http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/28/D8DH7T1O8.html
Rove Won't Be Indicted Today - "Karl Rove won't be indicted Friday as prosecutors and his lawyers try to resolve questions in the CIA leak investigation, two people close to Rove told The Associated Press. The White House still braced for an indictment against another top aide."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051028/D8DH2IJ02.html
Cheney, Libby Blocked Papers To Senate Intelligence Panel - "Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, overruling advice from some White House political staffers and lawyers, decided to withhold crucial documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004 when the panel was investigating the use of pre-war intelligence that erroneously concluded Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, according to Bush administration and congressional sources."
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1027nj1.htm
A heap of trouble for George Bush - "The chief cause of the president's slide, of course, is the Iraq war. With neither weapons of mass destruction nor collaborative Iraq-Al Qaeda connections found, Bush has been left to offer rationales that reinvent reality, such as his insinuation that Iraq was complicit in Sept. 11 or his assertion that we are fighting terrorists there so we won't have to face them here. Now, with US military losses creeping above 2,000 in Iraq, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's probe into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame has opened a window onto White House doings. Regardless of whether the conduct in question proves criminal, the investigation has revealed an administration seemingly more concerned with undercutting critics like her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, than it had been with making sure its own claims about WMDs in Iraq were accurate." -- The worst president in modern history.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/10/28/a_heap_of_trouble_for_george_bush/
Iran 'six months' from nuclear bomb - "IRAN may be only six months from having the necessary means to make an atomic bomb, Israeli Foreign Minister Sylvan Shalom said today, urging quick international action on Tehran's nuclear program." -- Sounds familiar.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17062320-23109,00.html
Rumsfeld “ordered torture” - "Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the abuse scandal, has admitted she violated the Geneva Conventions, however she said that part of the blame "Goes All the Way to The Top"."
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9900
Exxon Mobil Profit, Sales Soar to Records - "Exxon Mobil Corp. rewrote the corporate record books Thursday as the oil company's third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion and it became the first public company ever with quarterly sales topping $100 billion. Anglo-Dutch competitor Royal Dutch Shell PLC wasn't far behind, posting a profit of $9 billion for the quarter. Those results led Democrats in Congress to demand a new windfall profits tax. "Big oil behemoths are making out like bandits, while the average American family is getting killed by high gas prices, and soon-to-be record heating oil prices," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. But Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said President Bush opposes such a move and is instead considering a wide range of proposals to help cushion consumers, including the creation of an emergency reserve of gasoline and other refined products."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051027/D8DGL2502.html
Public Sours on Government and Business - "Americans express increasingly negative views of a wide range major institutions, reflecting strong discontent with national conditions. Over the past year, ratings have tumbled for the federal government and Congress. And it is not just Washington institutions that are being viewed less positively. Favorable opinions of business corporations are at their lowest point in two decades. In the face of high energy prices, just 20% express positive opinions of oil companies." -- So why can't the masses put together the connection between Republican administrations and their loyalty to big business and the fact that right now both the government and big business are held in negative views by the public? Seems to me they go hand-in-hand.
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=261
Public has had it with both parties - "A just-released political survey by George Washington University contains bad news for Democrats and Republicans because it lays bare a public seemingly disenfranchised with both major parties." -- The public has been brainwashed to believe there are only two parties and no other viable choices for the presidency. This is simply not true. However, it has been shown that neither party is all that interested in the well-being of the American public.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47084
The Epic Crime That Dares Not Speak Its Name - "A Royal Air Force officer is about to be tried before a military court for refusing to return to Iraq because the war is illegal. Malcolm Kendall-Smith is the first British officer to face criminal charges for challenging the legality of the invasion and occupation. He is not a conscientious objector; he has completed two tours in Iraq. When he came home the last time, he studied the reasons given for attacking Iraq and concluded he was breaking the law. His position is supported by international lawyers all over the world, not least by Kofi Annan, the UN secretary general, who said in September last year: "The US-led invasion of Iraq was an illegal act that contravened the UN Charter.""
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10785.htm
Senators plan push to end income tax - "A South Carolina senator dissatisfied with the results of a Bush advisory panel's recommendations on tax reform is set to introduce a bill to abolish federal income tax in favor of a levy on business transactions."
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47036
Is US becoming hostile to science? - "A bitter debate about how to teach evolution in U.S. high schools is prompting a crisis of confidence among scientists, and some senior academics warn that science itself is under assault. ... Polls for many years have shown that a majority of Americans are at odds with key scientific theory. For example, as CBS poll this month found that 51 percent of respondents believed humans were created in their present form by God. A further 30 percent said their creation was guided by God. Only 15 percent thought humans evolved from less advanced life forms over millions of years."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051028/us_nm/science_usa_dc;_ylt=AmGvrMyQU0S9md61Vn0EodOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg
Frog sweat may kill HIV - "Vanderbilt University researchers found that secretions from the skin of some Australian frogs were effective in the test tube at killing HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. They hope their findings will lead to the creation of a topical ointment containing synthetic secretions that will help cut the spread of the deadly worldwide pandemic." -- But isn't most of the US against science?
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051021/NEWS07/510210406/1024/NEWS
Textbook committee rejects elementary books on evolution - "The state textbook committee Thursday recommended dozens of science textbooks to be approved by the state school board for Alabama students, but rejected three elementary-level books for containing material on evolution which was deemed "controversial" for that age group." -- No f*#!ing comment!
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/13013485.htm
Skeptics converge to take on religion and morality - ""Unfortunately," Kurtz said, "too many well-meaning people base their conceptions of the universe on ancient books, such as the Quran and the Bible, rather than going directly to the book of nature.""
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--skepticsconferenc1027oct27,0,6334204.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
'Start of life' gene discovered - "The HIRA gene is involved in the events necessary for the fertilisation that take place once a sperm enters an egg. Faults in this gene might explain why some couples struggle to get pregnant despite having healthy sperm, say the researchers from the UK and France."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4377898.stm
Suddenly, area's housing market favors the buyers - "Greater Boston's once-sizzling home sales have cooled so much this fall that realtors are reverting to a description not heard in a decade: ''Buyer's market.""
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/28/suddenly_areas_housing_market_favors_the_buyers/
Coming Soon: Online Sex Games - "Yet we're finally glimpsing games on the horizon that support relationship building and sexual interaction as part of the game play. What's more, these game developers recognize that a crucial part of attracting gamers is to appeal to all gamers -- not just the half of the population with penises. ... Spend The Night will offer a graphically rich space where you can meet people, go on virtual dates and have cybersex. It might be the precursor to avatar-based online dating -- or at least, online screening of potential dates. Naughty America (a working title) is so coy it doesn't have a website yet. It's a complete role-playing game in which you can choose whether to enter a "sex mode." Both games recognize that they need to offer a variety of tools players can use to meet each other, develop relationships and interact sexually. And both are bending over backward to appeal to women."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69367,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
ATM FEE FOR GETTING NOTHING - "We all know it often costs money to get your own money at an ATM machine; but now, you might have to pay up when you don’t get money. Let me introduce you to a fee you've probably never heard of -- the "ATM denial fee." Rejection, it turns out, can be costly."
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2005/10/now_even_atm_de.html
Halloween Too Scary for Some Kids, Study Finds - "It is the adults who should be afraid this Halloween. Not of ghouls and goblins, but of permanently scarring their children. In a recent study of six- and seven-year-olds in the Philadelphia area, Penn State psychologist Cindy Dell Clark found that most parents underestimate just how terrifying the holiday can be for young kids.
Halloween has been scaring the heck out of kids of all ages for centuries." http://www.livescience.com/history/051027_halloween_fright.html
Quote of the Day
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
~ Carl Sagan
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