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Caption This! (Hurricane Rita map)
Post Date: 2005-09-23 02:54:43 by PnbC
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Write Your Own Caption Hurricane Rita: National Weather Service (Actual picture) You can't make this stuff up. Read other comments here: http://www.haloscan.com/comments/crooks/5056/
Big Easy hard on gun rights
Post Date: 2005-09-21 01:59:18 by Coral Snake
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Big Easy hard on gun rights By Dimitri Vassilaros TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, September 18, 2005 Businesses selling bumper stickers that read "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" also should offer one with the rejoinder "We told you so." In spite of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina -- and then by its citizens -- New Orleans still is the "Big Easy" because of its total and effortless vandalizing of the Second Amendment. Say what you will about the astounding ineptitude of Mayor C. Ray "Not My Fault" Nagin and Police Superintendent P. Edwin "Me Neither" Compass III who, when interviewed jointly, wear "I'm with ...
Katrina chaos boosts case for 2nd Amendment
Post Date: 2005-09-21 01:02:05 by Coral Snake
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Katrina chaos boosts case for 2nd Amendment By Nolan Finley / The Detroit News Nolan Finley Related reports As New Orleans flooded and whatever civil society the city could lay claim to disintegrated, those left behind needed two things: a powerful will to survive and a gun. Hurricane Katrina might end up being the best friend the Second Amendment ever had. Gun dealers across the country are reporting increased sales. People who saw on television what happens when government can't deliver on the promise of protecting its citizens are buying firearms as an insurance policy against anarchy. That assurance of government-provided security has convinced individual Americans to gradually ...
PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH!
Post Date: 2005-09-20 17:13:56 by mirage
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PLANET-DISSOLVING DUST CLOUD IS HEADED TOWARD EARTH! It was spewed from a black hole 28,000 light years from Earth and is vaporizing everything in its path, astronomers say! By MIKE FOSTER CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of ...
U.S. leads the world in sale of military goods
Post Date: 2005-09-17 20:30:12 by Kamala
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U.S. leads the world in sale of military goods By FRIDA BERRIGAN Special to the Star-Telegram As insecurity mounts from Najaf to New Orleans, more weapons and high-tech military equipment are flowing into some of the globe's most vulnerable and war-torn regions. The Congressional Research Service recently found that global arms sales rose to $37 billion in 2004 -- the highest level since 2000. U.S. companies such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing rang up $12.4 billion in weapons contracts -- more than one-third of the total and more than twice what Russia -- the second largest exporter -- sold. The Departments of State, Commerce and Defense are all involved in different aspects of ...
Mouse that soared over East Bay sought
Post Date: 2005-09-16 22:07:29 by CAPPSMADNESS
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Time is running out for Mousie the mouse who, tied to two birthday balloons, was last seen soaring helplessly over the Berkeley hills toward points east. Mousie has been gone for a week now. Mousie's owner, an 11-year-old girl who tied him to the balloons in the first place, is as distraught as an 11-year-old girl can be. "It's a tragedy,'' said Caroline Nielsen. "I feel terrible. It should never have happened. Mousie is a member of the family.'' Mousie, it should be pointed out, is not a live mouse but a 3-inch-tall stuffed mouse. That does not make Mousie any less real to Caroline, who has treasured Mousie since the day nine years ago when her dad brought the toy home from a ...
Chinese Eatery Sold Donkey in Tiger Urine
Post Date: 2005-09-16 22:05:07 by CAPPSMADNESS
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A restaurant in northeastern China that advertised illegal tiger meat dishes was found instead to be selling donkey flesh — marinated in tiger urine, a newspaper reported Thursday. The Hufulou restaurant, located beside the Heidaohezi tiger reserve near the city of Hailin, had advertised stir-fried tiger meat with chilies for $98as well as liquor flavored with tiger bone for $74 a bottle, the China Daily reported. Raw meat was priced at $864 per kilogram. The sale of tiger parts is illegal in China and officers shut down the restaurant, only to be told by owner, Ma Shikun, that the meat was actually that of donkeys, flavored with tiger urine to give the dish a "special" ...
Principal Chases Streaker in Gorilla Mask
Post Date: 2005-09-16 22:03:19 by CAPPSMADNESS
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Some may have called it monkeying around, but school officials didn't find the stunt amusing. A 17-year-old student was arrested Monday after streaking through his high school wearing only a gorilla mask and outrunning the school principal. Union Springs High School Principal Kimberle Ward — who said she runs three to five miles a day — couldn't catch the fleeing student, but she was able to help police identify the teen after watching a hallway surveillance camera video and interviewing students. "There's no way anyone in the district would consider this a prank," said District Superintendent Linda Rice. "We're here to teach children, and we do have high ...
Scorched earth policy of 'static man'
Post Date: 2005-09-16 09:47:45 by Eoghan
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A VICTORIAN man conducted 30,000 volts of static electricity in his jacket today but walked away without a scratch. Frank Clewer, from Dennington in the south-west of the state, left a trail of burned carpet and molten plastic through the nearby city of Warrnambool. Authorities later tested his polar-fleece jacket using a device that measures static electricity, and said the dial initially went off the scale before settling on a figure greater than 30,000 volts. Mr Clewer's wife, Margaret, said her husband first heard a loud crack while inside a Warrnambool community employment centre, thinking a fire cracker had gone off outside. "He said he went in for his interview and they ...
Danes provide prostitutes for the disabled
Post Date: 2005-09-15 23:18:46 by robin
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Danes provide prostitutes for the disabled The Danish government is under attack for paying for its disabled citizens to have sex with prostitutes. The official 'Sex, irrespective of disability' campaign pays sex workers to provide sex once a month for disabled people. The legal guidelines advise: "It could be of great importance that the carer speaks to the prostitute together with the person in their care, to help them express their wishes." But opposition parties have attacked the regulations, claiming it is an immoral way of spending tax-payers' money. Social-Democrat spokesperson Kristen Brosboel said: "We spend a large proportion of our taxes rescuing women from ...
List of odd names compiled
Post Date: 2005-09-15 22:35:49 by Dakmar
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LONDON (AP) - Horatio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus. Rene Jackaman, archive assistant at Cornwall County Record Office, found all those names after coming across a real-life namesake of C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero in county census records. The Hornblower name has been on record for centuries. Inspired by that discovery, staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names found in censuses as well as in births, deaths and marriage records going back as far as the 16th century. "My all-time favorites are Abraham Thunderwolff and Freke Dorothy ...
Live Thread - Plunging poll numbers force the chimp to flap his yap. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-09-15 19:23:41 by crack monkey
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Can anybody stand to listen to Bush sing for the bots this evening? He'll be on at 7:30. If nobody wants to listen in I will understand.
Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth
Post Date: 2005-09-14 15:57:01 by Grumble Jones
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Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth September 14, 2005 | Issue 41•37 HOUSTON—On Tuesday, Halliburton received a $110 million no-bid government contract to pry the gold fillings from the mouths of deceased disaster victims in the New Orleans-Gulf Coast area. "We are proud to serve the government in this time of crisis by recovering valuable resources from the wreckage of this deadly storm," said David J. Lesar, Halliburton's president. "The gold we recover from the human rubble of Katrina can be used to make fighter-jet electronics, supercomputer chips, inflation-proof A-grade investments, and luxury yachting watches." ...
4um Server Maintenance on Friday (9/16) 2 PM
Post Date: 2005-09-13 18:44:46 by Neil McIver
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I will be taking the server off line on Friday for a completion of the maintenance that began 2 weeks ago. Inserting a new disk mirroring card.
The time is TBD. I'll modify this thead title when I figure that out. Most likely it will begin at 11 AM **OR** 3 PM. I expect it to take 2-3 hours.
Watch this space....
France bares all for sake of art
Post Date: 2005-09-11 22:17:48 by robin
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France bares all for sake of art Men and women of all ages had gathered before dawn for the shootAlmost 1,500 men and women have stripped naked in the name of art in the French city of Lyon. The volunteers gathered before dawn to join the latest nude photo shoot by New York artist Spencer Tunick. Directed by the artist from a crane, they posed with arms and legs in the air between shipping containers in Lyon's port, and on a waterfront. Previous shoots have been held in New York, Belgium, Barcelona and Brazil, as well as London and Tyneside in the UK. Art festival Men and women of all ages, most of them from the Lyon area but some from further afield, arrived in the city at 0430 GMT ...
Bush Resignation Hailed by World Leaders
Post Date: 2005-09-11 10:12:37 by Eoghan
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REPRINT Thursday, September 11, 2003 [Washington] The surprise resignation of the forty-third President of the United States, George W. Bush, on the second anniversary of the terrorist attack on America, was hailed by chiefs of state throughout the world. Mr. Bush announced that after, "two years of bloodshed, economic devastation, and spreading fear in America and abroad," he saw no choice but to accept that, "I have held a title which I did not win, and for which I have proven unqualified." The text of the former President's September 11 address to the nation follows: "My fellow Americans: I come to you tonight with a heavy heart. Two years ago today, ...
The world's first environmental porn movement
Post Date: 2005-09-10 10:48:39 by CAPPSMADNESS
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It's a cold day when I turn up at Tommy Hol Ellingsen's and Leona Johansson's flat, so it's not much fun to find that they aren't here. After half an hour shivering on the front doorstep, I get impatient. "Don't worry," laughs a friend, when I phone them to kill time. "They'll turn up. They're probably busy having sex." Tommy and Leona are acquiring a reputation for having sex, usually in public, and involving as many trees as possible. They are the brains and brawn behind Fuck For Forest, the world's first environmental porn movement. In little over a year, Tommy, a 29-year-old Norwegian activist and ex-theatre student, and Leona, 22 and a former nursery teacher from ...
BLACK BUSH
Post Date: 2005-09-10 00:34:00 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Proactive Israel approach
Post Date: 2005-09-09 15:06:29 by Bayonne
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We read with interest the CJN cover stories "Jewish schools failing to teach modern Israel" and "Tackling modern Israel in area Jewish schools" (CJN, Sept. 2) regarding Israel education. As graduates of Hebrew Academy and currently parents of Academy youngsters, we take pride in the school's longstanding proactive approach to teaching about Israel. Beginning in early childhood, the Academy instills a love of our heritage and love for Israel and our people. Through Jewish history and current-events courses, a host of Israel partnerships, and ongoing visitors and speakers, our children are educated and sensitized to appreciate the land and empathize with the struggles of ...
creative jet ski use
Post Date: 2005-09-09 12:58:02 by gengis gandhi
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A Can't-Do Government
Post Date: 2005-09-07 20:57:11 by Zoroaster
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September 2, 2005 A Can't-Do Government By PAUL KRUGMAN Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. "The New Orleans hurricane scenario," The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, "may be the deadliest of all." It described a potential catastrophe very much like the one now happening. So why were New Orleans and the nation so unprepared? After 9/11, hard questions were deferred in the name of national unity, then buried under a thick coat of whitewash. This time, we need ...
We can't afford our Gasoline
Post Date: 2005-09-07 18:56:20 by CAPPSMADNESS
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A rant: The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
Post Date: 2005-09-05 14:36:27 by wbales
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Well, I may catch some flack for this rant but (and given the curiosity and questions recently concerning the Red Cross and its financial doings) and since Jerry Lewis is on my TV today, here it goes. On the TV today, of course, is the annual ritual which is Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. Right Now, its up to $31 Million. “Last year’s record total was $60.5 million.” http://www.mdausa.org/telethon/ Back in 1995, “Jerry Lewis' 30th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $47,800,000” http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1995/september_4_1995_172482.html More facts about the telethon: 32;The first Telethon was held in June 1955 at Carnegie Hall in ...
Killed by Contempt [How Bush Destroyed FEMA]
Post Date: 2005-09-05 08:50:49 by crack monkey
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Killed by Contempt By PAUL KRUGMAN Each day since Katrina brings more evidence of the lethal ineptitude of federal officials. I'm not letting state and local officials off the hook, but federal officials had access to resources that could have made all the difference, but were never mobilized. Here's one of many examples: The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S.S. Bataan, equipped with six operating rooms, hundreds of hospital beds and the ability to produce 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day, has been sitting off the Gulf Coast since last Monday - without patients. Experts say that the first 72 hours after a natural disaster are the crucial window during which prompt action can save ...
Mercedes and moisturiser: Japanese men go shopping
Post Date: 2005-09-02 22:08:51 by Dakmar
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese men appear to be going where they've rarely gone before: shopping. A government drive to save energy by turning down air conditioning sent men to the store to stock up on short-sleeve shirts and other casual wear, making them surprise contributors to a rise in retail sales, which climbed for a fifth straight month in July year-on-year. Analysts say the buying, while still accounting for only around a 10th of total Japanese consumption, is no passing fashion as a recovering economy as well as lifestyle and demographic changes make shopping more acceptable to men. "The 'cool biz' drive definitely encouraged men to shop, and for some it was probably the first ...
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