SRAH sILVERMAN IS SOOOOO HOT!~!!!!

I think she's the sexiest woman on tv like ever. I'd like to meet a woman like that, i just watched her performance on comedy central's last laugh '05 and i about lost it when she stuck her sweet ass into the mic and sang amazing grace in a bass voice eminating from her anus. wow. that;s one to take home to mommy! if you read my blog sarah, call me; i'd like to cum on your face.

US to invade Canada

I say go for it. What do we have to loose?

Raiding the Icebox
Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada

By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 30, 2005; Page C01

Invading Canada won't be like invading Iraq: When we invade Canada, nobody will be able to grumble that we didn't have a plan.

The United States government does have a plan to invade Canada. It's a 94-page document called "Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan -- Red," with the word SECRET stamped on the cover. It's a bold plan, a bodacious plan, a step-by-step plan to invade, seize and annex our neighbor to the north. It goes like this:

First, we send a joint Army-Navy overseas force to capture the port city of Halifax, cutting the Canadians off from their British allies.

Then we seize Canadian power plants near Niagara Falls, so they freeze in the dark.

Then the U.S. Army invades on three fronts -- marching from Vermont to take Montreal and Quebec, charging out of North Dakota to grab the railroad center at Winnipeg, and storming out of the Midwest to capture the strategic nickel mines of Ontario.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy seizes the Great Lakes and blockades Canada's Atlantic and Pacific ports.

At that point, it's only a matter of time before we bring these Molson-swigging, maple-mongering Zamboni drivers to their knees! Or, as the official planners wrote, stating their objective in bold capital letters: "ULTIMATELY TO GAIN COMPLETE CONTROL."

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Will Smith gets ripped off

None of us are imune to the perils of identiy theft. Not even the fresh prince.

Will Smith identity thief sent back to prison
Dec. 29, 2005, 9:12AM

By JOE MANDAK
Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — A man who stole Will Smith's identity to run up credit-card debts is going back to prison for two years for violating probation, a judge has ruled.

Judge Alan N. Bloch concluded Tuesday that Carlos Lomax, 45, formerly of Duquesne, was "not amenable" to probation, according to defense lawyer Mark Lancaster.

Lomax failed to rehabilitate himself and make restitution to his victims while on supervised release, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said.

He was sentenced to 37 months in prison — later reduced to 30 months — after pleading guilty to opening 14 bogus credit accounts at Pittsburgh-area stores using the identity of Willard C. Smith, the legal name of the rapper-turned-actor. Lomax was released from a halfway house in June.

Lomax has an earlier identity-theft conviction involving former Atlanta Hawks basketball player Steve Smith, now a TV commentator for the team.

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cab compaines in dc

why the fuck is so godmn hard to call a taxi at odd hours in dc? I need to get to union statioin tonight by 3am, cause that's when my train leaves and i need to be on it. Who do i call to get this done? i called all the companies listed here. and no luck. How is it that these jokers don't have hours right fuckin' now? bastids!

Christ, I'm druink.

update: ok I finally got ahold of someone at the Diamond cab company, and they said that a car will be infront of my house at 2:15, or so they say. we'll see. I'm waiting fuckers. got that?

update: ok, yeah they showed up and on time, actually a little early to tell the truth. so Diamond cab company is allright in my book.

yaaaaa

marx went really well last night. I played my Phil Collins "Easy lover" remix, and the garage remix of Kool and the Gang's "ladies night". I got some good feedback from the people there, and the best part - i got a phone number on a bar napkin (a first) from a pretty ladie who said that she thought my music was "fabalous". lol.

i think I'm slowly realizing, katie helped me with this, that I like and play some gay ass music. Most of my tracks feature diva vocals and extended breakdowns which i use as drop and mix points. Apparently these are signs that my selection is super limp wristed. My Man in the mirror mix really set it off, I never really knew it was a michael jackson song until one of my roomates pointed it out. She was all like, "Bad is like the best MJ album ever."

Well I'm glad that everything went over so well. People told me they enjoyed it and i think that's cool, yo. I won't be back there until the 3rd of January. My drink offer still stands, mention my blog and get a free drink. Actually since this outlet receives minum exposure as it is, the first person to mention it to the bar tender will get whatever they want, shots, beers, wine, etc.. fuckin' go nuts.

Tonight @ MARX CAFE

Yup it's that time of the week again, time to strap on the record bag and see what shakes loose. Marx Cafe, ~11pm. Mention mattb's thought zone to the bartender and get a free (1) drink. I have new music, UK Garage, House and some D&B ready to rock the hizzie fo sheezie.

Marx Cafe
3203 Mount Pleasant St. NW, Washington, DC

insland mystery continues

Why is it that Rita Cosby is the only one reporting the Holloway disappearance?



She watched Tookie die.

fake exorcist scams old woman

This seems oddly reminiscent of this story that i reported on earlier during the year. I guess there is a down side to harboring ridiculous beliefs like the supernatural. it makes you the pray of scam artists. ha ha, bitch got what she deserved.

That's way too much for an exorcism...

Dec 15, 10:50 AM (ET)

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German woman lost more than 5,000 euros ($6,000) after a would-be soothsayer convinced her she was possessed by evil spirits and prescribed an expensive exorcism as a remedy, authorities said Wednesday. Police in the central town of Northeim said the 44-year-old was told she was possessed by a young woman who read her palm at a Christmas market.

The victim became agitated and agreed to an exorcism at her home the following day, for which she paid the 'seer' more than 5,000 euros in cash and jewelry. The exorcist then gave her more bad news -- there were other spirits that needed casting out.

"That's when a bad feeling crept over the victim," the police said in a statement. "She informed the police forthwith." Police have arrested a 17-year-old woman from former Yugoslavia. The victim's money and jewelry have been returned.

Tonight / last night

Unfortunately BOH! Was canceled for tonight/last night, apparently Andalu is closed for renovations whatever the fuck that means. They might find another venue, and I'm waiting to hear back from my contact at incognito if this happens or not. Damn, this shit was going to be hot.

Update: basic ops played at club five instead of Andalu last night. Apparently Andalu is going through a complete renovation, and it's about time that place could use some new furniture at the very least, and while they are at it; take the mirrors off the walls. You’re not fooling anyone when you attempt to create the illusion of space.

world's dumbest criminals

What are these guys doing stealing a 2001 Mustang anyways? American cars suck, and I know because I used to own one. The details are just too funny. One of these clowns was actually found wearing the same shirt he was wearing while taking pictures of himself in a stolen car right before leaving the camera in the abandoned vehicle. Damn going joyriding can be fun, but don't leave behind such evidence. Whenever I steal a car I always wear gloves, and I don't bring a camera.

Car theft suspects foiled by fingerprints, photos
06:46 AM CST on Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Associated Press

REDLANDS, Calif. - Police in California say they had a lot of help nabbing a pair of car theft suspects -- from the suspects themselves. The men left behind not only fingerprints, but also photos of themselves sitting inside and standing outside the stolen 2001 Ford Mustang, police said.

The photos were taken with a disposable camera the suspects found in the Mustang, which they left behind when they abandoned the car. "These are not the brightest people," said Carl Baker, a Redlands police department spokesman.

The fingerprints and photos led police to the Redlands home of Albert Engelsman on Friday. Police say he was wearing the same shirt he had on in the photographs. "Once he was confronted with this evidence, he pretty much realized he was done in," Baker said. Engelsman, 28, was charged with grand theft auto and possession of stolen property, Baker said. He is free on bail.

An arrest warrant on the same charges has been issued for his alleged accomplice, Matthew Montanez, 22, of Rialto, Baker said. Both men have unlisted telephone numbers. Redlands is about 80 miles east of Los Angeles.

wooha, i like playing music

Hell yeah, I just got back from marx cafe and let me tell you I turned that mother out! I laid out a fun set of UK garage, house and breakbeats. with some NWA and depeche mode thrown in along the way. I even played a house remix of love is in the air it went over like like a plane. I played for almost two hours and went through all my cd's. I made a couple of mistakes, i cued the wrong channel once and brought the cue channel into the mix prematurely. and beatmatching was a mess through only but two or three mixes. Overall I felt it had been well received. This drunk russian guy said he liked it and that's all the proof I need. Same time next week, and I gotta get to downloading some new tunes.

mattb @ Marx again!

That's right kids, come hear the sounds of mattb learning how to beatmatch on a dodgy numark cd mixer in a comfortable homey venue with a penchant for the revolutionary. It'll be good times; I promise. i haven't listened to any of my records in 2 years. If you reconize any of the tunes I play, that means that you have excellent taste or a napster subscription. Don't sleep! BOH!

Marx Cafe
3203 Mount Pleasant St. NW, Washington, DC

Matt Damon got married

I love how the press is saying that this is "Damon's first marriage" it's as they are assuming that this one will end in failure and he'll marry again, and once that happens the press here has set themselves up to be able to run the story of his fourth marriage, etc.. You see what I mean. How many local papers run marriage announcements informing readers that this is the groom’s first marriage? Probably not too many. It pisses me off that the press treats celebrities like they are different than ordinary non-famous people. Yo!!! Famous people, ya know they shit like normal people! Famous bitches; they still menstruate like the rest of us! Matt Damon jacks off, just like the rest of us, and that means using the left hand! Pokers need to fly off you. i have an imense respect for Matt (cause we share the same first name, duh) and I hope that this marrige will last forever! Congrats!!

Updated: 03:58 PM EST
Matt Damon Marries Girlfriend in New York City

LOS ANGELES (Dec. 9) - Matt Damon married girlfriend Luciana Bozan in a private ceremony Friday in New York City, his publicist said.

Damon, 35, and his bride exchanged wedding vows during a small ceremony at an undisclosed location, spokeswoman Jennifer Allen said. Bozan's 7-year-old daughter witnessed the ceremony. In a previous marriage Bozan went by the name Luciana Barroso.

The wedding took place in New York's City Hall, according to Ed Skyler, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Skyler and Damon's publicist provided no further details.

Asked if Damon's friend and "Good Will Hunting" co-star Ben Affleck witnessed the wedding, Allen said no.

It was the first marriage for Damon, the second for Bozan. They will split their time between homes in New York and Florida.

Damon's publicist wouldn't discuss an "Access Hollywood" report that Damon's bride is pregnant.

Damon and Affleck won a best screenwriting Oscar for 1997's "Good Will Hunting."

Damon's screen credits also include roles in "Saving Private Ryan," "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Ocean's Eleven" and "Syriana." He met Bozan while she was working as a bartender in Florida, Allen said.

Damon is in New York shooting the Robert De Niro-directed film "The Good Shepherd" with Angelina Jolie.

Associated Press Writer Sara Kugler in New York contributed to this report.

12/09/05 15:52 EST

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.

Industrial accidents are da bomb yo.

Ha ha. Dead people are funny. Everybody point and laugh! I hope this particular accident was totally grisly, ya know w/ guts and blood everywhere. I wonder if it ruined the machine, or if they were back up and running a couple of hours later. I'd be kind of freaked out a little to tell you the truth if I had to go to work the next day knowing that this machine I'm using is the same one that ate one of my co-workers the day before. Maybe he was pushed?

Man killed by fall into shredding machine

Dec 8 2005

By Adrian Short, Weekly News

POLICE are investigating the circumstances which led to the death of a Widnes man who was killed after falling into an industrial shredding machine.

Following a post-mortem examination in the wake of the horrific incident - which took place in the early hours of November 24 at Delleve Plastics Ltd in St Helens - the cause of death was given as multiple crushing injuries.

But on Tuesday - more than 10 days after the death - police were still waiting for the body to be formally identified.

Two crews of firefighters and a rapid response team from Mersey Regional Ambulance Service rushed to the scene after a member of staff at Delleve raised the alert.

But they said nothing could be done to help the man as he was already dead upon their arrival.

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Dennis Rodman moons Tiesto!!

OMFG that's too perfect. Rodman: He does what were all thinking! This is riddled with irony; I take back any thing disparaging I may have said in the past concerning Dennis Rodman. He should get a dance star award for this latest antic. I hope Rodman is at the WMC this year; I’d like to thank him personally for exposing his ass to another ass. CHEERS!!

Rodman Keeps His Low Profile

Hey, Dennis Rodman made some “news” over the weekend. After showing up at a book signing scandalously dressed in revolutionary drag, Rodman apparently showed up at a DJ Tiesto show at Crobar and got himself in a wee bit of trouble.

The former NBA star [jumped onstage and] doffed his shirt and pulled down his pants to expose his backside, prompting a disgusted Tiesto to storm offstage. “Rodman chased after him, screaming that that he was sorry and for him to come back,” says a witness. A club spokesman confirmed that Rodman was escorted out when Tiesto refused to return to his turntables until “The Worm” was shown the door.

Be sure and read the emails from Rodman's agent found linked on the original article; they’re just too damn funny!

Rap star shoots self in head

HA HA HAHA AHA AHA AHA AH !!!! wow, I guess his record career is off with a bang! It's a shame cause he was such a high caliber performer. All the top producers in the game are going to be gunning to sign this cat! LOL

Rapper Shoots Himself With Pen Gun
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

ST. PARIS, Ohio — Steven Zorn had put the pen gun to his head and clicked before, apparently thinking it was jammed and would not work.

But on the third try, the tiny silver pistol went off as the 22-year-old budding rap artist was drinking to celebrate an impending record deal. He died at a hospital.

The Nov. 18 shooting at Zorn's home in this rural village of 2,000, about 50 miles northeast of Dayton, is believed to have been accidental, according to family, friends and law enforcement officials.

"Steven had a career and his dreams all ahead of him," said Zorn's mother, Lisa McCoy-Horn. She said she wants lawmakers to outlaw pen guns, which are small-caliber, single-shot weapons that resemble pens.

Zorn had taught himself to play the keyboard and record tracts using inexpensive software on his home computer. He tracked down rap artist Miracle in Georgia and urged the crunk artist to listen to a CD of his original recordings.

"The lyrical content was awesome," Miracle said. "He had a lot of skill. I took a liking to him, took him under my wing."

mattb's DC debut on the 1 & 2's.

10pm or something TONITE! I am Djing at the Marx Cafe in Mount Pleasant. I am very excited, it's been two years since I have done this and am rather nervous as well. I'll be playing a crispy selection of UK Garage, laid back Drum n' Bass and Epic House. Come out if you can. My roomate tommy is the bartender at Marx and will mix whatever drink you can come up with. Below is a little review of the spot. Hope you can make it!

Marx Cafe
3203 Mount Pleasant St , NW

This restaurant and bar has an inviting low-key ambience without being pretentious. The low-lit wooden interior provides more character than the clubs that try to be hip in Adams Morgan. The menu is composed of mostly Spanish cuisine that is reasonably tasty and pretty cheap. Their Belgian beers round out the usual beer menu. The Marx Cafe hosts DJs who spice up the experience as the night goes on. This is a chill place to spend an evening.

Another article about Marx Cafe

South park is cool

The current week's southpark episode is totally funny. There's a dead orca whale on the moon! While looking for some screencaps or videos of it on google video I tripped across this anime music video. Now, I know most anime music videos suck cock diesel all the way. Watching poorly digitized Dragon Ball Z clips set to a Staind MP3 is a formula for poor taste. This one is really good however. It's an hour long and is edited with the furious style of the cartoon network's adult swim series robot chicken. Each clip jumps after like 15-50 seconds and features all maners of music.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do.....

Seattle has a monorail?

Hey I read this whole article. Who knew that Seattle had a monorail? I sure didn't. The only thing I know about that city is that it rains all the time and starbucks, Microsoft and Boeing live there. What idiot places monorail track so close together that passing trains may strike each other? It's a shame that the voters up there didn't vote to expand the current system as I’m sure it would have promoted tourism there. How many cities even have monorails? Malaysia has one kick ass monorail. Why not DC? Putting aside the obviously crude Simpson’s references for just one second, I'd like to say that a monorail would do more good for dc than the currently proposed baseball stadium and we could build one smokin’ hot monorail with the cash dc is prepared to sink into the new sports entertainment complex proposed for SE DC.

Monorail accident caused by human error

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE -- Human error caused the Seattle monorail accident. The inbound driver failed to yield to the other train at the point where the track are too close together for passing, officials said Wednesday.

"The incident is a sad situation for all concerned and we are very relieved that no one was seriously injured," said Stuart Rolfe, a Seattle Monorail Services partner, in a statement. "The inbound driver was an experienced individual who made some very unfortunate and costly errors."

Seattle Police reported Wednesday that drug tests on both drivers by an independent lab showed "illegal substances were not a factor in the accident."

The monorail's only two cars sideswiped each other on a curve near the downtown station Saturday evening, and both ground to a halt. Fire crews helped the 84 passengers down from the 28-foot-high tracks. There were no serious injuries.

Dead rat found in russian crackers

When I first read this story I thought we were dealing with a dead human. Who uses infant to describe a rodent? The description small rat would have sufficed. I think the editors of this Russian news magazine must have intentionally loaded the article's title in this fashion in the hopes others would jump to the same conclusion. I mean the dead rat story is ok, but it can't compare with a story about a dead human infant found in a pack of crackers. Happy December First!

Dead infant rat found in a crackers pack

Butyrsky District Court (Moscow) is currently investigating a suit of three citizens who claim for compensation of moral damage and threat to their health, a REGNUM correspondent was told in the press office of the Moscow Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). The sum of moral damage compensation, claimed by three citizens, equals to at least 50 million rubles ($1.786 million).

On March, 18 2005, the plaintiffs bought a product of “Bridgetown foods Ltd.” – rye crackers. When they opened the package, they found a dead body of an infant rat in it.

The plaintiffs went to the local Veterinary-Sanitarian Center to have an expertise conducted. The expertise showed that the body of the infant rat “has the traces of the same thermal and cooking procedures that have been passed over the crackers”, and “the body is covered with the fragments of the crackers, that are identical to the biscuits in the package”. As the press office informs, “it clearly represents that during the production of this package, severe violations of a number of federal laws and sanitarian regulations have been conducted,” that caused the violation of article 7 of the Russian law “On Defense of Consumer Rights”. The plaintiffs avoided food poisoning, but their health was harmed, the medical examination states.

As violations during the production of the foodstuffs have a high rate of the public danger, the lawyer of the victims asked to draw representatives of FAS and the Service for Defense of Consumer Rights to the court sessions as third persons.
Permanent news address: www.regnum.ru/english/540588.html
20:07 12/01/2005

Who the f*ck is Mujibar anywho?

Oh noes!! Not the Verizion help desk; that's where DSL comes from!!

Message: 2
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:00:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Phil
Subject: MUJIBAR'S NEW JOB


Mujibar was trying to get into the USA legally through Immigration.

The Officer said, "Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except there is one more test.
Unless you pass it, you cannot enter the United States of America."

Mujibar said, "I am ready."

The officer said, "Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and Green."

Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, "Mister Officer, I am ready."

The Officer said, "Go ahead."

Mujibar said, "The telephone goes green, green, green, and I pink it up, and say, 'Yellow, this is Mujibar.'"

Mujibar now lives in a neighborhood near you and works at a Verizon help desk.

From the Trent Lott's Porch yahoo group. Most likely the single useful email I have gotten from them. buy them bumper stickers asshole!!

MZM, Inc. Whata bucha f'ing crooks!!

Holy freaking crap sauce, this is some vile egregious behavior from someone entrusted with the reigns of government. I really think this Cunningham fellow should get 5 years in prison, although i say this with a heavy heart, this guy was a real ACE in Vietnam, the first fighter piolt with 5 kills. But what really burns my toast is the fact that these companies that knowingly bribe our elected officials STILL HAVE THE CONTRACTS which were illicitly obtained. So while Cunningham makes his tearful apology in front of the news cameras, some black hole recipient of tax payer money continues to perform on a contract which they aren't fully entitled too. This MZM Company is dirty as shit as it is. Belch, I think that I’m going to be sick. for real.

Congressman Admits Taking Bribes, Resigns
GOP's Cunningham Faces Jail Term

By Charles R. Babcock and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 29, 2005; Page A01

Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) resigned from Congress yesterday after tearfully confessing to evading taxes and conspiring to pocket $2.4 million in bribes, including a Rolls-Royce, a yacht and a 19th-century Louis-Philippe commode.

The decorated Vietnam-era fighter pilot, 63, entered his guilty plea to a federal court in San Diego and then choked up as he proclaimed: "In my life, I have known great joy and great sorrow. And now I know great shame."

continue reading.. - washington post article.

MZM, Inc. background.. - USA Today story from 11-09-05

DefenseTech.org coverage - it dosen't get any better. prepare to get sicker.

learning to control fear

An interesting series of articles concerning some cutting edge psychology research. I'd love to be fearless. It's kind of disconcerting to realize how deeply ingrained these responses are in our psyche.

Can We Cure Fear?
Scientific American

We naturally view any risk we witness as a personal threat--even when it is on the opposite side of the globe and we see it only on TV. Is popping a pill the answer?

By Marc Siegel

Excerpted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (www.wiley.com), from False Alarm: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear. Copyright ?2005 by Marc Siegel.

In early 2004 my daughter, Rebecca, was taking a bath. She was almost three years old. When the tub's Jacuzzi device turned on, she became petried. I raced to her side, to find her standing straight up, bright red from crying.

For months afterward, she abhorred baths. As a physician who has studied the neurobiology of fear, I knew that the prefrontal cortex of her young brain had just finished wiring its "safety center," where analytical reasoning can overcome primitive emotions. I tried to appeal to her newly working brain center to suppress the worry that this tub would always bring the scary bubbles, but her body's innate response was too strong. By starting with showers and diverting the focus of her attention from the tub, I was gradually able to return her to baths. But to this day she is wary of bubbles.

Why is fear so intractable? And what can we do about it? Therapy has provided succor for many people; others have relied on the strength they get from their faith or other support networks. But in a world where we regularly witness hair-raising events--such as the aftermath of suicide bomber attacks in full color on our living-room televisions, on Web sites and on newspapers' front pages--is such verbal support enough? Answering a perceived need, fear-blunting medications are coming onto the scene. Could we--should we--all simply pop pills to ease our anxieties?

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Info on Propranolol..

bored? Try these fun things.

I wrote half of this last nite while black out drunk and hardly remember any of it. Good times.

Things to try while waiting for the metrorail

Find homeless looking people and then bet them $300 that they can’t piss on the third rail while still standing on the platform. Use counterfeit bills.

Locate two payphones close to each other so that the handsets can be placed receiver to earpiece, dial the same 1-800 number on each phone and chuckle with mirth as call center employees answer each other.

Ask everyone in sight "when is the bus getting here?" when some genius says that it's called a train say "nuh-uh, a train is when you fuck 5 people" very loudly.

Go to the pay phone again, this time dial 1-800-COLLECT, when asked for your name say Harry Balzac, Dick Fitzwell, etc... Enter a random number using the 808 area code, this is in Hawaii. If someone actually accepts the charges, call them a moron and hang up. Or turn to a stranger and say, "it's for you".

Sit on the bench next to several people who are waiting for the train, when they get up to enter the train car that has arrived stay where you are remaining perfectly still while staring at the ceiling. As soon as the doors closing tones chime blindly attempt to leap onto the train, if you’re lucky the doors will close on your midsection in mid air, scream loudly about the vicious “man trap” in which you have become ensnared.

Ask the station manager if he knows where to buy cocaine.

Metro train drivers often look out the window down the length of the train to determine if everyone has boarded. Wait for this right next to that window as close as possible without being seen. When they stick their head out, yell BOOGIE-BOOGIE-BOOLHA YAHAHA as loudly as possible all up in their face. This will freak them out a great deal.

Stuff a backpack with several liquor bottles, different mixers and a couple of martini glasses. Carry a large cardboard box at least waist high, have a collapsible stool on hand and a table cloth for the box. Set up a bar and start selling drinks but charge outrageous prices like $16 for a gin and tonic. If anyone has the gall to complain about the prices tell them they can take their business elsewhere. Where else are they going to go?

Write the words “metro card $5” on the back of an old 7-11 receipt using either crayons or lipstick. Offer to sell it for ONLY THREE DOLLARS to people using the fare card machines. Loudly berate their stupidity for passing up such an obvious bargain.

Do all the above while wearing a fine tuxedo. Anything is possible when you are wearing a tuxedo.

Carpenter to Home Depot "Screw you!"

I think this is absurd, mistake or not he should be prosecuted. If every theif was allowed to claim that they simply forgot to return whatever turned up missing, why it'd be anarachy!

Home Depot Apologizes to Pencil Thief

By Associated Press
Published November 21, 2005, 11:05 AM CST

METHUEN, Mass. -- Home Depot Inc. apologized to a carpenter who was banned by the chain worldwide after he absent-mindedly pocketed a pencil he had used up to do some quick math. Michael Panorelli, 51, of Lawrence, was accused of shoplifting from the Methuen store last Thursday and banned from Home Depots.

Panorelli was with a client and had just bought some lumber when the client picked up the pencil sitting next to a cash register for Panorelli to use. Panorelli pocketed the pencil and was met in the parking lot by a worker who asked for identification. The worker presented Panorelli with one letter saying he was banned from Home Depot, and another advising that he would be hearing from the company's lawyers.

Panorelli took his story to the Eagle-Tribune newspaper in Lawrence, which published it over the weekend. On Sunday, Atlanta-based Home Depot issued a written apology, saying the incident was prompted by a narrow interpretation of its shoplifting-prevention rules.

"We will not be pursuing any claims against Mr. Panorelli for this incident," the statement said. "We welcome Mr. Panorelli back as a customer in our stores at any time." But the carpenter said he had no intention of doing business there again, adding, "Why should I put money in someone's pocket when they treat me like this?"

Copyright © 2005, The Associated Press

College still a drunken good time.

I'm glad to hear some kids are still holding it down some place some how. Good for them.

Campus Crime Log
Nov. 7 - Nov. 13
By: Allison Conley
Issue date: 11/17/05 Section: News

Campus Crime Log is a weekly feature of The Echo and is compiled from UTC police reports to keep students aware of incidents on campus. Reports are listed in chronological order.

Tuesday, November 8
052192 - A victim filed a report to UTC police on accidental property damage. On Nov. 2, the victim was walking under a balcony at Lockmiller.
The residents were washing their door on their balcony with a bleach and water solution, unknown to the victim. The bleach-water damaged her blue jogging suit when it came into contact with the drippings above her.
Both suspects felt as if they were not liable for the damages. Attempts to contact the suspects by telephone were unsuccessful.

052202 - A male was seen going into a window of the 2000 building of UTC Place on the Douglas Street side. After finding out what room it was, police responded to the room to find out what was going on. An identified suspect said that he climbed though the window to visit the females that were staying there. The suspect was let off with a warning.
There were also three other males who were in the room drinking underage and who were not UTC students. They stated that they had just come from a concert and were going to stay there. There were at least 20 to 30 empty beer cans on the counter. The three males were charged with drinking underage and they all admitted to drinking the beer. They were all 18 years old. The RA was called out to the room belonging to freshmen girls.
The girls were written up by the RA and will be sent to student affairs. The men were sent on their way and cited to appear in court.

Wednesday, November 9
052205 - An officer responded to the UC to Aramark food services for a theft. Upon police arrival, police spoke with the suspect who advised that he had taken a 12-pack of chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A without paying for them. The manager and cashier advised that suspect walked from Chick-fil-A without paying for the food.
This incident will be turned over to student affairs and the deans.

052207 - An officer responded to lot 34 on a vandalism call. Upon arrival, police noticed that one of the emergency parking lot phones was laying on the ground. The phone appeared to have been ripped from the pole. Police contacted facilities.

052209 - UTC police received a call indicating there was an intoxicated person in the lobby of the Fine Arts Center. Once inside the building, the officer encountered the assistant dean of students who advised that there was a student making statements about being a female Kappa Delta.
The suspect had bloodshot eyes and an odor of alcohol on his breath. The suspect maintained his balance and composure well during the interview and was allowed to leave so a friend could pick him up.

Thursday, November 10
052216 - An officer responded to a call of an assault to the UTC Place 3000 building. Upon arrival, the officer met with the person who called in the complaint.
He stated that he and a group of guys, including the suspect, were hanging out in the room when for unknown reasons, the suspect came up behind him, grabbed him from behind, bear-hugged him, stole his cell phone and left. Police were unable to located the suspect.

022187 - An officer was dispatched to Boling Apartments on a reported narcotics violation. Upon arrival to the apartment, police knocked on the door and requested entrance.
The defendant opened the door and there was a pack of cigarettes in plain view hollowed out in the floor and incense was burning. The defendant was informed of the reason why the police were called and asked for verbal consent to search the room. The defendant consented in both the presence of the RA and the officer.
Alcohol was discovered in the room and the defendant was cited for possession of alcohol underage. The defendant refused to cooperate with the RA or police and was almost cited for disorderly behavior. No narcotics were found at the time.

interview w/ Matthew Simmons

Great interview with Matthew Simmons, author of 'Twilight in the Desert'. http://www.theoildrum.com/st... - read all about it.

Looting by the LA National Guard

When I first read this I thought they meant looting from a liquor store, but these National Guardsmen stole the booze from a private home! That's pretty despicable. Their punishment? Send em' to Iraq!

Two soldiers arrested for alleged looting
Posted: Nov 15, 2005, 07:50 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two members of the Louisiana National Guard were arrested after they were seen carrying boxes of liquor from a home and loading them into a Humvee, authorities said.

The alleged looting took place in the affluent Eastover community in eastern New Orleans, police said. Other boxes of apparently stolen liquor were found in the back of the military vehicle, investigators said.

A spokesman for the Louisiana National Guard said that two soldiers assigned to hurricane relief duties were detained and turned over to military authorities. Maj. Ed Bush said the soldiers could either be court-martialed or turned over to civilian authorities for prosecution.

Police Capt. Bob Bardy said the detention of Sgt. Glen Wallace and Sgt. George Babers marks the second time police have stumbled across apparent looting by National Guard soldiers. Two weeks ago, two soldiers were arrested after they were allegedly seen taking items from an electronics store in eastern New Orleans.

Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Collection Act of 2005

Ha ha, that's some whack shit. She's pandering to her district to get some support for the next election; I can imagine what her constituency looks like. Jeesh, wasting congressional time with this tripe.

THE TUPAC SHAKUR RECORDS COLLECTION ACT

A bill modeled on the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act would require the U.S. National Archives to establish a "Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Collection."

The bill, introduced by Rep. Cynthia McKinney, is based on the premise that "all Government records related to the life and death of Tupac Amaru Shakur should be preserved for historical and governmental purposes."

Tupac Shakur "was a highly influential, best-selling American hip hop artist, considered by many to be one of the greatest and most legendary rappers of all time," according to an entry in Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia. He was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.

Rep. McKinney's bill, which has no co-sponsors and no identifiable support, is unlikely to become law.

A copy of the "Tupac Amaru Shakur Records Collection Act of 2005," H.R. 4210, introduced November 2, 2005, is posted here:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2005/hr4210.html

write-up, and news coverage - http://www.thuglifearmy.com/news/?id=2086

From the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy. Link.

bush countdown

I can't wait for this nightmare to be over. These countdown keychains will help you pass the time, one second at a time, until chimpie is out of the oval office and they make great stocking stuffers. all hail the rat king. check em' out. boohhhh!!1

http://www.backwardsbush.com/

US to build large fence

Hell yes! And I might add that it's about time. Our government is finally getting serious about building a giant fence to keep illegal aliens from settling in the US. These people are like, they just start walking north and then "hey Holmes this looks like a nice place I think I'll live here. I mean, come on who does that?? Yeah I'm just going to go someplace and decide to live there, in a different country, and not tell anybody. Ridiculous! Since none of these invaders have the common decency to go through the accepted process and feel it’s perfectly alright to just walk here, the only sane thing to do is build a giant fence to deter this type of activity. This may be the dept. of homeland sec.’s only success; I only have to say that it’s a little late in coming. This shit should have been built back in the 70’s and constantly improved since. I bet if they had built the wall sooner, we might still have 99.1 WHFS on the air here instead of LA MeGA. Sigh...

11/04/05

DHS, Congress offer border security plans

By Alice Lipowicz
Contributing Staff Writer

As the Bush administration introduces new steps to control border security, a leading Republican congressman is promoting a plan to build a multibillion-dollar fence along the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff announced the comprehensive, new Secure Border Initiative Nov. 2, calling for deployment of integrated surveillance technologies including unmanned aerial vehicles, remote video cameras and next-generation sensors.

Contract awards for the integrated border security system will begin in fiscal 2006, and deployment will occur in fiscal 2007, Chertoff said.

The border initiative also includes an additional 1,000 border agents, greater detention capacity, expedited removal of illegal aliens, increased use of fencing and lighting, and other measures.

Chertoff’s new program appears to encompass the $2.5 billion America’s Shield Initiative, a proposed system of thousands of video surveillance cameras and detection devices at the Mexico and Canada borders that had been announced to contractors in 2004. While Chertoff did not mention America’s Shield by name, industry sources expect that America’s Shield is being folded into the broader program.

“DHS will field the most effective mix of current and next-generation technology with trained personnel,” Chertoff said. “Our goal is to ultimately have the capacity to integrate multiple state-of-the-art cameras and sensors into a single comprehensive detection system and expand infrastructure systems throughout the border where appropriate to strengthen our efforts to reduce illegal entry.”

In related news, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.), said today they would introduce a bill to build a reinforced fence with lighting and sensors along the 2,000-mile border, said Linwood Duncan, a spokesman for Goode. Cost estimates range up to $8 billion.

Only 14 miles of the westernmost section of the border are currently fenced.

Alice Lipowicz is a staff writer for Government Computer News’ sister publication, Washington Technology.

My bull jizz is gone!! oh noes!

Wow. I'm sure the truth will cum out eventually. Those thieves display a great amount of spunk. MOoooo!!

$75,000 in Bull Semen Is Stolen From Frederick Farm

By Nelson Hernandez
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 3, 2005; Page B03

In his nearly 16 years in the Frederick County Sheriff's Office, Detective Chuck Jenkins has seen a lot: old-fashioned cattle rustling, grand theft tractor and thousands of more-pedestrian crimes. But he's never seen anything quite like his most recent whodunit: the case of the stolen bull semen.

The burglary took place Sunday in Smithsburg while Eric Fleming was away from his farm, Stonewood Acres. When he got home that night from a visit to relatives in Pennsylvania, he found that the 70-pound semen tank he had in an outbuilding was open, with the electrical cord pulled out of the liquid nitrogen refrigerator, Jenkins said. Sixty-five "straws," containing the precious bodily fluids of 40 to 50 bulls, were missing.

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More voting calamities imminent

Whoa! More proof that the mechanisms of democracy here in the USA are in need of a serious overhaul. It isn't just a Detroit issue, btw. I'm not going to rehash my plan to fix this; it was spelled out three posts ago. Look it up.

DETROIT'S FLAWED REGISTRY: Many erroneous names found on city's voter rolls

November 3, 2005

BY KATHLEEN GRAY, JOHN BEBOW and BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS

On the verge of one of the most hotly contested elections in recent years, Detroit's voter rolls are riddled with problems -- filled with the names of voters who are dead, duplicates or people who no longer live in the city. The flawed registry is of concern, election experts say, because it could invite voter fraud. Detroit's city clerk routinely has sent applications for absentee ballots to thousands of people on the voter list for each election -- even to homes of people who have been dead for years, the Free Press found.

As many as 299,000 names on the city's 2004 list of 644,351 registered voters may fall into those categories, Mark Grebner, one of the state's foremost authorities on voter patterns, said Wednesday. Other consultants and state officials agree that Detroit's voter lists carry lots of names that should be purged, though they may quibble with the number.

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Brits foot £500,000 cell phone bill

This phone was 'missing' for two years and nobody thought to report it??! What a pack of clowns.

Foreign Office satellite phone goes AWOL

£500,000 bill rings alarm bells
Robert Jaques, vnunet.com 31 Oct 2005

The Foreign Office has been saddled with a £500,000 telephone bill after a satellite phone belonging to a British diplomat was stolen in Baghdad, according to UK press reports. The phone may have been used to make calls from Yemen and Saudi Arabia, with some potentially relating to terrorist activity. Reports suggest that UK intelligence agents are believed to be working through the dialled numbers in an attempt to trace the recipients.

It is thought that the phone was sent from the UK to a senior diplomat in Baghdad two years ago via a courier, but that it never reached its destination and was not reported as missing. An investigation was initiated only when the Foreign Office became suspicious about calling behaviour. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was reported to be "furious" and has ordered an inquiry into how such a security blunder could have occurred in such a volatile region.

But those less keen to criticise government inefficiency are pointing out one clear upside: the phone's billing record could be a veritable Who's Who? of terrorists.

Trance scene in Japan - Redux

This sounds like it's going to be a cool party. If I find myself in Japan this weekend I'll be sure and check it out, as unlikely as that is I have to be sure that I keep my options open just in case.

THE SECOND ROOM PRESENTS

Psychedelic radar 10.28

By JEFF OGRISSEG
Special to The Japan Times Online

Saturday, Oct. 29

Solaris -- Spookadelik

Psychedelic trance meets Halloween "cos-play!" Solaris ( www.solaris-music.com) presents "Spookadelik," a spooky psychedelic Halloween party, at Differ Ariake in Odaiba. Live acts Bamboo Forest, Intelabeam, Fatali and Tri-Force, plus DJs Stef, Fatali, Sido and Oz. Starts at 10 p.m. Tickets are 6,000 yen at the door.

But for those wearing full costumes, the entrance fee is 4,000 yen. There will be an inspection at the door -- only those wearing complete costumes are eligible for the discount.

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2004 election stolen - GAO report

So all the reports that were previously derided as belonging in the realm of bat shit crazy conspiracy class banter are now turning out to have some merit. Bev Harris was right! According to the Government Accounting Office there were true inconsistencies and real statistically anomalies during the 2004 election. The most telling of these is the fact that in New Mexico no precinct using electronic voting was scored for Kerry. Not a single one in fact. Doesn’t that seem odd, in a natural distribution of data you rarely see anything that total and clear cut, there's usually an outlier, at least one data point that bucks the trend. Here you don’t see that and I find that extremely troubling. I’m sure were you to examine the distribution of Kerry wins in that state for every other county not using electronic voting and then compare that to the electronic voting sites it would appear even more bothersome.

We need to take the responsibility of EV vendor selection away from the individual counties and states as its plain to see that they are making awful choices that leave the door open for fraud. A federalized election system should be established capable of counting every vote accurately as the vote happens. Then we could have a website to watch the vote happen, a real time count. In America there are many companies that specialize in systems integration, one of them is my employer SAIC, they could bring this project to fruition in a timely and cost conscious fashion. A consortium of system integrators should be formed under the direction of the FEC to create a nationalized voting platform to be put into use by every voting precinct, their work should be subjected to a rigorous IV&V process. This is entirely possible and should be a priority, a HUGE priority for our nation. I’m afraid it’ll never happen. The same inexcusable shit is going to happen again in 2008.


Anyways… read the report and draw your own conclusions.

http://www.democrats.reform.house.gov/Do.... - GAO Report

http://www.freepress.org/departme... - A good summation of the report's findings.

DJ's scam dosen't go as planned

Jeesh... What a botched caper. I can only imagine the thought process involved here. Ok, we'll hide the car at your place under a tarp and then I'll call my insurance company and say, "my car is gone!" Then we'll go cash the check for the car and go celebrate in Atlantic City. It doesn’t surprise me one of these guys works as a DJ. What would they have done with the car if their plan hadn't collapsed? I have a mercury cougar I'm trying to sell right now, it's also a '99. It never occured to me to try something like this, and I don't think that I will.

Two Utica men charged with insurance fraud

HERKIMER - Two Utica men have been charged with insurance fraud following an investigation by the state police in Herkimer and NYS DMV Investigation Unit.

James Winston Jr., 28, of 118 Riverside Drive North Utica and Richard Borowiec Jr., 26, of 723 Plant St., Utica, were both charged with third-degree insurance fraud, a Class D felony.

State Police in Herkimer report that on May 1, Borowiec reported to them that his 1999 Mercury Cougar had been stolen from the parking lot of the Backstreets Brewing Company at Charlestown while he was working there as a DJ. A police information revealed that the vehicle was hidden under a tarp at an unlicensed repair shop on Tilden Avenue being operated by Winston. Further investigation revealed details of a planned insurance fraud in which Winston removed the vehicle and was to receive a portion of the insurance proceeds from Borowiec's claim to State Farm that the vehicle was stolen.

Both men were arraigned in German Flatts Town Court and committed to the Herkimer County jail in lieu of $5,000 cash bail or $10,000 bond and will reappear in that court at a later date. The State Police were assisted by New York State DMV investigators with the investigation which also resulted in the recovery of another vehicle from Winston's repair shop which was stolen from the city of Syracuse. Charges on that matter remain pending at this time.

Quantum dots = a bright idea

neato!

Accidental Invention Points to End of Light Bulbs
By Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 21 October 2005
03:21 pm ET

The main light source of the future will almost surely not be a bulb. It might be a table, a wall, or even a fork. An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison's bright invention obsolete. LEDs are already used in traffic lights, flashlights, and architectural lighting. They are flexible and operate less expensively than traditional lighting.

Happy accident

Michael Bowers, a graduate student at Vanderbilt University, was just trying to make really small quantum dots, which are crystals generally only a few nanometers big. That's less than 1/1000th the width of a human hair. Quantum dots contain anywhere from 100 to 1,000 electrons. They're easily excited bundles of energy, and the smaller they are, the more excited they get. Each dot in Bower's particular batch was exceptionally small, containing only 33 or 34 pairs of atoms.

When you shine a light on quantum dots or apply electricity to them, they react by producing their own light, normally a bright, vibrant color. But when Bowers shined a laser on his batch of dots, something unexpected happened. "I was surprised when a white glow covered the table," Bowers said. "The quantum dots were supposed to emit blue light, but instead they were giving off a beautiful white glow."

Then Bowers and another student got the idea to stir the dots into polyurethane and coat a blue LED light bulb with the mix. The lumpy bulb wasn't pretty, but it produced white light similar to a regular light bulb. The new device gives off a warm, yellowish-white light that shines twice as bright and lasts 50 times longer than the standard 60 watt light bulb. This work is published online in the Oct. 18 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Better than bulbs

Until the last decade, LEDs could only produce green, red, and yellow light, which limited their use. Then came blue LEDs, which have since been altered to emit white light with a light-blue hue. LEDs produce twice as much light as a regular 60 watt bulb and burn for over 50,000 hours. The Department of Energy estimates LED lighting could reduce U.S. energy consumption for lighting by 29 percent by 2025. LEDs don't emit much heat, so they're also more energy efficient. And they're much harder to break.

Other scientists have said they expect LEDs to eventually replace standard incandescent bulbs as well as fluorescent and sodium vapor lights. If the new process can be developed into commercial production, light won't come just from newfangled bulbs. Quantum dot mixtures could be painted on just about anything and electrically excited to produce a rainbow of colors, including white.

One big question remains: When a brilliant idea pops into your mind in the future, what will appear over your head?

The dude abides.

naked burglar strikes again

That's right officer, I don't know how her clothes might have come off. No I have never seen this woman before in my life, honest. Perhaps she was trying to steal something from inside my house. She does look like a criminal, she looks like a reall badddd girl. uh-huh.

Homeowner Finds Dead Woman Stuck in Window
Van O'Cain, New Media Manager

(St. Louis, MO) — Homicide detectives responded to a strange scene in north St. Louis Tuesday night, involving a dead woman who was only half dressed. Police went to a house where the homeowner says he found the woman hanging halfway out a first floor kitchen window. She was naked from the waist down. She was pinned halfway inside the home by a window that somehow closed on her.

Investigators believe she might have gotten stuck while trying to climb into the home. Police say her pants apparently fell off while she struggled to free herself. St. Louis Police Lt. Colonel Roy Joachimstaler said, "From all indications from the scene, it appears she was trying to break into the house." The victim did not have any identification, but the homeowner says the dead woman did not live there.

An autopsy will determine the exact cause of death. Right now, the unidentified woman's death is classified as suspicious.

Updated: 10/19/2005 4:12:59 PM

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tales from the brooklyn crypt keeper

Wow, this is some crazy shit. I wonder what the prices for certain organs fetch on the secondary market? Spleen? Gall bladder? Liver? 'Tissue recovery' must be code word for illegal organ monger. such craziness in the world today.

Staten Island Advance
Brooklyn man files suit in body-parts probe
Some Islanders' corpses believed included in emerging scandal
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
By SALLY GOLDENBERG
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER

Shortly after his father died from cancer on May 22, 2003, Vito Bruno brought the urn to the Bay Ridge office where he works. It contained a small plastic bag of dark gray ashes, all that remained of his father, Michael. Or so he thought.

Bruno now believes that some of his father's body parts were pilfered for profit in an emerging scandal -- which is said to include the bodies of some Staten Islanders -- that the Brooklyn district attorney's office is investigating.

"This is some real hideous, medieval stuff," Bruno, a 49-year-old concert producer, said after a news conference yesterday in the Brooklyn office of his attorney, Sanford Rubenstein. Bruno filed the first lawsuit in the widespread investigation yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court. A source close to the investigation has said parts from at least 100 bodies, including some from Staten Island, were stolen and sold without families' consent, and roughly 40 victimized relatives have been identified.

"We're not even halfway there yet," the source said, adding that exhumations are imminent. Bruno was still grieving the loss of his 75-year-old father, he said, when investigators from the NYPD's Major Crimes unit arrived at his Borough Park home last week to tell him that his dad's body parts allegedly were sold for profit to a tissue-harvesting company in New Jersey. Bruno said he never gave consent for the procedure, his signature was forged and the cause of his father's death was switched on paperwork to a heart attack.

"I just sat there in absolute stunned disbelief that this could actually happen in this day and age," he said. Bruno's suit names the English Brothers Funeral Home in Brooklyn, a New Jersey tissue-recovery firm and the two men alleged to have orchestrated the plot: Rosebank resident Joseph Nicelli, 49, and New Jersey resident Michael Mastromarino, 42, who runs Biomedical Tissue Recovery Ltd. in Fort Lee.

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Craig's list hos arrested.

This has been going on for a long time, look in that section on craig's list and you'll see many ads that seem to be selling sex. It's a shame these ho's got arrested, they were just doing their jobs.

Women Arrested, Accused Of Alleged Internet Prostitution
Sting Operation Conducted

POSTED: 8:22 am EDT October 17, 2005
UPDATED: 8:45 am EDT October 17, 2005

BOSTON -- Police in Braintree, Mass., arrested five women on suspicion of allegedly selling sex on the popular Web site "Craigslist.com." The arrests were part of a sting operation. Undercover officers called and allegedly met up with the women at local hotels after reading their ads under a section called "Casual Encounters." Police told the Boston Herald that they believe some of the women were also involved in a prostitution ring.

Copyright 2005 by TheBostonChannel. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Harriet Miers is a fuckin' idiot

Wow, what a dumb fuckin' bitch. Her prose reminds me of the awful essays brought to me by classmates during college. Mostly girls seeking help with their writing, young women completely incapable of formulating coherent sentences. I would ask them to suck my dick, swallow my seed and I'll write the paper for you. It actually only worked out once and she was a fatty and gave bad head, might have torn my foreskin now that I think about it, she got a C on the paper so it was a bad deal all around. Worst yet, I managed to offend a couple of cute girls that I really liked and who honestly needed help with their writing by offering this filthy proposition, and as such they refused to talk to me or make eye contact for a full three years of classes. Whatever.

Read these excerpts and appreciate the dunning dis-acumen possessed by this woman. A Supreme Court judge needs be a gifted wordsmith; this joke of a nominee has been found lacking. There's no way in hell she's getting confirmed, I hope.

The New York Times

October 13, 2005

In Her Own Words

By DAVID BROOKS

Of all the words written about Harriet Miers, none are more disturbing than the ones she wrote herself. In the early 90's, while she was president of the Texas bar association, Miers wrote a column called ''President's Opinion'' for The Texas Bar Journal. It is the largest body of public writing we have from her, and sad to say, the quality of thought and writing doesn't even rise to the level of pedestrian.

Of course, we have to make allowances for the fact that the first job of any association president is to not offend her members. Still, nothing excuses sentences like this:

''More and more, the intractable problems in our society have one answer: broad-based intolerance of unacceptable conditions and a commitment by many to fix problems.''

Or this: ''We must end collective acceptance of inappropriate conduct and increase education in professionalism.''

Or this: ''When consensus of diverse leadership can be achieved on issues of importance, the greatest impact can be achieved.''

Or passages like this: ''An organization must also implement programs to fulfill strategies established through its goals and mission. Methods for evaluation of these strategies are a necessity. With the framework of mission, goals, strategies, programs, and methods for evaluation in place, a meaningful budgeting process can begin.''

Or, finally, this: ''We have to understand and appreciate that achieving justice for all is in jeopardy before a call to arms to assist in obtaining support for the justice system will be effective. Achieving the necessary understanding and appreciation of why the challenge is so important, we can then turn to the task of providing the much needed support.''

I don't know if by mere quotation I can fully convey the relentless march of vapid abstractions that mark Miers's prose. Nearly every idea is vague and depersonalized. Nearly every debatable point is elided. It's not that Miers didn't attempt to tackle interesting subjects. She wrote about unequal access to the justice system, about the underrepresentation of minorities in the law and about whether pro bono work should be mandatory. But she presents no arguments or ideas, except the repetition of the bromide that bad things can be eliminated if people of good will come together to eliminate bad things.

Or as she puts it, ''There is always a necessity to tend to a myriad of responsibilities on a number of cases as well as matters not directly related to the practice of law.'' And yet, ''Disciplining ourselves to provide the opportunity for thought and analysis has to rise again to a high priority.''

Throw aside ideology. Surely the threshold skill required of a Supreme Court justice is the ability to write clearly and argue incisively. Miers's columns provide no evidence of that.

The Miers nomination has reopened the rift between conservatives and establishment Republicans.

The conservative movement was founded upon the supposition that ideas have consequences. Conservatives have founded so many think tanks, magazines and organizations, like the Federalist Society, because they believe that you have to win arguments to win political power. They dream of Supreme Court justices capable of writing brilliant opinions that will reshape the battle of ideas.

Republicans, who these days are as likely to be members of the corporate establishment as the evangelical establishment, are more suspicious of intellectuals and ideas, and more likely to believe that politics is about deal-making, loyalty and power. You know you are in establishment Republican circles when the conversation is bland but unifying. You know you are in conservative circles when it is interesting but divisive. Conservatives err by becoming irresponsible. Republicans tend to be blown about haplessly by forces they cannot understand.

For the first years of his presidency, George Bush healed the division between Republicans and conservatives by pursuing big conservative goals with ruthless Republican discipline. But Harriet Miers has shown no loyalty to conservative institutions like the Federalist Society. Her loyalty has been to the person of the president, and her mental style seems to be Republicanism on stilts.

So conservatives are caught between loyalty to their ideas and loyalty to the president they admire. Most of them have come out against Miers -- quietly or loudly. Establishment Republicans are displaying their natural loyalty to leadership. And Miers is caught in the vise between these two forces, a smart and good woman who has been put in a position where she cannot succeed.

Don't mess with a librarian

This is a rather amazing story. That woman deserves a medal! Now if we could just do the same for the spammers and spyware hucksters... and the telemarketers, and virus writers.. etc.. Identity thiefs. sigh...

Over the course of the last few months I have received unsolicited facsimile transmissions from one particular fax blaster. The number for removal and the number to fax back the advertisements for health insurance, mortgages, hot leads, selling my business and so on is also in my area code. The telephone number is not serviced by the local exchange carrier (Verizon) but a competing local exchange carrier (CLEC)

After the first fax on August 7th I called the ‘removal’ number on the fax but it was busy. I tried about six times but it was always busy. I used nanpa.com to find out who serviced the number and complained to them (the faxer’s phone company). The faxes continued. I filed 1 small claims suit against the sender and subpoenaed the records of the CLEC (competing local exchange carrier- the faxer’s phone company) they sent me the records within 3 hours of receiving the subpoena. It seems that other had complained about the illegal faxing as well.

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Plane theft sounds fun!

LOLZ, I think there will be more of these type of thefts once people realize how fun they are. And that no key is needed to start the engines and that the door to the plane can easily be pryed open. I know what I'm doing this weekend! Who's with me? We can party high in the skies.

Man Arrested, Charged in Jet Joy Ride

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

(10-12) 11:46 PDT Lawrenceville, Ga. (AP) --

A man was arrested on charges of stealing a charter jet and taking it on a 350-mile joy ride from Florida to Georgia, police said Wednesday. The circumstances of the theft were not clear, but nothing threatening was found on the plane, police spokesman Darren Moloney said. The incident "appears to be a joy ride."

Daniel Andrew Wolcott, 22, of Buford was charged with felony theft and misdemeanor reckless conduct, police said, adding that additional federal charges were expected. Investigators said they made the arrest after interviewing five people who said they were on the 10-passenger, $7 million Cessna Citation 7 when Wolcott flew it.

The plane, which is owned by Pinnacle Air of Springdale, Ark., was found Monday at the Gwinnett County Airport-Briscoe Field near Atlanta, police said. Moloney said a key is not needed to start the plane. The plane has a lock on the door, but it isn't difficult to pry open, he said. Wolcott has a commercial rated pilots license but is not licensed to fly that type of plane, police said. The exact circumstances of how Wolcott obtained the plane were unclear.

Bryan Cooper, assistant manager at St. Augustine Airport, said the plane was still there at midnight Saturday but was gone by 5 a.m. The plane landed at Gwinnett sometime between 9 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday. It had some damage to the front edge of one wing.

Synthetic diamonds to change world

Wow this is huge. It sure is nice to see something like De Beers squirming, hopefully the synthetic diamonds will overtake the market and the profit at the cost of human misery and suffering will end. If there's nothing else I hate in theis world its diamonds.

Man-made diamonds sparkle with potential
By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY

BOSTON — In the back room of an unmarked brown building in a run-down strip mall, eight machines, each the size of a bass drum, are making diamonds.

That's right — making diamonds. Real ones, all but indistinguishable from the stones formed by a billion or so years' worth of intense pressure, later to be sold at Tiffany's.

The company doing this is Apollo Diamond, a tiny outfit started by a former Bell Labs scientist. Peer inside Apollo's stainless steel-and-glass machines, and you can see single-crystal diamonds literally growing amid hot pink gases.

This year, Apollo expects to grow diamonds as big as 2 carats. By the end of 2005, it might expand to 10 carats. The diamonds will probably start moving into the jewelry market as early as next year — at perhaps one-third the price of a mined diamond.

The whole concept turns the fundamental idea of a diamond on its head. The ability to manufacture diamonds could change business, products and daily life as much as the arrival of the steel age in the 1850s or the invention of the transistor in the 1940s.

In technology, the diamond is a dream material. It can make computers run at speeds that would melt the innards of today's computers. Manufactured diamonds could help make lasers of extreme power. The material could allow a cellphone to fit into a watch and iPods to store 10,000 movies, not just 10,000 songs. Diamonds could mean frictionless medical replacement joints. Or coatings — perhaps for cars — that never scratch or wear out.

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omg, my wallet is gone.

OH SHIT!!!! Somewheres in between the velvet lounge, promoting at FUR, and finding my way home, my wallet disapered! everyhing was in there. credit cards, social security card, draft card, voter registration, etc... I called Wachovia and there wasn't any activity on it, so it wasn't stolen. i was so out of my mind blasted that i remember nothing at all. luckily my cousin Austin had a great 21st birthday! I got him the NBA live 2006 game for the playstation, his totally amped on that, as i understand it that is the title that all the kids are playing nowadays. but... the night went off so well, until i lost my wallet while skipping around dc totally blasted and senseless. WTF!!!?? When am i going to grow up and get a life. fuck it i'll be rich soon. replacing the draft card i got back in '97 not going to be as easy, tat shit may be gone for ever.

matt

Drunk driver misplaces exotic wildlife

Lol, the title of this story is just silly, what sort of person keeps zebras anyhow? Sucks the zebras had to be put down, their lives ended due to this woman's criminal negligence. I would rather hear that she died in a single car accident as a result of her reckless behavior. Instead these animals suffer. Sucks, yo.

Woman who lost zebras arrested for drunk driving

By Martin E. Comas | Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted October 6, 2005, 11:01 AM EDT

MOUNT DORA -- A woman, whose two zebras were struck by a car last month after escaping from her compound, was arrested this morning on a charge of drunken driving, police said. Police said Carol A. Dorner, 41, knocked over at least one mailbox while driving on Heim Road, which turns into 11th Avenue, just after 1:30 a.m. today.

She was booked into the Lake County Jail on $500 bail. On Sept. 28, two zebras ran off Dorner's property on Future Farm Drive and were struck by a Chevrolet Suburban on Britt Road near State Road 44. The collision broke the front leg of one zebra and injured the rear leg of the other one, according the Florida Highway Patrol. Both animals were later euthanized.

Dorner holds permits to keep zebras and giraffes. The permits, which cost her $50, require 6-foot-high fences for zebras and 8-foot-high fences for giraffes, said Lt. Rick Brown with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

rectory theft continues

WOW, a crooked priest! We haven't seen this one before. This thief in the frock's name is Falotico. That makes me think of blow jobs, and raptors. This article mentions the suspect's prior assignment in the town of Pleasantville, I thought that was only a movie, guess I was wrong about that. Only $7K though? Jeesh, this guy's a lightweight. Is that even a felony?

Priest, suspected in theft, is ousted
Posted on Thu, Oct. 06, 2005
By Sam Wood
Inquirer Staff Writer

An Atlantic County priest has been removed from his post after police named him as their primary suspect in the theft of about $7,000 from a rectory safe, church officials said. The Rev. Ronald S. Falotico, 62, had been pastor of Queen of Angels in Buena Borough's Landisville section since December. He previously led St. Peter's Church in Pleasantville, said Andrew Walton, spokesman for the Diocese of Camden.

Falotico called police Sept. 25 to report a burglary and the theft of about $7,000 that had been collected during the Sunday offerings, Buena Police Chief Douglas Adams said. "After a couple of days of investigation, we had a handful of suspects that we narrowed down," Adams said. "Then Falotico became the main suspect. When the diocese found out, they swooped down and relieved him of his duties."

In a conversation with church officials, Falotico "admitted to some kind of sickness or illness," Adams said. He said Falotico had not been charged with any crime. Church officials sent Falotico to a church facility in Maryland for treatment and counseling, and he will remain there pending the outcome of the police investigation, Walton said.

The $7,000 has not been recovered, Adams said.

Adams said the investigation had slowed since Falotico's removal to Maryland. "We have not finished our conversation with him," Adams said. "We need to do that." Falotico will remain available for police questioning, Walton said. A letter from Bishop Joseph Galante, read during Sunday services, informed Queen of Angels parishioners of Falotico's removal. Galante wrote that he would pray for Falotico, the parish and the investigators, Walton said.

The diocese named Falotico to lead Queen of Angels in a routine reassignment. Priests are commonly reassigned after five-year stints, Walton said. "They needed someone in Landisville who could speak Spanish," Walton said. Falotico, who was born in Camden, is multilingual.

Until July 2001, Queen of Angels was two churches: Our Lady of Victories in Landisville and St. Michael's in Minotola.

Interview w/ Eric Koston

This interview with famed cali skater Eric Koston is a good read, he talks about his favorite shoes for basketball, skating and just lounging around the house. One time he met shaq and kobe in the same day! pretty wild stuff. He gets into what he hates about the gravity games and why the X-games are the only big time corporate sponshorship comp keeping it sort of real.

http://www.solecollector.com/news/2005/09/intv_rk_erickoston.html

Calvin & Hobbs; new book!

I LOVE Calvin and Hobbs, when I was younger I felt that Calvin's scatter brain antics were just like the confused mess I know as my own thoughts. I will totally purchase this retrospective compilation. $165, steep you might note, but hey this is spaceman spiff were talking about here! It's pretty neat reading this article about the series creator Bill Waterston, he seams like the total recluse. Amazing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/c....

chimp quits smoking

omg, does anybody not think this is just silly.

Chimp no longer has monkey on his back
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Oct 3, 10:44 AM (ET)

BEIJING (Reuters) - A chimpanzee in a northwest China zoo has quit smoking after 16 years with the help of her keepers, official media reported. The staff, worried about her declining health, weaned 27-year-old "Ai Ai" off tobacco by distracting her with entertainment and a tastier diet, Xinhua news agency said.

"The zoo keepers tried every way to divert the chimp's attention from cigarettes: a walk after breakfast, a music session after lunch and gym after dinner," Xinhua said. She also got fried dishes and dumplings, as well as the usual diet of milk, bananas and rice, said one zoo keeper. "I also put earphones on her so that she could enjoy some pop music from my walkman," he said. "In the first few days, she squealed for cigarettes every now and then, but as her life became more colorful she gradually forgot about them altogether."

Xinhua attributed Ai Ai's habit to solitude and grief. Living in a safari park in Shaanxi province, she had taken up smoking in 1989 shortly after her mate died, it said. Then she had become a chain smoker after her second mate died in 1997 and her daughter was moved to another zoo. Xinhua did not say who had first given cigarettes to her or kept supplying them. The Xian Evening News said the zoo was trying to find another mate for her.

celeb doctors

Hey, if you go to a celeb doctor I would seriously worry about the quality of care provided by this physician. Just read the fuckin' article, ok jacknut? Thanks.

http://www.nypress.com/18/39/pagetwo/conterfeit3.cfm

Theft amazes me!

Sometimes even I am astonished by the level of fraud some people aspire towards. $400K stolen from public funds! How much of this graft goes on that is never found out and remains unaccounted for? The total would no doubt be shocking. How many family fortunes were started by a distant relation pulling this type of theft and getting away with it? "Aye, we remember fondly aged Horace Greabner, your distant cousin may he rest in peace, his embezzlement from the railroad in 1885 enabled your great, great....." you get the picture.

September 27, 2005
Lansing State Journal

By Kelly Hassett
Lansing State Journal

A Lansing woman embezzled more than $400,000 from a state office that helps ready troops for deployment so she could buy bowling and exercise equipment, police and state officials said Monday. Sandra Wentworth, 47, is due back in court next week on charges she abused her position as a Department of Military and Veterans Affairs purchasing manager to buy equipment for her family-owned bowling alley, a plasma television, furniture and other items with a department credit card, Maj. Dawn Dancer said.

The 18-year department veteran resigned last year, two days after an internal investigation revealed the discrepancies and she was suspended, Dancer said. "She was a trusted and well-liked employee," Dancer said of Wentworth, whose duties included buying equipment or providing shelter for National Guard troops on state missions. "When this was discovered, her co-workers were shocked and truly devastated."

Wentworth, along with her husband, Wayne Wentworth, 56, and son Eric Krauss, 24, was charged Friday with three counts of tax fraud and filing false returns, said state Attorney General spokeswoman Allison Pierce. Embezzlement is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Wentworth was released after paying 10 percent of a $20,000 bond, and her husband and son were released on personal recognizance bonds.

A woman who answered the door of the family's Lansing home Monday said none of them were home and declined comment. Sandra Wentworth's attorney did not return a phone call Monday. Lansing attorney Vincent Green is representing Krauss. "I really do believe this young man is not guilty of the charges," he said, adding that he felt the charges were a way for authorities to get to Wentworth.

State police investigated after military officials thought some of Wentworth's purchases were suspicious. "One of the larger expenses was over $100,000 in bowling equipment and supplies for the bowling alley they own in Fowler," state police spokeswoman Shanon Akans said. All three are scheduled for preliminary hearings - at which a judge determines if there's enough evidence for trial - on Oct. 6 and Oct. 7.

Dancer said the department was not insured for losses such as this and is not sure how or if it will recoup the money. But her office has worked in the past year to tighten its bookkeeping procedures, and Dancer has seen an increase in requests for internal audits in other departments - simply as a precaution.

"Part of the reason this happened is that we weren't following our own internal practices," she said. "Some of that comes from doing more with less. But she was a trusted and valued employee."

Contact Kelly Hassett at 267-1301 or khassett@lsj.com.

Grandma got run over!

OMG It's just like in that song.

Reindeer Injures Old Couple in Finland

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) - A reindeer injured an elderly couple in the wilds of Finnish Lapland, in a rare attack that caused injuries needing hospital treatment, officials said Monday. A male reindeer suddenly appeared from a forest and attacked a man who was hiking Sunday with his partner near Kittila, about 620 miles north of Helsinki.

The buck butted the man to the ground and kicked him before turning on the woman who was talking to her son on a mobile phone, Kittila fire chief Jorma Ojala said. The son alerted rescue workers who arrived in helicopters and flew the couple to hospital. The man and woman were not named, and officials declined to give further details.

A researcher at the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute said the attack came during the peak rutting season when up to 30 female reindeer may be on heat in the territory of one buck. ``Every year in the rutting season, buck reindeer are very possessive about their harems,'' said Mauri Nieminen, a reindeer expert at the institute. ``If a person goes into an area between the reindeer and his females, the buck can easily turn on him or her.''

``Normally, reindeer pose no danger at all,'' Nieminen added. In Finland, unlike in neighboring Sweden and Norway, there are no wild reindeer. They are domesticated, but are allowed to roam the wilds of Lapland where herders seasonally track them down for branding and slaughter.

09/26/05 09:36

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good reading..

Awsome! Raunchy girls pushing the limits, what a great article. Just the thought has gotten me worked up a little, heh. Drunk girls will do anything for attention, and this I am all in favor of.

Girls gone raunch

Increasingly, young women are treating themselves and each other like pieces of meat. Why?

JUDITH TIMSON
She and her friends talk about it constantly. How to go out and have a great time. How to make their way through a sexual landscape that somehow has upped the ante in racy behaviour. The challenge, says Shauna (not her real name), a 20-year-old third-year psychology major at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., is how not to feel like a misfit just because she thinks that the sexual titillation factor has gone too far. "One thing I have noticed more and more," she says of the student scene, "is that girls spend as much time, if not more, dancing provocatively with each other as they do with men. Many girls have made out with each other in front of a group of boys, or for their benefit after having been dared, or even without provocation. I was recently at a bar with a group of friends from high school," she continues, "and a group of girls came wearing short skirts and low-cut tops -- they had each written words on their breasts or upper thighs and were willingly showing this to the guys when asked.

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Katrina survivor beat up at school

This is awful, first his family is forced from their homes by hurricane katrina, and now this. When will it end?

Local Katrina Evacuee Attacked At New School
School Officials Say Incident Was Case Of Mistaken Identity

POSTED: 5:49 pm EDT September 23, 2005

DETROIT -- A Louisiana teen displaced by Hurricane Katrina was attacked by some students at his new school in Detroit, Local 4 reported.

A few students from Edwin Denby High School jumped the teen last week, punching him in the face at least once, the station reported.

Raynesha Walker, an 11th-grader at the school, said she was appalled by the incident.

"I think it was wrong for them students to do what they did to him because he's coming to a new place to start over," said Walker.

Detroit Public School officials said it was a case of mistaken identity and the student was not the intended target of the attack.

"This incident, though unfortunate, is not at all something that's representative about the spirit of community, hospitality that exists at Denby High School," said Detroit Public Schools spokesman Lekan Oguntoyinbo.

Before the attack occurred, students at Denby had been collecting supplies for hurricane victims, and many of them are now pitching in to help the Louisiana teen, the station reported.

"The principal, the teachers, the staff and the students, particularly the student leaders, have just been wonderful about embracing the student," Oguntoyinbo said. "They have taken him out, bought him clothes, they've tried to introduce him to the school, to the neighborhood."

The students accused in the attack have been suspended while officials continue to investigate the incident.

Copyright 2005 by ClickOnDetroit.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

this is just sooo sad.

This story made me cry.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common.....

ewwww, coach is a perv!

What logical sane explanation could possibly explain this? Cross training? I can't imagine why the students went along with this.

Baseball club manager accused of making students go on nude runs

Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 07:46 JST
OKAYAMA — A former manager of Okayama Sanyo High School's baseball club has been accused by club members and their parents of forcing a number of students to strip naked and go running in the school's ballpark in June and last summer, the school head said Wednesday.

Principal Miyoji Harada told reporters that the school is now investigating whether the allegations against the 35-year-old man, who was sacked as club manager last June, are true. Harada said the private school in Kamogata, Okayama Prefecture, conducted a survey of the 45 club members, their parents and guardians after reports of the incidents surfaced, and several acknowledged they had taken place.

The manager has admitted to being in the ballpark when the incidents are alleged to have occurred, and has apologized, Harada said. But the school head stopped short of saying exactly what the manager had apologized for. The principal added that he learned that some members of the school's baseball club had gone on a nude fun run in the ballpark back in 2002.

Harada admitted that he had failed to deal properly with the allegations, saying the school should have investigated them earlier. The manager was relieved of his position in June after failing to report club members to the prefectural branch of the Japan High School Baseball Federation for smoking and other rule infringements.

He was also accused of beating several club members in mid-August, claiming they had lied to him when they said they had cleaned their dormitory. He quit the school Sept 1, Harada said.

© 2005 Kyodo News. All rights reserved. No reproduction or republication without written permission.

Mexican priest takes 'dirty' money.

Exactly how does one go about purifying drug money? Is all the evil simply shamed out of these pesos? Hasn’t the church always been in bed with criminals; remember that Friar Tuck? Him and Robin Hood were awfully chummy.

Church in row over "purified" drug money
Sep 22, 11:50 AM (ET)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican bishop sparked a row with the government on Tuesday after he admitted the Catholic Church accepted alms from drug traffickers and that they were "purified" when they reached its coffers.

Ramon Godinez, the bishop of Aguascalientes in central Mexico, said donations from drug gangs occurred "everywhere" in the country, adding that it was "not up to us to investigate where the money comes from," daily Reforma newspaper reported.

"You don't have to burn the money just because it's bad. It's better to transform it ... I've known of cases (where) it's been purified," he added.

The remarks caused controversy in Mexico, where more than 1,000 people have been gunned down this year in a spiraling war between rival drug gangs, many in cities along the U.S. border.

Government spokesman Ruben Aguilar slammed Godinez's remarks at a news conference on Tuesday, telling reporters that "no one can allow organized crime to act with impunity."

"Nobody can be allowed to receive illegal funds under any circumstances (and) no one can promote money laundering in this way," he added.

In a bid to crack down on drug gangs, President Vicente Fox has sent hundreds of troops and federal police to frontier states this year.

Godinez's remarks may have been out of step with the Catholic Church. Bishops in northern Mexico said earlier this year that the multibillion-dollar cross-border trade in cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines went against church teaching.

trippy sky shit phases locals

thank god it's not the space shuttle again!

Mysterious 'Ball Of Fire' Seen In Fla. Skies

POSTED: 7:23 am EDT September 21, 2005
UPDATED: 1:26 pm EDT September 21, 2005

Dozens of people from Jacksonville to Ft. Pierce flooded the U.S. Coast Guard late Tuesday with calls about a mysterious ball of fire seen flying in the sky, according to a Local 6 News report. Callers flooded the newsroom of Local 6 News partner Florida Today after they saw the object over the Space Coast Tuesday night.

"Starting at about 7:30 last night, we started receiving calls here in the newsroom," Florida Today online news editor Dave Larimer said. "In fact, the Coast Guard station in Port Canaveral got more than two dozen reports of people seeing a bright light in the sky over the ocean." From Fort Pierce to about five miles south of Jacksonville, reports came in to Coast Guard offices starting about 7:30 p.m., said Dan Yates, a Coast Guard petty officer in Port Canaveral.

Yates said one caller who was walking his dog near the Sebastian Inlet described the object as "huge, like a giant fireball." Yates said callers to the Coast Guard station thought a boater might have been in trouble. "A lot of people thought it might have been a flare that might have gone up," Yates said of other callers.

"One person thought this fire ball went into the ocean," Larimer said. "The Coast Guard said it probably didn't and it was just his perspective. We know it was not a rocket launch and we know the Air Force was not doing anything." Experts said it could be a piece of space junk or a large meteor burning up in the atmosphere.

The Coast Guard base near Jacksonville also received calls. Babs Angel, a public affairs spokeswoman for Patrick Air Force Base, said no local military activity was taking place Tuesday night.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

Copyright 2005 by Internet Broadcasting Systems and Local6.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

the redskins suck, my bike is gone

they suck. I'm heartbroken, the same day my bike gets stolen, my team losses to the cowboys. Potentialy one of the only games I'll truly care about this season. Oh, and my bike, totally jacked from the Columbia Heights metro station while I was at work today. It was a sky blue ten speed Nishiki Century with black handlebar tape and white brake lines, I loved that bike and now I have to go buy another one. It was kind of rare, Nishiki isn't making bikes anymore and they were only imported for a short time during the mid 90's. I am very upset about this.

ARRRRRRGGGGH!!!!!!11

Edit: ok, the redskins won, im elated, bike whereabouts remain unknown. I went to bed and missed the skins victory, I turned in the towel as i was pretty sure the game was rapped up. I hope this lights a fire under gibb's ass, I'd like to go to the superbowl damnn't!! If you see any cowboy's fans, (look for mullets) be sure and remind them that the braves are back on the warpath.