Friday, April 29, 2005

Girl Scouts Sue Deadbeats

Seinfeld "Soup Nazi" To Open Shops Across Country

Mother Stabs 9 And 3 Year Olds To Death

Ugghhh...I don't know what to say.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBS5S1R48E.html

Thursday, April 28, 2005

A Pyramid For Everything

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Woman Sues Because She Did Not Meet Jesus

This case should not be allowed to proceed...she is stupid, it's her problem.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBPAKFC28E.html

Two Horses Die On Movie Set

What are they doing to these poor animals? They need to shut down production...this is not a coincidence.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1VGGC28E.html

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Surrogate Mother Gives Birth To Quintuplets

Oh my!! I wonder if this is what the parents opted for.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB31D5P08E.html

Herd of Buffalo Rounded Up In Suburban Maryland

Monday, April 25, 2005

Yuck!! This One Is True...Man Finds Skin In Sandwich

Sunday, April 24, 2005

Handcuffing a Five Year Old

I have a problem with this on several levels. It isn't so much that I think this was over the top or abusive. Young people today have no fear of authority. They don't take anyone in authority seriously. What is the supposed outcome of this action by teachers and police?

1. Nothing will happen to this child. She is five. She will not suffer any consequences that will teach her that what she did was wrong. On the contrary, with all the outrage, her behavior will be undoubtedly minimized in lieu of focusing on the actions of the teachers and the police.

2. All of this attention is probably reinforcing to her and will serve to maintain her out of control behavior. She had all of the adults jumping hoops and that is what she wanted by having the tantrum in the first place.

3. When you start using the big guns for every incident, the big guns loose their effectiveness. The police should only be called in the severest of incidents. If they are called every time this child acts out, does anyone really think she will grow up understanding that her behavior is wrong? No way, she will grow up with the mindset that police involvement is just another part of a day in her life. I fear the police, but it is a healthy fear, knowing that they can have an effect on my life if I am out of line. This child will grow up without that healthy type of fear. What happens to people who lack fear? They become criminals.

4. While I was not in that classroom and can't attest for the interventions of the teachers, I can tell you, there is NO way a five year old would get the better of me, even if I have to fake it. I mean, really, what can she do to hurt all of the adults involved? You take away anything she can hurt anyone with, take her to another room to have her fit, try to talk to her to calm her down, and make sure her parents understand how serious her behavior is, so that she doesn't get away with it. If necessary, get mental health help if it seems this is a pattern. It may not work as immediately as calling the police, but it's better than breeding a criminal.

Friday, April 22, 2005

Oh!! How I Love To Mock GWB

American Idol Is Lame This Year

A break from serious news....

OK, none of the finalists have a quarter of the talent as previous years. Noone comes close to Clay, Reuban, Fantasia, or even Kelly Clarkson.

What is with Constantine and those queer looks he gives to the camera? Maybe he knows he has no talent and is pandering to the teeny boppers who will think he is hot.

I used to think Carrie was talented, and maybe she is, but she has zero charisthma.

Scott...bad attitude. Thinks he is all that. He's slightly above average at best.

Vondell....she's ok. Nothing more.

Bo...I'm not sure on him. He is a rocker and rockers aren't exactly known for their singing ability as much as their performance ability. He has the performance ability down pat..but this is a singing contest.

Anthony....I must be one of the few in the country who think he is the best singer...lol...he isn't the best ever in American Idol history, but for me, I like him best this year. And that isn't saying much.

Whatever Happened To Freedom of Speech?

New Food Pyramid Guide

Here is information about the new food pyramid. I haven't looked at it in detail, but alot of people are saying that it is difficult to understand.

http://www.ring.com/health/food/food.htm

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Dad Gives 15 Year Old Son Beer, Son Crashes and Kills Brothers

I am not sure why I am posting this. Have we all lost our minds? Who on earth would give their child beer and then allow them to drive?

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB5QWCDT7E.html

Woman Doesn't Like Haircut, Shoots At Stylist

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Arnold Apologizes For Border Comment

But why? The borders should all be closed, what is he apologizing about? I guess he is afraid of ticking off all of the immigrants that come into this country, I don't know.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBV1NN8S7E.html

90 Year Old Woman Fights Bobcat to Free Pet Cat

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

The Jessica Lundsford Act

Finally, Florida is starting to do something about their pervs. I hope the rest of the country takes note and institutes similar laws.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBHN1CUQ7E.html

Preacher's Lecture About Bush and Morals

Wow...I think he speaks to why many have so much trouble with Bush

Moral Values are on whose side, did you say?

As some of you know, I am minister of Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma City, an Open an Affirming, Peace and Justice church in northwest Oklahoma City, and Professor of Rhetoric at Oklahoma City University. But you would most likely have encountered me on the pages of the Oklahoma Gazette, where I have been a columnist for six years, and hold the record for the most number of angry letters to the editor. Tonight, I join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus, but whose actions are anything but Christian. We've heard a lot lately about so-called "moral values" as having swung the election to President Bush. Well, I'm a great believer in moral values, but we need to have a discussion, all over this country, about exactly what constitutes a moral value - I mean, what are we talking about? Because we don't get to make them up as we go along, especially not if we are people of faith. We have an inherited tradition of what is right and wrong, and moral is as moral does. Let me give you just a few of the reasons why I take issue with those in power who claim moral values are on their side:

a. When you start a war on false pretenses, and then act as if your deceptions are justified because you are doing God's will, and that your critics are either unpatriotic or lacking in faith, there are some of us who have given our lives to teaching and preaching the faith who believe that this is not only not moral, but immoral.

b. When you live in a country that has established international rules for waging a just war, build the United Nations on your own soil to enforce them, and then arrogantly break the very rules you set down for the rest of the world, you are doing something immoral.

c. When you claim that Jesus is the Lord of your life, and yet fail to acknowledge that your policies ignore his essential teaching, or turn them on their head (you know, Sermon on the Mount, stuff like that we must never return to violence for violence and that those who live by the sword will die by the sword), you are doing something immoral.

d. When you act as if the lives of Iraqi civilians are not as important as the lives of American soldiers, and refuse to even count them, you are doing something immoral.

e. When you find a way to avoid combat in Vietnam, and then question the patriotism of someone who volunteered to fight, and came home a hero, you are doing something immoral.

f. When you ignore the fundamental teachings of the gospel, which says that the way the strong treat the weak is the ultimate ethical test, by giving tax breaks to the wealthiest among us so the strong will get stronger and the weak will get weaker, you are doing something immoral.

g. When you wink at the torture of prisoners, and deprive so-called "enemy combatants" of the rules of the Geneva Convention, which your own country helped to establish and insists that other countries follow, you are doing something immoral.

h. When you claim that the world can be divided up into the good guys and the evil doers, slice up your own nation into those who are with you, or with the terrorists - and then launch a war which enriches your own friends and seizes control of the oil to which we are addicted--instead of helping us to kick the habit, you are doing something immoral.

i. When you fail to veto a single spending bill, but ask us to pay for a war with no exit strategy and no end in sight, creating an enormous deficit that hangs like a great millstone around the necks of our children, you are doing something immoral.

j. When you cause most of the rest of the world to hate a country that was once the most loved country in the world, and act like it doesn't matter what others think of us, only what God thinks of you, you have done something immoral.

k. When you use hatred of homosexuals as a wedge issue to turn out record numbers of evangelical voters, and use the Constitution as a tool of discrimination, you are doing something immoral.

l. When you favor the death penalty, and yet claim to be a follower of Jesus, who said an eye for an eye was the old way, not the way of the kingdom, you are doing something immoral.

m. When you dismantle countless environmental laws designed to protect the earth which is God's gift to us all, so that the corporations that bought you and paid for your favors will make higher profits while our children breathe dirty air and live in a toxic world, you have done something immoral. The earth belongs to the Lord, not Halliburton.

n. When you claim that our God is bigger than their God, and that our killing is righteous, while theirs is evil, we have begun to resemble the enemy we claim to be fighting, and that is immoral. We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us.

o. When you tell people that you intend to run and govern as a "compassionate conservative," using the word which is the essence of all religious faiths - compassion - and then show no compassion for anyone who disagrees with you, and no patience with those who cry to you for help, you are doing something immoral.

p. When you talk about Jesus constantly, who was a healer of the sick, but do nothing to make sure that anyone who is sick can go to see a doctor, even if she doesn't have a penny in her pocket, you are doing something immoral.

q. When you put judges on the bench who are racist, and will set women back a hundred years, and when you surround yourself with preachers who say gays ought to be killed, you are doing something immoral.

I'm tired of people thinking that because I'm a Christian, I must be a supporter of President Bush, or that because I favor civil rights and gay rights I must not be a person of faith.

I'm tired of people saying that I can't support the troops but oppose the war. I heard that when I was your age - when the Vietnam War was raging. We knew that that war was wrong, and you know that this war is wrong - the only question is how many people are going to die before these make-believe Christians are removed from power? This country is bankrupt. The war is morally bankrupt. The claim of this administration to be Christian is bankrupt. And the only people who can turn things around are people like you--young people who are just beginning to wake up to what is happening to them. It's your country to take back. It's your faith to take back. It's your future to take back. Don't be afraid to speak out. Don't back down when your friends begin to tell you that the cause is righteous and that the flag should be wrapped around the cross, while the rest of us keep our mouths shut. Real Christians take chances for peace. So do Real Jews, and Real Muslims, and Real Hindus, and Real Buddhists--so do all the faith traditions of the world at their heart believe one thing: life is precious. Every human being is precious. Arrogance is the opposite of faith. Greed is the opposite of charity. And believing that one has never made a mistake is the mark of a deluded man, not a man of faith. And war - war is the greatest failure of the human race - and thus the greatest failure of faith.

There's an old rock song, whose lyrics say it all: "War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing." And what is the dream of the prophets? That we should study war no more, that we should beat our swords into plowshares and our spears into pruning hooks. Who would Jesus bomb, indeed? How many wars does it take to know that too many people have died? What if they gave a war and nobody came? Maybe one day we will find out.

We Have A Pope

Monday, April 18, 2005

Motorist Injured By Flying Sausage

Why are Bush and Congress Whining About a Liberal Judiciary?

When most of the appointed judges are conservatives? Because he is like a child that does not get to have his way all the time.


What liberal judiciary?
The Los Angeles Times today does some nice number-crunching over judges on federal courts. Contrary to much "liberal activist judge" mythology, "ninety-four of the 162 active judges now on the U.S. Court of Appeals were chosen by Republican presidents." And Republican appointees have a clear majority on 10 of the 13 circuit courts. So George W. Bush's whining over the fact that a small handful of his judges are being blocked—and mostly just those who, like William G. Myers III, are wholly unqualified for the bench—sounds awfully petulant. Likewise, complaints by Bill Frist and Tom DeLay that there's an out of control liberal judiciary in America just sound silly.

That said, there's still a certain logic to all these complaints. Most of the Republican judges now on the circuit courts, after all, are merely conservative—by and large exerting a good deal of judicial restraint. By contrast, as Jeffrey Rosen nicely described over the weekend, a growing number of conservatives—including and up to Dick Cheney in the White House—actually want to place strong conservative activists on the court, people who, contrary to "mere conservatives" like Antonin Scalia, would be actively willing to overturn law after law in order to get legal doctrine back to where it was before the New Deal. The sort of judges who will strike down labor and environmental protections, scale back minimum-wage and maximum-hour laws, and take away Congress' ability to regulate commerce. Bill Pryor, one of the judges being held up by Democratic filibuster, likely falls under this category. ''Bill Pryor is the key to this puzzle; there's nobody like him,'' says Michael Greve, one of the foremost defenders of the so-called "Constitution in Exile."

Now obviously when Bill Frist rails against "activist judges," he's not intentionally referring about this sort of thing, even though there's nothing more activist than trying to overturn 70 years worth of legal precedent. No, his barking is directed at liberals, or judges whose decisions he disagrees with. But if, as the Los Angeles Times notes, the current judges simply aren't all that liberal, and if, as Jeffrey Rosen points out, the current judges aren't all that activist compared to what the president is proposing, well, the complaints against the judiciary start to descend into pure incoherence.

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Another Child Molester Kills in Florida

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Man Fights Off Shark and Continues Surfing

Rice Eliminates Anti-Terrorism Report

U.S. eliminates annual terrorism reportBy Jonathan S. LandayKnight Ridder NewspapersWASHINGTON —

The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.

Several U.S. officials defended the decision, saying the methodology used by the National Counterterrorism Center to generate statistics had flaws, such as the inclusion of incidents that may not have been terrorism. But other current and former officials charged that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's office ordered the report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism," eliminated weeks ago because the 2004 statistics raised disturbing questions about the Bush's administration's frequent claims of progress in the war against terrorism. "Instead of dealing with the facts and dealing with them in an intelligent fashion, they try to hide their facts from the American public," charged Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department terrorism expert who first disclosed the decision to eliminate the report in The Counterterrorism Blog, an online journal.

A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, confirmed that the publication was eliminated, but said the allegation that it was done for political reasons was "categorically untrue." According to Johnson and U.S. intelligence officials, statistics that the National Counterterrorism Center provided to the State Department reported 625 "significant" terrorist attacks in 2004. That compared with 175 such incidents in 2003, the highest number in two decades. The statistics didn't include attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, which President Bush as recently as Tuesday called "a central front in the war on terror." The intelligence officials requested anonymity because the information is classified and because, they said, they feared White House retribution. Johnson declined to say how he obtained the figures. The numbers of incidents and fatalities in the report for 2003 were undercounted last year, forcing a revision and embarrassing the White House, which had used the original version to bolster Bush's election-campaign claim that the Iraq war had advanced the fight against terrorism.

U.S. officials blamed bureaucratic mistakes involving the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, the forerunner of the National Counterterrorism Center, created under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which Bush signed Dec. 17. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., among the leading critics of last year's mix-up, reacted angrily. "This is the definitive report on the incidence of terrorism around the world," Waxman said. "It should be unthinkable that there would be an effort to withhold it — or any of the key data — from the public. The Bush administration should stop playing politics with this critical report."

The State Department published "Patterns of Global Terrorism" under a law that requires it to submit to the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a country-by-country terrorism assessment by April 30 each year. A declassified version of the report has been made public since 1986 in the form of a glossy booklet, even though there was no legal requirement to do so. The senior State Department official said a report on global terrorism would be sent this year to lawmakers and made available to the public in place of "Patterns of Global Terrorism," but that it wouldn't contain statistical data. The official didn't answer questions about whether the data would be made available to the public, saying, "We will be consulting [with Congress] ... on who should publish and in what form."

One U.S. official who requested anonymity said analysts from the counterterrorism center were especially careful in amassing and reviewing data for 2004 because of the political turmoil created by last year's errors. Another U.S. official said Rice's office was leery of the center's methodology, believing that analysts eager to avoid a repetition of last year's undercount included incidents that may not have been terrorist attacks. The U.S. intelligence officials said Rice's office eliminated "Patterns of Global Terrorism" when the counterterrorism center declined to use alternative methodology that would have reported fewer significant attacks.

Copyright © 2005 The Seattle Times Company

Scientists Clone Second Horse

Friday, April 15, 2005

Smoking Chimpanzee

Mass Grave Possibly Found-Saddam Victims

Tom Delay Ethics Parody

Chinese Gather For Pig Olympics...HAHA

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Teen Removes Head Of Corpse

Woman Trades 14 Year Old Daughter For Car

As I said before, the most bizarre things happen in Florida. This woman is disgusting. She should be sterilized.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3L0MXG7E.html

Monday, April 11, 2005

Family Feud Over Teens Dating Ends In Death

It's like the Hatfield's and the McCoy's...really, the strangest things seem to occur in Florida.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7FP5WE7E.html

Sunday, April 10, 2005

53 year old retired military man recalled

This Pennsylvania man, age 53, was recalled for duty in Iraq!! And they keep telling us there will be no draft. How can the Bush administration say that with a straight face, when they need senior citizens to fight the war!!

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBPYPRID7E.html

Saturday, April 09, 2005

We've Officially Gone Crazy

Some tax group hires a convicted child rapist. They don't believe he did it. Well, sorry to tell you, he was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt.


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB1T9H9C7E.html

Thursday, April 07, 2005

5 Million expected at Vatican for Pope's Funeral

It is said to be the largest event of modern times.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3305285/

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Graffiti Artist Tribute to Pope

Nuclear Plants At Risk For Terrorism

In this age of terrorism and anti-American sentiment, I cannot for the life of me understand why nuclear power plants are not strictly protected. It's insane. Our borders are wide open. Any would be terrorist can get into this country rather easily. And our nuclear plants are vulnerable. When is Homeland Security going to wake up? Why aren't we defending ourselves?


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBH7E4787E.html

List of Primates Threatened With Extinction

Humans have destroyed the natural habitat for many species. This is a list of primates threatened with extinction. Very sad.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBQNSB887E.html

Monday, April 04, 2005

Gore To Start New Current Events Channel for Youth

Gas Prices

I just paid 2.23 cents per gallon. I will surely drive farther to get cheaper gas. Only 10 minutes away, it is 10 cents cheaper. I don't understand how it can be that much cheaper so close by.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVKQV757E.html

Life of John Paul II-Audio/Video

Sunni Named Parliament Speaker

I wonder if this appointment will have any effect on the insurgency.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=ININS&SECTION=HOME

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Brain Chip Can Read Minds?

Can this actually be true? At first I thought it was a joke, but it is from the BBC and it doesn't indicate that it is an April Fool's joke. If this is true, it is amazing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4396387.stm

Pope's would-be assassin mourns his death

Saturday, April 02, 2005

Excellent Pope John Paul II website

Very extenive about life and teachings of the Pope, the Pope and communism, and beautiful pictures. There is a very beautiful pic of the Pope touching Mother Theresa's face.

http://www.religion-cults.com/pope/john.htm#John

Blind Student Earns Medical Degree

It's amazing what we can do if we really want something.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3GMD327E.html

Process of Mourning and Selecting new Pope

Such an elaborate process for a man as humble as Pope John Paul II. I went to a vigil tonight and the outpouring of love and respect was unbelieveable, even by the many non-Catholics who attended.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB7LDL817E.html

Friday, April 01, 2005

Separate funerals for Schiavo

I think its unfortuante that this family can't even come together after Terri's death. Michael Schiavo refuses to tell the family where he will bury her, saying that he does not want it to turn into a media circus. It already is a media circus, he should just let them go to the burial. It is cruel.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7356531/
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