ABC News: Migrant Who Lost Her Legs Keeps Faith

ABC News: Migrant Who Lost Her Legs Keeps Faith: "'A lot of people feel that God punishes people, but I feel that he tests,' she said. 'I want to go back and tell people who like me try to follow their dream. Look what happened to me, and I still go on.' "

ABC News: Ark. Man Recalls Finding Rare Woodpecker

ABC News: Ark. Man Recalls Finding Rare Woodpecker: "Sparling said he was overwhelmed to be the person responsible for the discovery.
'I get all choked up thinking about it,' he said. 'I view it as a marvelous miraculous gift not just for me but for all of mankind.'"

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds - Yahoo! News

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds - Yahoo! News: "Because the cells reflected the actions that the monkey observed in others, the neuroscientists named them 'mirror neurons.'
Later experiments confirmed the existence of mirror neurons in humans and revealed another surprise. In addition to mirroring actions, the cells reflected sensations and emotions.
'Mirror neurons suggest that we pretend to be in another person's mental shoes,' says Marco Iacoboni, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. 'In fact, with mirror neurons we do not have to pretend, we practically are in another person's mind.'"

Newsday.com: Future schlock: Ads beamed to brains

Newsday.com: Future schlock: Ads beamed to brains: "New Scientist magazine reported that Sony had received a patent for a technology that beams information directly into one's head. 'No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds,' Sony's patent states."

New York Post Online Edition:

New York Post Online Edition:: "Michael Jackson sure knows how to pick a wife. She must be highly fertile, dumber than sewage, and possess the self-esteem of a housefly. If possible, that lady should be certifiably cuckoo. "

Gov. Praises 'Minuteman' Campaign

Gov. Praises 'Minuteman' Campaign: "Enrique Morones, president of the Border Angels, an immigrant rights group, responded to the governor's comments. 'I assure you, nobody is coming here for the water, and the stations we have set up by various organizations is a humanitarian effort.

'We don't respond to Arnold Schwarzenegger; we respond to a higher authority. We're a nonpolitical, humanitarian organization.'"

Gov. Praises 'Minuteman' Campaign

Gov. Praises 'Minuteman' Campaign: "Schwarzenegger said the nation is sending the wrong signal by making water available to migrants as a convenience.

Humanitarian and religious groups, such as Humane Borders and No More Deaths, provide water for immigrants crossing the border. Federal wildlife officials have provided water stations in the desert for animals but have been criticized for not providing enough for people."

Gov. Praises 'Minuteman' Campaign

Gov. Praises 'Minuteman' Campaign: "Schwarzenegger says group's patrols against illegal immigrants have been effective. One critic calls remarks 'nothing short of base racism.'"

Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl

Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl: "On one wall is a 'Star Trek' poster with investigators' faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie."

Press Facts

Press Facts: "Here are the facts about what happened in Kansas . The school board did not ban the teaching of evolution. They did not forbid the mention of Darwin in the classroom. They didn't even remove all mention of evolution from the State assessment test. Rather, the school board voted against including questions on macro-evolution--the theory that new species can evolve from existing species over time--from the State assessment. The assessment did include questions on micro-evolution--the observed change over time within an existing species.
Why did they do this? Why go so far as to decipher between micro and macro-evolution on the State exam? How would that serve the theocratic school board's purpose that we read so much about? Well, the truth is . . . their was no theocratic end to the actions of the school board. In fact, their vote was cast based on the most basic scientific principal that science is about what we observe, not what we assume. The great and bold statement that the Kansas School Board made was that simply that we observe micro-evolution and therefore it is scientific fact; and that it is impossible to observe macro-evolution, it is scientific assumption. [emphasis added]
The response to this relatively minor and eminently scientific move by the Kansas school board was shocking."

Billmon

Billmon: "A bill introduced Monday by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) would prohibit the lungs of U.S. citizens from competing with companies such as Air Products Inc., which sell compressed oxygen to hospitals, clinics and other medical institutions. Under the proposed law, Americans would be required to purchase the air they breathe from a commercial vendor rather than inhaling it naturally from the earth's atmosphere.
'We believe this proposal will improve public health by ensuring the nation's lungs are exposed only to pure, 100% industrially manufactured oxygen,' explained Mary Byers, executive vice president for Air Products, which just happens to be headquartered in Santorum's home state.
The bill would also force the earth to devote its full attention to absorbing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, rather than duplicating products already available from the private sector, Byers added."

Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms

Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms: "The report, which refuted many of the administration's principal arguments for going to war in Iraq, marked the official end of a two-year weapons hunt led most recently by former U.N. weapons inspector Charles A. Duelfer. The team found that the 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. sanctions had destroyed Iraq's illicit weapons capabilities and that, for the most part, Hussein had not tried to rebuild them. Iraq's ability to produce nuclear arms, which the administration asserted was a grave and gathering threat that required an immediate military response, had 'progressively decayed' since 1991. Investigators found no evidence of 'concerted efforts to restart the program.'"

Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms

Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms: "U.S. investigators hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war, according to a final report of the investigation released yesterday."

Yahoo! News - Faith 'War' Rages in U.S., Judge Says

Yahoo! News - Faith 'War' Rages in U.S., Judge Says: "Democrats have questioned speeches in which she called the New Deal the 'triumph of our socialist revolution.' She has described herself as a 'true conservative' who believes that 'where the government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates�. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.' "

Yahoo! News - Faith 'War' Rages in U.S., Judge Says

Yahoo! News - Faith 'War' Rages in U.S., Judge Says: "'No wonder the radical left opposes her,' Bauer wrote in an e-mail to supporters. 'Janice Rogers Brown understands the great culture war raging in America. That is why the abortion crowd, the homosexual rights movement and the radical secularists are all demanding that Senate liberals block her confirmation.' "

Yahoo! News - Faith 'War' Rages in U.S., Judge Says

Yahoo! News - Faith 'War' Rages in U.S., Judge Says: "Just days after a bitterly divided Senate committee voted along party lines to approve her nomination as a federal appellate court judge, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a 'war' against secular humanists who threatened to divorce America from its religious roots"

The New York Times > Washington > In Telecast, Frist Defends His Effort to Stop Filibusters

The New York Times > Washington > In Telecast, Frist Defends His Effort to Stop Filibusters: "In a Sunday telecast organized by Christian conservative groups to denounce the Democrats as 'against people of faith' for blocking judicial nominees, Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee stepped up his threats to change Senate rules to circumvent those blockades while simultaneously calling for 'more civility in political life.'"

gfn.com - Politics & Your Rights

gfn.com - Politics & Your Rights: "While Microsoft officials continued to deny any connection between their decision not to endorse the bill and the church's opposition, the church�s pastor made the connection clear Thursday in a phone interview with the Times, saying he had threatened to organize a national boycott of Microsoft products during several rallies opposing same-sex marriage in Washington state and in Washington, D.C.
After that, 'they backed off,' the pastor of the Antioch Bible Church said. 'I told them I was going to give them something to be afraid of Christians about,' he said.
According to the Times, Hutcherson told Microsoft executives, 'If you don't think the moral issue is not a big issue, just count the amount of votes that were cast on moral issues in the last election.' "

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat: "Here are some facts and figures from the center's new report: During the previous post�World War II recoveries, 49 percent of the 'real income growth' went to wages and salaries and 18 percent to corporate profits. During this one, 23 percent has gone to wages and salaries and 44 percent to corporate profits. "

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat: "Oh, and one other thing:
By contrast, the share of national income growth going to corporate profits has been higher than in any post-World War II recovery.
The center's report, based on the government's own stats, points out one other thing:
After-tax corporate profits have climbed to their highest levels as a share of national income since 1929."

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat: "A smaller share of the growth in national income during this recovery has gone to workers’ wages and salaries than in any other recovery since World War II."

Yahoo! News - 2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds

Yahoo! News - 2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds: "Perkins said that he had attended a meeting with congressional leaders a week earlier where the strategy of stripping funding from certain courts was 'prominently' discussed. 'What they're thinking of is not only the fact of just making these courts go away and re-creating them the next day but also defunding them,' Perkins said.
He said that instead of undertaking the long process of trying to impeach judges, Congress could use its appropriations authority to 'just take away the bench, all of his staff, and he's just sitting out there with nothing to do.'
These curbs on courts are 'on the radar screen, especially of conservatives here in Congress,' he said."

Yahoo! News - 2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds

Yahoo! News - 2 Evangelicals Want to Strip Courts' Funds: "An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, such as stripping funding from their courts in an effort to hinder their work. "

ABC7Chicago.com: Clinton impeachment was retaliation for Nixon, says retiring congressman

ABC7Chicago.com: Clinton impeachment was retaliation for Nixon, says retiring congressman: "When asked if he would go through with the Clinton impeachment process again, Hyde said he wasn't sure. It turned into a personal and political embarrassment for Hyde when an extra-marital affair he had in the 1960's became public amid accusations of hypocrisy. He called the affair a youthful indiscretion. "

ABC7Chicago.com: Clinton impeachment was retaliation for Nixon, says retiring congressman

ABC7Chicago.com: Clinton impeachment was retaliation for Nixon, says retiring congressman: "Republican Congressman Henry Hyde made some surprising comments Thursday on the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton. He now says Republicans may have gone after Clinton to retaliate for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. Hyde is stepping down after this term. "

I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them! - UNITEDSTATES.com DOMESTIC political chat bbs politics - forum: politics - Message Boards

I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them! - UNITEDSTATES.com DOMESTIC political chat bbs politics - forum: politics - Message Boards: "The Nazi conspirators restricted the independence of the judiciary and rendered it subservient to their ends.

The independence of judges, before the Nazi regime, was guaranteed by the Weimar Constitution. The fundamental principle was stated briefly in Article 102:

'Judges are independent and subject only to the law.' (2050-PS)

Article 104 contained a safeguard against the arbitrary removal or suspension of judges, while Article 105 prohibited 'exceptional courts'. The fundamental rights of the individual are set out in Article 109 and include equality before the law. (2050-PS)

Like all other public officials, German judges who failed to meet Nazi racial and political requirements became the subject of a wide-spread purge. Non-Aryans, political opponents of the Nazis, and all persons suspected of antagonism to the aims of the Party were summarily removed (2967-PS). The provisions of the Law for the Restoration of Professional Civil Service of 7 April 1933 applied to all judges. This was declared expressly in the third regulation for the administration of the law. (2867- PS) "

News

News: "Many cases have been documented of small children, and the occasional adult, reviving from near-drownings in icy water after their body temperatures had dropped and they had stopped breathing for more than an hour.


'Understanding the connections between random instances of seemingly miraculous, unexplained survival in so-called clinically dead humans and our ability to induce and reverse metabolic quiescence in model organisms could have dramatic implications for medical care,' Roth said. "

In Contempt of Courts

In Contempt of Courts: "Constitution Party's 2004 presidential candidate, Michael Peroutka, called the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube 'an act of terror in broad daylight aided and abetted by the police under the authority of the governor.' Red-faced and sweating profusely, Peroutka added, 'This was the very definition of state-sponsored terror.' Edwin Vieira, a lawyer and author of How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary, went even further, suggesting during a panel discussion that Joseph Stalin offered the best method for reining in the Supreme Court. 'He had a slogan,' Vieira said, 'and it worked very well for him whenever he ran into difficulty: 'No man, no problem.''
The complete Stalin quote is, 'Death solves all problems: no man, no problem.' "

You know, a couple more of these and it'll be time to re-fuck the system until conservatives can't breath anymore.

I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them! - UNITEDSTATES.com DOMESTIC political chat bbs politics - forum: politics - Message Boards

I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them! - UNITEDSTATES.com DOMESTIC political chat bbs politics - forum: politics - Message Boards: "I'm wondering if it's wise for political figures to demonize our judges. Oklahoma Senator Coburn's Chief of Staff said 'I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them!'. Tom Delay and other top GOP'ers have likened judges to communists, terrorists and murderers. Republican Alan Keyes has said 'I believe that the judiciary is the focus of evil in our society today'."

People For the American Way - The Dissents Of Priscilla Owen: A Judicial Nominee Who Would Make The Law, Not Interpret It

People For the American Way - The Dissents Of Priscilla Owen: A Judicial Nominee Who Would Make The Law, Not Interpret It: "White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales criticized a dissent joined by Owen in one case as 'an unconscionable act of judicial activism.' In another case, his majority opinion called a dissent by Owen an attempt to 'judicially amend' a Texas statute. Her dissents demonstrate that, for Owen, ideology trumps her responsibility as a judge to interpret the law. "

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2005�: "'A prominent member of the Senate leadership recently described a Supreme Court justice as 'a disgrace.' An equally prominent member of the leadership of the House of Representatives on the other side of the political aisle has characterized another justice's approach to adjudication as 'incredibly outrageous.' "

Frist and His Allies Use Piety for Profit

Frist and His Allies Use Piety for Profit: "former Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher, who fought state funding for contraceptive services and likes to mention 'the important role that God and Jesus Christ have played in my life.'
Addressing a National Right to Life convention in 2002, the year before he was elevated to the bench, Mr. Fisher said, 'All of us are hoping and praying that the day will come under the leadership of George W. Bush that we�ll have a Supreme Court with justices who will leave [abortion] to the state to decide the legality of this issue by overturning Roe v. Wade.' "

Frist and His Allies Use Piety for Profit

Frist and His Allies Use Piety for Profit: "'Conservatism' is becoming a radical ideology that discards constitutional balances for the pursuit of unchecked power. "

Above Top Secret Interactive Blog - Political Conspiracies - GOP Incites Bloodshed for Poli-Power?

Above Top Secret Interactive Blog - Political Conspiracies - GOP Incites Bloodshed for Poli-Power?: "Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff of Oklahoma's GOP Senator Tom Coburn, was quoted by a reporter just outside the conference as saying �I'm a radical! I'm a real extremist. I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them!' "

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Molly Ivins

The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Molly Ivins: "'This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS. Not only do you kick him -- you kick him until he passes out, then beat him over the head with a baseball bat, then roll him up in an old rug and throw him off a cliff into the pound(ing) surf below!!!!!' That gem was in a DeLay staff email about Clinton's impeachment. "

Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream by Bob Herbert

Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream by Bob Herbert: "The 'American Dream' is now just a Disneyesque image of a nation long ago sold out to the highest bidder and campaign contributor. Corporations run the nation through the legislators that they contribute to. The citizens of our nation come a distant second, as they do -- ironically -- in the mainstream press."

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A Whiff of Stagflation

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: A Whiff of Stagflation: "we'll just have to see how well an administration in which political operatives make all economic policy decisions, and the Treasury secretary is only a salesman, handles crises. "

LP: To The People Of Islam: A 2004 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM ANN COULTER

LP: To The People Of Islam: A 2004 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM ANN COULTER: "To The People Of Islam:
Just think: If we'd invaded your countries, killed your leaders and converted you to Christianity YOU'D ALL BE OPENING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS RIGHT ABOUT NOW!
Merry Christmas "

House passes piracy measure / Film industry wins some, loses other battles in Congress

House passes piracy measure / Film industry wins some, loses other battles in Congress: "On the other hand, the bill is designed to nullify a lawsuit filed by eight movie studios and a directors' association against ClearPlay Inc., a small Utah technology startup that wants to sell home DVD players that can automatically filter objectionable material from prerecorded DVD movies. "

Hybrids could pay more gas tax / U.S. to study tariffs on miles driven, not gallons purchased

Hybrids could pay more gas tax / U.S. to study tariffs on miles driven, not gallons purchased: "David Hamilton, national director of the Sierra Club's global warming and energy program, was more emphatic. 'If some vehicles use much more gas per mile, you are giving them an advantage by going to a per-mile charge, and that goes in exactly the wrong direction in helping to solve global warming and other environmental issues,'' he said. "

New Pope Lays Out Vision in First Mass

New Pope Lays Out Vision in First Mass: "We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires,' he said.

He has denounced rock music, dismissed anyone who had tried to find 'feminist' meanings in the Bible, and last year told American bishops it was appropriate to deny Communion to those who support abortion and euthanasia. "

An Agenda, Certainly, but Which?

An Agenda, Certainly, but Which?: "In the 2000 document 'Dominus Iesus' (Lord Jesus), Ratzinger asserted Catholic primacy and branded other faiths, including Christian denominations, as deficient. The document incurred the wrath of Protestants, Anglicans, Jews and others. Ratzinger dismissed the protests as insignificant, further angering his critics.

Last year, Ratzinger said Turkey should not be allowed to join the European Union because, as a predominantly Muslim country, it was 'in permanent conflict' with Europe. "

This dog is definitely gonna have a hard time hunting.

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign - Yahoo! News

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign - Yahoo! News: "He specifically mentioned 'the case of a Catholic politician consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws,' a reference widely understood to mean Democratic candidate Kerry, a Catholic who has defended abortion rights.
The letter said a priest confronted with such a person seeking communion 'must refuse to distribute it.'"

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign - Yahoo! News

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign - Yahoo! News: "German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican theologian who was elected Pope Benedict XVI, intervened in the 2004 US election campaign ordering bishops to deny communion to abortion rights supporters including presidential candidate John Kerry. "

DeLay Slams Supreme Court Justice - Yahoo! News

DeLay Slams Supreme Court Justice - Yahoo! News: "However, DeLay has called repeatedly for the House to find a way to hold the federal judiciary accountable for its decisions. 'The judiciary has become so activist and so isolated from the American people that it's our job to do that,' DeLay said.
One way would be for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the clause in the Constitution that says 'judges can serve as long as they serve with good behavior,' he said. 'We want to define what good behavior means. And that's where you have to start.'"

HoustonChronicle.com - CDC: Dangers of being overweight overstated

HoustonChronicle.com - CDC: Dangers of being overweight overstated: "A related study, also in Wednesday's JAMA, found that overweight Americans are healthier than ever, thanks to better maintenance of blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Diabetes is on the rise among people in all weight categories, however."

CQ.com

CQ.com: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not list right-wing domestic terrorists and terrorist groups on a document that appears to be an internal list of threats to the nation�s security.
According to the list � part of a draft planning document obtained by CQ Homeland Security � between now and 2011 DHS expects to contend primarily with adversaries such as al Qaeda and other foreign entities affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement, as well as domestic radical Islamist groups.
It also lists left-wing domestic groups, such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), as terrorist threats, but it does not mention anti-government groups, white supremacists and other radical right-wing movements, which have staged numerous terrorist attacks that have killed scores of Americans. "

Your reaction: Pope Benedict XVI - Citizen Journalist - MSNBC.com

Your reaction: Pope Benedict XVI - Citizen Journalist - MSNBC.com: "In electing Ratzinger pope the cardinals have signaled that they are content to see the windows opened by John XXIII and the Vatican Council, closed by John Paul II, nailed shut by Benedict XVI. By their vote these Church leaders have agreed to let the number of priests continue to decline (there are 3000 Catholic Communities with no pastor in the US alone). They also confirm that the economic and environmental impact of their sanctions against birth control will continue, as will the spread of aides due to forbidding the use of contraceptives. By their election of Ratzinger the cardinals have shown blind eyes to the scientific facts about homosexuality. Benedict XVI will continue as pope what he has done for over 20 years, namely stomp out any dissent voiced by more than 50% of the faithful.
--George McCartin, Jacksonville, Ore. "

Ratzinger in Charge of Doctrine Crackdowns

Ratzinger in Charge of Doctrine Crackdowns: "Ratzinger wrote that he was enrolled in the Nazi youth movement against his will when he was 14 in 1941, when membership was compulsory. He said he was soon let out because of his studies for the priesthood.
Two years later he was drafted into a Nazi anti-aircraft unit as a helper, a common task for teenage boys too young to be soldiers. A year later he was released, only to be sent to the Austrian-Hungarian border to construct tank barriers."

Cardinal Ratzinger's Challenge (washingtonpost.com)

Cardinal Ratzinger's Challenge (washingtonpost.com): "insisted, has jumped 'from one extreme to the other: from Marxism to liberalism, up to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and on and on.'
Those are fighting words. They guaranteed that Ratzinger, who was Pope John Paul II's enforcer of orthodoxy, will either set the church's course -- or offer his fellow cardinals the ideas they choose to react against. Decades from now many conservative Catholics will see the war against the 'dictatorship of relativism' as their central mission. It's not a line you forget. "

Cardinal Ratzinger's Challenge (washingtonpost.com)

Cardinal Ratzinger's Challenge (washingtonpost.com): "Walls in Rome are plastered with memorial posters to John Paul that carry his famous quotation, 'Be not afraid.' Cardinal Ratzinger declared yesterday that the church has much to fear. "

CQ.com

CQ.com: "It also lists left-wing domestic groups, such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), as terrorist threats, but it does not mention anti-government groups, white supremacists and other radical right-wing movements, which have staged numerous terrorist attacks that have killed scores of Americans. "

The New York Times > Washington > Delay Is Sought in Vote on U.N. Nominee

The New York Times > Washington > Delay Is Sought in Vote on U.N. Nominee: "'Under Secretary Bolton was never the formidable power that people are insinuating he was in terms of foreign policy, or blocking the policies that Secretary Powell wished to pursue,' Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Mr. Powell's chief of staff, said in a telephone interview.
'But do I think John Bolton would make a good ambassador to the United Nations? Absolutely not,' Mr. Wilkerson said. 'He is incapable of listening to people and taking into account their views. He would be an abysmal ambassador.'"

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA: "Free speech and government criticism are part of what that flag stands for. The flag means the flag can be burned. "

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA: "No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots.
--George Bush, Stupid Fuck, quoted in the Scottsdale Tribune "

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA: "It's our state. It should be our choice.
Miriam G. Santacruz, Stupid Fuck, in the official ballot argument for prop 22.
So the way we protect a choice, a freedom, is by denying a liberty to a group of people?
My family taught me to respect other people's freedoms. Everyone should. But that's a two way street. If people want me to respect their opinions and lifestyles, then they should grant me the same courtesy by respecting MY beliefs. And I believe that marriage should stay the way it is.
The same Stupid Fuck from above
Contradictory inside the same paragraph. Let me compress it a bit so it's more obvious: 'Everyone should respect everyone else, but only I deserve respect.' "

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA

SPATULA :=- Nick Johnson's Homepage -=: SPATULA: "We're a state that's proud of our diversity, but there are limits to every boundary, and tonight we protected the institution of marriage
--Rob Stutzman, prop 22 campaign manager, Stupid Fuck
Protected it from what? Shall we employ some reasoning skill here? Suppose two gay men get married. Does this require that a straight couple get divorced? Republicans must get all the best drugs. "

Bush: U.S. needs smarter energy strategy - Politics - MSNBC.com

Bush: U.S. needs smarter energy strategy - Politics - MSNBC.com: "But lawmakers Wednesday blocked an effort to improve U.S. vehicle fuel efficiency."

Court Permits Religious Bigotry in Board Prayers

Court Permits Religious Bigotry in Board Prayers: "The appeals court based its ruling on Marsh v. Chambers, a 1983 Supreme Court decision that ruled nonsectarian legislative prayer is generally constitutional. The 4th Circuit wrote that Chesterfield County has done a good job of including leaders from a variety of religions to offer opening prayers and therefore abided by the Constitution by not advancing any one faith.
It's 'not advancing any one faith' to insist on prayers made to a god consistent with one religious tradition?
The court's reasoning was basically this: Marsh v. Chambers upheld as constitutional a situation where a legislature had prayers delivered by one Christian denomination. If that is OK, then prayers delivered by several Christian denominations must be even better. The fact that only one religious tradition is represented and a member of a minority faith is deliberately excluded doesn't matter. According to the 4th Circuit Court, the state can do this. "

Verizon CEO sounds off on Wi-Fi, customer gripes / Seidenberg also explains phone company's reasons for wanting to buy MCI

Verizon CEO sounds off on Wi-Fi, customer gripes / Seidenberg also explains phone company's reasons for wanting to buy MCI: "'Why in the world would you think your (cell) phone would work in your house?' he said. "

ABC News: Appeals Court Rules Against Wiccan in Va.

ABC News: Appeals Court Rules Against Wiccan in Va.: "A federal appeals court Thursday ruled against a Wiccan priestess who argued she should be eligible to offer the opening prayer at a county meeting.
Cynthia Simpson sued Chesterfield County after she was excluded from a list of religious leaders allowed to pray at the Board of Supervisors' meetings. In a letter to Simpson, the county explained the invocations 'are traditionally made to a divinity that is consistent with the Judeo-Christian tradition.' "

Amazon.com: Books: Got a Revolution! : The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane

Amazon.com: Books: Got a Revolution! : The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane: "Our new parallel universe in San Francisco in nineteen-sixty-something did not become a world couched in hate, or rejection or soapbox ranting, but a world involved in creating a new and different realm for ourselves...naive, hopeful, a children's crusade, if you will...
and a world in which we were for things, not necessarily against things. We succeeded in creating a place that, for a brief, shining moment, embodied all that we had been taught to hold dear. "

JS Online: Cat-hunt plan has promoter in cross hairs

JS Online: Cat-hunt plan has promoter in cross hairs: "'You cat-murdering bastard,' said one caller to Professor Stanley Temple, whose 1996 study estimated cats kill millions of birds each year. 'What goes around, comes around. I declare Stanley Temple season open.'
At issue is whether stray and feral cats are cold-blooded killers or purring bundles of fur.
Mark Smith, a 48-year-old firefighter in La Crosse, thinks they're assassins with tails."

- Connected Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley - MSNBC.com

- Connected Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley - MSNBC.com: "Surely there will be a special place reserved in hell for those congressmen, senators, and others trying to make political hay out of this tragic situation. �Terry W Gloege, Wichita, Kan."

Yahoo! News - Art Exhibit Featuring Bush Stamp Probed

Yahoo! News - Art Exhibit Featuring Bush Stamp Probed: "Two federal agents arrived at the exhibit's opening night Thursday, took photos of some of the works and asked for the artists' contact information, said CarolAnn Brown, the gallery's director.
Brown said the agents were most interested in Chicago artist Al Brandtner's work titled 'Patriot Act,' which depicted a sheet of mock 37-cent red, white and blue stamps showing a revolver pointed at Bush's head.
Brandtner did not return a call to his design studio Tuesday.
The exhibit's curator, Michael Hernandez de Luna, said the inquiry 'frightens' him.
'It starts questioning all rights, not only my rights or the artists' rights in this room, but questioning the rights of any artist who creates � any writer, any visual artist, any performance artist. It seems like we're being watched,' he said.
Last spring, Secret Service agents in Washington state questioned a high school student about anti-war drawings he did for an art class, one of which depicted Bush's head on a stick. "

New York Post Online Edition: gossip

New York Post Online Edition: gossip: "Weisser said he hoped that 'The Truth About Hillary' would do to Clinton what the Swift Boat Veterans best-seller did to Kerry.
'That would be our fondest wish,' he said, before adding, 'We're just trying to sell books. It will be up to the voters to read the book and decide for themselves about Senator Clinton. We're not out to get anyone, per se.'
Sentinel's previous releases include 'Matter of Character,' Ronald Kessler's pro-George W. Bush biography, and 'Do Gooders,' conservative pundit Mona Charen's attack on liberals. "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Passion of the Tom

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Passion of the Tom: "John Danforth, the former Republican senator and U.N. ambassador, wrote an Op-Ed piece in The Times last week saying that, on issues from stem cell research to Terri Schiavo, his party 'has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.'
When the Rev. Danforth, an Episcopal minister who prayed with Clarence Thomas when he was under attack by Anita Hill, says the party has gone too far, it's way over the edge. "

ABC News: Mo. Lawmakers Pass Bill Cutting Medicaid

ABC News: Mo. Lawmakers Pass Bill Cutting Medicaid: "Missouri lawmakers passed a bill authorizing the elimination or reduction of Medicaid health coverage for tens of thousands of low-income residents. "

DeLay attacks judiciary during trip to Vatican City

DeLay attacks judiciary during trip to Vatican City: "'Our next step, whatever it is, must be more than rhetoric,' DeLay said in fiery remarks to the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration's meeting titled 'Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.'
'I believe the judicial branch of our government has overstepped its authority on countless occasions, overturning and, in some cases, ignoring the legitimate will of the people,' DeLay said. "

Police search home of woman who found finger

Police search home of woman who found finger: "'They put guns to us and handcuffed us and threw us to the ground in front of all my neighbors,'' Ayala said Thursday. She accused police of terrorizing her family, ransacking her home and injuring the arm of her 13- year-old daughter.
'They treated us like trash, like terrorists. It's the worst nightmare,'' she said. "

If she's not involved in a crime, this is an outrageous incident.

The New York Times > Washington > U.S. Report Sees Gasoline Prices Moving Higher Still

The New York Times > Washington > U.S. Report Sees Gasoline Prices Moving Higher Still: "'When gas prices go up to the level they're at now, they are in some ways the economic equivalent of the color-coded terrorism alerts,' said Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster. 'They work their way through into public opinion very quickly in terms of affecting people's opinions about the direction of the nation and raising the stakes on pocketbook issues generally.'"

All wet on Schiavo story

All wet on Schiavo story: "the Democrats are the party that wants to keep the government out of family life. Sure, that works -- if you forget that the Democrats want to take teenagers' birth control and abortion decisions away from parents, Democrats want taxpayers to pay for said birth control and abortions and Democrats made spousal abuse a federal crime. "

She is such an ass.

My Way News

My Way News: "CANTON, Texas (AP) - The father of a high school football player shot and wounded the team's coach with an assault rifle Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, claiming to have a hit list, state officials said."

FOXNews.com - Special Report w/ Brit Hume - Political Grapevine - A 'Livid' Lawmaker

FOXNews.com - Special Report w/ Brit Hume - Political Grapevine - A 'Livid' Lawmaker: "All 55 Senate Republicans have now denied writing or distributing that disputed memo discussing the possible political benefits to the GOP of the Terri Schiavo (search) case � and what's more, all 55 tell the Washington Times they never even saw the document before it appeared in the press."

CNN.com - Florida�to allow�use of force even outside home - Apr 5, 2005

CNN.com - Florida�to allow�use of force even outside home - Apr 5, 2005: "Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he intends to sign a bill that would allow people who feel threatened -- even on the street or at a baseball game -- to 'meet force with force' and defend themselves without fear of prosecution."

Sheer assholian leadership. Hey Jeb, check out Dallas. Lots of guns and a high crime rate leader in the country.

CNN.com - Miller's 'Sin City' comes alive - Apr 7, 2005

CNN.com - Miller's 'Sin City' comes alive - Apr 7, 2005: "When Robert Rodriguez approached Frank Miller about adapting 'Sin City,' he knew he needed a great pitch.
'I told him we shouldn't insult it by turning it into a movie. We gotta take cinema and turn it into this book,' Rodriguez recalls."

Martinez says his staffer produced Schiavo memo / The Washington Times INSIDER

Martinez says his staffer produced Schiavo memo / The Washington Times INSIDER: "Mr. Harkin had told reporters earlier in the day that he got the memo on the Senate floor from Mr. Martinez, contradicting previous statements to The Washington Times by the Florida Republican's office that neither the senator nor his staff had produced or distributed the memo. "

My Way News

My Way News: "'When politicians, the Republican majority, decides it is above the law, the American people are now seeing that they have a price to pay - at the pump, for their pharmaceuticals, and in the absence of initiatives that would help grow our economy, and to feed our children, provide for the health of our people, protect our environment, and, indeed, even provide for the common defense,' said Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California."

Congress vs. the White House

Congress vs. the White House: "'I have been around awhile, and this is the worst administration at congressional relations that I have ever been associated with.'"

My Way News

My Way News: "DeLay said: 'The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.' "

WTC Asbestos Junk Science

WTC Asbestos Junk Science: "Asbestos fibers in the air and rubble following the collapse of the World Trade Center is adding to fears in the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attack. The true tragedy in the asbestos story, though, is the lives that might have been saved but for 1970s-era hysteria about asbestos. "

The New York Times > New York Region > Report on Trade Center Collapses Emphasizes Damage to Fireproofing

The New York Times > New York Region > Report on Trade Center Collapses Emphasizes Damage to Fireproofing: "'The buildings would likely not have collapsed under the combined effects of aircraft impact and the subsequent jet fuel ignited multi-floor fires, if the fireproofing had not been dislodged or had been only minimally dislodged by aircraft impact,' the report said."

Amazon.com: Books: Longitudes and Attitudes : The World in the Age of Terrorism

Amazon.com: Books: Longitudes and Attitudes : The World in the Age of Terrorism: "'History just took a right turn into a blind alley,' comments the New York Times columnist in his latest book, 'and something very dear has just been taken away from us.'"

MSNBC - Gore launches TV channel for young viewers

MSNBC - Gore launches TV channel for young viewers: "'The $100,000 television camera has become a $3,000 high-definition camera, and the $250,000 editing console has become a $1,000 Apple computer program,' Gore said. 'The five-person crew can be one young woman in her twenties with something the size of a handbag.'"

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: "the harridan of the East Wing and the nutty professor of HillaryCare."

New York Post Online Edition:

New York Post Online Edition:: "'perpetual dilemma of modern conservatism' is, essentially, to preserve a way of life that frees people from tradition. Quite the dilemma, that. "

The New York Times: Maureen Dowd

Oh my God, we really are in a theocracy. - Maureen Dowd

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