Wolf is Real America Wake-Up

Wolf "Once upon a time the U.S. secretary of state went to the UN Security Council and cried, "Wolf!" He said that the evil Saddam Hussein had been building weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate threat to the United States and the world. Over 1,000 American deaths later, there are no WMDs to be found. There was also a president who made a State of the Union address in 2003 and cried, "Wolf!" He said that the evil Saddam Hussein was getting uranium from Africa to build weapons of mass destruction. He called on the American people to be prepared to fight a war against terrorism by invading Iraq. Claims about yellow cake in Niger destined for Baghdad were exposed as phony early on. But still the United States invaded Iraq. More than 12,000 Iraqis have been killed. The United States cried wolf, and the world shuddered and watched as the most powerful country threw its weight around and took over Iraq and all of its resources, including its future. There were no weapons of mass destruction, but there was oil and the possibility of redrawing the map of the Middle East to suit the narrow interests of the few. The few who cried wolf in the name of the American republic. The world wondered if it could ever believe the United States again. Then the U.S. Congress, in a rare and historic bipartisan and unanimous action, declared that something is taking place in Sudan. Once upon a time, Washington could have exercised its clout as the most powerful nation in the world and handily won over the support of members. But now, the country that cried wolf has lost the moral authority it needs to rally its neighbors to real action. It will be the cruelest irony and the greatest tragedy if the people cannot count on America to save them, a country that lost its credibility because it cried wolf. War in Iraq has now claims another 50,000 victims. And the toll is to rise even more, in the weeks ahead. In the tale of the boy who cried wolf, it was the boy himself who suffered the consequences of his actions. This time it's two million dead people, and everyone that believed what the Wolf told them and did what he told them to do."

I thought this was some really heavy thought to put out, but I also felt it was something I felt strong about and wanted to post. It is a wake-up call for all Americans.......May God Forgive us!

Families living in Section 8 housing will now pay more

Times; "Single mother of two is saving up to buy a car. Section 8 housing has helped put a roof over her two children's heads. Which has lifted a huge burden off her shoulders, she said. Her daughter has asthma and allergies and the family's energy bill runs about $200 a month. She's trying to get on her feet, but now she worries major cuts to U.S. Housing and Urban Development funding will knock her down hard. HUD will now offer only, a set amount of money per family. She worried about costs going up for her family. "I get no help from anybody. It's just me and them," she said. Another change could affect the size of families' apartments. Before, separate bedrooms for children of opposite genders were required at "school age." A single parent with a baby or only one child under 8 years, would live in a one-bedroom home. A family with two parents,and two children would live in a two-bedroom,three and up children a, four-bedroom. If only one parent, would reduce size of bedrooms. Subsidy for a two-bedroom is less than that for a three-bedroom and raising the age would save several thousand dollars a month. Also if you are working you will be moved ahead to the top of the list, where as, to someone who is not working. To help cut the cost on the Goverments part for rental assit. This single mother, thinks another solution to the problem would be to make sure everyone who benefits from Section 8 housing actually needs it. She believes too much money goes to people who really don't need the help. "I'm basically doing it all by myself," she said."

This is again a story on how bad things are in America right now!! And to make matters worse the Goverment is now cutting how many housing/assit-vouchers, they are giving out and also reducing how much money per- a household for help.

Positive 'killer bee' traits found

Times;"North Texans need to take precautions against Africanized honeybees, officials said. The bees had Africanized traits, but not enough to warrant quarantine, officials said. But "killer bees""Africanized bees in Texas, they move 12 months out of the year," Paul Jackson, chief apiary inspector for the Texas Honeybee Identification Laboratory in College Station, Texas, said. Insect experts collected the Clay County bees after an elderly man was stung repeatedly Sept. 1 at his rural home. 74-year-old retired rancher, spent a night in a hospital. Workers pulled more than 200 stingers out of his head and neck. A local bee expert has warned that he's seeing more aggressive bees. "There are some very dangerous bees. Treat every swarm as if they are aggressive until you have proven them to be gentle." Watson gets 10 to 30 calls daily for swarms, and he's finding more aggressive bees than gentle ones, he wrote. He cautioned anyone who finds bees to call the police immediately and give them the location of the hive - then leave them alone. Africanized honeybees favor holes in the ground, water meters, the inside of walls, eaves and undersides of mobile homes. He advised being especially careful in these situations: Hunters should check deer blinds for bees before they enter. Homeowner sees bees flying around, he should be cautious. If he sees a nest under the home, he should call an exterminator. Even a small swarm the size of a softball - and Africanized bees split into new nests year-round- calls for action. It will grow to thousands unless it's removed. If you're attacked by bees, run away or seek shelter in a building or car, experts said. Earlier this month, Clay County Extension Agent Kyle Miller sent bees from the nest that stung Whitaker to the honeybee I.D. lab for testing. The results showed they were Level 2 European/Africanized honeybees with some Africanized traits. Here are the levels: Level 1 - European honeybees -Level 2 - European/Africanized honeybees with some Africanized traits -Level 3 - Africanized/European honeybees -Level 4 - Africanized honeybees. So far, 154 Texas counties are under quarantine, according to Texas A&M University. Bees have to be tested before bookkeeper's can move them from a county under quarantine. Africanized honeybees have been moving north from South America since the 1950s."

This is not a good thing! We all have been hearing about Killer Bee's for years and now, people a dying form them. I am sacred to death of any-kind of stinging bug, as they seem to always get me no matter what I do to give them space. What about the people that have allergies to bee-stings what would this do to them? Its like a double ammo....

Police Knew Killer in Columbine Massacre

NBC-6;"A grand jury report is shedding new light about what Colorado authorities knew before the Columbine High School massacre. According to a grand jury document, deputies knew one of the killers had been accused two years earlier of making death threats and building pipe bombs. The grand jury also said it was "troubled" by still-missing documents in what remains the deadliest school attack in U-S history. Still, it did not hand up any indictments. It closed at least the third investigation that has elected not to place any blame for the slaughter of 13 people by Harris and Dylan Klebold. The two teens also killed themselves. Victims' families say the report confirms their suspicions that the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office covered up mistakes that could have led authorities to the killers."

This is really a sad thing to find out now, for the poor families that now have to live thru this all over again! Why do people hide things like this? They have to know it will always come out...Sooner or later...

Teen Claims She Found Roach in Parfait

Texas -A teenager says she found a partially smoked, quarter-inch long marijuana cigarette in her frozen yogurt parfait at a McDonald's. Returning home from a weeklong vacation, when they stopped for breakfast, San Benito police report, only two McDonald's employees made parfaits that morning. Restaurant management told police the employees take drug tests. Police took the used marijuana cigarette as evidence. No charges have been filed and no arrests have been made."

Well After reading this it takes a whole new meaning to -Having it your way!! (at McDonald's) Bet some poor, pot-head was going thru-with draws..LOL

John Kerrys - Wife said let them go Naked send essentials

Yahoo! News;" Teresa Heinz Kerry, volunteers busily packed supplies for hurricane relief in the Caribbean, said she was concerned the effort was too focused on sending clothes instead of essentials like water and electric generators. "Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids," said Heinz Kerry, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes." relief supplies to be shipped to several Carribean islands hit by Hurricane Ivan. Her husband's campaign donated water, blankets and first aid kits. "I think it's important we help all the kids we can. Ivan swept through the Caribbean last week, killing more than 60 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless."

Don't get me wrong...But doesn't this women know she seems to have nack for making herself look bad? Everytime she opens her MOUTH! and says something STUPID! I feel she is hurting her Husband more then helping him when she says CRAP! like this... Someone needs to shart gag-holding her mouth-or, at least give her something to chop on so shes not talking so much. Don't get me wrong, I am also a very out spoken women. But, their is a saying called...( Talking Out of your ASS!!) she needs to plug it abit more....If she thinks naked is fine then she should spend less money on her clothing, and use it for the things she says they need...She would still profet from it,- a Tax-write -off!!

President possibly Plan Day After Election

Iraq; "Senator John F. Kerry accused the Bush administration yesterday of secretly planning to call up a substantial number of military reservists and National Guard units after Election Day to go to Iraq, opening a new front in the Democrat's ongoing attack that the president is concealing postwar instability in Iraq from American voters. 'he won't tell us what congressional leaders are now saying, that this administration is planning yet another substantial call-up of reservists and Guard units immediately after the election," Kerry told 300 people at a community center here. 'hide it from people through the election, then make the move -- that's not the way we do business in the United States of America, my friends. We deserve a president who tells the American people the truth, and when it comes to Iraq, George W. Bush simply won't own up to the truth. He hasn't all along. In fact, he'll do anything he can to cover up the truth." The allegations came after the Kerry campaign this week asked Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a congressional ally and Pentagon specialist, to provide evidence of the reservist plan in order for Kerry to escalate his questioning of Bush's handling of Iraq, aides to Murtha said yesterday. The aides said a relatively small number of new reservists would be involved, probably 2,000 to 2,500, but the idea that such a plan would be kept quiet until after the election spurred Kerry to focus on Bush's honesty as commander in chief. Kerry's allegations seemed to refer to a possible call-up of 2,000 to 2,500 reservists that military commanders think are needed, according to Murtha. Murtha released a statement saying he had 'learned through conversations with officials at the Pentagon" that the White House would 'call up large numbers" of reservists if the Bush-Cheney ticket is reelected. 'the Defense Department continues to plan for future operations in Iraq," he said. ''We have made regular announcements of troops rotations throughout this year and will continue to do so." Murtha, a 30-year House veteran who is respected in Congress and at the Pentagon on defense issues, spoke Wednesday with Rand Beers, Kerry's national security adviser, about the possibility of a new reservist call-up. Kerry has aggressively hit Bush over the fact that reservists and National Guard members make up about 75,560 of about 150,000 US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, referring to their deployment as a 'back-door draft" to support overstretched Army, Marine, and other units. Kerry also sought yesterday to stir up ongoing voter concern about Iraq yesterday by linking Vice President Dick Cheney's deferred compensation from Halliburton to a series of Pentagon audits that found about $1.8 billion in unaccounted-for Halliburton expenses in Iraq and Kuwait. Kerry accused the Bush administration of looking the other way as Halliburton allegedly defrauded taxpayers of $186 million for meals never eaten, $61 million for gasoline overcharges, and $100 per bag to clean laundry. 'now, who's minding the store while all of this has happened? Who's in charge?" Borrowing a popular line from the NBC show 'the Apprentice," Kerry echoed host Donald Trump in saying: 'a's commander in chief, I've got two words for companies like Halliburton that abuse the American taxpayer and the trust: 'You're fired.' " Congressional Research Service. It concluded that, under federal ethics laws, deferred compensation like Cheney's from Halliburton, totaling $2 million since he took office, and unexercised stock options qualified as an ongoing financial interest in the company. Cheney took out an insurance policy in 2001 to guarantee that Cheney's deferred compensation would neither increase nor decrease based on the performance of the company. According to a CBS/ New York Times poll published today, 51 percent of voters believe that Bush is 'telling mostly the truth but hiding something" about Iraq, and another 24 percent feel Bush is 'mostly lying." The poll had few pieces of good news for Kerry; Bush held stronger marks for Not- protecting the United States from terrorism."

This is the kind of things I read that make me wonder who is really telling the truth? Because If your going play I am the guy for you role, then you need to show the American people you a not going to try and hide things from us. Even if its something that you know is shady!! Because, I don't know about you. I have raised my children to learn- If you lie about something once! Then its real hard for people to want to believe your not lieing again...Sort of like (The Wolf In sheepish Clothing)...Who's more deadly now, I need to ask? Who will if not careful will bring the WAR!! back to the United States if Were not careful!!! AGAIN.........

ADULT FILM COMPANIES FINED FOR ALLOWING UNPROTECTED SEX ON MOVIE SET

NBC-6 "For the first time, California officials are fining adult film companies for allowing actors to perform without using condoms. The state says such actions violate laws requiring employers to protect workers who are exposed to blood or bodily fluids on the job. The fines of more than 30-thousand dollars each follow a complaint filed by an adult film industry worker. Officials say the companies were also cited for not notifying authorities about actors who contracted H-I-V on the job. Earlier this year, four actors were diagnosed with H-I-V and the state said it would examine whether laws were being followed. The companies have 15 days to appeal the decisions."

Well This is a first!!...Guess the old rain-coat is finally getting into the Movies...No lets get real!- People everyone knows if you have multi-partners your already taking a risk, remember -sex Ed. In school. Okay, I need to ask a blushing question. We know men wear condoms to protect themselves and the women. But what do the women wear to protect them when.......You- know-other women? Well I don't know that's why I'm asking you people out their.... Really!!

Sex With Client In Jail

seattlepi; "Theresa Olson, the former King County public defender. Accused of having sex with a client in a jail interview room public defender said she knew she should have pulled away when her client, a jail inmate charged with three murders, gave her what she described as a hug that got out of hand."I was surprised when it began ... I did allow it to continue and I should not have. Olson is accused of having sex with Sebastian Burns, 29, two years ago in a small King County Jail visiting room, where she often met with the inmate to go over documents and discuss his upcoming triple-murder trial. Who was later found guilty with friend Atif Rafay of the 1994 slayings of Rafay's father, mother and sister in their Bellevue home. The state bar, which says Olson broke a legal-ethics rule that prohibits lawyers from having sexual relations with their clients, But Olson, 45, has denied they had sex, as alleged by the jail officers who interrupted the encounter. When questioned by a Bar Association attorney yesterday, she acknowledged that she did not pull away from Burns and found his advance flattering, exciting and thrilling.She said she had developed an attraction to Burns "at a point in time" and that he was attracted to her, too. She said she discussed it with him two or three times and recognized that it was inappropriate. Olson began to cry when King County Public Defender testified that the incident between Olson and Burns "trashed" the reputation of all public defenders. Then Harper, too, began to cry. Harper said she feels strongly about the public defense system and its constitutional importance, and that the incident between Olson and Burns especially hurt the reputation of female public defenders. She said other inmates began referring to the jail visiting room as a hotel. Olson is expected to resume testifying today, when her attorney, David Allen, will question her. Part of Olson's testimony was taken behind closed doors yesterday, after hearing officer David Thorner asked that observers leave the room. Certain evidence in the matter is under a protection order, attorneys say, including financial documents related to the expense of Burns' defense and other undisclosed items. The Bar Association is seeking to suspend Olson's license to practice law for one year. Allen contends she should be reprimanded.yesterday in a bar disciplinary hearing against her. Estimated that the incident cost the county about $150,000 more than it would have had Olson continued to represent Burns. Bar association lawyers inadvertently released that dollar amount during the hearing, although the information had previously been sealed."

Well this sure takes the eyes off the Teachers for awhile, huh! In a way I feel bad for her because she must not feel good about herself, to do something like this. She's a Lawyer come-on she knows, criminals will do anything to get off. And I can bet you he did this to her because he thought he would surely get off his charges if he roped her in. And all he did was get himself a pat from all his prison-buddies, and She distoryed her life for a brief-fling....How stupid!!!

Man Linked to Bush Memos

Bush Memos;"A retired Texas National Guard official mentioned as a possible source for disputed documents about President Bush's service in the Guard said he passed along information to a former senator working with John Kerry's campaign. Also, a White House official said Saturday that Bush has reviewed disputed documents that purport to show he refused orders to take a physical examination in 1972 and did not recall having seen them previously. The long-running story on Bush's Texas Air National Guard service took an unusual twist when CBS broadcast a report on what it said were the newly discovered records. The retired Guard official, Bill Burkett, said in e-mail to a list of Texas Democrats that after getting through "seven layers of bureaucratic kids" in the Democrat's campaign, he talked about information that would counter criticism of Kerry's Vietnam War service. "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and outlast it, not spending any money. Said counterattack. So I gave them the information to do it with," Burkett wrote. In the telephone interview Bush replied "I don't know" to a question whether the White House had evidence that involved in releasing the disputed papers. "The Kerry campaign had absolutely nothing to do with these documents, no ifs, ands or buts," spokesman David Wade said. "Jim Dyke inhabits the fantasy world of spin where George Bush pretends we haven't lost millions of jobs and everything in Iraq is coming up roses. He'd be better served getting answers from the president, not hurling baseless attacks." Burkett's lawyer, David Van Os, a Democratic candidate for the Texas Supreme Court, issued a statement this week saying Burkett "no longer trusts any possible outcome of speaking to the press on any issue regarding George W. Bush." Allegedly written by one of Bush's former commanders that indicated the future president ignored an order to take a physical. Late Lt. Col. Jerry Killian, who supposedly wrote them when he supervised Bush in 1972 and 1973. One of the memos indicated that Killian had been pressured to sugarcoat Bush's performance. He said he overheard a conversation in 1997 between then-Gov. Bush's chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, and then-Adjutant Gen. Daniel James of the Texas Air National Guard in which the two men spoke of getting rid of any military records that would "embarrass the governor." Burkett said he saw documents from Bush's file discarded in a trash can a few days later at Camp Mabry in Austin. Burkett described them as performance and pay documents. Allbaugh and James denied the allegations."

Excuse me but? Didn't Richard Nixon Get into trouble for hiding and covering things up? Why should Mr. Bush, be treated any different?

Cremated Man's Ashes Crash Through Roof

sfgate;"Forest Grove, Ore. - An unwelcome guest recently crashed into Ms. Vreeland's home: the cremated remains of a Washington man. The 46-year-old man died of natural causes in June. He wanted to be cremated and have his ashes scattered over Mountain View Memorial Gardens, a cemetery near Vreeland's home, Forest Grove police Capt. Said. Family members told police the bag of ashes slipped as they were circling the cemetery in a small plane they had hired for the day. The 4-pound bag crashed through Vreeland's roof and landed in the attic. "It really rattled our place," said Vreeland, who was at her kitchen sink when the ashes hit the roof. "It wasn't a little bump -- it shook the house." Vreeland's roof is being fixed and the man's family is paying for the damage. "I understand the man wanted to be with his (deceased) relatives," Vreeland said. "I feel for those people. But I think some of their relative is still in our attic."

Okay I wonder if this women has considered moving? If she is getting dead people ashes flying into her house...Well then I think she may be just a tad-bit too...Close to the dead folks, next-door hello..LOL

Teacher Lops Off Part Of Student's Ear

sfgate;" Bangkok,Thailand -- A teacher enforcing school regulations on haircuts snipped one girl's locks to ear's length Thursday but ended up lopping off a chunk of her ear as well, police said. A teacher at Wat Dan Prachakorn school in southern Chumpon province, had been inspecting students after their morning assembly to ensure their hair was regulation length, said police Capt. "He was going to cut the hair of this girl who had a haircut that was against school regulations. Her hair was against her ear, and he just cut without being careful," He did not know how much of 15-year-old young girls earlobe was cut off. But a report on the Kom Chad Luek newspaper Web site quoted plastic surgeon Dr. Wiboon Thongduang as saying that half of the earlobe was severed, and could not be reattached because the girl did not get proper medical attention quickly enough. The father reported the incident to police, but no charges have been filed against the teacher, who along with the victim was to be questioned Friday, Police said."

I can not believe what I read!!! I'll tell you what...If that would of been me I would not of cared if I went to prison or not. I would of cut off both of his ears and cut off his male member too. Just because he hurt my child and he Pissed me Off!!......I can not believe people can be that cruel to a child and not even do nothing about it....SICK

RENTAL HELP

NBC-6;"Can you imagine living and sleeping in your car? It happens more than you might think. Many people struggle financially living paycheck to paycheck, but they also have a difficult time finding affordable housing. Many people struggle financially every month living paycheck to paycheck. Finding affordable housing is a problem that seems to be rising. Housing and Finance Association offer the federal Section 8 (tenant-based) Rental Assistance program. IHFA director says the program is provides a housing choice voucher to qualified renters. "We get funding through HUD to subsidize the rent of low-income families." The household in need pays 30% of income toward rent and the balance is paid by program. 40-50 people come in a week looking for assistance. "Waiting list is growing; a year ago our wait was about 12 months now it's 22 to 24 months, a real need for help." Another program offered under Section 8 is project-based assistance. It works similar to tenant-based, but the subsidy is tied to a specific rental complex. It is unbelievable how many people need help. "We see people living in there cars; young mothers that need a place to go."

I had to post this when I saw it because. Yesterday I was in a counseling office talking to someone about something to do with my-work and, we ended up chatting about housing for some reason don't remember why. But he was telling me that he had tried to get one of their clients on the housing list just here in Pocatello Idaho, and the sign-up list was CLOSED!! Closed that's really stupid!!, he claims that they said it was a waste of everyone's time to even take app. For housing when the list is already looking at, year-2006 before you would even get to the waiting list to be able to get a voucher to get (low-income housing). So why waste peoples time,blew me away to hear this...My boy-friend is on the Fair-Housing Board here in town and I talked with him about this awhile back and he told me then that the had a government cut on housing Vouchers. I believe he said in the figure of 800 less!!! I tell you somebody better Pull their heads out out their butts!! Real soon up their on Capital Hill, and find some more money I don't care what it takes. Or start making these Land-Lords stop jacking up their rent prices-quote- From a rental angency here in town; " we keep our prices higher on our nicer places to keep out the low-lives ( which means poor) And we also can rent a 3-4 Bedroom house to a bunch of collage kids and charge them triple + deposits each and make more money, for us and the owner of the house. She said its nothing personal. Just- that, they are in the field to make money not rent housing only. But that too, the provide a service to the owners of the rentals for a fee!!...Plus the get to pocket the deposits on all the rentals if they don't give it back.......Maybe I should become a slum lord too!! And not a human....Don't thinks so, its not in me to be selfish to that point.

Bush And Kerry Not Invited Dinner

NBC-6;"The potential for a food fight was apparently too high. Neither George Bush or John Kerry will be invited to this year's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. Its sponsor, the Archdiocese of New York says campaign issues could detract from the traditionally lighthearted affair. The annual dinner, this year less than two week before the election, will instead have former President Bush and former Democratic New York Governor Hugh Carey speak. Alfred Smith was a Democratic New York governor who died in 1944. He's best remembered for being the first Catholic to run as a major party's presidential candidate. He lost the 1928 race to Herbert Hoover."

Well wonder if the meal was good? Just goes to show you if your going to be babies about every thing no body wants you around, these to men need to grow-up

CONJOINED TWIN COMPLICATIONS

NBC-6; "Doctors say they "had to go into emergency mode" during surgery to separate twins joined at the head when one girl developed an irregular heartbeat and low blood pressure. The lead surgeon says the Baltimore medical team was about three-quarters through the long operation when the one child's condition deteriorated. The twin with the complications died shortly after the operation. Johns Hopkins Children's Center doctors say the other is in critical but stable condition. The lead surgeon says it's too soon to say if the surviving one-year-old German girl has any brain damage. But he says barring any serious complications, the girl will grow up to "lead a normal, independent life."

This is so sad.. Because these little girls and their parents went thru so much to have this done, to get to America to just do it. Now one of the twins died, and the other may have brain-damage from this. I ran the article when they first did the surgey because, I thought this was a good thing in today's medical world. I'm not saying its still not, but I wish it could of turned out better for this poor family...I home we all will remember them in our prays this week and hug our own children. Because we are So...Lucky, because our own never had to go thru this and they are still alive and well with us. This is a mother's pain feeling for another mother......

Careful Your Bookmarker Is A Weapons

NBC-6 ; "A weight may soon be lifted off a Maryland woman charged with carrying a concealed weapon in an airport. It wasn't a gun or a knife. It was a weighted bookmark. Ms. Harrington was flying home from vacation last month when screeners at the Tampa, Florida, airport found her bookmark. It's an eight-and-a-half-inch leather strip with small lead weights at each end. Airport police said it resembled a weighted weapon that could be used to knock people unconscious. So the 52-year-old special education teacher was handcuffed, put into a police car, and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
This weapon thing has gotten really out of control...What next we will all be made to walk NAKED on to planes and get our personal items on the other end when we land? Well if that ever happens...Bet it would sure jack up their flying-head count...(Party in the sky) Would take on a whole new meaning to....... MILE-HIGH CLUB...hehe ( think I'll take the bus)

Actor Jailed for helping Lobsters

NBC-6; "Edward Furlong tried to free some lobsters and landed in jail instead. Furlong was arrested on a charge of being drunk in public in Florence, Kentucky. He spent about an hour and a-half in jail before he got out. Furlong is accused of trying to take some lobsters out of a tank at a grocery store."

LOL - Come-maybe he just wanted a pet and he thought they were cute..

Court Rules Vomiting Is A Private Matter

sfgate; "Helena, Mont- Even if you're puking, the potty is private, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled. The high court says a police officer went too far when he walked in on a young woman while she was vomiting into the toilet during a loud house party. The 6-1 decision Tuesday said the unconstitutional intrusion into the privy means evidence that Ms. Smith had been drinking illegally, she was only 18 at the time, could not be used to prosecute her. Merely hearing someone vomiting behind a closed door was not sufficient reason for Dillon Police Officer to open the door, the court said. The case arose from a complaint about a loud party at a Dillon apartment in. A party guest allowed officers to enter the apartment. When the Police-officer heard someone vomiting in the bathroom, he opened the bathroom door without knocking or asking permission and found Smith vomiting in the toilet. She was convicted of underage drinking and given a deferred sentence. On appeal, she argued the search of the bathroom was unconstitutional and evidence obtained by the officer could not be used against her. The Supreme Court agreed. Since the apartment owner never objected to the officers' presence, no one at the party could have expected privacy in the "common areas" of the apartment, the court said. But the same is not true for the bathroom, it said."

Hey this young Lady is smart!! Wonder if she ever considered going into Criminal Law? Heck with that, I bet after this case she could charge all her Collage buddies to just go to court for them and probley win too. From the looks of what she did to her own case...You go Girl!!

'Secrets' Santa Claus Perplex

washingtonpost.com; "A former dictator's cocktail preferences and a facetious plot against Santa Claus were classified by the government to prevent public disclosure. Also stamped "secret" for six years was a study concluding that 40 percent of Army chemical warfare masks leaked. These, as well as other examples of classification were cited last week by members of Congress and witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing into the Sept. 11 commission's conclusion that secrecy is undermining efforts to thwart terrorists.
Some classifications were made in error or to save face. The CIA deleted the amount Iraqi agents paid for aluminum tubes from Page 96 of a Senate report on prewar intelligence. The report quoted the CIA as concluding that "their willingness to pay such costs suggests the tubes are intended for a special project of national interest." That price turned out to be not so high. On Page 105 of the same Senate report, the same security reviewers let the CIA's figure -- as much as $17.50 each -- be printed along with other estimates that the Iraqis paid as little as $10 apiece. "There are too many secrets" and maybe too many secret-makers, said Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee's national security panel. There are 3,978 officials who can stamp a document "top secret," "secret" or "confidential" under multiple sets of complex rules. No one knows how much is classified, he said, and the system "often does not distinguish between the critically important and comically irrelevant." The problem is growing, said J. William Leonard, director of the National Archives' Information Security Oversight Office, which monitors federal practices. Officials decided to classify documents 8 percent more often in 2003 than in 2002. Total classification decisions -- including upgrading or downgrading -- reached 14 million. "The tone is set at the top," Shays said. "This administration believes the less known, the better," added the Connecticut Republican, noting sadly he was speaking of a GOP administration. "I believe the more known, the better." The panels ranking Democrat, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio, noted that former President Bill Clinton directed that in cases of doubt, the lowest or no classification be used. But in 2003, President Bush ordered officials to use the more restrictive level. Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' project on secrecy, said some classification was designed to conceal illegality or avoid embarrassment, even though that is forbidden.Aftergood cited the "secret" stamp on Army Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba's report of "numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" inflicted on Iraqi inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison."

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You know the more I read about Bush, I'm beginning to wonder why this was all kept hidden for so long, And why someone is finally finding these lost files and bringing them out? I am at the point after dealing with all the Bull-Crappy from these two guys I'm beginning to wonder if they should just LET...US MOTHERS run this damn counrty....Hell... We multi-task intire countries alone just within our homes, with out families. And to top it off we have one or more wars going on at least every-day, and we bring everyone out still breathing!!!...Well Moms what do you think?
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"Collectors of information can never know how it could best be used," have said. "We have to move to a user-driven environment." Leonard, the Archives official, said another obstacle to sharing anti-terrorist data as the Sept. 11 commission envisioned was that federal law divides the authority for writing the rules that govern secrets. The CIA director has authority to protect intelligence sources and methods, the Energy Department has power to write regulations to shield nuclear secrets, the Pentagon has control over classifying NATO data and the National Security Agency can define eavesdropping communications secrets. "All these variations have nuances that impede cooperation," Leonard said. Aftergood, who is fighting in court to declassify the overall budget for intelligence agencies, argued that declassifying that total "could break the logjam" of overclassification. That was also recommended by the Sept. 11 commission. Leonard said a 2000 law created a public interest declassification board to recommend release of secrets in important cases, but the president and Congress never appointed members. For the curious: The CIA classified for 20 years longtime Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's preference for pisco sours, according to subcommittee staff members citing previously classified documents published by the National Security Archive, a private anti-secrecy institute at George Washington University. And a CIA employee made up a story of a terrorist plot to hijack Santa Claus and inserted it into classified traffic."

If George W. Bush had been president in 1941,

Bush/Views; "If George W. Bush had been president on Dec. 7, 1941, he would have declared war on a country like Spain rather than on Germany and Japan. Despite the fact that it was Japan which had attacked the U.S., Bush would have argued that Spain was the real threat to world security.Bush would have noted that Spain possessed "weapons of mass destruction" and that the Spanish government had tortured, murdered and bombed its citizens. An attack on Spain would have distracted the voters from the damage Bush's policies were doing to the country while showing that he was taking forceful, action against a rogue state. The fact that Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperialist Japan were left free to wage war on the rest of the world would have been ignored, thanks to a barrage of publicity about how Bush was a strong, forceful leader who was smoking the terrorists out of their holes in Spain. If you think this is an absurd analogy consider this: It was Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that financed and supported Osama bin Laden, and it was Saudi Arabia which provided 15 of the 19 hijackers, yet Bush has not dealt with those sponsors of terrorism. But then, Bush's father and Dick Cheney have benefited financially from Saudi Arabia, so one must not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. If you still think the analogy with Spain is absurd, consider this: Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, sold war bonds for Hitler, so why would a Bush declare war on Hitler?....(Note): The information on Prescott Bush's dealings with the Nazis was taken from the Introduction (written by Toby Rogers and Nick Mamatas) to the book, "Fortunate Son, George W. Bush and the Making of an American President" by J. H. Hatfield."

Yes I know more slam on the good ole boy Mr. Bush!! Just can't help myself their so funny and do make you think because their is some truth in them...Sure their is read it again!!

The Story Of * Apocalypse Bush! *

Okay... Everyone I know its a long article, but I think you will enjoy reading it if nothing else then for the dry humor I found in it...We all know how grand Bush says he is well this does it in a way that is worth thelaught...Least I thought so...

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Apocalypse Bush; "Why Care for the Planet When the End Times are Almost Here? Vote Bush and Hop On the Salvation Train! This is the great thing about rabid fundamentalism. You really just don't have to give a damn. Take the environment. I mean, isn't it just a little pointless to care so damn deeply about the air and the soil and the water and the stupid little disposable animals on this silly spinning ball of expendable rock when the Second Coming is imminent and a blood-soaked fire-breathin' Jesus who looks remarkably like Mel Gibson will return very soon to smite the heathens and the gays and the vegetarians and the Francophiles, and who will rescue all those who worship patriarchy and country music and blue-chip oil portfolios? You're goddamn right it is. Look. This much has become clear. Bush is, more than anything else, an extreme fundamentalist Christian. He is widely regarded as the most openly pious and sanctimonioous president in modern American history. He actually preaches the GOP screed in evangelical churches across America. He panders so slavishly to the anti-choicers and the Bible-thumpers and the homophobes it makes Jerry Falwell swoon and giggle. And Bush actually says, out loud, that God speaks through him, and that God is on our side we bomb the living crap out of Afghanistan and Iraq and that it is the Almighty's wish that we take control of these angry pip-squeak nations and in so doing kill thousands of civilians and tens of thousands of young Iraqi soldiers,as over 1,000 American soldiers are now dead over a makeshift cause that never really existed. God wanted it this way, that's why. Bush has called Jesus his "favorite philosopher." He has claimed that the act of being "born-again" saved him from a long, sad life of vaguely homoerotic frat parties and repetitive binge drinking and going AWOL from the National Guard, all so he could turn his full attention to righteously ruining multiple businesses and then making Texas the most murderous and polluted state in the union. But, you know, why stop there? God, of course, isn't just about the current Iraqi war. Bush understands this. Nor is God just about slamming gays or creating nasty, isolationist foreign policy. God is not merely about setting those gul-dang Muslim heathens straight about who is the supreme big-daddy all-powerful mega-righteous SUV-drivin' American-flag-wavin' God and who is just a dimestore wannabe false idol scruffy Allah. Because above all, God is nothing if not all about putting a quick and fiery stop to all this Earthly nonsense ASAP. He is nothing if not all about the coming apocalypse. And He is nothing if not all about saving those who believe, as Bush does, that he is among the chosen to be saved. This is the fundamentalist truth. And this is the BushCo maxim. The End Times provide the ultimate meaning, the final straw, the only thing worth caring about, because it defines the BushCo worldview like nothing else except maybe embarrassing grammar and crushing deficits and a secret craving for gin. You can see it in his sad, vacant eyes: Bush is absolutely convinced that God is a Republican. Why else would He create all those cool M-1 tanks and oil refineries and those neat deer-antler chandeliers? Exactly. Do you see? Do you get it? If not, you haven't been reading nearly enough of those silly pulpy sociopathic gazillion-selling "Left Behind" doomsday books so frighteningly adored by the Christian Right. It's simple, really: The world is gonna end real soon. The End Times are comin'. All the signs are in place -- famine, war, disease, sodomy, fires, hurricanes, Avril Lavigne -- and Bush, by instigating holy wars and inciting more terrorism and burning through the planet's natural resources as fast as humanly possible, is merely hastening the blessedly inevitable. As his fellow fundamentalists say, God bless him. Hey, it explains a lot, this view. It explain how Bush can just smirk and mumble and, with one big, heartless shrug, dismiss the complete lack of WMD and the loss of 1.6 million U.S. jobs and the nation's staggering $422 billion budget deficit. Pay down the national debt? Bah. Planet's going to hell anyway, people. Stock up on nuclear missiles and get yourself an escape pod. Can't afford one? Whatta shame. It surely explains the general GOP hatred of gay marriage, of open-hearted sex, of those wicked, sin-inducing vaginas (that harlot Eve is gonna pay, dammit), of environmentalism, of caring about air quality and water quality and the EPA and organic foods and homeopathic medicine and resource management and the Alaska Wildlife Refuge and the U.N. and any country that doesn't have a McDonald's and a Starbucks and a decent strip club for lonely gin-soaked Republican expats. And it explains not only the outright contempt for any view other than Bush's own, but the willingness to legislate that hatred, codify it, to make it outright illegal to think or feel or love otherwise. Look at it this way: When you have an angry, patriotic God and the red-hot promise of the juicy apocalypse on your side, there is no such thing as a counter-argument. There is no such thing as competition. There is no such thing as giving a damn what anyone else thinks. How else do you explain it? How else can you understand the most aggressive, war-hungry, abusive, nature-loathing, isolationist administration in American history? How else can you explain BushCo's overall "F" grade from every environmental organization in the world? How can you explain his mauling of long-term Social Security planning? The decimation of the idea of universal health care? A pre-emptive, attack-first-ask-questions-never, warmongering policy that creates more anti-U.S. hatred by the minute? How can you explain the fact that every human rights organization on the planet is appalled by Bush's actions? Guantanamo Bay to Abu Ghraib to John Ashcroft to the Patriot Act to gutting funding for international women's health care. Hey, if God had wanted us to care about other viewpoints, He would've made everyone speak English. Can I get a "hell yeah?" This lust for apocalyptica, then, is perhaps the best way we have to at least partially understand the shamelessness of this administration's policies and its blatant disregard for international law, its open hatred of any nation that disagrees with us and the deep, profound concern only for nations that either cower in our God-flexin' presence and/or have resources that Bush's corporate pals are salivating to exploit. And it is the perhaps ultimate explanation for the Right's final cattle call, its bitter war cry of a message, its exact parallel to every pseudo-religious evangelical scam artist on late-night cable TV. Listen, good people of America. If you just send your money to the party and give up all that careful, nuanced thinking, if you just quite questioning our decisions and load up on blind faith, it will all be OK and you can have all the guns and fast food you want and those terrifying gays will leave you alone because BushCo will take care of you and God will reserve your seat on the glory train to salvation. Deal? Praise Jesus! Praise Bush/Cheney! Hallelujah you are saved! Even as we are, you!!........ know, your-doomed."

Hair could reveal travels

New Scientist;"Tracking the recent whereabouts of suspected criminals or uncovering the true origins of asylum-seeking immigrants might come down to a single hair, says a researcher. Colleagues at the University of Reading are testing a new method of determining where people have lived by measuring the ratios of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in their tissues or fluids. The isotopes, absorbed into the body from water, have predictable values for different local areas and leave a telltale signature in tissues. Hair is particularly good because it grows about a centimetre a month, So it actually grows a record of not only where you have been but what you have been eating and drinking. Says the technology could assist police investigations and potentially help immigration officials to decide whether people seeking asylum are arriving from appropriate countries. We’re not going to get a postcode. It will only get as far as a regional level, but that may be good enough for some cases. Distinct local patterns The method is based on the ratio of two sets of naturally occurring isotopes, oxygen-16 and oxygen-18, and hydrogen and deuterium. Plants and animals alike absorb a distinct local pattern of isotopes from the water and food they consume. Because each isotope differs in its atomic weight, the ratio of each pair can be easily measured by mass spectroscopy and compared to published local values. Researchers from many areas of science have used these isotopes for years to investigate everything from the source of air pollution to how far butterflies migrate. But this is one of the first applications of the method to living human beings. Reachers are currently conducting trials to figure out how the isotopes migrate from food to tissue samples. They are tracking the dietary habits of volunteers to develop a reference index of human isotope ratios and the places or foods they correspond to. They also want to extend the trials to include officers in the high commission of foreign countries. The technique, however, could fail for several reasons. For example, if test subjects drink large amounts of bottled water, the isotope signature could resemble the water’s foreign source more than their current residence. Frequent travelers would also be hard to pin down. But despite the potential pitfalls of the procedure, it would be a boon to criminal investigation units. It would be a cheap and fairly rapid technique, that’s really important to a police investigation."

I think this would be a really good thing in a lot of ways it would help us on cutting down on a lot of unsolved crimes and would be dangers. But it could also be a bad thing, because it takes away from the private way we all like to live, and we all know that even in tests like this not everything is 100% things could come up wrong. I have heard of people losing -Jobs, freedom and other things because of a DNA-testing and it was read wrong by a lab.

DUI horse-and-buggy

RIGA, Latvia -- Police in eastern Latvia were trying to determine what charges to bring against a drunken horse-and-buggy driver who caused a drunken motorist to crash into a ditch, flipping his car. The accident happened just before midnight Monday near Kraslava, 140 miles east of the Latvian capital, Riga. The driver of the horse-and-buggy made an illegal turn onto a main road when he should have yielded to an oncoming car, said Kraslava police spokeswoman Ingrida Nevedomska. To avoid crashing into the horse-and-buggy, the driver of the car, a Volkswagen Golf, veered into a roadside ditch, flipping his car, Nevedomska said. The driver was not seriously hurt. Police, who did not release the names of the drivers, administered breathalyzer tests and determined they were both legally drunk, Kraslava traffic police chief Uldis Ornicans said The driver of the car was fined $830 and had his license revoked. But police were unsure what to do about the horse-and-buggy driver -- only motor vehicles and bicycles are covered under the country's drunk driving laws. "How do you ticket a guy driving a horse-and-buggy?" Nemedomska said. Ornicans said the man at the reins would probably be charged with having caused an accident but declined to specify what penalties he might face. As for the horse, Nevedomska said, it seemed sober."

Okay? How does the poor horse feel about this? He was made to comment a crime and could of been killed!! Poor animal, but this is a first for me never heard of a drunker buggy-driver in the year 2004'

Dinosaurs doting parents

New Scientist;" A fossil of one adult Psittacosaurus dinosaur surrounded by 34 juveniles has provided the most compelling evidence to date that dinosaurs raised their young after hatching. Previously discovered fossils of teeth found at the same site in China from Allosaurus dinosaurs of differing ages, and fossils of groups of young Maiasaura have hinted that dinosaurs may have indulged in parental care. But what makes this 125-million-year old fossil find from Liaoning province more convincing is that the skeletons are complete, and crowded together in life-like positions with their legs tucked under and heads raised, indicating that they were buried alive rather than swept together after death. Psittacosaurus are herbivorous dinosaurs, about one metre long, with parrot-like beaks and cheek horns. The newly unearthed juveniles are about a quarter of the length of the adult, and far bigger than hatchlings. This suggests that the adult had tended them for some time, says David Varricchio of Montana State University in Bozeman, US, who examined the ancient remains with Jinyuan Liu of the Dalian Natural History Museum, China, and colleagues. “It looks like a creche,” says Chris Daniels, an evolutionary biologist at Adelaide University, Australia. “It would be unlikely that one or two adults could provide food for so many youngsters.” Caring for young in creches is a type of parenting behaviour seen in animals such as Emperor penguins in which a few adults tend chicks from several families, while the parents collect food. Birds and crocodilians, which also invest time and effort raising their offspring, share a common ancestor with dinosaurs, so the new finding suggests that sophisticated parenting is an ancient behaviour that evolved just once in these animals, rather than twice."

I found this to be quite a pleasure to read, why because it goes to show that it don't matter what type of animal you are. You still have a great need as a parent of your off-spring to protect and feed them. Also we really don't know that much about things in our past but what we find thru diggs and research. And the fact that they are always finding new facts makes it worth reading to me. I hope you enjoyed reading it also.

Man Tried To Sell 200-year Old Skull On E-Bay

NBC-6;"A California man has been charged with trying to sell the 200-year-old skull of a Hawaiian native on e-Bay. Jerry David Hasson is accused of violating the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, a federal law that protects archaeological finds. Authorities contend he put the skeletal remains on sale on eBay in February, claiming the warrior died on Maui in the 1790s. On the site, Hasson allegedly claimed he found the skull and other remains on a Hawaiian beach. An undercover agent with the Bureau of Indian Affairs arranged to buy the skull. An anthropologist determined the skull was that of an adult female of Polynesian ancestry who was around 50 when she died. Hasson could face up to five years in prison and a 250-thousand-dollar fine."

Well just goes to tell you, what you can find on E-Bay..LOL This guy must of thought he was a really good con-man, or he smoked way to much of the Tie-stick he bought while he was in Hawaii..What dumb-A$$

Teaching Your Teen to Drive

about.com;"The first time I took Spencer on a higher speed rural road (50 mph speed limit), he panicked when he reached 40 miles per hour. He broke into a cold sweat as he watched objects whizzing beside him on the drivers side of the car. I finally coaxed him into getting up to 50, but it was not without a fair amount of fear from his perspective. He had a similar experience the first time he merged onto a freeway. Learned some pretty good tips for teaching teenagers to safely work behind the wheel. If you are embarking on the process of teaching your first teen to drive, or if you are trying for a first "successful" experience, then there are some things you should know."
My teenager daughter has been bugging me really bad to teach her how to drive or be allowed to take, Drivers-Ed. Well being a single mom, not a lot of money to pay for the latter so I have agreed to teach her myself. Well lets just say its been a really stressful time for me, the thought of my little girl behind the wheel when just a short time ago she was trying to figure out how to just stay on a bike and not fall off. Well would love to hear stories or infro. From others that have done this or been thru this...Thanks

Mr. Nader's Baiting

washingtonpost; " The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced." "Bush also repeated the catch-phrase 'committed to the security of Israel as a Jewish state,' which is repeated almost word-for-word again and again by Israel's sycophants and Capitol Hill puppets." Which of the above quotations is lifted from the Web site of the white supremacist National Alliance and which was uttered this summer by independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader? It's a tough one. After all, both play on the age-old anti-Semitic stereotype of powerful Jews dominating politics and manipulating hapless non-Jewish puppets for their own ends. Yet if Mr. Nader is at all disquieted by the company he is keeping by using such metaphors, he sure isn't showing it. In a letter this week to the Anti-Defamation League, which had complained to him about his rhetoric, he responded with breezy indifference and more rhetoric that only compounds concerns. Mr. Nader complains in his letter that the debate in Israel over Israeli policies is far more robust than the American debate over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In an interview last month on the "Democracy Now!" radio show he explained, "The U.S. government never connects with the deep and broad Israeli peace movement" a claim he elaborates on in the letter. And Mr. Nader has a point. Israel's shriller defenders often cry foul at even the mildest and most constructive criticism of the state. The problem with Mr. Nader's words are not that he criticizes either Israel's policies or American support for those policies. The problem, rather, is the language he deploys in doing so. In the radio interview he called John Kerry a "puppet politician who does not think in the best interests of the American people and the Israeli and Palestinian people." And in his letter he writes, referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group, of "AIPAC's ditto machine on Capitol Hill" and the awed members of Congress "who, against their private judgment, resign themselves to sign on the dotted line." This is poisonous stuff. And if Mr. Nader doesn't understand what such words actually mean, the less savory elements of American society certainly know how to read such code. But Mr. Nader, as always, is not backing down: "As for the metaphors -- puppeteer and puppets -- the Romans had a phrase for the obvious -- res ipsa loquitor," which means the thing speaks for itself. Indeed it does.

Quiz answer: The first quotation was Mr. Nader's."

Well after reading this I will say that Ralf Nader, pack a -Mean tongue- and don't care who hits with it. But He also makes a good point of a few things to think about! I feel he knows he's probley not going to make it to the White House!! But I bet, he's sure going to shake-up those who are trying to get in, by putting things out their for the Voters hear, that would other wise never make to our ears. To think and talk-about, before we see who we really want to be the President of the United States of America...You may feel different then me on this but, you can't say that he don't put a question in your mind. On some of the things he throws out their about...BUSH and KERRY both...........Really think about of of the things he says,making me wonder who's real?

MAKER OF ROCK GUITAR STRINGS, DEAD AT 74

NBC-6; "Ernie Ball has died. He was a pioneer maker of rock 'n' roll guitar strings used by legions of artists from the Rolling Stones to Merle Travis. Ball was 74. The mortuary handling services announced that Ball died at his home Thursday after an ongoing illness. His strings and instruments were used by music stars over the past four decades, from B.B. King to Metallica. In 1962, complaints from customers that they couldn't find lighter-gauge, flexible strings for their rock 'n' roll instruments prompted Ball to create and sell sets of strings he called "Slinkys." They were a hit. He later branched out into instruments and accessories. Today, Ernie Ball items are sold in more than five-thousand music stores in the United States and exported to more than 70 countries."

A great pioneer has died, I'm sure he'll be missed. But will always be remembered by the sounds on his strings made, thru people's music as they pluck out their tunes on his great-strings....Hope your tuning those Harps up in Heaven, Ernie!!

WORKERS TO STRIKE ATLANTIC CASINOS

NBC-6; "With the Miss America pageant approaching, workers at some Atlantic City casinos are threating to strike. More than eight-thousand cooks, housekeepers, servers, bartenders and other casino employees at eleven of the resorts 12 casinos have authorized their union to strike if a contract's not reached."

Again another reason the min. Wage person, should stand up and say we won't be your slaves anymore.

YOU!! want us to wait on people to make you money$$.. Then pay for it!!! We know these owner's, Jacked-up! The prices in the casinos because of the pageant, so why shouldn't they give some of it back, to the workers who made it what it is.......

Legislation to protect Siegfried and Roy

NBC-6; "Nevada Senator Harry Reid says his delegation will do everything it can "to protect Siegfried and Roy." Reid is in the middle of a dispute between the Agriculture Department and a video production company that has footage of a tiger mauling entertainer Roy Horn. The department has subpoenaed the producers for the attack footage, as part of an investigation into whether Siegfried and Roy violated animal welfare laws. Reid takes exception to that -- saying he defies anyone to say the Vegas act didn't treat the animals -- quote -- "better than most people treat their children." Feld Entertainment has been refusing to hand over the footage, saying it doesn't want kids to see any gruesome images. The company says it has offered to let investigator see the tape -- but not have it."

I agree that the film should not be open to the public, But I feel as much as the next person. All wild animals are dangureus, even a house-pet can turn on you at the wrong time. So when someone works with a animal in a public setting it is hard to predict if some is going to happen? Because something could happen at the least time expected and for no reason, with any animal. I feel instead of trying to waste a lot of money on this past issue the-agriculture Deptment should focus on how to prevent this from happening again.....

" Internet sex addiction, "

AdultNews;"Like the nose on Pinocchio's face, the pop psychology concept of "Internet sex addiction," keeps on growing. Like the witch-hunt hysteria of centuries past, the insanity is spreading from country to country with the latest batch of illogical conclusions coming from London England, where women were once encourage to "lay back and think of England" while enduring marital sex. Sporting language that would make the Vatican's Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger proud, the increasing openness with which women are admitting that they enjoy sex with addiction. And the Internet, of course, is to blame. "I think the Internet has played a part in the increase, a woman had openly said she wanted sex, it would have raised eyebrows. It is more acceptable now." Well, we can't have that, can we? As usual the definition of "addiction" is staggeringly vague, while simultaneously being compared to increases in physical addictions such as those with drugs and alcohol among women. Additionally, the number used to support this supposed wave of insatiable female sexual hunger is ridiculous. According to the study "Sex Addiction and Women," released by an unspecified firm a whopping one to two percent of women are "addicted" to sex and the Internet. Lock up your sons, folks, Internet harlots are surfing the 'Net in search of no-strings attached sex, naughty pictures, and stories. Well, maybe two-percent of women, anyway -- give or take that traditional three-percent margin of error, of course. Once marketed as an exclusively male "addiction," a fondness for sex and the Internet is now something that women share, with some hooking up for anonymous sexual encounters and hot chats in much the same way people used to do via personal ads and pen pal systems. Somehow researchers are unaware of the bar scene and other more Luddite forms of sexual hook-ups and have declared the number of women using the Internet to meet and greet as "...An unprecedented trend that defies current understanding of the sexual habits of men and women." Maybe some academics need to spend less time in the lab and more time in the real world. According to these so-called experts, women have traditionally under-reported their "sex addiction," whereas men have coped to their bad habit and sought help. Doctors and therapists claim to have treated "dozens of women" ranging in age from 19 to 60 and claim that online erotica is the Internet equivalent of crack cocaine. Unsurprisingly, the people beating the drum of Internet sex addiction are the same people making money off of it by pathologizing what others might consider a healthy sexual appetite or, in the case of women who engage in risky sexual behavior via online contact, a manifestation of a larger problem. But treating the underlying problem doesn't make pop psychologists rich -- blaming technology and encouraging guilt and shame do. For instance, Dr. Cyndi Roller is the author of the Sex Addiction and Women report. She claims that women who are addicted to sex consider themselves to be worthless, unloved, and incapable of having their needs met, and convinced that sex is their chief priority. If this is so, how is the Internet to blame? In fact, how is sex to blame? Certainly there must be a deeper issue to confront than the use of chatrooms for the exchange of saucy fantasies."

If you care to hear my views on this I will tell you women are learning its okay to feel sexy and they can do it in the privacy of their own homes thru the inter-net, and they are having fun doing it. Now I will tell you their is a web-site, I won't say where that I went one time, but they have live cams all the time in people homes so....Okay!! I stayed and peeked..LOL Well lets just say I smoked a pack of cigs.....Watching (blushing)

Men And Their Underwear

washingtonpost; "I found this little tid-bit in the writer area, and couldn't help myself. Sorry guys.. all the talk about pantys lately, and thought all you men you enjoy the last post I did so much I just had to give you this one is was a real fashon statment for fall, for the new-year. It's the writer verson in the mall going shopping in the stores and he stops in this one store - "
Man: I am a lifelong wearer of your products, and I like them just fine, but I got to the mall yesterday, and I saw something very disturbing. They were Jockey underpants. The picture showed a guy, like, shaving or doing something very manly, but he was wearing what appears to be, well, panties.
Lady-clerk: That's the Next to Nothing line of briefs.
Man: My question is, have you ever sold a single one of these items?
Lady-clerk: Oh, yes!
Man: My theory is that you aren't trying to sell them. You have them there to make all your other products look manlier. So, here is my suggestion: Go all the way. Just call them panties. Panties for men. Manties, by Jockey.
Lady-clerk: Ha-ha.
Man: I'm serious. And you should also sell pantyhose for men. Call them Panty-he's. So a guy comes along in the store and sees a display of Manties and Panty-he's, and he's going to buy 12 basic white Jockey boxer shorts, right quick.
Lady-clerk: You know, some men wear pantyhose when they ski.
Man: Omigod."

Well did you like, leave your comment at the door...hehehe!!

Prison Guards Find Basketball Full Of Pot

sfgate;"Okla- Basketballs are usually puffed up with air, but somebody found a way of inflating one with a substance usually associated with puffing of another kind. Oklahoma State Penitentiary officials cut into an exercise-yard basketball and found nearly two pounds of what is believed to be marijuana stuffed inside. Acting on a tip from McAlester police, prison officials searched the yard and found the basketball, which held 30 one-ounce packets of the leafy substance. They seized the basketball from the Talawanda Heights unit, which houses 65 minimum security inmates for the prison and sits away from the main part of the facility. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Linda Morgan said two inmates are on lockdown in connection with the seizure.
Morgan said officials don't know how the basketball got on the prison grounds."

Talk about a air-head!!...Wonder how long this was on the grounds? Now that is what I called prison reform no one smoked it, and to think it still had pot in it.....oh I'm sorry its called : Marijunana

Ex-Wife IDs Bank Robbery Suspect

sfgate;"Ohio -- A suspected bank robber's getaway was abruptly cut short by an unusual witness -- his ex-wife, authorities said. Police accuse Daniel Waggoner, 31, of robbing a bank branch in a Kroger grocery store Tuesday. Police and witnesses said he passed a note demanding money, received cash from tellers and fled. Detective Frank Hensley said Waggoner's ex-wife later saw him driving on state Route 122, and wondered what he was doing in Middletown. "She is on her way to the bank at Kroger and sees his truck -- it's easy to spot. It's black with a chrome smoke stack," Hensley said. When the woman reached the Kroger, she learned that the bank branch was closed because of the robbery. She went to another branch and told the teller that her ex-husband had been in Middletown shortly after the robbery and that he had gotten out of prison a year ago after serving a sentence for bank robbery. "She said he had no business being in Middletown, then she heard about the bank robbery and put it together," Hensley said. The ex-wife identified Waggoner from a photograph taken by the bank surveillance camera, and police took Waggoner into custody."

Sorry, had to print this one. It's got to be the stupid of the day post I feel, come on haven't we always been taught growing up we don't do crap that will get up caught in our own back yards...This guy where's his brains? Maybe he should of first.. Made sure he wouldn't run into his ex-wife, while he was in town at least....LOL

Man Loses License Over 6-Pack A Day

sfgate; "Harrisburg,Pa.- A man who told his doctors that he drinks more than a six-pack of beer per day is now fighting to get his driver's license back because the physicians apparently reported him to the state. Said Tuesday that he disclosed his drinking habit in February to doctors who were treating him at a hospital for an irregular heartbeat. "I told them it was over a six-pack a day. It wasn't good for me. I'm not going to lie," he said in a telephone interview from his home. Emerich received a notice from the Department of Transportation in April that his license was being revoked effective May 6 for medical reasons related to substance abuse. He has petitioned a judge to restore the license, and a hearing has been set. A state law dating to the 1960s requires doctors to report any physical or mental impairments that could compromise a patient's ability to drive safely, any statistics on its reasons for doing so, report motorists with medical conditions that could affect their driving, according to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. The other states are California, Delaware, Oregon, Nevada, and New Jersey.

Okay -Now wait a minute...I thought anything you tell your Doctor was between you and him!...Right? Kind of like the Confession-thing. Well guess not!! Sure won't be telling mine no more juicy gossip anymore...Heck with that!!

Dropped Cig Blows Up Portable Potty

sfgate;"W.Va. - Warning: smoking in the toilet can be dangerous. A portable toilet exploded Tuesday after a man who was inside it lit a cigarette. Emergency workers said the man was not severely injured and drove himself to Clay-Battelle Community Health Center. He was later transferred to Ruby Memorial Hospital. His name and condition were not available Wednesday. The explosion, which occurred in Blacksville, resulted from a buildup of methane gas inside the portable toilet. The methane did not "take too kindly" to the lit cigarette, said a spokeswoman for Monongalia Emergency Medical Services."

Well...... Guess this takes a whole new meaning to [going to the john for a smoke break]..lol

Promise American you will not reinstate the Draft

Found this letter when wandering around on the web and thought I would put it out their for a few to comment on. And see what kind of talk, I can start-up with it... Read on:

Dear Mr.Bush And John Kerry;
Neither of you have put forward an exit strategy for U.S. troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. This open-ended troop deployment, along with the other military commitments of the United States throughout the world, has stretched U.S. forces thin. In order to meet these commitments many soldiers have not been allowed to leave the service at the end of their enlistment (a form of a Draft), thousands of troops are being shifted from South Korea to ease pressure elsewhere, the U.S. is calling up more and more reserves and most recently the Army announced it would call back soldiers who had already left the service.

The House of Representatives voted in May to permanently add 30,000 Army soldiers over the next three years; the Senate voted in June for an additional 20,000 in fiscal 2005. But it is going to be difficult to recruit troops now that young Americans have seen what is going on in Iraq and why this country was plunged into this war of choice in the first place. Indeed, polls show more and more Americans do not support the war and want U.S. troops to come home. The Pentagon's reliance on reservists and National Guard members has grown substantially. The National Guard is being turned into an International Guard. Already the National Guard and reserves make up about 40 percent of our troops in Iraq. Our troops are spread thin even with the expensive outsourcing to corporations of many military functions. As Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, the lead sponsor of a bill to reinstate the draft in the U.S. House of Representatives, recently told The International Herald Tribune "ultimately we will run out of bodies."

Where are the soldiers for your military policies going to come from? As a result of these factors there is increased discussion of the return of the military Draft by elected officials in Congress and commentators. I am writing to you today to urge you to publicly proclaim that you will not support a return of the Draft. An unambiguous clear promise on this matter is needed to put this issue to rest.

Sincerely,

Ralph Nader"

WOMAN TEST-DRIVING CAR FINDS PYTHON UNDER THE HOOD

NBC-6 ; "Potsdam,N.Y- A woman taking a used car out for a test drive found a little some extra under the hood. A big snake. When Margaret Brusso took a 1999 Honda Accord out for a ride, she noticed the car's hood was ajar. She decided to take a look at the engine. That's when she came eye-to-eye with the snake. Brusso let out a scream. A neighbor came over with a pail to help out, then decided the snake was too big for him to handle. A sheriff's deputy with experience handling snakes was dispatched to the scene and corralled the ball python. The snake had escaped from its tank earlier this summer. It has since been returned to its owner. "

Lord-Lord I hate Snakes!!!....Hey....Rathwel...you live up their did you lose something?

SOLDIER WHO LOST ARM WINS APPEAL TO REJOIN ARMY

NBC-6; "Fayetteville, N.C.- Chuck Bartles lost his arm , but not his stripes. Sergeant Bartles is being allowed to rejoin the military. The Army reservist lost most of his right arm in an Iraqi roadside bombing attack. He's with the 418th Civil Affairs Battalion based in Belton, Missouri. Military officials say he's the first amputee to re-up since at least the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Colonel James Suriano, the commander of the 418th, says Bartles' "soldierly qualities" helped him win his appeal to stay in the service. Bartles was awarded a Bronze Star before his re-enlistment ceremony in Fayetteville, North Carolina, this week."
Now this is a man that will let nothing stop him from what he believes in, maybe we should all take a few lessons from him. I stand up and [clap-my hands] to a man that was hurt and could of said he did his part and come home, but he didn't.... I saluted you sir.

George Bush Jr.'s in covert operation/ While John Kerry in Vietnam

Views:"What was he really up to in this tropical wonderland? Some of the non-believers are also asking questions about George Bush Jr.'s attendance record with the Texas National Guard. There is a rumor going around the coffee shop that I hang out at that the president was not absent at all! But involved in covert operation, flying jets over North Vietnam, and personally shot down three Chinese M-16 fighters himself! The reason this information is withheld from the public is because of national security reasons. It must be kept secret. Only people in high positions of government are aware of this, and are sworn to a oath of secrecy. Some of the more patriotic and religious folks that hang out at our cafe seem to agree with this story, and say it is possible! How can you disagree with this kind of vision?

Mike Vestal, Minesweeper 491 Operation Market Time MSO Vietnam, 1968-69"

This gentlemen is one of the old-timer that hangs-out in one of the local coffee shops, in town where I live. Thought it was cute and hope it gives you a smile too

Men In Thongs Arrested At Wal-Mart

sfgate;"SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. -- Two men who were arrested for walking through a Wal-Mart while wearing women's thong underwear blamed the stunt on a "triple-dog dare," authorities said. The men, ages 35 and 36, bought two pair of underwear at the store Tuesday, went into a bathroom and came out wearing only the thongs and T-shirts, police said. Witnesses said the men walked through the store and out to their car. Police caught the men in the parking lot, and reviewed a surveillance tape before arresting them for public indecency and disorderly conduct. When asked why they were wearing thong underwear, one of the men said a friend "triple-dog dared" them... They will not be prosecuted, authorities said."

LMAO..Hey I used to live in Scottsbluff, and they never did stuff like that when I lived there!! Was quite the sleepy town when I lived their...Um? What year was it? Never mind Was to long ago... Boy that must really be a swinging town now, if guys are willing to walk around with those ...Cute-little-buns...Exposed!! Damn and I like Guy-Rears..hehe How does that song go now - (I like big butts and I can not lie)..hehe

EVE's- View on Womens-Pantie's

commondreams;I want to send a BIG-thank-you out to: Lietta-(wonderwander) Here's what she said.."Here is another article on the Panty-Women. I'm not going to use it at any of my blogs (er blush, but amused). I was remembering the post at your blog on same subject, thought you'd be interested to read this article.... Did my part for progressive politics in this election by taking off my clothes. So did over 100 other women when we gathered in Battery Park. This protest wasn't just a clever excuse to undress and shock easily offended Republican delegates; it was a symbolic call to the Bush administration to end its political cover-ups and a call to all women to get out and mobilize for the election. It also taught a valuable lesson to people looking to get attention for their pet issue - print it on a pair of panties. Protesters, member of the Axis of Eve coalition, dance during a 'MASS FLASH of protest panties' in front of Golden Sphere Sculpture in Battery Park. The Axis of Eve was thought up by Tasha and Zazel Eve, two women fed up with George W. Bush's lies and his anti-woman legislation. Bush's "Axis of Evil" State of the Union provided the name, and their desire to bring humor and fun to their activism led them to create and sell, at www.axisofeve.org, the protest panties that are now being flashed across America's, protest gathered women clad in outfits ranging from American flag skirts, olive drab Axis of Eve tank tops and pink boy-short panties, feather boas, fishnets, and the occasional pasty to march, dance, and shout "Bush out of my bush!" Despite calls from the organizers to avoid nudity, some zealous protesters stripped down to the bare minimum and posed for photos. As some women started playing with a volleyball covered by a Bush mask, I had to wonder how the spectacle I'd just participated in was going to tip the election for John Kerry. Organizer Apple Eve told me that this event was just a small part of "Operation Naked Democracy." Up until now, Axis of Eve has been seen as one in a growing number of street theater-based protest groups. While it may not have the numbers of Billionaires for Bush or the surreal punch of Tuesday's anarchist Man in Black Bloc Johnny Cash tribute, the Eves have a detailed "Eve-olutionary" agenda designed to gain attention and boost turnout. They even have a recruitment plan - pantyware parties, and they're coming to a town near you. Turning the Tupperware party concept on its head, pantyware parties offer a strategy to get out the vote on Nov. 2 and create a forum for women to talk about politics while "oohing" and "aahing" over magenta thongs and tank tops printed with "weapon of mass seduction." Apple Eve told me there have been pantyware parties in nearly all swing states, but her list had one glaring omission - Wisconsin. Of course there is still time between now and November for a little more naked democracy."

Well Girls, You heard her!! IT's okay to flash those pantys, as long as your doing it for the President..hehe!

MAN SHOT BY PUPPY

NBC-6;"a man in Pensacola, Florida, who was trying to shoot seven puppies was shot by one of the dogs. The man was holding two of the shepherd-mix puppies when one of them wiggled and put its paw on the trigger of the man's .38-caliber revolver, making it discharge. Escambia County deputies say 37-year-old Jerry Bradford was shot in the wrist and was treated at an undisclosed hospital. To top it off, the sheriff's office issued an arrest warrant charging Bradford with felony animal cruelty. He says he was shooting the 3-month-old pups because he couldn't find another home for them. Three of the puppies were found in a shallow grave behind his house, the other seven were taken by animal control, which intends for them to be adopted."

This is Sick!! This man, I don't care how bad it was for him don't give anyone the right to just take a life of animal, just because it was born. What was wrong with him why didn't he have his female fixed if he didn't want puppy's.

Grand Theft Of My Mother-In-Law

sfgate;"New Zealand - A thief who raced off from a service station with a car, and the driver's mother-in-law crashed a short time later and left the woman in the vehicle, police said. "We don't know at this stage if the guy jumped in the car knowing she's in there or if he jumped in there and got a bit of a surprise," The vehicle's owner was filling the fuel tank when the thief leaped in and drove off with the man's mother-in-law in the car. The car crashed 40 minutes later,(18 miles) away. "The offender decamped from there and left the mother-in-law in the car," Police said. "I don't think she's seriously injured."

Okay how many of you guys will yell- HEY!!.. if someone takes your mother-in-law?

Human ancestors quickly found their feet

New Scientist;"Hominids started walking on two legs six million years ago, shortly after diverging from chimpanzees, according to a study of the inner structure of a fossilised thighbone. The finding puts upright posture at the base of the human family tree. The evolution of upright posture is a key issue in anthropology. Together with large brain size, it marks the dividing line between humans and the great apes. Researchers know that upright posture evolved first because the skeleton of famed Australopithecine, Lucy, has a small braincase but modern ankles. Yet with few known fossils older than about four million years, the details of how and when upright posture evolved have been hazy. Over the past few years, however, two important new finds have begun to fill in the gaps. The older animal is Sahelanthropus tchadensis, which lived in Chad six to seven million years ago, but only its hominid cranium was found. More complete is the chimpanzee-sized Orrorin tugenensis, as 20 fossils from at least five individuals have been found in Kenya. These are about six million years old. In knuckle-walking chimps, the cortex is the same thickness on the top and bottom of the bone. However, bipedal, upright walking applies different forces, which means the cortex in humans is at least four times thicker on the bottom part of the bone. Senut found that the lower part of the thighbone in Orrorin is three times thicker than the upper - making its walking habits much closer to humans than chimps."

What is this Orrorin? Well I went looking and this is what I came up with:

Orrorin was a human ancestor adapted to both bipedality and tree climbing, and that the australopithecines are an extinct offshoot.-read more on this article go to:Orrorin;"

>>>To tell you the truth don't know if I know much more then I did before I read it, If I read it right we are still a off-spring of some kind of Monkey...LOL sorry guys I like this stuff don't always say I understand it..

Man Jailed & $ 2000 Fine

NBC-6;" Idaho Falls Idaho-Due to his family's pet.Two witnesses say they saw a little girl walking her dog on a leash, when two miniature pinchers ran across the street from their house. Witnesses say the dogs began to fight and that the girl was dragged out into the road. Witnesses say they ran to help the girl and got the dogs to go home. The witnesses say the owner of the dogs, stood in his yard and watched the whole incident. According to the father, his son did go out and see if the girl was okay, and took his dog's home. The girl was then taken to hospital by ambulance to be treated for her injuries. He was cited for having a dog at large. Received a $2,000 dollar fine and is currently serving 10 days in jail. "The dogs saw each other; went over to investigate, and by the time my son had gotten out moments later, the Shepherd had pulled the girl to the street. She had abrasions, so my son went over; helped her up and asked if she was okay; she said yes I'm alright.But she said-"He never left his yard; I saw him when I got half way down the street. I saw him standing there. He never came to the street; he never even touched the girl or asked if she was okay anything."

This seems to always be a problem in most towns, my children come home at least once week and tell me about some dog that scared them on their way home from school. More needs to be done about things like this next time it could be worst for some other little child.