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ASCII
MAN
The commander of the 101st
Airborne Division, which is on patrol in northern Iraq, has proposed an unusual
holiday that would allow his troops to visit home once in their lengthy
tours of duty. STORY
London
Guardian: "Jittery US soldiers" kill Iraqi family
Dems
ask Bush to step into Texas redistricting
Offense
woes: Decisions on Cowboys much tougher now
U.S.
says California is flouting pot laws
Unknowing Web surfers could find themselves charged with possessing illegal
material that a lurking software program has put on their computer. STORY
Segway
surviving but not selling well
A recent report warning
that electronic voting systems are prime targets for hackers has led
Md. officials to reconsider their $55.6 million purchase of 11,000 touch-screen
voting machines. STORY
Since being released two weeks ago, the Hopkins report has sent shock waves
across the country. Some states have backed away from purchasing any kind
of electronic voting machine...
Lawmakers
targeting obesity
(take that, smoking ban!)
Massive
U.S. consumer database cracked
U.S.
prosecuting "Iraq human shield" woman
Jack
the Snipper pervert frightening college town
Trouble
after reporting her friend as unsafe driver
Wedding
day will be couple's first kiss
"An Ellicott, Colo.,
woman has been sentenced to 64 years imprisonment for torturing her 6-year-old
son. A judge, a doctor, a prosecutor and three police officers called the
case the worst child abuse they've seen." STORY
"Britain's
country parks, beauty spots and picnic areas are attracting a new breed of
visitor: exhibitionist couples eager to have sex in front of strangers.
The activity, known as 'dogging', has exploded in popularity in the past two
years..." STORY
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Castroville
Airport tornado photos
Thanks Scott R.
Fox
News throwing hissy fits
1
Washington Post
"..has sued Al Franken
and his publishing house to stop them from using the expression "fair
and balanced" in the title of his upcoming book." STORY
2
Romanesko media news
Fox News Channel's lawsuit against Al Franken is peppered with boasts and
insults. The network, which doesn't want Franken using "fair and balanced"
in his book
title, calls the political satirist "a parasite" who "appears
to be shrill and unstable." Lisa de Moraes notes the suit refers to FNC's
Bill O'Reilly as "a national celebrity" and Fox News as a "world
famous" cable channel. STORY
3Austin
Chronicle
Fox
News fauxs up
The T-shirts parody both Fox News' logo and its laughable "We Report,
You Decide" motto as "We Distort, You Comply." A companion
T-shirt featured an Aryan boy wearing a Nazi Brown Shirt uniform with the
motto "O'Reilly Youth," referring to Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly.
4
Overlawyered.com
FOX'S THIN PELT
Washington
Post
"The new information
indicates a pattern in which President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their
subordinates -- in public and behind the scenes -- made allegations depicting
Iraq's nuclear weapons program as more active, more certain and more imminent
in its threat than the data they had would support. On occasion administration
advocates withheld evidence that did not conform to their views. The White
House seldom corrected misstatements or acknowledged loss of confidence in
information upon which it had previously relied." STORY
"Patricia Frierson
has received many calls from long-lost relatives since winning a $91 million
California lottery jackpot. She's checked out of the Econo Lodge.."
STORY
When
California parents leave kids in hot cars to die, they rarely go to
jail
TSA
in ‘witch hunt,’ air marshals say
Reference-checking
firms on the rise
Drilling
wells into aquifer just got costlier
Internet
worm ravages Windows computers
Aug 13 44202
Gillette shelf photographs
unsuspecting shoppers shopper
surveillance STORY
Boycott Gillette website HERE
Sports
Illustrated: Hall of Famer's bizarre post-mortem defies belief Ted
Williams' sad fate: stored, frozen, in two locations: Son owes a ton on the
cryonics bill
Castroville
Airport tornado photos
Thanks Scott R.
Justice
Dept. finds FBI refused to help Texas Republicans
Senate
Dems supposedly facing fines
Bexar
will explore toll roads
Dallas
Cowboys: Forget the Alamodome?
Millionaire's
double life revealed after wife dies
Franken
unworried about FoxNews suit
About
24 hours before reports of the lawsuit hit the newsstands, Franken's book,
due out next month, ranked No. 489 in sales on Amazon.com. But by about 5
p.m. yesterday, it had shot up to No. 4.
Baltimore Sun Fox
News "fair game"
CEO Roger Ailes won't apologize for Fox News' success or its tone. By his
account, those alleging bias are the ones playing politics.
It is interesting to
me that Fox News gets so pushed out of shape about "integrity" when
they neither corrected Geraldo Rivera's false reports from Afghanistan, nor
fired him, while all the world knew he had fabricated his stories and had
lied outright, and later failed to reprimand him for revealing classified
information during the second Gulf War-- an act so bad that the military expelled
him from the theater. Fox News head Roger Ailes claims Fox has never retracted
or corrected a story. To me, that's a poor track record, not something about
which one should brag.
WAR
NEWS-----
Troops
in Iraq to serve a year (at least) and no tickets home during the year
The American presence
in Iraq is prompting a rising tide of Muslim militants to slip into
the country to fight the foreign occupier STORY
Commentary
Thomas Friedman in Baghdad: "All of America's friends in Baghdad say
the same thing: I love your ideas, but my daily life - salary, electricity,
security - is worse since you came, not better." STORY
Sick
veteran battles bureaucracy back home
Congress
to restrict use of Special Ops
Ashcroft
Planning Trip to Defend Patriot Act
Model
airplane crosses Atlantic "There
was even about a shot glass of gasoline left in the tank."
Postal
ID plan creates privacy fears A government report
that urges the U.S. Postal Service to create "smart stamps" to track
the identity of people who send mail is eliciting concern from privacy advocates.
Girl
survived two days in seized van's secret compartment
Shriver
playing larger role in Governator's campaign
"Shriver
was particularly unhappy with a decision to book her husband on a series of
national morning news shows last Friday after just a few hours' sleep,"
the L.A. Times reports.
Wall Street Journal
Some
"penis enlargement" pills are impure
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Storm
churns toward Texas
Staff
cuts, fee boosts looming for S.A.
Schwarzenegger's
liberal views leave GOP flummoxed "..pro-choice,
pro-gun control and pro-gay rights.."
...and
daddy was a Nazi Gustav
Schwarzenegger was indeed a "storm trooper" or "brown shirt"
Roddy Stinson Who's
paying for senators' N.M. visit? (you will be amazed)
Ex-prosecutor
cleared of drunken driving
Cowboys
running low on options
Shortages
could cause more riots in Basra
Missile
factory in a cargo ship, and other tales of the world's most dangerous arms
supplier-- North Korea
Yale
law prof comments on Fox suit Franken's "Fair and Balanced"
book now #1 on Amazon.com Drudge
reports today "In his book, Franken directly challenges [Bill] O'Reilly
on his journalistic record and aggressively accuses cable's top-rated host
of exaggeration, padding of his resume and other claims ... The lawsuit does
not directly address the content of the book on charges of libel..."
College
students to be warned about Jack the Snipper
FDA
approves new wheelchair that can climb stairs iBOT uses sensors and
gyroscopes to climb up and down stairs. It also shifts into four-wheel drive
to navigate
Movie
"extras" are inflated-- really
Aug 15 44503
City
council gets new proposed budget: plenty of fee hikes but no tax-rate increase
Gov.
Perry makes sounds about Mexican water debt
Texas
GOP throwing hissy fit over Dems’ absence, threatens to cut staff phones,
parking, etc.
Local
electric bills expected to drop 7 percent
Iraqis
offer 10 tips on how to beat the heat
Parts
of USA may be without power thru weekend
Nuclear
gear on North Korea's secret shopping list
Army Times Pentagon
backs off quickly, vows to keep imminent danger pay, family separation allowance
for troops in Iraq, Afghanistan
Do-not-call
list WILL cover unsolicited faxes!
".. This
is an amazing issue in that virtually no one in the country is aware
of it. It was sort of buried in the do-not-call regulations, and it didn't
really get the attention it deserved.."
Got
a wireless network? These guys could find it
Blind
man aims high with English Channel
flight
Decline
of civilization, Part 4367:
Fear
Factor contestants will be forced to eat a pig's rectum
Science
marches on! Whale
fart captured on film
(with photo)
Science
marches on, still!
Panic
in the diamond industry
George
Bush doll “action figure” in time for Christmas
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Want
to marry Kimberly Devlin? Get in line for an interview
Coach Bliss
tried to talk to players after tape story broke
Credit
cards' golden offers leaving some seeing red
My gosh! Google
now offers math solutions, dictionary definitions, phone book, stock quotes,
street maps, "Who links to you?" and more
Circuit
City becoming more like Wal-Mart
Iceland
resumes whale hunting
Troubles
temper triumphs in Iraq
'How
to be Gay' course draws fire at Michigan
1 Security
flaws in electronic voting system
2
Maryland officials back touch-screen voting machines
Judge
orders $2500 payment to pedophile clown
Bosnia
outlawing blonde jokes
New domino
record set despite roaches
TEXT
- Fox News v. Al Franken: initial complaint
Gallagher
delays Kansas show, works on California governor campaign
Cars getting
skylights
Aug 19 47004
Your
leaders at work Alamo Area Council of
Governments so pitifully clueless that members can't work up the brain
cells to endorse a proposal to NOT blame Bexar County for air pollution that
blows here from elsewhere— or, as it was headlined in the San
Antonio Express-News: Coalition
eyes air legislation that could help San Antonio
CALIFORNIA
GOVERNOR RACE
1 His
image is Herculean, but is he wispy on issues? Schwarzenegger's
two-week search for a solid platform reveals the California candidate's strength
and liabilities.
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GOVERNOR RACE 2 NAKED
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obligation to research candidates for significant political offices. Herewith,
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Stu
Sanctions
hit Texas Democrats' staffers
Orange traffic cones blocked 99 parking spots in and around the Capitol grounds
Monday where Democratic senators and their staff usually park.
Ex-aide
called Baylor coach Bliss an 'angry man' Dave Bliss'
former administrative assistant said Monday that her boss was an "angry
man" who sometimes asked her to do things that she believed compromised
her integrity.
Theory
on when and why humans lost our body fur
NY Times Krugman
Commentary The
Power Failure
Scientists study dog behavior
It's a dog's life, but what, exactly, is that about?
Users
discover pros and cons of stair-climbing wheelchair
Bush
adjusts views on "combat" in Iraq
Microsoft
Weighs Automatic Updates
Forgetting
the dentist's drill Sedation dentistry uses pills, gas to calm dental
phobics and blur their memory. Some experts find that scary. "...different
approaches to sedation dentistry have caused a rift in the dental community,
with each side claiming the other is taking unnecessary risks with their patients."
Thousand-year-old tree
falls onto SUV in Sequoia Nat'l Park
Osama
bin Laden "Gift" - Al Qaeda claims it caused the blackout
bin
Laden letter found on Saudi bomber
A letter
from Osama bin Laden and a telephone call made from Iran by his son Saad are
linked to a series of al-Qa'ida attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia, according
to Western diplomats and Saudi intelligence officials.
Paul
Newman was Hud in movie, sues HUD ala Fox News suing Franken
Bride
arrested for disorderly conduct
Carmen Electra tells reporter she “thinks about sex every 20 seconds”
Industrial
sex aid lands Romanian in hospital
Man
given toilet duty, probation for urinating on inmates
Weekly World News
FRANCE
SURRENDERS TO NORTH KOREA
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Cowboys
not always heroes to city officials
U.S.
deploys 'Zsa-Zsa Saddam'
Phish musician caught
with 9-year-old is given genital treatment by Hell's Angels before police
arrive
Weekly
World News
Bush's secret plan to invade the moon
1
Attorney
General Defends Anti-Terrorism Law U.S. Attorney General
John Ashcroft on Tuesday defended the controversial anti-terrorism law adopted
after 9/11, saying it has saved American lives and rejecting criticism it
has eroded civil liberties.
2
Ashcroft
begins national tour to defend Patriot Act
Bacon
mistaken for human head Police apologized for raiding
an artist's home when an artwork made out of bacon was mistaken for a human
head.
Two
daycare workers indicted in death of boy left in van in Lancaster
WAR OPINION
and NEWS—
NY Times editorial
US mission
in Iraq imperiled
Yesterday's attack, the worst in U.N. history, was another
sign that surly, chaotic postwar Iraq is becoming a magnet for terrorists.
That is yet another consequence of the Iraq war that the Bush administration
failed to anticipate, like the uncontrolled postwar looting, the delays
in restoring water and electricity, the ambushes of American soldiers and
the sabotage of infrastructure.
Thomas Friedman in
Iraq
No time to lose in Iraq
There is now a huge cement wall being built around part of the U.S. compound
in central Baghdad that is a carbon copy of the wall Israel is building
in the West Bank.
Maureen Dowd NY Times
column
Magnet for evil
The Bush team has now created the very monster that it conjured up to alarm
Americans into backing a war on Iraq
Busy
condemns Iraq bombing and vows US will persevere
Ashcroft
defends Patriot Act
Attorney
General John D. Ashcroft launched a publicity campaign Tuesday aimed at
shoring up support for the USA Patriot Act that has come under increasing
attack from groups across the political spectrum.
The Justice Department also unveiled a Web site, www.lifeandliberty.gov,
to disseminate information about the law.
Saudis
in Iraq 'preparing for a holy war'
Dallas News
1 New
relevations at Baylor ain't good Baylor investigators
have found evidence suggesting that visiting basketball teams' workouts were
secretly taped
Waco
Tribune
2
Panel finds no money trail beyond Bliss
3
Waco cops and DA silent on possible charges
European
rock climbers faced with silly safety rules
".. necessary to fix safety notices on mountains to warn climbers when
they are approaching icy or snow-covered surfaces."
Unusual
side effects of clomipramine associated with yawning "...she
had noted that since taking the medication, every time she yawned she had
an orgasm. She found she was able to experience orgasm by deliberate yawning."
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Bush
to ask UN for troop help in Vietnam, uh, Iraq
Iraq
Counterpoint Bob Herbert, NY Times - One of the
many reasons Vietnam spiraled out of control was the fact that America's
top political leaders never clearly defined the mission there, and were
never straight with the public about what they were doing. Domestic political
considerations led Kennedy, then Johnson, then Nixon to conceal the truth
about a policy that was bankrupt from the beginning. They even concealed
how much the war was costing.
Sound familiar?
1
Absent
Dems pin hopes on judge's ruling next week
2
Runaway
Democrats expand lawsuit
Daycare
driver forgets 8-month-old, heat kills the boy
1 Fastest-spreading
email virus ever
2 Few
hackers attack Macs, but they aren't invulnerable
Baylor's
president faces September no-confidence vote
FCC
to study "localism" of consolidated radio, TV
GOP
bill proposes to make many drug investigations "narcoterrorism"
and expand sneak-and-peek laws "The
Victory Act represents a major expansion of federal surveillance, asset forfeiture
and other powers under the guise of linking the war on drugs to the war on
terrorism," said Tim Edgar, legislative counsel for the ACLU. "It
does not address the intelligence problems that led to the September 11th
attacks, continuing a failed policy of simply granting more power to the government
instead of ensuring the government uses its existing powers effectively."
Cadaver-dog
handler charged with rigging evidence searches
Celebrity
dog walker makes $150,000
Family
holding open auditions for suitor for daughter goes quiet after embarrassing
newspaper report
FoxNews
v. Franken case will test free expression
Drunk
pays boys $20 to castrate him
Tampa
scraps face-recognition software as worthless
Naked-chick sushi service getting big
Archaeologists
may have found Donner Party camp
Porn actress Mary Carey, one of 135 candidates running for California governor,
offered on Tuesday to go on a date with anyone offering her a hefty campaign
contribution. STORY
Click her for the now-famous Naked Jumping Jack page
Woman
hurt as Nokia cell phone bursts into flames
Aug 22
Cowboys
camp paid off, S.A. claims It's
a shell game, folks: the city earned $129,371 on the camp operations,
but $400,000 of your tax money was paid to the Pokes to bring training camp
here.
San Antonio city manager's
proposed budget
summary (pdf)
Fort
Hood may get Iraq call
US
request for more troops in Iraq received coolly at UN
Deployed
GIs: ".. the family endures more than most people ever realize."
Elizabeth
Smart kidnapping movie slated for CBS-TV in fall, family will cooperate
Conspiracy
Theory #449
LBJ was behind JFK assassination, book says
No white
cliffs on Mars, and what that may mean
Local FBI agent Rene Salinas on KTSA at 12:10 to talk about the Justice
Dep't website promoting the Patriot Act lifeandliberty.gov
Analysis
Security may not be safe issue for Bush reelection race
Jealous
horse kicks little girl to death
Pig rapist
was ex-cop
L.A.
coroner finds odd stuff in dead people's homes
Nude
stroller was beating the heat
Spooked
sheep escapes "The Good Shepherd" set
"Queer
Eye" guys called to redecorate San Antonio church This
headline is fake: there is no such story.
OPINION
25
things we now know, 2 years after 9-11
Arizona
governor in trouble over gasoline shortage
THIS SITE IS ON
VACATION THRU SEPT. 7
Liberia's cross-dressing
soldiers 