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Chicago Tribune | Pat Robertson Warns Pa. Town of Disaster You know what? Pat Robertson has a pattern of shooting off his mouth, getting wide reportage, and then issuing a “statement” about what he really meant to say. In the article, he’s threatening fire and brimstone on the town of Dover, PA, whose citizens were intelligent enough to vote the intelligent-design rascals off their school board. It’s painfully apparent that the whole ID issue is all about injecting religion into the nations schools and tearing a big whole in the wall separating Church (big C) and State (big S). The…
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Jordan ‘not afraid’ after bombs Jordan, like Britain, Spain, the US, and many other countries, is not afraid. They’re literally in a difficult position in the Arab world: they’re between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Their young King Hussein II seems to be walking the tightrope as well as his father did. They made peace with Israel, and their country acts as both a gateway and getaway for people working or living in Iraq. This puts them high on the fundamentalists’ hit lists. Peace be upon all those who lost friends and family, and may…
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They’re not Sudanese refugees trying to make a new start. They’re blond, blue-eyed superfluous males from communities that are run more like a pride of lions or a troop of baboons than a town. Shurtleff helps revive ‘lost boys’ bill Legislation billed as a way to help youths evicted from polygamous homes – known as the “lost boys” – died in a Senate logjam last year. On Wednesday, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff told the Judiciary Interim Committee the bill, which would allow a judge to emancipate a minor at age 16, is among his top priorities. Shurtleff said hundreds…
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A Taste Of Heaven in the Andersonville neighborhood sounds like heaven on earth for a childfree curmudgeo-woman like me. Naturally, the proprietor is now the most hated man on the Chicago North Side. Basically, he has a firmly worded little sign in the shop that states that “children of all ages have to use their indoor voices.” Many former patrons are in an uproar, because the world is their living room, and how dare anyone object to the happy shrieks and “cute” antics of their children. Especially not anyone in a tin-ceilinged coffee shop in what used to be an…
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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Illiteracy ‘hinders world’s poor’ The regions found to have the lowest levels of literacy are sub-Saharan Africa, south and west Asia and the Arab states, where only 60% of the population are able to read and write. Women remain more at risk of illiteracy, with only 88 women worldwide considered literate for every 100 men. In Bangladesh and Pakistan, these figures are even less, at 62 and 57 respectively for every 100 men. The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) welcomed the publication and its focus on adult literacy, saying illiteracy was a violation…
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Oooweee! One of our favorite TV shows has been Boing Boinged! It’s almost as if BB wasn’t really familiar with the show, which is weird because it’s totally on topic for them and totally aimed at their dream demographic: smart, slightly geeky people who build cool shit and blow stuff up in the name of Science! So anyway, there’s a DVD coming out. There are already a couple of books on the mighty Mythbusters. It appears that the mustache of Jamie Hyneman will probably succeed in taking over the world, one visual media at a time. But until then, it’ll…
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It’s the day after an off-year election, and all the news outlets have filed their stories about how it’s a victory for Democrats and it’s a referendum against Bush (especially in the case of the Virginia governor’s race, where Bush had done a campaign stop hours before). Governator Ahnuld got shut out on his pet ballot initiatives, too. However, I actually think it’s more of a victory for politicians who aren’t Religious Right pod people, because a few Republican moderates were elected, too. If a heavily Democratic city like New York can re-elect a Republican mayor, that says that they…
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Okay. After last week’s horrible ending on TAR8, where we bade farewell to the awesome Gaghan family and were stuck with the not-very-appealing and socially backward Weaver family in next-to-last place, I realized I Officially Just Don’t Care Who Wins. I’ll watch until the bitter end, but I won’t care very much (or scream encouragement and imprecations very much). Tonight, for your reading pleasure, I am under way with two (2) glasses of Pinot Grigio safely stowed away, and may get into the Merlot if absolutely necessary (the Merlot was bought more for deglazing purposes than for actual drinkability). I…
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Pleas exuse Scooter from ethics skool. Because he is maybe going to jale or to talk to a judge so too bad for Scooter. P.S. pleas dont give a pass to Carl he should be grounded. Yours trooly, The White House Administrative Staff