first six months, up seven per cent compared to the same period last year, according to Neilsen research. The other booming sector of the music economy is the peer to peer networks. By some estimates a billion files are being downloaded every month and four million users are logged on at any one time."Piracy is killing our business! Piracy is killing our business! What's that? CD Sales up 7% on the crappy artists we put out?
Niiice.
War On Pornography
War On Pornography
I'm just waiting until the Religious Rights realizes that most of their political goals are directly in line with the fundy nutjobs on the other side of the planet. Oh, the look on their faces...
"Pornography is obscenity, not "free speech," and has never been protected by our Supreme Court "This is under their 'did you know' section and is vastly misleading. As the Supreme Court has fairly consistently allowed Americans to see the kinds of pictures they like.
We commend our nation’s leaders for their strong commitment to the War on Terrorism, but we also feel that there is a foe within our own nation and homes that is producing equal, if not more carnage than terrorism – Pornography. We need to help our leaders understand this and commit the same, if not more resources to protecting our innocent children and families from the ravages of this highly addictive and destructive medium.Yea, don't ya'll remember when Jenna Jamison set off that suicide bomb at the Vegas convention?
I'm just waiting until the Religious Rights realizes that most of their political goals are directly in line with the fundy nutjobs on the other side of the planet. Oh, the look on their faces...
Best remedy for a child's cough? Water
Best remedy for a child's cough? Water
File this under, "not likely to be featured in any media that gets advertising money for cough suppresants".
"To conduct the study, researchers recruited 100 children with upper-respiratory-tract infections who had been coughing for an average of more than three days.Someone needs to study the placebo effect of mothers being bombarded with commercials about how 'proper care' of a child includes lots of expensive medication.
The children were given one of three treatments 30 minutes before bedtime: a cough syrup containing dextromethorphan, a cough syrup containing diphenhydramine or a placebo syrup.
Children in all three groups showed a dramatic reduction in cough frequency, but those taking the placebo -- essentially flavored water -- had the best results. On four other measures, the three treatments had virtually identical outcomes."
File this under, "not likely to be featured in any media that gets advertising money for cough suppresants".
Moore: pirate my film, no problem - [Sunday Herald]
Moore: pirate my film, no problem - [Sunday Herald]
"I don't agree with the copyright laws and I don't have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they're not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose that," he said.You go with your fat self. This is not surprising, as he's said as much on film before, but it's nice to see more happening on this front.
"I do well enough already and I made this film because I want the world, to change. The more people who see it the better, so I'm happy this is happening."
Moore said: “Is it wrong for someone who’s bought a film on DVD to let a friend watch it for free? Of course it’s not. It never has been and never will be. I think information, art and ideas should be shared.”
Defenders of Moore’s position include Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, who earlier this year encouraged audiences in countries where his films are not legally available to obtain counterfeit copies.
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