May 22, 2006
Sorta long, but I got a lot of chuckles.
Dance Fever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&eurl
Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs
5/21/06 MEXICO CITY - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.
Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies "xenophobic," Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory.
In the United States, only two posts — the presidency and vice presidency — are reserved for the native born.
In Mexico, non-natives are banned from those and thousands of other jobs, even if they are legal, naturalized citizens.
Foreign-born Mexicans can't hold seats in either house of the congress. They're also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court and all governorships. Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils. And Mexico's Constitution reserves almost all federal posts, and any position in the military and merchant marine, for "native-born Mexicans."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060521/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_limiting_immigrants
John Kerry Supports, Opposes Border Fence
May 21, 2006-Sen. John Kerry joined most of his Democratic colleagues last week in voting to build a wall along 370 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border.
But he now says that after the wall is built it should be taken down as soon as possible.
…in quotes picked up by the Boston Herald, the Massachusetts Democrat added: "If I were making the long-term decision, I’d announce, you know, hopefully it’s a temporary measure, and we can take it down as soon as we have enough people" to guard the border….
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/21/104203.shtml?s=ic
…they called him Flipper…Flipper… Kind of like saying you oppose the idea that we need the police but will fund them until the criminals disappear… a no loose position…
Jefferson's crisis
May 17, 2006 by William J. Bennett
Excellent article about Jefferson taking on the Muslims when no one else would…
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/WilliamBennett/2006/05/17/197603.html
The survey says what?
Sexual-orientation questions cause stir at Port high school
May 15, 2006- Port Washington - Parents are angry and school leaders are promising action in response to a "Heterosexual Questionnaire," approved by two teachers, that asked students questions such as: "If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn't prefer it?"
Hundreds of Port Washington High School students were told to submit written answers and discuss the survey.
The questionnaire was distributed by a student organization, which then led a full class-period discussion. Two teachers approved distribution of the survey. The principal did not.
...[Principal] Woelfel estimated that the survey was given to about 400 of the school's 930 students on April 25, the day before the national Day of Silence, an annual event co-sponsored by the New York City-based Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.
According to the Day of Silence Web site, the event is a "student-led day of action" that attempts to eliminate harassment of non-heterosexual students.
Woelfel said that, in connection with the Day of Silence, the school's Students for Unity spent the day visiting classrooms. They distributed the surveys and led discussions, he said.
....Woelfel said he is still investigating the incident but would decide soon, along with the superintendent's office, whether the two teachers will be disciplined...
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=424003
Iran: Jews, Christians Must Wear Badges
In a move reminiscent of the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a Star of David insignia, Iran’s parliament has reportedly passed a law requiring Jews, Christians and other religious minorities to wear color-coded badges to identify them as non-Muslims…
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/19/155943.shtml?s=ic
Pat "Leaky" Leahy Aided NSA Phone Taps
May 19, 2006 - In 1994 Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy co-wrote a law that forced telecommunications carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks enabling the kind of telephone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance operation.
In recent days Leahy has called the NSA's actions troubling and potentially illegal - saying they show that the Bush administration is treating Americans like terrorists.
… according to the Rutland Herald, Leahy was singing a different tune 12 years ago, when he was pushing the Senate to pass his bill, the Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA].
"I suggest to senators if anybody does want to hold [CALEA] up, I hope that at this time next year, neither they nor their constituents, nor anybody they know, is a kidnap victim or victim of a terrorist, and have somebody ask why nothing can be done, and be told because a law that had probably 99 percent support in the House and the Senate did not pass."
Contacted by the Herald earlier this week, Leahy said there was an important difference between what his law authorized and the actions taken by the Bush administration.
"That law talks of the technology of the interception and what technology can be used to intercept and it assumes very clearly that it can only be done with a warrant," the Vermont Democrat insisted.
Some legal experts say, however, said that assumption is not as clear as Leahy claims. Analyzing CALEA in 2003, the Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal explained:
"CALEA requires a telecommunications provider to make 'its equipment, facilities, or services ... capable of ... enabling the government ... [without a warrant] to intercept ... all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier.'"
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/19/125324.shtml?s=ic
"Carbon dioxide... we call it life," TV ads say
WASHINGTON - A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says, "Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life," in an advertisement targeting global warming "alarmists," especially Al Gore.
The television ads, screened for the press on Wednesday and set to air in 14 U.S. cities starting on Thursday, are part of a campaign by the Competitive Enterprise Institute to counter a media spotlight on threats posed by worldwide climate change….
...The other ad questions media reports of the threat of climate change, especially a Time magazine issue devoted to the topic, and shows film of a glacier melting and then runs in reverse to show the glacier reconstituting itself...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-05-17T232855Z_01_N17320353_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-ADS.xml&archived=False&src=051706_1948_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters
Hobbit was one of us with a diseased brain, say scientists
May 19, 2006 - THE origins of the diminutive ancient human cousin nicknamed the “hobbit” are again in question after scientists in the United States challenged the claim that it constitutes a completely new species.
The discovery on an Indonesian island of bones of an 18,000-year-old creature just over 3ft (1m) tall was hailed in 2004 as one of the most significant fossil finds for 150 years. Analysis of Homo floresiensis’s skeleton, and a reconstruction of the brain, suggested that it represented a new branch of humanity’s family tree, a dwarf that had evolved from our ancestor Homo erectus.
…Research led by Robert Martin, curator of biological anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, has now added weight to this rival hypothesis. In a study published today in the journal Science, Dr Martin casts doubt on the reconstruction of LB1’s brain and argues that details of its anatomy are consistent only with a microcephalic Homo sapiens. The stone tools found are too sophisticated to have been made by anything other than modern humans, he also writes.
The study suggests that while dwarfing sometimes occurs among mammals confined to small islands, it does so in proportions that do not fit the hobbit. The brain is too small for this to have happened: for LB1 to be a dwarfed form of Homo erectus, it would have to have been no more than 1ft.
…He added that the reconstruction of LB1’s brain done last year by Dean Falk, of Florida State University, was based on a poor cast of the skull, and had been compared with a microcephalic ten-year-old instead of with an adult. “This defective plaster copy of a microcephalic skull used in the study by Falk et al is inappropriate for any scientific study, especially one dealing with a topic as demanding and high-profile as this,” he said.
“There has been too much media hype and too little critical scientific evaluation, and it is unacceptable that papers should be published without providing proper details of the specimens examined. The principle of replicability is fundamental to good science.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C3-2187447%2C00.html
Bin Laden Sought 'Joint Operations' With Saddam
March 20, 2006- An Iraqi intelligence document released last week indicates that Osama bin Laden sought to conduct "joint operations" with Saddam Hussein's regime six years before the 9/11 attacks - and was given the green light by the Iraqi dictator.
The document, detailed in the March 27 issue of the Weekly Standard, describes a Feb. 1995 meeting between bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence that was personally approved by "the Honorable Presidency" - an apparent reference to Saddam…
...The 1997 Iraqi intelligence document goes on to report: "Currently we are working to invigorate this relationship through a new channel in light of his present location [Afghanistan]."
The reference by Iraqi intelligence to "joint operations" with bin Laden apparently contradicts one of the 9/11 Commission's most important findings that Saddam had no "operational relationship" with al Qaeda...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/20/02025.shtml?s=ic
My Da Vinci Code notes. Nothing new, just on-line:
http://www.freewill-predestination.com/davinci.html
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
Dance Fever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg&eurl
Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs
5/21/06 MEXICO CITY - If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force.
Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies "xenophobic," Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory.
In the United States, only two posts — the presidency and vice presidency — are reserved for the native born.
In Mexico, non-natives are banned from those and thousands of other jobs, even if they are legal, naturalized citizens.
Foreign-born Mexicans can't hold seats in either house of the congress. They're also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court and all governorships. Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils. And Mexico's Constitution reserves almost all federal posts, and any position in the military and merchant marine, for "native-born Mexicans."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060521/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_limiting_immigrants
John Kerry Supports, Opposes Border Fence
May 21, 2006-Sen. John Kerry joined most of his Democratic colleagues last week in voting to build a wall along 370 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border.
But he now says that after the wall is built it should be taken down as soon as possible.
…in quotes picked up by the Boston Herald, the Massachusetts Democrat added: "If I were making the long-term decision, I’d announce, you know, hopefully it’s a temporary measure, and we can take it down as soon as we have enough people" to guard the border….
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/21/104203.shtml?s=ic
…they called him Flipper…Flipper… Kind of like saying you oppose the idea that we need the police but will fund them until the criminals disappear… a no loose position…
Jefferson's crisis
May 17, 2006 by William J. Bennett
Excellent article about Jefferson taking on the Muslims when no one else would…
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/WilliamBennett/2006/05/17/197603.html
The survey says what?
Sexual-orientation questions cause stir at Port high school
May 15, 2006- Port Washington - Parents are angry and school leaders are promising action in response to a "Heterosexual Questionnaire," approved by two teachers, that asked students questions such as: "If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn't prefer it?"
Hundreds of Port Washington High School students were told to submit written answers and discuss the survey.
The questionnaire was distributed by a student organization, which then led a full class-period discussion. Two teachers approved distribution of the survey. The principal did not.
...[Principal] Woelfel estimated that the survey was given to about 400 of the school's 930 students on April 25, the day before the national Day of Silence, an annual event co-sponsored by the New York City-based Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network.
According to the Day of Silence Web site, the event is a "student-led day of action" that attempts to eliminate harassment of non-heterosexual students.
Woelfel said that, in connection with the Day of Silence, the school's Students for Unity spent the day visiting classrooms. They distributed the surveys and led discussions, he said.
....Woelfel said he is still investigating the incident but would decide soon, along with the superintendent's office, whether the two teachers will be disciplined...
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=424003
Iran: Jews, Christians Must Wear Badges
In a move reminiscent of the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a Star of David insignia, Iran’s parliament has reportedly passed a law requiring Jews, Christians and other religious minorities to wear color-coded badges to identify them as non-Muslims…
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/19/155943.shtml?s=ic
Pat "Leaky" Leahy Aided NSA Phone Taps
May 19, 2006 - In 1994 Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy co-wrote a law that forced telecommunications carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks enabling the kind of telephone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance operation.
In recent days Leahy has called the NSA's actions troubling and potentially illegal - saying they show that the Bush administration is treating Americans like terrorists.
… according to the Rutland Herald, Leahy was singing a different tune 12 years ago, when he was pushing the Senate to pass his bill, the Communication Assistance for Law Enforcement Act [CALEA].
"I suggest to senators if anybody does want to hold [CALEA] up, I hope that at this time next year, neither they nor their constituents, nor anybody they know, is a kidnap victim or victim of a terrorist, and have somebody ask why nothing can be done, and be told because a law that had probably 99 percent support in the House and the Senate did not pass."
Contacted by the Herald earlier this week, Leahy said there was an important difference between what his law authorized and the actions taken by the Bush administration.
"That law talks of the technology of the interception and what technology can be used to intercept and it assumes very clearly that it can only be done with a warrant," the Vermont Democrat insisted.
Some legal experts say, however, said that assumption is not as clear as Leahy claims. Analyzing CALEA in 2003, the Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal explained:
"CALEA requires a telecommunications provider to make 'its equipment, facilities, or services ... capable of ... enabling the government ... [without a warrant] to intercept ... all wire and electronic communications carried by the carrier.'"
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/19/125324.shtml?s=ic
"Carbon dioxide... we call it life," TV ads say
WASHINGTON - A little girl blows away dandelion fluff as an announcer says, "Carbon dioxide: they call it pollution; we call it life," in an advertisement targeting global warming "alarmists," especially Al Gore.
The television ads, screened for the press on Wednesday and set to air in 14 U.S. cities starting on Thursday, are part of a campaign by the Competitive Enterprise Institute to counter a media spotlight on threats posed by worldwide climate change….
...The other ad questions media reports of the threat of climate change, especially a Time magazine issue devoted to the topic, and shows film of a glacier melting and then runs in reverse to show the glacier reconstituting itself...
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-05-17T232855Z_01_N17320353_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-ADS.xml&archived=False&src=051706_1948_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters
Hobbit was one of us with a diseased brain, say scientists
May 19, 2006 - THE origins of the diminutive ancient human cousin nicknamed the “hobbit” are again in question after scientists in the United States challenged the claim that it constitutes a completely new species.
The discovery on an Indonesian island of bones of an 18,000-year-old creature just over 3ft (1m) tall was hailed in 2004 as one of the most significant fossil finds for 150 years. Analysis of Homo floresiensis’s skeleton, and a reconstruction of the brain, suggested that it represented a new branch of humanity’s family tree, a dwarf that had evolved from our ancestor Homo erectus.
…Research led by Robert Martin, curator of biological anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago, has now added weight to this rival hypothesis. In a study published today in the journal Science, Dr Martin casts doubt on the reconstruction of LB1’s brain and argues that details of its anatomy are consistent only with a microcephalic Homo sapiens. The stone tools found are too sophisticated to have been made by anything other than modern humans, he also writes.
The study suggests that while dwarfing sometimes occurs among mammals confined to small islands, it does so in proportions that do not fit the hobbit. The brain is too small for this to have happened: for LB1 to be a dwarfed form of Homo erectus, it would have to have been no more than 1ft.
…He added that the reconstruction of LB1’s brain done last year by Dean Falk, of Florida State University, was based on a poor cast of the skull, and had been compared with a microcephalic ten-year-old instead of with an adult. “This defective plaster copy of a microcephalic skull used in the study by Falk et al is inappropriate for any scientific study, especially one dealing with a topic as demanding and high-profile as this,” he said.
“There has been too much media hype and too little critical scientific evaluation, and it is unacceptable that papers should be published without providing proper details of the specimens examined. The principle of replicability is fundamental to good science.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C3-2187447%2C00.html
Bin Laden Sought 'Joint Operations' With Saddam
March 20, 2006- An Iraqi intelligence document released last week indicates that Osama bin Laden sought to conduct "joint operations" with Saddam Hussein's regime six years before the 9/11 attacks - and was given the green light by the Iraqi dictator.
The document, detailed in the March 27 issue of the Weekly Standard, describes a Feb. 1995 meeting between bin Laden and Iraqi intelligence that was personally approved by "the Honorable Presidency" - an apparent reference to Saddam…
...The 1997 Iraqi intelligence document goes on to report: "Currently we are working to invigorate this relationship through a new channel in light of his present location [Afghanistan]."
The reference by Iraqi intelligence to "joint operations" with bin Laden apparently contradicts one of the 9/11 Commission's most important findings that Saddam had no "operational relationship" with al Qaeda...
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/20/02025.shtml?s=ic
My Da Vinci Code notes. Nothing new, just on-line:
http://www.freewill-predestination.com/davinci.html
David Bennett <><
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
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