October 24, 2006

Car of the Future
http://www.youtube.com/v/ry6w3mRm-FM

Hey Blondie!

A blonde decides one day that she is sick and tired of all the blonde jokes and how all blondes are perceived as stupid and decides to show her husband that blondes really are smart.

While her husband is at work, she decides that she is going to paint a couple of rooms in the house and right after her husband leaves for work, she gets down to the task at hand.

Her husband arrives home at 5:30 and smells the distinctive smell of paint.

He walks into the living room and finds his wife lying on the floor in a pool of sweat. He notices that she is wearing a heavy parka and a leather jacket at the same time.

He asks her if she is OK.

She replies yes.

He asks what she is doing and she replies that she wanted to prove to him that not all blonde women are dumb, and she wanted to do it by painting the house.

He then asks her why she has a parka over her leather jacket.

She replies that she was reading the directions on the paint can and it said . . . "FOR BEST RESULTS, PUT ON TWO COATS

Exposure Law Is Gender Specific

A California judge has tossed out an indecent exposure charge against a woman because the law, he says, only applies to men. Via ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2592139 :

Superior Court Judge Robert W. Armstrong said earlier in the week that the law only mentions someone who “exposes his person.”

“It’s gender specific,” Armstrong said.

He dismissed a misdemeanor charge against Alexis Luz Garcia, 40, of Corona, who was cited in May after parents of a neighbor boy said she showed him full-frontal nudity as he played basketball.

Prosecutor Alison N. Norton said the decision to throw out the case will be appealed because another section of state law says that “words used in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6412

Sure, they can afford energy at any price...can you?

Celebrities Protest Malibu Gas Facility

Oct 22 MALIBU, Calif.

...Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities gathered Sunday to protest a natural gas facility proposed for a site 14 miles off the Malibu coast.

...The gathering _ also attended by Cindy Crawford, Jane Seymour, Dick Van Dyke and Tea Leoni...

...BHP officials say the terminals would provide a reliable source of low-polluting energy. Opponents, however, say the terminals would not meet clean air requirements and could be terrorist targets.

Brosnan, who hosted the protest, said his opposition to the terminals extends beyond the beach in his backyard. He plans to oppose other proposed terminals, including one in Long Beach and one in Port Hueneme...

...actress Daryl Hannah on her pink board, paddled out to a sign bobbing in the water. The message to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has the power to veto the proposal, had a picture of the proposed terminal with a red line through it and the words: "Terminate it!...

(That's great, oppose it because it "could" be a terrorist target. Perhaps it's the celebs that need terminating [figuratively of course])

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/22/D8KU2C0G0.html

(These are the same types that oppose all energy. from wind-mill generators to nuclear power. Where do they think energy comes from? Magically from Hollywood script? This just goes with what I’ve been saying for years, our problem isn’t a shortage of oil it’s lack of refining and processing capability, and these are the people causing that problem)

Extended South Pole cold spell blamed for bigger hole in ozone.
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/20/06

...Scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo., who issued the latest measurements, said the ozone hole expanded this year mainly because of an extended cold spell at the South Pole.

Colder-than-normal temperatures fueled cloud formation in the polar stratosphere, giving ozone-destroying chemicals the cloud crystals they needed to produce dangerous reactions when sunlight entered the mix.

"A lot of chemistry goes on in the cold winter up there," said David Hofmann, director of the global monitoring division at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory...

...experts said, the ozone hole always waxes and wanes seasonally, so this shouldn't matter too much in the long run. Changes from one year to the next are expected because of short-lived weather and atmospheric conditions.

Despite the blips, the scientists predict a long-term shrinking of the hole to continue...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/20/MNGALLSTNP1.DTL

just another case of agenda-driven "diversity" masquerading as serious scholarship.
Sex ed gets a lot sexier at Canadian university
Oct 20 TORONTO -An undergraduate program at Canada's august University of Toronto offers discussions on flogging, restraint, and role-play, as well as an arts course called "Queerly Canadian." But teachers and students insist it's a serious academic program that isn't simply about sex.

... said graduating student Robbie Morgan, 33, "We'll talk about whips and chains in a political, social, cultural, religious context of sexuality and how that sexuality affects those institutions."

The program promises an academic approach to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and heterosexual issues -- from history and law to the performance of sadomasochism...

...The program includes a drama course called "Sexual Performance: Case Studies in S/M (sadomasochism)" and the arts and literature course "Queerly Canadian," for which one student wrote an in-depth review of a male strip show.

..."A lot of the people from the university, from the president on down, think that what we're doing is important work. But there's still a lot entailed at persuading more and more people that what we're doing is legitimate."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061020/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_life_canada_sex

other than 'don't let anyone touch you where your bathing suit goes', there is no appropriate sex ed for kindergarteners
Cleveland Schools To Start Some Sex Education In Kindergarten
newsnet5.com 10/23/06

Self-Esteem, Peer Pressure Main Topics Of Course Cleveland school officials said they will expand sex education curriculum to include age-appropriate (define "age appropriate) lessons that begin as early as kindergarten....

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/10117309/detail.html

Stem cells create tumours, says expert

News Limited ^ | 10.10.06 | Jane Bunce

EMBRYONIC stem cells turn into tumours when injected into human tissue and therefore cannot be used to treat diseases, a visiting US expert said today. Professor James Sherley, a researcher in the field of adult stem cells, is one of a series of experts in Canberra to lobby MPs ahead of a conscience vote on whether a ban on therapeutic cloning should be overturned. Prof Sherley, from Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today said scientists had failed to reveal problems with embryonic stem cells that would prevent them being used in humans. The unique feature of embryonic stem cells that allowed them to turn into any cell of the body, known as pluripotency, created a problem when researchers injected them into tissue, Prof Sherley said. “When you put them in an environment where they can grow and develop, they make lots of different kind of tissues,” Prof Sherley said.

“This tumour formation property is an inherent feature of the cells.“And all you have to do is simply inject them into an animal tissue – this happens at very high efficiency. “And although some might say we can solve the tumour problem down the road, that's equivalent to saying we can solve the cancer problem and we may, but that's a long time coming.” Prof Sherley said the tumours, called teratomas, were generally considered benign, but it was possible they could metastasize or produce chemicals such as enzymes and cytokines that affect other parts of the body.

Prof Sherley said many scientists agreed with his views but were too scared to speak out over concerns it could affect their funding and reputation. Adult stem cells were not known to form tumours, he said.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20557912-5005962,00.html

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