AN ANIMAL LOVER has tied himself to his pet sheep in protest after landlords refused to let him share a flat with her.
I don't really see why I shouldn't be allowed to live with my sheep.[He said.]
". . . I was having lunch in a KFC in Harlem, sitting near eight African-American boys, aged about 14 . . . extremely loud and unruly, tossing food at one another and leaving it on the floor."
"Black people ran the restaurant and made up the bulk of the customers, but it was hard to see much healthy "black community" here. After repeatedly warning the boys to stop throwing food and keep quiet, the manager finally told them to leave. The kids ignored her. Only after she called a male security guard did they start slowly making their way out, tauntingly circling the restaurant before ambling off. These teens clearly weren't monsters, but they seemed to consider themselves exempt from public norms of behavior--as if they had begun to check out of mainstream society."
"What struck me most, though, was how fully the boys' music--hard-edged rap, preaching bone-deep dislike of authority--provided them with a continuing soundtrack to their antisocial behavior. So completely was rap ingrained in their consciousness that every so often, one or another of them would break into cocky, expletive-laden rap lyrics, accompanied by the angular, bellicose gestures typical of rap performance. A couple of his buddies would then join him. Rap was a running decoration in their conversation."[Bolded by ed.]
"In the latest craze to sweep the US, no one gets hurt, property remains intact and the atmosphere remains upbeat. Only unsuspecting shop workers are left bewildered.
"So-called 'flash mobs' are being mobilised by e-mail all over the city . . . ."
[One member said] . . . "It's just stupid, human fun."
[Another said] . . . "I had nothing else to do. I'm unemployed."
After conducting a two-year-long programme of tests on a method of detection known as "odourology," they have concluded that smell can be as effective as using fingerprints or DNA samples to link a criminal with a crime.
"Their single organizing philosophy is an irrational, all-encompassing broiling hatred of George W. Bush," DeLay said. "Most of all, Democrats hate the president because on every political issue of significance since he came to office, he has beaten them like rented mules."
"Dennis Kucinich, a long-time member of Congress, now calls for legislation -- I love this -- to ban 'mind control' weapons in outer space," DeLay said. "It makes you wonder if at their next presidential debate, the Democrats are all going to show up wearing aluminum foil helmets to protect their brain waves from the mother ship."
. . . the roots of both disasters were planted in the government's environmental policies. Environmentalism not only killed 14 U.S. astronauts, but it killed them in a most horrible and public way.
. . . the material used to make the O-rings was a substitute to replace a product that the Environmental Protection Agency had banned because it contained asbestos.
The original O-rings used between the rocket joints came from an over-the-counter putty that had been used safely and effectively for a long time. However, in its war against the use of asbestos anywhere, anytime, the EPA forbade NASA from using that product at all after the space agency had sought an exemption. The EPA, not surprisingly, refused that request . . . .
. . . was almost certainly due to a chunk of insulating foam coming loose and hitting some heat-protecting tiles, scattering them and leaving the spacecraft vulnerable to the intense heat it would experience upon re-entry into the earth's atmosphere.
. . . the particular foam that was in use at the time was an environmental substitute replacing a material that had worked well. However, the previous foam used to insulate the Columbia's external fuel tanks contained Freon, which is a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) that the EPA banned because of the ozone depletion scare.
Environmentalism has become a sacrosanct religion of which no questions can even be asked.
*On a baby stroller: "Remove child before folding."
*On a bottle of chocolate milk: "After opening, keep upright."
*On a Swedish chain saw: "Do not try to stop chain with hands."
*On a pudding packet: "Product will be hot after heating."
*On a steam iron: "Never iron clothes that are being worn."
*On a camera: "This camera works only when there is film inside."
"This research begs an obvious question: If the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages than the age of coal-fired power plants and SUVs, what role do man-made emissions play in influencing climate?" asked Chairman James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma.
"I think any person with a modicum of common sense would say, 'Not much,' " Mr. Inhofe said.
"One would have to be madder than a March hare to fail to see the need to act," said Sen. James M. Jeffords, Vermont independent, who Democrats have tapped to be the ranking opposition member on the committee.
". . . to suggest that either the rate of increase or the duration of warming during the 20th century were greater than in the Medieval Warm Period."
From Ukraine to Australia, from Germany to the US, governments across the world are cutting taxes in a remarkable revival of economic liberalism. With the glaring exception of Britain, where chancellor Gordon Brown is busily hiking taxes, marginal taxes are tumbling at a speed which would have made the most ardent supporter of 1980s-style Reaganomics proud.
. . . of a successful supply-side fiscal policy, in 2001, the first year following the introduction of the flat tax in Russia, revenues from personal income tax jumped 28% in real terms. Despite much lower tax rates, income tax receipts increased as a share of consolidated budget tax revenues to 12.7% from 12.1% in 2000. Income tax receipts surged again, increasing by 20.7% in real terms in 2002, taking their share of overall revenue to 15.3%. [Bold by ed.]
The state's highest court would be the third court to take up the case of Brian Dalton, who First Amendment lawyers believe is the first person in the United States successfully prosecuted for child pornography that involved writings, not images.
. . . claiming to be a medical charity, launched a media campaign this week featuring reckless charges about health risks supposedly connected with eating meat.
"This misnamed 'physicians committee' represents a tiny fraction of America's doctors who place animal-rights ideology above their patients' health," said Center for Consumer Freedom research director David Martosko. "PCRM has asserted itself as a home for anti-meat, pro-vegan nutritionists who are committed to removing beef, dairy, poultry, and other animal products from the American diet for good."
Clean public lavatories are crucial for the country "to maintain its reputation as a magnet for human talent and a top location for investment."
"I am looking very forward to experiencing this toilet myself so I can walk out of the toilet feeling happy," Lim said at a news conference, before placing the award plaque outside a restroom at a suburban shopping mall in the wealthy Southeast Asian city-state.
His mother admitted the boy passed wind but said that he didn't deliberately aim it at police.
It would be a problem for A.G. Miller, an associate professor of American and African religious history at Oberlin College. In Oberlin's case, he said, placing a white teacher in the African-American history course would send the wrong message to black high school students.
"The message is that we are not concerned about the importance of your historical background . . . that that is less important than a schedule conflict," said Miller, whose three children graduated from Oberlin High School.
Maybe this may sound like a crazy suggestion to some people, but why don't we just teach these kids American history? Not black history, not white history, but American history. The race of the professor teaching the class doesn't matter, the racial make-up of the class doesn't matter, let's just be color blind and treat all the kids like what they are, Americans. Wouldn't our country be a better place to live if we did that?
. . .make the job of auditing easier and more precise. They should be installed at key points for animal handling, including unloading areas, shackling areas, the points of entry into the �stun� bath and scalding tank for chickens, the stunning and hanging areas for pigs and cattle and places where chickens have their throats slit.
David Martosko, director of research for the Center for Consumer Freedom claims the real agenda of these groups is "total animal liberation," in the words of activists.
"'Total animal liberation' means no beef, no pork, no leather, no fur ... " Martosko [said]. . . you drive up the production cost for hog farmers, he argues, they're forced to pass the added expense to consumers, who will be inclined to consume less pork until production is ultimately driven out of the country.
A high profile company, upon receipt of the animal rights demands, says, "No! This is a privately-owned company and we will manage it as we desire." [or]
The animal rights crowd is allowed victory and all animals are liberated and given defined legal rights as members of society. Everyone would be forced by a massive police state into vegetarianism and there would be a sea change in the food industry. Citizens would probably be living in trees, riding bicycles, and existing on granola trail mix diets. But all would not be lost since, at the state-enforced vegetarian stage, citizens would see that many animals weren't vegetarian and could petition the lawmakers for equal rights.
Trapeze artists with one of the world's most famous circuses have been told to start wearing hard hats to comply with new EU safety rules.
Jugglers, tightrope walkers and other acrobats with the Moscow State Circus, which is currently touring Britain, have also been instructed to don safety head wear because of European regulations covering workers employed at heights greater than the average stepladder.
A national hygiene task force found that artificial nails pose a higher infection risk than natural fingernails. In rare cases, the risk can be fatal.
. . . issued new guidelines to improve hand hygiene in health care settings. The CDC estimates that up to 2 million infections occur each year in hospital patients, and that about 90,000 of these patients die as a result of their infections. The CDC reports that fully half of those infections could be prevented by proper hand hygiene.
Young died in a St. Petersburg hospital of blunt force trauma to the head after being repeatedly hit during a three-minute bout with another woman in Sarasota on June 14.
. . . the 10th person to die in the 24-year history of the Toughman competition, which has come under increased scrutiny after a series of deaths in the last year, including one in Michigan that was ruled a homicide.[Italics by ed.]
Fifteen-year-old Josh Pfluger and his pals went into his garage and hammered out a shoe-scanning device with the goal of polishing off his Eagle Scout requirements.
Looks like the project passes muster. Pfluger's good deed is in daily use at the world's busiest airport, helping passengers at O'Hare International move through security checkpoints with a minimum of fuss.
They may be living in the area, officials acknowledge. Unless arrested in a different case or stopped for a traffic violation, they stand a good chance of eluding capture.
State parole officials issued arrest warrants, and the information was passed on to local law enforcement officers.
The tiny water bugs that are common along Australia's east coast have an easy life. Their female partners provide free food, transport and unlimited sex whenever they want it.
"All the advantages in this relationship seem to fall to the male with no obvious advantage for the female, yet the female Zeus bug seems a willing partner in this one-sided affair," Dr. Mark Elgar [said]."
"The male can ride the female, feeding and mating for up to a week," said Elgar, who reported his findings in the science journal Nature.
Payne, a former Akron Beacon Journal reporter who [now] works for a newspaper in California, spent three years writing "Champions, Cheaters and Childhood Dreams: Memories of the All-American Soap Box Derby."
Until December, Payne had cooperation from derby officials.
But she said that friendly relationship ended abruptly when officials learned the book would reference cheating at the race. They refused to allow her to use their photos and prevented her from having a booth at the event.
The district�s smoking policy, which allows smoking underneath the football stands and just outside of the gymnasium, is expected to come up for a vote this summer.
"We�re telling our kids smoking is not good and to be healthy you should not smoke � and yet we allow smoking outside the gymnasium," Superintendent McQuade said.
Mexican consulates across the United States are estimated to have issued more than 740,000 matriculas consulares in 2001 and more than 1 million in 2003. This year Guatemala plans to make Tarjetas de Identificacion Consular available to 327,000 Guatemalans living in the U.S.
Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Utah and New Mexico accept the identification card for the issuance of driver�s licenses.
Los Angeles, U.S., July 23, 2003 (EFE) - A burgeoning black market here frequented by illegal immigrants has a new product: the forged "matricula consular," an official Mexican document some states accept for opening a bank account or getting a driver's license.
The fake registration cards are sold in broad daylight just two blocks from the Mexican Consulate at MacArthur Park, where interested parties can also buy phony Social Security cards, driver licenses, work permits and green cards.
"Prison works" may be the only example in history of a memorable political slogan which has the merit of being true. Over the last decade, America has been building prisons on an unprecedented scale. The US courts now imprison more than twice as many of those convicted of crime than it did 10 years ago. The result is that America has experienced a dramatic fall in the proportion of its citizens who fall victim to crime. In 1994, out of every 1,000 Americans aged 12 or older, 52 were victims of crime. Last year, that figure had been cut in half: just 25 out of every 1,000 Americans were victims.
. . . the Journal has now adopted a policy that requires the term "binge" to be used in a specific way in accepted manuscripts. According to the policy, the term "binge" should only be used to describe an extended period of time (usually two or more days) during which a person repeatedly administers alcohol or another substance to the point of intoxication, and gives up his/her usual activities and obligations in order to use the substance. It is the combination of prolonged use and the giving up of usual activities that forms the core of the definition of a "binge."
Alternative terms for the word "binge" include "heavy drinking"/"heavy use" or "heavy episodic drinking"/"heavy episodic use."
The idea behind the programs is that most students think their peers drink more than they actually do, and they will drink less when this misimpression is corrected through posters and other efforts.
Should the operation be considered "putting words in his mouth?"
What if the donor had a lisp? Would it be transplanted also?
What would it mean if he came out of recovery with the taste of soap in his mouth.
So he wakes up speaking Chinese!
He captured more than 450 user names and passwords, using them to access and even open bank accounts online.
The case, which led to a guilty plea earlier this month after Jiang was caught, highlights the risks and dangers of using public Internet terminals at cybercafes, libraries, airports and other establishments.
. . . concluded his insanity defense by loudly hooting "cuckoo-cuckoo," then dropping his pants and mooning the jury.
Jurors took 30 minutes to find him guilty.
The Board of Regents of the University of California examined a proposal for a surcharge on wealthy students at a meeting Thursday. The university would be the first in the country to target wealthy students with a surcharge.
The proposed fee would force undergraduate students with family incomes exceeding $90,000 to pay as much as $3,000 more to attend one of the university's nine campuses. It is expected to affect 58,194 of the university's 160,000 undergraduate students.
"My indictment is of the entire Democratic Party, all of liberalism. This is a party that has become functionally treasonable."
"If a North Korea free of nuclear weapons is your goal, then you have to make the North Koreans believe that their possession of nuclear weapons constitutes a clear and present danger to their regime survival. Right now, they do not believe that. Why? Because they read the New York Times just like eveyone else, and therefore have naturally come to the conclusion that the Americans will pay them before things get too hairy. Trust me, if the New York Times came out tomorrow with an editorial that read "BOMB THE FUCKERS," you can rest assured that the North Koreans would significantly lower their demands. Yet their (accurate) reading of the history of US-DPRK relations and their (also correct) understanding of the American press encourages them to be as obstinate as humanly possible. They need to be broken of this habit, and the best way to do that is to ignore them.
The show "may be regarded as the epitome of bad taste and sensationalism" . . . but that wasn't enough to hold it liable for Amedure's death. It said the show had no way of predicting Schmitz's actions.[boldface by ed.]
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On Tuesday, July 22, forces associated with the 101st Airborne Division and Special Operations Forces conducted an operation against suspected regime figures at a residence in Mosul, Iraq. The site is currently being exploited. Four Iraqis were killed in the operation. We have confirmed that two of the dead were Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay.
. . . opened an �Occupation Watch Center� in Baghdad to monitor alleged human rights violations by U.S. troops and the actions of corporations such as Halliburton in rebuilding Iraqi infrastructure. The coalition is also exploring the idea of advising U.S. soldiers in Iraq on how they can claim conscientious objector status so that they could be discharged and shipped home.
A controversial professor who advocates killing the disabled up to 28 days after birth . . . .[and]
. . . is known for launching the modern animal rights movement with his 1975 book "Animal Liberation," which argues against "speciesism."
. . . animals should be accorded the same value as humans and should not be discriminated against because they belong to a non-human species.
Ethics - the set of moral values which A) advocates killing disabled babies within 28 days after birth and B) is recognized by the World Technology Network.
. . . marked with those prominent 'Lobster Crossing' signs along U.S. 95 -- where the Eddys now raise half a million blue and red Australian freshwater lobsters, in tubs full of 80-degree water pumped from nearby hot springs.
Eddy sells his entire crop -- fresh and ready to boil -- to travelers driving by on the road from Las Vegas to Reno (4,700 cars a day) ... though he has plans to eventually open a lobster restaurant in Mina, a town of about 100 that's been moribund since the mine shut down. "With the beef," he says, "you might get $1 a pound versus $14 for the lobster. That's the economics. ... I got rid of the cows."
The Nevada Division of Wildlife boys roared in Thursday -- 10 armed game wardens, two of the plainclothes guys in black shoes and black sunglasses from the "Nevada Division of Investigation," assigned to take care of any troublesome neighbors, and two state biologists assigned to seize and destroy all of Bob Eddy's crawfish.
"And ye shall find the mint, wrapped in a Bible text, and lying in a Testamints Easter Edition Collector's Tin (four for $19.95)..."
Yes, Testamints are here. Each sweet (spearmint, peppermint and wintergreen) is individually wrapped in one of 40 different verses from the Old and New Testaments. Their mission: "to be the best at providing daily encouragement to all people and enabling Christians to share their faith with others..."
So the next time you're on a train, or killing time in a bus queue, think: Testamint. Pass them round and "do the work of an evangelist." You'll be helping to share the Good Chews.
It's been around about four years and is run by the National Motorist Association, a group formed in Waunakee, Wisc. to fight for drivers' rights.
"Not only do we allow people to list speed traps, we also allow people to make comments on those listings," said association spokesman Eric Skrum. "The reason we did that is to open the debate over speed traps to everybody."
Mr. Skrum said most of the complaints about speed traps seem to come from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and California.
Anyone can contribute a speed trap listing, and many people do. There are just two rules: no naming specific officers, and no profanity.
According to the Jan. 29 agreement between Nadeau and the Vermont Department of Education, Nadeau admitted that during the 2001-02 school year he had consensual sex with a female paraprofessional in his classroom.
"Although the door to Mr. Nadeau's classroom was closed, the aforementioned sexual activity occurred at times when students were, and might have been, present in the building," the agreement said.
His license was suspended for 20 working days between Feb. 10 and March 18, and the suspension was reported to national authorities.
. . . claim to have found a British recipe for lasagna dating from the 14th century - long before Italian chefs came up with the delicious concoction of layers of pasta topped with cheese.
"Ba fungu! You getta outa here! Dass a bullshit, a much a bullshit!"
It takes place on July 30 - the day before National Orgasm Day, which was set up two years ago to help women enjoy better sex.
American Digest
Wince and Nod
.:/One Little Victory\:.
In Sheeps Clothing
Howard Lovy's Nanobot
Sarcastic Southerner
My boy Dennis Kucinich - go, Dennis! - made what might be the remark of the campaign. Discussing possible Supreme Court picks in a Kucinich presidency, he said he "absolutely would appoint a homosexual judge," including "any lesbian, bisexual, or transgender person - just as long as they'd be willing to uphold Roe v. Wade." That is simply the perfect Democratic statement, blowing away all others. Even the ungrammatical "they," instead of "he," is sublime.
Rumor has it he's [Mayor Bloomfield] caught the scent of a new tax wafting its way up from New Zealand, they tax flatulent sheep, supposedly a contributor to "global warming."
Says Mr. Stamp: "We're trying to answer the critical question: Which charities are the most responsible and efficient -- and which aren't?"
[T]he Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, which last year landed in the zero-star category. "They spend more on fund-raising than they do battling MS," chides Mr. Stamp.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) was evaluated and received an unflattering two-star rating. When compared with other animal-rights groups, Mr. Stamp reports, a smaller percentage of PETA's dollars goes to protecting animals.
. . . about 20 reeking packages and envelopes had been sent to the nation's Parliament and that the protest - dubbed the "Raise a Stink" campaign - was endangering the health of postal workers.
New Zealand Post spokesman Ian Long said sending manure by the mail was a crime.
"Farmers feel marginalized. They don't have the voice in Parliament they once had ... to really get traction on an issue when a ridiculous tax like this is being foisted on them," he said.
Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton said climate change from greenhouse gases "is the world's biggest environmental problem. We have to do something about it."
-- Here's an interesting theoretical question that we may have to actually consider in the next few months. Let's say that for whatever reason, we believe there's a better than high probability that North Korea is on the verge of launching a nuclear strike and starting up another Korean war. The North Koreans are certainly capable of blowing Seoul to pieces with all the artillery they already have in place and although we're not sure of exactly what their nuclear capabilities are, it's possible that they may be capable of launching a nuke that can hit Japan or POSSIBLY even the Western United States. If we believed that there was a high chance of war and we believed the only way to keep them from destroying Seoul & launching nukes would be to preemptively nuke them first, would you support it or would you risk the consequences of not acting? That may sound like a fantastic scenario, but it's not as farfetched as you think. Personally, if I thought there war was likely and I thought nuking them first would make it highly unlikely that they would be unable to respond with nukes, I wouldn't hesitate to hit 'em and I guarantee you that there are more than a few people in the Bush administration who think the same way. It's the old, "Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6" philosophy taken to a national level. So when the North Koreans go shooting off at the mouth about their nuclear capacity & making threats, they should understand how fatal it could be if the Bush administration starts to take them seriously.
[Rep. Kucinich] said "there should be a federal law that would allow gay couples to be married," rather than leaving the matter to the states.
Patrick Shepherd, president of Cleveland Stonewall Democrats, said it was not unusual for a politician's views to evolve over a period as long as six years. "From a congressional-record point of view, Dennis Kucinich has been a superstar on our issues," said the spokesman for the gay political group.
Singer Bonnie Raitt, movie star Edward Norton, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream founder Ben Cohen and controversial television host Jerry Springer - now a U.S. Senate candidate in Ohio - all gave Kucinich the $2,000 maximum donation allowed by law, according to a report Kucinich filed with the Federal Elections Commission.
Folk singer Peter Yarrow and film stars Ben Affleck, Jeff Bridges and James Cromwell each gave $1,000.
Larry Hagman, television star of "Dallas" and "I Dream of Jeannie," gave him $500. "Dharma and Greg" star Mimi Kennedy gave him $450, and actor Eric Roberts, $375.
"Here's an e-mail we received today from an Angry Leftist, who mass-mailed it to more than 40 addresses:
While I abhor violence in any form, what I think needs to happen within this country is for riots to occur against this regime. Similar to the riots that took place back in the 1960s. Also, when the RNC invades NYC next year for their convention, what needs to happen is riots similar to the one at the 1968 DNC convention in Chicago. There literally needs to be an explosion by the American people to wake the rest of the citizenry up."
"There�s no question that at this point in the Presidential campaign, people are looking for a perfect candidate, and everyone who�s out there seems like a midget," said Dan Carol, a former opposition researcher for the Democratic National Committee who recently abandoned an effort to draft actor John Cusack to run for President. "I think there are a lot of different lab experiments going on right now."
There's broadcaster Tom Brokaw who has stated he's not interested, but is being pressured to change his mind.
Retired General Wesley Clark is being pushed by a couple of websites to get in the fray. He has stated that he, hem-haw, I know the country needs, hem-haw, there's got to be something to this, hem-haw, but we need to consider, hem-haw, the American people deserve better, hem-haw, change needs to be made, hem-haw, hem-haw, . . . . Frankly, I haven't been able to understand anything he tries to say.
An effort to draft actor John Cusack has sputtered but doesn't appear to be a failed experiment yet. John Cusack wasn't even on my radar screen.
Al Gore is still being mentioned and being promoted as a write-in candidate via an Internet campaign by Aldo Vidali, a film director.
"And one other prospective addition to the field doesn�t have a draft movement at all, but is being closely watched by Democrats nonetheless: Senator Joseph Biden, who ran in 1988, is said by associates to be considering a late entry into the current contest." Personally, I'd like to have Senator Biden in the race. It would make things more soap opera-ish.
Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa has also been mentioned, but it's not in the article.
". . . avoid all animal-based foods, including seafood and dairy items. The inmates have said they believe non-vegan diets conflict with Jewish mandates to preserve the welfare of animals."
�They should be providing these vegan meals for these people,� said the lawyer, Jeff Kerr of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. �Freedom of religion doesn�t mean you should have to worship at the altar of dead animals.�
The Electoral Commission, set up by Parliament in November 2000 to find ways to encourage more people to take part in democratic processes, yesterday launched a three-month consultation process to see if the public wants the voting age reduced from 18 to 16.
The commission will make its proposals for modernising the electoral system based on the results of the consultation, during which opinions will be sought from all corners including youth bodies and political parties.
