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MON 2005-FEB-28
Sex can be Supernaturalnews.com.au/ ... 15:44:30A woman forced her husband to have sex with a 13-year-old girl, threatening both with a spear, because of bad spirits, a Darwin court heard today... With her plea, the prosecution dropped a charge or rape against the man.... her husband had obsessed about having sex with the girl for two years... became overwhelmed from the pressure and ordered the man and the girl to have sex, threatening them with a spear and a knife... The traditional Aboriginal woman believed a "mimi" (bad spirit) or witchcraft had intensified her feelings to a degree she had not felt before....
Sex can be Dangerouscbsnews.com/ ... 15:42:07A 63-year-old man is charged with sexual gratification with an animal for allegedly having sex with calves.... allegedly told police that he routinely stopped at a Greenwood farm, usually after bar closing or on trips to strip clubs....
Whoops!financialtimes.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 22:08:31An American businessman alleged to have hidden nearly half a billion dollars in earnings in offshore accounts has been arrested by US authorities and charged with tax evasion, obstructing the Internal Revenue Service and fraud... biggest criminal tax fraud prosecution in US history....icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/ ... 15:40:19...bungee jump safety... An inquest in Swansea heard yesterday that Chris... weighed 132kg, or 20st 10lb. But an expert investigation discovered that the rope holding him had a maximum load weight of just 90kg, and should not have safely held more than 70kg....
WW2 - still with usscotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/ ... 15:37:02Hitler and the Nazi leadership may have known beforehand about the massive Allied raid on Dresden, according to new evidence from Germany.
Preternatural Patternsbuffalonews.com/ ... 15:33:41Chronic lack of conceptual clarity....
Iraqis are complaining about their first two-day weekend since 1972, and some high-school students even went to class Saturday to protest a decision introducing a second weekly day off that coincides with the Jewish Sabbath. It's not that the Iraqis do not want time off - they just want the extra day moved to Thursday.
Lasting Contributionsforbes.com/ ... 22:14:58Whenever you point and click and drag an icon around on a computer screen, you are doing so thanks to Jef Raskin... As a graduate student at Penn State, he wrote his 1967 Master's Thesis on computer interfaces based on graphics and not on arcane strings of computer text commands.... On a writing assignment for a computer hobbyist publication Raskin visited the garage in which Jobs and Wozniak were building their upstart company... In early 1977 he became Apple's 31st employee... Raskin in 1979 proposed building an easy-to-use computer for consumers. Jobs derided the idea... as the "dumbest idea he'd ever heard of...."pcworld.com/ ... 12:17:15Jef Raskin, the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces, died Saturday at age 61... He is credited with significantly advancing the design of user interfaces, which in the early 1980s were largely text-based and required users to memorize complex commands....
Currentap.tbo.com/ ... 22:26:24Rescuers found two 14-year-old boys dead Monday in the Gulf of Mexico, two days after they became separated from their school group.... found about eight miles out from the mouth of the Suwannee River. Their overturned canoe was found about 2 1/2 miles closer to shore....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:14:28Rescuers searched the Gulf of Mexico on Monday for two teenage boys who became separated from their companions when the weather turned bad during a kayaking trip,
Digital Consequencespcworld.com/ ... 12:20:23Tax ware review in PC World:
For taxpayers with complicated tax situations, TurboTax remains the best tax program, but TaxCut and TaxAct may suit others better.pcworld.com/ ... 12:19:19...NYX Clothing is marketing $2000 jackets with LEDs sewn into the fabric that can display text messages from your PDA or your cell phone--handy for emergency roadside workers or all-night ravers.
VectraSense Technologies sells a $500-plus sneaker that physically adapts to your foot, records how far and fast you run, and can wirelessly zap your contact information to your compatibly clad fellows...
Microsoft.. wants you to fork over $10 per month to get news and weather reports from MSN Direct delivered to a special $199 wristwatch....financialtimes.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 12:03:05Some leading music labels are in talks with online retailers to raise wholesale prices for digital music downloads in an attempt to capitalise on burgeoning demand for legal online music.
Defining Momentsuk.biz.yahoo.com/ ... 11:19:46PepsiCo has introduced voluntary restrictions on its advertising to children, in response to increasing obesity in the US and western Europe, the Financial Times reported.
Supernaturaltheglobeandmail.com/ ... 11:18:37"As we are both in the same hospital, I hope that we both realize our dreams... God will think about both of us, save both of us...."
-- partially paralyzed girl, four-year-old Iraqi bomb victim, in the same hospital in Rome as the Pope
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:51:45[flag]Army Spc. Adam N. Brewer, 22, of Dewey, Okla.
[flag]Army Spc. Jason L. Moski, 24, of Blackville, S.C.
[flag]Army Spc. Colby M. Farnan, 22, of Weston, Mo.
died Feb. 25 in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated while they were on dismounted patrol.
Only Natural212.2.162.45/ ... 15:50:42...a customer allegedly discovered 575 beetles in a jar of cereal... “too organic for my liking....”halifaxherald.com/ ... 15:34:32 Scientists have conducted a successful trial of a "brain pacemaker" that can make depressed people happy again by electronically stimulating the brain.pic
Education not Legislation!reuters.com/ ... 12:04:11The five Nordic nations called on the European Union Monday to impose a tighter limit on the strength of sun beds, and warned sun-starved citizens they were at more risk than others of contracting skin cancer from them.
Threatsfoxnews.com/ ... 22:21:31Recent communications between Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi indicate that bin Laden has "encouraged Zarqawi and his group to focus on attacks inside the United States..." bzzstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:23:02Arab television Al Arabiya said on Sunday its staff had received death threats from Syrian security bodies over an interview with U.N. chief Kofi Annan in which he urged Syria to withdraw from Lebanon by April.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:22:15Syria's plans for Lebanon 'retreat' ... Hezbollah terror to be turned loose... Syrian President Bashar al-Assad... has appointed a family member to the No. 1 intelligence post and given him sweeping new powers... 54-year-old Gen. Assaf Chawkat has long been responsible for maintaining close ties with Hezbollah, monitoring and controlling its activities and connections with Iran... also entrusted with.. close to $4 billion stashed in a web of bank accounts in almost every continent.... gave the Iranians verbal assurances Damascus would not restrain Hezbollah should the U.S. or Israel attack Iran’s nuclear assets.... Against the backdrop of growing tension in Beirut, Chawkat is leading the so-called “Lebanon lobby,” a group of active or retired Syrian intelligence generals and Baath Party extremists who are contemplating using Hezbollah to stir up a new Lebanese civil war....
People Diethisislondon.com/ ... 12:07:25A 10-year-old boy died.. Saturday in Torphins, Aberdeenshire... after a "giant snowball" rolled down a hill and engulfed him.
"It seems there was a giant snowball the boys had made themselves. Apparently it rolled and unfortunately Peter was caught under it. The boys had just gone out there to play and then something like this happens. It's very difficult to find words to explain it all." -Local minister
Aftermathstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:30:03..."Shoe bomber" Richard Reid had planned with an accomplice to bring down more than one aircraft at around the same time... Monday, his accomplice Saajid Badat, 25, pleaded guilty to conspiring to use an explosive device identical to that of Reid....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:28:27Syria has done something almost no one... could have imagined anyone doing. It has united disparate people and interest groups that, not long ago, were killing each other – Sunnis, Druze, Christians, even some Shiites. ...has even managed to unite the United States and France – and the rest of the European Union... Only one nation in the world has stood by Syria... Iran...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:11:20Syria handed over Saddam's half-brother... "The Syrian authorities, because of the tremendous pressure on them, did something..." [okay, unfairly partial quote, but funnier this way...]abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:01:46"Out of concern that the government does not become an obstacle to the good of the country, I announce the resignation of the government I had the honor to lead...."
--Lebanon's Syrian-backed Prime Minister Omar Karami, under popular pressure after the assassination of an ex-prime minister, Mondaythesun.co.uk/ ... 11:19:09Saddam Hussein will be forced to sit in a Hannibal Lecter-style cage during his trial.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 12:13:48Many of those killed were at the market across the road, and were caught in the blast as they shopped in morning sunshine.latimes.com/ ... 12:02:29At least 106 were killed and 133 wounded early today when an apparent suicide car bomber attacked a group of men in the city of Hilla lining up for medical examinations needed to join Iraqi security forcesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:20:05The opening of the pan-African film festival Fespaco has been marred by the deaths of two people in a crush.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 09:25:25The man arrested on suspicion of being the BTK serial killer confessed on the day of his arrest to six slayings, a source close to the investigation said
SUN 2005-FEB-27
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:25:46A palaeontologist has come up with a novel way of studying historical manuscripts... says manuscripts from the Middle Ages have a lot in common with animal populations... claims, he can work out how many copies of a manuscript once existed and how regularly they were destroyed, simply by applying a biological model. Historians have cautiously welcomed this rare link between the arts and sciences....
Extraterrestrialesa.int/ ... 12:22:01Glacial, volcanic and fluvial activity on Mars: latest images
Lasting Contributionstime.com/ ... 12:09:27Henry Anatole Grunwald 1922-2005
Our Explorer of the New World -- one of the most distinguished managing editors in TIME's history and for decades a pre-eminent figure in American journalism....
by Norm Pearlstine
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 02:23:07An Indian teenager from one of the country's most backward states appears to have fooled governments, the media and even the president into believing he had topped the world in a NASA science exam.
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:38:49Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may have joked about becoming president, but he said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he's never seriously considered it.... "You've got to have a little bit of sense of humor about all this...."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:43:01Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:22:08US food giant Kraft has decided to halt production of... fruit-flavoured Trolli Roadkill Gummi candy... sweets shaped like roadkill... Animal rights activists criticised the product...
Digital Consequencessuntimes.com/ ... 11:59:52"Tooth Tunes..." battery-operated toothbrush contains a tiny microchip... When the user presses a button and starts brushing, sound vibrations pass through the tooth, to the jawbone and into the inner ear. The song plays for two minutes, the amount of time dentists recommend people spend brushing their teeth....latimes.com/ ... 02:20:48Addressing the nation's governors, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates delivered a scathing critique of U.S. high schools Saturday, calling them "obsolete" and saying that elected officials should be "ashamed" of a system that leaves millions of students unprepared for college and for technical jobs.
Great Quake of 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:31:12 Indian divers have found more evidence of an ancient port city, apparently revealed by December's tsunami. Stone structures that are "clearly man-made" were seen on the seabed off the south coast... could be part of the mythical city of Mahabalipuram, which legend says was so beautiful that the gods sent a flood that engulfed six of its seven temples... stone lion
Human Rightcanoe.ca/ ... 12:12:18GABORONE, Botswana -- A dozen HIV-positive women competed yesterday in a beauty pageant aimed at fighting the stigma that still surrounds the deadly virus in this AIDS-ravaged southern African country. Botswana has one of the world's highest rates of HIV infection, with about 37% of its 1.7 million population testing positive for the virus that causes AIDS. Organizers of the Miss Stigma Free pageant hope the contest... will show the disease does not prevent women from being beautiful and living positively.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:19:20Lesbian Marriages, Born of a Legal Loophole, Stir Debate in India... The law is silent on gay marriages... [but] homosexual sex is a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison....
Under Tyrannycbc.ca/ ... 12:10:25The first international treaty aimed at reducing smoking-related deaths and illness came into effect Sunday, the World Health Organization said. Fifty-seven countries, including Canada, have ratified the treaty, formally known as WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Member countries promise to crack down on advertising, sponsorship and promotion of tobacco products. The treaty also pushes for tougher tobacco labelling laws.
9/11 - still with usworldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:41:41An airline ticket agent who checked in hijacker Mohamed Atta the morning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks says he had a feeling he was looking at an Arab terrorist but gave in to political correctness and let him through... "I looked up, and asked them the standard questions. The one guy was looking at me. It sent a chill through me. Something in my stomach churned. And subconsciously, I said to myself, 'If they don't look like Arab terrorists, nothing does.' Then I gave myself a mental slap. In over 34 years, I had checked in thousands of Arab travelers, and I never thought this before. I said to myself, 'That's not nice to think. They are just two Arab businessmen....'"
Peace 3000reuters.com/ ... 12:34:54The Bush administration plans to begin Arab-language satellite-television broadcasts to Europe later this yearap.tbo.com/ ... 02:17:51Uli Derickson, the flight attendant who served as a buffer between terrorists and passengers during a 1985 airline hijacking that dragged on for 17 days, has died at the age of 60... talked to the Shiite Muslim terrorists... credited with shielding passengers whose names sounded Jewish by hiding their passports... A Navy diver on the flight was singled out and killed by the terrorists, but passengers credited Derickson with preventing more killings... the first woman to receive the United States silver medal of honor... awarded the Silver Cross for Valor by the Legion of Valor, a veterans' group...
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:40:52Suspected communist rebels in southern Nepal ambushed an army truck, shot a police chief and attacked villagers Sunday, killing at least 14 people a day after lifting a highway blockade that crippled the flow of essential supplies in protest of the king's recent power grab.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:39:46A small bomb exploded Sunday outside a vacant resort hotel in southeastern Spain... No injuries were reported... Basque separatist group ETA was suspected...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:24:19Iraq - A bomb ... killing at least five people and injuring several... in Hammam Alil, near the city of Mosul - reportedly inside the town hall or, according to other accounts, police headquarters.... dead include several Iraqi security guards and a number of civilians, and at least two people were injured....reuters.com/ ... 12:13:20 Iraq said Sunday security forces had captured Saddam Hussein's half-brother -- a top-level Baathist accused by the government of directing the insurgency from Syria. ...Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti, an intelligence chief and one-time adviser to the former president... number 36 on the U.S. military's list of the 55 most-wanted people in Iraq -- the six of diamonds.
...arrest of Lieutenant Colonel Khaled Rajab, accused of running a 40-person militant cell in and around the northern city of Mosul
...and Friday... capture [of] Abu Qutaybah, described as a key lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda's leader in Iraq.suntimes.com/ ... 11:57:50Taliban insurgents launched three attacks in southeastern Afghanistan in heavy combat that left 19 dead -- including 10 rebels killed by U.S. troops...
Kandahar, an American soldier was shot and wounded when he and his unit came under small-arms fire while investigating a roadside bomb Thursdayap.tbo.com/ ... 02:26:52Palestinians expressed anger Saturday at an overnight suicide bombing in Tel Aviv... a departure from former times when they welcomed attacks on their Israeli foes... A branch of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in the West Bank city of Nablus, even condemned the attack.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:23:26A timeline from 1974 to present surrounding the BTK case:abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:19:59Neighbors Disliked Man Arrested in Kansas 'Bind-Torture-Kill' Serial Killings Case... was once seen measuring grass in a front yard with a tape measure to see if it was too long....reuters.com/ ... 02:15:25Thirty-one years after his first suspected murders, Wichita police arrested a man who called himself BTK for "bind, torture, kill" and was believed responsible for 10 gruesome deaths, officials said on Saturday... The suspect.. 59.. apprehended without incident in Park City.. a native of Park City.. worked for the town in charge of animal control since about 1990...olympics.reuters.com/ ... 02:12:19...a Beirut-based.. Islamic Jihad.. official: "We confirm that we carried out the operation..." bombing at a Tel Aviv nightclub...
FRI 2005-FEB-25
Extraterrestrialap.tbo.com/ ... 20:11:31A small heap of paper that survived the fiery disintegration of space shuttle Columbia, a 38-mile fall to Earth and two months of exposure to rain and sun in a Texas field has been painstakingly restored by forensic scientists, yielding the flight diary and notes of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon.... An Indian tracker found the papers two months after the shuttle disaster....
Yeah, Sure!news.independent.co.uk/ ... 20:05:44[Such a nice guy!] Hunter S Thompson, the gonzo journalist who committed suicide last weekend, shot himself while on the phone to his wife
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:47:41[flag]Army Spc. Jacob C. Palmatier, 29, of Springfield, Ill., died Feb. 24 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:22:59[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Eric M. Steffeney, 28, of Waterloo, Iowa, died February 23 in Tuz, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:22:30[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Daniel G. Gresham, 23, of Lincoln, Ill., died Feb. 24 in Camp Wilson, Iraq, when a second improvised explosive device detonated while he was responding to a first device. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:22:07[flag]Army Sgt. Nicholas J. Olivier, 26, of Ruston, La., died Feb. 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on foot patrol.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:21:27[flag]Air Force Captain Troy “Gordie” Cope of Norfolk, Ark
died Sept. 16, 1952 over China, from a dogfight against Russian fighters supporting North Korea... remains recently identified.
Human Rightlocal6.com/ ... 20:08:26GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. ... [girl] 18, had her senior class photo taken in a tuxedo top and bow-tie outfit provided for boys rather than the gown-like drape and pearls provided for girls. The school's principal decided it could not appear in the yearbook because she didn't follow the dress code.
Only Naturalcnn.com/ ... 19:14:53Earlier this month, Illinois judge Jeffrey Lawrence refused to dismiss a wrongful death suit against a fertility clinic in Chicago. The plaintiff.. couple.. allege that the [clinic].. discarded their nine embryos and thereby ended the embryos' lives... In Illinois, the judge explained, a fetus qualifies as a deceased person for purposes of the Wrongful Death Act. ..."a pre-embryo is a 'human being' ... whether or not it is implanted in its mother's womb." For this conclusion, the judge cited another Illinois law that specifically finds that an "unborn child is a human being from the time of conception and is, therefore, a legal person."...
World Without Borderscsmonitor.com/ ... 22:19:18The world's population will increase by 40 percent to 9.1 billion in 2050, but virtually all the growth will be in the developing world, especially in the 50 poorest countries, the UN Population Division said.
Police Riotnydailynews.com/ ... 22:17:16A Brooklyn man was pepper-sprayed.. Saturday morning.. when he brought his dying dog to his local police precinct... police sources said officers acted properly to subdue what they described as a drunken man having a violent fit... family's Shih Tzu puppy.. was hit by a car. "I was frantic. I was scared, and I didn't know what to do, so I figured I would go to the precinct and ask for help..." pleaded with cops to get an ambulance for the dog... "Within three minutes of [getting] there, I was blinded for the rest of the day..." denied he was drunk.. briefly put into a cell.. brought out and cuffed to a sink so he could wash his face... brought to Woodhull Hospital for what sources said was a psychological evaluation... Sanitation Department was called to take the dog's body away... [man] and his fiancée.. had no idea what had become of their pet until yesterday...
Threatssignonsandiego.com/ ... 22:17:40It has been known for years that thousands of light and lethal shoulder-fired missiles are in black-market circulation. What is not known is exactly who has them and whether many have fallen into the hands of terrorists or criminals.foxnews.com/ ... 22:13:45Iran may be hiding its nuclear technology inside special tunnels because of threats of attack by the United States, Tehran's chief nuclear negotiator said in an interview published Friday. ..."We have to put them somewhere...."
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 20:14:45"Good Morning, we've come to install your microphones," an agent says at the door in the opening line of an underground video making the rounds in Cuba. "In what part of the house do you usually talk bad about the government?" he asks the nervous resident, a driver who pilfers gasoline and coffee from the state. The spoof of Cuba's feared security police is in hot demand among Cubans, for whom black jokes and complaints about communist bureaucracy is a major pastime....
Violencecsmonitor.com/ ... 22:18:42Iraqi forces captured the leader of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist cell allegedly responsible for carrying out a string of beheadings in Iraq.. Mohamed Najam Ibrahim.. arrested in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad... no date for the arrest...apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:12:29A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded nine others north of Baghdad on Fridayap.tbo.com/ ... 20:12:09 the Pentagon announced Friday it had identified the remains of an Air Force pilot whose jet crashed on Chinese territory after being shot down during a dogfight with a Russian flying for North Korea....reuters.com/ ... 20:04:27A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded some 50 outside a Tel Aviv night club
THU 2005-FEB-24
US Executive Branchbloomberg.com/ ... 20:20:52Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Europe's No. 2 airline, may seek redress for cancellations and delays from German authorities who temporarily brought the Frankfurt area to a standstill yesterday for a visit by U.S. President George W. Bush, damaging business for local companies.
Family Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:37:35A blind man has been arrested in Scotland after witnesses reported he sank his teeth into his guide dog and kicked her across the roadap.tbo.com/ ... 12:37:15An appeals court said a man can press a claim for emotional distress after learning a former lover had used his sperm to have a baby. But he can't claim theft, the ruling said, because the sperm were hers to keep... she secretly kept semen after they had oral sex, then used it to get pregnant.... he didn't find out about the child for nearly two years, when [she] filed a paternity lawsuit.... "deceitfully engaged in sexual acts, which no reasonable person would expect could result in pregnancy, to use plaintiff's sperm in an unorthodox, unanticipated manner yielding extreme consequences.... when plaintiff 'delivered' his sperm, it was a gift - an absolute and irrevocable transfer of title..."ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:34:20COLUMBUS, Ga. - A father fatally stabbed his two young children and seriously wounded three others with a hunting knife before committing suicide by slitting his throat.. the mother.. was not injured...
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:21:54Black church and community leaders are calling for action to protect children from the effects of exorcisms... BBC investigation suggests only a third of London's local authorities are addressing the issue seriously... some children are being beaten by parents trying to drive out evil spirits... driving out of demons was known to be a widespread practice within the African churches...news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:19:51Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to insert a tube in his throat to relieve his breathing problems..news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:28:15Pope John Paul II has returned to the Rome hospitalmenafn.com/ ... 12:27:57U.S. and British rabbis participating in a Beirut conference on Palestinians' right of return said they did not recognize Israel, founded on Palestinian land.
Sex can be Dangerousroanoke.com/ ... 12:25:56...a diplomat from United Arab Emirates... showed up in the Forest area yesterday expecting a tryst with a 13-year-old girl... was handcuffed by officers at the scene, but he immediately pulled out his credentials as a diplomat....
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:38:12Swiss authorities have ruled that a Geneva-based half-brother of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has the right to use the family name as a trademark. But businessman Yeslam Bin Ladin said he had no immediate plans to bring out any goods under the name.woai.com/ ... 12:24:19The separatist Republic of Texas group, which largely dissolved after an abortive uprising in the Davis Mountains left several of its leaders dead or in prison in 1997, has reformed, and is again pushing its message that Texas should be a free and independent nationdrudgereport.com/ ... 12:23:48President Bush addressed Slovakian citizens on the merits of freedom... a cropped photo in USA TODAY showed Bush under the words 'BRAT'!...
Yeah, Sure!nme.com/ ... 12:00:35BOB DYLAN has launched a withering attack on contemporary rock bands in the programme notes for his latest American tour. "I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviours of rock'n'roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from," he wrote, adding, “I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times... I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that."
[It takes a train to cry, it takes a vain old folkie burnout poser to make me laugh!]
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:34:44[flag]Army 1st Lt. Jason G. Timmerman, 24, of Tracy, Minn.
[flag]Army Staff Sgt. David F. Day, 25, of Saint Louis Park, Minn.
[flag]Army Sgt. Jesse M. Lhotka, 24, of Alexandria, Minn.
died Feb. 21 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated as they were exiting their military vehicle after it had rolled over. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:33:41[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Trevor D. Aston, 32, of Austin, Texas, died Feb. 22 as a result of non-hostile vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:32:57Cpl. John T. Olson, 21, of Elk Grove Village, Ill., died Feb. 21 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:32:33[flag]Navy Cmdr Adrian B. Szwec, 43, of Chicago, Ill., died April 12, 2004, of a non-combat related incident.
Only Naturallocal6.com/ ... 12:27:25A St. Petersburg man... lifted the lid on his toilet and found a snake curled inside, with its head sticking out of the bowl... a 6-foot African rock python....
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 20:33:21This week, the Navy announced an increase, while the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 951 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.reuters.com/ ... 20:22:13A missile fired from a U.S. Navy ship off Kauai, Hawaii, intercepted and destroyed a mock warhead on Thursday, the fifth success in six such test of the fledgling U.S. anti-missile shield's sea-based leg, the Pentagon announced.voanews.com/ ... 12:19:36The U.S. military says it has implemented new procedures to ensure that detainees are not abused
Great Quake of 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:01:27Couple's amazing photos of the tidal wave just before it killed them.
Police Riotworldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:30:20Not only have the charges against a South Carolina teenage boy and a homeschooling mother stemming from a confrontation with a plainclothes police officer been dropped, but the officer involved has been fired.
Under Tyrannysfgate.com/ ... 20:35:06Women may be allowed to vote in future Saudi Arabian elections, but such political reforms must be implemented "gradually," the kingdom's foreign minister said Wednesday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:22:40The Kansas attorney general is demanding abortion clinics turn over the complete medical records of nearly 90 women and girls, saying he needs the material for an investigation into underage sex and illegal late-term abortions.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:18:53A teenage girl and two young men in Iran have been sentenced to lashes for having sex... court dismissed the girl's claim that she was raped... sentenced to 100 lashes because her accusations of rape and kidnap could have landed her partners a death penalty.. Sex outside marriage is illegal in Iran and capital punishment can be imposed... The young men in the case were sentenced to 30 and 40 lashes each...
Peace 3000reuters.com/ ... 12:31:11Syria said Thursday it planned to pull back more troops to eastern Lebanon in line with a 16-year-old agreement and Lebanon's defense minister said troops would be on the move soon.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 20:23:11A man with a high-powered rifle opened fire Thursday in a historic town square near the courthouse, killing two people and wounding two law officers and one other person....reuters.com/ ... 12:22:38In Kirkuk, also in northern Iraq, two Iraqi policemen were killed and two were critically wounded in a roadside bomb blast.
In Qaim, near the Syrian border in western Iraq, four Iraqi soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked their patrol.
And in Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a bakery killing a customer.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded in separate roadside bomb blasts north of the capital, while another bomb blast near a police patrol killed three people, including two policemen, in the town of Iskandariya, south of Baghdad.
U.S. forces backed by Iraqi troops meanwhile pursued an offensive against insurgents holed up in a series of towns in the Euphrates river valley which runs toward the Syrian border. Twenty-nine suspected militants were seized.boston.com/ ... 12:04:48A car bomber drove into a parking lot inside police headquarters in Saddam Hussein's hometown and detonated explosives on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 22...
Threatsthisislondon.com/ ... 12:26:30Closed circuit TV systems are of little use in the fight against crime, a surprise government report claims today.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 12:23:03Police said Thursday they thwarted planned attacks on an airport, malls, a church and U.S. troops with the arrests of three members of an al-Qaida linked terror group who allegedly came to the Philippines to train Muslim militants to make bombs.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 12:04:16The disclosure that a potential witness in the case is no longer alive could complicate the prosecution of Abu Ali on terrorism charges.
WED 2005-FEB-23
Whoops!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:51:43An elderly Thai monk who mistook a tube of superglue for eye drops can see again after doctors unglued one eye... An operation on the second eye, which is still tightly sealed, is scheduled for Thursday...
Digital Consequencesbsdfreak.org/ ... 21:54:03AMD.. today.. demonstrating a dual-core AMD Athlon™ 64 processor, manufactured on 90nm technology... Dual-core AMD64 technology enables advanced multi-tasking capabilities and outstanding multimedia performance...reuters.com/ ... 21:50:59Dell Inc. considered building PCs with chips from Advanced Micro Devices but now aims to keep Intel Corp. as its sole supplier, Dell's chief executive said on Wednesday....
Rather Embarrassedobserver.com/ ... 15:40:29...CBS... hired a private investigator... to track down the source of the troublesome documents... not mentioned in the list of interviews and other pursuits in the independent panel’s final report on Jan. 10. Though CBS had promised transparency in investigating the memo scandal, of a half-dozen CBS News producers who spoke to The Observer, only one had even heard a rumor that the network had hired the private investigator.....
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 15:35:58...how to dump a lover... new... a Dutch Web site... suggests women tell their partner they want a baby and men buy their girlfriend underwear that's too big... Some 180,000 people have visited www.dumpjeschatje.nl since it was launched Monday... also provides two downloadable documents with blanks left for names -- one a curt business-style letter, the other a scathing poem -- to end relationships in writing....
Great Quake of 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:48:55Photographs from the camera of a Canadian couple killed in Asia's tsunami include their final shots of a huge wave as it rushed toward them at their beach resort in Thailand... 8:20 a.m... everything.. normal... Six minutes later, curious onlookers are shown wandering onto suddenly exposed tidal flats... A large wave appears to be breaking in the distance... Two minutes after that, some spectators appear to realize this is no ordinary wave... A pair of photos taken at 8:30 a.m. shows a wall of water churning up sand and mud. A final shot a couple of minutes later shows the tsunami hitting the beach....
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 21:49:45Authorities shot and killed a.. 425-pound.. male tiger Wednesday that had been roaming the hills near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library....reuters.com/ ... 15:38:11Hungry field mice caused a 20-hour telephone blackout in central Sweden Tuesday... "This is not at all common..."reuters.com/ ... 15:34:02Professional soccer players have a higher risk of suffering from the incurable degenerative illness motor neuron disease,
Violencereuters.com/ ... 21:52:34U.S. police have captured the head of a notorious Honduran youth gang who is wanted at home for the killing of 28 people in a bus attack last December that shocked Central America.floridatoday.com/ ... 21:52:00A 13-year-old student in Orange County, Fla., was suspended for 10 days and could be banned from school over an alleged assault with a rubber band
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:14Cuban officials declared their fight against drugs a national security issue after destroying 25 sacks of marijuana recently seized with U.S. Coast Guard backup by tossing them into a boiling-hot cauldron.
World Without Bordersreuters.com/ ... 15:39:01Cartoons and time capsules are the newest weapons in a four-decade-old war of words between the United States and Cuba.reuters.com/ ... 15:37:31...one in four Japanese high-school students can't place [N Korea] on a map.... over 40 percent of university students and high-school pupils couldn't find [Iraq]... "While students are interested in the news, they don't see it as important to know where the countries are...."
TUE 2005-FEB-22
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 14:23:19A 44-year-old Anchorage man had his penis surgically reattached after it was cut off by an angry girlfriend and flushed down a toilet... workers from the local water utility pulled the toilet up from the floor and were able to recover the severed penis...
Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:27:04The dancefloor featured in the classic 70s film Saturday Night Fever, which starred John Travolta, is to be sold... expected the floor to attract bids of more than $80,000...news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:18:21When the Nicolaysen family visited their mountain cabin over the weekend, they discovered a big hole in the yard in place of the swimming pool that had been installed 20 years ago. "This can't be, we thought," Arild Nicolaysen told state radio network NRK on Monday. "We didn't think it was possible. No one can steal a swimming pool."...
Why people go veganguardian.co.uk/ ... 14:13:22A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children's health by denying them meat... UK experts immediately contested the findings... [And just how did the US nutritionist come to these conclusions?] ....conducted a study of impoverished children in Kenya... adding as little as two spoonfuls of meat a day to their starch-based diets dramatically improved muscle development and mental skills....[File under "duh!"]
Supernaturalrogerebert.suntimes.com/ ... 23:12:23Laws of Cartoon Thermodynamicsreuters.myway.com/ ... 21:57:17Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in a new book published Tuesday.iol.co.za/ ... 14:13:56A South African woman, owner of a piece of jewellery believed stolen from the tomb of King Tutankhamen, has asked the government in Cairo for help in breaking King Tut's curse after two members of her family suffered untimely deaths.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 13:52:27Gene Scott, the shaggy-haired, cigar-smoking televangelist whose eccentric religious broadcasts were beamed around the world, has died, a family spokesman said. He was 75... Unlike other televangelists, Scott's sermons did not condemn homosexuality, abortion or other hot-topic sexual issues. He argued such issues were a personal choice....
Extraterrestrialuniversetoday.com/ ... 13:47:01...evidence for a massive sea of water ice in warm conditions near Martian equator. Since temperatures in this region can rise above freezing, it could be a good location to look for life....
US Executive Branchtheglobeandmail.com/ ... 13:28:36"I didn't do it for the money," Doug Wead said yesterday. "I could sell the tapes, even now, for tremendous amounts of money." In fact, Mr. Wead said he regrets having made public the tapes....
Digital Consequencesthesun.co.uk/ ... 23:16:44...new black version of the JBL CREATURE II set-up.. cost £69 and deliver great sound from just two tiny desktop speakers and one subwoofer...thesun.co.uk/ ... 23:16:02...sunglasses... from MOTOROLA and OAKLEY have a built-in Bluetooth headset... RAZRWire... lets you answer or dial at the touch of a button and will come in three frame colours...foxnews.com/ ... 23:13:43...more than seven blissful, late-fee free years since I've set foot in a Blockbuster store, I see your ads touting "The End of Late Fees"... Your ad campaign insults me...reuters.com/ ... 22:00:10A Georgia woman has sued Hewlett-Packard Co., claiming the ink cartridges for their printers are secretly programed to expire on a certain date, in some cases rendering them useless before they are even installed in a printer.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:57:28The Apple Powerbook 100 has been chosen as the greatest gadget of all time, by US magazine Mobile PC.nydailynews.com/ ... 13:54:09Prepaid cards that unlock one of the raunchiest X-rated sites on the Internet are being peddled by bodegas and newsstands across the city - even to underage kids, the Daily News has learned. The so-called PPP cards cost $5 to $50, and work similar to prepaid telephone cards....pulsejournal.com/ ... 13:50:58The popular computer game Unreal Tournament 2003 invited players to become the "ultimate techno-gladiator of the future," blasting foes with "a smorgasbord of ferocious, flesh-chewing weaponry." Now, researchers are turning the game into a tool for U.S. troops in Iraq — not to make them fiercer in combat, but to sharpen language and cultural skills that could help them avoid a potentially deadly confrontation.... no one had ever tried to make a nonviolent modification until a team from the Information Sciences Institute from the University of Southern California came along.editorandpublisher.com/ ... 13:32:18In a lengthy article titled "Hard News: Daily Papers Face Unprecedented Competition," Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post on Sunday sketched an exceedingly unpleasant future for the print newspaper as we know it. Or as he said in his lead: "The venerable newspaper is in trouble."
Sports Illustrated President John Squires: "Print is dead. Get over it."news.independent.co.uk/ ... 13:26:49While her pals are livid, Ms Hilton is mortified.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:24:55[flag]Marine Cpl. Kevin M. Clarke, 21, of Tinley Park, Ill., died Feb. 19 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:24:33[flag]Army Spc. Seth R. Trahan, 20, of Crowley, La. died Feb. 19, in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained while on patrol when an improvised explosive device detonated.
US Militarynypost.com/ ... 23:12:06The city Department of Education, red-faced over Brooklyn sixth-graders who slammed a GI with demoralizing anti-Iraq-war letters as part of a school assignment, will send the 20-year-old private a letter of apology today. Deputy Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina, who has a nephew serving in Iraq, plans to personally contact Pfc. Rob Jacobs and his family, said department spokeswoman Michele McManus Higgins.nypost.com/ ... 14:10:25An American soldier overseas is fuming over letters he received from Brooklyn middle-school children accusing GIs of destroying mosques and killing civilians in Iraq.
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 14:21:45The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who argued the case raised important issues about the scope of the constitutional right to sexual privacy.thesun.co.uk/ ... 13:49:08They locked him up despite the fact neither he nor his family wanted him to go. Last night Chris’s furious mother Anne said he has no mental problems and was winning his fight against the rare illness that compels him to eat.iht.com/ ... 13:26:20Five years after Britain lifted its ban on gays in the military, the British Royal Navy has begun actively encouraging gay men and lesbians to enlist and has pledged to make life easier for them when they do. "To start off, we worked very much on the 'don't ask, don't tell' method, but we realized anecdotally that that wasn't sufficient for some people... While some gays were confident to come out, others didn't feel that the environment was necessarily accepting of them."...
Only Naturalolympics.reuters.com/ ... 21:58:36Frightened of aftershocks and shivering from cold, thousands of Iranians spent the night in tents and temporary shelters after a powerful earthquake struck southeast Iran, killing at least 420 people... flattened several villages near.. Zarand, 440 miles southeast of Tehran.. near Bam.. "Please help us, it's winter. What are we to do?"earthquake.usgs.gov/ ... 14:33:17QUAKE: Magnitude 5.1 - GULF OF CALIFORNIA 2005 February 22 19:15:51 UTCreuters.com/ ... 13:59:22An Egyptian baby who underwent a 13-hour operation to remove an extra head will soon be able to breathe on her own... [twin] had developed no body, and was capable of smiling and blinking, but not independent life.abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:44:43A deadly series of storms across California spawned everything from tornadoes to avalanches, flooding freeways with steady rain and sending rivers of mud crashing through homes. At least six deaths have been blamed on the storm, including a woman buried by an avalanche north of Lake Tahoe and others who were victims of landslides, traffic accidents, falling trees and flooding.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:27:34...earthquake... 6.4-magnitude... has hit several villages in south-eastern Iran, killing at least 400 people and injuring hundreds more. ..centred near Zarand in Kerman province, 740km (460 miles) from the capital, Tehran....reuters.myway.com/ ... 13:24:05Avian flu poses the single biggest threat to the world right now and health officials may not yet have all the tools they need to fight it, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.
9/11 - still with usnewsday.com/ ... 23:14:15The remains of 1,161 people who died at the World Trade Center will go unidentified, marking an end to a painful waiting period for families who had hoped for a different outcome.
Under Tyrannychannels.netscape.com/ ... 21:59:16An Iranian journalist was jailed for 14 years on charges ranging from espionage to insulting the country's leaders
Digital Threatnews.com.com/ ... 14:11:06A U.S teenager has become the first person to be arrested on suspicion of sending unsolicited instant messages--or spim.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:57:12Search engine firm Google has released a trial tool which is concerning some net users because it directs people to pre-selected commercial websites.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:30:59Leaders of a U.N. Internet panel yesterday said they hope to set up a global system where cyberspace would be under the control of the United Nations.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 14:01:22President Bush said Tuesday that it is "simply ridiculous" to assume that the United States has plans to attack Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program after discussing the issue with European allies.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:48:21A former Virginia high school valedictorian who had been detained in Saudi Arabia as a suspected terrorist was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and with supporting the al-Qaida terrorist network.indiadaily.com/ ... 13:29:45The Chinese may have influenced North Korea to do what is needed for world peace and prosperity... They are slowly getting ready to get rid of Nukes and Nuke raw materials in exchange of six-nation security guarantee....
MON 2005-FEB-21
Yeah, Sure!ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:20:41Books Written by Hunter S. Thompsonap.tbo.com/ ... 13:20:12Hunter S. Thompson fatally shot himself Sunday night at his Aspen-area home...
Family Patternsdesmoinesregister.com/ ... 13:12:38Winterset police discovered a 10-year-old girl who weighs 59 pounds locked in a bedroom while her father and his girlfriend were away.... "She had dirty clothes on, the hygiene wasn't the best. But, remarkably, she was well, at least spirit-wise."...
Preternatural Patternshalifaxherald.com/ ... 13:18:46...Americans and British... have different smiles... British smile by pulling our lips back and upwards and exposing our lower teeth, Americans are more likely simply to part their lips and stretch the corners of their mouths.... British were also more likely to raise their cheeks when they smile, showing the crow's feet at the corners of the eyes. This produces a more sincere, hard-to-fake smile... the Prince of Wales has the typical British smile. "Charles shows his lower teeth fully using his risorius muscle that runs all the way around the mouth... It is a polite, formal expression of pleasure... But it's also very ancient, perhaps going back to the first smiles deployed by our ancestors when they invited other primates to co-operate rather than fight."...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:14:15A human ear has been discovered on a street in Manchester.. on a pavement outside the city's prison... No other body parts have been found... hospitals... no-one has been admitted without an ear and no-one has come forward to claim it....heraldsun.news.com.au/ ... 13:11:46CHELSEA Hunt was just four when she became Australia's youngest member of Mensa. The Hoppers Crossing girl - who likes playing with cars and dolls - has an IQ well above 130. At one she learned to count. Aged two she would sit at the kitchen table and work on addition and subtraction... An IQ test last year put Chelsea in the top .3 per cent of the population for fluid reasoning -- the potential for abstract thought and higher learning in all areas....
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 13:28:56Same-sex partners in Britain will be able to enter into civil unions from December
Not to rain on this parade, but one thing has always troubled me about having laws "go into effect" later, especially when they concern basic human rights. What's wrong with NOW?
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 13:27:14More than 60 years ago, Wheeler Lipes... performed a successful emergency appendectomy in a submarine 120 feet below the Pacific Ocean... now 84, was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal.. Lipes said his patient was the courageous one... "He was one of the most courageous people I've ever met."...
I certainly was privileged and honored to be the subject of that presentation," he said.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:09:50[flag]Army 1st Lt. Adam Malson, 23, of Rochester Hills, Mich., died Feb. 19 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained while on patrol when an improvised explosive device detonated.defenselink.mil/ ... 13:09:19[flag]Army Spc. Clinton R. Gertson, 26, of Houston, Texas, died 19 Feb. in Mosul, Iraq, from injuries sustained from enemy forces small arms firedefenselink.mil/ ... 13:08:52[flag]Army Sgt. Carlos J. Gil, 30, of Orlando, Fla., died Feb. 18, in Humaniyuh, Iraq from injuries sustained from an improvised explosive device detonation.
Only Naturalnytimes.com/ ... 20:41:55ew York City's health commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, had barely stepped away from the microphone on Feb. 11 after announcing the discovery of a possibly new and deadly H.I.V. strain when the storm started. More than a week later, it has not abated.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:22:10I'm not sure how "natural" this could actually be considered, but figured it belonged here among the other recent avalanches of snow and mud, even if it's human garbage.
Thirteen people were killed and dozens were missing Monday after mountains of garbage collapsed onto a neighborhood near the West Java town of Bandungthekcrachannel.com/ ... 13:07:39Already saturated Southern California expected more rain Monday after several days of storms caused flash flooding, power outages and mudslides.. The heavy rain claimed at least three lives -- a worker at the site of a sinkhole and two other people who were killed by mudslides... At least two tornadoes touched down... One.. uprooted trees, blew out windows and downed power lines....
Threatsdrudgereport.com/ ... 20:20:21Iran denied Monday suggestions on some local Internet sites that it arrested Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:19:51Iraq's devastated marshlands can be partially revitalised, says a team writing in the journal Science.... researchers say 30% of the former wetlands could be restored....
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:19:07The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers. The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on 22 February to the "Free Mojtaba and Arash Day".news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:30:59More than 100 people have been killed and scores more are missing in Indian-administered Kashmir following the worst snowfalls in two decades. Avalanches crushed homes.. in.. villages south of Srinagar - killing about 70 people...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:29:55Iran is becoming an increasingly dangerous place to keep an online diary. digital duh!
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 13:29:17U.S. Marines broke down doors and raided houses Monday on the second day of an offensive aimed at cracking down on insurgent activity in several troubled cities west of Baghdad.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:27:43A disgruntled employee opened fire Monday at the Northrop Grumman Ships Systems shipyard, critically wounding two co-workers... suspect.. in custody...voanews.com/ ... 13:08:24The Indonesian government says two Indonesian journalists kidnapped nearly a week ago in Iraq have been released.
SUN 2005-FEB-20
Preternatural Patternssuntimes.com/ ... 23:56:44During the six-month period that ended Tuesday, 3,896 prank calls to Chicago's 911 emergency center were placed from a pair of phone numbers at a single West Side address.variety.com/ ... 19:04:10 in 2004, PG films outgrossed R pics for the first time in two decades
Whoops!abcnews.go.com/ ... 19:01:50A confidential list of 4,500 southeast Florida residents with AIDS and 2,000 others who are HIV positive was inadvertently e-mailed to more than 800 county health workers
Lasting Contributionseonline.com/ ... 18:58:26Gidget goes to Heaven
Sandra Dee, once Hollywood's ideal blonde teen star and the original Gidget, died Sunday morning outside. She was 63.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 19:08:46Rescuers Find Survivor of Colorado Plane Crash in Snow Shelternews.com.au/ ... 19:00:52Twenty-one people have been taken to hospital and more are receiving treatment after the outbreak of a mystery illness at Melbourne Airport. Chaotic scenes.. hundreds of travellers stranded.. Virgin Blue terminal.. evacuated... most of the ill were airport workers...cbc.ca/ ... 12:56:38At least 75 people are dead and more are missing after a ferry capsized in strong winds in Bangladesh.. About 200 people were on the boat when it sank in six metres of water...
Gasps of the Doomedtoday.reuters.com/ ... 12:55:44"While our 'no late fee' policy may seem too good to some to be true, it is true," Blockbuster spokesman.. says. "Blockbuster has eliminated late fees. Our customers understand the program, [except maybe New Jerseyites?] and we are happy to explain it to anyone else who is interested. Blockbuster has received tremendous feedback from both its customers and employees in response to the company's elimination of late fees."washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:54:21New Jersey.. sued Blockbuster.. "End of Late Fees" policy is deceptive and fraudulent because consumers are charged hidden fees if they fail to return [rentals].. within a week after their due date... Blockbuster converts any rental more than eight days late to a sale... Blockbuster will reverse the charges if customers return overdue items within 30 days, but then they are charged a minimum $1.25-per-item restocking fee...
[Which one might JUST consider a late fee! Besides that, all that money in Blockbuster's pocket during the span when customers are charged for a movie and when they demand the refund can bring in a lot of interest in those few days, across all their stores...!]capitalnews9.com/ ... 12:47:23New Jersey regulators are taking a look at the fine print on.. Blockbuster's new "no late fees" policy.... charging that the company failed to tell customers the real deal.. many don't know that overdue rentals are converted to a sale after the due date...
Willpowerobserver.guardian.co.uk/ ... 00:31:17...almost two-thirds of us [Brits] admit to indulging in shallow chit-chat at the expense of weighty dialogue - even though we secretly long for more meaningful exchanges...cnsnews.com/ ... 00:29:02[NEWS FLASH]...criminals are the way they are because that is what they choose to do.... Criminals can change; they can stop being criminals... To do so, they have to choose to do so....
Digital Consequencessciencedaily.com/ ... 00:26:35"This is more than artificial intelligence... It's artificial life. Computer graphics, animation and virtual reality have advanced dramatically over the past decade. We are now able to create characters that are self-animating with functional bodies and brains that have behaviour, perception, learning and cognition centres."sciencedaily.com/ ... 00:25:45Unmanned aerial vehicles are one step closer to someday matching — and possibly surpassing — their human-piloted counterparts... Researchers from several partner institutions and organizations have helped to successfully build, test and fly the first.. helicopter.. with capabilities of flight control fault identification and reconfiguration, adaptive control and agile maneuvering — all operating on a single vehicle and under a single software architecture....sciencedaily.com/ ... 00:24:43Live TV outside broadcasts that combine real action and computer-generated images could become possible for the first time, thanks to camera navigation technology now under development.
Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:55:57Students at a California high school conducted mock same-sex "wedding" ceremonies at lunchtime on campus, prompting protests from angry parents.
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 13:20:10The Pentagon plans to shut down or scale back some of the 425 military bases...
Only Naturalnewscientist.com/ ... 23:49:09Crooked and disordered teeth may be the result of people having evolved to eat relatively mushy cooked food... By animal standards, human dentition is extraordinarily disordered... "The only body parts requiring regular surgery are the teeth," says Lucas. "It is extraordinary that the normal development of human teeth routinely fails to produce 'ideal' dentition," he says - and no one has yet been able to offer an explanation for this phenomenon..... "We've evolved to eat mush..." "We're a pretty puny bunch, really, with small teeth and small jaws... If we couldn't get the foods we like, and we ever had to adapt quickly, we might be in a terrible mess because our teeth aren't equipped to cope with anything very substantial."...ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:07:34An elephant at the Vienna Zoo... a 3-year-old bull.. currently going through a phase of separation from his mother... pinned his longtime keeper to a wall and impaled him with his tusks on Sunday, killing the man who had cared for him since his birth.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:21:57A hiker fell about 1,000 feet down a mountain side, riding an avalanche feet-first - and suffered only minor injuries.Surf's Up!ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:15:51Avalanches killed 16 people in Kashmir on Sunday and cut the Himalayan region off from the rest of India for a second daysciencedaily.com/ ... 00:29:29Science Dailyphysorg.com/ ... 00:27:38...New research.. suggests the circadian clock also may regulate the formation of memory at night....
Under Tyrannykoreaherald.co.kr/ ... 23:55:32A North Korean defector testified to have witnessed forced abortions and infanticide at a detention camp in North Korea... also recalled painfully the traumatic experience of inhumane treatments at the camp...
Police Riotfox21.com/ ... 23:54:08Some home schoolers say they were having a meeting in Simpsonville Park when an officer started bullying them.... 6 mothers and about 15 to 20 kids, every Wednesday for the past 5 years the group has come to Simpsonville Park to socialize and meet with each other, but they say this past Wednesday... "We were just sitting there talking..." "I heard a man yelling take your hands out of your pocket and I turned around and he was yelling at one of the boys in the group..." "He started yelling and screaming at this boy for having a knife, then pushed him down...." "went for another boy a 16 year old, yelled at him something about having a knife, he pushed him to the ground...." "I was frightened, I really didn't know who he was..." one of the.. mothers tried to stop him, by getting between the officer and the student. "She was trying to protect a student, we didn't know what was happening, he could've been a murderer, a rapist or anything, we just, he was attacking one of our kids and we were trying to stop him..." "She turned to Jan and said call the police and that's when he told us he was the police. It didn't even occur to me he was a policeman, he acted so insane...." Police Chief Reese says officers do not have to identify themselves immediately and that the officer was wearing a badge and a gun... "A crazy man come running up screaming, you're not looking at his belt to see if he's an officer..." the student did have a small hunting knife in a sheath on his belt, but never once had it out.... "The police station is right beside [the park], he could just come down at any time and do anything he wanted to...." mother who tried to stop the officer was arrested and charged with assault on an officer, the 16 year old boy was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. Simpsonville Police say they will not comment....
Yeah, Sure!news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:03:28Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri warned the West it faced defeat in what he termed its "new crusade" against the Islamic world, as well as thousands of dead and economic collapse
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 19:05:36Sympathetic Soldier Brings Iraqi Boy Home to Wisconsin as a Foster Childreuters.com/ ... 13:06:49The United States has almost doubled the number of trainers it will embed in Afghanistan's national army and the new force should be completed more quickly than originally anticipated, a spokesman said on Sunday.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:17:13In Baghdad, Shiites stung by a string of bombings attended services in fortified funeral tents in hopes of avoiding a third straight day of attacks....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:05:34With 10 to 20 million people migrating from the country into towns each year, China is creating the equivalent of a city the size of Geneva every week.
Violencenewsday.com/ ... 23:58:58...the extraordinary televised confession of Ahmed Abdullah Abdul-Rahman Alshai, a 20-year-old high school dropout from Saudi Arabia and one of many young volunteers from across the Arab world who have come to Iraq to wage jihad, or holy war... survived the thunderous Christmas Eve explosion he set off in Baghdad's upscale Mansour district. His rigged gas tanker erupted into a massive fireball at the concrete barriers of a fortified compound housing three embassies... It's clear that many captured insurgents have told investigators what they want to hear, and they may have been coached or coerced... At the same time, authorities say the information gleaned from interrogations has been helpful in breaking up insurgent cells....ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:46:35A man burst into a trailer home Sunday and shot to death his two children, his estranged wife and her boyfriend before killing himself along a road in southern Indianareuters.com/ ... 13:06:04U.S. Marines and Iraqi troops set up checkpoints and imposed an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew on the rebellious Sunni city of Ramadi on Sunday...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:03:20Russian security forces have stormed an apartment building in Nalchik, in the southern Kabardino-Balkaria republic. ..besieging a group of suspected Islamic militants hiding in the block since Saturday... unknown number of the alleged militants were killed when a firefight broke out and the security forces set off poison gas...
Digital Threatnypost.com/ ... 13:01:01...cellphone jammers — illegal gizmos that interfere with signals and cut off reception — are selling like hotcakes on the streets of New York. "I bought one online, and I love it," said one jammer owner fed up with the din of dumb conversations and rock-and-roll ringtones. "I use it on the bus all the time. I always zap the idiots who discuss what they want from the Chinese restaurant so that everyone can hear them. Why is that necessary?"drudgereport.com/ ... 12:59:39Private telephone numbers of celebrities have been unleashed on the Internet after an apparent hacking into Paris Hilton's T-MOBILE SIDEKICK Address Book... One top star [contacted by Drudge]... "I gave her my number after we met in Miami, I did not know she fü¢king kept it on her cellphone!"
Iraq Votesboston.com/ ... 00:32:11Sen Clinton, in Iraq: 'Not one polling place was shut down or overrun and the fact that you have these suicide bombers now, wreaking such hatred and violence while people pray, is to me, an indication of their failure... 'The results of the election are a strong rebuke to those who did not believe that the Iraqi people would take this opportunity to demonstrate their own commitment to their own future.''
World Without Bordersworld-newspapers.com/ ... 00:30:26World-Newspapers
Peace 3000ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:06:30In Historic Session, Sharon's Cabinet Begins Charting Israel's Final Borders... signaled it will keep a chunk of prime West Bank land close to Jerusalem, including two large Jewish settlement blocs....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:04:35A clear majority of Spaniards have voted in favour of the European Union constitution in a referendum.upbeat.net/ ... 00:29:50Upbeat.. Positive, Optimistic, Inspiring News for all ages...
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People Dienews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 17:49:50Television is responsible for the deaths of 20,000 Germans a year, according to a professor of psychiatry... "People who watch too much have little time for sport or movement of any kind. They eat more in turn and that leads to them becoming overweight and dying earlier."...
Family Patternsthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 17:47:48YUK WARNING!
A Dutchman has been accused of murdering his mother, flaying her and then cloaking himself in her skin during a street festival.
Sex -- always attractivesfgate.com/ ... 17:40:48Two former employees of the Gorilla Foundation, home to Koko the "talking" ape, have filed a lawsuit contending that they were ordered to bond with the 33-year-old female simian by displaying their breasts.
Supernaturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:36:16 Saddam... is reportedly relying on the devil to pull him through his trial.
Extraterrestrialworldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:34:57The woman, who said she was not inclined to believe in aliens, reported they first spotted a bright light about midnight that later appeared to be heading toward them... about half the size of a house and had one red pulsating light on one side and a similar blue light on the other... as the craft came toward them it appeared to be shaped like an oblong Australian football. But as it grew nearer, she surmised it was saucer shaped....
Whoops!worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:38:55...New Jersey psychiatrist... got testy at a Mesa Airlines ticket counter... "If I had a bomb, you wouldn't find it...." Transportation Security Administration described Khoshnu as acting "mouthy and snippy...." removed ..suitcase and inspected it in an open area on the grounds of the airport... found nothing suspicious... blew up the bag with an explosive charge and then doused it with water....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:33:13A flamboyant anthropology professor, whose work had been cited as evidence Neanderthal man once lived in Northern Europe, has resigned after a German university panel ruled he fabricated data and plagiarized the works of his colleagues.....
US Executive Branchnytimes.com/ ... 17:30:23As George W. Bush was first moving onto the national political stage, he often turned for advice to an old friend who secretly taped some of their private conversations, creating a rare record of the future president as a politician and a personality.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:53:38[flag]Army Sgt. Christopher M. Pusateri, 21, of Corning, N.Y., died Feb.16 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained from enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:53:19[flag]Army Sgt. Frank B. Hernandez, 21, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Feb. 17 in Tal Afar, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:53:03[flag]Army Spc. Katrina L. Bell-Johnson, 32, of Orangeburg, S.C., died Feb. 16 in Ba'qubah, Iraq, when she was involved in a vehicle accident.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:52:36[flag]Army Sgt. Timothy R. Osbey, 34, and
[flag]Army Spc. Joseph A.Rahaim, 22,
both of Magnolia, Miss. died Feb.16 in Forward Operating Base Iskandariyah, Iraq, when a roadway collapsed, causing their vehicle to roll over. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:51:50[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Jason R. Hendrix, 28, of Claremore, Okla., died Feb.16 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when an explosion occurred while he was conducting combat operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:51:23[flag]Army Pfc. Michael A. Arciola, 20, of Elmsford, N.Y., died Feb. 15 in Al Ramadi, Iraq, from injuries sustained from enemy small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:51:04[flag]Army Spc. Justin B. Carter, 21, of Mansfield, Mo., died Feb. 16 in Forward Operating Base McKenzie, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries.
US Militarylasvegassun.com/ ... 17:49:02A military police private who bared her breasts during a mud-wrestling party at an Army camp in Iraq is being kicked out of the service, her grandmother said Friday.
Only Naturalabclocal.go.com/ ... 17:39:46Five years ago, Henry was born with the rare Kostmann Syndrome. Seventy percent of victims die in the first year of life. If it does not kill by age 3 or 4, an aggressive form of leukemia is almost inevitable. Henry's best chance at life is a perfectly matching sibling bone marrow transplant. Three-year-old brother Sam is not a match. So the family had to turn to cutting-edge science to have a child with a perfect match....apnews.myway.com/ ... 17:32:40Powerful thunderstorms hammered already saturated Southern California on Saturday with soaking rain and hail, flooding roads and homes, knocking out power to thousands of customers and raising the threat of mudslides. La Conchita, the coastal hamlet where 10 people were killed by a huge landslide last month, was a ghost town after the U.S. Geological Survey warned that none of the roughly 150 remaining homes could be considered safe. In a year of record rainfall, the latest storms had soaked downtown Los Angeles with about 2 inches of rain since Thursday... Amtrak canceled Los Angeles-to-Santa Barbara commuter rail service... because of mudslides.. Mudslides also threatened homes in Culver City, in Los Angeles County, and in the Orange County cities of Mission Viejo and Anaheim... unconfirmed report of a possible tornado touching down and causing minor damage in Fallbrook...
Great Quake of 2004sfgate.com/ ... 17:46:58In.. December's catastrophic earthquake... a surge of seawater more than 90 feet high inundated stretches of the remote western coast... When the tsunami hit.. Sri Lanka.. it displaced 2 million cubic yards of sand -- enough to bury a football field 1, 000 feet deep... some of the early and jaw-dropping observations of an American team of scientists who recently returned from the disaster zone.... trillions of tons of water were rapidly displaced... quake.. ripped along the seabed at 2 miles per second, traveling for nearly eight minutes, leaving a "rupture zone" that stretched to the north about 750 miles... sections of the western coast of Sumatra sank 3 to 6 feet.....reuters.myway.com/ ... 17:29:40"It's very moving," Bush said after a little girl whose mother died in the Dec. 26 tsunami handed him a picture she had drawn of that day, showing her fishing village beneath the killer wave and a woman floating, eyes closed, in the water. "I'll never forget this," he said... The tsunami may have killed 300,000 people around the Indian Ocean
Reasons for Repealexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 17:28:11...Bartlesville police officers responded to the couple's residence... in reference to a family fight. When police arrived, [female, 26]... upset with her boyfriend... told them that marijuana was being grown in the attic of the garage.... reportedly signed a consent to search form... [police] found four medium sized marijuana plants, a heat source, six halogen light bulbs, three bottles of Miracle Grow and a small fan... room.. surrounded by tin foil. Bond [his] $15,000 [hers] $10,000.... [Maybe there should be a law against betrayal like this! Or a stupidity tax, at least.]
Violencecsmonitor.com/ ... 17:50:36Eight suicide bombings and other insurgent attacks across Iraq on Saturday killed at least 50 people, including a US soldier...
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Family Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:30:57SALEM, Mass. - A man was convicted Friday of sexually abusing his daughters and terrorizing his family for years at a hidden compound surrounded by an 8-foot double fence... three boys and three girls were not allowed to venture beyond the fence, even to attend school... family was sometimes locked inside for months... oldest daughter, now 21, testified that McMullen raped her repeatedly between 1995 and 2001 and that some of the attacks were witnessed by her brothers and sisters... wife.. testified that she was severely beaten during their 17-year marriage. In May 2001, she gathered her children and fled... applied for a restraining order a week later...
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 20:27:32The U.S. Roman Catholic Church received 1,092 new claims of priest sexual abuse last year and paid more than $157 million to deal with them
Extraterrestrialthisislondon.com/ ... 14:24:13Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge Of The Sith will open.. the Cannes Film Festival... in May....space.com/ ... 14:21:48A huge explosion halfway across the galaxy packed so much power it briefly altered Earth's upper atmosphere in December, astronomers said Friday. No known eruption beyond our solar system has ever appeared as bright upon arrival... In gamma rays, the event equaled the brightness of the full Moon's reflected visible light... The blast originated about 50,000 light-years away and was detected Dec. 27... caused by a special variety of neutron star known as a magnetar....
History - still with ustuscaloosanews.com/ ... 14:00:28On the anniversary of its sinking, a scientist said while it's still not known what sent the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley to the bottom, the vessel will eventually give up its secrets... "Archaeology is the perfect forensic discipline. But in our case we have a very cold case. It's not 10 years old. It's over 140 years old," she said. "I'm very confident we will know what happened but it's a matter of time." Thursday was the 141st anniversary of the sinking of the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship.
Sex -- always attractivetoday.reuters.co.uk/ ... 14:23:10...nice Manhattan restaurant... monthly "Clothing Optional Dinner"...story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:21:59...In 2001 the Boise City Council passed an ordinance banning total nudity in public unless it had "serious artistic merit" -- an exemption meant to apply to plays, dance performances and art classes.... On what it calls Art Club Nights, the Erotic City strip club charges customers $15 (8 pounds) for a sketch pad, pencil, and a chance to see completely naked women dancers... "We have a lot of people drawing some very good pictures," said Erotic City owner Chris Teague, who has posted many of the drawings around the club....
Supernaturalcbc.ca/ ... 13:51:24Canada's Hutterite community has taken an unprecedented political stand, writing the Prime Minister to warn the country could become the next Sodom and Gomorrah if same-sex marriage is legalized.... "We will be classed as traitors in God's eyes, and we will live the darkest day in all of Canada's history," says the letter... "Two men living together is not right: we are totally against that.." an elder.. told CBC News... One of the authors of the letter.. said the Bible forbids same-sex relationships. "It's a terrible sin. If all the people on the earth would turn that way, the people in the world would die out...."
[Oh fer cryin out loud... If this were legislation that REQUIRED ONLY same-sex marriage, there might be reasonable objections.... but this bunch of agitated throwbacks is a... hoot (couldn't resist).]southbendtribune.com/ ... 12:20:11The Bible says Edom's kings interacted with ancient Israel, but some scholars have confidently declared that no Edomite state could have existed that early. The latest archaeological work indicates the Bible got it right, those experts got it wrong and some write-ups need rewriting. The findings also could buttress disputed biblical reports about kings David and Solomon....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:18:59Vatican archeologists... have positively identified the tomb of St. Paul the apostle.... The Bible does not state how Paul died. Many scholars believe he was beheaded in Rome in about the A.D. mid-60s during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero....
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 14:35:02Robots suspended from cranes will help demolish the skeleton of one of Madrid's tallest buildings destroyed by a weekend fire because the ruin is too dangerous to be handled by workersreuters.com/ ... 14:34:25Chinese mobile phone users sent a record 11 billion text messages during the week-long Spring Festival holiday, ringing in the Lunar New Year in stylenews.zdnet.com/ ... 00:46:03A Web standards body has published a series of definitions that could make it easier for big companies to share business documents.... Universal Business Language (UBL) version 1.0, a standardized document format.
Whoops!news.ft.com/ ... 14:17:09UK -- The Food Standards Agency on Friday issued a warning advising people to avoid eating 350 food products which have been contaminated with an illegal dye... The dye, known as Sudan I, was in a batch of chilli powder used by British food manufacturer Premier Foods to make Worcester sauce. The condiment was then used in various ready meals and cooking sauces... All the main food retailers are affected.... Premier Foods insisted that the ingredient had been supplied by "a reputable UK source", and that they had received "written assurance that the chilli powder did not contain Sudan I"....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:34:22 N.J. -- State police seized more than $5 million in cash Thursday from a tractor-trailer found idling unattended for two days on the shoulder of a roadway
Transportthisislondon.com/ ... 14:25:11A new 300mph rail link between London and the North could use "levitating" trains...ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:33:41City of New Orleans train hit a truck at a railroad crossing Thursday, killing two men in the train's second fatal wreck in five days on a 10-mile span of track.
US Election 2008drudgereport.com/ ... 00:13:55David Geffen on Sen. Clinton for President 2008: "She can't win, and she's an incredibly polarizing figure...."
Great Quake of 2004newsday.com/ ... 20:26:14Archaeologists have begun underwater excavations of what is believed to be an ancient city and parts of a temple uncovered by the tsunami off the coast of a centuries-old pilgrimage town. Three rocky structures with elaborate carvings of animals have emerged near the coastal town of Mahabalipuram, which was battered by the Dec. 26 tsunami. As the waves receded, the force of the water removed sand deposits that had covered the structures, which appear to belong to a port city built in the seventh century....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:47:04[flag]Army Sgt. Adam J. Plumondore, 22, of Gresham, Ore., died February 16 in Mosul, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:46:38[flag]Army Pfc. David J.Brangman, 20, of Lake Worth, Fla., died February 13 in Uvanni, Iraq, when a mortar round struck his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:46:10[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class David J.Salie, 34, of Columbus, Ga., died February 14 in Ba'qubah, Iraq, when his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:45:15[flag]Army Sgt. Chad W. Lake, 26, of Ocala, Fla.
[flag]Army Sgt. Rene Knox, Jr., 22, of New Orleans, La.
[flag]Army Spc. Dakotah L. Gooding, 21, of Des Moines, Iowa
died Feb. 13 in Balad, Iraq, when the vehicle they were riding in overturned.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:43:51[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Richard A. Perez Jr., 19, of Las Vegas, Nev., died Feb. 10 as a result of non-hostile vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:43:26[flag]Pentagon police officer James M. Feltis, III died at 12:40 p.m. today from complications resulting from injuries sustained in the line of duty.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:42:53[flag]Air Force Staff Sgt. Ray Rangel, 29, of San Antonio, Texas, died Feb. 13 while performing a canal rescue mission in Balad, Iraq.
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 14:32:23Medical-marijuana growers in Mendocino County - a Northern California outpost that is home to vegans, vintners, libertarians and aging hippies - want to have their pot certified as organic.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 14:45:35 This week, the Air Force and Navy announced an increase, while the Army, Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 1,811 more reservists mobilized than last week.csmonitor.com/ ... 14:42:14...The dream of homecoming is finally turning to reality for the US marines of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR), Charlie Company, a key element of the invasion of Fallujah last November... Their war over for now, this week the marines turned in excess ammunition, grenades, and explosives before beginning the long convoy to Kuwait, by ship to Okinawa, Japan, and finally a mid-April flight to Camp Pendleton... grappling with emotions that range from joy at safe deliverance to anxiety about slotting back into mundane lives that lie ahead....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:31:50While a current list of coalition countries - those helping out in Iraq with troops, equipment, monetary or political support - is not easy to come by, there is a public listing of the countries that have actual troops in Iraq. These 20-plus countries, which have combat and support forces in Iraq under the command of Gen. George Casey Jr., make up the multinational force.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:26:07...members of the military have reported 307 sexual assaults that took place while they were stationed in Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan or Bahrain.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 20:33:16A Muslim woman who was barred from accompanying her children to a public swimming pool because she was fully clothed settled a lawsuit Friday against the city of Omaha.... city said it amended its swimming pool dress code to accommodate religious or medical needs....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:31:50Solomon Williams, who broke the color barrier on Florida's railroads to become the state's first black locomotive engineer, died Feb. 11. He was 101. When Williams became an engineer in 1921, the sight of a black man driving a train so surprised some people that they offered money to take his picture
Only Naturalreuters.myway.com/ ... 20:26:58Lead left in paint, water, soil and elsewhere may not only be affecting children's intelligence but may cause a significant proportion of violent crime, a U.S. researcher argued Friday.reuters.com/ ... 14:35:46The sexy scent used by female cockroaches to attract males could be the best tool yet against the creepy pests, U.S. researchers said on Friday... the cockroach's rare aroma has eluded scientists for years....newsday.com/ ... 14:18:51A rare form of plague has killed at least 61 people at a diamond mine in the remote wilds of northeast Congo, and authorities fear hundreds more who fled into the forests to escape the contagion are infected and dyinghealthcentral.com/ ... 14:17:44U.S. scientists on Thursday announced that they'd created the first map of common human genetic variations, information that may help predict disease risk and provide improved treatment.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:18:09The fossilised skeleton of a rabbit-like creature that lived 55 million years ago has been found in Mongolia...
Artist's conception
oldest member of the rabbit family ever to be found... surprisingly similar to modern rabbits... had a true 'rabbit's foot'; that is, a foot more than twice as long as the hand that could be used for hopping... had quite a big tail and some of its teeth were more squirrel-like than rabbit-like....
Under Tyrannyexaminer-enterpr ise.com/ ... 20:36:42For rancher John Hughes of Bartlesville, attaching a "Product of U.S.A." label to the meat carved from the thousands of cattle his operation handles each year will amount to a cost and paperwork nightmare. Hughes is adamantly opposed to the idea of mandatory "country-of-origin" labeling for beef, a federal program set to go into effect on Sept. 30, 2006.
Digital Threatreuters.com/ ... 20:27:53The world's first mobile phone virus "in the wild" has spread to the United States from its birthplace in the Philippines eight months agonews.zdnet.com/ ... 00:50:47Automaker Lexus has denied that the Cabir wireless worm poses a risk to the Bluetooth-capable navigation systems featured in some of its vehicles.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:32:18Arkansas state House on Friday voted against affirming the separation of church and state....washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:18:03The United States and Japan will declare Saturday for the first time in a joint agreement that Taiwan is a mutual security concern, according to a draft of the document. Analysts called the move a demonstration of Japan's willingness to confront the rapidly growing might of China.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:32:37Federal prosecutors have charged an Algerian man with making up an al-Qaida bomb plot in an effort to avoid being deported.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:28:09A string of attacks against mainly Shia Muslim targets have killed at least 28 people in Iraq. Bombers struck two Shia mosques in Baghdad, killing 16, while two died in a mortar blast near a Shia procession.... seven people were killed in a bomb outside a Shia mosque in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad.newkerala.com/ ... 13:53:34Tungsten alloys, being used in battlefield munitions to make them less toxic may cause cancer in soldiers wounded by them, U.S. Army researchers said... All of the rats implanted with tungsten developed extremely aggressive tumors surrounding the pellets... all of the tumors spread rapidly to the lungs of the rats, requiring researchers to euthanize the animals well before the anticipated end of the study....news4jax.com/ ... 12:20:30A school district was sued by parents who say their son's fourth-grade teacher made the boy spray himself with Lysol in front of classmates because of body odor.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:32:15A heavily armed man held authorities at bay for hours Thursday before police stormed his home and discovered he had committed suicide.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:25:51A heavily armed man was holed up inside a suburban home Thursday after firing warning shots to keep officers away. The standoff forced two nearby schools to lock down... The man never directly threatened police but pointed a gun at a family friend, warning him off..ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:28:37City officials who encouraged a Baltimore couple to report illegal drug activity didn't do enough to prevent a dealer from killing them and their five children in retribution, relatives claim in a $14 million lawsuit.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:28:08[Another Cellphone Age Event] Police who were alerted by a passenger's cell phone call intercepted a passenger bus and arrested an 18-year-old woman who had been holding the driver at knifepoint... disarmed by the driver and two passengers before the State Patrol and other officers stopped the bus...ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:25:01Texas Dennis Wayne Bagwell... executed Thursday... denied involvement in the slayings of his mother, Leona McBee, 47; her niece, Libby Best, 24; Best's daughter, Reba, 4; and Tassy Boone, 14, the granddaughter of McBee's common-law husband... slain at a mobile home in a rural area near Stockdale, about 35 miles southeast of San Antonio... smoked crack in San Antonio, then drove to his mother's place so he could borrow some money... became enraged when his mother gave him only $20... two weeks before the quadruple slayings.. he stomped a janitor to death at a bar... At the time of the slayings, Bagwell was on parole for attempted capital murder for slitting the throat of an illegal immigrant....news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:14:33Al-Jamadi died in a prison shower room during about a half-hour of questioning, before interrogators could extract any information, according to the documentsbloomberg.com/ ... 00:12:45 A bomb blast in Thailand's southern Yala province wounded two soldiers... patrolling the area...rawstory.com/ ... 00:11:32The Washington Post... relegated a thousand pages of new torture documents to page A-16 of Friday’s paper.... The New York Times also dumped the story deep into the A-section, with a meager 633 words....
“I realized there would be another public outrage if these photographs got out, so they were destroyed,” said a soldier whose name was deleted from an Army investigative report...nytimes.com/ ... 00:09:17A cache of documents disclosed Thursday provides several instances of prisoner abuse by American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq that appeared to have been investigated only briefly.... an Iraqi detainee asserted that Americans in civilian clothing beat him repeatedly, dislocated his shoulder, stepped on his nose until it broke, choked him with a rope and hit him in the leg with a bat. Medical reports in the file confirmed the broken nose and fractured leg....
Another case... in 2003... Manadel al-Jamadi, who had been in C.I.A. custody at Abu Ghraib... corpse was wrapped in plastic and packed in ice before being smuggled out of the prison, in an apparent effort to evade notice from military guards.... had been found suspended by his wrists, which had been handcuffed behind his back. ...soldiers who found his body said Mr. Jamadi's arms had nearly been pulled from their sockets....
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Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 13:29:41As three of the world's top six mobile phone makers announced music-playing phones at this week's 3GSM wireless trade show, Britain's privately held Sendo said it was the only handset maker that could already show a model.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:50:19The Cassini spacecraft's latest flyby of Titan has produced a radar image of a 440km-wide (273 miles) crater... A second radar image... shows parallel linear features that have been nicknamed "cat scratches"... may be formed by winds, like sand dunes, or by other geological processes....
Oh! The Irony!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:41:54Flashback: April 2004
Singer Alanis Morissette wore a "nude suit" on stage at Canada's equivalent of the Grammys to complain about censorship in the US.
Not really nude
"I am overjoyed to be back in my homeland, the true North ... strong and censor-free."news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:40:42Canadian Alanis Morissette is now an American citizen... maintaining dual citizenship...
US Executive Branchreuters.com/ ... 12:23:46President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, to the new post of director of national intelligence, created to integrate America's diverse intelligence services
Supernaturalnydailynews.com/ ... 12:26:18A volunteer tending to "The Gates" in Central Park created his own stir yesterday - when he rescued a pair of drowning dogs from an icy pond.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:18:50The Vatican university is launching a new course for exorcists - Roman Catholic priests who cast out evil spirits from the possessed.
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 13:31:35...[car thief] failed to pry out its radio, fell asleep clutching his screwdriver, and was woken, then arrested by police....newsday.com/ ... 03:17:58Howard Dean, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, requested a media blackout of a debate with top Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, then quickly changed his mind Wednesday after news agencies complained.
Only Naturalalertnet.org/ ... 03:17:06Super-cyclone Olaf smashed through parts of American Samoa with gale-force winds, heavy rains and huge seas, tearing homes apart and sinking one fishing boat and leaving another missing.... The 1,300 residents on the three islands had bunkered down in shelters before the cyclone hit.... Four men had been found floating in the ocean by a reconnaissance plane and been dropped a life raft... the crew of one boat had not been heard from since Wednesday night when they took to a life raft as their boat sank... three were reported injured on another boat....
Digital Threatreuters.com/ ... 13:02:25NEW! POWER CORDS AS RELIABLE AS WINDOWS ITSELF!
Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, said on Thursday it will recall 14.1 million power cords for its Xbox video game console after a defect gave some users minor singe burns and scorched carpets.
We are not talking some exotic part or even an exploding battery here... we're talking about POWER CORDS! You'd think they'd have the bugs worked out of power cords at least by now... FOURTEEN MILLION OF THEM!
Iraq Votesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:48:06The Shia United Iraqi Alliance party has won a majority of seats in Iraq's new transitional parliament.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 13:30:18Two Kenyan boys whose penises were cut off to be sold for making anti-AIDS potions have had them reconstructed in Spainthisislondon.com/ ... 12:28:19A British resident has been blinded in one eye by American military police at Guantanamo Bay, his lawyer claimed today.abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:27:30A car bomb exploded Thursday near a tourist hotel in southern Thailand, killing five people and wounding more than 40 in the nation's first such attack....
Threatsolympics.reuters.com/ ... 12:24:52President Bush demanded Syria pull troops from Lebanon on Thursday... "Syria is out of step with the progress being made in the greater Middle East.... Democracy is on the move, and this is a country that is not moving with the democratic movement...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:19:09Enough plutonium to make seven nuclear bombs is unaccounted for in the records of Sellafield power station, British Nuclear Group is expected to announce.news.ft.com/ ... 03:18:23The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned that China's military modernisation is tilting the balance of power in the Taiwan Strait and increasing the threat to US forces in the region.
WED 2005-FEB-16
People Dieap.tbo.com/ ... 20:47:40A lifelong skier was killed when an avalanche carried him off a mountain while he and three friends were making a film about extreme skiing.
Hygiene is Important!wftv.com/ ... 20:40:57A restaurant manager was charged with raping an employee at knifepoint after the woman recognized her masked attacker from his bad breath
Communist Consumersabc.net.au/ ... 20:39:05China has eclipsed the world's richest economy in consumption of four of the five basic foods, energy and industrial commodities. The country uses twice as much fertiliser as the United States and Chinese people buy many more television sets, refrigerators and cellular phones than Americans. China trails the United States only in automobiles.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:41:46Scientists at Intel have overcome a fundamental problem that before now has prevented silicon being used to generate and amplify laser light. The breakthrough should make it easier to interconnect data networks with the chips that process the information. The Intel researchers said products exploiting the breakthrough should appear by the end of the decade.salon.com/ ... 20:37:50Is the downfall of CNN's Eason Jordan after a blogger reported his off-the-record remarks a sign that the blogosphere is surpassing the mainstream media?
Transportnytimes.com/ ... 20:36:09Eight people were killed Wednesday morning when a small plane crashed just outside of Pueblo, about 120 miles south of Denver, as it approached the local airport. The plane is registered to Circuit City Stores, and four of its employees were among the dead.
Supernaturalap.tbo.com/ ... 09:33:58GROVE, Okla. -- Pastor Steve Dyer of the Newsong Church gave $14,000 to congregation members to invest for seven weeks, after which they are to bring the money and profits back to the church to be used in missionary work. "The idea has always been in the back of my mind..."
Family Patternsreuters.com/ ... 09:29:11Diagnosed with incurable lung cancer, a 53-year-old Italian father robbed more than 10 banks so he could build a big enough inheritance to leave to his children.
Job Securityreuters.com/ ... 09:25:04Bio-Recovery, a business that cleans crime, trauma and biohazard scenes in New York City and surrounding areas... his old job.. emergency medical technician in the city for more than two decades.. he would be among the first to arrive at a messy scene of tragedy. .
"People would ask us who we could get to clean this up and we never knew anyone... I did some research and found out no one was doing this here so I figured, let's do something."
Extraterrestrialspace.com/ ... 20:40:17A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have found strong evidence that life may exist today on Mars, hidden away in caves and sustained by pockets of water.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 20:44:22A Dutch farmer has painted pigeons pink and green to ward off hungry birds of prey and it seems to have workednews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 20:35:07A recent analysis of two Homo sapiens skulls unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to 195,000 years ago.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:39:03...coffee.. may help prevent the most common type of liver cancer...ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:38:19Faculty members confronted Harvard president Lawrence Summers at a tense meeting where some questioned whether he could still lead the university after recently suggesting innate differences help explain why more men than women excel in math and science.reuters.com/ ... 09:30:40...giant panda poo in China has proved the endangered animals are expanding their horizons... in northwest China's Shaanxi province, where giant pandas hadn't been seen since before the 1970s....
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 09:28:37A woman who was arrested while dressed as a gas guzzling HummerG sued New York City on Tuesday for putting the brakes on her one-person protest in front of an SUV dealership during the Republican National Convention.
Great Quake of 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:19:57In 2002, a village in India's Tamil Nadu state planted 80,244 saplings to enter the Guinness World Records book... the trees would save their lives... when the tsunami roared into the coast of southern India on 26 December... Unlike other coastal areas in Tamil Nadu, Naluvedapathy is shielded by a kilometre-thick tree cover....
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 09:37:30SOUTH BEND, Ind. - A 79-year-old woman has been charged with using her wooden cane to strike police officers who arrived at her home to check on her welfare.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:34:36Sobbing and clasping her hands, a kidnapped Italian journalist appeared on a video Wednesday, pleading for her life and calling on U.S.-led troops to pull out of Iraq.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:32:20A car bomb exploded alongside a U.S. military convoy in northern Iraq on Wednesday... Several people were injured....
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 20:47:21 Iranian authorities gave conflicting explanations for the blast - including construction work and Iranian friendly fire in a military area... a top security official said the blast was part of construction work on a dam.... [Huh! The same thing North Korea said last September...!]aberdeennews.com/ ... 20:39:44PIERRE, S.D. - Abortion should be a crime in South Dakota if states are given the right to outlaw the medical procedure, a House panel recommended Friday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:35:15A suspected member of al-Qaida has turned himself in to the authorities and confessed to planning terror attacks against Western embassies in the Yemeni capital... They did not say why he turned himself in....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:13:49Iran and Syria say they are to form a common front to face challenges and threats from overseas.ctv.ca/ ... 09:13:32...Iran's revolutionary guards later confirmed there was no attack but denied the report of a falling fuel tank....marketwatch.com/ ... 09:12:50An unknown aircraft fired a missile at a deserted area near Dailam in the province of Bushehr where Iran has a nuclear power plant... may have been the result of a dropped fuel tank... Crude-oil prices rose.....
Peace 3000ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:33:01NEWPORT, Ind. - The Army will begin this spring destroying a deadly nerve agent that was stockpiled at a chemical depot....reuters.com/ ... 09:11:18A year of peace talks between India and Pakistan finally bore fruit on Wednesday when their foreign ministers unveiled several accords, including the start of a bus service across a ceasefire line dividing Kashmir.
TUE 2005-FEB-15
St Patrickreuters.com/ ... 12:39:20Patrick was an astute converter who attracted heathens by incorporating pagan imagery into Christianity, celebrating Easter with bonfires and placing a sun at the center of the cross to produce a Celtic cross.
Transportreuters.com/ ... 12:38:00Nearly 500 passengers including eight with broken bones disembarked from the "Grand Voyager" cruise ship in Sardinia Tuesday a day after it was battered by a storm in the Mediterranean Sea. ...lost communications and most of its power on Monday as it was pummeled by force 11 gales and waves up to 15 meters (45 feet) high while en route from Tunisia to Barcelona. "It was like being on a rollercoaster...."
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:36:29An attorney has filed the latest in a series of civil lawsuits against twin physician brothers, accusing them of impersonating one another and sexually assaulting female patients in an obstetric-gynecology practice... [one twin is] a general practitioner who is not certified in obstetrics and gynecology....reuters.com/ ... 12:33:26Before leaving on vacation, a German couple set up a loudspeaker and timer with the sound of a crowing cock to blast their neighbors every morning.
Digital Consequencesinterestalert.com/ ... 12:03:49Employees of U.S.-based search engine Google gave $207,650 to federal candidates for the 2004 elections -- virtually all of it to Democrats... among the company's top 2004 givers was Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, whose biggest single donation was $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Valentine!reuters.com/ ... 12:36:58MEXICALI, Mexico - Star-crossed lovers clasped hands, kissed and exchanged forbidden Valentine's Day cards on Monday through a gap in a fence on the heavily guarded U.S.-Mexico border...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:34:24Venetian gondoliers, enraged by a ban on boating at night, have gone on strike - spoiling many a couple's dream of a Valentine's Day boat trip.
Sex can be Dangeroussignonsandiego.com/ ... 22:42:06An unidentified San Diego resident may be infected with the same rare, aggressive and highly drug-resistant strain of HIV found last week in a New York City man who has rapidly become ill with AIDSreuters.com/ ... 12:35:00A New Jersey man has filed a false advertising lawsuit against a maker of herbal penis enlargement pills, alleging the medicine does not fulfill its promises... dubious claims that the product would add up to 3 inches (7.5 cm) to their penises by "very, very convincing" advertising, such as infomercials featuring doctors and porn stars....nytimes.com/ ... 04:33:03After all the thousands of AIDS deaths and all the years of "Safe Sex Is Hot Sex" prevention messages, it has come down to this: many gay men who know the rules of engagement in the age of AIDS are not using condoms. As news of a potentially virulent strain of H.I.V. settles in, gay activists and AIDS prevention workers say they are dismayed and angry that the 25-year-old battle against the disease might have to begin all over again.
Justice?apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:01:31A 15-year-old boy who claimed the antidepressant Zoloft drove him to kill his grandparents was found guilty of murder Tuesday. Christopher Pittman could get 30 years to life in prison after a jury rejected his claim that he was involuntarily intoxicated by the drug.bloomberg.com/ ... 12:00:12Helen Steel and David Morris, London- based activists who lost a libel claim brought by McDonald's Corp., were denied a fair trial, the European Court of Human Rights ruled.
US Militaryreuters.com/ ... 04:35:02an interceptor missile again failed to launch during a test of the U.S. missile defense system.
Only Naturalsg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 22:43:17Twin cyclones battered three south Pacific nations and weather experts warned they could combine into one giant, destructive storm center that would create havoc in the region.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:40:15Thousands of anguished Venezuelans returned to ruined homes and neighborhoods filled with mud Friday as floodwaters receded following a disaster that has left at least 15 people dead.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:31:07CHICAGO - The first gorilla ever born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo has died at age 35, elderly for a western lowland gorilla. ...apparently suffered from kidney failure.... Kumba's birth in 1970 marked a turning point in how gorillas were handled in U.S. zoos.... Previously, they were typically kept apart from other gorillas. Kumba was kept with her mother and later with other gorillas... "Kumba marked the beginning of a realization that gorillas in zoos living as they do in the wild - in social groups - was better for them and better from an education standpoint (for the public)...."
Police Riotap.tbo.com/ ... 12:40:32Police Chief William Bratton on Friday proposed a new policy that would ban officers from firing at moving vehicles, less than a week after the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old suspected car thief.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:43:37SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A pipe bomb was found and safely dismantled at a Department of Motor Vehicles office Tuesday - the latest in what is being investigated as a string of possible ecoterrorist incidents in communities east of Sacramento.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:40:02 A 17-year-old boy armed with a sashimi knife stabbed a teacher to death and wounded two other adults Monday at his former elementary school, then stood in the faculty lounge and smoked a cigarette with the bloody blade still in his hand.wftv.com/ ... 12:02:43A 12-year-old girl is accused of killing her 9-year-old sister in a dispute over a hamburger.... If convicted as a juvenile, the maximum penalty would be confinement until her 21st birthday....sfgate.com/ ... 11:55:57An angry mob attacked Syrian workers in southern Lebanon Tuesday, blaming Damascus for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and the interior minister suggested the killing may have been carried out by a suicide bomber.... the possibilities also might include rogue Syrian intelligence operatives, or even factions among the country's myriad religious groups. Claims of responsibility by Islamic militants also raised the possibility that Hariri had been targeted because of his close ties to Saudi Arabia...
Mechanical Disastertheglobeandmail.com/ ... 12:00:44A mosque fire that killed 59 people and injured 350 started after a kerosene heater was placed too close to a thick curtain that separated male and female worshippers....news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 11:58:09 203 miners were confirmed dead, 29 injured and 12 still missing in a deadly coalmine gas explosion, which took place Monday afternoon in Fuxin, a coal mining city in northeast China's Liaoning Province.voanews.com/ ... 04:35:40a fire at a mosque in central Tehran has killed at least 59 people and injured more than 200 others... faulty electrical heater...
MON 2005-FEB-14
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 10:01:56 Pornography has been elevated to an art form as never before at the Berlin Film Festival, which has spotlighted the industry and its commercial success.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 09:59:07A Japanese man pulled a knife in a convenience store.. threatened to kill himself unless he was given a meal of the choicest sushi. ..unemployed... set.. fire to his nearby apartment ...Police overpowered the man after about an hour, during which time he ate bananas and helped himself to alcoholic drinks and vitamin supplements. Police declined to say whether he got any sushi.
Future is Nowtelegraph.co.uk/ ... 03:25:25A large black ball, originally designed by Swedish scientists for use on Mars, could be the latest weapon in the war against burglars... acts as a high-tech security guard capable of detecting an intruder thanks to either radar or infra-red sensors... can summon help, sound an alarm or pursue the intruders, taking pictures... capable of travelling at 20mph, somewhat faster than a human being.... can still give chase over mud, snow and water.... microphones, cameras, heat sensors and smoke detectors are mounted on its central axis.
Valentine!reuters.com/ ... 10:03:05Lisa the gorilla met her new partner Makoko, a gorilla brought from Germany, for the first time Monday after he spent 45 days in quarantine in an enclosure next to hers -- to give them time to sniff each other out. ...no visible sparks at their first encounter [but]... signs of mutual attraction. "They've acknowledged the presence of each other, they've been eating their breakfast. They've been sitting outside in the sun together. For us it's been an extremely successful Valentine's Day...."reuters.com/ ... 10:00:18SINGAPORE - ...A Christian group launched Monday a week-long Abstinence Awareness Campaign on the island, which has one of Asia's lowest birth rates and has ranked for three straight years near the bottom of condom-maker Durex's survey of sexually active nations.....reuters.com/ ... 09:56:14...a kissing school in Seattle... Since 1998, more than 500 couples have paid $275 to learn... "It's hard to truly connect with your beloved in our society because we're in such a hurry... Multi-tasking leads to sorry, sloppy smooches...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:50:04when it comes to the key qualities of attraction, humans and animals share more than one might think.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 03:21:09An Oregon man, who was arrested after he tried to set up a mass suicide on Valentine's Day, had been urging women to kill themselves for at least five years
Only Naturalhalifaxlive.com/ ... 09:48:58...scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School have succeeded in using gene therapy to grow new auditory hair cells and restore hearing in deafened adult guinea pigs...forbes.com/ ... 09:39:07A harmless version of a major killer, the HIV virus, is being used to hunt down malignant melanoma cancer cells in mice
Great Quake of 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:22:34A Sri Lankan couple who said that a baby boy found in the debris left by the tsunami was their son have had their claim confirmed by a DNA test. "Baby 81" survived the Indian Ocean disaster on 26 December and was claimed by nine different couples, one of which filed for custody through the courts.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 09:54:21...bomb killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri and at least 12 other people Monday... most devastating attack since the 1975-90 civil war.... at least 100 people were wounded.... Hariri, a billionaire businessman... recently joined calls by the opposition for Syrian troops to quit Lebanon in the run-up to the general election....abcnews.go.com/ ... 09:45:01"It was basically just a split-second decision.... I didn't approach him right away. I just followed him. I was creeping up behind him as he was walking down the mall shooting."bloomberg.com/ ... 09:32:56At least six people were killed when bombs exploded in Manila's financial district and in two southern Philippine cities at about 7 p.m. todaybloomberg.com/ ... 09:32:15A bomb blast in the road by Beirut's seafront hotels killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in the center of the capital,reuters.com/ ... 03:23:26A 24-year-old gunman opened fire in a crowded store in upstate New York on Sunday, wounding one person, and was caught by store employees after he ran out of ammunition
SUN 2005-FEB-13
Whoops!indystar.com/ ... 23:20:32A man... died after he donned what he thought was a bulletproof vest and asked a cohort to shoot him....
Supernaturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:18:59A Christian minister claims the tsunami of Sunday, Dec. 26, killing at least 160,000 people, was direct result of "pleasure seekers" breaking God's Sabbath.
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 11:52:18[Valentine's Under Tyranny]
The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Saudi Arabia's powerful religious vigilantes, have banned shops from selling any red flowers in the run-up to February 14.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:51:28....Manufacturers are hoping to make 2005 the year of the "simple set-up". The Philips Wireless Music Centre burns CDs to a built-in hard drive, automatically names the MP3 files, and then distributes the audio to up to five satellite players via 802.11g, with no PC necessary....
Lasting Contributionstheaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 11:44:33...Arthur Miller, the giant of 20th-century American literature and one-time husband of Marilyn Monroe who died of heart failure at his beloved Connecticut farm on Friday aged 89.... [brief bio]
Valentine!sfgate.com/ ... 23:23:46When [driver] allegedly steered his car off a Sunnyvale road and hit a family of four out for a walk, witnesses weren't sure it wasn't some bizarre accident. When the ..man allegedly doubled back and plowed into the family a second time, there was little doubt it was intentional.... left a condominium a block away ..after the woman he was having a relationship with called officers to report a case of domestic violence....cnn.com/ ... 11:50:25An Internet suicide pact believed planned by an Oregon man for Valentine's Day had sexual overtones... "There have been comments about sex acts being performed, whether it's by Internet or in person, followed by a suicide."... alleged suicide plot also extended to Britain.... allegedly organized a chat room involving incest... "He turned from the very beginning, saying, you know, have you ever thought about it? Have you ever joined a suicide party? That was like the third thing he asked me."...nydailynews.com/ ... 11:47:14[Preternatural Digital Family Patterns Threat]
An Oregon man who hatched a Valentine's Day suicide pact online... targeted single moms... tried to lure several mothers and up to nine of their kids into his twisted plot... hoped to hold his own Valentine's Day massacre tomorrow with 32 people, including himself, taking their own lives because he was "lonely and bored."... a mass suicide via Webcams was also possible.apnews.myway.com/ ... 00:13:21Sarah Scantlin was an 18-year-old college freshman on Sept. 22, 1984, when she was hit by a drunk driver as she walked to her car after celebrating with friends at a teen club... After two decades of silence, she began talking last month. Doctors are not sure why... Scantlin started talking in mid-January but asked staff members not to tell her parents until Valentine's Day to surprise them, Trammell said. But last week she could not wait any longer to talk to them. "I didn't think it would ever happen, it had been so long," Betsy Scantlin said....
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 11:55:11A phone message to the nation: Please call 510-872-7326, Marc Horowitz wants to meet you for dinner. Go ahead - dial it. If he doesn't answer, just leave him a message. That's what thousands of people have done after seeing his number scrawled on a dry-erase board in a Crate & Barrel catalog photo last fall. Horowitz, a conceptual artist in San Francisco, was working as a photo assistant on a shoot for the catalog when he came up with an idea for an art project that would question social barriers and maybe make the world a little smaller.nytimes.com/ ... 00:11:17Howard Dean, whose high-flying presidential bid collapsed in disarray one year ago, won the post of Democratic chairman on Saturday and promised an aggressive drive to mobilize voters and rebuild the party ``from the grass roots up.''
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:54[flag]Army Spc. Robert A. McNail, 30, of Meridian, Miss., died Feb. 11 in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when his HMMVW struck another military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:31[flag]Army Staff Sgt. William T. Robbins, 31, of North Little Rock, Ark., died Feb. 10 in Taji, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:10[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Kristopher L. Shepherd, 26, of Lynchburg, Va., died Feb. 11 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated during clearing operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:24:38[flag]Army Spc. Jeffrey S. Henthorn, 25, of Choctaw, Okla., died Feb. 8 in Balad, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:24:19[flag]Army Sgt. Jessica M. Housby, 23, of Rock Island, Ill., died Feb. 9 in Route Golden, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near her convoy.
Only Naturalnzherald.co.nz/ ... 11:37:43It was once thought that all mammals - from kangaroos to whales - developed the tiny auditory bones of the middle ear just once in their common evolutionary history. But a fossil jawbone of a primitive mammal that lived in Australia suggests that the middle-ear bones - which allow animals as diverse as shrews and humans to hear sounds - evolved independently at least twice.
Great Quake of 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:14:54Eighteen-year-old... who survived December's tsunami has been rescued by police from a remote island on India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.... lived on wild fruit for 45 days....
Violencereuters.com/ ... 23:27:20 Kidnappers have abducted the head of a Christian party in Iraq and are demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troopsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 23:20:54America's spy network in Iran was exposed more than 10 years ago and about 50 of its local agents were executed or jailed in a devastating setback for United States intelligence operations in the Islamic state, former CIA officials have disclosed.ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:57The prison that houses some of California's most violent inmates will remain on lockdown for several weeks as authorities investigate what they call a "very sophisticated" plot to kill three guards.ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:42Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi general and two companions in a Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday,
Iraq Votesbloomberg.com/ ... 11:36:51A Shiite Muslim coalition failed to win a majority in Iraq's National Assembly election, meaning the nation may be run by a coalition administration formed around a secular figure such as interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:15:48...Slavery in Niger is not an obscure thing, nor a curious relic of the past, it is an intrinsic part of society today. A Nigerian study has found that almost 8% of the population are slaves. You wonder how this can be in the 21st Century and why people do not know about it? We began a journey to find out more....
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 23:27:07North Korea's declaration that it possesses nuclear weapons does not make it a nuclear weapons state, South Korea's unification minister said on Monday.... "We see it as a claim to own nuclear weapons, not an official statement of being a nuclear weapons state...."sunherald.com/ ... 23:19:37A statement in the name of the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group posted Saturday on the Internet accused Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera of trying to win U.S. favor by reporting false information about an attack the group had claimed responsibility for.drudgereport.com/ ... 00:10:22The Bush administration has been flying surveillance drones over Iran to seek evidence of nuclear weapons programs and detect weaknesses in air defenses, the WASHINGTON POST is planning to splash on Sunday.
SAT 2005-FEB-12
Whoops!apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:39:58"I never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought I said or believed otherwise," Jordan said in a memo to fellow staff members at CNN. ...Jordan quit Friday
Only Naturalbloomberg.com/ ... 12:38:31New York City doctors have discovered a man with a previously unseen strain of HIV that is resistant to three of the four types of anti-viral drugs that combat the disease, and progresses from infection to full-blown AIDS in two or three months
Digital Threatwireless.engadget.com/ ... 12:41:52a virus could potentially use Bluetooth to jump from a Symbian-powered cellphone to the navigation system of certain Lexus models. We won’t be rushing to install anti-virus software on the fleet of cars we have parked outside, but sooner or later most new cars sold are going to have both onboard computers and some sort of wireless connectivity, making them low-hanging fruit for hackers and virus writers.
Defining Momentspenncen.com/ ... 12:36:46He was a producer. He and Judy Collins came in to see our set at the Bitter End...and he gave us a call. We came by his office and he says..."Well, your patterns pretty lame..." Cause we were. It WAS really pretty lame. "But you guys can sing and play really well" he says..."Would you consider singing in a big group? Cause we were thinking about putting a big group together". You know... cause that was what was happening. "Cause you know folk music isn’t gonna last much longer...any longer than this new group called The Beatles". I hadn’t heard of them at that point. So his prediction was that The Beatles weren’t gonna last. They were just a flash in the pan. So we said "Well, we’d think about it". We were on our way down to Washington, to play Cellar Door. So we were on our way down there and we heard The Beatles on the radio... Well I looked at Michaela and said "He’s not right". [laughs] "these guys are fun..." I said....".they’ll be around for a while". By the time we were in Colorado (on this tour) playing our last gig in Denver. That was the night...we were there...when they played the Ed Sullivan show. We saw them on television. I said... I kinda realized [laughs], this isn’t gonna work. Where do I get an electric guitar?
FRI 2005-FEB-11
Preternatural Patternsapnews.myway.com/ ... 17:02:38Ward Churchill.. will be allowed to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater next month, a decision the chancellor said was repugnant but necessary under First Amendment principles of free speech...rockymountainnews.com/ ... 17:02:05In April 1983, Churchill went to Libya to meet with Col. Moammar Gadhafi.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:01:44Ward Churchill taught the revolutionary group the Weathermen how to make bombs and fire weapons, according to a Fox News report citing the Jan. 18, 1987 issue of the Denver Post.
Valentine!ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:14:27KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) - A man used e-mail to try to set up a mass suicide on Valentine's Day involving as many as 32 people across the United States and Canada.. arrested Wednesday at his mother's mobile home....
1000 Wordsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:09:58n pictures: World press photo award 2004
Lasting Contributionsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:09:14Playwright Arthur Miller, the creator of The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, has died at the age of 89....
Whoops!americanscientist.org/ ... 17:09:59Few visitors to the Giza plateau are aware that the pyramids, Egypt's Old Kingdom treasures and testaments to early pharaonic history, were almost dismantled about 170 years ago.newsday.com/ ... 17:06:03Radioactive material lost about four months ago by Texas-based Halliburton Energy Services surfaced Thursday in Boston after federal homeland security and enforcement authorities launched a massive search. According to a report filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday by Halliburton, the material was being shipped to Texas, when it was apparently misdirected in Newark, N.J., and ended up at the Forward Freight facilities in Boston.reuters.com/ ... 14:16:39Wine labeled with a photo of brutal Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was pulled from shelves in the Canadian province of Manitoba this week after complaints from the local Ukrainian community. The sherry and port from the Massandra winery in Ukraine featured a photo on the bottles' labels of Stalin seated with former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The wine commemorated the Yalta Conference, held at a castle near the winery 60 years ago this week, where the leaders decided on the shape of Eastern Europe after World War II. "I don't want Stalin to be forgotten. I want him to be remembered for exactly what he was: a genocidal mass murderer," said Lubomyr Luciuk of the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association.wftv.com/ ... 14:08:37WILMINGTON, N.C. -- A doctor may have performed the wrong type of gastric bypass surgery on more than 50 patients at a Wilmington hospital
Supernaturalnews.yahoo.com/ ... 14:06:40Wm Buckley on the Pope: "So, what is wrong with praying for his death? For relief from his manifest sufferings?"
Family Patternsolympics.reuters.com/ ... 17:09:34A severely malnourished, 14-year-old girl was recovering on Thursday after escaping from more than a year of captivity inside a dark, locked bedroom in southern Arizona... being treated for abuse sustained during her 15-month confinement.. last week.. she broke free and ran to a friend's apartment... Police have arrested the girl's 35-year-old father on suspicion of child abuse, two counts of child molestation and six counts of sexual contact with a minor....csmonitor.com/ ... 14:40:49The woman who claimed to have seen a baby being tossed from a moving car fabricated the story to cover up a pregnancy and birth she had been trying to concealabcnews.go.com/ ... 13:59:09NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The mother of a newborn boy who survived being tossed out of a moving car has been identified and interviewed by investigators... The mother of a newborn boy who survived being tossed out of a moving car has been identified and interviewed by investigators... 8-pound, 2-ounce boy.. umbilical cord.. still attached.. survived with minor injuries...
Mechanical Disastertimesofindia.indiatimes.com/ ... 13:49:37Nearly 70 people have been killed and more than 700 are reported missing after a dam burst triggered flash floods in South West Pakistan's Gwadar district.
Sex -- always attractivethisislondon.co.uk/ ... 13:50:17The arousal aerosol contains testosterone, which is absorbed in the skin over 24 hours. It was originally designed for post-menopausal women with low levels of the male sex hormone. But it can also work for young women with low libidos, scientists said yesterday.news.google.com/ ... 13:49:05Opening within days of the Watergate break-in, the $25,000 porn movie Deep Throat was the other event of that distant spring that started small and grew....
Human Rightmothersagainstthedraft.org/ ... 17:03:50Mothers Against the Draft [not quite open for business yet]
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 14:17:38A Dutch zoo is giving its rhinoceroses sun bed treatment to make up for the lack of sunlight during the cold gray winter months.reuters.com/ ... 14:17:11Scientists say Australia's hot, humid and wet summer has had a bad effect on common, but potentially deadly, redback spiders. Normally found in outdoor sheds, gardens and under roofs, the cantankerous creepy-crawlies are seeking shelter indoors in tropical Queensland and New South Wales, two of Australia's biggest states.icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/ ... 13:51:49ST JOHN'S WORT is at least as effective in treating depression as a widelyprescribed antidepressant drug, researchers said.
Digital Threatthechamplainchannel.com/ ... 17:08:38A Manchester teenager was charged Thursday in a massive case of credit card fraud... would steal personal information, print his own cards and rack up thousands in purchases. ..charged with one count of fraudulent use of a credit card... authorities.. believed that he was gathering credit card numbers online or parking in residential neighborhoods and capturing wireless transmissions of financial information on his laptop.
Police Riotap.tbo.com/ ... 14:13:33The Chicago Police Department will not distribute more Taser stun guns to its officers while it investigates the device's use on a man who died and a teen who was injured this week. Shares of the manufacturer of the stun guns fell 9 percent.
Threatsthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 17:05:21THE jury in the trial of a British businessman accused of attempting to sell anti-aircraft missiles to terrorists in the United States has been shown footage of the alleged sale... allegedly told the undercover agent.. that the rockets he was selling could be used to shoot down ten to 15 aircraft simultaneously on the second anniversary of the 11 September, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US....worldtribune.com/ ... 13:59:23North Korea's media has for the first time confirmed that its leader Kim Jong-Il is preparing for a hereditary transfer of power to one of his three sons.reuters.com/ ... 13:52:44Countries from China to Germany urged North Korea on Friday to return to talks on ending its nuclear programs after the communist state announced it had nuclear weapons and had pulled out of disarmament discussions.iht.com/ ... 13:52:30North Korea's declaration Thursday that it has nuclear weapons and is through for now talking about them brought widespread expressions of dismay and near-universal calls for the North to return to the six-party negotiations aimed at curbing its nuclear program. Russia, China, Japan and South Korea - four of the six parties - urged the North to return to the nuclear talks, as did the leaders of the United Nations and the European Union. The United States, the final party to the now-endangered negotiations, also called for a resumption of the talks.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 14:12:25A suicide car bomber killed 13 people outside a Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad Fridayworldtribune.com/ ... 14:07:51Diplomatic sources said Israel Air Force F-16 multi-role fighters intercepted and downed two Syrian MiG-29 fighter-jets last year. The sources said the dogfight took place in September 2004 over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. This was the first engagement between Israeli and Syrian fighter-jets since the 1980s. The sources said the air battle took place when Israel Air Force fighter-jets buzzed the Syrian city of Latakia, a port used by Iran for the shipment of weapons to Hizbullah.abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:51:30BAGHDAD — Masked gunmen opened fire on a crowd at a Baghdad bakery Friday, killing 11 people... It was unclear why the gunmen attacked the bakery....
Elsewhere, an aide to Iraq's most revered Shiite Muslim cleric was injured in an assassination attempt in Baghdad after receiving threats from militants opposed to his support for Iraq's elections, a relative of the man said Friday....
THU 2005-FEB-10
WW2 - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:42:13German postal staff ensured a postcard to Adolf Hitler sent from England got to its destination, despite the Nazi leader being dead for 60 years.
Alcohol Was Involvedreuters.com/ ... 12:39:44 A British woman was sentenced to two and a half years in jail Thursday for ripping off her ex-lover's testicle with her bare hands during a drunken brawl after he refused her sex.
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 12:38:07Federal regulators Thursday rejected a request by broadcasters to require cable operators to carry multiple digital channel offerings from local television stations.
Family Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:40:30"I gave her a beautiful middle name, Simone. If she hates Tu, she can always be Simone." -- "Numb3rs" star ROB MORROW on naming his daughter TU MORROW, quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:29:22ST. PAUL, Minn. - A couple was charged with locking the woman's 11-year-old daughter in a chain-link dog kennel for days at a time as discipline, releasing her only to go to school and do chores.
Valentine!reuters.com/ ... 12:38:41 It's every single person's nightmare: You're on a date, it's a disaster but there's no way out. With Valentine's Day looming, a mobile phone company in Australia has come to the rescue with a service offering an escape from the date from hell. All you have to do is discreetly dial three numbers and then hang up without saying a word.reuters.com/ ... 12:25:03Sing a song, roll up your sleeves, hunt in packs, buy a pink umbrella, don't diet, learn from your pets, give your tongue a workout, raise your standards, accept every invitation, consider Botox. This is just some of the relationship advice on offer before Valentine's Day
9/11 - still with usvoanews.com/ ... 12:15:18A published report says the U.S. agency that oversees aviation failed to respond to dozens of warnings about possible terrorist strikes on U.S. airliners before the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 12:25:49"Regarding Terror," a new exhibition in Berlin of works relating to the RAF, or the "Baader-Meinhof Gang" as it was better known, has highlighted the controversy surrounding the group. The exhibition has been accused of glamorizing the militants while overlooking their more than 50 victims, and has pitted the children of its founding members against each other.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:28:48A car bomb detonated by remote control exploded in a crowded central Baghdad square Thursday moments after an American military convoy passed, killing at least two Iraqis and wounding two others...
South of the capital, the bodies of 20 Iraqi truck drivers who had been shot were found dumped on a road, their hands bound behind their backs...thisislondon.com/ ... 12:23:13Five people are in hospital today after hundreds were crushed as the opening of England's biggest Ikea store turned into a riot.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:35:13A Glance at the Arsenals of Nuclear Weapons Statesap.tbo.com/ ... 12:28:02A United Airlines pilot who also flew for the National Guard told a woman that he wanted to crash a plane into Wall Street because some people made "easy money" there, court documents allege... arrested Wednesday... charged with lying on a military application [unrelated matter] for a security clearance... was removed from service pending the outcome of the case.... had already been suspended from military flight status based on problems with anger management.news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:17:14 President Bush said on Wednesday Iran with a nuclear weapon would be a "very destabilizing" force and that it was important for the world to speak with one voice against Tehran's program.abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:14:13North Korea announced for the first time Thursday it has nuclear weapons, and it rejected moves to restart disarmament talks anytime soon, saying the bombs are protection against an increasingly hostile United States.
WED 2005-FEB-09
Nixon - still with usnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 21:42:39The suspects, the cases for & against & the odds on Who Is Deep Throat?
Extraterrestrialreuters.com/ ... 13:50:42 some planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way might have enough carbon to produce a diamond layer
US Election 2004hillnews.com/ ... 13:07:26Dick Morris suggests confronting Hillary with Condoleeza... "the woman who may stand between Clinton and the presidency...." John Kerry got 54 percent of his vote from three groups that, together, account for about a third of the American electorate: African-Americans, Hispanics and single white women. Rice would cut deeply into any Democrat’s margin among these three groups and would, most especially, deny Clinton the strong support she would otherwise receive from each of them.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 13:51:08"What is the name of the memory book you just got me? It's a book about memorizing. It's a memory book. And it's awesome." -- Actress CARMEN ELECTRA to a male companion when asked by the New York Daily News what book she was reading.reuters.com/ ... 13:50:13The man told the court at his first appearance that he had been born with both female and male organs, and that he lived as a woman after consulting a traditional healer. But the Herald said a medical examination had shown he was male.gjsentinel.com/ ... 13:49:12...the woman behind the tale of an imaginary soldier killed in Iraq, said she just wants it to all be over. “I think I need some serious counseling... This is the most serious lie I’ve ever told, but I’ve been caught in many lies.”reuters.myway.com/ ... 13:08:42Eichmann-gargling Ward Churchill draws an ovation from a standing-room-only crowd of about 1,200 students and backers gathered in a ballroom: "I owe no one an apology."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:02:12[In the general sub-category of "Oh, great! More unenforcable legislation!"]
The Virginia state house has voted to outlaw the trend of wearing trousers so low that underwear hangs over the top. Delegates said the habit, popular across the US and in other Western countries, was "coarsening" society.
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 03:35:46An explosion ripped through a mine in the coal-rich Kuzbass region of Siberia on Wednesday, killing 16 workers and leaving 10 missing
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 03:35:21Eighty passengers on a Frontier Airlines plane coming from Philadelphia were quarantined Tuesday for more than 90 minutes at Denver International Airport after a woman became ill on the flight
Valentine!reuters.com/ ... 03:34:45A British army pilot has been disciplined by senior officers for using a tank-busting helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend.
Family Patternsfoxnews.com/ ... 21:31:30A Warren County elementary teacher has been charged with having a sexual relationship with one of her students, a 13-year-old boy... charged Monday with 15 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape... teaches physical education and coached girls basketball... abclocal.go.com/ ... 03:28:51A Lake Jackson woman is accused of hiding nearly two dozen children in a closet while being investigated for running an unlicensed daycare.
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:02:56Microsoft has warned PC users to update their systems with the latest security fixes for flaws in Windows programs. In its monthly security bulletin, it flagged up eight "critical" security holes which could leave PCs open to attack if left unpatched. They affect Windows programs, including Internet Explorer (IE), media player and instant messaging. Four other important fixes were also released.reuters.myway.com/ ... 03:25:39viruses and spam threaten to spread to a far wider range of devices -- from phones to car engines
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 21:45:26[flag]Marine Capt. Sean L. Brock, 29, of Redondo Beach, Calif., died Feb. 2 from wounds received as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 21:44:14[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Zachary R. Wobler, 24, of Ottowa, Ohio, died Feb. 6 in Mosul, Iraq, when his dismounted patrol encountered enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 21:43:57[flag]Army Spc. Richard M. Crane, 25, of Independence, Mo., died Feb. 8, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 21:43:35[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Steven G. Bayow, 42, from Colonia Yap, Federated States of Micronesia, died February 4 in Bayji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle.
[flag]Army Sgt. Daniel Torres, 23, from Fort Worth, Texas, died February 4 in Bayjii, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 21:44:39This week, the Army and Navy announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force and Marine Corps had a decrease and Coast Guard number remained the same. The net collective result is 1,688 more reservists mobilized than last week.apnews.myway.com/ ... 21:32:28[flag]Army soldiers are being issued new fatigues with easy-to-use Velcro openings and a redesigned camouflage pattern that can help conceal them as they move rapidly from desert to forest to city in places like Baghdad.
Great Quake of 2004neic.usgs.gov/ ... 23:49:34Chile -- 1960 May 22 19:11:14 UTC -- Magnitude 9.5
The Largest Earthquake in the World [ever recorded]
More than 2,000 killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in southern Chile; tsunami caused 61 deaths, $75 million damage in Hawaii; 138 deaths and $50 million damage in Japan; 32 dead and missing in the Philippines; and $500,000 damage to the west coast of the United States.suntimes.com/ ... 23:47:30The powerful earthquake that triggered South Asia's deadly tsunami in December was three times stronger than originally estimated, making it the second largest earthquake ever recorded, according to a new study by Northwestern University geologists... 9.3 on the Richter scale, not 9.0 as previously calculated... The U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center has received the NU study, but has not changed its 9.0 measurement of the earthquake.... would make the Dec. 26 earthquake the biggest since Chile... 9.5... on May 22, 1960....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:00:07UK Navy Seafloor imagesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:59:47UK scientists have released images of the ocean floor near the epicentre of December's giant Asian earthquake. ...Scientists involved in this project believe the tsunami occurred when a portion of the Burma plate, which had been dragged down by the edge of the descending Indian plate, rebounded upwards, transmitting huge energy to the water above.
Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 12:55:02Mexican drug gangs are forcing Indian tribes to abandon their traditional crops and grow marijuana and heroin poppies
Only Naturalananova.com/ ... 21:32:39Romanian firefighters managed to put out a fire in an apartment by throwing snowballs through the window.forbes.com/ ... 13:49:35A compound in carrots may be a potent cancer fighter, reducing malignancies in rats by a thirdscienceagogo.com/ ... 03:25:10people with gum disease are more likely to suffer from atherosclerosis
Police Riotsuntimes.com/ ... 23:42:50A 14-year-old boy went into cardiac arrest after police used a stun gun to subdue him... More than a day after the Monday morning incident, the boy remained unconscious... Guardian Robert Harris.. questioned why police used a Taser on the boy, a ward of the state who was living at a residential treatment center on the North Side. "It's crazy stuff...."
Iraq Votesap.tbo.com/ ... 12:51:00 Iraqi officials Wednesday delayed the announcement of final results from landmark national elections because they said the election commission must recount votes from about 300 ballot boxes.
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 12:53:02The U.S. military is updating its war plans for Iran but is not in a heightened state of planning over Tehran's suspected nuclear weapons program, a senior general said on Wednesday.kyw.com/ ... 03:29:30Money that has been contaminated with a virus; it’s a whole new possible direction for bioterrorism. It is a case that the FBI terrorism unit has taken over from state police that involves several cities, including Philadelphia.
Violencereuters.com/ ... 12:54:24Baghdad ....a director in the Ministry of Culture and Housing was assassinated on Wednesday evening... gunmen kidnapped a senior Interior Ministry official, Colonel Riyadh Katei Aliwi. In Baghdad's Haifa Street neighborhood... three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party were killed in a guerrilla ambush, and clashes then erupted with Iraqi and U.S. troops.reuters.com/ ... 12:52:48A car bomb exploded near Madrid's main convention center on Wednesday, wounding 43 people, hours before Spanish and Mexican leaders were due there and after a warning from the Basque separatist group ETA.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:52:06A senior U.S. general said Wednesday he believes the British C-130 aircraft that crashed in Iraq on Jan. 30, killing all 10 people aboard, was downed by hostile action rather than by a mechanical problem. The British government has not said whether it was shot down.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:51:49In Basra, Abdul Hussein Khazal al-Basri, the correspondent of Al-Hurra TV station, and his son were both killed Wednesday in the city's Maqal area, 340 miles southeast of Baghdadnewsday.com/ ... 03:27:34A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and scalped with a 4-inch knife in what police say may have been an act of revenge by another woman... Doctors could not reattach her scalp, which was found near a hot spring...turkishpress.com/ ... 03:24:48The [29yo] leader of a cell which allegedly plotted to kidnap US soldiers and other Westerners in Kuwait died overnight in custody
TUE 2005-FEB-08
Family Patternshalifaxherald.com/ ... 17:33:26Whether it's swearing at principals or barging into class to scold the teacher, Canadian schools say they are seeing a rising tide of parent rage.
Extraterrestrialreuters.myway.com/ ... 14:42:37The aging Hubble Space Telescope -- a path-breaking scientific instrument whose eye-catching images have won fans around the world -- would die in orbit under the 2006 budget for NASA proposed on Monday. "... the risks associated with the Hubble servicing at this time don't merit going forward."
US Executive Branchworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:32:06....In a Jan. 17, 1935, address to Congress, Roosevelt, the originator of the federal retirement system, looked into the future and saw the need to move beyond the pay-as-you go financing and eventually establish "self-supporting annuity plans," noted Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund. "For perhaps 30 years to come, funds will have to be provided by the states and the federal government to meet these pensions," Roosevelt told Congress. But after that, he said, it would be necessary to move to "voluntary contributory annuities by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age."....
Ronald Reagan - still with usworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:19:18"Ronald Reagan played an invaluable role in bringing about the fall of communism and ending the Cold War without resorting to military solutions. This is not something easily found in the world of politics." – Lech Walesa, former president of Poland
[Link is to WND article praising new Reagan film]
Alcohol Was Involvedthisislondon.com/ ... 11:26:06A Welsh rugby fan cut... told his friends: "If Wales win I'll cut my own balls off.".. After the 11-9 victory [v England] in the Six Nations clash, the man is reported to have gone outside and severed his testicles before bringing them back into the club to show fellow drinkers. A local was reported as saying that the man was on medication and should not have been drinking.
Whoops!news.scotsman.com/ ... 14:43:27An 80-year-old woman pointed a toy gun at a bank teller and threatened a hold-up in what she described as a joke... judge failed to to appreciate her humour...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:02:06[Major digital whoops!] Bill Gates unveiled the EuroScience partnership scheme at a meeting in Prague, Czech Republic, on Wednesday. But the Euroscience open forum, with a membership of over 2,100 (including several Nobel Laureates), expressed astonishment at the initiative's name. Microsoft is now in talks with the body to try to reach an understanding.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 11:34:23A freighter sank in the North Atlantic off the Faeroe Islands, killing four crewmembers and leaving two others missing... Five were rescued by helicopter....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:01:09Ellen MacArthur will arrive back in Britain on Tuesday after sailing solo around the world in record time. ...crossed the finish line at 2229 GMT on Monday, completing her 27,000-mile voyage in 71 days 14 hours 18 minutes and 33 seconds.... smashed the previous mark, set in 2004 by Frenchman Francis Joyon, by nearly 33 hours. "I feel absolutely exhausted but I'm elated to be here. It has been an unbelievable journey...."
Nixon - still with usmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 02:58:34The greatest mystery of 20th Century American politics may soon be solved. We might shortly find out who "Deep Throat" was.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:32:20[pin-sized]
...the Cell processor for the first time, but what is so important about it, and why is it so different?... Sony will be using the chip inside its PlayStation 3... The technology inside... is being heralded as revolutionary, from a technical standpoint.... Cell technology... uses multiple Cell processors linked together to run lots of calculations simultaneously.... Cell is, in fact, specifically designed to be deployed throughout the house... Each Cell will be linked to the others, creating a vast home network of computing power... The links between the multiple processors can also be extended to reach Cell processors in entirely different systems... requires programmers to learn a different way of writing software...msnbc.msn.com/ ... 02:48:32GoDaddy.com won few critical waves with its titillating Super Bowl ad, but it clearly emerged Monday as the game’s most controversial spot, especially after Fox Broadcasting acknowledged killing it in the middle of the game.
Supernaturalciveng.carleton.ca/ ... 17:21:27QuickTime movie of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failuresootoday.com/ ... 15:48:13 I immediately thought that perhaps this phenomenon was a direct result of the the cross's structural resonant frequency. [yup]local6.com/ ... 14:34:58A North Carolina man is selling a brick that appears to feature the face of Jesussootoday.com/ ... 02:40:26 there's word of an exceedingly odd occurrence said to have happened there 11 days ago.

Witnesses tell SooToday.com that the cross was seen doing something nobody has ever seen before, something that a consulting engineer says is impossible. The school's principal, its groundskeeper, a math teacher and a large number of students saw the steel structure swaying from side to side during a 150-minute period on Monday, January 24.... reported hearing a cracking noise as the the top of the cross reached either extreme of its arc....
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 11:33:58Some Wisconsin quarters issued last year are turning out to be worth considerably more than 25 cents. Coin collectors say nickels with two variations in the design of a cornstalk on the back of the coin have been spotted at Tucson, Ariz., and San Antonio, Texas.... a set of three Wisconsin quarters - the normal one, one with a leaf marking pointed up and a third with the marking pointed down - [going] for as much as $1,099. Individual coins with the variations were selling for $500 to $600, depending on condition...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:20:31"It's disturbing that anyone would use such hateful speech, and do so while claiming to be an American Indian when there is significant evidence that he is not," said the Oneida statement. "Professor Churchill caused many in the media to falsely believe an American Indian scholar could besmirch the lives of those who died on 9-11. Because of this, he owes every American Indian an apology."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:33:57[flag]Army Spc. Jeremy O. Allmon, 22, of Cleburne, Texas, died Feb. 6 in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 11:36:06....the 71-year-old was a little surprised when a grocery store clerk asked her for ID before selling her a bottle of wine.... The identification checks at all Pick 'n Save and Copps food stores in Wisconsin are part of a new policy by Roundy's Inc. requiring cashiers to check the age of everyone buying cigarettes or alcohol - regardless of whether they look 21 or 91.
Only Naturalboston.com/ ... 17:41:06MONETTE, Ark. -- A woman who drinks a Pepsi a day marked her 105th birthday Tuesday....news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:42:50Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain -- nor do lobsters and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the Norwegian government has found.thisislondon.com/ ... 11:24:01A mother has made medical history by giving birth to twins two months apart... [mother].. from Romania, has two wombs and fell pregnant in each at the same time.... 3-year-old botanist was told eight years ago that she would never have any more children after a miscarriage led doctors to conclude she had been left infertile.... one in every 50,000 women has a double uterus... believed it was the first case where a woman had become pregnant at the same time in both wombs and given birth nearly two months apart....guardian.co.uk/ ... 02:48:03Secret documents describing how some monkeys can scream in misery, fear and anger during experiments were produced in the high court yesterday as evidence that the laws intended to protect laboratory animals are being flouted.
Peace 3000story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:28:13Palestinian Islamist militant movement Hamas said that it was not bound by the ceasefirefoxnews.com/ ... 14:27:47Palestinians and Israelis will halt all violence against each other, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday in a move aimed at ending four years of violence and entering a new period of peace talks.reuters.com/ ... 11:32:42 Israeli and Palestinian leaders declared a cease-fire Tuesday at a summit in Egypt
Under Tyrannyasianews.it/ ... 14:42:05In the North-Western Frontier Province Islamic fundamentalism and Shari’ah are bolstered. Music in public places and images of women in advertising are to be banned.reuters.com/ ... 11:15:40The nation is in crisis. Police and soldiers are on the streets of Kathmandu, democracy crushed.
Threatswtopnews.com/ ... 14:33:23The D.C. government is partnering with the Federal government to build a level-3 bio-terrorism lab within the city... [What scares me the most about this is the verbization "partnering" has become accepted usage....]news.ft.com/ ... 02:47:23China is poised to develop the world's first commercially operated “pebble bed” nuclear reactor... would be the first radically new reactor design for several decades. It would push China to the forefront of development of a technology that researchers claim offers a new “meltdown-proof” alternative to standard water-cooled nuclear power stations.....
People Dietheaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 02:42:06Thirteen people have been killed and more than 500 injured during an annual kite-flying festival in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Seven people with severe head injuries died in the city's General Hospital alone, and about 220 people were admitted with a variety of injuries including broken bones... thousands of revellers perched on rooftops... Two teenagers were killed when they fell from a roof... two.. killed when a car hit them while they were trying to catch a stray kite... man was killed by a stray bullet... another.. electrocuted when metal wire used to fly a kite became draped over live electric lines....
Violencenews.scotsman.com/ ... 11:12:17Police in Los Angeles have shot dead an unarmed 13-year-old suspected car thief who led them on a three-and-a-half mile chase. Friends and neighbours of.. [the] pupil at a school for gifted children, said they could not understand why officers opened fire on him early on Sunday in the south of the city. It is understood the car chase ended when the teenager reversed into the patrol car pursing him, but it is unclear why police fired. A 14-year-old passenger was arrested after a foot chase....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:06:14 Insurgents struck at Iraqi police with a suicide bomb, a car bomb and mortars in the cities of Mosul and Baqouba on Monday, killing at least 30 peopleap.tbo.com/ ... 03:05:58Eleven detainees say U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan abused them before they were sent to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, allegations that include beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy.... Some of the men say they falsely confessed to being members of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network to make the abuse stop....reuters.com/ ... 03:02:19A blast near an Iraqi army recruitment center in west Baghdad killed at least 13 people and wounded at least 11 Tuesdayreuters.myway.com/ ... 02:36:56U.S. forces stormed a house to free four Egyptian telecommunications engineers kidnapped in Iraq
MON 2005-FEB-07
WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 09:35:20A former guard at the Nuremberg trials has come forward to say he believes he provided the poison that Nazi Hermann Goering used to commit suicide hours before his scheduled execution for war crimes...
Family Patternscnn.com/ ... 09:30:07SAND LAKE, Michigan (AP) -- A boy drove his mother's car to a video store in the middle of the night, police said -- and he's all of 4 years old. ..unable to reach the accelerator ..managed to put the car in gear and make his way to the store, a quarter-mile from his home, about 1:30 a.m. Friday... Finding the store closed, the youngster began a slow trip home... "He's 4 years old. His mom didn't even know he was up... I don't think he even realizes what he did." No charges will be filed against the boy or his mother
Digital Threatwired.com/ ... 09:25:30In recognition of the fact that new technologies are just as valuable to wrongdoers as to those in the right, a new industry group has formed to look at the security threats inherent in voice over internet protocol. The VOIP Security Alliance.. aim to counteract a range of potential security risks in the practice of sending voice as data packets, as well as educate users as they buy and use VOIP equipment.... "It is really just a matter of time before it is as widespread as e-mail spam...."
"spim" (spam over instant messaging).. 10 percent of instant-messaging traffic is spam... "It is where e-mail was two and a half years ago..." To put that in perspective... 17 percent of e-mail was spam in January 2002.. 93 percent in November 2004..
So the inference is that "spit" (spam over internet telephony) is just around the corner....Aside from the annoyance this will cause, the strain on network resources when millions of 100-KB voicemail messages are transmitted, compared with 5- or 10-KB e-mails, will be considerable....
US Executive Branchsfgate.com/ ... 09:21:43Criticism of Bush Social Security plans
Currentphilly.com/ ... 09:28:16After last year's "wardrobe malfunction," many people apparently hoped for a Super Bowl halftime show they could safely watch with their children. What they got, of course, was a show that children might, if they wished, watch with their grandparents. Grandma and Grandpa could even, if they were old enough, have explained exactly where they were in 1968 when they first heard the not-yet-Sir Paul McCartney sing "Hey Jude" (and maybe, OK, explain about that "California grass" in 1969's "Get Back").p2pnet.net/ ... 09:27:40Janet Jackson’s deliberate or accidental (depending on who you believe) flashing of one of her breasts during last year’s Super Bowl continues to inspire headline writers....news.scotsman.com/ ... 09:20:26The Pope came within minutes of death when he was rushed to hospital last week.. medical staff: "We caught him by a whisker.... If he had come in 10 minutes later, he would have been gone.”.. The 10th floor of Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic is permanently reserved for the Pope in case of emergency...
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:11:39Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT's Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on sale for less than $100news.ft.com/ ... 09:11:09Semiconductor designers from International Business Machines, Sony and Toshiba will reveal on Monday the inner workings of a “supercomputer on a chip” they claim could revolutionise communications, multimedia and consumer electronics... significantly more powerful and versatile than the next generation of micro-processors announced by the consortium's competitors, Intel and AMD. The two leading chipmakers are just moving from 32-bit to 64-bit computing and to dual-core processors essentially two “brains” on a single chip.Cell is understood to have at least four cores and be significantly faster than Intel and AMD chips.....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:56:45[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Richard C. Clifton, 19, of Milford, Del., died Feb. 3 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:56:20[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Wichlacz, 22, of West Bend, Wis., died Feb. 5 as a result of hostile action in Babil Province, Iraq.
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 18:54:26A giant sequoia believed to be the second-largest tree in the world may not live much longer... known as the Washington Tree once stood more than 254 feet tall with a circumference at its base of more than 101 feet, ranking it second behind a tree known as the General Sherman sequoia in the same park. ...damaged in a forest fire in 2003 ...severe weather reduced its height to 115 feet, leaving only a few branches of sparse foliage remaining... "It's just a shame... But it's still got some greenery. It's still living and hanging on.".Studies... suggest it is between 2,500 and 3,200 years old.reuters.com/ ... 18:52:28Mercedes-Benz has agreed to offer "leather-free" versions of all its luxury cars to pacify an animal rights group that says thousands of cows are slaughtered each year for leather car seats and interiors.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:13:56Builders of Futuristic Plant Want to Raise the Bar on Peanut Quality.. "We'll have metal detectors, magnets and state-of-the-art electric eye systems to get this product clean," he said. "It'll be dust free. You can eat off the floor. It's an environment the peanut industry has never seen before."...
US Militaryapnews.myway.com/ ... 09:12:32RALEIGH, N.C. - A female member of a National Guard military police unit was demoted for indecent exposure after a mud-wrestling party at the Army-run Camp Bucca detention center in Iraq
Peace 3000news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:51:03Israeli and Palestinian leaders will sign a truce on Tuesday to end four years of fighting, reports say.
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 09:33:06[IT'S NOW REQUIRED TO HAVE A RECEIPT IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF CASH??? REPEAL! REPEAL! REPEAL!
SHREVEPORT, La. - ...was not able to produce a transaction receipt required under federal law for anyone carrying more than $10,000 in cash... would not say where he got the money, so he was booked with money laundering,...
Violencereuters.com/ ... 18:51:34Suicide bombers killed 27 people in attacks in two Iraqi cities on Monday... Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for both...ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:36:07Swiss special forces stormed the Spanish consulate Monday, ending a nearly seven-hour standoff by three masked assailants who had seized hostages in what officials called an attempted robbery... The fate of the captors was not immediately clear.... One captive, a security guard, was injured but managed to escape almost immediately.. One captive, a security guard, was injured but managed to escape almost immediately..today.reuters.co.uk/ ... 09:15:26Three unidentified intruders who had taken at least three hostages at the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital are on the run after Swiss police stormed the buildingap.tbo.com/ ... 09:15:04A suicide bomber detonated explosives in a hospital in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, killing eight people and injured 16 othersap.tbo.com/ ... 09:14:38Islamic Radicals Hunt Barbers in Baghdad for Giving 'un-Islamic' Haircuts
SUN 2005-FEB-06
Preternatural Patternstimesonline.co.uk/ ... 14:31:52A FORMER close associate of Osama Bin Laden is to sue the film-maker Michael Moore for using his footage of the Al-Qaeda chief in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.longmontfyi.com/ ... 14:25:45University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s comparison of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to a Nazi villain has grown into a nationwide controversy, but in December he also used the infamous name of Adolf Eichmann to illustrate his opposition to the name of Chivington Drive here in town.
WW2 - less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 13:12:52As the Nazis took power in Germany and the world turned its back on Jewish refugees, four brothers who ran a cigar factory in the Philippines worked quietly to help 1,200 Jews flee to Manila. The Frieder brothers never talked about their part in the little-known rescue. But some 65 years later, the remaining refugees want the world to know what Philip, Alex, Morris and Herbert Frieder achieved.
Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:06:40At least 27 passengers were killed and 35 injured when a bus skidded off a road in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:06:25you can now get a 400 gigabyte hard drive that is just 3.5 inches in diameter.
People Diereuters.com/ ... 13:04:54Seventeen young people were found dead in a hostel in eastern Spain on Sunday, apparently as a result of a gas leak... local people aged between 25 and 40 who had rented the hostel to celebrate a birthday and spend the weekend there....
Extraterrestrialspace.com/ ... 14:37:57An asteroid expected to fly past Earth in 2029 will be visible to the naked eye... only from Europe, Africa and western Asia... no event like this in modern history.... closest brush by a good-sized asteroid known to occur... will pass Earth inside the orbits of some satellites.... roughly estimated to be a little more than 1,000 feet (320 meters) wide.... On April 13, 2029, it will be about 22,600 miles (36,350 kilometers) from Earth's center... just below the altitude of geosynchronous satellites... expected to shine like a fast-moving star at magnitude 3.3... will cover about 42 degrees of sky per hour... On average, one would expect a similarly close Earth approach by an asteroid of this size only every 1,300 years or so, Chesley and his colleagues have determined... flyby will bend the rock's path and change the circumstances of later close passes to Earth. "...no subsequent Earth encounters in the 21st Century are of concern...." Were an asteroid [this].. to hit Earth, it would cause local devastation and regional damage....
Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:25:04A Chicago judge has ruled that an embryo mistakenly discarded by an Illinois fertility clinic was a 'human' and its parents can sue under the state's wrongful death law.
Violencewilmingtonstar.com/ ... 14:31:34n the first week after the elections, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and the Mosul police chief are turning the tables on the insurgency here in the north by using a tactic - videotaped messages - that the insurgents have used time and again as they have terrorized the region with kidnappings and executions. But this time the videos, which are being broadcast on a local station, carry an altogether different message, juxtaposing images of the masked killers with the cowed men they become once captured.... A program loosely based on "most wanted" crime shows in the United States is also being developed, a Mosul television official said....ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:10:05... As Hani and Khaled Toma backed out of the garage to make the two-hour drive from Mosul to the relative safety of Irbil on Sept. 2, a dozen gunmen riddled their red BMW with bullets, adding two more to the dozens of members of Iraq's tiny Christian community who have been murdered in Iraq's post-invasion blood bath. Over the past year, about 100 families from Mosul have taken refuge in Ain Kawa, a small Christian suburb of the northern Kurdish city of Irbil. Hundreds more have fled to other Kurdish-protected villages and towns....reuters.com/ ... 13:07:48Gunmen seized four Egyptian engineers in Baghdad on Sunday
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:09:07Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema Dies of Heart Attack, Son Named New Leader; African Union Accuses Military of Coupnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:07:34Human rights groups in Nepal have appealed to the international community to press the authorities to reverse harsh emergency measures. They say the government headed by King Gyanendra who has taken direct power is spreading terror and panic.
SAT 2005-FEB-05
Supernaturalcsmonitor.com/ ... 23:29:03When Judge Hamoud al-Hitar announced that he and four other Islamic scholars would challenge Yemen's Al Qaeda prisoners to a theological contest, Western antiterrorism experts warned that this high-stakes gamble would end in disaster.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:30:16authorities in Milan have banned a billboard featuring an all-female version of the 15th Century fresco.. Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper.. features well-clad women surrounding what seems to be a female Christ. The only male in the picture is a young bare-chested man sitting on a woman's lap in a provocative pose.
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 11:59:15Microsoft's Gates Vows 'Interoperable' Software
[Now interting "ter" into "inoperable"?
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 20:20:02A car attempting a U-turn on a California highway was struck broadside early Saturday, killing all five people inside, including the unlicensed 17-year-old driver. Four others in the second vehicle were injured.reuters.com/ ... 11:50:23BAND-E GHAZI, Afghanistan -- Dutch military helicopters on Saturday found the wreckage of an Afghan passenger jet that crashed in a snow storm near the capital Kabul two days ago, killing all 104 people on board.
Preternatural Patternscommunity.middlebury.edu/ ... 01:09:23Crime & Punishment study guideap.tbo.com/ ... 01:07:32[Ah! The Raskalnikov Defense] Jury Rejects Insanity Claim by Wisconsin Teen Accused of Killing Man to See if He Could Outsmart Investigators
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!reuters.com/ ... 20:19:27In the latest twist in Mexico's war on drug trafficking, a senior member of President Vicente Fox's staff has been arrested over possible links with a drugs gang....
Only Naturalwired.com/ ... 20:33:10.. inaudible to human ears, powerful ocean waves produce a quasi-harmonic humming sound in the ground that can be detected just about anywhere with seismometers. Long dismissed as "background noise" by seismologists, a new look at this constant hum is opening a window on ocean activity, providing insight into the Earth's structure that may one day be used to give advance warning of earthquakes....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:19:01A 24-year-old woman who had been taking a course of contraceptive pills has found she is expecting identical quads... said she considered having an abortion, but had changed her mind. "Part of me feels very special because this is so unusual. And I was just enjoying being a full-time mum to [her firstborn]."
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 11:55:05Texas-based hotel chain La Quinta Corp. has told a Kansas abortion clinic it cannot perform medical services in its rooms and to stop using its name in promotional literature... the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue last month called for a national boycott of La Quinta...
Justice?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:38:23US tobacco companies have welcomed an appeal court's decision to reject the government's $280bn (£155bn) claim for alleged deceit about smoking dangers.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:06:05Police killed two suspected militants Saturday wanted in last year's Sinai bombings following clashes in Egypt's Sinai peninsula desert.. A policeman was also killed and several wounded in the fighting..ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:01:39Two American soldiers were killed in a roadside blast Friday night near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad... Four Iraqi National Guardsmen died in a roadside bombing early Saturday in Basra... a member of the Baghdad city council, Abbas Hasan Waheed, was killed Saturday in a drive-by shooting... Early Saturday, an Italian journalist received a call from the mobile telephone of colleague Giuliana Sgrena, 56, who was kidnapped by gunmen Friday near Baghdad University.... heard only Arab music playing in the background. [HEY WAKE UP! SHE MAY BE TRYING TO GIVE YOU A SIGNAL TO TRACE!
Threatsdenverpost.com/ ... 20:33:44Work crews on Thursday began cleaning up more than 25 million gallons of radioactive pond water discovered at Rocky Flats in November by surprised state health officials.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:27:35"There are no limitations in the striking power of our armed force. If U.S. imperialists ignite flames of war, we will strike all their bases first and turn them into a sea of fire," North Korean air force officer Huh Ryong ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:05:26A judge sent two Moroccan brothers to jail Saturday on provisional charges of collaborating with a terrorist group in connection with the deadly Madrid train bombings last year, but ordered their parents freed.earthtimes.org/ ... 11:51:14A male passenger’s name aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Paris triggered a terrorist alert at the airport of Delta airlines which led to an hour long drama and delaying of flights. .. passenger with suspicious name was intervened and was found to be innocent. reuters.com/ ... 03:37:48The FBI has squandered $170 million on a failed computer system agents can use to instantly share information, and seems to know neither how long it will take nor how much it will cost to build one, a Justice Department audit showed on Thursday.reuters.com/ ... 03:37:16Colorado teens fined nearly $900 for terrorizing neighbor with Valentine's cookies.
Rebuildingjournalnow.com/ ... 01:13:03Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, pressing to improve relations with Europe, drew a promise yesterday from Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany to do more to help with Iraq and a warm endorsement of President Bush's call for democracy in Iran.
FRI 2005-FEB-04
Preternatural Patternstimesonline.co.uk/ ... 23:56:21A schoolgirl has become a publishing sensation after her first novel sold 50,000 copies in six weeks.
Family Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:57:22[pic]
US police have arrested a Florida couple who went on the run after they were accused of torturing five children in their care... accused of torturing the children with hammers and pliers and subjecting them to electric shocks...reuters.com/ ... 10:27:17It's So Cute! He's Going After Junior's Backpack! A Canadian couple has launched a business offering worried parents or concerned employers private drug-detection services that will search homes and offices for everything from marijuana to heroin. .."If you suspect your kids of drug use, this is one way to make sure there's no drugs in the house..."
Transportnynewsday.com/ ... 21:00:26False reports of a suspected hijacking of a jetliner from Paris sent law-enforcement officers scurrying at Kennedy Airport Friday. Two Delta Air Lines planes were met by police and federal agents when they landed and, after brief delays, passengers were allowed to disembark when their pilots reported no problems had occurred on either planereuters.com/ ... 10:26:13 The wreckage of an Afghan airliner that went missing with 104 people on board was found Friday near the capital, Kabul, a day after it was turned away because of heavy snow, a Western security source said. But NATO troops searching for the plane denied it had been found and said they were calling off their hunt for the day because of darkness and bad weather.
Sex can be Dangerouslocal10.com/ ... 10:21:40A 10-year-old boy has been suspended from a Pompano Beach elementary school amid allegations he raped an 8-year-old classmate.
WW2 - less with ussportsillustrated.cnn.com/ ... 10:20:09Max Schmeling, the heavyweight champion whose two fights with Joe Louis set off a propaganda war between the Nazi regime and the United States on the eve of World War II, died at 99.... his bouts with Louis.. produced a lasting bond between the boxers despite a politically charged atmosphere when they fought... He became the first German -- and European -- heavyweight world champion when he beat Jack Sharkey in New York on June 12, 1930 after the American was disqualified for a fourth-round low blow. .. Schmeling lost his title to Sharkey two years later on a disputed decision, but came back to knock out the previously unbeaten Louis in the 12th round on June 19, 1936, which the Nazi regime trumpeted as a sign of "Aryan supremacy." Schmeling was a 10-1 underdog and his victory is considered one of the biggest upsets in boxing history. But in a rematch at Yankee Stadium on June 22, 1938, Louis knocked out Schmeling in the first round... "Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight," Schmeling said in 1975. "Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal."...
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:25:08The amount of spam circulating online could about be about to undergo a massive increase...a novel virus which hides the origins of junk mail. The program makes spam look like it is being sent by legitimate mail servers making it hard to spot and filter out.ebcvg.com/ ... 10:13:53 a new variant of the Bropia worm is using MSN Messenger to spread.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:59:44[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Sean M. Cooley, 35, from Ocean Springs, Miss., died February 3 in Northern Babil Province, Iraq, when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive devicedefenselink.mil/ ... 20:59:29[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Mark C. Warren, 44, from LaGrande, Ore., died January 31 at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq from non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:59:14[flag]Army Sgt. Stephen R. Sherman, 27, from Neptune, N.J., died Feb. 3 in Mosul, Iraq, from wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:58:58[flag]Army Spc. Robert T. Hendrickson, 24, from Broken Bow, Okla., died Feb. 1 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds sustained when his military vehicle overturned.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:58:42[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Sean P. Maher, 19, of Grays Lake, Ill., died Feb. 2 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Only Naturalnewscientist.com/ ... 01:00:07The massive west Antarctic ice sheet, previously assumed to be stable, is starting to collapse,
US Militarybradenton.com/ ... 00:58:15The Iraq war is entering a new, post-election phase in which U.S. troops will focus on training Iraqi security forces, but no American withdrawal is in sight, top Pentagon officials said Thursday.
Violencenews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 10:20:30An Italian journalist was taken hostage on her way to a mosque near Baghdad University in Iraq
THU 2005-FEB-03
Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:16:22The Russian parliament's lower chamber, the Duma, has barred a pianist from performing in the canteen after she played.. the 80-year-old tune Murka.. tells a story of a gangster killing his girlfriend for being an undercover agent of the Bolshevik secret police....
WW2 - still with ussg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:10:51The French education ministry suspended far-right lawmaker Bruno Gollnisch from his position as a university professor over controversial comments he made about Nazi gas chambers.
Sick, Sick, Sickworldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:03:29Following what it described as a 25-year internal investigation of... the University of Colorado professor now in the center of a storm of national controversy, the American Indian Movement kicked out the activist the group called "deceitful" and "treacherous" and who it condemned as a white man masquerading as an Indian.
Supernaturalboston.com/ ... 13:50:19A high school graduate has confessed to cheating on an English literature test -- 47 years ago... "I know it makes no difference now (after 47 years), except maybe this will keep some student from cheating and help them to be honest -- conscience never lets you forget -- there is forgiveness with God, and I have that, but I felt I still needed to confess to the school."...
Sex -- always attractivereuters.com/ ... 13:46:25At just 18, Amanda Marquit has quite a resume -- child ballet star, accomplished on the piano and electric guitar and she's just published her first novel, "Shut the Door," a story of teen sex and parental neglect.... Marquit was reading Nabokov's "Lolita," the controversial story of a middle-aged pedophile's relationship with a 12-year-old girl, when she started writing the short story that eventually became a novel. She was writing to pass the time while she was lonely at summer camp at age 14....
Extraterrestrialap.tbo.com/ ... 19:17:35One of Russia's most experienced cosmonauts, who will take over command of the international space station this spring, said Thursday he has concerns over NASA's plans to use the orbiting outpost as an emergency shelter for a damaged shuttle.news.independent.co.uk/ ... 15:07:12Britain -- declassified reports of UFO sightings reveal 88 sightings last yearnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:09Star Trek: Enterprise, the latest TV incarnation of the sci-fi saga, is being axed by broadcaster UPN.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 19:19:58WELLSVILLE, Kan. -- A Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight train rear-ended a second train Thursday afternoon, derailing several cars - including one that erupted in flames - and injuring one crewman.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:19:29Man Who Wrote Blood Message in Train Wreck Recalls Scenectv.ca/ ... 13:06:27 A train smashed into a tractor carrying wedding guests at a crossing in western India on Thursday, killing at least 52 people and injuring 10 others...
Currentnytimes.com/ ... 13:00:24Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania of Georgia, a youthful reformer and ally of President Mikhail Saakashvili, died early today... asphyxiated by carbon monoxide apparently released by a space heater in an apartment in Georgia's capital....
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!clickondetroit.com/ ... 19:09:33A mother was arrested at a Ferndale school for allegedly delivering a syringe full of heroin to her son.
Only Naturalapnews.myway.com/ ... 19:14:39Tiny single-celled organisms, many of them previously unknown, have been discovered beneath nearly seven miles of water in the deepest part of the ocean.... pressure where the find was made is 1,100 times more than normal atmospheric pressure at the surface....suntimes.com/ ... 13:51:05Sunlight exposure, a major risk factor for the potentially deadly skin cancer melanoma, may also help victims survive that disease, new research indicates. And a second study indicates that exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of getting cancer of the lymph glands.....
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 13:48:14An over-zealous policeman slapped a parking ticket on the windshield of a fellow officer's squad car while his colleagues were setting a radar trap.. "Traffic regulations apply for everyone..." The radar police had parked their squad car on the wrong side of the road -- facing the oncoming traffic.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 13:29:18A Texas woman has been indicted for criminally negligent homicide for causing her husband's death by giving him a sherry enema... received the wine enema because a throat ailment left him unable to drink the sherry... Along with negligent homicide.. [she] was indicted for burning her husband's will a month before his death. Both charges carry maximum penalties of two years in prison....
US Militaryworldtribune.com/ ... 19:13:11The United States has developed a non-lethal high-powered microwave for use in Iraq... uses millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy that can be directed at targets at a range of 1 kilometer... causes the skin to burn, causing the people to run away...estripes.com/ ... 19:08:46ARLINGTON, Va. — The Marine Corps Commandant chastised but also defended one of his top commanders after video surfaced on NBC of the three-star general publicly saying “it’s fun to shoot some people.”
“Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. I like brawling,” Lt. Gen. James Mattis told a gathering in San Diego during a panel discussion at the Convention Center there Wednesday.
Mattis, a veteran of operations in Afghanistan, more recently led thousands of Marines into combat in Iraq as the commander of 1st Marine Division.
He’s currently the head of the corps’ Combat Development Command at Quantico, Va.sun-sentinel.com/ ... 13:11:03For the first time in nearly a decade, the Marine Corps in January missed its monthly recruiting goal
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 13:48:36The next time a Canadian official hands you a lapel pin bearing an image of the country's maple leaf flag, take a closer look. That symbol of patriotism was likely made in China.
Iraq Votesnews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:27:08...The two women, both touched by death in Iraq, reached out for each other while lawmakers, military leaders, the president and the nation watched. Their locked embrace inspired the longest applause of the evening.... the parents of Marine Corps Sgt. Byron Norwood.. a soldier killed in Iraq... said the Iraqi woman, Safia Taleb al-Suhail.. daughter of a man killed by Saddam Hussein's regime... had turned and introduced herself just before the speech.... "She thanked us for our son's sacrifice and made sure we knew the people in Iraq were grateful for the sacrifices that were made not just by our son, but by all of them," Janet Norwood said. "I just told her how happy we were that the elections were successful and told her our son would have been pleased...."
Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 19:15:00A fight broke out in the stands of a girls' high school basketball game, prompting police to fire Tasers to stop it and clear the gym,reuters.myway.com/ ... 19:09:08Iraqi insurgents staged a major ambush on a road near Baghdad Thursday, killing two policemen, wounding 14 and leaving at least 16 missingreuters.myway.com/ ... 13:10:27BAGHDAD - Insurgents dragged Iraqi soldiers off a bus and shot 12 of them dead... Two soldiers survived and fled to a nearby village after their bus was ambushed near the northern oil city of Kirkuk late Wednesday. The soldiers had been returning from vacation...
Two U.S. Marines were also killed Wednesday in Anbar province west of Baghdad...
Sex can be Dangeroussilive.com/ ... 13:08:46Two New Yorkers have been infected with a rare and aggressive sexually transmitted disease -- and health officials yesterday warned those most at risk of getting the disease -- namely gay and bisexual men -- to use condoms... lymphogranuloma venereum.. , is a form of chlamydia that can cause painful, bloody rectal infections, genital ulcers, and permanent damage to the intestines and genital disfigurement. If detected early, the disease can be treated with antibiotics..... Six cases of the disease have been identified so far in the United States, and most of those affected have been gay and bisexual men who also test positive for HIV/AIDS.
Threatsreuters.com/ ... 13:43:35U.S. and Iraqi security forces may have come close to capturing Iraqi al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the past two weeks and are weakening his network, Iraq's interior minister said on Thursday.edition.cnn.com/ ... 13:03:44Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for last year's brutal terrorist attack on a Russian school, was quoted as saying Thursday that the separatist rebels are planning more such operations.
WED 2005-FEB-02
Whoops!nydailynews.com/ ... 23:20:55The bag from the hospital [which] should have held his recently deceased father's belongings... [held] a human leg....
Digital Threatboostmarketing.com/ ... 14:32:25Why The New Microsoft Search Engine Will Succeed... people are very fickle when it comes to search engine loyalty... The billions of dollars that Microsoft is willing to spend to take their engine to the top...
Transportabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:27:27TETERBORO, N.J. Feb 2, 2005 — A corporate jet hurtled off the end of a runway while attempting to take off from Teterboro Airport on Wednesday, speeding across a highway during the morning rush hour and slamming into a warehouse. At least 14 people were injured, one critically. The plane struck at least one car on the highway... the co-pilot was in serious condition with multiple fractures to the lower part of the body... The patient in critical condition had been in [the] car....
Preternatural Patternssptimes.com/ ... 23:22:32teacher caught smoking pot.. yelling at students.. interrupting meetings with belching... moons colleagues at staff meeting....reuters.com/ ... 14:55:22The Year of the Rooster will not convulse the world with a disaster as deadly as the Indian ocean tsunami of the Year of the Monkey, but beware of earthquakes and typhoons, especially in the east, soothsayers say. lust will rise and marriage may be inauspicious, but it's fine to have a baby if you are careful. And on the world stage, some measure of peace may be seen in trouble spots such as North Korea and some inroads may finally be made in the war on terror in the Middle East.reuters.com/ ... 14:54:37Despite complaints from 60 people, Britain's advertising regulators said Wednesday there is nothing inappropriate about the genitals of an animated frog whose high-pitched squeals are sold as a mobile phone ringtone.reuters.com/ ... 14:54:07eBay UK removed "Lizard Skin," an auction offered by Ingrid Newkirk, the British founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) because her ad breached guidelines.nytimes.com/ ... 01:06:36Howard Dean emerged Tuesday as the almost assured new leader of the Democratic National Committee
Sex -- always attractivelatimes.com/ ... 01:06:02Adelphia Communications Corp. has quietly become the nation's only leading cable operator to offer the most explicit category of hard-core porn. Come Friday, triple-X-rated programming will be available on cable for the first time in a major media market: Southern California. "People want it, so we are trying to provide it," Adelphia spokeswoman Erica Stull said. "The more Xs, the more popular." ... Five years ago, Adelphia stirred a local controversy by dropping Spice — a popular soft-porn channel — from newly acquired cable systems here because Adelphia founder John Rigas considered X-rated programming immoral.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 21:36:09[flag]Army Civilian Barbara Heald, 60, of Stanford, Conn., died Jan.29 in Baghdad, Iraq, when the Republic National Palace was hit by a mortar round.defenselink.mil/ ... 21:35:21[flag]Spc. Lyle W. Rymer II, 24, of Fort Smith, Ark., died Jan. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, when he was shot by enemy forces.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 14:52:24...When the county denied Rieger a liquor license for a bar, he opened a strip club with a juice bar in 2003. When it served a stop order saying a commercial business could not operate in area zoned for agriculture, Rieger went to court and won. And when 74 percent of the county's voters passed an anti-nudity ordinance in June, Rieger found a loophole that exempted movie theaters. After a two-week hiatus, the club re-emerged as Racehorses Gentlemen's Club and Adult Movie Theatre and has been operating ever since. Now the county is drawing up a new ordinance that would require his dancers to wear pasties and G-strings. And a state senator plans to push for a similar state law. "At this point, it's harassment," Rieger says. "They're really picking on me."
Only Naturalapnews.myway.com/ ... 21:34:00Punxsutawney Phil has spoken, and the news isn't good.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:40:56A Peruvian baby dubbed the "Little Mermaid" because she was born with a rare condition in which her legs are fused, will have surgery this month to try to separate them.... Nine-month-old Milagros.. means miracles in Spanish.. one of only a handful of the estimated 1-in-60,000 to 100,000 people born with sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome, to have lived more than a few hours, experts say. ...For the doctor leading the Peruvian team that will cut her legs apart in Lima on Feb. 24, the past year has been a crash course in tackling a condition he had read about in textbooks but never expected to have to treat. ... Doctors believe there may only be one other surviving "mermaid" -- 16-year-old American Tiffany Yorks, whose legs were separated when she was a few months old. Experts say sirenomelia is about as rare as conjoined twins but is nearly always fatal because most sufferers lack kidneys or have other complications....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:16:34RAPID CITY, S.D. -- A buffalo that escaped from an auction ended up in a dressing room at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, where it spent a couple of hours staring into a mirror.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Last year, there were two reported kangaroo attacks in the Australian capital, Canberra, hundreds of miles south of Coffs Harbor. In one, a woman was attacked and in another, a woman said a kangaroo drowned her golden retriever in a pond.
Iraq Votesariannaonline.com/ ... 21:33:43The media have made it sound like last Sunday was a combination of 1776, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Prague Spring, the Ukraine's Orange Revolution, Filipino "People Power," Tiananmen Square and Super Bowl Sunday — all rolled into one. [They have? Must be on TV which I don't watch. News media I read on the web reported a much larger-than-expected turnout, a very much lower-than-anticpated security situation, and a lot of jubilation and exultation from people proud to be able to just plain relatively freely vote for their own government, acknowledging unexpected appreciation, without losing sight of the problems current and ahead.]washtimes.com/ ... 21:28:54Skeptics of President Bush's attempt to bring democracy to Iraq have been largely silent since Iraqis enthusiastically turned out for Sunday's elections.
Mr. Carter told NBC's "Today" show in September that he was confident the elections would not take place. "I personally do not believe they're going to be ready for the election in January ... because there's no security there," he said.
Mr. Soros' Web site (www.georgesoros.com) has no reference to the Iraqi elections.
An e-mail to [Michael] Moore requesting comment was not returned.
Under Tyrannynews.yahoo.com/ ... 21:26:07In his first public remarks since the United States dubbed Cuba an outpost of tyranny, Fidel Castro called President Bush "deranged" and belittled recent improvements in relations between Cuba and Europe.
Police Riotreuters.com/ ... 14:52:44Berlin police rejected accusations Wednesday that their high-powered cars made them bad drivers, despite causing nearly 400 collisions, including 21 vehicles totaled, in two yearsap.tbo.com/ ... 01:07:37TOLEDO, Ohio - A county inmate died after being shocked nine times with a stun gun
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Now That's Funny!worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:06:29"It is our doll ... to me it definitely looks like it is," he said. "Everything the guy is wearing is exactly what comes with our figure."cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 19:34:04The U.S. military said Tuesday that no American soldiers have been reported missing in Iraq after a Web statement claimed that an American soldier had been taken hostage... Liam Cusack, of the toy manufacturer Dragon Models USA, Inc., said the image of the soldier portrayed in the photo bore a striking resemblance to a military action figure made by the company....
Build Well & Solidlynzherald.co.nz/ ... 12:19:04Their house will withstand earthquakes and hurricanes - and it's made of pumice. Compressed pumice blocks.. also environmentally friendly, durable, warm in winter and cool in summer, fire-resistant, soundproof, rodent and insect-proof, handsome and affordable.... A great insulator, pumice is ideal for compressing. It needs no processing, is non-toxic and moisture won't erode it....
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:53:16Splenda's Web Site (www.splenda.com) says the product is made "through a patented process that starts with sugar and converts it to a no calorie, noncarbohydrate sweetener. The process selectively replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms."reuters.com/ ... 11:52:02A celebrated Berlin prostitute said Monday that German job center advisers shouldn't shy away from offering jobs in the sex industry to the long-term unemployed.reuters.com/ ... 11:50:29The British founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals... is auctioning off a lizard tattoo on her right arm -- with proceeds going to the charity. Billed as "waterproof and weathered" and "suitable for making into a wallet or watch strap," the tattoo is being offered on Web site eBay to draw attention to the plight suffered by skinned animals. "It's the only skin you can wear and use with the express permission of the original owner...."reuters.com/ ... 11:49:19A Texas man is charged with cutting a pacemaker out of his dead mother's chest with a kitchen knife as part of a long-running dispute with a medical company...
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 11:47:20A Swedish police officer has confessed he robbed a bank and later investigated the crime himself, telling reporters at the time police had no clues... Colleagues became suspicious when he bought a new car in mid-January, paying 219,000 Swedish crowns ($31,400) in cash using banknotes from the robbery...
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 19:40:04In a paper published in Tuesday's Journal of Applied Physics, HP said three members of its Quantum Science Research group propose and demonstrate a "crossbar latch," which provides the signal restoration and inversion required for general computing without the need for transistors. Palo Alto, California-based HP said that the technology could result in computers that are thousands of times more powerful than those that exist today. "We are reinventing the computer at the molecular scale..."livescience.com/ ... 19:39:11A new study confirms that the reaction time of cell phone users slows dramatically, increasing the risk of accidents and tying up traffic in general, and when young adults use cell phones while driving, they're as bad as sleepy septuagenarians.variety.com/ ... 11:17:36Variety looks at the maturation of cable television
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Sick, Sick, Sicknynewsday.com/ ... 12:17:26"I put glass from my pocket in the Big Mac I made and then I took it to the window and gave it to a cop...."rockymountainnews.com/ ... 11:15:00Embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill resigned his chairmanship of the school's ethnic studies program... Particularly offensive to many was Churchill's reference to people killed at the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns," an allusion to Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann, a chief facilitator of Hitler's Final Solution....
Cold War - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 10:52:56Missouri Senator, Others Push for Compensation Payments to Cold War-Era Workers
Sex can be Dangerousboston.com/ ... 12:15:54SWAMPSCOTT -- The Rev. Jerome F. Gillespie resigned yesterday as pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church in Swampscott after he was accused of asking a 12-year-old girl and her mother to perform a sex act at an Italian restaurant in Chelsea Tuesday night.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:52:12THE POST-JANET SUPERBOWL HALFTIME: This year's entertainment will be provided by Paul McCartney, whose every word and move will be vetted and reviewed by the league. "He'll keep his clothes on," Charles Coplin, the man the NFL put in charge of the halftime show, assured.... [Article looks at wide-ranging consequences of the "wardrobe malfunction."]
Digital Threatworldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:01:58The New Jersey man brutally murdered with his family was just one of a number of Christians systematically tracked by a radical Islamic website because they debate Muslims on the popular Internet chat service PalTalk.com.boston.com/ ... 10:54:46US troops in Iraq shot and killed four inmates during a prison riot yesterday... Six prisoners were wounded... 'We're not sure exactly what sparked it... There's no obvious connection with the election."ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:53:47...in an era of mad cow disease and the threat of agroterrorism, federal agriculture regulators want to be able to locate within 48 hours - or sooner - the whereabouts of each of the nation's 100 million-plus head of cattle. Enter a Kansas proposal that would combine GPS, cellular and radio frequency technologies to track cattle as they are in transit. It is one of the ideas the U.S. Department of Agriculture is testing and one that could shape the nation's emerging animal identification system.nytimes.com/ ... 10:45:32Since the Can Spam Act went into effect in January 2004, unsolicited junk e-mail on the Internet has come to total perhaps 80 percent or more of all e-mail sent, according to most measures. That is up from 50 percent to 60 percent of all e-mail before the law went into effect.... in making spam legal.. the new rules also invited flouting by those intent on being outlaws....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:04:48[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Joseph E.Rodriguez, 25 of Las Cruces, N.M., died Jan. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device struck his armored vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:04:24[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jason C. Redifer, 19, of Stuarts Draft, Va.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Harry R. Swain IV, 21, of Cumberland, N.J.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Christopher E. Zimny, 27, of Cook, Ill.
died Jan. 31 as a result of hostile action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:03:32[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Jonathan R. Reed, 25, of Opelousas, La.
[flag]Army Spc. Michael S. Evans II, 22, Marrero, La.
[flag]Army Spc. Christopher J. Ramsey, 20, of Batchelor, La.
died Jan. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device struck a nearby vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:25:28[flag]Army Sgt. Lindsey T. James, 23, of Urbana, Mo., died Jan. 29 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his dismounted patrol.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:25:08[flag]Army Pfc. Stephen A. Castellano, 21, of Long Beach, Calif., died Jan. 28 in Mosul, Iraq, from a non-combat related injury. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:24:50[flag]Army Pfc. James H. Miller IV, 22, of Cincinnati, Ohio, died Jan. 30 in Ramadi, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:24:24[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Nazario Serrano, 20, of Irving, Texas, died Jan. 30 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:24:06[flag]Navy Lt. Cmdr. Edward E. Jack, 51, of Detroit, Mich., died Jan. 29, of a non-combat related incident aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:23:42[flag]Army Capt. Orlando A. Bonilla, 27, of Killeen, Texas.
[flag]Army Chief Warrant Officer Charles S. Jones, 34, of Lawtey, Fla.
died Jan. 28 in Baghdad, Iraq, in a helicopter accident. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:22:57[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Mickey E. Zaun, 27, of Brooklyn Park, Minn., died Jan. 28 in Mosul, Iraq, from injuries sustained in a collision between two armored vehicles. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:22:42[flag]Navy Lt. Cmdr Keith E. Taylor, 47, of Irvine, Calif., died Jan. 29, in a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:22:27[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Joseph W. Stevens, 26, of Sacramento, Calif.
[flag]Army Sgt. Michael C. Carlson, 22, of St. Paul, Minn.
[flag]Army Sgt. Javier Marin Jr., 29, of Mission, Texas.
[flag]Army Spc. Viktar V. Yolkin, 24, of Spring Branch, Texas.
[flag]Army Pfc. Jesus A. Leon-Perez, 20, of Houston, Texas.
died Jan. 24 in Mohammed Sacran, Iraq, when their Bradley Fighting Vehicle overturned.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:33[flag]Marine Cpl. Timothy A. Knight, 22, of Brooklyn, Ohio, died Jan. 26 when the CH-53E helicopter he was in crashed near Ar Rutbah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:16[flag]Marine Sgt. Andrew K. Farrar Jr., 31, of Weymouth, Mass., died Jan. 28 due to a non-hostile related incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
US Militaryreuters.myway.com/ ... 11:35:57the Pentagon plans to increase survivor benefits for families of service members killed in war... would effectively double to $500,000... Defense officials will ask that the higher payments be retroactive to October 2001, when the war in Afghanistan started....ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:48:30Less than a year ago, Tabitha Bonilla's father gave his life for his country in Iraq. Last week, her husband gave his, too. Army Capt. Orlando A. Bonilla, 27, of Killeen, Texas, was killed Friday in a helicopter accident in Baghdad. Her father, Army Sgt. 1st Class Henry A. Bacon, 45, died last February in a vehicle accident. "I stand behind my daddy and my husband, and I stand behind the job they had to do, and that's my take on it.. I just support them, regardless of who sent them over there and why they sent them over there, no matter whether it's for right or wrong reasons."
Human Righttimesonline.co.uk/ ... 12:14:07A DESIGNER who was dismissed for using a company computer to send explicit e-mails to her lesbian lover won her claim for unfair dismissal yesterday... sent and received more than 300 personal messages... in 15 weeks... bosses insisted they were right to get rid of her after claiming her standard of work slipped... industrial tribunal panel ruled she should not have been sacked and ordered her former employer to pay her £26,245 in compensation.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:47:13 A gay rights group is challenging an amendment to Oregon's Constitution banning same-sex marriage, arguing it revises rather than amends the document. The ban should be overturned because "it violates the fundamental principle of civil rights for Oregonians on which the Oregon Constitution is based," said Roey Thorpe of Basic Rights Oregon.
Only Naturalsky.com/ ... 12:20:48The 29-year-old mother-of-two believes hair has the natural ability to clean itself - so she doesn't bother. "I find shampoo just strips out all the goodness and then you put conditioner on to put the goodness back in.... It was much easier to get out of that cycle." Mrs Weynberg brushes her hair daily to remove dirt and smells and rinses it with warm water every few months.ananova.com/ ... 12:19:23Hen produces spoon-shaped eggap.tbo.com/ ... 11:44:06FORT WAYNE, Ind. - An elephant being loaded onto a truck trampled a circus animal trainer to deathmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 11:08:59,,the region of the brain that inhibits risky behavior is not fully formed until age 25 [This helps explain the large number of hip people selling out around this age?], a finding with implications for a host of policies, including the nation's driving laws...olympics.reuters.com/ ... 10:43:01Viruses, X-rays and compounds found in grilled meats joined the official list of known or suspected cancer-causing agents released on Monday... also adds chemicals used in textile dyes, paints and inks....
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 11:51:44Homeowners in Britain will not be imprisoned for using "reasonable force" to fight off intruders even if they kill, under guidelines published Tuesday by the state prosecution service.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:40:08A US jury has ordered food giant Nestle to pay $15.6m (£8.3m) to a former model whose image was used for years without his permission on coffee jar labels... Nestle USA plans to appeal against the award, which includes 5% of profits for Taster's Choice from 1997 to 2003.... theglobeandmail.com/ ... 10:37:30...a U.S. District Court judge ruled yesterday that military tribunals set up for prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military base are unconstitutional....
Freedomworldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:07:54how a gift of vodka and a little ingenuity helped Ukraine's Orange Revolution succeed
Violencetimesonline.co.uk/ ... 12:10:45KUWAITI security forces, combating a surge in al-Qaeda-linked violence, killed four militants and captured three, including a suspected leader, during a gun battle yesterday.. A Kuwaiti civilian was killed in the crossfire, while three policemen and three militants were wounded.. fourth such shoot-out in the country in a month...nydailynews.com/ ... 12:02:47The FBI last year quietly nabbed a Saudi military official who had ties to Al Qaeda - just after he finished training in this country with the U.S. Air Force.. The Saudi allegedly had knowledge of Al Qaeda safe houses and plans in the kingdom.. "There were some significant rollups because of this."reuters.com/ ... 11:42:41A little-known Iraqi insurgent group said on Tuesday it was holding a U.S. soldier and threatened to kill him within 72 hours if Iraqi prisoners were not released....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:38:51Nepal's King Gyanendra has sacked the country's government and declared a state of emergency. Phone lines have been cut, flights to the capital are cancelled and the press is being censored. The king says the cabinet has failed to bring peace to Nepal, which has faced a Maoist rebellion for years.reuters.com/ ... 11:07:25A car bomb exploded outside a police station in ex-Soviet Georgia on Tuesday, killing three police and destroying the building in what officials called a "terrorist act."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:46:38The BBC has apologised for incorrectly broadcasting figures which suggested more Iraqi civilians had been killed by coalition and Iraqi forces than by insurgents.nypost.com/ ... 10:42:05Top Israeli and Palestinian officials held an urgent meeting last night to try to save a fragile truce following terrorist shelling of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and Islamic Jihad launched mortars and homemade rockets at the Gush Katif settlement bloc during the day in retaliation for what they called Israel's slaying of a 10-year-old girl. "We heard talk about a cease-fire. But it seems there is nothing like that on the ground," said the mother of the dead girl, Norhan Deeb. But Israeli officials said an investigation showed there was a Palestinian wedding in the area and the gunfire that killed Norhan apparently came from celebrants firing in the air....novinite.com/ ... 10:38:51Four Iraqis were killed and six others wounded during a riot at a prison in southern Iraq
Iraq Votessfgate.com/ ... 12:10:11About 93 percent of the 280,000 Iraqi voters registered abroad cast absentee ballots in the country's electionsuntimes.com/ ... 11:34:43Mark Brown, Sun-Times Columnist: What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along? [Powerful words]boston.com/ ... 10:38:19Iraq's president said Tuesday it would be ''complete nonsense'' to ask foreign troops to leave the country now, although some could depart by year's end.
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