Jan. 26th, 2005
You dumb fucks.
Jan. 26th, 2005 01:21 pmYet another "reporter" revealed to have been paid by White House to support their policies in print.
In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.
"The Bush marriage initiative would emphasize the importance of marriage to poor couples" and "educate teens on the value of delaying childbearing until marriage," she wrote in National Review Online, for example, adding that this could "carry big payoffs down the road for taxpayers and children."
But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal.
"Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it?" Gallagher said yesterday. "I don't know. You tell me." She said she would have "been happy to tell anyone who called me" about the contract but that "frankly, it never occurred to me" to disclose it.
In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.
"The Bush marriage initiative would emphasize the importance of marriage to poor couples" and "educate teens on the value of delaying childbearing until marriage," she wrote in National Review Online, for example, adding that this could "carry big payoffs down the road for taxpayers and children."
But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal.
"Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it?" Gallagher said yesterday. "I don't know. You tell me." She said she would have "been happy to tell anyone who called me" about the contract but that "frankly, it never occurred to me" to disclose it.
Good religious news, for a change.
Jan. 26th, 2005 01:35 pmChristian group distributes "Muslim prayer kits" to Muslims in disaster area.
The kits contain a prayer mat used by Muslims as part of the requirement of Islam to pray five times a day in a clean area free from dust and insects, a sarong which is traditionally worn by men to attend the mosque and a "mukena" or female Moslem outfit that cover their heads and bodies when they pray.
The 2500 kits have been distributed in the Meulaboh area of Aceh to people living in camps. The kits arrived in time for people to use their contents for the Eid festival.
The Caritas team leader Pat Johns said "We talked to our local staff and the community leaders in the area to ask them what they needed. Many people in Meulaboh and the surrounding area lost everything and the loss of items that are important for their Muslim faith was particularly distressing.
"As a faith based organisation, we recognise the importance of faith to many people, so as a mark of respect for the festival of Eid, Caritas decided to distribute what we are calling 'religious kits'."
Caritas staff in Banda Aceh marked the occasion in a very different way - by donating a bull and three goats to the local mosque in Geuceu Kompleks village which just opposite the Caritas base. Part of the Muslim tradition of Eid is to eat meat and mosques distribute meat donated by wealthy members of the community to the poor people of the area.
The kits contain a prayer mat used by Muslims as part of the requirement of Islam to pray five times a day in a clean area free from dust and insects, a sarong which is traditionally worn by men to attend the mosque and a "mukena" or female Moslem outfit that cover their heads and bodies when they pray.
The 2500 kits have been distributed in the Meulaboh area of Aceh to people living in camps. The kits arrived in time for people to use their contents for the Eid festival.
The Caritas team leader Pat Johns said "We talked to our local staff and the community leaders in the area to ask them what they needed. Many people in Meulaboh and the surrounding area lost everything and the loss of items that are important for their Muslim faith was particularly distressing.
"As a faith based organisation, we recognise the importance of faith to many people, so as a mark of respect for the festival of Eid, Caritas decided to distribute what we are calling 'religious kits'."
Caritas staff in Banda Aceh marked the occasion in a very different way - by donating a bull and three goats to the local mosque in Geuceu Kompleks village which just opposite the Caritas base. Part of the Muslim tradition of Eid is to eat meat and mosques distribute meat donated by wealthy members of the community to the poor people of the area.
Robert Zemeckis to direct Beowulf
Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman have joined forces with Steve Bing and Robert Zemeckis to bring the oldest written English language myth, Beowulf, to the big screen.
Zemeckis is the acclaimed Academy Award-winning director of Forrest Gump as well as such major hit films as Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, Contact, the "Back to the Future" trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone and Death Becomes Her.
Avary, who is an actual Viking descendant, won an Academy Award for his collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, and is the writer/director of such acclaimed films as Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction. Avary is currently finishing the screenplay adaptation of the hit Konami videogame, ,b>Silent Hill, for Producer Samuel Hadida and Tristar Pictures.
Gaiman is the Hugo and Nebula-Award winning author of such novels as "American Gods" and "Coraline," and is best known as the creator of DC Comics' legendary "Sandman". He wrote the English Language Script for the Miyazaki film Princess Mononoke. His first feature, MirrorMask, directed by Dave McKean, premieres at the Sundance Film Festival. His short film A Short Film About John Bolton was just released on DVD. Projects in development based on work by Gaiman include Coraline, which Henry Selick is writing and directing, and Stardust, with director Matthew Vaughn. Gaiman is writing and will be directing Death and Me, based on his DC Comics graphic novel "Death: The High Cost of Living" for New Line Cinema.
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While I'm on movie news, Stellan Skarsgard has been signed to the Pirates Of The Carribean sequels.
"We are going to shoot around the Los Angeles area as well as in the Bahamas and the West Indies," says Skarsgård. "I'm playing the old pirate 'Bootstraps' Turner... it should be fun, I enjoyed the first one."
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently said he was also negotiating with Geoffrey Rush to return as Barbossa in a third "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are all signed on to return, along with the director and writers from "Curse of the Black Pearl."
Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman have joined forces with Steve Bing and Robert Zemeckis to bring the oldest written English language myth, Beowulf, to the big screen.
Zemeckis is the acclaimed Academy Award-winning director of Forrest Gump as well as such major hit films as Cast Away, What Lies Beneath, Contact, the "Back to the Future" trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Romancing the Stone and Death Becomes Her.
Avary, who is an actual Viking descendant, won an Academy Award for his collaboration with Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction, and is the writer/director of such acclaimed films as Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction. Avary is currently finishing the screenplay adaptation of the hit Konami videogame, ,b>Silent Hill, for Producer Samuel Hadida and Tristar Pictures.
Gaiman is the Hugo and Nebula-Award winning author of such novels as "American Gods" and "Coraline," and is best known as the creator of DC Comics' legendary "Sandman". He wrote the English Language Script for the Miyazaki film Princess Mononoke. His first feature, MirrorMask, directed by Dave McKean, premieres at the Sundance Film Festival. His short film A Short Film About John Bolton was just released on DVD. Projects in development based on work by Gaiman include Coraline, which Henry Selick is writing and directing, and Stardust, with director Matthew Vaughn. Gaiman is writing and will be directing Death and Me, based on his DC Comics graphic novel "Death: The High Cost of Living" for New Line Cinema.
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While I'm on movie news, Stellan Skarsgard has been signed to the Pirates Of The Carribean sequels.
"We are going to shoot around the Los Angeles area as well as in the Bahamas and the West Indies," says Skarsgård. "I'm playing the old pirate 'Bootstraps' Turner... it should be fun, I enjoyed the first one."
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer recently said he was also negotiating with Geoffrey Rush to return as Barbossa in a third "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are all signed on to return, along with the director and writers from "Curse of the Black Pearl."
Thanks, Kate.
Jan. 26th, 2005 02:16 pm
"And for those of you that think A Squirrel's Place is In The Wild, don't think we didn't try that...his first Christmas, we thought we'd give him his first lesson in Being a Wild Squirrel by letting him play in the undecorated Christmas tree. His reaction was to shriek in horror, scutter frantically across the floor and go try to hide underneath the nearest border collie. Since then, the only way he will allow himself to be taken outside is hiding inside Mummy's shirt and peering suspiciously out at the sinister world."
SPAM sushi!
Twinkie sushi!
Of course, this means that somebody must make SPAM AND TWINKIE SUSHI!
I'd eat that.
Twinkie sushi!
Of course, this means that somebody must make SPAM AND TWINKIE SUSHI!
I'd eat that.
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Jan. 26th, 2005 04:17 pmAntonin Scalia says the supreme court should rule on cases based on "tradition and historical practice", not "precedent or law"
Scalia has also, in the past, complained about attempts to violate the will of the US Constitution's framers, such as one by an atheist who objected to the 1952 addition of "under God" to the 1890s-written Pledge of Allegiance.
Scalia has also, in the past, complained about attempts to violate the will of the US Constitution's framers, such as one by an atheist who objected to the 1952 addition of "under God" to the 1890s-written Pledge of Allegiance.
A blind, terrified 29-year-old Pocket man who was mistakenly convinced he was being pursued by angry neighbors, broke into a senior housing community before dawn Saturday, screaming for help and shooting a gun at his imaginary pursuers.
"Miraculously, no one was hurt," said Sacramento Police Sgt. Justin Risley. "But there were a lot of scared residents."
Michael Savage told police he was being chased by his downstairs neighbors from a nearby Greenhaven Drive apartment complex. Savage said the neighbors had become infuriated after he asked them at 6:30 a.m. to turn down their loud music.
Convinced they were coming after him with a gun, Savage leaped from the second-floor balcony of his apartment, armed with a handgun and began running, Risley said.
Shooting wildly behind him, Savage raced across a field and into The Fountains at Greenhaven, a new upscale apartment complex for seniors at 1180 Corporate Way, where he broke in through a tenant's apartment window, cutting himself badly, Risley said.
"He's bleeding significantly, and he's running down the halls, banging on doors, asking people to help him," Risley said.
"Unfortunately, he's got a gun and he thinks people are chasing him. And he's legally blind. So he fires a couple of shots down the hallway. Fortunately, he doesn't hurt anybody."
"Miraculously, no one was hurt," said Sacramento Police Sgt. Justin Risley. "But there were a lot of scared residents."
Michael Savage told police he was being chased by his downstairs neighbors from a nearby Greenhaven Drive apartment complex. Savage said the neighbors had become infuriated after he asked them at 6:30 a.m. to turn down their loud music.
Convinced they were coming after him with a gun, Savage leaped from the second-floor balcony of his apartment, armed with a handgun and began running, Risley said.
Shooting wildly behind him, Savage raced across a field and into The Fountains at Greenhaven, a new upscale apartment complex for seniors at 1180 Corporate Way, where he broke in through a tenant's apartment window, cutting himself badly, Risley said.
"He's bleeding significantly, and he's running down the halls, banging on doors, asking people to help him," Risley said.
"Unfortunately, he's got a gun and he thinks people are chasing him. And he's legally blind. So he fires a couple of shots down the hallway. Fortunately, he doesn't hurt anybody."
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Jan. 26th, 2005 05:56 pmThis morning's LA train crash caused by suicidal man who parked his jeep on the tracks, decided he didn't want to commit suicide, and left... but didn't move his truck.
At least 10 people died and nearly 200 were injured this morning when two commuter trains collided after one hit a car parked on the tracks by a man intent on killing himself, officials said.
A southbound commuter train heading to downtown Los Angeles hit the Jeep Grand Cherokee parked on the tracks, said Glendale Police Chief Randy G. Adams. The train then apparently crashed into a northbound Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train was hit and derailed, officials said. The investigation was continuing.
Adams identified the suspect as Juan Manuel Alvarez of Compton. He said Alvarez had attempted suicide before.
Alvarez was detained at the scene. He told police he had left the vehicle and watched the derailment, Adams said. The suspect was also identified by witnesses at the scene.
Alvarez was booked on 10 counts of murder, Adams said. The suspect was distraught and remorseful and was being held on a suicide watch. He had superficial self-inflicted wounds that were treated, the chief said.
At least 10 people died and nearly 200 were injured this morning when two commuter trains collided after one hit a car parked on the tracks by a man intent on killing himself, officials said.
A southbound commuter train heading to downtown Los Angeles hit the Jeep Grand Cherokee parked on the tracks, said Glendale Police Chief Randy G. Adams. The train then apparently crashed into a northbound Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train was hit and derailed, officials said. The investigation was continuing.
Adams identified the suspect as Juan Manuel Alvarez of Compton. He said Alvarez had attempted suicide before.
Alvarez was detained at the scene. He told police he had left the vehicle and watched the derailment, Adams said. The suspect was also identified by witnesses at the scene.
Alvarez was booked on 10 counts of murder, Adams said. The suspect was distraught and remorseful and was being held on a suicide watch. He had superficial self-inflicted wounds that were treated, the chief said.
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Jan. 26th, 2005 06:01 pmA two-year-old Mesa County child was injured Tuesday after picking up and firing a loaded .357-caliber Magnum handgun.
Deputies were called to a shooting in the 600 block of 31½ Road and found the toddler had not been shot, but was injured by the powerful pistol's recoil.
According to their investigation, the child was brought to the residence with a parent to visit friends and wandered into a back bedroom of the home. The child found the loaded .357 handgun in an unlocked drawer, picked it up and pulled the trigger.
The bullet went through a wall of the residence, but did not hit anyone.
The incident prompted the Mesa County Sheriff's Office to issue a reminder of a few safety tips involving weapons in residences.
Deputies were called to a shooting in the 600 block of 31½ Road and found the toddler had not been shot, but was injured by the powerful pistol's recoil.
According to their investigation, the child was brought to the residence with a parent to visit friends and wandered into a back bedroom of the home. The child found the loaded .357 handgun in an unlocked drawer, picked it up and pulled the trigger.
The bullet went through a wall of the residence, but did not hit anyone.
The incident prompted the Mesa County Sheriff's Office to issue a reminder of a few safety tips involving weapons in residences.
