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- Boston Globe Oct 24 2003 8:21PM ET... |
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- On the Football Outsider’s statistics site, Gregg Easterbrook says that Tuesday Morning Quarterback may come back but for now he "feels emotionally fragile to write much of anything". Meanwhile the site is holding a TMQ Homage contest featuring, Haikus, Sweet Play of the Week, the Chesapeake Watershed Region Indigenous Persons and other TMQisms. |
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- the most elite flyers talk about a club most of us won't get to join: the Concorde Mile-High (or rather, the 11-Mile-High) club. [link stolen from jasmeet] Posted by qdl on 10/23/03 at 10:23:47 PM |
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- you heard it here first...or second generate your own tabloid-posted celebrity rumors! (link stolen from utterlyboring.com) Posted by qdl on 10/23/03 at 09:40: |
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- what the resident wants so my Division Champ Cubs want to add 12 more night games to their schedule. how about throwing locals another bone: half-price game tickets when purchased at the Wrigley box office? it wouldn't hurt. remember that old adage about handling neighbors who complain about the noise from your party: |
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- mine ass is sorry again huzzah! honored by the Lord of your Sorry Ass! except i'm afraid to dial that number, because it might be a hotline to Hell itself, or some freaky plushie date line. Posted by qdl on 10/23/03 at 08:09: |
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- Am 21.Oktober begann der Prozess gegen Marco, Daniel und Carsten aus Magdeburg wegen "Mitgliedschaft bzw. Rädelsführerschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung". Sie sollen politisch motivierte Sachbeschädigungen an Behördenfahrzeugen und Limousinen begangen haben. Dafür werden sie jetzt mit dem Paragrafen 129a verfolgt, dem Terrorismusparagrafen, der z. |
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- For a while now, my eye has been caught by Zo Intertwingle. Gotta say... I just don't get it. Here's how the homepage describes Zo:Zo is a email client. |
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- From: WGBH - Oct 24, 2003 If you received this message via a friend or a listserv and would like to learn about closed captioned and described films directly from the Media Access Group at WGBH, please subscribe at http://ncam. wgbh. org/mailinglist. |
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Uh Oh (Oct 25 2003 01:46 GMT) - Does this mean me, Margi, & Deb, are triplets? What Irrational Number Are You?You are eOf all the irrational numbers,... |
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- From the department of taking-the-idea-that-good-fenc ( Independent.co.uk ) - Israel is mulling plans for a security barrier that would cut off the Jordan valley from the West Bank. |
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- ( The Age ) - The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is preparing a blistering report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. It criticises CIA director George Tenet for overstating the weapons and terrorism case against Saddam Hussein. The committee staff was surprised by the amount of circumstantial evidence and single-source or disputed information used to write key intelligence documents, in particular the October 2002 national intelligence estimate that summarised Iraq's... |
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- Protesters gather in Washington for anti-war protests( Globe & Mail ) - Protesters from the United States and Canada began converging on the U.S. capital Friday for what they hope will be the largest anti-war demonstration since the fall of Baghdad.Memo to self .... check out the U. |
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- ( Washington Post ) - Freed of an onerous Baath Party bureaucracy that sought to regulate even the most fundamental aspects of Iraqi life -- such as who married whom -- Iraqis lately are tying the knot in numbers not seen in recent memory. Who says we never talk about the good things? |
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- Boy are the fundies gonna have fun with this one:As if there wasn't already enough electricity surrounding Mel Gibson's upcoming film on the death of Christ, the actor portraying Jesus was struck by lightning during filming but miraculously escaped without injury. |
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- US says Iraq donations exceed expectations Putting a bright face on the results of the Iraqi Donor Conference Bush said that:"Today's success at the Iraq Donors' Conference marked significant progress for freedom in Iraq. I commend the 73 nations and 20 international organizations that are meeting the challenge of helping the Iraqi people recover from decades of oppression and build a better future," Of the 33 billion collected at the conference 20.3 billion is from the... |
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- Тяжело больная гепатитом C, былая секс-бомба борется теперь хотя бы за то, чтобы увидеть совершеннолетие своих детей. "Я проживу еще от пяти до десяти лет"... |
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- 57-летняя актриса получила в среду развод от своего очередного мужа. За день до этого благоверный потребовал от нее возмещения ущерба в размере 10 млн. долларов... |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: In These Times |
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- LabourStart headline - Source: In These Times |
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- Ohio farmer Alan Brinker recently found a lone ewe on the ground, ready to give birth, surrounded by 50 vultures. ''They had pecked her eyes out, beat her down,'' he said. ''They had sliced her belly open, and they were pulling the baby out.'' |
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- VAN NUYS, Calif. - An aspiring actress who bought a single SuperLotto Plus ticket and picked six numbers based on her on-again, off-again relationship with her boyfriend came forward Thursday to claim half of the $99 million jackpot. |
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- CHICAGO - An airline passenger was arrested after he pulled a martial-arts weapon from a violin case and paced the aisles with it during a flight, authorities said. |
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- SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - With temperatures in the 80s, heatstroke was common last weekend in virtually every veterinary clinic in south-central South Dakota, the state's main pheasant hunting region. Many dogs did died from the illness. |
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- Twiggy, a pet python that vanished from a Glendale home, didn't slither far. |
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- In a speech in Honolulu, Hawaii, President Bush discussed the future of freedom: It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home and freedom's defender. We welcome this charge of history, and we are keeping it. Our war on terror continues. |
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- In an address to the Australian Parliament, President Bush disputed freedom's skeptics: Members and senators, with decisive victories behind us, we have decisive days ahead. We cannot let up in our offensive against terror, even a bit. And we must continue to build stability and peace in the Middle East and Asia as the alternatives to hatred and fear. We seek the rise of freedom and self-government in Afghanistan and Iraq for the benefit of their people, as an example to their neighbors and for the security of the world. |
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- U.S. Army General Boykin, a Christian, has characterized the U.S. war on terrorism as a showdown with "Satan," saying Islamic radicals want to destroy America "because we're a Christian nation. |
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- Since our President is on an Asian trip to attend the APEC conference, I thought I would discuss globalization. Let me quote President George W. Bush, "The United States... supports Free Trade because a world that trades in freedom will grow in prosperity and in security. For developing nations, free trade tied to economic reform has helped to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. |
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- President Bush has outlined a six point plan for the economy: Making Health Care Costs More Affordable and Predictable. Health insurance costs for employers have been rising by 10 percent per year since 2000, causing businesses to hire fewer workers and too many families to go without insurance. President Bush proposes to allow small businesses to pool together to purchase health coverage for workers at lower rates; expand medical savings accounts to give workers more control over their health care insurance and costs; |
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- Seeking strength in unity, Pacific island nations worked toward a common voice in dealing with Washington and a strategy for improving regional security. |
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- (Review) Dan Weintraub's editors have approved the following post at the California Insider: Senate Leader John Burton has notified members not to expect to reconvene in session before Gov. Gray Davis leaves office. That means last-minute Davis appointees who require... |
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- I'm actually being a GOOD girl and backing up my data before the install. The only sticking point is my... |
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- Bride of Chucky. Via Andrew Sullivan, I see that the sick puppies over at NR have produced a talking Ann Coulter doll. It spouts such legendary Coulter bon mots as "Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like Liberals do." A step up from "math is hard," I guess. But just barely. |
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- Seeking strength in unity, Pacific island nations worked toward a common voice in dealing with Washington and a strategy for improving regional security. |
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