Read how those defending your rights weren't allowed to speak in opposition to this bill.

How Sausage Is Made - House Judiciary Committee OK's HB0457!

] I'm Saddam.
] Saddam I am.
]
] I do not like you,
] Uncle Sam.

Would you like to bomb Iran?

digitalreporter wrote:
] As Pentagon press conferences blend into each other and war
] coverage churns on, Salam Pax, whoever and wherever he is, has
] captivated the world's attention.
] Blending sarcasm and apparent sincerity, Salam Pax, an
] Austrian-educated architectural engineer, and his Web site,
] "Where Is Raed?" - http://dear_raed.blogspot.com - has
] chronicled life outside his Baghdad window since September.
] His daily Web diary, or Weblog, had so many readers over the
] weekend, more than 1 million, it crashed the small, free
] Texas-based Web server he was using to post his photos. Google
] has since stepped in and offered to be host of the site and
] its photos through its company, Blogger.
]
]
]
] But now, Salam Pax, a pseudonym for the author, is missing. He
] hasn't been heard from since Monday, and yesterday chat rooms
] across the country were abuzz over whether or not he is still
] alive. Many sent messages in case he was monitoring, telling
] him to lie low and stay safe.
]
] Pax's appeal lies not in just his compelling portrayals of
] everyday life in Baghdad buying vegetables or waiting in line
] for gas, but in his disarming (apparent) honesty. He speaks
] the casual international language of a tech-savvy, disaffected
] youth.

He's back:
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

RE: Salam Pax has gone missing

] Eleven years before that, two cosmonauts overshot their
] touchdown site by 2,000 miles and found themselves deep
] in a forest with hungry wolves. That's when Russian space
] officials decided to pack a sawed-off shotgun aboard
] every spacecraft.

So we've all heard about the 300 mile mistake now. But I couldn't pass up this "low-tech" bit. It should be titled "When technology just isn't good enough, there's always a shotgun".

Returned space crew lucky, others faced wolves

OK. How did Hooters new airline get massive media coverage but *this* was overlooked?

Inaugural Nude Flight Heads to Cancun

] Several 17th-century clay pipes found at the site of
] William Shakespeare's home were used to smoke marijuana,
] a South African anthropologist says. Although he has no
] proof that the Bard was the guy who smoked the pipes, he
] surmises that some of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays
] also lend credence to the possibility that the writer
] smoked marijuana for inspiration.

] Thackeray said his "hobby" developed after he played
] the part of the ghost in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in
] 1998. That renewed his interest in Shakespeare's work.
] He noticed a reference in Sonnet No. 76 to "invention
] in a noted weed." "Weed" is a slang term for marijuana,
] and "invention" can refer to writing. The same sonnet
] refers to "compounds strange," a known reference to
] drugs. In Sonnet 27, Shakespeare wrote about "a journey
] in my head." Sonnet No. 118 speaks of "to make our
] appetite more keen, with eager compounds we our palate
] urge." Perhaps a reference to marijuana as an appetite
] stimulant, Thackeray wonders.

] Intrigued, Thackeray asked the Shakespeare Birthplace
] Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon to allow South African
] researchers with state-of-the-art equipment to analyze
] 24 pipe fragments. Marijuana degrades over time, but
] eight of the fragments showed signs suggestive of
] marijuana, he said. Two also showed evidence of cocaine.

The pot head thing wouldn't shock me in the least.. However, freebasing cocaine dosen't fit my image of Shakespeare.

Anthropologist says Shakespeare might have smoked marijuana

] The SARS virus can live for days in the stool and urine
] of patients, the World Health Organization said Sunday in
] a new report that could shed light on the frightening
] spread of the disease.
]
] Hong Kong scientists have suspected the virus could live
] in sewage -- something that could help explain an
] outbreak that affected residents at a large apartment
] complex.

Which explains why it's centralized in China, and why all the people walking around with surgical masks are idiots.

SARS Lives Long, Prospers in Poop

jessica wrote:
] ] The much-ballyhooed roller coaster, opening to the public
] ] Sunday, soars 420 feet - a third higher than the
] ] current record holder. And it hits 120 miles per hour,
] ] nearly twice as fast as most coasters.
]
] Cedar Point turns me on.

We are going there this summer! All are welcome!

RE: Roller coaster lovers get a new high - 420 feet

] Some days, work is so horrible that Christa Adams must
] leave her desk and take a walk around the building to
] calm down. The horrifying, violent sexual images that pop
] up on her computer screen still unnerve her.
]
] But she is no longer shocked. After all, she went looking
] for those images. It is part of the job when you are a
] porn-tracker.
]
] She is one of about a dozen "verifier technicians" at 8e6
] Technologies, an Orange-based firm that develops software
] for organizations seeking to keep employees or children
] from looking at inappropriate Web sites.
]
] For the most part, the idea of looking at porn on the
] Internet all day - and getting paid for it - brings
] mischievous grins to their faces, though they concede
] that the job is not as exciting as it may seem.

Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/01/2003 | They look at porn all day, so others won't be able to

And here I cringe at the mere thought of wearing contacts and having to touch my eyeball. :o

] MOAB, Utah (AP) -- A Colorado climber amputated his own
] arm Thursday, five days after becoming pinned by a
] boulder, and he was hiking to safety when he was spotted
] by searchers, authorities said.
]
] Aron Ralston, 27, of Aspen, was in serious condition late
] Thursday at a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado.
]
] Ralston was climbing Saturday in Blue John Canyon,
] adjacent to Canyonlands National Park in far southwestern
] Utah, when a 200-pound boulder fell on him, pinning his
] right arm, authorities said.
]
] He ran out of water on Tuesday and on Thursday morning,
] he decided that his survival required drastic action.
]
] Using his pocketknife, he amputated his arm below the
] elbow and applied a tourniquet and administered first
] aid.
]
] He then rigged anchors, fixed a rope and rappelled to the
] canyon floor.

Climber amputates his arm, hikes to safey