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Odds & Ends Archive--Volume 3 (December 2005 - April 2006)
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 What was he thinking? Dr. Edward Van Dyk, a radiologist in Alton, Illinois, took his family on vacation to Miami over Memorial Day weekend. Last Saturday morning, while his wife was in the bathroom, he threw his two young boys off the 15th floor balcony of their hotel then jumped himself. The wife has since said that the couple was having marital problems although neither had filed for divorce. No suicide note was left. Co-workers have said Dr. Van Dyk was a reserved man who gave no indication that his life was in turmoil. Link. It's scary to think that any normal looking guy-next-door could crack like this. 5-31-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 The South African OJ. "Jacob Zuma, the former deputy president of South Africa who was once a front-runner for the presidency, has been acquitted of rape. * * * Zuma (64) said that his accuser (31) indicated that she wanted sex by the way she sat while wearing a knee-length skirt * * * and that it was his duty as a man to accommodate her. He said he had not used a condom to have sex with the woman even though he knew she was HIV-positive because he thought the risk of catching the AIDS virus was low. He said he had chosen instead to shower after sex to minimize the risk of infection. Mind you, this is the man who once led the country's National AIDS Council." Link. I am left speechless by the breadth of Zuma's ignorance. Tip of the hat to Qusan where I first saw the story. 5-10-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Gannon comes out of the closet! Our old friend Jeff Gannon a/k/a Jim Guckert--former right-wing White House press correspondent and male escort--has finally acknowledged what has been publicly known for some time: he's gay. I wish Jeff well out in the sunshine and hope some day soon he tells his complete story to the world--i.e., how I went from male prostitute to White House press correspondent. On another topic, got a laugh out of this Bush pic. 5-5-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Airforce One Vandalized? Did these guys break onto Andrews AFB and write graffiti on Airforce One? Watch Video. Even the Airforce wasn't sure after watching the video. 4-22-2006. Here is the story behind the video. Add Comment Permalink
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 Icy Hot In Jock Strap. Ever wonder why Roger Clemens always looks so upset while on the mound? "Jake Peavy got unorthodox advice from Clemens last August — that it feels good to feel as uncomfortable as possible on the mound. Clemens suggested he put Icy Hot in his jock strap. Peavy thought Clemens was joking, but before a start against the Washington Nationals last year, Peavy gave it a try. 'I figured, what do I have to lose?' Peavy says. 'Well, I threw a complete-game shutout against Washington (3-0 win with 10 strikeouts). Now, it's become routine. I do it every start.'" Link. If a pitcher get such great results with Icy Hot down there, why not just drop in a raccoon? 4-19-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 'Major Combat Operations Have Ended'? It is a fitting time to reflect upon a quote from President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003: "[M]y fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. (Applause.) And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country." Link. The US military death toll in Iraq for October 2006 hit 100 (with two days left in the month), the third highest monthly total since the US invaded Iraq. Link. Bush on call by generals to fire Rumsfeld: "I'm the decider and I decide what's best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense." Link. What does one do when the Decider In Chief is an idiot? 4-19-2006. Add Comment Permalink Update: Best parody song of 2006 IMHO: Link.
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 Scalia walks out of church, flips press the finger. "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics. A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state. 'You know what I say to those people?' Scalia replied, making the obscene gesture and explaining 'That's Sicilian.'" Link. This boorish behavior is reminiscent of VP Dick Cheney telling Senator Lehey to go fuck himself on floor of the US Senate. Yes, it's funny but disturbing at the same time. Cheney and Scalia think of themselves as above the law, as the elite of society, that they are entitled to piss on the rest of us when they damn well please ... just because they can. Antonin, to you and your duck hunting pall Dick, the Sicilian universal greeting right back at ya'. 3-27-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Fat Man Goes Gump. Steve Vaught, a 39-year-old former marine, had put on a few pounds over the years. Hey but at 410 pounds it was nothing an x-jarhead couldn't fix with a little walk, right? So Steve decided to pull a Gump and walk from San Diego to New York City. He's in Ohio now with his weight down to 296! 2300 miles down, only 600 to go. We're with you Steve! Link to story. Gotta love his URL: www.thefatmanwalking.com. Some more pics here. 3-22-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Rumsfeld Reinstates Saddam To Power! In a surprise move, Donald Rumsfeld released Saddam Hussein from jail today and reinstated him as the president of Iraq. Said Rumsfeld, "Sometimes the known unknowns become knowable. We now know that Saddam Hussein is better at running this god-forsaken country than we proved to be." The country Mr. Rumsfeld returns to the former dictator has 60 percent unemployment, oil production below prewar levels, water service to only 30 percent of the population, not to mention a raging civil war. Said Mr. Hussein, "They've made a hash of it but give me back my tanks and attack helicopters and, god willing, order shall be restored." (political satire entry) 3-7-2006 Add Comment Permalink
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 Myspace: The Movie. An 11-minute parody short by 21-year-old amateur filmmaker David Lehre has landed him a development deal with an MTV unit. Check it out, the kid is inventive. Gotta love America, all things are possible. 2-27-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Meet a young man named JMac. Video link. This young man is a legend now. I understand his story has been reported on ESPN! Link to story and another story with more video. Well done Jason. 2-23-2006 Add Comment Permalink Update: Hollywood has come calling for JMac! 3-1-2006.
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 Dick Cheney a/k/a Elmer Fudd. VP Dick Cheney shot a 78-year-old lawyer in Texas on Saturday while hunting quail. He sprayed the man with shot on his face, neck and chest ... ouch! Apparently the lawyer was coming up behind Cheney and another hunter when 'ol Dick whirled and let it rip before noticing the bright orange vest worn by his victim. The lawyer has spent the last two days in intensive care. Link. A web report also states: "According to informed sources on Maryland's Eastern Shore, two years ago Cheney was shooting at ducks from a duck blind in Trappe, a Maryland Eastern shore town * * *. The sources reveal that Cheney nearly shot half of his hunting party and Secret Service detail." Wayne Madsen Report. 2-13-2006. Add Comment Permalink Update: The Cheney shooting just got substantially less funny for Harry Whittington, the victim, who had a heart attack today caused by a birdshot pellet lodged in his heart. 2-14-2006.
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 Rabbis suck blood out of circumcised baby's penis. According to news reports, following ancient ritual, rabbis in New York on rare occasions perform a procedure to cleanse the wound left by ritual circumcision: quickly suck blood from the cut and spit it aside. Link. This is sickening enough and should be banned by the medical professional just on grounds of grossness but it is also reported in the same wire story that a Jewish baby has recently died of infection after undergoing this procedure. A kid has died from an unsanitary practice and the New York authorities are debating what to do? Political correctness knows no bounds. 2-3-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 He was a bad guy ... so it's OK for the cops to beat the shit out of him? The police in Maplewood, MO (suburb of St. Louis) appear to have pulled a mini-Rodney King on a guy subsequent to a high speed chase (that never should have occurred, the guy was not suspected of a serious crime). A news copter caught the scene of the "suspect" face down on the concrete getting beaten by four officers. Sad to hear it happened but disturbed to read today a quote from a white resident of Maplewood protesting in support of the officers: "'This is not a black-white issue,' said Tim O'Brien, the protest organizer. 'It's a good guy-bad guy issue. That guy was a bad guy.'" Let me get this straight, the fact that the black guy on the ground getting the shit beat out of him has a criminal history justifies the police action? Oh contraire my friend. Our constitution requires equal protection under the law for all its citizens. All means all, there is no "prior criminal" exception to the unreasonable use of police force. Yes, it's hard to be a cop (my grandfather and cousin were cops and my father was a commissioner of the St. Louis County Police for 14 years). I have sympathy for the men and women in blue. But it is extremely important to the fabric of our society that they not abuse their power nor dispense justice in an unequal manner. Apologizing for police brutality just compounds the problem. Let's call a spade what it is and move on. 2-3-2006. Add Comment Permalink
- Think anyone will notice she's not wearing underwear? ... nah.
1-28-2006. Comment (1) Permalink
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 George Clooney thanks ... Jack Abramoff? Last night George Clooney won the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in Syriana. But here was his off-color acceptance: "'I want to thank Jack Abramoff, you know, just because. I don't know why. Who would name their kid Jack with the word 'off' at the end of your last name? No wonder that guy's screwed up." Link. Mr. Abramoff is a hard-right Republican lobbyist with ties to Rep. Tom DeLay, both of whom were recently indicted. Yes, he represents all that is wrong with our democracy but why the gratuitous ad hominem shot with the guy's name George? If you want to work for the higher good, then take the high road. That was "bush" league Clooney. 1-17-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Worry Over Use of Corn to Produce Fuel? The pit of my gut, the body's worry central, has been working overtime the last 4 years. Lots of bad stuff: deaths in Iraq, US loss of international standing, mounting budget deficits, rising interest rates, rising fuel prices, etc. With all the juicy foder for alarm floating in the news, I was taken aback this morning reading an article in the NYT by Matthew L. Wald. Mr. Wald writes about the increased use of corn to produce ethanol (a fuel that can be burned in our cars when mixed with gasoline). "We're putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm." (Quote from Washington agriculture expert.) Holy cow, we might run out of corn! We'll all starve if they make fuel out of the corn! Then again, "the United States is paying farmers not to grow crops on 35 million acres." Quote buried in Mr. Wald's article. Yeah, we have such a food crisis in this country that our government pays farmers NOT to grow crops on 35 MILLION acres (land the size of Iowa). In fact, for corn alone, from 1995-2004 the US Government paid farmers $41.8 billion in subsidies to either not grow corn or in direct price supports. Link. You see, US farmers produce too much corn to sell it profitably on the world market so our Government games the system to help our farmers. More info. Might the use of corn to create fuel actually be a good thing? We could stop paying farmers guargantuan price supports for corn (for which we are being sued in the WTO) lessening our budget deficit and import less oil improving our trade deficit. On to the next crisis. 1-16-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Hugh Thompson Jr. (1943-2006). On January 6, 2006, former Army Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson died of cancer. It was Thompson, piloting a helicopter gun ship, who helped stop the My Lai Massacre that occurred in 1968 during which over 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were intentionally killed by a US Army company, a platoon of which was commanded by Lt. William Calley. When it became apparent to Thompson that his fellow Americans were killing unarmed Vietnamese civilians, he landed his helicopter between a group of Vietnamese huddled in a hut and a detachment of Americans hot in pursuit. He had his gunners point their weapons at the Americans and threaten to kill them if they did not disengage. Upon his return to the States (after being shot down 5 times and wounded), Thompson found himself villified not only at his home in Georgia but, also, during hearings before the US Congress. See 1998 CNN interview with Thompson and Wikipedia. At the 30 year anniversary of My Lai, Thompson returned to Vietnam and was able to meet some of the people he saved that day. Later in 1998, the US Government finally recognized Thompson's valor and awarded he (and his 2 crewmates) the Soldier's Medal, the United States Army's highest award for bravery not involving direct contact with the enemy. Rest in peace my friend. 1-13-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Major General Takes The Fifth. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller has invoked the military version of the Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination. Miller commanded the prisoner detention facility in Guantanamo Bay and, then, was sent to Abu Ghraib to "improve" interrogation techniques there based upon lessons learned at Gitmo. We all now know the fruits of Gen. Miller's labors: grotesque sexual and physical intimidation of prisoners. While the little people like Pvt. Lynndie "dog leash" England who actually did the dirty work with the prisoners stand trial, lives ruined, Gen. Miller sits snuggly in the Pentagon with two stars firmly secured to his epaulets. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace, sounding like a spokesman for the ACLU, defended Miller's right to take the Fifth. The military has a vested interest in keeping the abuse investigation at the private, sergeant, lieutenant level. Why? Because Gen. Miller may very well have been carrying out directions from above up to, and including, the Secretary of Defense. Pace and his brethren with stars will let the privates get chewed up by the military justice system to save Rumey's reputation ... whatever that may be. 1-13-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Chinese Government Reducing It's Investment In Dollar. Link to story. What's the big deal you say? It's a big deal for the US, trust me. With the advent of George Bush "the lesser" our twin deficits (budget and current account) have soared. Remember that the US government actually ran a surplus under Clinton. Anyhow, the financing of these massive twin deficits requires that overseas institutions (predominately the central banks of China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia) invest a large proportion of their foreign exchange reserves in dollar assets (typically US treasury bills). If they don't, the laws of supply and demand will require the US Treasury to pay higher interest rates to attract buyers for the every increasing amounts of treasury bills required to finance the deficit. When US treasury rates go up, private sector rates (including credit card and mortgage rates) go up as well. If the Chinese make a serious shift in allocating their reserves, look for a significant downturn in the US real estate market by the end of 2006. 1-12-2006. Add Comment Permalink
- Brokeback Et Trois?
1-7-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 No Hoes For The Boys In Uniform? Since before Julius Ceasar was a baby, the ladies of the world's oldest profession have followed the troops wherever they were stationed. Bush & Rumey have decided fun of all types shall be outlawed on overseas deployments. By Presidential Order, it is now a crime, punishable by up to a year in prison, for a servicemember to pay for sex. Link. The American invasion of Iraq has led to the death of upwards of 50,000 Iraqis but God forbid one of our boys pays to have sex with a prostitute. 1-7-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 Bill Bennett to CNN? Bill Bennett, former Education Secretary (Reagan) and Drug Czar (Papa Bush), is singularly famous in the year 2005 for the following quote: "I do know that it's true that 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." Link (see #6). He is reported to be joining CNN as a political "analyst" (read propagandist). Why does CNN feel the need to replace one right-wing whack job (Robert Novak) with another? Just get all the political hacks (both elephant and donkey) off the screen and report the news to us! Is that too much to ask CNN?!?!?! 1-2-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 James B. Comey. It must have been a freak event that allowed an honest man to be appointed Deputy Attorney General under John Ashcroft, the wingnut cultural warrior. You might not have heard of this guy but his shadow looms large from his brief tenure as acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was hospitalized and, subsequently, when he recused himself from the Valerie Plame affair. It was Comey who not only appointed Patrick Fitzgerald special prosecutor in the Plame case but, also, gave Fitz sweeping jurisdiction to investigate potential obstruction of justice related to the case. Additionally, the NYT reports that Comey refused to sign off on the Bush Administration's warrantless domestic spying program through the NSA. Link. When Senator Spector convenes his promised judiciary committee hearings into this issue, I propose James Comey as witness #1. They ought to repossess the medal of freedom farcically bestowed on George Tenant and award it to Mr. Comey. Here is a political appointee who stood his ground based upon principle. Bravo! 1-1-2006. Add Comment Permalink
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 BioWillie. Willie Nelson, he of the scratchy voice and face but heart of gold, is passionate in helping farmers and against the Iraq War. Reasons Willie: if we grow our own fuel on American farms then we help the farmers while lowering our dependence on mideast oil. So 72-year-old Mr. Nelson has started his own biodiesel company--BioWillie--to sell his blend of 20% vegetable oil, 80% diesel oil as fuel for trucks, buses, and diesel cars. I admire this man. 12-30-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 Police whack giant snow penis. Jessica Sherer, 19 of New Windsor, New York, built a giant snow penis with her boyfriend this week. Link. Asked whether her snow sculpture was part of some pagan ritual, Jessica replied: "We just did it because we were really bored, and we thought it'd be funny. It was huge." Police failed to see the humor and deflated the erect penis by whacking it with shovels. A police spokesman worries, "Now we're going to get snow penises popping up all over town." Sir, I suggest to you that Jessica may have touched off (pardon the pun) something much bigger, a national movement. Although her work is now more famous, apparently the boys at Harvard predate Jessica with this anatomically correct 2003 creation. 12-22-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 Jury Convicts Former Official of RNC "A jury yesterday convicted [James Tobin] a former national Republican official of two telephone harassment charges for his role in a phone-jamming plot against New Hampshire Democrats on Election Day 2002." Story link. Tobin, Abramoff, Cunningham, Delay, Safavian, Franklin, Libby, Rove before New Years ... next? 12-19-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 Freeman: labels "black" and "white" are an obstacle to beating racism. In his "60 Minutes" interview to be broadcast this Sunday, actor Morgan Freeman stated: "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history. [There is no] white history month. The only way to get rid of racism is to stop talking about it. I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man." Listen up Chappelle! Morgan lives his name, "Freeman". The box of race does not trap him. Let us exist as human beings and stop the obsession with skin color. The color of one's skin is no reflection of the purity of the soul (which is all that matters). 12-16-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 4 Vikings Players Charged. Four players on the Minnesota Vikings, of 17 that were on the boat that night, were charged with lewd or lascivious conduct relative to activities alleged to have occurred on a party boat on Lake Minnetonka earlier this year. Borrowing the words of Claude Reins from the movie Casabanca, "I'm shocked to hear there were partially nude women engaged in sexual activity with football players on a party boat!" Note to the shocked public: these players that commit violence on the field on Sundays to the cheers of thousands are not choir boys when they step off the field. 12-15-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 My Grandfather Said God Looks After Fools and Drunks. A woman age 21 was making her first solo skydiving jump when her main chute failed and the backup did not deploy fully. She landed face first in a parking lot at an estimated speed of 50 mph. Link. When they got her to the hospital, the doctors were shocked to find not only was she alive but, also, pregnant. She broke her pelvis in two places, broke her leg, lost six teeth and now has 15 steel plates in her body. The baby is due June 25 and she plans to make her next parachute jump in August! 12-13-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 Drones are the future for combat aircraft. Current unmanned vehicles such as the Predator are actually flown by a pilot on the ground. The next generation of unmanned fighter aircraft (such as the X-45C being developed by Boeing in St. Louis) will be true drones in that they shall fly themselves while under the command of a "coach" stationed in a distant location. Great concept but I have visions of "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones". What if these drones turn against us?!? Better have jedi masters prepared to defend us. 12-13-2005. Add Comment Permalink
- Evolution or Intelligent Design?
12-12-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 You Can Take The Actor Out of the Sopranos But Not The Sopranos Out of the Actor. Former Sopranos cast member Lillo Brancato Jr. was shot during a robbery attempt in the Bronx. He and his partner in crime were shot by an off duty police officer who was himself fatally wounded in the incident. Brancato, then an unknown actor, earned critical acclaim opposite Robert De Niro in the 1993 movie "A Bronx Tale." 12-11-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 Luskin the Magnificent. Did this guy Luskin get his bar license from a crackerjack box or is he just taking a dive on his client Rove? Fine by me in either case. Here's Rove fix: he initially stated in sworn testimony to the FBI (2003) and before the grand jury twice (2004) that he did not discuss Valerie Plame with any reporter other than Novak and that it was Novak who told he (Rove) that she was a CIA agent. Luskin is all over town repeating this story to the press up until July 13, 2005 when Matt Cooper blew it out of the water in testimony before the grand jury. Rove then, belatedly, comes up with a bogus email from him to Hadley painting his conversation with Cooper as innocent. Problem: DOJ had subpoenaed all documents from the White House pertaining to Plame and Rove sat on this one for almost 2 years. Obstruction of justice? Problem 2: Why did Rove change his story so late in the game? Logical Answer: Cooper's testimony drew blood. Luskin's diversionary rationale: I had a conversation with Viveca Novak of Time before Cooper testified and that conversation triggered my re-examination of the facts with Rove. How lame is that even if true? According to the Washington Post, V. Novak is contradicting Luskin's timeline and stating that the conversation with Luskin took place in May or March of 2004. This is well before Rove came clean to Fitzgerald and the grand jury. The brilliant Mr. Luskin has now made himself a witness in the case having been deposed under oath by Mr. Fitzgerald. He treads oh so closely to blowing attorney-client privilege. My prediction: Rove is indicted in 2005. 12-10-2005. Add Comment Permalink Update: V. Novak has written an article for Time on her Plame ordeal (reading the editor's post-script, it looks like Luskin has gotten her fired from Time).
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 Our Friend Israel? Consider these two historical incidents involving the Israeli state: (a) 1979 attempted assassination of US Ambassador to Lebanon John Gunther Dean by the Mossad and (b) 1967 attack by the Israeli Air Force and Navy on the USS Liberty (an unarmed intelligence gathering ship) killing 34 Americans and wounding 171. Link. Then there is the 2003 incident where an Israeli military bulldozer purposefully ran over and killed an American peace activist in the West Bank. Link 1 and Link 2. Now consider the following with the former in mind: the cases of Israeli spies embedded within the US military: Jonathan Pollard (1986), US Navy intelligence officer and Larry Franklin (2005), US Pentagon official. Those who dismiss the seriousness of the Franklin and Pollard spy cases due to the involvement of a "friendly" nation miss the point that Israeli always acts in what its leaders perceive as its own best interest and are willing to kill Americans in the process. How many more Pollards and Franklins are out there? 12-6-2005. Add Comment Permalink
Note: For more information on the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, a scholarly discussion can be found here.
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 New Study: Aspartame Increases Cancer Risk. "A statistically significant increase in the incidence of malignant tumors, lymphomas and leukemias in rats exposed to varying doses of aspartame appears to link the artificial sweetener to a high carcinogenicity rate, according to a study accepted for publication today by the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives." Link. Aspartame (marketed under the name Nutrisweet by Monsanto) is the second most widely used artificial sweetener in the world. It is found in more than 6,000 products. If you really want a scare, check out this article. Bye diet coke, I'll miss you. :o( 12-5-2005. Add Comment Permalink Update: A member of the British Parliamentary called for emergency action to ban the artificial sweetener aspartame in the UK.
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 "Honor" Killing in Berlin. Hatun Surucu, 23, was killed on her way to a bus stop in Berlin-Tempelhof by several shots to the head and upper body, fired at point-blank range by 3 of her brothers. "On a school playground, just yards from where the killing occurred, [muslim boys] were heard praising [Hatun's murder]." Link. Of Turkish descent, Hatun was the single mother of a 5-year-old son attempting to live and work in Western society apart from her muslim family having left a forced marriage to her cousin. One would think this is an aberration in Germany but it is the 45th reported honor killing in the last 8 years. If there is a hell, then these three brothers and their father shall find a suitable home. 12-04-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 Sarah Silverman. Sarah Silverman (aka Jimmy Kimmel's squeeze) is, on the surface, an attractive young lady which serves as a counterpoint to her over-the-top stage persona of Jewish American Princess come porn star / racial bigot. The tension in her comedy derives from the audience not being sure who is the real Sarah--i.e., the innocent presence they see before them or the narcissistic nymph bigot that she portrays or somewhere in between? To give you a flavor, here is one of her jokes: "Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believe it was the blacks." Link to review of her new DVD, "Jesus Is Magic". 12-03-2005. Comments (1) Permalink
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 Great O'Reilly spoof. I admire the humor of Jesus' General blog and decided to feature a satire of Bill O'Reilly's rant against the left for stealing Christmas. To completely understand the humor, one must be familiar with Andrea Mackris's sexual harrassment suit against O'Reilly. Link to full complaint; see Bill's Caribbean fanatsy as told to Andrea allegedly while Bill pleasured himself with a vibrator. 12-01-2005. Add Comment Permalink
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 Oprah takes on the Muslim world. Get the generals out of the way, Oprah has entered the war of ideas in the middle east. She's worth a dozen crack divisions IMHO! A satellite TV outfit based in Dubai has been telecasting Oprah reruns and found her to be a huge hit with young Saudi women. MBC4 was so impressed with Oprah's power in this demographic that they've made her the programming centerpiece of the entire channel, something of a "We Entertainment" channel for the veiled masses. Link. The clerics must be shaking in their boots with the coming Oprah onslaught upon their culture (or maybe they are oblivious to the inevitable carnage?) 12-01-2005. Add Comment Permalink
- Odds & Ends Archive--Volume 2 (October 2005 - November 2005)
- Odds & Ends Archive--Volume 1 (March 2005 - September 2005)
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