| Republicans to outlaw ....PORN!!!! |
[24 Sep 2005|04:50pm] |
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Recruits Sought for Porn Squad
By Barton Gellman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 20, 2005; A21
The FBI is joining the Bush administration's War on Porn. And it's
looking for a few good agents.
Early last month, the bureau's Washington Field Office began recruiting
for a new anti-obscenity squad. Attached to the job posting was a July
29 Electronic Communication from FBI headquarters to all 56 field
offices, describing the initiative as "one of the top priorities" of
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and, by extension, of "the
Director." That would be FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III.
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The new squad will divert eight agents, a supervisor and assorted
support staff to gather evidence against "manufacturers and purveyors"
of pornography -- not the kind exploiting children, but the kind that
depicts, and is marketed to, consenting adults.
"I guess this means we've won the war on terror," said one exasperated
FBI agent, speaking on the condition of anonymity because poking fun at
headquarters is not regarded as career-enhancing. "We must not need any
more resources for espionage."
Among friends and trusted colleagues, an experienced national security
analyst said, "it's a running joke for us."
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Federal obscenity prosecutions, which have been out of style since
Attorney General Edwin Meese III in the Reagan administration made
pornography a signature issue in the 1980s, do "encounter many legal
issues, including First Amendment claims," the FBI headquarters memo
noted.
Gonzales endorses the rationale of predecessor Meese: that adult
pornography is a threat to families and children. Christian
conservatives, long skeptical of Gonzales, greeted the pornography
initiative with what the Family Research Council called "a growing
sense of confidence in our new attorney general."
Congress began funding the obscenity initiative in fiscal 2005 and
specified that the FBI must devote 10 agents to adult pornography. The
bureau decided to create a dedicated squad only in the Washington Field
Office.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...1901570_pf.html
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| Republicans show their true character. |
[08 Sep 2005|12:09pm] |
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"Republicans in Congress on Wednesday rejected calls by Democrats to suspend work on tax cuts, that would mainly benefit the rich, and spending reductions on social programs because of the huge costs of hurricane relief."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050907/pl_nm/congress_budget_dc
I wouldn`t be shocked if some Papparazzi didn`t catch a photo of Dubya and Cheney jerking off to footage of dead bodies in New Orleans.
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| Woah. |
[07 Sep 2005|12:33pm] |
I never thought I`d see the day when the news sounded like this again.
http://media.putfile.com/OlbermannSwings
It looks like the Testicular Fairy came early this year. And not a moment to fucking soon.
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| Nanotech researchers report big breakthrough |
[07 Sep 2005|07:25am] |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050819/tc_usatoday/nanotechresearchersreportbigbreakthrough
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
An advance in nanotechnology may lead to the creation of artificial
muscles, superstrong electric cars and wallpaper-thin electronics,
researchers report.
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In today's edition of the journal Science, however, scientists from the
University of Texas and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization report the creation of industry-ready
sheets of materials made from nanotubes.
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• Self-supporting, transparent and stronger than steel or high-strength
plastics, the sheets are flexible and can be heated to emit light.
• A square mile of the thinnest sheets, about 2-millionths-of-an-inch thick, would weigh only about 170 pounds.
• In lab tests, the sheets demonstrated solar cell capabilities, using sunlight to produce electricity."
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| Scientific Savvy? In U.S., Not Much |
[07 Sep 2005|07:06am] |
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0912FC3D550C738FDDA10894DD404482
(NY Times) ...
While scientific literacy has doubled over the past two decades, only
20 to 25 percent of Americans are "scientifically savvy and alert," Dr.
Jon D. Miller said in an interview. Most of the rest "don't have a
clue." At a time when science permeates debates on everything from
global warming to stem cell research, he said, people's inability to
understand basic scientific concepts undermines their ability to take
part in the democratic process.
...Dr. Jon D. Miller's data reveal some yawning gaps in basic
knowledge. American adults in general do not understand what molecules
are (other than that they are really small). Fewer than a third can
identify DNA as a key to heredity. Only about 10 percent know what
radiation is. One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around
the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.
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| Computer saves drowning girl |
[07 Sep 2005|07:00am] |
http://news.com.com/Computer+saves+drowning+girl/2100-1003_3-5845447.html?tag=st.pop
By Steve Ranger, Special to CNET News.com
A young girl has become the first swimmer in the U.K. saved from drowning by a computerized pool-monitoring system.
The accident happened on Aug. 24 when a 10-year-old girl in a swimming pool in Bangor, North Wales, sank to the bottom of the deep end.
A Poseidon monitoring system installed in the pool registered that a swimmer was in distress because she was at the bottom of the pool and not moving, and within three seconds sounded the alarm to the lifeguard on duty who pulled the girl out of the water.
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| Men 'grasping at straws' over intelligence claims |
[07 Sep 2005|06:58am] |
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1556362,00.html
Claims that men are more intelligent than women were met with scorn today - as girls once again trounced boys in this year's GCSE results.
A paper due to be published in the British Journal of Psychology claims to have established a five-point difference in IQ scores between men and women.
There are more men with very high IQs and this explains why more men than women win Nobel prizes or become chess grandmasters, argue Richard Lynn, of Ulster University, and Paul Irwing, of Manchester University.
"This is a last desperate stand by men to show they are superior. They see they are sinking and are grasping at straws," said Sue Povey, of University College London.
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| Oh dear. |
[07 Sep 2005|06:58am] |
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/09/05/leger_gas_poll20050905.html
Poll: almost half of Canadians want oil industry nationalized
Last Updated Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:52:52 EDT
CBC News
The Canadian Press said Monday a Leger poll suggested 49 per cent of respondents want petroleum resources nationalized while 43 per cent said they would like to see the same fate for gas companies.
The Leger Marketing telephone survey of 1,500 people was conducted between Aug. 24 and Aug. 31, much of it before the major effects of Hurricane Katrina were felt.
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| More Crazy Religious People that Need a Good Ass-Kicking. |
[07 Sep 2005|06:54am] |
http://www.repentamerica.com/pr_hurricanekatrina.html
HURRICANE KATRINA DESTROYS NEW ORLEANS DAYS BEFORE "SOUTHERN DECADENCE" 8/31/05
PHILADELPHIA - Just days before "Southern Decadence", an annual homosexual celebration attracting tens of thousands of people to the French Quarters section of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina destroys the city.
"Southern Decadence" has a history of filling the French Quarters section of the city with drunken homosexuals engaging in sex acts in the public streets and bars. Last year, a local pastor sent video footage of sex acts being performed in front of police to the mayor, city council, and the media. City officials simply ignored the footage and continued to welcome and praise the weeklong celebration as being an "exciting event". However, Hurricane Katrina has put an end to the annual celebration of sin.
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| Texas couple charged after 12 lb 4 year old found |
[07 Sep 2005|06:53am] |
http://www.wral.com/news/4921797/detail.html
(wral.com) DURHAM, N.C. -- A Texas couple was charged Wednesday with attempted first-degree murder after police officers found a 4-year-old boy weighing just 12 pounds in the couple's vehicle.
Police said Richard Dowen flagged down a deputy sheriff near Interstate 40 about 8:20 a.m. Wednesday. He told the deputy that he needed to get his stepson to a hospital because he was unresponsive.
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| Domestic dispute leads to sword waving, stripping |
[07 Sep 2005|06:48am] |
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=3806524&nav=4QcSe8hU
At around six-thirty Sunday night, authorities from around Franklin County were called to a home on Guilder Lane in Georgia to the report of a domestic dispute.
"I was outside over here talking on the phone and I heard a bunch of arguing out back over here so I happened to look over the fence and a bunch of people arguing and next thing I know a couple of sheriffs show-up and stateys," said Steve Rabideau, who witnessed the standoff.
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| More Parasites. |
[07 Sep 2005|06:47am] |
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_8_21/ai_63583791
"The slug plunges into the depth of the crab. In time it settles in the crab's underside and grows, forming a bulge in its shell and sprouting a set of rootlike tendrils, which spread throughout the crab's body, even wrapping around its eyestalks. Covered with fine, fleshy fingers much like the ones lining the human intestine, these roots draw in nutrients dissolved in the crab's blood. Remarkably, this gross invasion fails to trigger any immune response in the crab, which continues to wander through the surf, eating clams and mussels.
"Meanwhile, the female Sacculina continues to grow, and the bulge in the crab's underside turns into a knob. As the crab scuttles around, the knob's outer layer slowly chips away, revealing a portal. Sacculina will remain at this stage for the rest of her life, unless a male larva lands on the crab and finds the knob's pin-size opening. It's too small for him to fit into, and so, like the female before him, he molts off most of himself, injecting the vestige into the hole. This male cargo--a spiny, reddish-brown torpedo 1/100,000 inch long--slips into a pulsing, throbbing canal, which carries him deep into the female's body. He casts off his spiny coat as he goes and in 10 hours ends up at the bottom of the canal. There he fuses to the female's visceral sac and begins making sperm. There are two of these wells in each female Sacculina, and she typically carries two males with her for her entire life. They endlessly fertilize her eggs, and every few weeks she produces thousands of new Sacculina larvae.
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| Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive |
[07 Sep 2005|06:46am] |
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7927
(New Scientist) A parasitic worm that makes the grasshopper it invades jump into water and commit suicide does so by chemically influencing its brain, a study of the insects’ proteins reveal.
The parasitic Nematomorph hairworm (Spinochordodes tellinii) develops inside land-dwelling grasshoppers and crickets until the time comes for the worm to transform into an aquatic adult. Somehow mature hairworms brainwash their hosts into behaving in way they never usually would – causing them to seek out and plunge into water.
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| Santorum: Penalize Those Who Don't Evacuate |
[07 Sep 2005|02:45am] |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050907/ap_on_re_us/katrina_santorum
(AP) PITTSBURGH - Sen. Rick Santorum said in a weekend interview that people who don't heed future evacuation warnings may need to be penalized, but said Tuesday he did not mean people who lack cars or other resources.
... In a weekend interview with WTAE-TV about the victims of Hurricane Katrina, Santorum said: "You have people who don't heed those warnings and then put people at risk as a result of not heeding those warnings. There may be a need to look at tougher penalties on those who decide to ride it out and understand that there are consequences to not leaving."
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Man this guy needs to go back to discussing something he knows about...
Like Sucking off the President for Quarters.
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| Fema Chief waited until After Storm Hit. |
[07 Sep 2005|02:45am] |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050907/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_disaster_response
By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region — and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.
Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims.
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Brown's memo told employees that among their duties, they would be expected to "convey a positive image of disaster operations to government officials, community organizations and the general public."
"FEMA response and recovery operations are a top priority of the department and as we know, one of yours," Brown wrote Chertoff. He proposed sending 1,000 Homeland Security Department employees within 48 hours and 2,000 within seven days.
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