Some of this is pretty damn funny!
I think this one was written in crayon:
If i was your creator
If I was your creator and you mocked me in this manner I couldn't think of a hell hot enough for you. It is really sad to think that at Judgement you will be standing in front of God Almighty and he will look at you and say "Depart from me ye worker of iniquity, I never knew you" And to think, God let you be born, blessed you with health and love in your life and with what do you honor Him? With such vile mockeries of his Deity. I am sick to my stomach that my small babies will live in such a disgusting generation where God is no longer the source of strength and power. I should hope that as you mature, have children and they ever are in need of a miracle in their life, that you won't know whose name to call on. I will. And miracle after miracle I have seen Him perform. It is no coincidence. When you invoke the name of JESUS, Miracles HAPPEN! I pray you find that miracle in your life soon. Read Acts 2:38. Oh I guess the Bible is all made up too, right. In that case, make sure u don't let anyone get you a present this year!
The logic in this next letter I have heard before. It is the "you might as well believe to make sure that you don't go to hell" argument. Of course the flaw in that argument is in thinking there are only two choices, to believe or not to believe. Which is an indication of just how self-centered Christians can be. Here read it for yourself:
your purpose
Do you think that by mocking God, you empower yourself or in anyway benefit your own happiness? Lets say I told you that all people go to either heaven, a good place, or hell, a bad place, when they die. If you said that you know that nothing happens when you die but that one just ceases to exist and it turns out you were right, then great, neither of us loses so it doesnt matter what I believe now does it? But if I was right and you were wrong, then you just took the biggest gamble with your soul. So why not stop misleading people and bringing in publice notability and fame for yourself. Jesus Christ doesn't need you to believe in him. You need you to believe in him. I hope you will have read this with an open mind. I do apologize on behalf of my fellow Christians for anything they have done to alienate you.
This next guy tries to explain science, and it seems apparent that he has never actually taken a science class:
I just find it interesting
Now I'm sorry, but as someone who also knows a few things, I know that science, a religion in and of itself, is NOT the worlds answer to all of our questions. In truth, the scientific method taught in our schools is NOT the true scientific method. You know that as well, don't you?
You should also know that science is merely a tool meant to take observations and, after all is said and one, to comment on those observations. And what's silly is, how can you be so absolutely certain that what you have not seen, that is what existed before you, really existed at all? Sure, you can take things that are here now and use that as your evidence, but where is the true science in that? You're only observing what you see and know now, not what really was or wasn't. There is absolutely no way science can prove or disprove anything about the origins of life, about where this solar system or universe came from, because we were simply not there. And this tool we call science is just a tool, created by human minds, molded and shaped to fit the confines of our understanding. Where science is good is when it is used to do what it is good at doing, observing and commenting. Where science fails is when it tries to enforce and justify a philosophy (whether of "intelligent design" or not).
Wow! Okay I have to stop now because this crap is giving me a headache.
(Now if you do not know who the Flying Spaghetti Monster is, or his origin then you need to leave my site immediately and go get you an internet education. You know, Google it!)
Monday, July 31, 2006
Now I know why I have a daughter
According to research, attractive parents are 26% more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first child. It is an inexorable process that has resulted in women becoming increasingly more attractive than men.
This is because of differing “evolutionary strategies” that each sex has adopted to survive, claim researchers at the London School of Economics.
While reproductive success for males depends largely on the status of the father (as sons from higher-status families inherit their position and are in turn able to protect and invest in their offspring), daughters’ reproductive successes mostly depend on their youth and attractiveness. “We have shown two things,” said Dr Satoshi Kanazawa, who led the research. “Beautiful parents have more daughters than ugly parents, because physical attractiveness is heritable and because daughters benefit from attractiveness more than sons.
So you see it just stands to reason that somebody as gorgeous as myself would have a beautiful little girl, which I did.
You gotta love that evolution stuff. Well unless you are one of those anti-science morons who think that everything is a gift from the sky-god.
This is because of differing “evolutionary strategies” that each sex has adopted to survive, claim researchers at the London School of Economics.
While reproductive success for males depends largely on the status of the father (as sons from higher-status families inherit their position and are in turn able to protect and invest in their offspring), daughters’ reproductive successes mostly depend on their youth and attractiveness. “We have shown two things,” said Dr Satoshi Kanazawa, who led the research. “Beautiful parents have more daughters than ugly parents, because physical attractiveness is heritable and because daughters benefit from attractiveness more than sons.
So you see it just stands to reason that somebody as gorgeous as myself would have a beautiful little girl, which I did.
You gotta love that evolution stuff. Well unless you are one of those anti-science morons who think that everything is a gift from the sky-god.
You know who gets a lot of hugs from Republicans nowadays? Freakin Michael Moore that's who!
"If you were to hang out with me here it won't be five or 10 minutes before you see a Republican hug me. That is almost as entertaining as some of the films," Moore said in an interview.Moore has not budged from the central claim of his 2004 documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- that the Bush administration misled the American public about the reasons for war in Iraq -- but he says that more people have come around to his view.
"That's the shift that I'm seeing in the past year or so in the country, and as it relates to me," he said.
Some in solidly Republican northern Michigan and elsewhere now believe that they made a "colossal mistake" in initially supporting the war in Iraq, Moore said, and they have let him know it in chance encounters on the streets of Traverse City, a resort town where he has relocated from New York.
Used to traveling with security and encountering a barrage of hostility, Moore said he finds people now more accepting, even to the point Republicans are spontaneously hugging him.
I am not sure I actually buy this or not. I mean I have a lot of respect for Michael Moore, and he does seem cuddly, but I am not sure even I would want to hug him. He just always looks like he is in between showers, if you know what I mean.
I do believe, however, that there are a lot of Republicans who are second guessing their initial anger at Moore's film "Farenheit 911". There must be tons of people who have decided to re-watch that film recently and realized how prophetic Michael was on almost every point he made in the film.
He is like an overweight Nostradamus or something!
How well do you know your religion?
Well there is a very good question. I personally believe that most people just go through the motions and never ask themselves about why they believe what they believe, or what their religion is really all about.
But fret no longer my friends, because now we have the all powerful Google search engine on our side. So why don't you take a moment and Google your religion.
This is what Google says my people are known for:
finding some theological faith in 'foxhole' situations.
their smarts
making absurd claims for which there is no documentation, or claims for which there is considerable documentation in the opposite directions.
(not) using children as tools of vengeance.
their tolerance
their high intelligence
I will have to take umbrage at some of those characterizations. But I can't argue with most of them.
But fret no longer my friends, because now we have the all powerful Google search engine on our side. So why don't you take a moment and Google your religion.
This is what Google says my people are known for:
finding some theological faith in 'foxhole' situations.
their smarts
making absurd claims for which there is no documentation, or claims for which there is considerable documentation in the opposite directions.
(not) using children as tools of vengeance.
their tolerance
their high intelligence
I will have to take umbrage at some of those characterizations. But I can't argue with most of them.
Sunday, July 30, 2006
American soldier accused of raping and murdering girl told reporter that killing Iraqis was like "squashing an ant".
A former US soldier accused of raping and murdering an Iraqi girl compared killing people inIraq to "squashing an ant," in an interview with a reporter about a month before the attack.
Steven Green, 21, a former private with the 101st Airborne Division, is under arrest in Kentucky and could face the death penalty if convicted of the March 12 murders of the Iraqi girl and three of her relatives.
Writing in Sunday's editions of The Washington Post, Andrew Tilghman, a former correspondent for the US military newspaper Stars and Stripes, said he interviewed Green several times in February at his unit south of Baghdad.
"I came over here because I wanted to kill people," he quoted Green as saying. "The truth is, it wasn't all I thought it was cracked up to be.
"I mean, I thought killing somebody would be this life-changing experience," Green was quoted as saying. "And then I did it, and I was like, 'All right, whatever.'
"I shot a guy who wouldn't stop when we were out at a traffic checkpoint and it was like nothing," Green was quoted as saying. "Over here, killing people is like squashing an ant.
"I mean, you kill somebody and it's like, 'All right, let's go get some pizza.'"
One can only hope that this loathesome human being gets the death penalty, then he can see how he feels about death when he is the "ant" about to get squashed.
We keep describing our fighting forces as the best in the world, but it is becoming ever more evident that there are many in uniform who fall far below the definition of "best". Many of these guys are losers who entered the military for reasons that had little or nothing to do with patriotism or honor. Is it any wonder that they are doing such a poor job of representing us on the battlefield. That plus the fact that the mission is a criminal one means that we should keep our expectations low.
The longer they stay the worse it will be.
This columnist really wants Al Gore to run for president.
You know I have been sort of non-committal when it comes to Gore running for President again.
But when the guy says things like this: "Right now we are borrowing huge amounts of money from China to buy huge amounts of oil from the most unstable region of the world, and to bring it here and burn it in ways that destroy the habitability of the planet. That is nuts! We have to change every aspect of that." It is definitely time to give him another chance to run for the job he should have had for these last five years.
Al Gore won the election once and I think his chances are much improved this time. Why shouldn't Gore give us a chance to fix the mistake that we allowed to happen in 2000?
Richard Dawkins: The Problem with God.
What do you wish people knew about evolution?
They need to understand what evolution is about. Many of them don’t. I was truly shocked to be told by two separate religious leaders in this country [the U.S.] a few weeks ago–they both said something to the effect that, “I’ll believe in evolution when I see a tailed monkey give birth to a human.”
That is staggering ignorance of what evolutionary science is about; if they think that’s what evolutionists believe, no wonder they’re skeptical of it. How can a civilized country have adult people in positions of leadership who know so stunningly little about the leading biological concept?
You said in a recent speech that design was not the only alternative to chance. A lot of people think that evolution is all about random chance.
That’s ludicrous. That’s ridiculous. Mutation is random in the sense that it’s not anticipatory of what’s needed. Natural selection is anything but random. Natural selection is a guided process, guided not by any higher power, but simply by which genes survive and which genes don’t survive. That’s a non-random process. The animals that are best at whatever they do—hunting, flying, fishing, swimming, digging—whatever the species does, the individuals that are best at it are the ones that pass on the genes. It’s because of this non-random process that lions are so good at hunting, antelopes so good at running away from lions, and fish are so good at swimming.
You criticize intelligent design, saying that “the theistic answer”–pointing to God as designer–”is deeply unsatisfying”–presumably you mean on a logical, scientific level.
Yes, because it doesn’t explain where the designer comes from. If they’re going to emphasize the statistical improbability of biological organs—”these are so complicated, how could they have evolved?”–well, if they’re so complicated, how could they possibly have been designed? Because the designer would have to be even more complicated.
I, of course, think that Dawkins is the man when it comes to explaining evolutionary thought to the ignorant. He is very good at cutting through the bullshit and getting to the true heart of the debate. The debate is really about whether or not to believe in the idea that you will never end, or that you are simply a biological creature no different then your cat or dog and that someday you will simply cease to exist.
Religion, working as a tranquilizer, keeps the fears of our own mortality in check allowing us to continue to function. This is the drawback of having developed a higher intellectual plateau then, say an elephant. The elephant does not sit around all day pondering its impending death. He simply continues doing what an elephant needs to do to survive the day.
Religion gives us a fantasy to cling to that keeps us from going mad. And there are still others who medicate themselves with drugs or alcohol. But then there are some of us who seem to be able to function without the opiate. I am not sure what makes us different.
They need to understand what evolution is about. Many of them don’t. I was truly shocked to be told by two separate religious leaders in this country [the U.S.] a few weeks ago–they both said something to the effect that, “I’ll believe in evolution when I see a tailed monkey give birth to a human.”
That is staggering ignorance of what evolutionary science is about; if they think that’s what evolutionists believe, no wonder they’re skeptical of it. How can a civilized country have adult people in positions of leadership who know so stunningly little about the leading biological concept?
You said in a recent speech that design was not the only alternative to chance. A lot of people think that evolution is all about random chance.
That’s ludicrous. That’s ridiculous. Mutation is random in the sense that it’s not anticipatory of what’s needed. Natural selection is anything but random. Natural selection is a guided process, guided not by any higher power, but simply by which genes survive and which genes don’t survive. That’s a non-random process. The animals that are best at whatever they do—hunting, flying, fishing, swimming, digging—whatever the species does, the individuals that are best at it are the ones that pass on the genes. It’s because of this non-random process that lions are so good at hunting, antelopes so good at running away from lions, and fish are so good at swimming.
You criticize intelligent design, saying that “the theistic answer”–pointing to God as designer–”is deeply unsatisfying”–presumably you mean on a logical, scientific level.
Yes, because it doesn’t explain where the designer comes from. If they’re going to emphasize the statistical improbability of biological organs—”these are so complicated, how could they have evolved?”–well, if they’re so complicated, how could they possibly have been designed? Because the designer would have to be even more complicated.
I, of course, think that Dawkins is the man when it comes to explaining evolutionary thought to the ignorant. He is very good at cutting through the bullshit and getting to the true heart of the debate. The debate is really about whether or not to believe in the idea that you will never end, or that you are simply a biological creature no different then your cat or dog and that someday you will simply cease to exist.
Religion, working as a tranquilizer, keeps the fears of our own mortality in check allowing us to continue to function. This is the drawback of having developed a higher intellectual plateau then, say an elephant. The elephant does not sit around all day pondering its impending death. He simply continues doing what an elephant needs to do to survive the day.
Religion gives us a fantasy to cling to that keeps us from going mad. And there are still others who medicate themselves with drugs or alcohol. But then there are some of us who seem to be able to function without the opiate. I am not sure what makes us different.
Artists have their way with Israeli-Palestinian wall.
These images are all at once full of hope and truly heartbreaking.
When will we learn to live in peace?
Two birds? One stone. Solving childhood obesity and high gas prices with one invention.
I like how the woman is holding a spare in case one of the kids pulls up lame.
Do all Christians think alike? Not at this church!
Like most pastors who lead thriving evangelical megachurches, the Rev. Gregory A. Boyd was asked frequently to give his blessing — and the church’s — to conservative political candidates and causes.
The requests came from church members and visitors alike: Would he please announce a rally against gay marriage during services? Would he introduce a politician from the pulpit? Could members set up a table in the lobby promoting their anti-abortion work? Would the church distribute “voters’ guides” that all but endorsed Republican candidates? And with the country at war, please couldn’t the church hang an American flag in the sanctuary?
After refusing each time, Mr. Boyd finally became fed up, he said. Before the last presidential election, he preached six sermons called “The Cross and the Sword” in which he said the church should steer clear of politics, give up moralizing on sexual issues, stop claiming the United States as a “Christian nation” and stop glorifying American military campaigns.
“When the church wins the culture wars, it inevitably loses,” Mr. Boyd preached. “When it conquers the world, it becomes the world. When you put your trust in the sword, you lose the cross.”
As anybody who visits this site frequently knows, I am not a believer. But I have nothing but respect for people who are of a strong faith so long as they do not feel the need to push their beliefs into my life.
This Pastor, and his church, are exactly the kind of spiritual leaders that this country needs many more of. Instead of treating his flock as if they were really sheep that he can lead anywhere he wants to, he is respecting their individuality and free choice.
This is a church where you can have real honest discussions about your political views and not worry that you are going to be ostracized.
I hope other churches follow this brave man's lead. For the good of our country.
The requests came from church members and visitors alike: Would he please announce a rally against gay marriage during services? Would he introduce a politician from the pulpit? Could members set up a table in the lobby promoting their anti-abortion work? Would the church distribute “voters’ guides” that all but endorsed Republican candidates? And with the country at war, please couldn’t the church hang an American flag in the sanctuary?
After refusing each time, Mr. Boyd finally became fed up, he said. Before the last presidential election, he preached six sermons called “The Cross and the Sword” in which he said the church should steer clear of politics, give up moralizing on sexual issues, stop claiming the United States as a “Christian nation” and stop glorifying American military campaigns.
“When the church wins the culture wars, it inevitably loses,” Mr. Boyd preached. “When it conquers the world, it becomes the world. When you put your trust in the sword, you lose the cross.”
As anybody who visits this site frequently knows, I am not a believer. But I have nothing but respect for people who are of a strong faith so long as they do not feel the need to push their beliefs into my life.
This Pastor, and his church, are exactly the kind of spiritual leaders that this country needs many more of. Instead of treating his flock as if they were really sheep that he can lead anywhere he wants to, he is respecting their individuality and free choice.
This is a church where you can have real honest discussions about your political views and not worry that you are going to be ostracized.
I hope other churches follow this brave man's lead. For the good of our country.
Saturday, July 29, 2006
The State Department lied to us about the cost of rebuilding Iraq. Really is that news to anyone?
The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress, a federal audit released late Friday has found.
The agency hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs, according to the audit, written by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent office that reports to Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department.
Called the United States Agency for International Development, or A.I.D., the agency administers foreign aid projects around the world. It has been working in Iraq on reconstruction since shortly after the 2003 invasion.
This is the kind of government that the Republicans have been providing for us since 2000. Is this the kind of thing that we want to continue for the next two years?
Here is but one example.
The hospital’s construction budget was $50 million. By April of this year, Bechtel had told the aid agency that because of escalating costs for security and other problems, the project would actually cost $98 million to complete. But in an official report to Congress that month, the agency “was reporting the hospital project cost as $50 million,” the inspector general wrote in his report.
The rest was reclassified as overhead, or “indirect costs.” According to a contracting officer at the agency who was cited in the report, the agency “did not report these costs so it could stay within the $50 million authorization.”
If you are as tired of this crap as I am then do not hesitate when it comes election time, vote Democrat! We need to investigate this entire group of criminals and put a stop to the graft and corruption that now permeates our government.
DEMOCRATS IN 2006! It is the only way to get our country back.
The agency hid construction overruns by listing them as overhead or administrative costs, according to the audit, written by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, an independent office that reports to Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department.
Called the United States Agency for International Development, or A.I.D., the agency administers foreign aid projects around the world. It has been working in Iraq on reconstruction since shortly after the 2003 invasion.
This is the kind of government that the Republicans have been providing for us since 2000. Is this the kind of thing that we want to continue for the next two years?
Here is but one example.
The hospital’s construction budget was $50 million. By April of this year, Bechtel had told the aid agency that because of escalating costs for security and other problems, the project would actually cost $98 million to complete. But in an official report to Congress that month, the agency “was reporting the hospital project cost as $50 million,” the inspector general wrote in his report.
The rest was reclassified as overhead, or “indirect costs.” According to a contracting officer at the agency who was cited in the report, the agency “did not report these costs so it could stay within the $50 million authorization.”
If you are as tired of this crap as I am then do not hesitate when it comes election time, vote Democrat! We need to investigate this entire group of criminals and put a stop to the graft and corruption that now permeates our government.
DEMOCRATS IN 2006! It is the only way to get our country back.
Courtesy of the Late Show: Bill Clinton responds to Ann Coulter's claim that he is gay.
Seriously you have got to watch this!
Article from Christian website supports giving ex-porn star back her teaching job. Now it is official, Armageddon is just around the corner!
Tericka Dye was fired last spring by the McCracken County School Board after school officials learned she appeared in a porn film in 1995. She was 23 at the time. Dye, who was a science teacher and volleyball coach at Reidland High School in Paducah, says taking part in the movie -- at a time when she was struggling financially -- was a moral lapse of only a few hours, and that she has since become a Christian and deserves a second chance.
Look I think that it is truly unfortunate that this woman's past has interfered with her ability to teach, but it has! I mean she might be able to teach elementary school kids but how can she teach high school kids who can download her movies off of the internet and masturbate to them before class each day? It is just not feasable. I totally believe that everybody deserves a second chance but she just needs to accept that some doors are now closed to her and move on.
That rationale, says the attorney, is causing the school district to miss out on an opportunity to allow Dye to share "truly an American success story" in her classroom.
"She grew up in a very poor family [and had] an alcoholic father; she was abused sexually by an uncle when she was from six to thirteen. I mean, she got off to such a horrible start in life and then made something of herself," Blankenship notes. "And now, a public school system, which is really part of our government, sort of throws her away."
I really do wish her well. In whatever career choice she makes in the future.
(That "few hours" statement is a pile of horseshit! This woman made a number of videos before she retired. Here is the list again: Ass Whores 12,Climax Shots 86 - Three To Tango,Double Your Pleasure Double Your Fun,Eruptions - Double Dippin,In Thru The Out Door 7,In Thru The Out Door 8,Party House 5,Sex Freaks 10,Tight Ass,Wet Cum Shots 6,Exit Only 6,Wet Cum Shots 7,Rug Munchers,Major Slut andButt Brats 7. Now a few of these are definitely compilation tapes but still...)
McCracken County school superintendent Tim Heller says Dye was fired because her presence in the classroom would have been a distraction to students. Now Dye's attorney, Mark Blankenship, has filed a lawsuit seeking her reinstatement.Look I think that it is truly unfortunate that this woman's past has interfered with her ability to teach, but it has! I mean she might be able to teach elementary school kids but how can she teach high school kids who can download her movies off of the internet and masturbate to them before class each day? It is just not feasable. I totally believe that everybody deserves a second chance but she just needs to accept that some doors are now closed to her and move on.
That rationale, says the attorney, is causing the school district to miss out on an opportunity to allow Dye to share "truly an American success story" in her classroom.
"She grew up in a very poor family [and had] an alcoholic father; she was abused sexually by an uncle when she was from six to thirteen. I mean, she got off to such a horrible start in life and then made something of herself," Blankenship notes. "And now, a public school system, which is really part of our government, sort of throws her away."
I really do wish her well. In whatever career choice she makes in the future.
Israel's attack on Lebanon has apparently driven Mel Gibson crazy!
According to the report, Gibson became agitated after he was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway and told he was to be detained for drunk driving Friday morning in Malibu. The actor began swearing uncontrollably. Gibson repeatedly said, "My life is f****d." Law enforcement sources say the deputy, worried that Gibson might become violent, told the actor that he was supposed to cuff him but would not, as long as Gibson cooperated. As the two stood next to the hood of the patrol car, the deputy asked Gibson to get inside. Deputy Mee then walked over to the passenger door and opened it. The report says Gibson then said, "I'm not going to get in your car," and bolted to his car. The deputy quickly subdued Gibson, cuffed him and put him inside the patrol car.Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you." The report also says "Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."
The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews... The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"
Did anybody else use to think that when Mel played Martin Riggs in "Lethal Weapon" that he was just acting? I am beginning to think the guy really is that deranged.
And the really funny thing is that the Christians are completely smitten with him now after he directed "The Passion of the Christ" and are going to be unable to absorb this new information about their hero without some serious cognitive dissonance.
I always thought the Jews were more the victim of most wars rather then the cause of most wars.
Woman wakes to find naked stranger in her bed. Police are looking for a naked man, wearing a woman's bathrobe and riding a bicycle.
"My girlfriend called me around 6 a.m. screaming that there's a man in her bed and to get out of my house because the police were afraid he had been watching both of our residences. She was hysterical," said a friend.
That man was naked, and once the screaming started he apparently grabbed one of the women's silk robes and took off on a bicycle.
Wow this guy is quite the pervert!
I love this part:
The two victims gave the following description of the suspect: white male, 20 to 30 years old with a thin and wiry build, brown, receding hair that "looks like a bad dye job," and "pasty white skin."
See now I just envision cops stopping every naked guy in a silk robe they see riding a bicycle, and then looking at the description to make sure it is the right guy. So my question is, just how many silk clad freaks on bikes do you people have?
I am never going to Seattle! That place must be pervert central!
That man was naked, and once the screaming started he apparently grabbed one of the women's silk robes and took off on a bicycle.
Wow this guy is quite the pervert!
I love this part:
The two victims gave the following description of the suspect: white male, 20 to 30 years old with a thin and wiry build, brown, receding hair that "looks like a bad dye job," and "pasty white skin."
See now I just envision cops stopping every naked guy in a silk robe they see riding a bicycle, and then looking at the description to make sure it is the right guy. So my question is, just how many silk clad freaks on bikes do you people have?
I am never going to Seattle! That place must be pervert central!
Friday, July 28, 2006
Parenting magazine puts porn on its cover!
"I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine," one person wrote. "I immediately turned the magazine face down," wrote another. "Gross," said a third.These readers weren't complaining about a sexually explicit cover, but rather one of a baby nursing, on a wholesome parenting magazine -- yet another sign that Americans are squeamish over the sight of a nursing breast, even as breast-feeding itself gains greater support from the government and medical community.
Babytalk is a free magazine whose readership is overwhelmingly mothers of babies. Yet in a poll of more than 4,000 readers, a quarter of responses to the cover were negative, calling the photo -- a baby and part of a woman's breast, in profile -- inappropriate.
One mother who didn't like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son
seeing it.
"I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast -- it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."
What a bunch of prudes! Ladies I beg to differ with you but I have seen me some porn, and that cover is not porn. Well at least it isn't very good porn.
We are so uptight about these kinds of things these days it is unreal. I know that MTV and the Spike channel are doing the best they can, but there are still a lot of people in this country with a huge stick up their butt. (By the way, a stick up your butt? That would be porn!)
You know this reminds me of a story.
When I was teaching gymnastics to a group of four and five year olds I had a number of the moms that would sit in the bleachers and watch as their children practiced tumbling and trampoline skills.
One day after the class I went up to one of the mothers to tell her how well her boy had done that day, and was several sentences into the discussion when the towel that she had draped over her shoulder fell to the ground and exposed her nursing baby and her milk engorged breast. I immediately tried to avert my eyes and totally lost my train of thought, just sort of hemmin and hawing until she had replaced the towel and covered her exposed body part. When I looked back I could see that she was very amused by my response and was trying to suppress her laughter. I quickly finished relaying my information to her and walked back ot my office.
Later it occurred to me that I had probably overreacted to the incident and that I would try ot be much more cool about these things in the future. (There were a number of nursing mothers who had children in my classes.) Which I was.
It is not a sex object when it is feeding a baby. Then it is a restaurant. It only becomes a sex object again when the baby is not in the room and it is covered with lingerie.
There are not very many hot teachers in Denver willing to have sex with their student so they settled for this chick.
A teacher at a residential juvenile treatment center has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student at the facility, officials say.Michelle Leigh Tolar, 26, is being investigated for sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, and sexual assault, said Steve Davis, spokesman for the Lakewood Police Department.
The kid was a juvy! And he managed to run a game on his teacher while doing time in a residential treatment facility?
Oh this guy hit the motherload with this! He will be the man in the facility until long after he is released. She is not that much to look at but it is really the idea of nailing your teacher while incarcerated that is the golden ring in this situation.
And the woman? She is an idiot!
I know I should be more sympathetic but she should have been screened more carefully before she started and trained more effectively. The kids in this environment are not your typical high school kids. They are purely self involved and highly manipulative. Every one of them is trying to play you and if you let it happen then you are the loser not them.
She has set this kid's rehabilitation back at least five years.
Can it be true? Is it really possible that our very own Uncle Ted might visit the Daily Show to debate Jon Stewart about the "internet tubes"?
Mocked by comedian Jon Stewart for calling the Internet a bunch of tubes, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Thursday he is open to going on Stewart's popular "Daily Show" for a rebuttal.
The comedian has parodied the dean of the Senate Republicans for rejecting calls by some Internet companies for a law to block high-speed Internet providers from charging higher prices to carry certain content. Backers of such a law say it would preserve what they call "Net neutrality."
"The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's, it's a series of tubes," Stevens, an Alaska Republican, said last month.
Stewart parodied the senator's remarks on three episodes, which have spread over the Internet and were widely viewed on YouTube.com. He questioned Stevens' knowledge of the Internet, and quipped, "You're just the guy in charge of regulation."
Stevens, whose committee has authority over many Internet issues, defended his comments and said he had even received support from experts.
"I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word 'tubes,"' he told reporters. However, Stevens said he had not been invited to appear on the show to respond.
When pressed whether he was willing to go on the show, Stevens slowly grinned and said: "I'd consider it."
A representative for "The Daily Show" was not immediately available for comment.
One congressional aide said the show had explained the controversial Net neutrality issue "better than any corporate lobbyist or policymaker I know."
You actually do not have to hit the link above to read the whole article. I was so excited I posted the whole thing! I am totally giddy at the prospect!
Our own curmudgeonly Senator Ted Stevens on the Daily Show? On the Daily Show? Pinch me I have gone to heaven!
This has to happen! I will start writing Senator Stevens office and our local papers to see if I can help get some local support. This will be the greatest television appearance in history!
Oh happy days! Happy, happy days!
The comedian has parodied the dean of the Senate Republicans for rejecting calls by some Internet companies for a law to block high-speed Internet providers from charging higher prices to carry certain content. Backers of such a law say it would preserve what they call "Net neutrality."
"The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's, it's a series of tubes," Stevens, an Alaska Republican, said last month.
Stewart parodied the senator's remarks on three episodes, which have spread over the Internet and were widely viewed on YouTube.com. He questioned Stevens' knowledge of the Internet, and quipped, "You're just the guy in charge of regulation."
Stevens, whose committee has authority over many Internet issues, defended his comments and said he had even received support from experts.
"I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word 'tubes,"' he told reporters. However, Stevens said he had not been invited to appear on the show to respond.
When pressed whether he was willing to go on the show, Stevens slowly grinned and said: "I'd consider it."
A representative for "The Daily Show" was not immediately available for comment.
One congressional aide said the show had explained the controversial Net neutrality issue "better than any corporate lobbyist or policymaker I know."
You actually do not have to hit the link above to read the whole article. I was so excited I posted the whole thing! I am totally giddy at the prospect!
Our own curmudgeonly Senator Ted Stevens on the Daily Show? On the Daily Show? Pinch me I have gone to heaven!
This has to happen! I will start writing Senator Stevens office and our local papers to see if I can help get some local support. This will be the greatest television appearance in history!
Oh happy days! Happy, happy days!
Meet Alaska's father of the year.
Now let it be known that Alaskan men love fishing more then almost anything else in this world. Which apparently includes their children.That orange bundle on the front of this jackasses chest is his baby.
That furry brown thing in the background is a grizzly bear.
Are you up to speed now?
Now for all of you "out of staters" who are just freaked out by the proximity of the bear, don't be. That is not an uncommon occurrence up here, and all that bear cares about is fish. He has no desire to eat the fishermen.
No my anger is directed at the guy wearing hip waders and fishing with his child in ankle deep water on algae covered rocks. This guy is an idiot and I hope that when his wife sees this picture she divorces his ass and charges him with child endangerment.
There are so many potential hazard here I don't know where to start. He could fall and the child could be pinned beneath him and be badly hurt or drown. He could reel in a fish and the baby might be injured then. There are hooks to consider. And that bear might get pissy and charge the guy. What does he do then? He cannot protect himself and that child from a bear!
No, this guy is why men like me have to fight to prove that we are fit parents when we get divorced. Everybody assumes that women are nurturing, but assholes like this make the rest of us suspect.
That picture totally fucked up my Friday!
The scientist who is quoted by Ann Coulter and Michael Crichton to refute global warming would like to bitchslap both of them.
Our results have been misused as “evidence” against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel “State of Fear” and by Ann Coulter in her latest book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” Search my name on the Web, and you will find pages of links to everything from climate discussion groups to Senate policy committee documents — all citing my 2002 study as reason to doubt that the earth is warming. One recent Web column even put words in my mouth. I have never said that “the unexpected colder climate in Antarctica may possibly be signaling a lessening of the current global warming cycle.” I have never thought such a thing either.Our study did find that 58 percent of Antarctica cooled from 1966 to 2000. But during that period, the rest of the continent was warming. And climate models created since our paper was published have suggested a link between the lack of significant warming in Antarctica and the ozone hole over that continent. These models, conspicuously missing from the warming-skeptic literature, suggest that as the ozone hole heals — thanks to worldwide bans on ozone-destroying chemicals — all of Antarctica is likely to warm with the rest of the planet. An inconvenient truth?
This is what usually destroys the conservative argument, the truth.
Ann Coulter especially likes to talk about how liberals make up facts or distort the truth, while doing exactly that herself on a continuous basis.
I am still truly astounded that people allow themselves to be manipulated by these horrible people. I just hope it is not too late to educate the populace and start to turn this situation around.
Anybody enjoying this heat and blackouts so far? Well it is only going to get worse.
White House tries to pass laws to protect soldiers accused of detainee abuses.
An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts.
Senior officials have responded by drafting legislation that would grant U.S. personnel involved in the terrorism fight new protections against prosecution for past violations of the War Crimes Act of 1996. That law criminalizes violations of the Geneva Conventions governing conduct in war and threatens the death penalty if U.S.-held detainees die in custody from abusive treatment.
In light of a recent Supreme Court ruling that the international Conventions apply to the treatment of detainees in the terrorism fight, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has spoken privately with Republican lawmakers about the need for such "protections," according to someone who heard his remarks last week.
Gonzales told the lawmakers that a shield is needed for actions taken by U.S. personnel under a 2002 presidential order, which the Supreme Court declared illegal, and under Justice Department legal opinions that have been withdrawn under fire, the source said. A spokeswoman for Gonzales, Tasia Scolinos, declined to comment on Gonzales's remarks.
So here is my question, if the President ordered the soldiers to ignore the Geneva conventions which allowed the abuses to occur, then who is guilty here?
Could the people that Gonzales is trying to protect not be the soldiers who committed the atrocities, but rather the administration officials and the President who permitted them to take place?
And if that is true then may we someday see President Bush on trial for war crimes? I have to tell you, if that happened that might be the fastest way to get back the trust that we have lost around the world. If we hold President Bush personally responsible for all of the mistakes and crimes of his two terms we might placate the people who hate us right now.
It seems fair to me. Throw his ass to the wolves!
Senior officials have responded by drafting legislation that would grant U.S. personnel involved in the terrorism fight new protections against prosecution for past violations of the War Crimes Act of 1996. That law criminalizes violations of the Geneva Conventions governing conduct in war and threatens the death penalty if U.S.-held detainees die in custody from abusive treatment.
In light of a recent Supreme Court ruling that the international Conventions apply to the treatment of detainees in the terrorism fight, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has spoken privately with Republican lawmakers about the need for such "protections," according to someone who heard his remarks last week.
Gonzales told the lawmakers that a shield is needed for actions taken by U.S. personnel under a 2002 presidential order, which the Supreme Court declared illegal, and under Justice Department legal opinions that have been withdrawn under fire, the source said. A spokeswoman for Gonzales, Tasia Scolinos, declined to comment on Gonzales's remarks.
So here is my question, if the President ordered the soldiers to ignore the Geneva conventions which allowed the abuses to occur, then who is guilty here?
Could the people that Gonzales is trying to protect not be the soldiers who committed the atrocities, but rather the administration officials and the President who permitted them to take place?
And if that is true then may we someday see President Bush on trial for war crimes? I have to tell you, if that happened that might be the fastest way to get back the trust that we have lost around the world. If we hold President Bush personally responsible for all of the mistakes and crimes of his two terms we might placate the people who hate us right now.
It seems fair to me. Throw his ass to the wolves!
FOX News's Jodi Applegate gets her panties in a wad after practical joke.
You can see the video here.
Now I am not usually a fan of practical jokes. But I really dislike some of the anchors on FOX,which of course makes me petty, so seeing one of them embarrassed on national television gives me the warm fuzzies.
I think what Jodi would like everybody to know is that "that was not cool dude". That seemed to be the gist of her message to the public.
Now I am not usually a fan of practical jokes. But I really dislike some of the anchors on FOX,which of course makes me petty, so seeing one of them embarrassed on national television gives me the warm fuzzies.
I think what Jodi would like everybody to know is that "that was not cool dude". That seemed to be the gist of her message to the public.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
So how are our troops holding up in Iraq? You do not want to ask these guys!
Army Staff Sgt. Jose Sixtos considered the simple question about morale for more than an hour. But not until his convoy of armored Humvees had finally rumbled back into the Baghdad military base, and the soldiers emptied the ammunition from their machine guns, and passed off the bomb-detecting robot to another patrol, did he turn around in his seat and give his answer.
"Think of what you hate most about your job. Then think of doing what you hate most for five straight hours, every single day, sometimes twice a day, in 120-degree heat," he said. "Then ask how morale is."
Frustrated? "You have no idea," he said.
"It sucks. Honestly, it just feels like we're driving around waiting to get blown up. That's the most honest answer I could give you," said Spec. Tim Ivey, 28, of San Antonio, a muscular former backup fullback for Baylor University. "You lose a couple friends and it gets hard."
"No one wants to be here, you know, no one is truly enthused about what we do," said Sgt. Christopher Dugger, the squad leader. "We were excited, but then it just wears on you -- there's only so much you can take. Like me, personally, I want to fight in a war like World War II. I want to fight an enemy. And this, out here," he said, motioning around the scorched sand-and-gravel base, the rows of Humvees and barracks, toward the trash-strewn streets of Baghdad outside, "there is no enemy, it's a faceless enemy. He's out there, but he's hiding."
The commanders in Baghdad and the Pentagon are "looking at the big picture all the time, but for us, we don't see no big picture, it's just always another bomb out here," said Spec. Joshua Steffey, 24, of Asheville, N.C. The company's commanding officer, Capt. Douglas A. DiCenzo of Plymouth, N.H., and his gunner, Spec. Robert E. Blair of Ocala, Fla., were killed by a roadside bomb in May.
Steffey said he wished "somebody would explain to us, 'Hey, this is what we're working for.' " With a stream of expletives, he said he could not care less "if Iraq's free" or "if they're a democracy."
"The first time somebody you know dies, the first thing you ask yourself is, 'Well, what did he die for?' "
Any questions?
"Think of what you hate most about your job. Then think of doing what you hate most for five straight hours, every single day, sometimes twice a day, in 120-degree heat," he said. "Then ask how morale is."
Frustrated? "You have no idea," he said.
"It sucks. Honestly, it just feels like we're driving around waiting to get blown up. That's the most honest answer I could give you," said Spec. Tim Ivey, 28, of San Antonio, a muscular former backup fullback for Baylor University. "You lose a couple friends and it gets hard."
"No one wants to be here, you know, no one is truly enthused about what we do," said Sgt. Christopher Dugger, the squad leader. "We were excited, but then it just wears on you -- there's only so much you can take. Like me, personally, I want to fight in a war like World War II. I want to fight an enemy. And this, out here," he said, motioning around the scorched sand-and-gravel base, the rows of Humvees and barracks, toward the trash-strewn streets of Baghdad outside, "there is no enemy, it's a faceless enemy. He's out there, but he's hiding."
The commanders in Baghdad and the Pentagon are "looking at the big picture all the time, but for us, we don't see no big picture, it's just always another bomb out here," said Spec. Joshua Steffey, 24, of Asheville, N.C. The company's commanding officer, Capt. Douglas A. DiCenzo of Plymouth, N.H., and his gunner, Spec. Robert E. Blair of Ocala, Fla., were killed by a roadside bomb in May.
Steffey said he wished "somebody would explain to us, 'Hey, this is what we're working for.' " With a stream of expletives, he said he could not care less "if Iraq's free" or "if they're a democracy."
"The first time somebody you know dies, the first thing you ask yourself is, 'Well, what did he die for?' "
Any questions?
This may be the saddest day of my life.
This author tells us that the concept of the flying car will never get off of the ground.He is a dream killer is what he is.
Let's say you gave five "flying cars" to five well-educated but non-pilot drivers with perfect driving records and said, "have fun!"
The first driver would take off from the freeway but, after liftoff, would suddenly crash back to the freeway, killing himself and 15 victims in cars on the freeway. He wouldn't understand that his lift was good enough to get the wheels off the ground, but insufficient for flying above "ground effect."
The second driver would take off, and five minutes into his flight would suddenly find himself with zero visibility in a dense cloud cover. He wouldn't be able to tell which way is up and which way is down, and would slam his "flying car" full speed into the ground under the misconception that he was straight and level.
The third driver would suddenly find himself totally lost, unable to find a safe place to land. He would end up trying to land on some random road, crash into power lines and die.
The fourth driver would inadvertently fly into Class B airspace, crash into a fully loaded 747 coming in for a landing and kill himself, plus a planeload of commercial airline passengers.
The fifth driver would be immediately flipped over by crosswinds upon takeoff and die on impact.
Pessimistic son of a bitch isn't he? But look at the pretty picture!
I am sorry, but if I were in this Californian heat right now this would be me.
It happened at mid-morning Monday, but it was not reported until Monday night, but a neighbor wants her neighbor to quit watering his lawn in the nude.The Tehama County Sheriff's Department received a complaint shortly before 10 p.m. from a woman saying her neighbor on Bywood Drive had been outside about 12 hours earlier, nude and watering his lawn.
It has been in the high 90's in California for a week now. I would absolutely refuse to get dressed until the damn temperature was at least 89 degrees.
I cannot imagine how you people live like that! This must be why I live in Alaska.
It has been in the high 90's in California for a week now. I would absolutely refuse to get dressed until the damn temperature was at least 89 degrees.
I cannot imagine how you people live like that! This must be why I live in Alaska.
Ayman al-Zawahiri calls all Muslims to fight against Israel.
Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader issued a worldwide call Thursday for Muslims to rise up in a holy war against Israel and join the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza until Islam reigns from "Spain to Iraq."
In a taped message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahiri said the terrorist organization would not stand idly by while "these (Israeli) shells burn our brothers.
"All the world is a battlefield open in front of us," said the Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri, second-in-command to Osama bin Laden.
"The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires ... . It is a Jihad for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails ... from Spain to Iraq," al-Zawahiri said. "We will attack everywhere." Spain was controlled by Arab Muslims until they were driven from the country at the turn of the 16th century.
Where are the cooler heads? How can we have allowed the world to come to this point? History is filled with circumstances just like this and it is being ignored by the very people whose job it is to keep the world safe.
With the radicals on the Muslim side calling for Jihad to the radicals on our side calling for the destruction of radical Islam, there is no slack remaining for us to negotiate.
I know that we were attacked by a group of radical Muslims, but remember how small a faction that was? Our counry has done everything in its power to add to their number and then to continue to rattle their cage. We have been asking for this fight since 9-11. It is unbelievably careless and short sighted. The means of dealing with extremists is not to become an extremist by killing and raping their civilians! The way to deal with them is to maintain your moral superiority and allow the rest of the world to assist you.
George Bush destroyed our support around the world and now is allowing Israel to start a conflict that will bring the world to the brink of destruction.
How did intelligent people, on both sides of this fence, allow this to get so out of hand?
We cannot sit back anymore. We must make our voices heard. We need to get the troops out of Iraq and bring them home now! We must help to broker a ceasefire and start talking to these Muslim countries as if they are adults and stop treating them like our misbehaving children!
Until that happens we will just continue to slide toward our own destruction.
In a taped message broadcast by Al-Jazeera television, Ayman al-Zawahiri said the terrorist organization would not stand idly by while "these (Israeli) shells burn our brothers.
"All the world is a battlefield open in front of us," said the Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri, second-in-command to Osama bin Laden.
"The war with Israel does not depend on cease-fires ... . It is a Jihad for the sake of God and will last until (our) religion prevails ... from Spain to Iraq," al-Zawahiri said. "We will attack everywhere." Spain was controlled by Arab Muslims until they were driven from the country at the turn of the 16th century.
Where are the cooler heads? How can we have allowed the world to come to this point? History is filled with circumstances just like this and it is being ignored by the very people whose job it is to keep the world safe.
With the radicals on the Muslim side calling for Jihad to the radicals on our side calling for the destruction of radical Islam, there is no slack remaining for us to negotiate.
I know that we were attacked by a group of radical Muslims, but remember how small a faction that was? Our counry has done everything in its power to add to their number and then to continue to rattle their cage. We have been asking for this fight since 9-11. It is unbelievably careless and short sighted. The means of dealing with extremists is not to become an extremist by killing and raping their civilians! The way to deal with them is to maintain your moral superiority and allow the rest of the world to assist you.
George Bush destroyed our support around the world and now is allowing Israel to start a conflict that will bring the world to the brink of destruction.
How did intelligent people, on both sides of this fence, allow this to get so out of hand?
We cannot sit back anymore. We must make our voices heard. We need to get the troops out of Iraq and bring them home now! We must help to broker a ceasefire and start talking to these Muslim countries as if they are adults and stop treating them like our misbehaving children!
Until that happens we will just continue to slide toward our own destruction.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Since everybody hates America now, this group wants us to go country to country and show that we are not all arrogant, warmongering, assholes.
With anti-American sentiment at unprecedented levels around the world, Americans worried about their country's low standing are pushing a grassroots campaign to change foreign perceptions of the United States "one handshake at a time."
The idea is to turn millions of Americans into "citizen diplomats" who use personal meetings with foreigners to counter the ugly image of the United States shown in a series of international public opinion polls. They show widespread negative attitudes not only toward U.S. policies but also toward the American people and, increasingly, even American products.
So you are saying that this is bette then my plan to hide under my bed until everything blows over? Or blows up, whichever comes first.
So you might be saying to yourself that much of the world has always disliked America, true, except this time it is different:
"Anti-Americanism runs deeper and is qualitatively different than in the past, when it was largely attributable to unpopular U.S. policies," Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, says in a new book on the subject, "America Against the World."
Distaste for America runs so deep that, for example, at the recent World Cup in Germany the American team was the only one asked not to display its national flag on the team bus. In
South Korea, traditionally a U.S. ally, two-thirds of people under 30 said in a recent poll that if there were war between North Korea and the United States, they would side with North Korea.
You see this President has made it his goal as leader of the free world to destroy our reputation around the world, allow war to ravage the planet, and make the planet ready for the coming of the Anti-Christ. That is way different then Jimmy Carter, or anybody else's, foreign policy decisions.
This guy is fucking nuts!
The idea is to turn millions of Americans into "citizen diplomats" who use personal meetings with foreigners to counter the ugly image of the United States shown in a series of international public opinion polls. They show widespread negative attitudes not only toward U.S. policies but also toward the American people and, increasingly, even American products.
So you are saying that this is bette then my plan to hide under my bed until everything blows over? Or blows up, whichever comes first.
So you might be saying to yourself that much of the world has always disliked America, true, except this time it is different:
"Anti-Americanism runs deeper and is qualitatively different than in the past, when it was largely attributable to unpopular U.S. policies," Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, says in a new book on the subject, "America Against the World."
Distaste for America runs so deep that, for example, at the recent World Cup in Germany the American team was the only one asked not to display its national flag on the team bus. In
South Korea, traditionally a U.S. ally, two-thirds of people under 30 said in a recent poll that if there were war between North Korea and the United States, they would side with North Korea.
You see this President has made it his goal as leader of the free world to destroy our reputation around the world, allow war to ravage the planet, and make the planet ready for the coming of the Anti-Christ. That is way different then Jimmy Carter, or anybody else's, foreign policy decisions.
This guy is fucking nuts!
If you ever listened to N'Sync and thought they sounded gay, well you were one fifth correct!
Lance Bass, the former 'N Sync heartthrob, reveals that he is gay, in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. "I knew that I was in this popular band and I had four other guys' careers in my hand, and I knew that if I ever acted on it or even said (that I was gay), it would overpower everything," says Bass, referring to bandmates Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake.
"I didn’t know: Could that be the end of ’N Sync? So I had that weight on me of like, ‘Wow, if I ever let anyone know, it's bad.' So I just never did," he says speaking about his sexual orientation for the first time with PEOPLE.
My underestanding is that he first realized he was gay when he saw Justin Timberlake making out with Britney Spears and realized that he was more jealous of Britney then Justin.
You ever see a picture of somebody who announces they are gay and wonder how you could have not figured that out before? I mean look at that picture!
Good for you Lance! I think more gay people should be brave enough to embrace their lifestyle in public. You hear that Mr. Cruise?
Andrea Yates found not guilty by reason of insanity.
A jury found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity in the drowning deaths of her young children in the bathtub of their suburban home.
Yates will be committed to a state mental hospital, with periodic hearings before a judge to determine whether she should be released. If convicted, she would have faced life in prison.
It is hard to argue with a verdict like this. Most of us would have to assume that she was insane for us to have any hope of fathoming how she could have done such a terrible thing.
This part right here is what truly upsets me, she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis and, in a delusional state, thought Satan was inside her and was trying to save them (her children) from hell.
As somebody who works in the mental health field I have to tell you how important it is for somebody who is suffering with this kind of mental illness to receive competent care as soon as possible. Her choice to seek help from the church is what, ultimately, doomed her children.
The church might be great place to seek support for your faith or to deal with the death of a loved one, but it is not the place to go when you have a real, treatable, mental illness.
Yates will be committed to a state mental hospital, with periodic hearings before a judge to determine whether she should be released. If convicted, she would have faced life in prison.
It is hard to argue with a verdict like this. Most of us would have to assume that she was insane for us to have any hope of fathoming how she could have done such a terrible thing.
This part right here is what truly upsets me, she suffered from severe postpartum psychosis and, in a delusional state, thought Satan was inside her and was trying to save them (her children) from hell.
As somebody who works in the mental health field I have to tell you how important it is for somebody who is suffering with this kind of mental illness to receive competent care as soon as possible. Her choice to seek help from the church is what, ultimately, doomed her children.
The church might be great place to seek support for your faith or to deal with the death of a loved one, but it is not the place to go when you have a real, treatable, mental illness.
The epidemic of female teachers having sex with their underage sutdents has reached the "land down under". G'day mate!
A FEMALE teacher who performed sexual acts three times on a teenage student in her car was in jail last night after a judge sentenced her to four months behind bars.Natalina D'Addario claimed the student, then 15, had coerced her into having oral sex after she bombarded the boy with text messages, which included telling him she was undressing after a hot bath and how she missed his "gorgeous eyes".
D'Addario, 37, of Kensington, yesterday pleaded guilty in the County Court to one count of sexual penetration with a person aged 16 and two charges of participating in oral sex with a child under her care, supervision or authority between May and July last year.
You know camparatively speaking I really received a sub-par education while I was in school.
I believe I was quite molestable back then as well. ("Molestable", another Immorally invented word for my readers. That's me, altering the English language one word at a time.)
British men are too horribly out of shape to be seen shirtless.
Men may be barred from baring their chests - and stomachs - in public under new local laws being considered by town halls.
They would stop men stripping off their shirts in crowded town centres and give powers to police to remove any who defy the cover-up laws.
The proposal has been inspired by the least attractive side effect of the heatwave - the tendency of a number of often middle-aged men to go about in nothing more than shorts and trainers.
Last week the Daily Mail highlighted the wave of revulsion among most of the public at the summer's least welcome fashion trend, and pictured a series of the worst examples in the hope of shaming offenders into keeping their T-shirts on.
Apparently Big Brother does not want to see your huge pasty white gut. It does seem terribly punitive though, doesn't it?
I mean what is next? Will they no longer allow middle aged men to wear Speedos on European beaches? Would they truly keep these Don Juans from shaking their money makers on the white sands of Cannes? Oh the humanity!
Well I guess I can except anything just so long as they do not make a law against woman walking around with their tops off. That, my friend, would be going too far!
They would stop men stripping off their shirts in crowded town centres and give powers to police to remove any who defy the cover-up laws.
The proposal has been inspired by the least attractive side effect of the heatwave - the tendency of a number of often middle-aged men to go about in nothing more than shorts and trainers.
Last week the Daily Mail highlighted the wave of revulsion among most of the public at the summer's least welcome fashion trend, and pictured a series of the worst examples in the hope of shaming offenders into keeping their T-shirts on.
Apparently Big Brother does not want to see your huge pasty white gut. It does seem terribly punitive though, doesn't it?
I mean what is next? Will they no longer allow middle aged men to wear Speedos on European beaches? Would they truly keep these Don Juans from shaking their money makers on the white sands of Cannes? Oh the humanity!
Well I guess I can except anything just so long as they do not make a law against woman walking around with their tops off. That, my friend, would be going too far!
You might be considered a terrorist if: The Air Marshall on your flight needs to meet his quota.
You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal air marshals say they're reporting your actions to meet a quota, even though some top officials deny it.
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal.
These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to maintain this potentially dangerous quota system.
"Do these reports have real life impacts on the people who are identified as potential terrorists?" 7NEWS Investigator Tony Kovaleski asked.
"Absolutely," a federal air marshal replied.
This my friends is your tax dollars at work. So what suspicious behavior did you engage in on your last flight? Did you type on a laptop? Did you stay awake through an eight hour flight? Did you try to use the bathroom right before the landing? Are you on a watchlist somewhere?
You know I had a boss that said "bullshit flows downhill". In other words if the boss gets yelled at then he is going to be yelling at the guy that works directly under him and so on, and so on, and so on.
Well apparently stupidity runs downhill as well. So if your President is an idiot, then he rains ignorance down on all of those that work beneath him.
But take heart. The Republican's new ad campaigns assure us that they are keeping us safer. So the question to ask yourself is, how much of an idiot are you?
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal.
These unknowing passengers who are doing nothing wrong are landing in a secret government document called a Surveillance Detection Report, or SDR. Air marshals told 7NEWS that managers in Las Vegas created and continue to maintain this potentially dangerous quota system.
"Do these reports have real life impacts on the people who are identified as potential terrorists?" 7NEWS Investigator Tony Kovaleski asked.
"Absolutely," a federal air marshal replied.
This my friends is your tax dollars at work. So what suspicious behavior did you engage in on your last flight? Did you type on a laptop? Did you stay awake through an eight hour flight? Did you try to use the bathroom right before the landing? Are you on a watchlist somewhere?
You know I had a boss that said "bullshit flows downhill". In other words if the boss gets yelled at then he is going to be yelling at the guy that works directly under him and so on, and so on, and so on.
Well apparently stupidity runs downhill as well. So if your President is an idiot, then he rains ignorance down on all of those that work beneath him.
But take heart. The Republican's new ad campaigns assure us that they are keeping us safer. So the question to ask yourself is, how much of an idiot are you?
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Scientific American explains how our short life span and underdeveloped brains keep us from understanding how things really function.
The reason folk science so often gets it wrong is that we evolved in an environment radically different from the one in which we now live. Our senses are geared for perceiving objects of middling size--between, say, ants and mountains--not bacteria, molecules and atoms on one end of the scale and stars and galaxies on the other end. We live a scant three score and 10 years, far too short a time to witness evolution, continental drift or long-term environmental changes.Causal inference in folk science is equally untrustworthy. We correctly surmise designed objects, such as stone tools, to be the product of an intelligent designer and thus naturally assume that all functional objects, such as eyes, must have also been intelligently designed. Lacking a cogent theory of how neural activity gives rise to consciousness, we imagine mental spirits floating within our heads. We lived in small bands of roaming hunter-gatherers that accumulated little wealth and had no experience of free markets and economic growth.
In a nutshell, you are stupid!
Sorry, that was mean. What I meant to say was that our inherent need to have things explained using observable data makes it very difficult for the normal "man on the street" to truly comprehend the origins of our planet and of ourselves. We cannot see molecules or comprehend eternity therefore we have trouble absorbing the data.
Still confused?
Well like I said before, in a nutshell, you are stupid!
Israel attacks UN. Uh oh!
A U.N. observer post was hit by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon Tuesday, killing four peacekeepers, U.N. officials said.
A bomb directly hit the building and shelter of an Indian patrol base from the observer force in the town of Khiyam near the eastern end of the border with Israel, said Milos Struger, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon known as UNIFIL.
This is America's fault! We go around badmouthing the UN all of the time and now Israel blows them the fuck up!
We are setting a horrible example around the world.
A bomb directly hit the building and shelter of an Indian patrol base from the observer force in the town of Khiyam near the eastern end of the border with Israel, said Milos Struger, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon known as UNIFIL.
This is America's fault! We go around badmouthing the UN all of the time and now Israel blows them the fuck up!
We are setting a horrible example around the world.
Lubbock, Texas asks God for rain. God replies "You broke the climate, you fix the climate".
Public officials in Lubbock, Texas, are organizing a day to pray for rain.
"Nobody is going to tell God what to do and what not to do, but we are in a serious drought in West Texas and since he is the man who controls the rain clouds, we're asking him for his mercy and his help," Mayor David Miller told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
The City Council and the Lubbock County commissioners are expected to adopt resolutions this week asking local residents to both pray and fast for rain this Sunday.
Well this is a well organized waste of time.
You know that this will not solve anything.
It is not at all like my plan to masturbate for peace. Because even if I don't achieve my goal of creating peace throughout the planet I will still have a satisfied glow about me. So it should not be a total loss.
"Nobody is going to tell God what to do and what not to do, but we are in a serious drought in West Texas and since he is the man who controls the rain clouds, we're asking him for his mercy and his help," Mayor David Miller told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
The City Council and the Lubbock County commissioners are expected to adopt resolutions this week asking local residents to both pray and fast for rain this Sunday.
Well this is a well organized waste of time.
You know that this will not solve anything.
It is not at all like my plan to masturbate for peace. Because even if I don't achieve my goal of creating peace throughout the planet I will still have a satisfied glow about me. So it should not be a total loss.
Keith Olbermann hurt FOX's feelings when he made fun of Bill O'Reilly. Oooh is your little feelings hurt baby?
Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes responded to Keith Olbermann's latest critical volley against Bill O'Reilly on Monday, saying the MSNBC host's behavior "is over the line."
Ailes, appearing Monday at the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association, was referring to a weekend incident at the gathering in which Olbermann whipped out a mask of O'Reilly and gave a Nazi salute.
Ailes said Olbermann picks on Fox's O'Reilly to boost his ratings.
You know usually I am totally against these ridiculous Nazi references. They just seem so overplayed and silly. But O'Reilly is in a class by himself when it comes to "classlessness". (Is that a word? Well it is now!)
O'Reilly is a truly horrible human being. He says terribly hurtful things to defenseless people and expects never to be called on it. So Keith has every right to go after him with both barrels. Because who else will?
You know essentially Bill O'Reilly is just Ann Coulter with a smaller penis.
(Do you hear that Daily Show? I want you to use that line!)
Ailes, appearing Monday at the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association, was referring to a weekend incident at the gathering in which Olbermann whipped out a mask of O'Reilly and gave a Nazi salute.
Ailes said Olbermann picks on Fox's O'Reilly to boost his ratings.
You know usually I am totally against these ridiculous Nazi references. They just seem so overplayed and silly. But O'Reilly is in a class by himself when it comes to "classlessness". (Is that a word? Well it is now!)
O'Reilly is a truly horrible human being. He says terribly hurtful things to defenseless people and expects never to be called on it. So Keith has every right to go after him with both barrels. Because who else will?
You know essentially Bill O'Reilly is just Ann Coulter with a smaller penis.
(Do you hear that Daily Show? I want you to use that line!)
PBS kiddie host loses job over racy video.
The PBS Kids Sprout network has fired the host of “The Good Night Show” after learning she had appeared in videos called “Technical Virgin.”
The host, Melanie Martinez, had alerted network officials about one of the videos late last week and she was immediately taken off the air.
“PBS Kids Sprout has determined that the dialogue in this video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host and may undermine her character’s credibility with our audience,” said Sandy Wax, network president.
The video is actually kind of funny. You can see it here.
I feel sorry for the poor kid. I am sure that she will get a better job elsewhere. Making instructional porn videos come to mind.
The host, Melanie Martinez, had alerted network officials about one of the videos late last week and she was immediately taken off the air.
“PBS Kids Sprout has determined that the dialogue in this video is inappropriate for her role as a preschool program host and may undermine her character’s credibility with our audience,” said Sandy Wax, network president.
The video is actually kind of funny. You can see it here.
I feel sorry for the poor kid. I am sure that she will get a better job elsewhere. Making instructional porn videos come to mind.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Nobel Peace Prize winner wants to kill George Bush. Does this mean she has to give her "peace" prize back?
NOBEL peace laureate Betty Williams displayed a flash of her feisty Irish spirit yesterday, lashing out at US President George W.Bush during a speech to hundreds of schoolchildren.
"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
"I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."
Ms Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago, when she circulated a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead an IRA member who was driving a car. He veered on to the footpath, killing two children from one family instantly and fatally injuring a third.
Ms Williams's petition had tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic women walking the streets together in protest. Now the former office receptionist heads the World Centres of Compassion for Children International, a non-profit group working to create a political voice for children.
What an amazing woman! And for her to want to kill another human being says quite a lot about the human being that she wants to kill.
And while I completely understand Ms. Williams anger and frustration, it would be very counter productive for any of us to support the killing of another human being. Even one who is just barely human like George W. Bush.
"Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." Her young audience at the Brisbane City Hall clapped and cheered.
"I don't know how I ever got a Nobel Peace Prize, because when I see children die the anger in me is just beyond belief. It's our duty as human beings, whatever age we are, to become the protectors of human life."
Ms Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 30 years ago, when she circulated a petition to end violence in Northern Ireland after witnessing British soldiers shoot dead an IRA member who was driving a car. He veered on to the footpath, killing two children from one family instantly and fatally injuring a third.
Ms Williams's petition had tens of thousands of Protestant and Catholic women walking the streets together in protest. Now the former office receptionist heads the World Centres of Compassion for Children International, a non-profit group working to create a political voice for children.
What an amazing woman! And for her to want to kill another human being says quite a lot about the human being that she wants to kill.
And while I completely understand Ms. Williams anger and frustration, it would be very counter productive for any of us to support the killing of another human being. Even one who is just barely human like George W. Bush.
This woman believes that the "DaVinci Code" was her biography.
An American who began her career as a journalist in Belfast, claims she is a descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene and is publishing a book about it.
Kathleen McGowan has received a seven-figure advance for her novel, "The Expected One," said the Sunday Times of London.
The book will be published in New York on Tuesday. It has earned $2 million from the sale of foreign rights and will appear in Britain on Aug. 7.
McGowan, 43, said she had submitted her proposal to publishers in 1997, six years before author Dan Brown published "The Da Vinci Code" -- which features a plot line involving descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
McGowan self-published her book last year after she was "laughed out of New York City," she said. It sold 2,500 copies but was snapped up by Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
"The Expected One" tells the story of Maureen Paschal, a journalist searching in the Pyrenees for scrolls supposedly written in the first century by Magdalene.
When asked to produce ancient family documents that she claims to have uncovered in France, she said she had been "asked not to talk about what I've seen."
I believe her. Why the hell not? Is it any harder to believe then the biblical version of Jesus's life? No it is not!
So, I believe her.
Kathleen McGowan has received a seven-figure advance for her novel, "The Expected One," said the Sunday Times of London.
The book will be published in New York on Tuesday. It has earned $2 million from the sale of foreign rights and will appear in Britain on Aug. 7.
McGowan, 43, said she had submitted her proposal to publishers in 1997, six years before author Dan Brown published "The Da Vinci Code" -- which features a plot line involving descendants of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
McGowan self-published her book last year after she was "laughed out of New York City," she said. It sold 2,500 copies but was snapped up by Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
"The Expected One" tells the story of Maureen Paschal, a journalist searching in the Pyrenees for scrolls supposedly written in the first century by Magdalene.
When asked to produce ancient family documents that she claims to have uncovered in France, she said she had been "asked not to talk about what I've seen."
I believe her. Why the hell not? Is it any harder to believe then the biblical version of Jesus's life? No it is not!
So, I believe her.
As if My Space wasn't dangerous enough for teens, now the Marines are trolling for kids there as well!
Teens looking to hook up with a friend on the popular Web community MySpace may bump into an unexpected buddy: the U.S. Marine Corps.
So far, over 12,000 Web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic. Other military branches may follow.
The Marine Corps MySpace profile — featuring streaming video of barking drill sergeants, fresh recruits enduring boot camp and Marines storming beaches — underscores the growing importance of the Internet to advertisers as a medium for reaching America's youth.
"That's definitely the new wave," said Gunnery Sgt. Brian Lancioni at a Hawaii recruiting event. "Everything's technical with these kids, and the Internet is a great way to show what the Marine Corps has to offer."
Patrick Baldwin, an 18-year-old recruit from Saratoga, N.Y., who linked his profile to the Marines' site after hearing about it from a friend, said MySpace was a good place for interested teens to start learning more about the Marines.
"The more information you have the better off you are," said Baldwin, who left for boot camp a few weeks ago.
Let's see, online predators or the United States Marine Corps, now that is a tough call. On the one hand at least the predators are less likely to get my child blown up, but they don't have any scholorships to offer either.
They will both lie to my kid and ultimately take advantage of her naivete.
The Marines have uniforms, though I suppose the perverts might try to convince her to dress up in something as well.
I guess I consider them both dangerous and I will counsel my child to avoid of them like the plague. I do not want anybody to take advantage of my child or pretend to have her best interests at heart when all they want is to use her and then toss her away. Not my baby.
So far, over 12,000 Web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic. Other military branches may follow.
The Marine Corps MySpace profile — featuring streaming video of barking drill sergeants, fresh recruits enduring boot camp and Marines storming beaches — underscores the growing importance of the Internet to advertisers as a medium for reaching America's youth.
"That's definitely the new wave," said Gunnery Sgt. Brian Lancioni at a Hawaii recruiting event. "Everything's technical with these kids, and the Internet is a great way to show what the Marine Corps has to offer."
Patrick Baldwin, an 18-year-old recruit from Saratoga, N.Y., who linked his profile to the Marines' site after hearing about it from a friend, said MySpace was a good place for interested teens to start learning more about the Marines.
"The more information you have the better off you are," said Baldwin, who left for boot camp a few weeks ago.
Let's see, online predators or the United States Marine Corps, now that is a tough call. On the one hand at least the predators are less likely to get my child blown up, but they don't have any scholorships to offer either.
They will both lie to my kid and ultimately take advantage of her naivete.
The Marines have uniforms, though I suppose the perverts might try to convince her to dress up in something as well.
I guess I consider them both dangerous and I will counsel my child to avoid of them like the plague. I do not want anybody to take advantage of my child or pretend to have her best interests at heart when all they want is to use her and then toss her away. Not my baby.
I got this e-mail from John Conyers office.
I wanted to update you on the lawsuit I have filed against George W. Bush and members of his administration, referred to in legal parlance as Conyers v. Bush.You are likely familiar with a number of steps I have taken to challenge the legality and constitutional grounds of the Administration's actions. From the lead up to Iraq, to the Downing Street Minutes, to the outing of a CIA agent, to warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens, I have called loudly for the Bush White House to explain itself.
I decided to file suit against the President in Federal Court in Michigan, along with 11 Senior Democratic Members of Congress. This suit was necessary because of a clear violation of the constitution. When the President signed the Deficit Reduction Act (which "reduced" the deficit by cutting taxes, health care benefits, and student loans), he signed into law a bill that had not passed the House and Senate. A different version of the bill passed each house of Congress with a multi-billion dollar difference in funding for life-saving medical equipment.
Anyone who ever watched Schoolhouse Rock knows this to be a problem.
Given the stakes involved I felt it was imperative to aggressively take this fight to the courts. The President's lawyers tried to get the bill dismissed, but late last week I responded with legal filings that stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution and hope to bring the President, and our United States government, back under the rule of law.
I wanted to email you this news today to update you on our efforts and to thank you for your help and support. Thank you also for your continued dedication to a better democracy.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr
I love John Conyers and the fact that he has never let up on this administration. He may seem like Don Quixote, but he has never stopped chasing the dragons and tilting at windmills.
(By the way. How cool is it that he referenced "Schoolhouse Express"? He is totally speaking right to my innocent little kid idea of truth and justice. As soon as I finish my juicebox I am going to send him some money.)
I decided to file suit against the President in Federal Court in Michigan, along with 11 Senior Democratic Members of Congress. This suit was necessary because of a clear violation of the constitution. When the President signed the Deficit Reduction Act (which "reduced" the deficit by cutting taxes, health care benefits, and student loans), he signed into law a bill that had not passed the House and Senate. A different version of the bill passed each house of Congress with a multi-billion dollar difference in funding for life-saving medical equipment.
Anyone who ever watched Schoolhouse Rock knows this to be a problem.
Given the stakes involved I felt it was imperative to aggressively take this fight to the courts. The President's lawyers tried to get the bill dismissed, but late last week I responded with legal filings that stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution and hope to bring the President, and our United States government, back under the rule of law.
I wanted to email you this news today to update you on our efforts and to thank you for your help and support. Thank you also for your continued dedication to a better democracy.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr
I love John Conyers and the fact that he has never let up on this administration. He may seem like Don Quixote, but he has never stopped chasing the dragons and tilting at windmills.
(By the way. How cool is it that he referenced "Schoolhouse Express"? He is totally speaking right to my innocent little kid idea of truth and justice. As soon as I finish my juicebox I am going to send him some money.)
The cost of war is too high when the coin of the realm is children's lives!
Standing in front of this 8-year-old boy lying in a hospital bed, the "conflict in the Middle East" and the "cost of war" seem endless and suffocating. His pain cannot possibly be imagined as he shakes uncontrollably in and out of shock. He has blood coming from his eyes.His name is Mahmood Monsoor and he is horribly burned. In the hospital bed next to him is his 8-month-old sister, Maria -- also burned. Screaming at the top of her lungs is the children's mother, Nuhader Monsoor. She is standing over her baby, looking at her son -- and probably thinking of her dead husband. The smell of burned flesh is overwhelming.
Maybe I am not manly enough to look at these babies and believe that they are just the necessary collateral damage of war. Perhaps I am too weak to resist the flood of emotion that I feel when I see innocent people hurt or killed.
If this is what it is to be man, then I guess I am happy being whatever it is that I am.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Good News: prisoners are turning to religion. Bad News: This religion involves human sacrifice.
A pagan religion that some experts say can be interpreted as encouraging violence is gaining popularity among prison inmates, one of whom is scheduled to be executed this week for killing a fellow prisoner at the foot of an altar.Michael Lenz is scheduled to die Thursday for the death of Brent Parker, who was stabbed dozens of times at Augusta Correctional Center during a gathering of inmates devoted to Asatru, whose followers worship Norse gods. At his trial, Lenz testified that Parker had not been taking the religion seriously and had to die to protect the honor of the gods.
Other followers call the religion misunderstood and say most adherent inmates do not use it to further violent agendas.
Asatru has been gaining popularity among inmates, say religious leaders and prison experts who believe its roots in Viking mythology attract prisoners seeking power, protection and unity.
I am really going to miss Christianity when this replaces it. Oh well, out with the old, and in with the new. Or......I guess it is the old......right?
Who killed Iraqi weapons expert David Kelly. Get your tinfoil hats ready kids this is a doozy!
A judicial inquiry into the death of David Kelly in July 2003 concluded that the one-time UN weapons inspector and expert on Saddam Hussein's weapons programmes committed suicide.He did so after he was named as the source of a BBC news report suggesting that
Tony Blair's government had "sexed up" intelligence in the run-up to the US and British invasion of Iraq four months earlier.
"Today, I challenge that conclusion," wrote Norman Baker, from the Liberal Democrats, in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
"I do so on the basis that the medical evidence available simply cannot sustain it, that Dr Kelly's own behaviour and character argues against it and that there were serious shortcomings in the way the legal and investigative processes set up to consider his death were followed."
Points raised by Baker -- whose centre-left party opposed the Iraq war -- included the fact that Kelly supposedly cut his ulnary artery in his wrist, a more difficult and painful option that the radial artery.
In 2003, Baker said, Kelly was the only person recorded to have taken his or her own life in this fashion.
Oh now this is good stuff! It is all very CSI like now isn't it?
Who do you think might have killed him? The CIA or MI5?
I think it was us. I would not put it past George Bush and his cronies to have somebody silenced who was questioning their Iraqi intelligence.
I guess Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame got off easy didn't they?
Buckley on Bush: "I think his legacy is indecipherable"
Buckley finds himself parting ways with President Bush, whom he praises as a decisive leader but admonishes for having strayed from true conservative principles in his foreign policy. In particular, Buckley views the three-and-a-half-year Iraq War as a failure.
"If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign," Buckley says.
I love it when William F. Buckley speaks out against this administration. Buckley is the father of the modern conservative movement, and as such has much at stake as he watches George Bush detroy the party from within.
I have always disagreed with Buckley on pretty much everything. But this one time I find myself uncomfortably close to seeing things exactly like he does.
It gives a liberal pause if you know what I mean?
This is why I don't hunt cute little animals. Because sometimes the cute little animals may decide to hunt you!
I think that tiger ate that guy.
I always believed that being up on an elephant would keep you safe. Guess not!
I always believed that being up on an elephant would keep you safe. Guess not!
Philadelphia say that if Boy Scouts don't start allowing gays to play dress-up too then they will throw them out.
The Boy Scouts' Cradle of Liberty Council, the country's third-largest, has been battling with the city for more than three years over the policy, which like the national Scouts organization forbids gays from being leaders.City Solicitor Romulo L. Diaz Jr. wrote a letter to William T. Dwyer III, president of the Cradle of Liberty Council, stating that the council's "discriminatory policies" violate city policy and law, and that city officials have not been assured the group will not discriminate.
Unless the city gets a "fair-market rent agreement," the council will be evicted, the letter says.
I am just having trouble trying to understand why any self respecting homosexual would want to wear that tacky uniform? I mean it is tres' "get me into the woods where I can hide my shame". What adult male, gay or straight, wants to walk around like that? Unless it is in some kinky costume party, which I don't really want to get into here.
But maybe allowing gay scout masters will help the Boy Scouts to bring their fashion into the twenty first century. Maybe a kicky salmon neckerchief to replace the crappy bolo-like thing they have now. And what is with those fucking socks?
And imagine the badges they could introduce.
- The Feng Shui badge.
- The color co-ordinated campground badge.
- The knot tying badge might include a few more knots.
- The gourmet campground cooking badge.
- The show tune sing-along badge would be Faaabuuluss!
Okay I got silly but you see the benefits don't you?
Sexual orientation should not be a factor in choosing a positive role model as long as the person poses no danger to the children.
Being gay does not make you a pedophile.
Being a Catholic priest does.
Everybody knows that. (And just like that he lost all of his Catholic visitors.)
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Note to Bush: The UN's guidelines describing sexual harrassment include neck massages.
When Bill Clinton served in the White House, this newspaper was offended by his personal weaknesses. One Editorial Board member wrote: "Bill Clinton has proved himself a liar, an adulterer, a cad, and a failed feminist. He is no candidate for boss of the year."While we agreed with Clinton on policy, we thought, at least, George W. Bush's personal actions would, as he himself put it, "bring honor and dignity back to the White House."
That's why we were stunned when the president "greeted" the chancellor of Germany in a manner we consider inappropriate. The San Francisco Chronicle put it this way: "The scene, captured by a Russian TV camera, hit the Internet like a summer wildfire Tuesday, and it may be most memorable for the German chancellor's reaction. Bush applies his hands to (Angela) Merkel's shoulders and neck while she's speaking with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi; the chancellor hunches her shoulders, then throws her hands up to stop the unexpected massage with a wan smile -- and an expression that can best be translated as 'Ewwww.' "
The act was demeaning to the leader of another nation. It also demonstrates insensitive (if not out-of-bounds) workplace conduct. Since this was an international summit, we'll cite the United Nations' sexual harassment guidelines. "Unwelcome behavior is the critical word," the document says, followed by a listing of objectionable actions. About halfway down the list: "Neck massage."
You know I am not even going to bother to comment on this, I think it speaks for itself.
Republican lawmakers are finding it impossible to continue lying to Americans about Iraq.
Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minn., once a strong supporter of the war, returned from Iraq this week declaring that conditions in Baghdad were far worse "than we'd been led to believe," and urging that troop withdrawals begin immediately.
Other Republican lawmakers acknowledge that it is no longer tenable to say the news media is ignoring the good news in Iraq and painting an unfair picture of the war. About 4,338 Iraqi civilians died violent deaths during the first six months of 2006, according to a new report by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq. Last month alone, 3,149 civilians were killed -- an average of more than 100 a day.
"It's like after (Hurricane) Katrina, when the secretary of Homeland Security was saying all those people weren't really stranded (at the New Orleans civic center) when we were all watching it on TV," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. "I still hear about that. We can't look like we won't face reality."
"Essentially, what the White House is saying is, 'Stay the course, stay the course,' " Gutknecht said. "I don't think that course is politically sustainable."
Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania, a swing-district Republican facing a tough re-election race, has introduced legislation to create clear measurements of progress in Iraq, from territory under the control of Iraqi forces to government stability.
"Congress needs to be more proactive and aggressive in evaluating what is the progress in Iraq," he said. "The Iraqi government shouldn't feel like it's got a blank check on American lives and American dollars."
Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., meanwhile, is using his House Government Reform subcommittee on national security to vent criticism of the White House's war strategy and new estimates of the monetary cost of war.
I could listen to this fat lady sing all night long. Finally the Republicans are owning up to the fact that this war is a catastrophe. I don't care if they saying this for political reasons or not, I just love hearing them say it.
I have said for quite some time that with the Democrats so powerless in Washington, it would take the Republicans to make any real change in policy over in Iraq. And here they are.
Aren't they beautiful? Now let's hold them to it and welcome any other Republicans that can turn away form the back of the cave to join us in our "reality based" understanding of the war in Iraq.
Of course I still support voting everyone of these slow learning bastards out, but until we do let's give them mad props for seeing the obvious. Good going guys!
Other Republican lawmakers acknowledge that it is no longer tenable to say the news media is ignoring the good news in Iraq and painting an unfair picture of the war. About 4,338 Iraqi civilians died violent deaths during the first six months of 2006, according to a new report by the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq. Last month alone, 3,149 civilians were killed -- an average of more than 100 a day.
"It's like after (Hurricane) Katrina, when the secretary of Homeland Security was saying all those people weren't really stranded (at the New Orleans civic center) when we were all watching it on TV," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C. "I still hear about that. We can't look like we won't face reality."
"Essentially, what the White House is saying is, 'Stay the course, stay the course,' " Gutknecht said. "I don't think that course is politically sustainable."
Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania, a swing-district Republican facing a tough re-election race, has introduced legislation to create clear measurements of progress in Iraq, from territory under the control of Iraqi forces to government stability.
"Congress needs to be more proactive and aggressive in evaluating what is the progress in Iraq," he said. "The Iraqi government shouldn't feel like it's got a blank check on American lives and American dollars."
Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., meanwhile, is using his House Government Reform subcommittee on national security to vent criticism of the White House's war strategy and new estimates of the monetary cost of war.
I could listen to this fat lady sing all night long. Finally the Republicans are owning up to the fact that this war is a catastrophe. I don't care if they saying this for political reasons or not, I just love hearing them say it.
I have said for quite some time that with the Democrats so powerless in Washington, it would take the Republicans to make any real change in policy over in Iraq. And here they are.
Aren't they beautiful? Now let's hold them to it and welcome any other Republicans that can turn away form the back of the cave to join us in our "reality based" understanding of the war in Iraq.
Of course I still support voting everyone of these slow learning bastards out, but until we do let's give them mad props for seeing the obvious. Good going guys!
US weapons dealers profiting from death as Israel purchases more bombs and requests faster delivery.
The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday.
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran’s efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.
The munitions that the United States is sending to Israel are part of a multimillion-dollar arms sale package approved last year that Israel is able to draw on as needed, the officials said. But Israel’s request for expedited delivery of the satellite and laser-guided bombs was described as unusual by some military officers, and as an indication that Israel still had a long list of targets in Lebanon to strike.
Are you comforted to know that our economic future might take a positive turn based on the number of Lebanese dead in our future?
How many big screen tvs can we buy with the blood of our brothers overseas?
Have we learned nothing from Korea, or Vietnam? Must we always allow death to lead the way toward temporary peace?
The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran’s efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.
The munitions that the United States is sending to Israel are part of a multimillion-dollar arms sale package approved last year that Israel is able to draw on as needed, the officials said. But Israel’s request for expedited delivery of the satellite and laser-guided bombs was described as unusual by some military officers, and as an indication that Israel still had a long list of targets in Lebanon to strike.
Are you comforted to know that our economic future might take a positive turn based on the number of Lebanese dead in our future?
How many big screen tvs can we buy with the blood of our brothers overseas?
Have we learned nothing from Korea, or Vietnam? Must we always allow death to lead the way toward temporary peace?
The question that has never been answered satisfactorily: Is Bush too dumb to be President?
Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine," paints a harrowing picture of Bush's intellectual limits. Bush, writes Suskind, "is not much of a reader." He prefers verbal briefings and often makes a horse-sense judgment based on how confident his briefer seems in what he's saying. In August 2001, the CIA was in a panic about an upcoming terrorist attack and drafted a report with the title, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." When a CIA staffer summed up the memo's contents in a face-to-face meeting with Bush, the president found the briefer insufficiently confident and dismissed him by saying, "All right, you've covered your ass, now," according to Suskind. That turned out to be a fairly disastrous judgment.
Video of a presidential meeting that came to light this year showed Bush being briefed on the incipient Hurricane Katrina. His subordinates come off as deeply concerned about a potential catastrophe, but Bush appears blase, declining to ask a single question.
Bush's supporters have insisted for the last six years that liberal derision of the president's intelligence amounts to nothing more than cultural snobbery. We don't like his pickup truck and his accent, the accusation goes, so we hide our blue-state prejudices behind a mask of intellectual condescension.
But the more we learn about how Bush operates, the more we can see we were right from the beginning. It matters that the president values his gut reaction and disdains book learnin'. It's not just a question of cultural style. The president's narrow intellectual horizons have real consequences, sometimes cataclysmic ones.
And what is perhaps the most frustrating portion of Bush's "anti-intellectualism" is the fact that the man does not seem capable of learning from his mistakes. Even after devastating setbacks in Iraq, Bush continues to use the phrase "stay the course" as the way out of the abyss.
Dumbass, the "course" is what drove you into the crater in the first place!
Now we are on the precipice of starting the same type of campaign in North Korrea and Iran. Those of us who are "reality based" cannot imagine anybody being so blindedly arrogant. But George Bush has learned nothing! Therefore he could certainly make this same mistake over and over again.
Our only hope is that somebody, somewhere can stop him before he contnues down this path of American destruction.
Video of a presidential meeting that came to light this year showed Bush being briefed on the incipient Hurricane Katrina. His subordinates come off as deeply concerned about a potential catastrophe, but Bush appears blase, declining to ask a single question.
Bush's supporters have insisted for the last six years that liberal derision of the president's intelligence amounts to nothing more than cultural snobbery. We don't like his pickup truck and his accent, the accusation goes, so we hide our blue-state prejudices behind a mask of intellectual condescension.
But the more we learn about how Bush operates, the more we can see we were right from the beginning. It matters that the president values his gut reaction and disdains book learnin'. It's not just a question of cultural style. The president's narrow intellectual horizons have real consequences, sometimes cataclysmic ones.
And what is perhaps the most frustrating portion of Bush's "anti-intellectualism" is the fact that the man does not seem capable of learning from his mistakes. Even after devastating setbacks in Iraq, Bush continues to use the phrase "stay the course" as the way out of the abyss.
Dumbass, the "course" is what drove you into the crater in the first place!
Now we are on the precipice of starting the same type of campaign in North Korrea and Iran. Those of us who are "reality based" cannot imagine anybody being so blindedly arrogant. But George Bush has learned nothing! Therefore he could certainly make this same mistake over and over again.
Our only hope is that somebody, somewhere can stop him before he contnues down this path of American destruction.
I told you gay marriage was the same as regular marriage!
The lesbian couple whose lawsuit ultimately led to the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts have announced their separation. "Julie and Hillary Goodridge are amicably living apart," Mary Breslauer, a local political consultant, said Thursday night on their behalf. Breslauer declined to comment on how long they had been separated or whether the couple planned to divorce.
The Goodridges were among seven gay couples whose lawsuit, Goodridge vs. Department of Public Health, helped thrust Massachusetts into the center of a nationwide debate on gay marriage. The state's Supreme Judicial Court issued its narrow 4-3 ruling in November 2003 in their favor - saying gays and lesbians had a right under the state constitution to wed. Massachusetts is the only state that allows gay marriage.
The Goodridges were married on May 17, 2004, the first day same-sex marriages became legal under the court ruling, by a Unitarian Universalist minister. Their daughter, Annie, now 10, served as ring-bearer and flower girl.
Now I know that detractors are getting ready to attack gay marriage based on this but I would suggest you not jump into the pool of hypocrisy that this will lead to. Over half of all marriages end in divorce in this country. All this proves is that gay marriage is just as vulnerable as traditional marriages.
Besides everybody knows that the leading cause of divorce in this counrty is marriage.
I really hope these crazy kids work this out. You know, for the children.
Friday, July 21, 2006
American troops were under orders to "kill all military aged men" in Iraq.
Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering suspected insurgents during a raid in Iraq said they were under orders to "kill all military age males," according to sworn statements obtained by The Associated Press.
The soldiers first took some of the men into custody because they were using two women and a toddler as human shields. They shot three of the men after the women and child were safe and say the men attacked them.
"The ROE (rule of engagement) was to kill all military age males on Objective Murray," Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard told investigators, referring to the target by its code name.
This can't be true. Can it?
How will America ever recover from this war? We have lost all of our ethics and integrity because we were afraid. We felt vulnerable and we let our "Warmonger-in-Chief" attack a country that could do us no harm. And look at the result.
How much more shame must we endure before it is all over?
The soldiers first took some of the men into custody because they were using two women and a toddler as human shields. They shot three of the men after the women and child were safe and say the men attacked them.
"The ROE (rule of engagement) was to kill all military age males on Objective Murray," Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard told investigators, referring to the target by its code name.
This can't be true. Can it?
How will America ever recover from this war? We have lost all of our ethics and integrity because we were afraid. We felt vulnerable and we let our "Warmonger-in-Chief" attack a country that could do us no harm. And look at the result.
How much more shame must we endure before it is all over?
Maybe Jesus and I do have something in common after all. You know besides that whole walking on water thing.
A Christian missionary group making the rounds at US adult entertainment conventions hands out Bibles with "Jesus loves porn stars" stamped on their covers.Jesus loves porn stars just as much as he does pastors and soccer moms, XXXchurch contends.
The outreach team from XXXchurch, calling itself a "porn ministry," distributes paperback New Testaments with a gaudy purple-and-yellow cover reading: "Jesus loves porn stars."
Its website, billed as the number-one Christian porn site, includes downloadable Bible studies and an array of "prayer software," including "accountability programs" designed to help users resist pornographic temptation.
If Jesus loves porn stars so much then why are his people trying to stop them from getting paid? I mean if they are resisting porn then where are they spending their money? Online gambling?
I would love to be in this church siting next to a soccer mom when the minister issues forth with this word of wisdom: "Jesus loves pornographers as much as he loves pastors, soccer moms, liars, thieves and prostitutes."
And if I were her husband I would be like, "See honey, Jesus does not care if we film ourselves doing the nasty. He loves porn stars!"
I am sure these peoples hearts are in the right place.
I just have to wonder where their willies are?
There are a lot of signs that you may have a drinking problem. But none of them, and I mean none of them, are as definite as this one!
A man who cut off his own penis in a drunken bet had it stitched back on by Latvian doctors, the first such operation in the country's history.
While heavily under the influence of alcohol, the 30-year-old made a bet with his friend for 1000 lats ($2360) that he would cut off his penis, according to a Latvian public television report.
No more booze for you! Ever!
While heavily under the influence of alcohol, the 30-year-old made a bet with his friend for 1000 lats ($2360) that he would cut off his penis, according to a Latvian public television report.
No more booze for you! Ever!
Surprisingly Tericka Dye, ex-porn star, will not be getting her teaching job back. Talk about unfair!
Tericka Dye was suspended with pay in April after the surfacing of an 11-year-old adult film in which she appeared.
Attorney Mark Blankenship maintains that Dye's suspension was illegal and unconstitutional. State law allows for tribunal hearings when a teacher receives a written reprimand, is fired or suspended without pay. Hearing officer Scott Majors ruled that Dye was not entitled to a hearing because she was suspended with pay.
Dye filed a lawsuit three weeks ago in an effort to get her job back and the school board sent a response Tuesday asking for dismissal of the suit. The response says that because the petition for judicial review filed by Blankenship did not include the name and address of the Kentucky Department of Education, it should be dismissed.
Who could they possibly find that would be a better choice to teach the Sex Ed courses? Just think how attentive all of the young men would be while listening to Ms. Dye describe the proper oral sex technique. It is a win-win situation.
When life gives you lemons, make porn star lemonade. That is what I always say.
Attorney Mark Blankenship maintains that Dye's suspension was illegal and unconstitutional. State law allows for tribunal hearings when a teacher receives a written reprimand, is fired or suspended without pay. Hearing officer Scott Majors ruled that Dye was not entitled to a hearing because she was suspended with pay.
Dye filed a lawsuit three weeks ago in an effort to get her job back and the school board sent a response Tuesday asking for dismissal of the suit. The response says that because the petition for judicial review filed by Blankenship did not include the name and address of the Kentucky Department of Education, it should be dismissed.
Who could they possibly find that would be a better choice to teach the Sex Ed courses? Just think how attentive all of the young men would be while listening to Ms. Dye describe the proper oral sex technique. It is a win-win situation.
When life gives you lemons, make porn star lemonade. That is what I always say.
Couric will not be going to Middle East.
Katie Couric, who takes over the CBS Evening News in September told Access Hollywood that at this point, she would not venture into the Middle East hot spot."I think the situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that's something I won't be doing," Katie said.
I am not a big fan of Katie Couric by any measure but I do respect her decision to stay with her children. That is her most important responsibility and in my opinion when you are a parent, especially a single parent, you have no right to risk your life unnecessarily.
I think that many of these big time anchors go over to these hotspots to satisfy their need for adrenaline and to prove that they are not just "talking heads".
I applaud Katie for not allowing herself to be pressured into going.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Buchanan calls Neocons "warmongers". This is Pat Buchanan I am talking about!
Man, Pat is pissed!And, dare I say this, he is right!
And finally Chris Matthews talks about just how ignorant the Neo-cons are when it comes to waging war. They are pansy ass children of privilege who do not know what it means to get bloodied. And this President is letting them dictate who to attack with the most powerful military in the world.
Well we were the most powerful military before all of this began. That might no longer be the case.
Why do all of the porn stars turn out to be Republicans when they run for office?
We've been looking at the choices you'll make for the 2006 election and one of the most dramatic races is shaping up to be the contest for governor. But one of the candidates - porn star Mimi Demayo - says she's being unfairly excluded from the major opinion polls.Mimi delivered her first campaign speech Tuesday night. Some are dismissing her campaign as a giant publicity stunt, but the issues she's talking about are deadly serious and simply because of her porn star history, she's getting attention.
Republicans running for office in Nevada gathered for a little meet and greet session, but so far the only candidate who has been the subject of a lengthy interview on one of the major news networks is none other than Mimi Demayo.
The latest News 3 poll included only three of the five republicans running for governor, but Mimi says she's every bit as serious at the frontrunners, and should not be dismissed so easily.
I almost have to many jokes to choose just one for this post. So I won't even bother. You just make up your own and put it here..............................................................................................!
Hah hah hah! That was funny.
Excerpts from Mimi's bio:
Mimi Miyagi's journey from bright young child prodigy to adult film star is an interesting one. She was born 2nd of four children to immigrant parents in July 3, 1973. Touring most of her childhood in a gymnastics team, being a classical pianist playing venues most of her youth, and a scholastic student. At 15, she graduated high school in a year and a half hoping to get ahead on life. For 3 years, she worked three jobs to save enough money to go to college. She returned to LA just before her 18th birthday with a little over $1,000 to her name. At that time, she naively thought that the money would be sufficient to tide her over for a few months. Within a month, she'd run out of money for her herself and her family back home. She got desperate, she looked for jobs with little success.
Gee, I wonder what she did next? Are you curious too? Then you need to go here.
Bad visitors! Naughty, naughty visitors!
Hey kids, come visit Dr. Dobson's new anti-gay website. They have both puppies and penguins! Ex-gay penguins!
Meet Alan Chambers, an ex-gay man.Fifteen years ago, Alan was living as a homosexual. Then he decided to change. Today he's married to a woman and a father of two.
"I was told by people in the gay community that I couldn't change, that there was no hope for that," says Alan. "But the truth is, in my experience, that people can come out of homosexuality."
Look, I don't want to be mean here but does Mr. Chambers look straight to you?
You know I dressed up like Santa Claus once but that did not really make me a centuries old elf who lived at the North Pole and lived on stale cookies and milk.
And more to the point I pretended to be happily married for quite a long time until I wasn't anymore. We can fake anything for a while if we have to.
Dr. Dobson is a simple minded, superstitious, moron who should not be allowed to have anything to do with the molding of impressionable young minds.
Do you want to see the world's most expensive battery powered orgasm machine? You know you do!
Meet the prototype of Tesla Motors new battery powered roadster. Zero to sixty in four seconds. A top speed of 130 mph. And just look at this damn thing!If this does not get her panties wet then your woman is defective.
I have beat off to this thing twice already. Oops I shared too much again.
Elizabeth Smart easily outclasses MSNBC's Nancy Grace. (Correction: CNN's Nancy Grace.)
Nancy Grace (Who is my opinion is just Rita Crosby before she smokes a carton and a half of cigarettes) asks this young woman the dumbest questions I have ever heard.
You don't believe me? Well then read it for yourself.
GRACE: Elizabeth, I remember when you first went missing and literally hundreds of people were out looking for you. Now we know you were being held captive not very far away from your home at all. Did you ever hear people calling out your name, trying to find you?
ELIZABETH SMART: There was one time.
GRACE: At that moment, did you want to scream out, Here I am, help me?
ELIZABETH SMART: I mean, of course. Who wouldn`t?
GRACE: At that moment, when you knew people were looking for you, your parents were there. They were trying to find you. How did that make you feel?
ELIZABETH SMART: You know, I didn`t know how big it was. And it was — it was good to know people were looking for me, but I — I felt so far away, you know, I just — it didn`t really connect at that time. And you know, and I think that…
GRACE: And you were such a little girl, Elizabeth. I mean, you were just 14 years old.
ELIZABETH SMART: Yes.
GRACE: It`s hard to expect a little 14-year-old girl to react the way an adult might imagine they would react under those circumstances. You were afraid, I assume.
ELIZABETH SMART: Yes.
GRACE: Did your kidnappers tell you they would hurt you or your family if you tried to get away?
ELIZABETH SMART: You know, they did. And I really am here to support the bill and not to go into what — you know, what happened to me, what the whole — like, what is in my past because I`m not here to give an interview on that. I`m here to help push this bill through.
GRACE: And I want you to push the bill through and I want people to hear your voice.
When we take a look back, there`s a shot of Elizabeth Smart, and here she is, four years later.
And frankly, it`s a miracle that she was ever found. You know, a lot of people have seen shots of you wearing a burqa. How did you see out of that thing?
ELIZABETH SMART: You know, I`m really not going to talk about this at this time. I mean, that`s something I just don`t even look back at. And I really — I really — to be frankly honest, I really don`t appreciate you bringing all this up.
GRACE: I`m sorry, dear. I thought that you would speak out to other victims. But you know what? I completely understand. A lot of victims don`t want to talk about it and don`t feel like talking about it.
At one point Elizabeth looks off camera and rolls her eyes in disbelief.
I think it is time for Nancy Grace to take her "dog and pony" show and go home. She is a horrible interviewer and her attempts to appear sympathetic remind of George Bush trying to appear smart! Nobody buys it!
(By the way I need to give a nod to Crooks and Liars, which is where I "borrowed" almost this entire post. Yeah I am kind of lazy.)
You don't believe me? Well then read it for yourself.
GRACE: Elizabeth, I remember when you first went missing and literally hundreds of people were out looking for you. Now we know you were being held captive not very far away from your home at all. Did you ever hear people calling out your name, trying to find you?
ELIZABETH SMART: There was one time.
GRACE: At that moment, did you want to scream out, Here I am, help me?
ELIZABETH SMART: I mean, of course. Who wouldn`t?
GRACE: At that moment, when you knew people were looking for you, your parents were there. They were trying to find you. How did that make you feel?
ELIZABETH SMART: You know, I didn`t know how big it was. And it was — it was good to know people were looking for me, but I — I felt so far away, you know, I just — it didn`t really connect at that time. And you know, and I think that…
GRACE: And you were such a little girl, Elizabeth. I mean, you were just 14 years old.
ELIZABETH SMART: Yes.
GRACE: It`s hard to expect a little 14-year-old girl to react the way an adult might imagine they would react under those circumstances. You were afraid, I assume.
ELIZABETH SMART: Yes.
GRACE: Did your kidnappers tell you they would hurt you or your family if you tried to get away?
ELIZABETH SMART: You know, they did. And I really am here to support the bill and not to go into what — you know, what happened to me, what the whole — like, what is in my past because I`m not here to give an interview on that. I`m here to help push this bill through.
GRACE: And I want you to push the bill through and I want people to hear your voice.
When we take a look back, there`s a shot of Elizabeth Smart, and here she is, four years later.
And frankly, it`s a miracle that she was ever found. You know, a lot of people have seen shots of you wearing a burqa. How did you see out of that thing?
ELIZABETH SMART: You know, I`m really not going to talk about this at this time. I mean, that`s something I just don`t even look back at. And I really — I really — to be frankly honest, I really don`t appreciate you bringing all this up.
GRACE: I`m sorry, dear. I thought that you would speak out to other victims. But you know what? I completely understand. A lot of victims don`t want to talk about it and don`t feel like talking about it.
At one point Elizabeth looks off camera and rolls her eyes in disbelief.
I think it is time for Nancy Grace to take her "dog and pony" show and go home. She is a horrible interviewer and her attempts to appear sympathetic remind of George Bush trying to appear smart! Nobody buys it!
(By the way I need to give a nod to Crooks and Liars, which is where I "borrowed" almost this entire post. Yeah I am kind of lazy.)
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