Sounds like something Jon Carey would say........

Finnegan and others told the show’s creative team that the torture depicted in “24” never works in real life, and by airing such scenes, they’re encouraging military personnel to act illegally.

”People watch the shows, and then walk into the interrogation booths and do the same things they’ve just seen,” said Tony Lagouranis, who was a U.S. Army interrogator in Iraq and attended the meeting.

Oh c’mon. Next thing you know Dr. Phil will be required viewing.

“We can only put Band-Aids on a gaping wound that the federal government could close,” Douglas said.

Just another reason I love living in Jawjuh.  (Georgia for those of you in Rio Linda.)

Everything you need to know about Algeria’s Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat

Formed in 1998 by dissidents of the Islamic Armed Group, the GSPC [ catchy! ] is the sole remaining radical movement that continues to wage an insurgency against the secular Algerian state.

Last September the group officially placed itself under al-Qaeda orders.

Oh. And they just uncovered a terrorist plot targeting FRANCE by this “group”.

No Way

Gathering of Eagles is an act of love by thousands of veterans who choose to honor the sacrifice of the fallen by guarding the memorials from those who would desecrate them on March 17th in a “peaceful” anti-war rally in Washington D.C.

It is also an act of war, a call to action for every American who chooses to stand and say “No more!” to those who would spit on our veterans and ridicule their service to our nation.

We invite you to join us March 17th, as we stand together as one to ensure that the sacrifices of our fallen and the memorials that remember them are not tarnished by the ungrateful.

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and I don’t mean Palm Beach

When I read this seriously creepy story:

SanFFreakshow ...a well-known author and Holocaust scholar was dragged out of a San Francisco hotel elevator by an apparent Holocaust denier who reportedly had been trailing him for weeks.

... all I could think was, “Now Algore’s gonna want one, too.”

call Amnesty International!

So they got this brain scan, right.  And they’re convinced that this scan can discern intentions / plans.  “The team used high-resolution brain scans [functional magnetic imaging resonance] to identify patterns of activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, revealing what a person planned to do in the near future.”

They claim their software can predict a person’s intentions with 70% accuracy.  A good cop can do better than that.  But the scientists are concerned with the ethical issues relative to the new tech—as well they might be. 

The use of brain scanners to judge whether people are likely to commit crimes is a contentious issue that society should tackle now, according to Prof Haynes. “We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren’t going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.”

no idea because FreeRepublic never attributes graphics *ahem*

Women in southern Sweden will in the future not be able to choose the sex of their gynaecologist. Allowing them to choose discriminates against male gynaecologists, it has been ruled.

The new practice has been introduced by clinics in the counties of SkĂĄne, Halland, Blekinge and Kronoberg. Gynaecological patients in those areas will now be assigned a doctor of either sex, Helsingborgs Dagblad reports.

Exceptions will be made in some cases, such as for women who come from parts of the world with ‘patriarchal traditions’ or for the victims of sexual assaults, the paper reported. These women could insist on a female gynaecologist.

Women with less specific reasons for wanting a female gynaecologists may be turned down.

The changes have been brought in because many male gynaecologists have felt discriminated against.

they come to rewrite our history

Only this time - they forgot to wait ‘til those who lived it were daid.

Melanie Morgan:
associate professor Jerry Lembcke of Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass., [“Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam.”] ...who was an active member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, claims that Vietnam veterans lied about the treatment they received, and that it was in fact war supporters who were disrespectful toward veterans for failing to do a better job prosecuting the war.

Countdown with Keith Oderman Olbermann:

“And, oh, by the way, there is not one confirmed case, not one, of Americans spitting on veterans returning from Vietnam.”

...The Washington Post is reporting this week that a new era of anti-war veterans are now working to provide a veteran’s face to the ruthless efforts of liberal political activists to undermine the war effort.

Calling themselves “Vote Vets,” [backed by] MoveOn.org and Americans United for Change…

As the Post reported: “Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., who appeared with four veterans yesterday morning, said he saw parallels between VoteVets.org and Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the group of protesters he led during Vietnam.”

Only this time, they’re not turning US over to the commies or the Marxists or the Stalinists.  They’re turning US over to the head-choppers—who will chop their heads first.

go figure....

One of France’s leading hosiery makers is launching a new line for men next month—pantyhose with a welcome front opening and big feet, available in thick mannish knit but also as sheer tights.

Gerbe, which is based in eastern France, said this week that the country’s first hosiery line for men would go on sale in March “due to increasing demand from male clients.”

The pantyhose comes with a larger belt than for women as well as an opening, with “Men opaque”, “sheer” or “satin” available in four models of tights, with and without feet, and three models of feel-good knee-high hosiery made to help drain toxins and massage tired limbs.

Internet users on a French fashion messaging board, http://www.ctendance.com/forum2, responded with a touch of scepticism. ”Why create pantyhose for men when women’s tights are fine?” said one. Tights are unisex,” said another, “except that women’s are always softer.”

I’m looking forward to having the case heard and having the opportunity to have my side told publicly…
---Mike Nifong 2.10.07

IF YOU LOOK AFRICAN-AMERICAN, YOU ARE TREATED LIKE…

...a god-like Presidential candidate?

Howz about if you dress like and emulate a gangstah you’re percieved as...a gangstah.

I am the Grand and Terrible SILVER ANUS OF ISLAM!

Sonar in comments

Two activists attacked a Japanese whaling ship with a bottle of acid and a smoke bomb Friday, slightly injuring two crew members after the vessel helped rescue the protesters from the icy Ross Sea off Antarctica, officials said.

The activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society protest ship Farley Mowat disappeared during a confrontation with the Nisshin Maru but were found after about seven hours, with members of the Japanese whaling expedition assisting.

HERE‘s where it gets retardeder......

Watson said the two activists had gotten lost after fog, mist and drizzle blanketed the area.

The Nisshin Maru responded to call for help from the Sea Shepherd and joined in the search, Watson said.

Glen Inwood, a spokesman for Japan’s Institute for Cetacean Research, said the Japanese whaling ships had turned back toward the protest vessels to help find the missing crew.

Watson said that when he thanked the crew of the Nisshin Maru for their help, “they were very professional. They just said they’d wait for us” to resume the protest.

“I said, ‘I guess we’re back on schedule, and we’ll be pursuing you again,’” Watson said.

The protesters then again began their chase of the Japanese vessel and dumped foul-smelling butyric acid onto the whaling ship’s deck, injuring two Japanese crew members, according to Takahide Naruko, the chief of the Far Seas Fisheries Division of Japan’s Fisheries Agency.

FreeRepublic

I promise this will be the last I’ll post on this until they do something retarded again…

After a predawn police raid Friday, the downtown tent city moved to the grounds of the Out of the Woods homeless shelter on the city’s west side.

Twenty Olympia officers converged on the camp at 6 a.m., ordering protestors to pack up within an hour or face arrest.

Nobody was arrested, and the protestors hauled away their belongings by 10 a.m.

Yellow police tape blocked Columbia Street between State and Fourth avenues, the site of the vacant city lot where the encampment sat. Grumbling campers hurriedly pulled down tents and tarps and threw them into waiting cars and vans, hauling items to the Out of the Woods shelter at 2409 Division St. N.W.

Police kept watch, occasionally ordering campers to hurry up and keeping outsiders away. The city offered muffins and coffee to the displaced at the adjacent Olympia Center.

City Manager Steve Hall said the city “may have waited too long” to bust up the camp, which went up Feb. 1. He personally told campers to leave Tuesday, and police passed out fliers Thursday warning of a raid if the group didn’t disburse.

“I felt I wanted the group to have attention,” Hall said, “but it became obvious the camp wasn’t going anywhere.”

But Rob Richards of the Poor Peoples Union [ who I’m sure will get extra credit from Evergreen for his project ], which organized the protest, said the group had intended to move the camp Friday anyway.

The board of the Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation, which owns the Out of the Woods shelter, agreed late Thursday night to host to the camp.

“It seems like kind of a waste of time to bring all the cops out to stand and watch,” said Richards, who didn’t sleep in the camp Thursday night. “We’re excited about finding a piece of property of our own.”

Because all pre-dawn raids are served with coffee and muffins!

my best bud BillD via JR (goobers)

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