And so another prospect is lost to the lady whose turn-ons include walks on the beach and climbing over barbed wire.Fugitive Goes On Date With Policeman
[Budapest] A fugitive who escaped from prison in Hungary was caught when he unwittingly went out on a date with a policeman, the national police said in a statement. The unidentified man, sentenced for robbery and fraud, had posted an ad with his own photo in an online dating website...."At the place of the rendez-vous the surprised man was caught and that is when he realized that the woman with whom he had exchanged emails and for whom he brought a ring was actually a man and on top of it a detective..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/ 20050930/ od_afp/ hungaryjustice offbeat
Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand thank Bill Bennett for all the white babies who will continue to be sacrificed in the backlash against biased stupidity like his. "We thank Bill Bennett, and our New-Age Wiccan Overladies thank him."Bennett Under Fire For Remarks On Blacks, Crime
[Wiliiam] Bennett, who held prominent posts in the administrations of former presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, told a caller to his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday: "If you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country and your crime rate would go down."That would be an impossibly ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down..."
Bennett's 1993 repackaging of traditional morality tales, "The Book of Virtues," became a bestseller, and Bennett became a popular lecturer on moral issues. But in 2003, stung by news reports that he had lost millions of dollars in Las Vegas and Atlantic City over the last decade, he publicly renounced gambling and vowed to stay away from the slots from then on.
In related news, Mrs DeLay is offering you 10% if you allow her to deposit her family's fortune into your bank account.DeLay Indicted In Campaign Finance Probe
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury Wednesday on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws, forcing him to temporarily step aside from his GOP post.... Democrats, who have long accused DeLay of ethical impropriety, made much of the indictment, which came just days after federal authorities began a criminal inquiry into Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist over his sale of stock in a family-founded hospital company....The indictment alleged that the DeLay-founded Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee accepted $155,000 from companies, including Sears Roebuck, and placed the money in an account.
The PAC then wrote a $190,000 check from that same account to an arm of the Republican National Committee and provided the committee a document with the names of Texas State House candidates and the amounts they were supposed to receive in donations.
http://www.usatoday.com/ news/washington/ 2005-09-28-DeLay-investigation_x.htm
And at the top of Amnesty International's baby-rights watchlist is notorious photographer Anne Geddes.Cooing At New-Born Babies Banned
A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax [England] said staff had held an advice session to highlight the need for respect and dignity for patients....Debbie Lawson, neo-natal manager at the hospital's special care baby unit, said: "Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/uk_news/ england/ west_yorkshire/ 4284522.stm
In related news, support for a national "Non-Biological Father Without Custody Day" has gone up by one.Wrong Man Pays Child Support To Peterson Mistress
[Fresno, CA] The former mistress of convicted murderer Scott Peterson is back in the spotlight after a DNA test showed that her first child was not fathered by the man who was paying child support.Anthony Flores, 29, has been paying Frey $175 a month for nearly four years, his attorney, Glenn Wilson, said Wednesday. The father of the 4-year-old girl is actually Fresno restaurant owner Christopher Funch, Wilson said.
No one answered the telephone at Porky's Rib House on Wednesday, and Funch did not have a listed home number.
And for those of us who can't get enough of Donald Trump, his hair will also report the latest weather.Hold The Phone: Trump On Your Cell
...real estate and casino mogul Trump, who is already star of the hit reality series "The Apprentice," is about to announce a deal with Warner Music Group to launch Trump Mobile. Products will include ringtones, video ringtones and Trump wallpaper for cell phone screens.
http://money.cnn.com/ 2005/09/19/ technology/ personaltech/ trump_cellphones
Jury Rejects Self-Defense, Convicts Vang Of Killing Hunters
[Hayward, WI] ...Vang, 36, testified Thursday that he had gotten lost while hunting and climbed a tree stand. One of the land owners found him and ordered him to leave, but as Vang was walking out of the area, more hunters in the group intercepted him on ATVs....Vang's family and supporters said that racial prejudice influenced the guilty verdicts... there were no minorities among the final eight women and four men who decided the case.
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"The group of white people didn't give Mr Vang his pass because he pleaded 'self-defense' when he should have pleaded 'preemptive strike.'" |
The sperm ships themselves will be identified by the hairy-backed barnacles clinging to their hulls.Sperm Ships For Fertility Seekers
British people may soon be able to board ships anchored off the coast to obtain fertility treatment forbidden in the UK, such as anonymous donor sperm.... Ships would be governed by the laws of the country whose flag they flew.
On the bright side, when tiger urine is being collected for anything, you know the Starbucks at your local reserve is serving really good coffee.Restaurant's Recipe Used Crouching Tiger, Hidden Donkey
[Shanghai, China] The Hufulou restaurant, located beside the Heidaohezi tiger reserve near the city of Hailin, had advertised stir-fried tiger meat with chilies for $98...The sale of tiger parts is illegal in China, and officers shut down the restaurant, only to be told by owner Ma Shikun that the meat was actually that of donkeys flavored with tiger urine to give the dish a "special" tang...
Conveniently, photographers were standing-by to take pictures of the shirtless volunteers for FEMA's 2006 "Hunky Firemen" calender.Frustrated: Fire Crews To Hand Out Fliers For FEMA
[Atlanta, GA] Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.
On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency.
Spray-On Skin Brings Hope To Burns Victims
[West Sussex, England] The treatment involves taking skin from the patient which is then made into a mesh so that it can cover a larger area. This is placed over the wound and acts as a lattice on which cultured skin cells are sprayed using an aerosol.The technique, which removes the need for painful, disfiguring skin grafts, is being developed to treat other injuries involving significant skin loss. It is thought to speed the healing process and reduce scarring.
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In the happy race to minimize the trauma of surviving Katrina, Japanese-internment-apologist Michelle Malkin wants you to know quarantining the hurricane refugees is necessary for the security of a nation at war.Barbara Bush: Relocation 'Working Very Well' For Poor
[Houston, TX] "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said during a radio interview... "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."Her comments came as the two former presidents [Bush and Clinton] visited with hundreds of the 23,600 hurricane refugees...
Bush Picks Roberts To Be Chief Justice
President Bush on Monday nominated John Roberts to succeed William H. Rehnquist as chief justice, and called on the Senate to confirm him before the Supreme Court opens its fall term on Oct. 3...."He's a man of integrity and fairness and throughout his life he's inspired the respect and loyalty of others," Bush said. "John Roberts built a record of excellence and achievement and reputation for goodwill and decency toward others in his extraordinary career."
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"Of course, nothing says 'integrity and fairness' like submitting Judge Roberts without any documents from when he worked for my dad. So what else is new?" |
Justice Souter issued the court's lone dissension: "Bastard still owes me $50."Justices Pay Tribute To Rehnquist
The Supreme Court released statements by seven Supreme Court justices who paid tribute to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died Saturday....John Paul Stevens:
William Rehnquist's independent, impartial and dedicated leadership of the Supreme Court has been an inspiration to those of us privileged to serve with him -- and to the entire nation as well....Sandra Day O'Connor:
William Rehnquist will go down in history as one of the great chief justices of the Supreme Court of the United States....Antonin Scalia:
His keen intellect and sound judgment commanded the respect of his colleagues, and his personal qualities of considerateness and fairness won their affection....Anthony Kennedy:
William Rehnquist was a warm, compassionate, decent man; a brilliant jurist; and a chief justice of superb and historic stature....Clarence Thomas:
He was a good man who epitomized fairness, dignity, and strength of character....Stephen G. Breyer:
The chief justice was a brave, intelligent man deeply committed to maintaining the rule of law... He never allowed disagreements about the law to become personal...Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was the fairest, most efficient boss I have ever had....
In Emotional Tour, Bush Calls Results 'Not Acceptable'
Bush, who almost never publicly acknowledges mistakes, paid deference to the rage Friday with a rare concession that his administration's efforts fell short in the opening days of the crisis. "The results are not acceptable," he told reporters on the South Lawn before leaving the White House for his tour of afflicted areas....By the time he reached Biloxi, Miss., though, he tried to refashion his "not acceptable" judgment.... "I am satisfied with the response. I'm not satisfied with all the results...."
[Former House Speaker Newt] Gingrich, a Republican, said the government's performance "puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years" and urged Bush to tap former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to take over the response.
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In the meantime, Deputy Press Secretary Clark bin Kent is at the White House waiting to take your donation pledge by phone. |
A Dearth of Answers
Sawyer: "But given the fact that everyone anticipated a hurricane five... are you satisfied with the pace at which this [food and water] is arriving? And which it was planned to arrive?"Bush: "...I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a result, much of New Orleans is flooded."
...New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin is quoted [in Monday's New York Times] as saying that "Hurricane Katrina could bring 15 inches of rain and a storm surge of 20 feet or higher that would 'most likely topple' the network of levees and canals that normally protect the bowl-shaped city from flooding."
And as Andrew C. Revkin and Christopher Drew write in today's New York Times: "The 17th Street levee that gave way and led to the flooding of New Orleans was part of an intricate, aging system of barriers and pumps that was so chronically underfinanced that senior regional officials of the Army Corps of Engineers complained about it publicly for years."
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President Bush said he would administer disaster relief personally, except he prefers to do his looting through Saudi funds raised by gasoline price gouging. |