Wednesday - September 14, 2005
Pledge? Nein!
Drudge has the flasher out. A Federal Judge in San Fransisco (where else?) has ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional.
Judge: School Pledge Is Unconstitutional
Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a federal judge who granted legal standing to two families represented by an atheist who lost his previous battle before the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the pledge’s reference to one nation “under God” violates school children’s right to be “free from a coercive requirement to affirm God.”
Karlton said he was bound by precedent of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which in 2002 ruled in favor of Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow that the pledge is unconstitutional when recited in public schools.
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Permalink • On This Day In History
1814 - Francis Scott Key Composes “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Francis Scott Key composes the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner” after witnessing the massive British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Maryland during the War of 1812. Key, an American lawyer, watched the siege while under detainment on a British ship and penned the famous words after observing that the U.S. flag over Fort McHenry had survived the 1,800-bomb assault.
During the War of 1812, Dr. William Beanes, a close friend of Key’s was taken prisoner by the British. Since Key was a well-known lawyer, he was asked to assist in efforts to get Dr. Beanes released. Knowing that the British were in the Chesapeake Bay, Key left for Baltimore. There Key met with Colonel John Skinner, a government agent who arranged for prisoner exchanges. Together, they set out on a small boat to meet the Royal Navy
On board the British flagship, the officers were very kind to Key and Skinner. They agreed to release Dr. Beanes. However, the three men were not permitted to return to Baltimore until after the bombardment of Fort McHenry. The three Americans were placed aboard the American ship and waited behind the British fleet. From a distance of approximately eight miles, Key and his friends watched the British bombard Fort McHenry.
After 25 hours of continuous bombing, the British decided to leave since they were unable to destroy the fort as they had hoped. Realizing that the British had ceased the attack, Key looked toward the fort to see if the flag was still there. To his relief, the flag was still flying! Quickly, he wrote down the words to a poem which was soon handed out as a handbill under the title “Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was renamed “The Star- Spangled Banner” by an adoring public.
After circulating as a handbill, the patriotic lyrics were published in a Baltimore newspaper on September 20. Set to the tune of “To Anacreon in Heaven,” an English drinking song written by the British composer John Stafford Smith, it soon became popular throughout the nation.
Throughout the 19th century, “The Star-Spangled Banner” was regarded as the national anthem by the U.S. armed forces and other groups, but it was not until 1916, and the signing of an executive order by President Woodrow Wilson, that it was formally designated as such. In 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a Congressional act confirming Wilson’s presidential order.
Sources: The History Channel & National Parks Service
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Permalink • Dumbass Quote Of The Day
“I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry.”
-- Louis Farrakhan in an interview about Hurricane Katrina
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Permalink • Soccer Balls
OK, guys! Gut-check time! How many of you can read the following story without cringing and worrying about having nightmares for the next week?
(SKY NEWS)
A footballer had to have six stitches in his penis after it was ripped open in a tackle.
Chavdar Yankow, 21, sustained a three-inch gash playing for Hamburg 96 in Germany.
His shorts were “soaked with blood” but team doctors managed to patch Yankow up.
Amazingly, after the painful incident Yankow returned to the pitch and played on.
And the German went on to score in his side’s 2-0 win over Frankfurt.
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Permalink • Desperate Donks
Mike Thompson, Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Free Press
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Permalink • Bad Boys In Iraq
TV ‘Cops’ Reality Show is Talk of Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Iraq (AP)
Shattered glass, body parts, a blood-splattered blue sedan—the grainy video pans over the scene as Iraqi officers comb the site of a drive-by assassination. It’s the Iraqi version of the television program “Cops,” minus the “Bad Boys” soundtrack, but otherwise roughly modeled after the American show. Created to make government more transparent, “The Cops Show,” featuring Kirkuk officers in action, is the first of its kind in the country and is breaking new ground in Iraqi television. A live call-in portion gives the public the chance to praise the security forces or gripe about them.
Screened weekly on Kirkuk Television, which broadcasts in this northern city of nearly 1 million people, “The Cops Show” has opened the floodgates in a community long suppressed. “During Saddam Hussein’s time, it was very different,” station manager Nasser Hassan Mohammed said. “You were unable to ask questions. You couldn’t say anything bad about police. “Now people can call in directly. Anyone has the right to do this. This is the difference now. This is freedom.”
The call-in portion, initially a novelty, has become a staple of the show, and panelists field up to 30 calls per segment, Mr. Mohammed said. And because Kirkuk is ethnically mixed, the show switches among the languages spoken by Kurds, Arabs, Turkomen or Assyrians. It took Iraqis a while to master the art of the phone-in. “But after more than a year, they understand very well,” Mr. Mohammed said. Col. Gordon Petrie, the show’s American military adviser, said it marks a new era for community-service television.
“There has been a sea change in media,” said Col. Petrie, who heads public affairs for the 116th Brigade Combat Team. “Before 2003, it was all Saddam, all the time. “Kirkuk, which was one of the largest TV stations, basically was robotic. They’d get the Baghdad feed and send it out again. Now they are in charge here.”
Until January’s landmark elections, the Americans “ran the shows, booked the guests, and tried to show them what community-service programming was about. But after Jan. 30, we became the monitors. They haven’t disappointed us,” Col. Petrie said. The show also aims to change a Saddam-era image of police as corrupt, inept and unapproachable.
“The first thing we wanted was to show friendship between citizens and police. They are not your enemy. They are your friend,” Mr. Mohammed said. Provincial police Chief Gen. Sherko Shakir has appeared as a guest several times. His spokesman, Abdullah Abdul-Qadir, is host and moderator. During a recent taping, the panelists included Kirkuk’s police chief, Gen. Burhan Taha, and two local police station commanders.
The show opened with graphic videotape of the body of an off-duty police captain, assassinated just days after his wedding. Gen. Taha decried the shooting as a “cowardly job” and urged the public to help. “Don’t be afraid. Give tips anonymously. That way, you can stop bad activities,” he said. Callers were just as quick to demand more of their local police force.
“I was standing on the main road near bridge No. 3. I saw some criminal activity. We don’t have security in our area. Sometimes, we have to secure the area by ourselves,” one man said. The show’s popularity has not gone unnoticed by its enemies, and the studios are heavily guarded. The station’s employees regularly get threats, Mr. Mohammed said, adding that he himself was hit by more than two dozen bullets during an assassination attempt in May 2004.
The station remains undeterred, the station manager said. “After liberation, many things changed. Many dreams were realized. We use freedom and democracy,” he said. “Our duty is to show people that freedom.”
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Permalink • Senator Landrieu Insanity Attack
Summary of this news article: Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) says that Bush’s firing of FEMA head Michael Brown is not enough to stop her from criticizing Bush for the mess her state’s politicians made in the Katrina disaster but if Bush criticizes her or her state’s ignorant politicians she’ll punch him in the face.
Did you really expect anything rational or sane to come out of a Democratic Senator’s mouth? C’mon! You know better than that ....
Mary Landrieu: Brown Resignation Not Enough
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Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu said Monday that Michael Brown’s resignation as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency would not be enough to stem the tidal wave of criticism leveled at the Bush administration over its handling of the Hurricane Katrina crisis.
Brown’s departure, Landrieu said, “will not alone solve all the problems that plagued the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and the devastating floods that followed the levee breaches.”
In a statement posted to her Web site, the Louisiana democrat insisted that the Bush White House still needed to be held responsible.
“The people of our nation, and in particular, the Gulf Coast, deserve and demand full accountability for this administration’s missteps in protecting and helping Americans in need,” Landrieu complained.
On Sunday, Landrieu said it was President Bush’s fault that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin didn’t use city school buses to evacuate those trapped by flooding.
A week earlier, she threatened to punch President Bush if he criticized Louisiana state and local officials.
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 13, 2005
Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day
Today’s award for unbelievable asinine activity goes to the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) who hired temp workers to man the picket lines in 104-degree heat in Las Vegas to protest Wal-Mart workers who had better working conditions than they did. It seems the union couldn’t stand the heat so they opened their own “sweat shop”.
(LAS VEGAS WEEKLY)
The shade from the Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market sign is minimal around noon; still, six picketers squeeze their thermoses and Dasani bottles onto the dirt below, trying to keep their water cool. They’re walking five-hour shifts on this corner at Stephanie Street and American Pacific Drive in Henderson—anti-Wal-Mart signs propped lazily on their shoulders, deep suntans on their faces and arms—with two 15-minute breaks to run across the street and use the washroom at a gas station.
Periodically one of them will sit down in a slightly larger slice of shade under a giant electricity pole in the intersection. Four lanes of traffic rush by, some drivers honk in support, more than once someone has yelled, “assholes!” but mostly, they’re ignored. They’re not union members; they’re temp workers employed through Allied Forces/Labor Express by the union—United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). They’re making $6 an hour, with no benefits; it’s 104 F, and they’re protesting the working conditions inside the new Wal-Mart grocery store.
“It don’t make no sense, does it?” says James Greer, the line foreman and the only one who pulls down $8 an hour, as he ambles down the sidewalk, picket sign on shoulder, sweaty hat over sweaty gray hair, spitting sunflower seeds. “We’re sacrificing for the people who work in there, and they don’t even know it.”
The union accuses Wal-Mart of dragging down wages and working conditions for other grocery-store workers across the nation. “Whether you work or shop at Wal-Mart, the giant retailer’s employment practices affect your wages. Wal-Mart leads the race to the bottom in wages and health-care,” says the UFCW’s website. “As the largest corporation in the world, Wal-Mart has a responsibility to the people who built it. Wal-Mart jobs offer low pay, inadequate and unaffordable healthcare, and off the clock work.”
But standing with a union-supplied sign on his shoulder that reads, Don’t Shop WalMart: Below Area Standards, picketer and former Wal-Mart employee Sal Rivera says about the notorious working conditions of his former big-box employer: “I can’t complain. It wasn’t bad. They started paying me at $6.75, and after three months I was already getting $7, then I got Employee of the Month, and by the time I left (in less than one year), I was making $8.63 an hour.” Rivera worked in maintenance and quit four years ago for personal reasons, he says. He would consider reapplying.
Rivera is one of few picketers here who have ever worked for Wal-Mart—it’s strictly coincidental that he was once in their employ. Most of the picketers were just looking for work through the temp agency. While Rivera’s words for Wal-Mart seem less than harsh, he does add, “I did not want to get insurance from them because it was too expensive.” That, says UCFW organizer Bill Hornbrook, who drove workers to the site one morning last week, is one of the reasons the union wants these protestors here.
“Wal-Mart has no benefits at an affordable rate. The (Wal-Mart) workers can’t afford the insurance with the wage they’re making. We’d like to see them improve their working conditions,” Hornbrook said. “The Neighborhood Markets are the same as a supermarket like Albertson’s or Safeway. Some supermarkets start (pay) at $7 an hour, but they do get benefits. These people (employees at Wal-Mart) have to pay for theirs,” Hornbrook said. So the UCFW is protesting each of the five new Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets in the Vegas area; this one in Henderson opened June 29.
Wal-Mart is infamous for its labor and consumer battles—more than 40 cases alleging the company prevented workers from receiving adequate wage and overtime pay are being considered by courts for class-action status. Additionally, six current and former female employees are pursuing a class-action lawsuit charging that Wal-Mart discriminates against women in its promotion practices.
“We’re just trying to help the women that get discriminated against in Wal-Mart,” says Greer. “We’re out here suffering a lot for these people.” He pauses, moves his sign so that it blocks the scorching sun on his leathery face, and considers the working conditions of his colleagues out here working for the union. “We had one gal out here in her 40s, and she had a heat stroke. I kept making her sit down, I noticed she was stepping (staggering), and I made her sit in the shade,” Greer said. She went home sick after her shift and didn’t ever return to work.
Another woman, Greer said, had huge blisters on her feet and he took her inside to the Wal-Mart pharmacy. The pharmacist recommended some balm, and Greer bought it for her. Since then, he said, other picketers have purchased the balm for their blisters inside the Wal-Mart they are protesting. The group has no transportation to go elsewhere—they are dropped off by a union van and picked up later. On weekends, they have to find their own transportation, Greer said.
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Permalink • The New HumVee
Military Vehicle Illustrating New Combat Options
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A concept vehicle designed to illustrate potential technology options for improving survivability and mobility in future military combat vehicles will be shown publicly for the first time Sept. 13-15 at a military technology meeting in Virginia. The event, “Modern Day Marine Expo,” will be held at the Marine Corps Air Facility in Quantico, Va.
The concept vehicle, known as the ULTRA AP (Armored Patrol), was built to help the U.S. military evaluate multiple science and technology options – including ballistic and mine protection – that could benefit future vehicle design. The concept vehicle combines proven vehicle technologies with advanced materials and engineering concepts.
Research and development for the ULTRA has been conducted by the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), which led a unique team of research engineers from both GTRI and the automotive industry. The research initiative has been sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The ULTRA AP emphasizes high-output diesel power combined with advanced armor and a fully modern chassis. The design matches the best of modern commercial automotive technology with racing experience, explained Gary Caille, a GTRI principal research engineer.
In the ULTRA AP, the GTRI/industry team has made improvements in two key areas by taking a systems approach to survivability and safety:
Survivability: This factor involves a vehicle’s ability to shield occupants from hostile action. The ULTRA AP will feature novel design concepts and research advances in lightweight and cost-effective armor to maximize capability and protection. The new armor was designed at GTRI in partnership with the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering. The vehicle also incorporates a “blast bucket” designed to provide ballistic, blast and enhanced roll-over protection. New vehicle designs must incorporate dramatically increased resistance to explosions caused by mines and improvised explosive devices, Caille noted.
Safety with Performance: The ULTRA design explored the use of on-board computers to integrate steering, suspension and brakes to provide an unparalleled level of mobility and safety, Caille added. The new vehicle’s integrated chassis represents an advancement over the most advanced current production vehicles.
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Permalink • Raping Gaza
NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza Strip (AP)
Palestinian police Tuesday blocked off abandoned Jewish settlements and chased after scavengers in a first attempt to impose order after chaotic celebrations of Israel’s pullout from Gaza. The overwhelmed forces were unable to halt looting of the area’s prized greenhouses.
Egyptian guards, meanwhile, failed for a second straight day to control a rush across the Gaza-Egypt border, which was a formidable barrier when patrolled by Israel. With the Israelis gone, Gazans dug under walls and climbed over barriers to get to Egypt, where they stocked up on cheap cigarettes, medication and cheese. Egyptian forces on Monday fatally shot a Palestinian during the mad rush, witnesses said.
The chaos raised new questions about the ability of Palestinian forces to impose order in Gaza. The greenhouses, left behind by Israel as part of a deal brokered by international mediators, are a centerpiece of Palestinian plans for rebuilding Gaza after 38 years of Israeli occupation. The Palestinian Authority hopes the high-tech greenhouses will provide jobs and export income for Gaza’s shattered economy. During a tour of Neve Dekalim, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia implored Palestinians to leave the structures intact, even as people scavenged through debris elsewhere in the settlement.
“These greenhouses are for the Palestinian people,” he said. “We don’t want anyone to touch or harm anything that can be useful for our people.” Just minutes away, crowds of looters in the Gadid settlement overwhelmed hundreds of guards trying to protect the greenhouses. Guards acknowledged that in many cases, they were unable to stop the looting. “They are taking plastic sheeting, they are taking hoses, they are taking anything they can get their hands on,” said Hamza Judeh, a Palestinian policeman.
He said about 80 percent of the greenhouses were still intact, but looters walked off with lighting fixtures, cables and wires. Many were undeterred by the police presence. Police said one man dropped his loot only after he was beaten by security forces. Israel withdrew the last of its troops from Gaza early Monday, handing control of the coastal strip to the Palestinians. Celebrations frequently spun out of control, with Palestinians setting fire to debris and the few remaining buildings in empty settlements, and thousands of people rushing back and forth across the Egyptian border.
In an attempt to restore order, police early Tuesday banned cars from entering Neve Dekalim, once the largest Gaza settlement, and cordoned off the empty synagogue there, which had been set on fire a day earlier. Club-wielding police chased kids and urged people to stop scavenging through debris left behind by the Israelis. “This is not right, and we are going to stop them from doing it,” policeman Shafik Omran said as he looked at a man digging through a pile of garbage.
Despite the police efforts, Neve Dekalim was turned into a buzzing bazaar, with people haggling over bricks, scrap metal and other building materials they had collected. Similar scenes played out in other settlements. Mohammed Abu Shab, 16, and his friend, Jihad al-Daghma, 15, skipped school in the nearby town of Khan Younis in hopes of making a little money. The boys dangled off the side of Neve Dekalim’s former Jewish seminary, using a hammer and wirecutter to collect old wires and electrical equipment.
“We’ll go to school tomorrow. It’s the withdrawal. It’s not time for studying,” Abu Shab said. Electrical cables were selling for about $3.50, copper was getting $2.50 for 2.2 pounds and bricks were going for about $1 a piece.
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Permalink • Early Morning New Bytes
- Delta Airlines is going belly-up, to declare bankruptcy by Wednesday. Pretty soon we’ll all be walking everywhere.
- California utility workers short out entire city, left dark for hours. No, no! The red wire goes on the blue connector ... or was it the green wire?
- Full text: John Roberts gives moving opening speech to Senators. Unfortunately, Ted Kennedy had his hands over his ears and was screaming “la-la-la-la-la-la-I-can’t-hear-you” the whole time.
- In Ohio, Sheriff’s deputies removed 11 children from a home where they were locked in cages less than 3 1/2 feet high. Their foster parents claimed it was for the children’s own good. I kid you not.
- On the Louisiana coast, the shrimp and fish are gone and the oysters are mixed with mud. If the okra crop fails as well then all us gumbo-lovers are doomed.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Permalink • Jesse Jackson’s Dog
Mike Lester, Rome News-Tribune, Rome, GA
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Permalink • Monday - September 12, 2005
Won’t Al Gore Just Please Go Away?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
Former Vice President Al Gore urged Americans on Friday to hold the Bush administration accountable for failing to adequately prepare for and respond to Hurricane Katrina. “When the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic flood waters five days after a hurricane struck, it is time not only to respond directly to the victims of the catastrophe, but to hold ... the leaders of our nation accountable,” Gore told environmentalists at the Sierra Club’s national convention.
Gore had been scheduled to give a speech to state insurance commissioners in New Orleans this weekend about the likelihood that global warming will spawn increasingly deadly hurricanes. He decided to take his speech to San Francisco after that conference was canceled. “The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis, it is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences,” Gore said.
Bush administration officials have said Katrina’s damage could not have been anticipated, but Gore rejected that. “What happened was not only knowable, it was known in advance, in great and painstaking detail. They did tabletop planning exercises. They identified exactly what the scientific evidence showed would take place,” Gore said.
In his Sierra Club speech, the former senator from Tennessee didn’t mention an act of mercy that he was personally involved in—his help airlifting some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans to Tennessee on Sept. 3 and 4. He did that at the urging of a doctor who saved the life of his son years earlier. Dr. Anderson Spickard, who is Gore’s personal physician and accompanied him on the flights, told The Associated Press that “Gore told me he wanted to do this because like all of us he wanted to seize the opportunity to do what one guy can do, given the assets that he has.”
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Permalink • Deadly City
Fact: There are 279 deaths in New Orleans either directly or indirectly related to Hurricane Katrina.
Fact: By mid August, there were already 197 murders in New Orleans.
Fact: IN 2004, there were 265 murders in New Orleans - ten times the national average.
Fact: More people are murdered in New Orleans each year than in any other American city.
Any questions?
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