] BERLIN Jan 31 (Reuters) - A celebrated Berlin prostitute
] said Monday that German job center advisers shouldn't shy
] away from offering jobs in the sex industry to the
] long-term unemployed.
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] Molly Luft, who sold her famous Berlin brothel two months
] ago and now runs a bar in the city's lively Kreuzberg
] district, said the sex industry was always looking for
] new recruits.
]
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] "Why shouldn't they send the unemployed to work in the
] sex industry? Before it was a gray zone, but now
] employees are insured and receive benefits," Luft told
] Reuters. "People would no longer be unemployed and could
] earn themselves a living."

Those germans always have such great social ideas.

Yahoo! News - Prostitute Sees Sex Trade Hope for Jobless

A Fox News anchor flips out when a guest dares to question the nature of Bush's elaborate 2nd inauguration.

Frank Rich wrote: "Judy Bachrach, a writer for Vanity Fair, dared say on Fox News that the inaugural's military ball and prayer service would not keep troops 'safe and warm' in their 'flimsy' Humvees in Iraq. She was promptly given the hook."

Fair and Balanced Inauguration

"If Bill Hicks were alive today,
What would Bill Hicks say?

In 250 words or less, please rant and let it fly.

Talk about politics or drugs or smoking or crappy celebrities or an update on the People Who Hate People party...whatever, just capture the essence of Bill Hicks.

Judges are still being assembled."

What Would Bill Hicks Say?

] Jan. 21: Conservative Christian groups are upset about a
] video that included SpongeBob SquarePants, saying the
] cartoon character is promoting a homosexual agenda.
] NBC’s Don Teague reports.

GOD Damn Faggot Sponge!

MSNBC - Christian groups go after ‘SpongeBob’

] The US military is planning to deploy robots armed with
] machine-guns to wage war against insurgents in Iraq.
]
] Eighteen of the 1m-high robots, equipped with cameras and
] operated by remote control, are going to Iraq this
] spring, the Associated Press reports.

] Mr Quinn says there are plans to replace the computer
] screen, joysticks and keypad in the remote-control unit
] with a Gameboy-style controller and virtual-reality
] goggles.

BBC NEWS | US plans to deploy 'robot troops' in Iraq

] Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no
] gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash),
] and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that
] this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal
] projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps
] (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely
] variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as
] 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying
] down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount
] this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any
] helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC),
] and any other vehicle for which the technology were
] applicable?

The video is just so robo-cop-esque

Defense Review - World Exclusive Video! DREAD Weapon System: Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent.

llama.

Albino Blacksheep / Flash / The Llama Song

Bit Payment indie music. Pretty neat.

Mperia.com - Your home for independent music. Or something like that.

] A front-page column in the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel last
] week came with the bold, all-caps headline: SO THEY SAY
] WE'RE NOT THE BRIGHTEST BULB IN THE BOX ... WHAT DO THEY
] KNOW?
]
]
] Columnist Kevin Leininger suggested it was basically "an
] evil Liberal Media Conspiracy." He pointed out that eight
] of the 10 smartest cities were in blue states, and eight
] of the dumbest were in red states. He says it's not a
] coincidence

USATODAY.com - Looking for signs of intelligent life in Fort Wayne

] A suicidal New Jersey man set a new standard for
] self-inflicted brutality when he decapitated himself by
] driving away from a light post with a rope tied around
] his neck.
]
] Wolfgang Persieck, 50, of Union Beach, died when the
] rope, which he had attached to the post, jerked his head
] off as he stepped on the gas Saturday night.
]
] His body was found inside the car, along with several
] suicide notes, behind the Hazlet Multiplex movie theater,
] Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye said.
]
] Two teenagers found the car as they walked through an
] isolated area behind the theater on Route 35.
]
] The pair stopped a passing police officer, who discovered
] Persieck's body. Interviews with relatives and the notes
] pointed to a suicide, Kaye said.

New York Daily News - Home - Driver in grisly suicide