News:

Several times a month, I will be in a store aisle reaching for something and feel a hand going up the inside of my thigh. When I turn around to find myself alone with a woman, and ask her if she would prefer me to hold still so she can get a better feel for the situation, oftentimes she will act "shocked" claiming nothing had happened, it must be somebody else...

Main Menu

Random News Stories

Started by Thurnez Isa, December 29, 2006, 04:11:55 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

B_M_W

Quote from: Cain on February 27, 2007, 08:20:47 PM
Quote from: Buddhist_Monk_Wannabe on February 27, 2007, 08:16:52 PM
I don't know if this was posted yet, and it was a couple days ago,

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21075

Bloggers gotta watch their backs.

Not only in Egypt.

THE US GOVERNMENT is planning to force bloggers who criticise Congress and organise grassroot causes to register themselves or face jail time.

According to GrassrootsFreedom.com, under Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, bloggers who have more than 500 readers will have to register and report quarterly to Congress just like lobbiests or go to jail.

GrassrootsFreedom.com chairman Richard Viguerie said the new law would create the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever.

The amendment was introduced by Senator David Vitter and is currently on hold as it seems to have got bogged down in the legislative process. It would be interesting to find a bog that is read by more than 500 people.

http://www.grassrootsfreedom.com/

The constitution is dead. I live on my own freedom, not what some piece of paper says.
One by one, we break the sheep from their Iron Bar Prisons and expand their imaginations, make them think for themselves. In turn, they break more from their prisons. Eventually, critical mass is reached. Our key word: Resolve. Evangelize with compassion and determination. And realize that there will be few in the beginning. We are hand picking our successors. They are the future of Discordianism. Let us guide our future with intelligence.

     --Reverse Brainwashing: A Guide http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=9801.0


6.5 billion Buddhas walking around.

99.xxxxxxx% forgot they are Buddha.

Suu

Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Cain


Suu

Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

Thurnez Isa

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070302/world/international_pakistan_taliban_dc

"ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's three top leaders just hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan earlier this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
   
The capture of Mullah Obaidullah Akhund marked the first Pakistani arrest of a senior leader of the Islamist militia since it was driven from power in Afghanistan in 2001 and thousands of its fighters fled into Pakistan.

The sources told Reuters that Akhund, the third most senior member of the Taliban's leadership council, was arrested late on Monday in the southwestern city of Quetta.

The arrest comes at a time when the Bush administration is facing a wave of skepticism over Pakistan's role as an ally in the war on terrorism.

Pakistani government and military spokesmen said they had no knowledge of the arrest, including one official who had earlier denied it.

The New York Times, however, carried a report on its Web site, saying U.S. officials in Washington had confirmed Akhund was being held.

Friday's edition of Dawn, a leading Pakistani daily, ran a front-page story, again sourced to an unnamed official, with a headline that read: "Mullah Omar's deputy Obaidullah captured."

Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousaf told Afghan Islamic Press, a Pashtun-language news agency based in Peshawar, that it was a false rumor.

But at the end of 2006 the Taliban denied for more than a week that a U.S. air strike had killed Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani, a senior commander, in December, before confirming his death.

Cheney had asked Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to do more to stop al Qaeda rebuilding from safe havens in Pakistani tribal lands and step up efforts to thwart a spring offensive by the Taliban against Afghan and NATO troops.

The Pakistani security official, whose information has proved reliable in the past but insists on anonymity as he is not authorized to speak, said the timing of Akhund's arrest was coincidence, and not linked to Cheney's visit.

Taliban sources, speaking on satellite telephones from undisclosed locations, said Akhund was caught at the home of a relative in the Baluchistan provincial capital.

They said two other leaders had been arrested in Quetta this week. Pakistani security officials said five suspects had been detained midweek, but their identities were not confirmed.

LINK MAN

Aside from being on the leadership council headed by Mullah Mohammad Omar, Akhund was also defense minister in the Taliban government before it fell.

As defense minister, Akhund was believed to have liaised closely with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence during the years when the Taliban ruled in Kabul and could count on Pakistani support.

"He wasn't a commander, but he and Mullah Beradar were key links to commanders in the field," Ahmed Rashid, a respected Pakistani journalist and author of "Taliban," a seminal study of the Islamist militia, commented.

"He was in the shura (council) and very important."

While Akhund's capture would represent a major coup, it sits uneasily with Pakistan's past denials of allegations that Taliban leaders were running the Afghan insurgency from Quetta.

Musharraf said last month that he was "500 percent" sure that Mullah Omar was in Afghanistan, although he admits there are Taliban fighters in Pakistan.

The lack of arrests in the past fed speculation that Pakistani intelligence services or rogue agents have allowed Taliban leaders to operate freely.

Having supported the Taliban prior to al Qaeda's September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Pakistan has struggled to shake off suspicions that its spies continue to play a double game in case the West's commitment to Afghanistan does not last.

U.S. generals have spoken of Taliban "command and control" centers on Pakistani territory.

Yet NATO officials have thanked Pakistan for its help in several recent counter-insurgency operations, including the air strike that killed Osmani."
Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Dante

Thurnez Isa

oh yah and this one's for hunter
it was higher in the news so obviously far more important

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070302/tecnology/net_americanidol_dc
Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Dante

Suu

Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

hunter s.durden

Quote from: Thurnez Isa on March 02, 2007, 04:32:07 PM
oh yah and this one's for hunter
it was higher in the news so obviously far more important

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/070302/tecnology/net_americanidol_dc

Why do you hate me?

I actually consider this good news. I would have vomited had it said "Contestant kicked off for doing something that makes people happy." (See recent Miss America debauchle).

The fact that it's news at all,  however, is shitty enough.
I'm glad that someone having sex is more important than the wars.
Thanks Jesus!
This space for rent.

Cain

Have any American Idol contestants actually survived past their first album?  Or even a second single?

Because ours sure as fuck don't, making it the single most worthless contest ever.  There have been exactly 2 successes from that program format, and none of them are from after 2002.

hunter s.durden

Kelly Clarkson has had continued success.

Allow me to expound on my feeling toward Idol.
American Idol in and of itself is actuually a good thing. It gives nobodies a shot at putting something out, and potentially gives stardom to someone that may otherwise have lived in obscurity. Talent is hard to shop around, this forum is proof of that.
Another positive I see is that the contest is actually about pop singing talent. Ugly fuckers like Reuben Studdard and that old fucker Taylor Hicks were successful without good looks. Many other show aren't like that. Remember Fear Factor? No ugly fuckers on there. How cute does one have to be to eat blood covered scorpions?
The big disappointment about Idol to me, is that it showcases that most of us are really fucking zombified. I know die-hard fans of the show that can't name all the winners. Why? All they care about is the next winner. Why? Because the next season is always the "biggest" or "most shocking" yet. People that watch Idol, but are still marginally aware of the rest of the world (genocides, the war, commercials are killing their souls) are fine by me. I imagine that if you like pop music the show is downright enjoyable. But these fucking zombies who think that Paula Abdul fucking some backup dancer is the biggest story on the plant? Fuck those people. News time being taken up to ask "is Idols judging too harsh?" You've gotta be kidding me. It's not harsh enough. They should incorporate corporal punishment into the show.
Anyway I guess I'm saying I don't hate Idol, I just hate all humans.
This space for rent.

Cramulus

Quote from: hunter s.durden on March 03, 2007, 04:01:47 PM
News time being taken up to ask "is Idols judging too harsh?" You've gotta be kidding me. It's not harsh enough. They should incorporate corporal punishment into the show.

And that's exactly what it would take to get me to sit through an episode.

:foxnews:

P3nT4gR4m

I'll repeat - Celebrity chainsaw juggling

An I'll keep repeating it until someone gives me the funding to produce it

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Cain

Lets Hunt Down and Kill Bully Ray Cyrus, hosted by Bill Hicks.  It would have been a winner  :evilmad:

Suu

She's at it again...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outspoken U.S. conservative columnist Ann Coulter is drawing fire from Republicans and Democrats alike after publicly using a derogatory gay slur in reference to Democratic presidential hopeful
John Edwards.

"Ann Coulter not only once again went out of her way to use a nasty epithet, she pushed her offensiveness up a notch," Amy Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, said on Sunday.

Coulter made the comments on Friday during a speech at the influential American Conservative Union's Political Action Conference, calling Edwards a "faggot."

"We conservatives have enough trouble overcoming the false things that are said about us without paying for a platform upon which we shoot ourselves annually in the foot," Ridenour, whose group helped sponsor the conference, said in a statement on the center's Web site.

Coulter said the comment was a joke and on her Web site she carried the speech with the comment, "I'm so ashamed, I can't stop laughing." She then said Edwards' campaign chairman's main job was "fronting for Arab terrorists."

Edwards, a 2008 presidential contender and the party's 2004 vice presidential candidate, said Coulter's comments were "un-American and indefensible."

"The kind of hateful language she used has no place in political debate or our society at large," he wrote in comments posted to his Web site on Saturday.

"I believe it is our moral responsibility to speak out against that kind of bigotry and prejudice every time we encounter it," Edwards added.

The candidate also posted a video of Coulter's comments, asking supporters to raise $100,000 in so-called "Coulter Cash" for his campaign to "fight back against the politics of bigotry."

Coulter's Friday speech raised objections from Republican presidential hopefuls Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) of Arizona, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as well as Democrats.

In a statement on Sunday, Romney spokesman Kevin Madden said, "It was an offensive remark. Political discourse ought to be more substantive and thoughtful." McCain, the only contender who did not attend the event, and Giuliani called Coulter's words inappropriate, according to the New York Times.

"Ann Coulter's words of hate have no place in the public sphere much less our political discourse," Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) of Massachusetts said in a statement released on Saturday.

Several conservatives were also quick to denounce Coulter's comments in a variety of online columns.

Coulter is no stranger to controversy.

At the same conference last year, she used the word "raghead" -- a slur against Muslims -- in referring to U.S. homeland security policies. In a column published in the National Review after the September 11 attacks she urged an invasion of Muslim countries and forced conversion to Christianity.
Sovereign Episkopos-Princess Kaousuu; Esq., Battle Nun, Bene Gesserit.
Our Lady of Perpetual Confusion; 1st Church of Discordia

"Add a dab of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it."

East Coast Hustle

that cinches it.

Anne Coulter is not only one of us, but possibly the single most brilliant one of us.
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"