'We have smoke and — it's pretty bad." An operator tells him to "sit tight. Do not leave, OK?"

City to Release 911 Calls From Sept. 11 - Yahoo! News

The abuse problem was already known to have cost dioceses more than $1 billion since 1950, including some expenses paid last year. Still, Teresa Kettelkamp, director of the bishops' Office of Child and Youth Protection, said the total abuse-related expenses shelled out in 2005 were likely the largest ever for a single year.
The total number of accusations against Catholic clergy now stands at more than 12,000 since 1950.

When will they just allow priests to fuck and marry like normal people?

Costs Soar As Clergy Sex Abuse Cases Rise - Yahoo! News

"I don't want to sound glib here, but it's the first time
in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since
we stopped testing nuclear weapons,"

Pentagon plans gigantic explosion at Nevada site - Yahoo! News

But Hadley and other administration officials realized that it would be much more difficult to shield Bush from criticism for his statements regarding the aluminum tubes, for several reasons.

For one, Hadley's review concluded that Bush had been directly and repeatedly apprised of the deep rift within the intelligence community over whether Iraq wanted the high-strength aluminum tubes for a nuclear weapons program or for conventional weapons.

For another, the president and others in the administration had cited the aluminum tubes as the most compelling evidence that Saddam was determined to build a nuclear weapon -- even more than the allegations that he was attempting to purchase uranium.

This is called "Lying to Congress" and punishable by 5 years in a federal correctional institution. Go to jail. Go directly to Jail. Do not go to the G8 conference, do not collect $200,000 speaking fees.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Insulating Bush (03/30/2006)

Standing in steadfast support of "Our Place for Space"
3/28/06 Make Your Opinion Heard!!!
This is the time to air your grievances! Write in to the Asbury Park Press letting them know how crucial the Planetarium is to the community. Tell Jon Larson, the President of Ocean County College, as well. They need to hear it straight from the people!!
Email Planetarium Preservation and let us know who you are. Further information regarding events and volunteering will be
emailed to you soon.

The planetarium at the local college is being shut down. The idiots who now live in ocean county are about to have one less hope for themselves.

PRESERVE THE PLANETARIUM!

NEW YORK (AFP) - Tick, 20,000 dollars, tock, another 20,000 dollars.

So rapid is the rise of the US national debt, that the last four digits of a giant digital signboard counting the moving total near New York's Times Square move in seemingly random increments as they struggle to keep pace.

The national debt clock, as it is known, is a big clock. A spot-check last week showed a readout of 8.3 trillion -- or more precisely 8,310,200,545,702 -- dollars ... and counting.

But it's not big enough.

US debt clock running out of time, space - Yahoo! News

A Los Angeles screenwriter is claiming that the Department of Homeland Security has informed him that he may not use the agency's name "or any of the
Department's official visual identities" in the script for his film, Lady
Magdalene, despite the fact that the film presents a positive image of the
DHS. The writer, J. Neil Schulman, said Tuesday that he had received a notice
from Bobbie Faye Ferguson, director of the NHS's office of multimedia,
informing him that his "project does not fit within the DHS mission and that it
is not something we can participate in."

So much for political free speech.

DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY SHOOTS DOWN MOVIE SCRIPT

Isaac Hayes gets a new job doing the voiceovers for Tom Cruise.

Isaac Hayes Gets a New Job

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The sick children are Bedouin. Until recently their ancestors were nomads who roamed the deserts of the Middle East and, as tradition dictated, often married cousins. Marrying within the family helped strengthen bonds among extended families struggling to survive the desert. But after centuries this custom of intermarriage has had devastating genetic effects.

Sounds like the things from the new hills have eyes are forming in the middle east. If they keep breeding them like this, I wonder if they'd turn into some sort of eyeless beast wandering the desert in a few more centuries.

A Hunt for Genes That Betrayed a Desert People - New York Times