Talk about a bad date!

Laughing Boy

] A wanted man was arrested after his parole officer
] spotted him kissing his girlfriend in a live crowd shot
] displayed on the scoreboard at a Cincinnati Reds game.
]
]
] David Horton and his parole officer attended the same May
] 7 game when the smooching couple were caught by the "Kiss
] Cam" at Great American Ball Park.
]
] The parole officer and a police officer arrested Horton,
] 24, in his front-row seat.
]
] "Out of all the coincidences, we had 20- or 30-thousand
] people at the ballpark and who do they put on the 'Kiss
] Cam'? And then, who is there but his parole officer?"
] said Richard Goldberg, Horton's attorney.

Wanted Man Caught on 'Kiss Cam' Arrested

] America has 47,000 power plants, airports and other
] "critical infrastructure facilities."
]
] Walker believes a terrorist can get within 100 feet of
] most of them, unchallenged and undetected, and kill or
] injure thousands.
]
] But if onsite cameras beamed photos to the World Wide
] Web, Americans could monitor these sites from home. If
] they spied a potential attacker a masked man
] trying to scale a power plant fence, or a van parked next
] to a reservoir they could alert security agents
] with a click of the mouse. Agents would call local
] authorities and help avert disaster.
]
] Walker envisions spotters getting up to $10 per hour,
] paid by the government agencies and companies that need
] protecting. He wants to sell USHomeGuard to the federal
] government for $1, then charge fees to run the system.

This is so freaking Orwellian, its scary. Keep an eye on this one folks...

Laughing Boy

Webcam homeland

crankymessiah wrote:
] ] HONG KONG (Reuters) - A top Hong Kong scientist said on
] ] Friday it was likely the deadly SARS virus that has
] ] killed almost 700 people worldwide jumped to humans from
] ] civet cats, which are considered a delicacy by many
] ] people in southern China.
]
] I've always known ctas were evil. Long live dogs!

One minute its cats, the next its chickens, and NOW its from outer space! TRANSLATION - "We have no fucking clue where this bug came from."

Laughing Boy

RE: ABCNEWS.com : SARS Virus Likely Came from Civet Cats-Scientists

] "If any case merits the death penalty, there cannot be
] serious debate about this case being that case," Vigil
] wrote. "The death penalty, however, must be imposed in a
] constitutional manner ... Jury resort to biblical code
] has no place in a constitutional death penalty
] proceeding."

Thank God (sic) there is still some sanity in the judicial system.

Laughing Boy

Death sentence tossed out over Bible

] Christie Whitman, sometimes cast as a lone voice on Bush
] environmental matters, announced Wednesday she will soon
] step down as administrator of the Environmental
] Protection Agency.
]
] In her resignation letter posted on the EPA's Web site,
] the former New Jersey governor cited a desire to spend
] more time with her family. Her resignation will be
] effective June 27.
]
] "I am proud of the work this agency has done and of the
] contributions it has made to the success of your
] administration," Whitman, 56, said in a letter addressed
] to President Bush and dated May 20. "... It has been a
] true honor to be able to lead this agency as it worked to
] implement the innovative, effective environmental
] policies to which you are so clearly committed." (Text of
] letter)
]
] Whitman is the most prominent woman to leave the
] administration.
]
] In a statement, Bush praised Whitman, saying she "served
] my administration exceptionally well."
]
] Environmentalists have long suggested Whitman was unhappy
] with the White House over several key environmental
] policies, but she has steadfastly said she was happy in
] her work.

SUUUURE she wants to spend more time with her family. Uh huh. Why is it that is ALWAYS the #1 excuse sighted when someone unexpectedly steps down from a post? /me thinks the truth is she just cant head an agency called the Environmental Protection Agency in an administration with such a shady environmental track record.

Laughing Boy

EPA's Whitman submits resignation letter

we've gotta stop those evil terrorists no matter the plot, i mean, first hijackings, then air plane crashes, dirty bombs, anthrax...now, yep you've guessed it, they've gone so far as to use graphics libraries...

i dont know about you guys, but right now im more afraid of the people that are suposedly saving us from terrorists than i am of the terrorists...i mean, the odds of me being hit by a terrorist attack seem far less than the odds that they'll kick in my door to save the world from me...

our collective silence has paid for this, enjoy...

active X is for terrorists

Mike the Usurper wrote:
] Well it's that time again. Time for John Ashcroft to look
] like he's doing something (or is it Tom Ridge in charge of
] these things now? I can never tell they look the same,
] although my guess is that Ridge isn't as inept as Ashcroft)
] and we're now back to condition Orange.
]
] How we got there looks something like this. 18 months ago 19
] guys demonstrated just how much of a joke US airline security
] was and killed over 3000 people. If their timing had been
] better and their aim, they could have killed 25,000, and I
] think that's what their target number was, but they're
] terrorists and pretty much botched it. This is not to say
] what happened wasn't bad, but that it could have been much
] much worse.
]
] Somehow, this national tragedy catapaulted a man singularly
] unsuited for such a job into the role of national saviour.
] And watching GW Bush at the National Cathedral, all I could
] think was, he looks like a televangelist. He's wearing this
] powder blue tie, and sounding like he's about to call for an
] amen.
]
] Fast forward to now. We've spent billions of dollars bombing
] Afghanistan, and failed to find the person who was behind the
] airplane attack. We have spent billions more and alienated
] every other first world country with the exception of Great
] Britain removing from power someone who there is no question
] was a despot, but obviously without any idea how to fill the
] void left by removing him.
]
] In the meantime, nothing has been rebuilt in Afghanistan,
] which may actually be in even worse shape than when we started
] (brutal theocracy vs brutal tribal warlords?) and the Iraqis
] are even angrier. The oil fields are safe, but we can't seem
] to figure out how to do basic things like provide water and
] electricty in places that, before we sent in the tanks, had
] them.
]
] To put this another way, we kicked the Taliban out of
] Afghanistan and left it to the warlords, and have kicked
] Saddam out of Iraq, but what's showing up there now looks
] surprisingly like the Taliban. I'm not saying we should have
] left these guys where they were, but it seems to me that a
] good rule for foreign intervention, and one that we only
] followed from about 1940 until 1953, and even then we managed
] to slip up pretty often, is the first rule for doctors, "do no
] harm."
]
] So now, the guys we didn't catch have blown up a bunch of
] buildings in Casablanca and Saudi Arabia, and now I can't park
] my car at the airport? How does this make anyone safer?
]
] Allow me to pose another conundrum to you, since I'm talking
] about airports. Rather than spread things out and so minimize
] the damage if it does strike,... [ Read More (0.2k in body) ]

RE: Condition: Orange

abaddon wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] abaddon wrote:
] ] ] more comentary on the Jose Padilla saga, this one is a
] ] ] puletser (yeah yeah i dont spell) prize winning jurnalist
] ] ] chastising the media for not giving any coverage to the
] ] ] Padilla case...
] ] ]
] ] ] when exactly did the we all deside the government didnt
] need
] ]
] ] ] checks and balances any more...
] ]
] ] Hrm, they have since released information that provides
] ] reasonable doubt that he might have been travelling to
] ] Afghanistan to join Al'Q. Its plausable enough to warrant
] ] detaining him and trying him.
] ]
] ] Having said that, it is critical that these things be done
] out
] ] in the open. The public pressure on this is the reason they
] ] had to go public. Hopefully this will serve as a lesson in
] the
] ] future to those whose family members may be detained without
]
] ] reason. The Internet is your friend. Get as many eyes on the
]
] ] situation as possible. You now have the power to do that.
]
] he may well have actually been up to something, but how would
] we know, he isnt allowed to present his case, he isnt allowed
] a lawyer, he isnt allowed due process of any kind...the
] problem i have with the padilla case isnt that they are
] holding him, its that they are holding him without any
] rights...he's still a US citizen, and as such i can't think of
] an scenerio that would warrent striping him of his right to
] due process...
]
] secrecy is the enemy of freedom...
]
] --Abaddon

Who died and made George W. Shrub god? Why is the current administration somehow above the letter of the law? If the justice department has the goods on Padilla; if he is a terrorist, then try and fry the motherfucker. If not, let him go - AS THE LAW DEMANDS. Why is he STILL detained after nearly a year and not been charged with a crime or even allowed to speak to his lawyer? All because John Ashcroft pointed his finger and said the magic words "enemy combatant". 14 letters and the stroke of a pen is apparently all it takes to strip you and I of our constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Be very afraid...

Laughing Boy

RE: no-one cares about civil liberties or reason 1502-B why i hate people

abaddon wrote:
] more comentary on the Jose Padilla saga, this one is a
] puletser (yeah yeah i dont spell) prize winning jurnalist
] chastising the media for not giving any coverage to the
] Padilla case...
]
] when exactly did the we all deside the government didnt need
] checks and balances any more...

When? Why it was when George W. Shrub was appointed president of the United States by the Supreme court.

Don't get me started on the Padilla case... that whole side-stepping of due process of law for an American citizen is just wrong on so many levels.

Laughing Boy

RE: no-one cares about civil liberties or reason 1502-B why i hate people

] The world's richest man and one of the country's top news
] anchors sat down at a cafe for cappuccino but both
] walked away without paying the bill.
]
] NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw also was in town and
] interviewed Gates at the Past Times Cafe, where they both
] ordered a cappuccino. But when the interview was over,
] they left and no one paid the bill.
]
] "They just got right out the door, the security people
] ushered them right out," said Jackie Harrington, the
] waitress who prepared and served the coffee.
]
] No one thought much more about it until the cafe's owner,
] Corinne Arnold, got a call from Gates' office asking
] whether he owed some money. The cafe insisted the
] cappuccinos, which cost $3 each, were on the house.
]
] But Brokaw, a South Dakota native, thought otherwise and
] took care of the debt Wednesday with a note that included
] two $20 bills.
]
] "When we walked out without paying we got nailed," Brokaw
] wrote. "One 20 is for the coffee. The other is for the
] wall. Thanks, Tom."
]
] Cafe workers say the payment was unnecessary
] having the opportunity to serve Brokaw and Gates was
] reward enough, Harrin

Yea right. Fuck that shit - when you wipe your ASS with $100 bills, when you make more money in 60 seconds then most people make in a year, you don't get so fucking arrogant to think "oh they will comp us". Something tells me they were "reminded" they stiffed this coffee shop. And I'm not just talking about Gates. Brokaw isn't exactly hurting for cash himself.

Arrogant bastards.

Laughing Boy

Gates and Brokaw forget the check