Wednesday, February 22, 2006
MAYBE BECAUSE IT WASN'T JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO CRASHING ALL THOSE PLANES ON 9/11. JUST A THOUGHT
"I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a [British] company," Bush told reporters.
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"I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a [British] company," Bush told reporters.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
AND I JUST HIRED THE GANG DOWN AT THE LOCAL CRACK HOUSE TO WATCH MY STUFF WHEN I'M AT WORK OR ON VACATION.
Bush is refusing to budge in spite of growing complaints from Democrats, Republicans, and now even the religious right wackjobs over his plan to sell control of major US ports to the United Arab Emirates.
It's pretty clear that this is part of some larger sweetheart deal that Bush offered the UAE. But in exchange for what?
Isn't it nice to know that the Republicans are now auctioning off our national security to the highest bidder. Everything and anything for a buck.
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Bush is refusing to budge in spite of growing complaints from Democrats, Republicans, and now even the religious right wackjobs over his plan to sell control of major US ports to the United Arab Emirates.
It's pretty clear that this is part of some larger sweetheart deal that Bush offered the UAE. But in exchange for what?
Isn't it nice to know that the Republicans are now auctioning off our national security to the highest bidder. Everything and anything for a buck.
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Saturday, February 18, 2006
HEY! HE STOLE SOME OF MY BEST IDEAS!
Perv's sicko pact
Faces kidnap rap after forcing sex contract on wife
When Ruth Frey tied the knot with her husband, she told police she did not expect to be tied to a bed, sexually assaulted and asked to sign a sick contract that conferred weird sexual obligations on her.
Travis Frey, a 33-year-old Iowa father of two, has been charged with first-degree kidnapping and assaulting his wife three times after allegedly tying her to a bed with a rope.
Ruth Frey told Council Bluffs police her husband was angry with her for taking their two daughters to church.
But the case turned even more bizarre when prosecutors produced a four-page "Contract of Wifely Expectations" they said Frey had wanted his spouse to sign.
The document, a copy of which was obtained by TheSmokingGun.com, stipulated that Ruth Frey was to do "anything and everything" her husband wanted.
The contract required she be naked once the kids went to sleep, walk around the house in heels and shave her underarms, legs and pubic area every third day.
Under the heading of "My Time," Travis Frey stipulated his wife to "be subservient, submissive and totally obedient" and "to do what you are asked, when you are asked, how you are asked" and "perform any and all sexual acts."
Further, his wife was never to argue with him, complain about "anything to me or about me," raise her voice or "sigh, moan, bulk [sic] or otherwise show displeasure or unhappiness."
The contract also required his wife to pose for pictures 20 times a quarter, with Travis Frey selecting the positions.
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Perv's sicko pact
Faces kidnap rap after forcing sex contract on wife
When Ruth Frey tied the knot with her husband, she told police she did not expect to be tied to a bed, sexually assaulted and asked to sign a sick contract that conferred weird sexual obligations on her.
Travis Frey, a 33-year-old Iowa father of two, has been charged with first-degree kidnapping and assaulting his wife three times after allegedly tying her to a bed with a rope.
Ruth Frey told Council Bluffs police her husband was angry with her for taking their two daughters to church.
But the case turned even more bizarre when prosecutors produced a four-page "Contract of Wifely Expectations" they said Frey had wanted his spouse to sign.
The document, a copy of which was obtained by TheSmokingGun.com, stipulated that Ruth Frey was to do "anything and everything" her husband wanted.
The contract required she be naked once the kids went to sleep, walk around the house in heels and shave her underarms, legs and pubic area every third day.
Under the heading of "My Time," Travis Frey stipulated his wife to "be subservient, submissive and totally obedient" and "to do what you are asked, when you are asked, how you are asked" and "perform any and all sexual acts."
Further, his wife was never to argue with him, complain about "anything to me or about me," raise her voice or "sigh, moan, bulk [sic] or otherwise show displeasure or unhappiness."
The contract also required his wife to pose for pictures 20 times a quarter, with Travis Frey selecting the positions.
nydn
Friday, February 17, 2006
I'D LIKE TO GET IN ON THIS, BUT WITH PRICE OF GAS I'M GONNA SEE IF THEY'LL GO FOR 30K AND A MOUNTAIN BIKE INSTEAD
Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, prayer leader at the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the conservative northwestern city of Peshawar, announced the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school he leads would give a $25,000 reward and a car for killing the cartoonist who drew the prophet caricatures -- considered blasphemous by Muslims.
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Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi, prayer leader at the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the conservative northwestern city of Peshawar, announced the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school he leads would give a $25,000 reward and a car for killing the cartoonist who drew the prophet caricatures -- considered blasphemous by Muslims.
nyt
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
WORRY WART
The Bush administration was urged yesterday to take another look at a deal that would turn over operation of two marquee New York Harbor ports to Dubai, a nation with ties to the 9/11 hijackers.
The emirate-owned Dubai Ports World finalized a $6.8billion deal yesterday to buy the English firm P&O Ports, which now runs Manhattan's cruise-ship terminal on the West Side and the Port Authority's Newark Container Port, as well as ports in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Miami.
"If a terrorist organization decided to infiltrate this company ... what would stop them?" asked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Schumer said the Department of Homeland Security should slow down the deal, approved by the U.S. Treasury department's secretive Committee on Foreign Investment.
Dubai has become one of the White House's close allies in the war on terror, but many of the 9/11 hijackers passed through the country and had cash wired from there.
"Foreign control of our ports which are vital to homeland security is a risky proposition," Schumer said.
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The Bush administration was urged yesterday to take another look at a deal that would turn over operation of two marquee New York Harbor ports to Dubai, a nation with ties to the 9/11 hijackers.
The emirate-owned Dubai Ports World finalized a $6.8billion deal yesterday to buy the English firm P&O Ports, which now runs Manhattan's cruise-ship terminal on the West Side and the Port Authority's Newark Container Port, as well as ports in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Miami.
"If a terrorist organization decided to infiltrate this company ... what would stop them?" asked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Schumer said the Department of Homeland Security should slow down the deal, approved by the U.S. Treasury department's secretive Committee on Foreign Investment.
Dubai has become one of the White House's close allies in the war on terror, but many of the 9/11 hijackers passed through the country and had cash wired from there.
"Foreign control of our ports which are vital to homeland security is a risky proposition," Schumer said.
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OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY
"This is a hunting accident, created by the victim. Dick Cheney didn't do anything. He's a master hunter."
Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.
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"This is a hunting accident, created by the victim. Dick Cheney didn't do anything. He's a master hunter."
Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.
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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
BETTER LATE THEN NEVER DEPARTMENT
Pink Floyd star declares band 'over'
David Gilmour ends all speculation
Pink Floyd guitarist and co-frontman David Gilmour has declared the band officially "over". Rumours have abounded that the rock giants would reform for a tour in the near future after their successful reformation at Live8 last summer.
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Pink Floyd star declares band 'over'
David Gilmour ends all speculation
Pink Floyd guitarist and co-frontman David Gilmour has declared the band officially "over". Rumours have abounded that the rock giants would reform for a tour in the near future after their successful reformation at Live8 last summer.
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REVENGE OF THE DORKS
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — Bowling may not be a sweaty sport, a fitness sport, a sport that inspires steroid use, but according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, it is the fastest-growing high school varsity sport.
Last year, nationwide, there were almost 40,000 high school bowlers on 1,768 boys' teams and 1,676 girls' teams, and the number of participants and the number of schools with varsity teams doubled in the previous five years.
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ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. — Bowling may not be a sweaty sport, a fitness sport, a sport that inspires steroid use, but according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, it is the fastest-growing high school varsity sport.
Last year, nationwide, there were almost 40,000 high school bowlers on 1,768 boys' teams and 1,676 girls' teams, and the number of participants and the number of schools with varsity teams doubled in the previous five years.
nyt
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
GUARANA? ISN'T THAT BAT DROPPINGS?
Banned' Aphrodisiac Soda To Be Sold In Stores
Makers Claim Cherry Soda Will Arouse Drinkers
A new soda promising to sexually arouse the person drinking it will soon be available in stores nationwide, according to a Local 6 News report.
The drink, called Turn On, is made with guarana, ginseng and caffeine.
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Banned' Aphrodisiac Soda To Be Sold In Stores
Makers Claim Cherry Soda Will Arouse Drinkers
A new soda promising to sexually arouse the person drinking it will soon be available in stores nationwide, according to a Local 6 News report.
The drink, called Turn On, is made with guarana, ginseng and caffeine.
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Friday, February 03, 2006
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER HAS POLICE IN A DANDER
The demonstrators arrived angry, departed furious. The police had herded them into pens. Stopped them from handing out fliers. Threatened them with arrest for standing on public sidewalks. Made notes on which politicians they cheered and which ones they razzed.
Meanwhile, officers from a special unit videotaped their faces, evoking for one demonstrator the unblinking eye of George Orwell's "1984."
"That's Big Brother watching you," the demonstrator, Walter Liddy, said in a deposition. Mr. Liddy's complaint about police tactics, while hardly novel from a big-city protester, stands out because of his job: He is a New York City police officer. The rallies he attended were organized in the summer of 2004 by his union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, to protest the pace of contract talks with the city.
Now the officers, through their union, are suing the city, charging that the police procedures at their demonstrations — many of them routinely used at war protests, antipoverty marches and mass bike rides — were so heavy-handed and intimidating that their First Amendment rights were violated.
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The demonstrators arrived angry, departed furious. The police had herded them into pens. Stopped them from handing out fliers. Threatened them with arrest for standing on public sidewalks. Made notes on which politicians they cheered and which ones they razzed.
Meanwhile, officers from a special unit videotaped their faces, evoking for one demonstrator the unblinking eye of George Orwell's "1984."
"That's Big Brother watching you," the demonstrator, Walter Liddy, said in a deposition. Mr. Liddy's complaint about police tactics, while hardly novel from a big-city protester, stands out because of his job: He is a New York City police officer. The rallies he attended were organized in the summer of 2004 by his union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, to protest the pace of contract talks with the city.
Now the officers, through their union, are suing the city, charging that the police procedures at their demonstrations — many of them routinely used at war protests, antipoverty marches and mass bike rides — were so heavy-handed and intimidating that their First Amendment rights were violated.
nyt
IF YOU ASK ME, MUSIC'S BEEN GOING DOWNHILL EVER SINCE THAT ELVIS FELLOW STARTED SHAKING AROUND SINGING THOSE COLORED SONGS AND GETTING EVERYBODY ALL WORKED UP
Record of failure
Execs push mediocre music for too much money & miss the market of serious listeners
A nationwide poll released by Rolling Stone magazine and The Associated Press makes clear what music aficionados have been grumbling about for years: The music business is selling junk, and charging way too much for it.
Music in general is getting worse, according to 58% of the survey's respondents, and a whopping 74% said the price of CDs is too high.
But the real measure of dissatisfaction comes from the fans.
"Less talented people are able to get a song out there and make a quick million and you never hear from them again," is how one 30-year-old from Massachusetts put it to the pollsters.
The honchos at recording labels and commercial radio stations, who often seem literally deaf to audience feedback, need to wake up to reality. They can either restore quality to the airwaves and sales racks, or get used to shrinking audiences and vanishing profits.
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Record of failure
Execs push mediocre music for too much money & miss the market of serious listeners
A nationwide poll released by Rolling Stone magazine and The Associated Press makes clear what music aficionados have been grumbling about for years: The music business is selling junk, and charging way too much for it.
Music in general is getting worse, according to 58% of the survey's respondents, and a whopping 74% said the price of CDs is too high.
But the real measure of dissatisfaction comes from the fans.
"Less talented people are able to get a song out there and make a quick million and you never hear from them again," is how one 30-year-old from Massachusetts put it to the pollsters.
The honchos at recording labels and commercial radio stations, who often seem literally deaf to audience feedback, need to wake up to reality. They can either restore quality to the airwaves and sales racks, or get used to shrinking audiences and vanishing profits.
yakety yak
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
WELL, MAYBE
The author James Frey said today that the reason he invented events that never happened and embellished his account of his life in his best-selling memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," is because it made a better book.
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The author James Frey said today that the reason he invented events that never happened and embellished his account of his life in his best-selling memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," is because it made a better book.
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ISN'T IT THE SAME AS WHEN THE PROFESSOR ASSIGNS HIS OWN BOOK TO THE CLASS?
Charge thug made coed study 'Pimp Rule Book'
A Queens man charged with forcing a North Carolina college student into prostitution kept a "Pimp Rule Book" commanding her to "obey her daddy," prosecutors said yesterday.
Carlton (Privilege) Simons, 22, also allegedly lured the 18-year-old with promises to introduce her to rap celebrities such as East Side Boyz and P. Diddy, according to court papers.
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Charge thug made coed study 'Pimp Rule Book'
A Queens man charged with forcing a North Carolina college student into prostitution kept a "Pimp Rule Book" commanding her to "obey her daddy," prosecutors said yesterday.
Carlton (Privilege) Simons, 22, also allegedly lured the 18-year-old with promises to introduce her to rap celebrities such as East Side Boyz and P. Diddy, according to court papers.
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THERE GOES THE BOY'S SCIENCE PROJECT AND MY NEW HOME-BASED BUSINESS IN ONE FELL SWOOP
"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research – human cloning in all its forms … creating or implanting embryos for experiments … creating human-animal hybrids … and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos."
President Bush, SOTU
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"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research – human cloning in all its forms … creating or implanting embryos for experiments … creating human-animal hybrids … and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos."
President Bush, SOTU
