September 28, 2005
Joke Time
Jerry Clower tells the story of his Uncle Percy who was sound asleep in church one Sunday morning and Pastor Lucky noticed this fact while he was preachin' and so he said "every one who wants to go to heaven stand up." Everyone but Uncle Percy stood up.
Then Pastor Lucky said "Everyone who wants to go to HELL stand up!" Yelling the word "hell".
Everyone sat down and Uncle Percy popped up out of his pew wide-eyed.
Looking around Uncle Percy said to pastor Lucky, "I don't know what it is we're voting on but except for you and me everyone else is agin' it."
Scientists capture giant squid on camera
Sept. 28, 2005 TOKYO - When a nearly 20-foot long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big…hundreds of photos of a purplish-red sea monster doing battle 3,000 feet deep… For centuries giant squids… have been the stuff of legends, appearing in the myths of ancient Greece or attacking a submarine in Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” “That’s getting footage of a real sea monster,” said Randy Kochevar, a deep-sea biologist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. “Nobody has been able to observe a large giant squid where it lives. There are people who said it would never be done. It’s really an incredible accomplishment.”
...“We think it is a much more active predator than was previously thought,” Kubodera said Wednesday. “It had previously been seen as more lethargic, and not as strong.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/
Woman Ticketed for Sitting on a Playground Bench with No Kids
Sept. 27, 2005 The Rivington Playground on Manhattan's East Side has a small sign at the entrance that says adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child.
Forty-seven-year-old Sandra Catena says she didn't see the sign when she sat down to wait for an arts festival to start. Two New York City police officers asked her if she was with a child. When she said no, they gave her a ticket that could bring a one thousand dollar fine and 90 days in jail…
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3480711
Aide to Al-Qaeda's Zarqawi Killed in Iraq, U.S. Says
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Abu Azzam, a senior aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the No. 2 al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, was shot dead in an apartment in Baghdad Sunday night.
Azzam ``was a significant al-Qaeda leader,'' Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said yesterday. The Iraqi Government may release a statement on Azzam's death, Whitman said...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ayd0KwlVo.Cw&refer=us
Leather-clad revelers hot, sweaty in S.F.
Good-natured spanking, flogging at festival benefits gay, lesbian and AIDS groups
9/26/05 SAN FRANCISCO — Despite sweltering morning heat, leather-clad minions mixed with fully nude street revelers as an estimated 400,000 people flocked to Folsom Street on Sunday for the 22nd annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco.
...The fair attracted the usual enthusiasts in San Francisco's leather-clad, S&M and gay community, as well as many families....
Katarina Lukezic danced the afternoon away in a fuzzy, neon bunny top and matching sweat pants that showed off her pierced naval. "We should enjoy diversity," Lukezic said. "Not suppress it."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_3063044
New Orleans Police Chief Resigns Amid Questions About Crime Exaggerations
The New Orleans police chief resigned abruptly on Tuesday, giving no reason. But as the Houston Chronicle reported, Police Superintendent Eddie Compass stepped aside on the same day that he and Mayor Ray Nagin were accused by the New Orleans Times-Picayune of embellishing stories of post-Katrina crime and mayhem at the Convention Center and Superdome. Also on Tuesday, the police department announced that about 250 officers would be investigated for being absent without leave in the days after the hurricane, where anarchy descended on the city. also see http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/sep/28/092801085.html
Media Sensationalized New Orleans Chaos
Appearing Tuesday night on MSNBC's "Abrams Report," Hirsen responded to host Dan Abrams' assertion that there seems to be an effort to "blame the media" and shift blame from local officials or the feds.
Said Hirsen, "I think they deserve some blame if in fact they failed in their primary function. If we're going to criticize FEMA for moving too slowly, isn't it fair game to criticize the media for reporting too fast?"
...New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan supported this claim, telling Abrams there were far fewer murders than reported by the national media. "Reports of bloodshed on the streets of the city were grossly inaccurate," Jordan said, "and it's unfortunate that was the picture presented to the public ...It was reported that there were 200 dead in the freezer at the Superdome, which caused an 18-wheeler to come down with three doctors to pick them up. It turned out that there were six dead," Hirsen said. "There were exaggerations, there was hysteria. And this was part of the infotainment aspect of the newsmedia, the search for the sensational and the emotional."
D.A. Jordan said the impression of New Orleans presented by media coverage was one of a "savage state" rife with mass murders and mayhem that did not reflect the majority of well-behaved citizens victimized by the storm.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/27/222050.shtml
Ad Campaign Warns Tourists About New Florida Gun Law
(A good reason to go!!)
September 28, 2005 A gun control group is trying scare tourists away from Florida, where a new self-defense law allows people to shoot anyone who breaks into a home, occupied vehicle, or place of business… Under the new law, the intruder is presumed to have criminal intent, justifying the use of force. The law also removes a person's "duty to retreat" if that person is attacked in any place he or she has a right to be....
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200509\CUL20050928a.html
Oil reserves are double previous estimates, says Saudi
28 September 2005 Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades' worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.
Forming a powerful alliance, the Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi said, at an industry conference in Johannesburg, that the country would soon almost double its "proven" reserve base, while Exxon's president, Rex Tillerson, spoke of 3 trillion or more barrels of oil that are yet to be recovered.
...Mr Naimi also said that there were "no takers" for more oil right now, as a result of constrained refining capacity. Roughly a quarter of US refining capacity is still shut after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the country's southern coast, but global refining capacity - to turn crude oil into petrol and other products - was struggling to keep up with demand even before that.
"Give us the customers and we will pump more oil," the Saudi oil minister told reporters at the 18th World Petroleum Congress, adding that more refineries needed to be built. He said that enough global output would be added in the next three to four years to restore "some margin of safety" to oil markets.
...Mr Naimi said talk of oil scarcity reminded him of the 1970s, when people also thought the end of the age of oil was at hand. "But in the intervening years, when we were supposedly facing a precipitous decline, world oil reserves more than doubled," he said.
...Separately, Exxon's Mr Tillerson told the convention in South Africa that his company estimated that global energy demand would increase by 50 per cent over the next 25 years. Mr Tillerson said that by some estimates there was as much as 7 trillion barrels of oil yet to be discovered. On a more conservative basis, the world still had more than 3 trillion barrels from conventional fields, oil sands deposits and other sources. "That is more than twice all the oil recovered up to now in all of human history," Mr Tillerson said.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article315546.ece
A lot of baggage
…Airport baggage screeners had an injury rate four times as high as construction workers and seven times as high as miners last year - and that's why the Transportation Security Administration has hired contractors to review screeners' medical records…
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050928/a_screeners28.art.htm
Natural ocean cycle called the Atlantic Multi-Decadal scale
…They cite a natural ocean cycle called the Atlantic Multi-Decadal scale, which causes weather in the tropical Atlantic to seesaw between cool, windy phases and warm periods with slack winds, spawning frequent, strong hurricanes...The historical record shows an active hurricane period during the 1950s and '60s and a lull between 1970 and 1994. Since 1995, hurricane activity has once again been high..."This is a long-term, active hurricane era," Bell said...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-928hurricaneforecast,0,1417049.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
Media, blushing, takes a second look at Katrina
September 28, 2005 ...The New Orleans Times-Picayune published a lengthy account Monday of errors, misrepresentations and wildly exaggerated claims of murder, rape and abuse of children at the New Orleans Superdome. The newspaper cited publication of "scores of myths about the dome and Convention Center treated as fact by evacuees, the media and even some of New Orleans' top officials."
Since the hurricane hit four weeks ago, estimates of deaths at the Superdome, for example, have been revised downward from 200 to 10, and four of those were heart attacks. One was a suicide, and one man is thought to have been pushed from a balcony to the floor hundreds of feet below. Police said one man found dead at the Superdome is thought to have been killed elsewhere.
Eddie Compass, the superintendent of New Orleans police, told television talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey on Sept. 6 that "babies" were raped at the Superdome, and Mayor C. Ray Nagin told her on that broadcast that crowds at the Superdome had watched murder and mayhem...
…Superintendent Compass announced his retirement yesterday.
...said Matthew Felling of the Center for Media and Public Affairs. "What we're seeing here is no different than the reports of museum looting right after U.S. troops entered Baghdad. It's not that different from election night 2000 when some journalists prematurely declared a winner. In all three cases, the public would have been served by a bit more patience and less feigned certainty."
http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050928-121515-2539r
Hillary Insider Writes ABC's 'Commander in Chief'
ABC insiders deny there's any connection between real-life presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and their new TV show "Commander in Chief" - where Geena Davis makes her debut tonight as America's first woman president.
But it turns out the show's lead writer is a longtime Clinton campaign insider who held a top job in Hillary's press office. "Writer Steve Cohen used to work for her in the 1990s, serving as the then-first lady's deputy communications director," reports the Village Voice.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/27/105519.shtml
predestination vs. free will http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
Jerry Clower tells the story of his Uncle Percy who was sound asleep in church one Sunday morning and Pastor Lucky noticed this fact while he was preachin' and so he said "every one who wants to go to heaven stand up." Everyone but Uncle Percy stood up.
Then Pastor Lucky said "Everyone who wants to go to HELL stand up!" Yelling the word "hell".
Everyone sat down and Uncle Percy popped up out of his pew wide-eyed.
Looking around Uncle Percy said to pastor Lucky, "I don't know what it is we're voting on but except for you and me everyone else is agin' it."
Scientists capture giant squid on camera
Sept. 28, 2005 TOKYO - When a nearly 20-foot long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big…hundreds of photos of a purplish-red sea monster doing battle 3,000 feet deep… For centuries giant squids… have been the stuff of legends, appearing in the myths of ancient Greece or attacking a submarine in Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” “That’s getting footage of a real sea monster,” said Randy Kochevar, a deep-sea biologist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. “Nobody has been able to observe a large giant squid where it lives. There are people who said it would never be done. It’s really an incredible accomplishment.”
...“We think it is a much more active predator than was previously thought,” Kubodera said Wednesday. “It had previously been seen as more lethargic, and not as strong.”
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9503272/
Woman Ticketed for Sitting on a Playground Bench with No Kids
Sept. 27, 2005 The Rivington Playground on Manhattan's East Side has a small sign at the entrance that says adults are prohibited unless they are accompanied by a child.
Forty-seven-year-old Sandra Catena says she didn't see the sign when she sat down to wait for an arts festival to start. Two New York City police officers asked her if she was with a child. When she said no, they gave her a ticket that could bring a one thousand dollar fine and 90 days in jail…
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3480711
Aide to Al-Qaeda's Zarqawi Killed in Iraq, U.S. Says
Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Abu Azzam, a senior aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the No. 2 al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, was shot dead in an apartment in Baghdad Sunday night.
Azzam ``was a significant al-Qaeda leader,'' Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said yesterday. The Iraqi Government may release a statement on Azzam's death, Whitman said...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ayd0KwlVo.Cw&refer=us
Leather-clad revelers hot, sweaty in S.F.
Good-natured spanking, flogging at festival benefits gay, lesbian and AIDS groups
9/26/05 SAN FRANCISCO — Despite sweltering morning heat, leather-clad minions mixed with fully nude street revelers as an estimated 400,000 people flocked to Folsom Street on Sunday for the 22nd annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco.
...The fair attracted the usual enthusiasts in San Francisco's leather-clad, S&M and gay community, as well as many families....
Katarina Lukezic danced the afternoon away in a fuzzy, neon bunny top and matching sweat pants that showed off her pierced naval. "We should enjoy diversity," Lukezic said. "Not suppress it."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_3063044
New Orleans Police Chief Resigns Amid Questions About Crime Exaggerations
The New Orleans police chief resigned abruptly on Tuesday, giving no reason. But as the Houston Chronicle reported, Police Superintendent Eddie Compass stepped aside on the same day that he and Mayor Ray Nagin were accused by the New Orleans Times-Picayune of embellishing stories of post-Katrina crime and mayhem at the Convention Center and Superdome. Also on Tuesday, the police department announced that about 250 officers would be investigated for being absent without leave in the days after the hurricane, where anarchy descended on the city. also see http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/sep/28/092801085.html
Media Sensationalized New Orleans Chaos
Appearing Tuesday night on MSNBC's "Abrams Report," Hirsen responded to host Dan Abrams' assertion that there seems to be an effort to "blame the media" and shift blame from local officials or the feds.
Said Hirsen, "I think they deserve some blame if in fact they failed in their primary function. If we're going to criticize FEMA for moving too slowly, isn't it fair game to criticize the media for reporting too fast?"
...New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan supported this claim, telling Abrams there were far fewer murders than reported by the national media. "Reports of bloodshed on the streets of the city were grossly inaccurate," Jordan said, "and it's unfortunate that was the picture presented to the public ...It was reported that there were 200 dead in the freezer at the Superdome, which caused an 18-wheeler to come down with three doctors to pick them up. It turned out that there were six dead," Hirsen said. "There were exaggerations, there was hysteria. And this was part of the infotainment aspect of the newsmedia, the search for the sensational and the emotional."
D.A. Jordan said the impression of New Orleans presented by media coverage was one of a "savage state" rife with mass murders and mayhem that did not reflect the majority of well-behaved citizens victimized by the storm.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/27/222050.shtml
Ad Campaign Warns Tourists About New Florida Gun Law
(A good reason to go!!)
September 28, 2005 A gun control group is trying scare tourists away from Florida, where a new self-defense law allows people to shoot anyone who breaks into a home, occupied vehicle, or place of business… Under the new law, the intruder is presumed to have criminal intent, justifying the use of force. The law also removes a person's "duty to retreat" if that person is attacked in any place he or she has a right to be....
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200509\CUL20050928a.html
Oil reserves are double previous estimates, says Saudi
28 September 2005 Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer, and Exxon Mobil, the largest oil company, yesterday declared that the world had decades' worth of oil to come, in an attempt to calm fears about the record prices experienced in recent weeks.
Forming a powerful alliance, the Saudi oil minister Ali al-Naimi said, at an industry conference in Johannesburg, that the country would soon almost double its "proven" reserve base, while Exxon's president, Rex Tillerson, spoke of 3 trillion or more barrels of oil that are yet to be recovered.
...Mr Naimi also said that there were "no takers" for more oil right now, as a result of constrained refining capacity. Roughly a quarter of US refining capacity is still shut after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the country's southern coast, but global refining capacity - to turn crude oil into petrol and other products - was struggling to keep up with demand even before that.
"Give us the customers and we will pump more oil," the Saudi oil minister told reporters at the 18th World Petroleum Congress, adding that more refineries needed to be built. He said that enough global output would be added in the next three to four years to restore "some margin of safety" to oil markets.
...Mr Naimi said talk of oil scarcity reminded him of the 1970s, when people also thought the end of the age of oil was at hand. "But in the intervening years, when we were supposedly facing a precipitous decline, world oil reserves more than doubled," he said.
...Separately, Exxon's Mr Tillerson told the convention in South Africa that his company estimated that global energy demand would increase by 50 per cent over the next 25 years. Mr Tillerson said that by some estimates there was as much as 7 trillion barrels of oil yet to be discovered. On a more conservative basis, the world still had more than 3 trillion barrels from conventional fields, oil sands deposits and other sources. "That is more than twice all the oil recovered up to now in all of human history," Mr Tillerson said.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article315546.ece
A lot of baggage
…Airport baggage screeners had an injury rate four times as high as construction workers and seven times as high as miners last year - and that's why the Transportation Security Administration has hired contractors to review screeners' medical records…
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20050928/a_screeners28.art.htm
Natural ocean cycle called the Atlantic Multi-Decadal scale
…They cite a natural ocean cycle called the Atlantic Multi-Decadal scale, which causes weather in the tropical Atlantic to seesaw between cool, windy phases and warm periods with slack winds, spawning frequent, strong hurricanes...The historical record shows an active hurricane period during the 1950s and '60s and a lull between 1970 and 1994. Since 1995, hurricane activity has once again been high..."This is a long-term, active hurricane era," Bell said...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-928hurricaneforecast,0,1417049.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
Media, blushing, takes a second look at Katrina
September 28, 2005 ...The New Orleans Times-Picayune published a lengthy account Monday of errors, misrepresentations and wildly exaggerated claims of murder, rape and abuse of children at the New Orleans Superdome. The newspaper cited publication of "scores of myths about the dome and Convention Center treated as fact by evacuees, the media and even some of New Orleans' top officials."
Since the hurricane hit four weeks ago, estimates of deaths at the Superdome, for example, have been revised downward from 200 to 10, and four of those were heart attacks. One was a suicide, and one man is thought to have been pushed from a balcony to the floor hundreds of feet below. Police said one man found dead at the Superdome is thought to have been killed elsewhere.
Eddie Compass, the superintendent of New Orleans police, told television talk-show hostess Oprah Winfrey on Sept. 6 that "babies" were raped at the Superdome, and Mayor C. Ray Nagin told her on that broadcast that crowds at the Superdome had watched murder and mayhem...
…Superintendent Compass announced his retirement yesterday.
...said Matthew Felling of the Center for Media and Public Affairs. "What we're seeing here is no different than the reports of museum looting right after U.S. troops entered Baghdad. It's not that different from election night 2000 when some journalists prematurely declared a winner. In all three cases, the public would have been served by a bit more patience and less feigned certainty."
http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050928-121515-2539r
Hillary Insider Writes ABC's 'Commander in Chief'
ABC insiders deny there's any connection between real-life presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and their new TV show "Commander in Chief" - where Geena Davis makes her debut tonight as America's first woman president.
But it turns out the show's lead writer is a longtime Clinton campaign insider who held a top job in Hillary's press office. "Writer Steve Cohen used to work for her in the 1990s, serving as the then-first lady's deputy communications director," reports the Village Voice.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/27/105519.shtml
predestination vs. free will http://www.freewill-predestination.com/
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