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Archive > November 2003
“CBC News interviewed more the 50 journalists for DEADLINE IRAQ: Uncensored Stories of the War. Here are the full stories from 12 of them. They tell us more about what is was like when the bombing started over Bahgdad, what is was really like to live in a fox hole with the American troops and what happened when the Palestine Hotel – where the media was based – was bombed.”
An example: “Caroline Sinz and her crew were filming in the Palestine Hotel the morning it was bombed. Her cameraman captured footage of the attack, proof that it was the American military that fired on the hotel.” Read more about this event, and watch the video, here. Read how the tank trained on the hotel for two minutes before firing here. Read a spokesperson for the Pentagon blame the reporters who died for their own deaths here.
Readers of our sister blog Dannysland prick up their ears to read John Roberts describe being towed through Iraq in this way: “It was like a Disney ride through hell.”
I note that all of these links go to news sources outside the United States, and with one exception they are mainstream news sources. Unlike most of my friends, I do not believe the mainstream media manipulates people – I believe it follows popular opinion. I’m taking these reports as further proof that the rest of the world not only hates the United States right now but with good reason. Sorry, sorry.
Today’s Front Pages. Every morning, 261 newspapers, 37 countries.
Tomorrow is a holiday in the United States called ‘Thanksgiving.’ Whatever that might mean to you, let me just say thanks to everyone around the world who reads pleasant.
Are you concerned that your pornography might include images of people who eat meat? The VegiePorn is for you – ‘porn and sex-positive links for vegans and vegetarians and those who love them.’
CNN reports: A bullet fired in the air during a Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony came down and struck a participant in the head, critically injuring him.
George W. Bush has been arrested at least three times. He may or may not have done commnity service for use of cocaine in 1972. He has yet to answer for going AWOL for two years while in the military, or, well, war crimes. For now, we’ll stick with the known and confirmed arrests. The third time it was for driving under the influence. The second time it was for tearing down the goalposts where a football game had just been finished.
But the first time George W. Bush was arrested, it was for stealing a Christmas wreath. Wouldn’t it be something if we all mailed him a wreath this year?
Writer Shelley Jackson invites participants in a new work entitled “Skin.” Each participant must agree to have one word of the story tattooed upon his or her body. The text will be published nowhere else, and the author will not permit it to be summarized, quoted, described, set to music, or adapted for film, theater, television or any other medium. The full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another.
“America’s leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.” – President John F. Kennedy, Remarks Prepared for Delivery at the Trade Mart in Dallas, November 22, 1963.
“They got to stop this problem, they need to hire a math teacher.”
Now appearing in the Volume 21, Number 1, November 7 2003 issue of Just Out…
As a skeptic, I read with interest your article on psychics Don Clarkson and Suzanne Deakins in the Oct. 17 issue of Just Out ["Color Me Read"].
Skeptics are by definition open to all sorts of ideas, provided they can move from the realm of what we want to be true to something that is true. Conversely, nonskeptics accept some things as true and others as false no matter what the evidence might show.
Right now the U.S. economy is in a slump, and I’m sure like most of us Clarkson and Deakins could use a bit of spare change. Fortunately for them, the James Randi Foundation is willing to give them $1 million if they can demonstrate, even once, their psychic powers (www.randi.org/research). Any and all paranormal, spiritual or miraculous claims are candidates for the prize. Every issue of Just Out has page after page of potential winners, from the orthodox to the alternative religions to the spiritual advisers to the natural healers to the psychic consultants, etc. The applicants for the prize are the ones who define the test, so Randi won’t be able to pull a fast one at the end if the supernatural event occurs.
One million dollars isn’t chicken feed. One could invest it, donate it to charity or throw a fine party. Surely if billions of people will spend trillions of dollars around the world on religion and superstition, there must be something to it. So I invite any believer in the miraculous or supernatural to benefit from this remarkable opportunity.
Sexual behavior is a decision – a person can be sexually stimulated and decide whether or not to act on that stimulation. Sexual preference, however, is not a decision – it is something we are born with and which cannot be changed. Here’s some of the more recent evidence…
Echo-like sounds made by the inner ears of homosexual and bisexual women are weaker than the same sounds made by heterosexual women, according to a new report. Researchers at the University of Chicago have shown for the first time that strong sexual orientation among men appears to be connected with brain metabolism. Three Canadian researchers have shown that left-handedness is more common in gay men and in lesbian women than in comparable heterosexual persons.
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Robert K. Keller, pseudonym for Reverend Sterno of the Church of the SubGenius, is dealing out some slow torture to spam artists. He writes absurdist replies to their pleas for money, always hinting that he is just about to buy into their scams. The spammers seem willing to take part in remarkably insulting and insane dialogue because they think they’re about to hit pay dirt. But it’s really our Reverend Sterno who is profiting from the exchange by collecting their increasingly wacked-out dialogue and posting it for our amusement and edification at Scam, Bam, Thank You M’am!
This week, the character and likeness of Mickey Mouse enters the public domain. Wait a minute, no it doesn’t.
Three cheers for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in their opinion regarding Hillary GOODRIDGE & others [FN1] vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & another [SJC-08860].
The Supreme Judicial Court held today that “barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution.” “Marriage is a vital social institution,” wrote Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall for the majority of the Justices. “The exclusive commitment of two individuals to each other nurtures love and mutual support; it brings stability to our society. For those who choose to marry, and for their children, marriage provides an abundance of legal, financial, and social benefits. In turn it imposes weighty legal, financial, and social obligations.” The question before the court was “whether, consistent with the Massachusetts Constitution,” the Commonwealth could deny those protections, benefits, and obligations to two individuals of the same sex who wish to marry. In ruling that the Commonwealth could not do so, the court observed that the Massachusetts Constitution “affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals,” and “forbids the creation of second-class citizens.” It reaches its conclusion, the court said, giving “full deference to the arguments made by the Commonwealth.” The Commonwealth, the court ruled, “has failed to identify any constitutionality adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex couples.”
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