new video of sailors infuriates Zionists - "Perhaps because their condition and demeanor belies everything that zionists want us and the world to believe about Iran. Look at their faces - they're practically laughing! They're completely relaxed and unafraid. It's like they're staying at a hotel - a far cry from the abominable and inhumane treatment detainees get at Guantanamo."
The American dimension - "Even though the prisoners are British rather than Americans, neocons have been desperate to head for television studios. The only reason they have not done so yet is a request by the British government to the Bush administration to stay out of it. Word has also reached members of Congress. The British fear is that even a mild rebuke from President George Bush, or a neoconservative such as John Bolton, will be counterproductive, escalating the crisis and making it harder to get the 15 back."
Court denies appeal from Gitmo detainees - "The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want to challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism."
Detainee says he confessed to stop torture - "A detainee accused of being Al Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief said in court that his U.S. captors tortured him for years and forced him to falsely confess to the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole and to many other terrorist plots, according to a Pentagon transcript released Friday."
Obama says Congress will fund Iraq war after expected Bush veto - "If President Bush vetoes an Iraq war spending bill as promised, Congress quickly will provide the money without the withdrawal timeline the White House objects to because no lawmaker “wants to play chicken with our troops,” Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday." -- Going through the motions to make it look as if they are doing something productive. All a farce.
U.S. Congress says Bush is misleading public - "The U.S. Congressional Research Service has released a report saying President George W. Bush is misleading the public on Iraq war costs by saying funds are insufficient. "
Bill O'Reilly Suggests Throwing Mark Cuban in Jail - "Bill O'Reilly suggests that had someone like Cuban attempted to distribute a film like Loose Change during World War Two, FDR would have "thrown his butt in jail". O'Reilly then whines about how people like Cuban, Sheen and O'Donnell should not be given any airtime or attention, whilst this is his third or fourth segment on the same issue."
Terrorists – coming to a school near you - "Authorities fear the school massacre that shook Russia a few years ago may be a dress rehearsal for what al-Qaida plans to do in America – only on a grander scale, launching multiple school attacks simultaneously across the country."
George Orwell, Big Brother is watching your house - "It may have taken a little longer than he predicted, but Orwell's vision of a society where cameras and computers spy on every person's movements is now here."
Pastor: Idea Christ died for sins 'insane' - "Church of England traditionalists, wearied by the battles over homosexuality in the church and the clergy, are about to take it on their spiritual chins once again when a leading "gay" cleric will tell listeners to BBC Radio 4 that Christianity's traditional teaching on Christ's crucifixion for the sins of mankind is "repulsive," "insane" and makes "God sound like a psychopath.""
Atheist says he's victim of religious hate crime - ""If the incident had been reversed and it had been an atheist that had physically assaulted a theist for postering for a theist event . . . that would easily be considered a hate crime -- and it frequently is. This is the exact reverse scenario," Mr. Trottier said."
'Biblical' politics are valid politics - "However, if he believes NO person should ever try and "push" their views or beliefs onto others, where does that leave the game of politics, work, marriage and so many other areas of life we argue about? We are always trying to convince others "we know best," no matter if you arrive at those beliefs by upbringing, your experience in life or by religious faith."
Airline quality: 'They just don't get it' - "More airline passengers bumped, more bags lost and fewer on-time flights. For the third year in a row, those problems grew worse for the industry, according to an annual study that rates airline quality. "
DHS demand for DNS master key alarms nations - "The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...wants to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government. This ultimate master key would then allow authorities to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet. The "key-signing key" signs the zone key, which is held by VeriSign."
BBC denies 'dumbing down' claims - "The BBC has denied reports it plans to "dumb down" its shows after discovering lower-income families aren't tuning in."
Study: Web news readers have greater attention span - "People who use the Internet to read the news have a greater attention span than print readers, according to a U.S. study that refutes the idea that Web surfers jump around and don't read much."
Split court rules against Bush on greenhouse gases - "The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh look at regulating carbon dioxide emissions from cars, a rebuke to Bush administration policy on global warming."
Ethanol-blend auto emissions no greener than gasoline: study - "An unpublished federal report appears to undermine the belief that commercially available ethanol-blended fuel produces cleaner emissions than regular gasoline."
Light Therapy Spares the Scalpel and the Chemo - "Imagine you could treat cancer by taking a pill, then directing a laser light toward the location of the tumor. The growth would dissolve with no chemotherapy, and no harm to healthy tissue. It might sound futuristic, but a select number of cancer patients already benefit from the method, called photodynamic therapy. An upgrade for the procedure could save thousands more cancer patients from the horrors of chemotherapy."
Fantastic Voyage: Departure 2009 - "An international team of scientists is developing what they say will be the world's first microrobot -- as wide as two human hairs -- that can swim through the arteries and digestive system. The scientists are designing the 250-micron device to transmit images and deliver microscopic payloads to parts of the body outside the reach of existing catheter technology."
British team grows human heart valve from stem cells - "A British research team led by the world's leading heart surgeon has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time. If animal trials scheduled for later this year prove successful, replacement tissue could be used in transplants for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from heart disease within three years."
Blood conversion breakthrough could be life-saver for thousands - "A life-saving method of converting blood from one group to another has been pioneered by scientists. The breakthrough could potentially mean the end of blood-donor shortages and boost supplies of sought-after group O negative blood."
Pregnant need not apply - "A record 4,901 pregnancy discrimination complaints were filed nationwide with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state and local fair employment practices agencies in fiscal year 2006. That is a 23 percent increase since 1997, making it one of the fastest-growing workplace bias complaints, according to federal officials."
Will you regret staying home with your baby? - "Across the country, young women are jettisoning careers to stay home with their children. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an estimated 5.6 million mothers stayed home to care for their families in 2005, about 1.2 million more than a decade ago. The trend of opting out “has been broader than previously believed, with women at all income levels taking job breaks,” The Wall Street Journal reported recently."
Women face fertility curb after IVF health scare - "Tens of thousands of women are to have their fertility treatment rationed because of fears that a surge in the number of multiple births is putting babies' lives at risk."
Pregnant moms' weight affects toddlers - "The standard advice for how much weight a woman should gain during pregnancy may need to change, according to a rigorous and provocative study suggesting that even accepted weight gains may raise the risk of having an overweight toddler."
Women Of All Sizes Feel Badly About Their Bodies After Seeing Models - ""Surprisingly, we found that weight was not a factor. Viewing these pictures was just bad for everyone," said Laurie Mintz, associate professor of education, school and counseling psychology in the MU College of Education. "It had been thought that women who are heavier feel worse than a thinner woman after viewing pictures of the thin ideal in the mass media. The study results do not support that theory." The study measured how 81 women felt about themselves, from their body weight to their hair, and then exposed some of them to neutral images, while others viewed models in magazine ads for one to three minutes. The women were evaluated after seeing the images, and in all cases, the women who viewed the models reported a drop in their level of satisfaction with their own bodies."
Flowers and fruit crops facing disaster as disease kills off bees - "Devastating diseases are killing off vast numbers of bees across the country, threatening major ecological and economic problems. Honeybee colonies have been wiped out this winter at twice the usual rate or worse in some areas."
Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing toy - "Tesco has been forced to remove a pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website after it was accused of "destroying children's innocence". The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit with the words, "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go! "Soon you'll be flaunting it to the world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars"."
Jury awards $1.4M to teacher who was punished for refusing to change failing grades - "A Louisiana school system must pay more than $1.4 million (€1.05 million) to an English teacher who was suspended and demoted after refusing to change the Ds and Fs she gave to 70 percent of her students, a federal jury has found."
EMI, Apple partner on DRM-free premium music - "Higher-quality music files, which will play on any computer and any digital-audio player, will not replace the copy-protected EMI music currently sold through iTunes. Rather, they will complement the standard 99-cent iTunes downloads and will be sold at a premium: $1.29 per song."
Will Humanity go the Way of the Dinosaur? - "But the really worrying news from NASA is that over a thousand of these things are large enough (almost a mile wide in diameter) and their orbits close enough to us as to pose a real potential hazard of crashing into the Earth with enough force to end most life on this planet." -- At some point, yes, humanity will become extinct.
U.S. will have to hitch rides to final frontier - "Sometime in 2010, the world's leading space-exploring nation will say goodbye to manned space flight for more than four years. And that has U.S. policymakers worried. The flight gap will occur because NASA is winding down its space shuttle program near the end of 2010 to move into the next phase of space exploration -- the moon and Mars. The next-generation spacecraft, the Orion capsule, won't be ready for manned flight until March 2015. During those years, the United States must rely on the good will of other nations if it wants to send astronauts and cargo to the international space station."
Quote of the Day
"People are idiots."
~ Anonymous
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