My Way News

My Way News: "'We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real,' he said. "

My Way News

My Way News: "But he cautioned that 'closing the gap solely with rising tax rates would be problematic' because the high level of taxation that would be required could by itself 'severely inhibit economic growth.'
Because 'benefit cuts will almost surely be at least part of the solution,' Greenspan said it is imperative for Congress to let future retirees know as soon as possible that all currently promised benefits won't be forthcoming when they retire."

Bullshit to the max. Reducing benefits sucks muddy rocks.

My Way News

My Way News: "'If confronted with the same evidence we had back then, I would recommend exactly what I recommended then,' he said."

Why? If you know it's wrong, why?

My Way News

My Way News: "Alan Greenspan and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton clashed briefly Tuesday over rosy surplus forecasts the Federal Reserve Chairman relied on to support President President Bush's 2001 tax cuts, estimates that turned out to be considerably off the mark.
'It turns out that we were all wrong,' Greenspan conceded at a Senate hearing.
'Just for the record, we were not all wrong, but many people were wrong,' Clinton, D-N.Y., quickly shot back."

Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright (washingtonpost.com)

Creative Commons Is Rewriting Rules of Copyright (washingtonpost.com): "'There is this weird sense that the Internet is broken because it lets people make easy copies. . . . The Internet is a machine for making copies, and artists need to come to grips with that,' Doctorow said."

CNN.com - 'Blair Witch' creator takes new project to Web - Mar 14, 2005

CNN.com - 'Blair Witch' creator takes new project to Web - Mar 14, 2005: "'Unlike a Fox show that needs 3 million viewers a week or it's canceled, I only need a fraction of that and I can be filming forever,' he said. 'At Sundance, we were the only ones out there not looking for distribution. You've already got the largest distribution network in the world already on your desktop, and the end-user experience is getting better every day.'"

AOL: AIM Conversations Are Safe

AOL: AIM Conversations Are Safe: "'You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the content or to be compensated for any such uses,'"

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6: "As each individual is 'a universe entire', so does the benefit of creative self-expression fall primarily to the maker, leaving to that person's audience, however large or local, only the artifacts of the process, the works that remain."

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6: "Though I have made music 'on demand' and to others' specifications, such as for dance, theater or film, I am primarily inner directed and all of what I consider my best work is always made for my own needs. This is another wonderful paradox that perhaps only the arts manifest well, that by pleasing the self we are more able to please others."

Selected Small bits of Laurie Spiegel Poems

Selected Small bits of Laurie Spiegel Poems: "only those clever enough to find the latch
only those willing to pay the price
only those strong or angry enough
to crash in anyway "

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6

Laurie Spiegel On The Idea #6: "From the earliest, I craved the arts, any of the arts, all of the arts. The feelings, thoughts and imaginings presented to me by other minds did not represent, reflect or resonate with my solitary subjective experience, nor did they provide the means I so urgently felt I needed of making life's momentary intensity more comfortable."

village voice > people > Lusty Lady by Rachel Kramer Bussel

village voice > people > Lusty Lady by Rachel Kramer Bussel: "keep things light and friendly, low on drama and high on nakedness, there's more short-term payoff. "

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings: "What has become obsolete may have qualities, properties, characteristics, and unfulfilled potential which will later be considered prophetic (e.g. 'musique concrete� being virtually reborn with the advent of low cost realtime digital audio samplers). "

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings: "By 'commercialization' I mean the transition from use value to exchange value as the common and expected motivation for technological research and development for musical applications. "

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings

Laurie Spiegel's Retiary Ramblings: "Underwriters Labs. They were hiring girl nerds instead of just guys during the Viet Nam War due to the draft, one of feminism's least acknowledged impetuses. "

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews: "millions of people can be led, and millions more killed, by madness leashed to racism and the barbaric instincts of tribalism."

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker: "absolute faith in one's own virtue is not a commitment to virtuous behavior but a commitment to one's own will"

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker

Hitler human, still disturbing in the bunker: "'Downfall' reminds us that the challenge of citizenship means recognizing evil when leaders are smiling, playing with their dogs and being photographed with children. "

WFTV.com - News - Police Accused Of Tasering Suspect To Get Urine Sample

WFTV.com - News - Police Accused Of Tasering Suspect To Get Urine Sample: "'I feel I was basically raped,' Wheeler said.
Said Amnesty International USA spokesman Edward Jackson: 'If this had taken place in China, it would be an egregious violation of human rights, and the public would be outraged.
'I hope that they don't allow the fact that it happened on U.S. soil deter from the fact that this may very well be a case of torture.'"

Propaganda Machine

Propaganda Machine: "Liberal enough to listen to new ideas, conservative enough to choose the right ones."

MSNBC - Bankruptcy bill near Senate passage

MSNBC - Bankruptcy bill near Senate passage: "They say it would turn the bankruptcy courts into collection agencies for the credit card companies."

Black robes and betrayal - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 02, 2005

Black robes and betrayal - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 02, 2005: "I am convinced that from time to time juries find before them 16- or 17-year-old defendants who understand full well the vicious nature of their murders, and deserve -- after receiving the full panoply of due process -- to be fried, gassed, hanged, shot, injected or otherwise sent promptly to Hell. "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Buffett attacks American spending junkies

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Buffett attacks American spending junkies: "A country that is now aspiring to an 'ownership society' will not find happiness in - and I'll use hyperbole here for emphasis - a 'sharecropper's society'.'"

FOXNews.com - Special Report w/ Brit Hume - Political Grapevine - Demanding an Apology

FOXNews.com - Special Report w/ Brit Hume - Political Grapevine - Demanding an Apology: "Jim Gibbons (search) for saying this past week that the 'tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should] ... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else,' adding, 'it's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket' to become human shields in Iraq."

Yahoo! News - House OKs Bill on Faith-Based Jobs

Yahoo! News - House OKs Bill on Faith-Based Jobs: "Democrats are objecting to cuts in some programs and the religious discrimination provision. "

BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis

BuzzMachine ... by Jeff Jarvis: "He started off by explaining how the mainstream media doesn't have the same influence it once did, that professional and amateur journalists were getting to be on the same plane, and that essentially, there were no rules anymore.
'Sort of like f--king in the 1970s,' Corddry observed.
That appeared to catch Rosen slightly off-guard.
The program talked a bit about blogging. Corddry said declaratively to Rosen, 'you're a blogger.' Rosen happily agreed that indeed he was. 'Well thank you for wearing pants,' Corddry said."

Yahoo! News - 'Hobbit' Brain Supports Species Theory

Yahoo! News - 'Hobbit' Brain Supports Species Theory: "a sophisticated human dwarf species marooned for eons while modern man proliferated"

The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans

The New York Times > Washington > New Poll Finds Bush Priorities Are Out of Step With Americans: "almost four out of five respondents said it was the government's responsibility to assure a decent standard of living for the elderly."

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Kansas on My Mind

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Kansas on My Mind: "At one of Senator Rick Santorum's recent town-hall meetings promoting privatization, college Republicans began chanting, 'Hey hey, ho ho, Social Security's got to go.'"

FDA official says agency acted too slowly on Vioxx

FDA official says agency acted too slowly on Vioxx: "Millions of people took Vioxx in the years after its risks to the heart became apparent. As a result, as many as 55,000 patients may have died from heart attacks and strokes induced by the drug"

Social Security overhaul a tough sell

Social Security overhaul a tough sell: "Boxer said people view Social Security very simply: 'They pay for it, it's an insurance program, and when they reach a certain age, they get a check in the mail. Pretty straightforward.' "

FINDING MY RELIGION / Rik Myslewski is a happy atheist

FINDING MY RELIGION / Rik Myslewski is a happy atheist: "So, you're certain that God does not exist?
That's right, which I realize puts me in a minority role in this country. I guess I won't ever be elected president."

My Way News

My Way News: "The court says in so many words that what our people's laws say about the issue does not, in the last analysis, matter"

Wead Whacking And Gannon Fodder

Wead Whacking And Gannon Fodder: "The firm made approximately 8,000 'mistakes' while carrying out its task. It identified completely innocent people as convicted felons, with the result that those people were denied their right to vote. Most were black or Hispanic. In that election, about 90 percent of black/Hispanic votes voted for Al Gore. So it is safe to conclude that had the rejected voters been allowed to vote, Al Gore would have carried Florida and become our 43rd president. "

PressThink: Why Karen Ryan Deserved What She Got

PressThink: Why Karen Ryan Deserved What She Got: "There is no rational interpretation, professional ethic, or angle of vision in which the sentence, 'From Washington, I'm Karen Ryan reporting' looks like anything other than a simple lie."

Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education

Governors Work to Improve H.S. Education: "Among the more high-profile governors who did not attend Saturday were two Republicans: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Jeb Bush of Florida, the president's brother. "

MSNBC -

MSNBC -: "the late Senator Moynihan�s observation that we can all have our own opinions, but we can�t all have our own facts."

Rocky Mountain News: State

Rocky Mountain News: State: "'He gave his body everything it wanted.'"

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "The twelve-year-old kid in them remains constant till the day they close their eyes for the last time. It is that constant which gives them an insight shared by none of their peers. The purity of a prepubescent's vision carries with it far more bottom line consequence than those who spew their thoughts to conjure proprietary benefits."

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "shrinking 'Mickey' from royalty to rodent"

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "'Your Mouse has been 'slipped a Mickey'' "

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "Go for the tin ring, that's easy. Boring, but easier."

Bob Dylan attacks modern rock bands - NME.COM

Bob Dylan attacks modern rock bands - NME.COM: "'I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviours of rock'n'roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from,' he wrote, adding, �I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times... I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that.'"

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat

The Village Voice: The Bush Beat: "'God didn't put you here to watch television! He put you here to be on television!'"

MSNBC - The Bush Deal

MSNBC - The Bush Deal: "The New Deal was about insuring against risk, so that disadvantaged people felt more secure in the knowledge that the government would help them stand against the vicissitudes of fate. The Bush Deal is about expanding risk, so that disadvantaged people feel more acutely than at any time since the 1920s that they are at sea amid unpredictable market forces, fending for themselves. "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun: "With the Bushies, if you're their friend, anything goes. If you're their critic, nothing goes. They're waging a jihad against journalists - buying them off so they'll promote administration programs, trying to put them in jail for doing their jobs and replacing them with ringers. "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Barberini Faun: "Does the Bush team love everything military so much that even a military-stud Web site is a recommendation?"

Yahoo! News - White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs

Yahoo! News - White House Turns Tables on Former American POWs: "'Our government is on the wrong side of this issue,' said Jeffrey F. Addicott, a former Army lawyer and director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University in San Antonio. 'A lot of Americans would scratch their heads and ask why is our government taking the side of Iraq against our POWs.' "

Yahoo! News - Judges Say Reporters Must Name Sources in CIA Case

Yahoo! News - Judges Say Reporters Must Name Sources in CIA Case: "Rep. Mike Pence (news, bio, voting record) (R-Ind.), co-sponsor of the legislation and chairman of the House's conservative Republican Study Committee. 'Americans love to hate journalists almost as much as they love to hate politicians. But we are united in our understanding that a free and independent press is central to the survival of liberty.' "

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Love Lit 101

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Love Lit 101: "'A man has $100 and you leave him with $2,' she lectures a class of schoolchildren. 'That's subtraction.'"

Corporations painted in red and blue / S.F. man politicizes purchasing power

Corporations painted in red and blue / S.F. man politicizes purchasing power: "'We need to have a cathedral builder's mentality when we're doing these campaigns,' Mark said. 'We may not see the building completed in our lifetime, but if we finish the foundation, the next generation can build on that.' "

De Rerum Natura: Letters, We Write Letters

De Rerum Natura: Letters, We Write Letters: "Creationism is rife with hoaxed fossils. The difference is it takes evolutionists to correct them, and yet creationists continue to use them. Examples include the Paluxy footprints, the Calaveras skull, Moab Man and Malachite Man."

The media kerfuffle - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - February 15, 2005

The media kerfuffle - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - February 15, 2005: "When influential members of the media defame our troops, they should answer for it. If that's moronic, sign us up. "

CNN.com - Parents challenge weekly�Bible classes - Feb 12, 2005

CNN.com - Parents challenge weekly�Bible classes - Feb 12, 2005: "Beverly Ridell, who grew up going to the Staunton schools, teaches first- and second-grade Sunday school at church and opposes religious classes during school time.
'I asked them whether Jesus was a Christian and they said 'yes.' When I said, 'Jesus was a Jew,' one girl said, 'But Jesus was a good person,'' Ridell said.
'If Christians are good people, what are Jews? These are 6- and 7-year-old kids. This is an age where what's right and what's wrong are clear and unambiguous.'"

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title: "'I'd been concerned about the prevalence' of [bull], he continued, 'and the lack of concern for truth and respect for truth that it represented.' "

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title

The New York Times > Books > A Princeton Philosopher's Unprintable Book Title: "'It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth,' Mr. Frankfurt writes. 'A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.'
The bull artist, on the other hand, cares nothing for truth or falsehood. The only thing that matters to him is 'getting away with what he says,' Mr. Frankfurt writes. An advertiser or a politician or talk show host given to [bull] 'does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it,' he writes. 'He pays no attention to it at all.'"

While Limbaugh sees all things coming up roses, his scared satirist rushes to revise act

While Limbaugh sees all things coming up roses, his scared satirist rushes to revise act: "'In the middle of what's happening in Iraq,' Limbaugh said, 'for most Americans what happened at Abu Ghraib might as well be Romper Room.' "

An oral technique and a $25,000 movie that still has us talking

An oral technique and a $25,000 movie that still has us talking: "it's difficult to look at the repressed faces of these prosecutors and federal agents and feel anything but misery that they and their ilk are in ascendance in today's America. "

Google's big day unusual

Google's big day unusual: "'The company is going to have to discuss the numbers -- not open the kimono, but say more about where the profits are generated,' he said."

Google's big day unusual

Google's big day unusual: "Hammering the point home, Larry Page, who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, later added: 'We're trying to be ruthlessly efficient about running our business. We're trying to make a lot of money. But we aren't necessarily going to make money from everything we have.' "

My Way News

My Way News: "In the essay, later revised for a book, Churchill also said that World Trade Center victims could not be seen as innocent, calling them 'little Eichmanns,' a reference to German World War II criminal Adolf Eichmann.
'True enough, they were civilians of a sort,' he wrote. 'But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire.'"

USATODAY.com - With America at war, Hollywood follows

USATODAY.com - With America at war, Hollywood follows: "'For y'all, this is just a show, but we live in this movie.'"

Halliburton Doing Business With the 'Axis of Evil' (washingtonpost.com)

Halliburton Doing Business With the 'Axis of Evil' (washingtonpost.com): "Two days later, American political analyst Michael Ledeen, a neoconservative advocate of ousting the government in Tehran, described Halliburton's actions as 'disgusting.' In a Jan. 23 online chat sponsored by the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran, Ledeen was asked about 'secret business deals between some U.S. companies, like Halliburton, and the Islamic regime.'
'What has happened is against U.S. laws . . . and the people involved in this transaction must be put in jail, according to American law,' Ledeen replied. "

My Way News

My Way News: "Paul Whiting, 67, took notes during the speech from his home in Billings.
He couldn't hide his reaction. 'I really don't trust him,' the semi-retired photographer said about Bush. He has voted for Democrats and lately some independents. He did not vote for Bush.
One of his biggest worries is foreign policy. Whiting is a peace advocate, who participated in local vigils leading up to the war in Iraq and said he'd like to see the United States adjust its foreign policy.
'I think we're working on a posture of fear and isolationism,' he said. 'I think we really have to examine why our policies generate so much hostility around the world.'"

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Little Black Lies

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Little Black Lies: "Is this an example of what Mr. Bush famously called 'the soft bigotry of low expectations?' Maybe not: it isn't particularly soft to treat premature black deaths not as a tragedy we must end but as just another way to push your ideological agenda. But bigotry - yes, that sounds like the right word. "

Gov., Democrats Argue Over Budget

Gov., Democrats Argue Over Budget: "'He is actually vetoing legislation to give California lower prices on drugs,' Frommer said. That, he added 'shows the governor's ability to make decisions may be influenced by his contributors.'"

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change

Guardian Unlimited | Life | Oil firms fund campaign to deny climate change: "Last month the Scientific Alliance published a joint report with the George C Marshall Institute in Washington that claimed to 'undermine' climate change claims. The Marshall institute received �51,000 from ExxonMobil for its 'global climate change programme' in 2003 and an undisclosed sum this month."

Gallagher Criticizes 'WP' Article; Kurtz Rebuts

Gallagher Criticizes 'WP' Article; Kurtz Rebuts: "As a journalist, however, when the question is raised 'Should you have disclosed?' the answer is always, yes. It was a mistake on my part not to have disclosed any government contract. It will not happen again.'

In response, Kurtz told E&P: 'It's too bad that Maggie Gallagher, in the process of apologizing for her mistake, has seen fit to blame the messenger. My story made quite clear that her work at HHS included writing brochures for the President's marriage initiative, ghostwriting a magazine article for a top official, and briefing other department officials on the issue. That sure sounds like promotion to me, but none of this would be a media controversy had Ms. Gallagher disclosed the contract in her writing trumpeting the Bush marriage plan.'"

Newsday.com: Blair: U.S. Needs to Integrate With World

Newsday.com: Blair: U.S. Needs to Integrate With World: "'If America wants the rest of the world to be part of the agenda it has set, it must be part of their agenda, too,'"

The New York Times > Movies > The Most Overrated Film of the Year

The New York Times > Movies > The Most Overrated Film of the Year: "It both satirizes and affirms a cherished male fantasy: that however antisocial, self-absorbed and downright unattractive a man may be, he can always be rescued by the love of a good woman."

Gore Vidal Walks and Talks to His Own Beat

Gore Vidal Walks and Talks to His Own Beat: "President Bush will be forced to resign or be driven from office. 'I can't believe the speed with which the entire republic fell apart. The U.S. Bill of Rights fell apart with Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Patriot Act,' he said of post-9/11 America.
'Preventive war became our national policy, which has not been any nation's policy since Hitler. A preventive war is about as un-American as you get. But that doesn't mean we haven't done it before,' he said.
'The worst (previous) example was the Mexican War. That brave moralist, Ulysses S. Grant, who had been a second lieutenant just out of West Point, hated that war and said ... that nations like individuals suffer for their transgressions.
'I believe the Civil War was the judgment of God on us for what we did to Mexico. God knows what we are going to get for Iraq.' "

CBC News:Look closely to find healthiest bread

CBC News:Look closely to find healthiest bread: "'What you should look for is at least five to six grams per serving or 2� to three grams per slice,' said Gallop. 'Look for the stone milled, 100 per cent whole wheat � that would certainly be your best bet.' "

Semantics Shape Social Security Debate (washingtonpost.com)

Semantics Shape Social Security Debate (washingtonpost.com): "Bush generally refers to 'personal accounts' but said during a September speech at a Republican fundraiser in Washington that he wanted to offer younger workers 'a private account that they can call their own, a private account they can pass on to the next generation, and a private account that government can't take away.' "

Semantics Shape Social Security Debate (washingtonpost.com)

Semantics Shape Social Security Debate (washingtonpost.com): "Republican officials have begun calling journalists to complain about references to 'private accounts,' even though Bush called them that three times in a speech last fall. "

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: "'Renewed in our strength--tested, but not weary--we are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom.'
This is--how else to put it?--over the top."

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: "somewhere between dreamy and disturbing"

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: "'It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in the world.'"

FT.com / US / Inauguration 2005 - Bush vows to support democracy 'in every nation'

FT.com / US / Inauguration 2005 - Bush vows to support democracy 'in every nation': "The �edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Koran, and the varied faiths of our people.�"

Two Elections - Why Iraq's vote is not like Palestine's. By Christopher�Hitchens

Two Elections - Why Iraq's vote is not like Palestine's. By Christopher�Hitchens: "She didn't ask. She didn't tell, and some of those who wanted to make a noise when she had only just died might profit from studying her good taste and reserve."

My Way News

My Way News: "'Negative feelings about Bush are high,' Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes which carried out the study, told the BBC. 'This is quite a grim picture for the United States.'"

Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground (washingtonpost.com)

Iraq New Terror Breeding Ground (washingtonpost.com): "Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of 'professionalized' terrorists, according to a report released yesterday by the National Intelligence Council, the CIA director's think tank. "

Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons - News | Print | New Scientist

Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons - News | Print | New Scientist: "an 'aphrodisiac' chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a 'distasteful but completely non-lethal' blow to morale"

Yahoo! News - Wal-Mart's CEO on Offensive Against Critics

Yahoo! News - Wal-Mart's CEO on Offensive Against Critics: "'I liken it to being nibbled to death by guppies,' Scott said"

Group Says It Relocated 300 Orphans (washingtonpost.com)

Group Says It Relocated 300 Orphans (washingtonpost.com): "'Normally, Banda Aceh is closed to foreigners and closed to the gospel. But, because of this catastrophe, our partners there are earning the right to be heard and providing entrance for the gospel,' WorldHelp said in an appeal for funds on its Web site this week.
The appeal said WorldHelp was working with native-born Christians in Indonesia who want to 'plant Christian principles as early as possible' in the 300 Muslim children, all younger than 12, who lost their parents in the tsunami. "

Group Says It Relocated 300 Orphans (washingtonpost.com)

Group Says It Relocated 300 Orphans (washingtonpost.com): "'These children are homeless, destitute, traumatized, orphaned, with nowhere to go, nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat. If we can place them in a Christian children's home, their faith in Christ could become the foothold to reach the Aceh people,' "

MSNBC - The 'Media Party' is over

MSNBC - The 'Media Party' is over: "The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. The problem was that, once the AMMP declared its existence by taking sides, there was no going back. A party was born."

Michelle Malkin: Not for sale

Michelle Malkin: Not for sale: "Rabid liberal elitists expect and demand that 'women of color' in public and political life adopt their left-wing political orthodoxy. When we don't accept such tripe, their racist and sexist diatribes against us are unmatched."

little idiots from afar...

President outlines role of his faith - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - January 12, 2005

President outlines role of his faith - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - January 12, 2005: "'But the key thing is, is that we do have the capacity to allow faith programs to access enormous sums of social service money, which I think is important.' "

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2004�: "'I think people attack me because they are fearful that I will then say that you're not equally as patriotic if you're not a religious person,' Mr. Bush said. 'I've never said that. I've never acted like that. I think that's just the way it is."

:: rogerebert.com :: essays

:: rogerebert.com :: essays: "In 30 years of teaching evening film classes for the University of Chicago, I have shown only one film that made the audience cry, and that was 'Tokyo Story.' You do not cry unless a film frees itself from its origins and enters into your own heart."

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews: "Theological footnote: Every once in a while my Catholic grade school education sounds a dogma alarm. Jessie is not a Catholic, which perhaps explains why she thinks the term 'immaculate conception' refers to the birth of Jesus, when in fact it refers to the birth of Mary. "

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews: "The reason we cannot accept pedophilia as we accept many other sexual practices is that it requires an innocent partner, whose life could be irreparably harmed. We do not have the right to do that. If there is no other way to achieve sexual satisfaction, that is our misfortune, but not an excuse. It is not the pedophile that is evil, but the pedophilia. That is true of all sins and crimes and those tempted to perform them: It is not that we are capable of transgression that condemns us, but that we are willing."

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews

:: rogerebert.com :: reviews: "Most of us have sexual desires within the areas accepted by society, and so never reflect that we did not choose them, but simply grew up and found that they were there."

The New York Times > Health > Mental Health & Behavior > The Secret Lives of Just About Everybody

The New York Times > Health > Mental Health & Behavior > The Secret Lives of Just About Everybody: "But in a series of experiments over the past decade, psychologists have identified a larger group they call repressors, an estimated 10 to 15 percent of the population, who are adept at ignoring or suppressing information that is embarrassing to them and thus well equipped to keep secrets, some psychologists say.
Repressors score low on questionnaires that measure anxiety and defensiveness - reporting, for example, that they are rarely resentful, worried about money, or troubled by nightmares and headaches. They think well of themselves and don't sweat the small stuff.
Although little is known about the mental development of such people, some psychologists believe they have learned to block distressing thoughts by distracting themselves with good memories. Over time - with practice, in effect - this may become habitual, blunting their access to potentially humiliating or threatening memories and secrets.
'This talent is likely to serve them well in the daily struggle to avoid unwanted thoughts of all kinds, including unwanted thoughts that arise from attempts to suppress secrets in the presence of others,' Dr. Wegner, of Harvard, said in an e-mail message. "

The New York Times > Health > Mental Health & Behavior > The Secret Lives of Just About Everybody

The New York Times > Health > Mental Health & Behavior > The Secret Lives of Just About Everybody: "In a very deep sense, you don't have a self unless you have a secret"

My Way News

My Way News: "'Don't cheerleaders all over America form pyramids six to eight times a year. Is that torture?' Guy Womack, Graner's attorney, said in opening arguments to the 10-member U.S. military jury at the reservist sergeant's court-martial."

Yahoo! News - Armstrong Williams: I Am Not Alone

Yahoo! News - Armstrong Williams: I Am Not Alone: "'This happens all the time,' he told me. 'There are others.'"

Yahoo! News - Cardinal Says Bush Broke Iraq Promise

Yahoo! News - Cardinal Says Bush Broke Iraq Promise: "'Unfortunately, the facts have demonstrated afterward that things took a different course � not rapid and not favorable,' the prelate told Telepace. 'Bush was wrong.' "

Yahoo! News - Administration Paid Commentator

Yahoo! News - Administration Paid Commentator: "Chicago-based Tribune Media Services dropped Williams's column yesterday, saying he had violated his contract. 'Accepting compensation in any form from an entity that serves as a subject of his weekly newspaper columns creates, at the very least, the appearance of a conflict of interest,' prompting readers to ask whether his opinions 'have been purchased by a third party,' a company statement said."

DRUDGE REPORT 2005�

DRUDGE REPORT 2005�: "has written a book that touts the importance of moderates to the future of the Republican Party and flays Bush and his team for ignoring the country's middle."

hmmm... sounds like the beginning of a campaign to make the moderate repubs the new dems. Not good for dems.