Wednesday - September 21, 2005

Rubber News

Condoms Are Named for Clinton, Lewinsky
BEIJING (AP)

A rubber company in China has begun marketing condoms under the brand names Clinton and Lewinsky, apparently seeking to exploit the White House affair that led to the impeachment of America’s 42nd president. Spokesman Liu Wenhua of the Guangzhou Rubber Group said the company was handing out 100,000 free Clinton and Lewinsky condoms as part of a promotion to raise consumer awareness of its new products.

He said that after the promotion ends, the Clinton condoms will go on sale in southern China for 29.8 Yuan ($3.72) for a box of 12, while the Lewinsky model will be priced at 18.8 Yuan ($2.35) for the same quantity. “The Clinton condom will be the top of our line,” he said. “The Lewinsky condom is not quite as good.”

Liu said the company had chosen to use the Clinton name because consumers viewed the former president as a responsible person, who would want to stress safe sex as an effective way to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. “The names we chose are symbols of people who are responsible and dedicated to their jobs,” he said. “I believe Bill Clinton cannot be unhappy about this because he’s a very generous man.”

Liu said the company did not believe using the Clinton and Lewinsky names constituted a violation of copyright or other laws. “We have received full approval from the local Industrial and Commercial Bureau to start production,” he said. Clinton has campaigned aggressively for heightened AIDS awareness in China, where the disease is spreading rapidly. In impeachment proceedings conducted by the U.S. Senate in 1999, he was acquitted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. The charges stemmed from denials he made about a sexual relationship he maintained with Lewinsky, a former White House intern.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/21/2005 at 06:54 AM   
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The NY Times Is Sinking

New York Times Cuts 500 Jobs, 4 Percent Of Work Force
NEW YORK (WNBC)

The New York Times Co. and two Philadelphia newspapers announced major job cuts Tuesday as the industry grapples with severe financial problems including weak advertising and circulation declines.  The Times said it would cut about 500 jobs, while the Philadelphia papers will eliminate a total of 100 jobs. The cuts at the Times represent about 4 percent of the company’s work force and will be made across the company, including about 45 jobs in the Times newsroom and 35 at The Boston Globe.

The Times also said its third-quarter earnings would come in well below Wall Street forecasts because of sluggish advertising trends and higher-than-expected costs from a previous round of job cuts in May, which resulted in 200 jobs being eliminated. McClatchy Co., a California-based newspaper publisher, also trimmed its earnings forecast Tuesday because of weaker-than-expected advertising. The Philadelphia Inquirer will cut its editorial staff 15 percent, from 500 to 425 people, while the Philadelphia Daily News will cut its editorial staff 19 percent, from 130 to 105. Both papers are owned by Knight Ridder Inc., the nation’s second-largest newspaper company.

The cuts come as the newspaper industry faces serious problems including slow advertising growth, long-term declines in circulation and a widespread shift by readers—especially younger ones—to online news sources. The Times said it expected 250 jobs at its main newspaper group to be affected, which includes the Times, the International Herald Tribune and the online operation of the Times. Of those job cuts, about 45 will come from the Times’ newsroom, the company said in a statement. Another 160 jobs will be cut from the Times’ New England operation, which includes The Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and Boston.com. The company did not provide a breakdown of those job cuts other than to say that 35 newsroom jobs would be cut at The Boston Globe.

In a note to Times staffers, the Times’ chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and its CEO Janet Robinson called the new round of cuts “a painful process” but a necessary one given the “continued financial challenges and the cloudy economic outlook for the remainder of the year.” Sulzberger and Robinson said the company would manage the cuts “in such a way that we continue to provide our readers, users, listeners and viewers with journalism of the highest quality and that our operations function smoothly on a day-to-day basis.” Last week, Knight Ridder said its third-quarter earnings would fall about 20 percent because of declining ad sales, as well as higher interest expense and newsprint costs.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/21/2005 at 06:44 AM   
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Liberal Pledge

_{J.D. Crowe, Alabama—The Mobile Register}

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In My World

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   Tuesday - September 20, 2005

BOHICA

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The New Meme

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin held a press conference a little bit ago, and started losing control to a media pool assembled that was showing signs of panic, due to the previous incompetence in the region by the local and state government. Lt. Gen. Russel Honore stepped in and literally took over. Here’s what he had to say:

Honore: And Mr. Mayor, let’s go back, because I can see right now, we’re setting this up as he said, he said, we said. All right? We are not going to go, by order of the mayor and the governor, and open the convention center for people to come in. There are buses there. Is that clear to you? Buses parked. There are 4,000 troops there. People come, they get on a bus, they get on a truck, they move on. Is that clear? Is that clear to the public?

Female reporter: Where do they move on…

Honore: That’s not your business.

Male reporter: But General, that didn’t work the first time…

Honore: Wait a minute. It didn’t work the first time. This ain’t the first time. Okay? .........

[snip]

Male reporter: General, a little bit more about why that’s happening this time, though, and did not have that last time…

Honore: You are stuck on stupid. I’m not going to answer that question.

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Dip with the Monkey

What will those crazy Asians think of next?

Bathing with the Apes
It’ a 20-minute walk through forest to reach the 130-year-old ryokan, the Korakukan, which is famed as the place where you can share your idyllic hot spring dip with Japan’s snow monkeys. Jigokudani (Hell Valley) Onsen in Nagano Prefecture is probably the only place in the world where you can bathe in a mixed-sex rotenburo with these primates that are an endangered species.

Visit during the colder months, and stroll through the snow-draped pine forest down to the ryokan, which overlooks the River Yokoyu. Gurgling, steam-belching fumaroles dot the landscape-long ago compared with the Buddhist concept of hell-making you feel like you are entering the world of an ukiyo-e winter scene. The morning, around 7:30, when the monkeys come down from the mountains to warm up in the hot spring, is the best time to enjoy your dip here.

“Of course, they also hope that the tourists will feed them too, but you’re not advised to give them anything as it encourages them to attack humans,” explained Aki Okubo, who had come all the way from Aomori Prefecture to enjoy bathing with the macaque monkeys. “I don’t think they have any problems with the monkeys here,” he continued, “but I do know that other places around Japan, such as in Izu, have had problems with wild monkeys attacking people. For some reason, in Izu the monkeys particularly like attacking women. I guess that’s because they have seen them carrying shopping bags and know there is food inside.”

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Greyhound Sucks!

Catholic Charities: Greyhound Hinders Relief Agencies’ ‘Ministry in Motion’
BATON ROUGE, La (US NEWSWIRE)

Disbelief was the reaction of Connie Andry, director of homeless services for Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans, when the evacuee family told her that Greyhound Bus Lines in Baton Rouge refused the check issued by Catholic Community Services of Baton Rouge that would pay for their journey to Jacksonville, Fla. The disbelief was compounded when Andry obtained a money order and joined the family at the bus station and only to be told cash was the order of the day.

As part of the relief efforts, Catholic Charities of New Orleans and Catholic Community Services of Baton Rouge have been assisting hurricane-impacted people daily, providing emergency assistance, counseling and transportation to families and temporary housing across the nation. They call their work “Ministry in Motion.”

“To have to pay by cash severely impacts our ability to effectively serve people who are desperate to reach family members in other parts of the country. Checks and money orders have always worked before. I’m concerned that now we will have to accompany each evacuee family to the bus station. We will lose a lot of time that otherwise could be used serving people,” says Andry.

In addition, Catholic Charities and Catholic Community Services looked into opening a corporate account with Greyhound Bus Lines until they learned that not only would they pay full- ticket price, but a as well as a $15.00 surcharge for pre-paid orders. In some cases, this would have doubled the cost of the ticket. Catholic Charities fought to have the surcharge waived in consideration of the crisis.

When the national corporate office in Dallas was contacted, Catholic Charities was told that Greyhound lost $23 million last year and that they couldn’t afford to help out. They needed to make money. Greyhound also turned down a request to offer the discount available through Travelers Aid. The New Orleans office of Travelers Aid was wiped out in the hurricane and unavailable for assistance.

“It’s a shame that Greyhound is prepared to make money off the backs of people who already have lost everything,” says Andry. “We were hoping that the corporation that could mobilize hundreds buses for FEMA, could adapt to help us too.”

Contact: Carol Spruell of Catholic Community Services Baton Rouge, 225-336-8770 ext. 407 or 225-252-8679 (cell); or Beth Millbank of Catholic Charities New Orleans, 225-336-8700 ext. 315 or 225-303-7490 (cell)

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Kim Jung Il Makes More Demands

North Korea Demands Nuke Reactor From U.S.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)

North Korea insisted Tuesday it won’t dismantle its nuclear weapons program until the U.S. gives it civilian nuclear reactors, casting doubt on a disarmament agreement reached a day earlier during international talks. Washington reiterated its rejection of the reactor demand and joined China in urging North Korea to stick to the agreement announced Monday in which it pledged to abandon all its nuclear programs in exchange for economic aid and security assurances.

North Korea’s new demands underlined its unpredictable nature and deflated some optimism from the Beijing agreement, the first since negotiations began in August 2003 among the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia. “The U.S. should not even dream of the issue of (North Korea’s) dismantlement of its nuclear deterrent before providing (light-water reactors), a physical guarantee for confidence-building,” the North’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

U.S. officials dismissed the demand. “This is not the agreement that they signed, and we’ll give them some time to reflect on the agreement they signed,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in New York on Monday. The announcement Monday that North Korea would dismantle existing weapons and stop building new ones, culminating two years of bargaining, contained no deadlines and few details. The six parties in the talks agreed to meet again in November, when the difficult questions of verification and timetables would be on the table.

The North had demanded since the latest round of six-party talks began last week in the Chinese capital that it be given a light-water reactor — a type less easily diverted for weapons use — in exchange for disarming. U.S. officials opposed the idea, maintaining North Korea could not be trusted with any nuclear program. The issue was sidestepped Monday, with participants saying they would discuss it later — “at an appropriate time.” The North, however, chose to immediately press the issue, essentially introducing a major condition on its pledge to disarm.

Japan swiftly joined the United States in rejecting the demand. “The Japanese side has continuously said that North Korea’s demand is unacceptable,” Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura said. China, North Korea’s closest ally in the talks, urged Pyongyang to join the other negotiating partners in implementing the commitments in “a serious manner.”

South Korea remained optimistic, with its point man on North Korea relations saying the country’s latest statement isn’t likely to derail the Beijing agreement. “It’s possible that the parties differ over this, but we and other participating countries are going to discuss it in bilateral or multilateral contacts before the fifth round of talks resume in early November,” Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said on MBC radio.

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun predicted that “the United States and North Korea will likely engage in a tug-of-war,” but added that prospects for resolving the nuclear issue are brighter after Monday’s agreement. Other countries at the Beijing talks made clear that the reactor could only be discussed after the North rejoins the Non-Proliferation Treaty and accepts inspections from the International Atomic Energy Agency — which North Korea pledged to do in Monday’s agreement.

State Department spokesman Adam Ereli emphasized earlier in Washington that the “appropriate time” for discussing the reactor meant only after the North complies with those conditions. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was asked in Beijing whether North Korea might have misunderstood the order of commitments laid out in the statement Monday. “The common statement was adopted by all six parties and I don’t think North Korea has any misunderstanding,” Qin said.

Qin said that the November talks were still on, as far as he knew. President Bush’s administration has opposed anything resembling a 1994 U.S.-North Korea agreement, which promised the North two light-water reactors for power. That project stalled amid the current crisis, which broke out in late 2002 after U.S. officials said the North admitted having a secret nuclear program. The North’s latest position is likely to be a major sticking point in future discussions.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/20/2005 at 07:01 AM   
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Obituary

Nazi-hunter Wiesenthal Dies at 96
VIENNA (BBC)

Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal has died in the Austrian capital, Vienna, aged 96. His death was announced by officials at the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. He was credited with helping to bring more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice in the decades following World War II. They included Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust, and Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor death camps in Poland.

Mr Wiesenthal died in his sleep at his home, according to Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which campaigns against anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance. “Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust,” Mr Hier said. “When the Holocaust ended in 1945 and the whole world went home to forget, he alone remained behind to remember. He did not forget.

“He became the permanent representative of the victims, determined to bring the perpetrators of history’s greatest crime to justice… “The cause had few friends. The Allies were already focused on the Cold War, the survivors were rebuilding their shattered lives and Simon Wiesenthal was all alone, combining the role of both prosecutor and detective at the same time.”

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said: “Simon Wiesenthal’s passing saddens us all. He was a champion in the fight to bring to justice the 20th century’s worst criminals who had escaped justice. You can forgive crimes committed against you personally, but in my opinion you are not authorised to forgive for others.

“And in that effort, Wiesenthal earned the respect and the recognition of the state of Israel, of the Jewish people and of everyone… who supports the fight against racism, and injustice. “He helped make this planet a better place.” Lord Janner, a former war crimes investigator and chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told the BBC: “He was my hero.

“He was a brave, fantastic, single-minded man who’d suffered hugely himself in concentration camps during the war and was determined to do whatever he could to bring at least some of the Nazis to justice.” The mayor of Vienna, Michael Haeupl, said he had worked tirelessly “to improve relations between Jewish and non-Jewish citizens”. Mr Wiesenthal, who grew up in Ukraine, was a prisoner in the Mauthausen death camp when it was liberated by the American troops in May 1945.

In the 1950s, he helped to track down Eichmann in Argentina. In 1960, Eichmann was abducted there by Israeli agents and subsequently tried, convicted and executed in Israel. Mr Wiesenthal went on to establish the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna to track down war criminals. It located Stangl in Brazil. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in 1967, and died in prison.

Another high-profile case involved Hermine Ryan, a housewife living in Queens, New York, whom he accused of supervising the killings of hundreds of children at Majdanek camp. She was extradited to Germany for trial as a war criminal in 1973 and received life imprisonment. Mr Wiesenthal’s biggest disappointments were his failures to secure the capture of Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller and Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/20/2005 at 06:45 AM   
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It Ain’t Easy Being Green

.... but $404 million should make Kermit feel much better, right ....?

Conservation Groups Want $404M for Frogs
WASHINGTON (MYWAY NEWS)

International conservation groups proposed a $404 million effort Monday to preserve frogs and other amphibians whose sensitive, porous skins often make them the first indicator of when nature goes awry. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Conservation International and other groups said they plan a series of emergency actions and long-term research that includes describing at least 1,000 new species, preventing future habitat loss and reducing trade in amphibians for food and pets.

The groups are looking to governments, private institutions and individual donors for funding. “The frogs are trying to tell us something,” said Andrew Dobson, a Princeton University professor who studies infectious diseases in the wild. “We’re making the world a sicker place and, mercifully, the frogs have picked up on it before us humans.” Almost a third of all the known species of frogs, toads and other amphibians are considered “globally threatened” by the IUCN, which is based in Gland, Switzerland. By comparison, 23 percent of mammal species and 12 percent of bird species are threatened.

Declines and disappearance of amphibian species are occurring the most in North and South America, Puerto Rico and Australia. The chief causes are a fungal disease that tends to occur at higher elevations and by streams, habitat loss and degradation, climate change, chemical pollution, non-native species and over-harvesting of amphibians for food and pets. “The fungus is the cause of a lot of the massive die-offs we’re seeing in recent years,” said Claude Gascon, a senior vice president at Conservation International.

Scientists have discovered 5,743 species of amphibians so far, but they believe about 10,000 exist. Those include frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians - snakelike creatures that live mostly underground. At least 43 percent of the known species are declining in population size, including 1,856 that might soon become extinct, according to a team of 500 scientists in 60 countries. In the past 35 years, they believe, 122 species already might have disappeared.

World Conservation Union: http://www.iucn.org
Global Amphibian Assessment: http://www.globalamphibians.org
Conservation International: http://www.conservation.org

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/20/2005 at 06:32 AM   
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Kerry & Edwards Pile On

Kerry, Edwards Criticize Bush Over Response to Hurricane
(WASHINGTON POST)

President Bush came under withering criticism for his handling of Hurricane Katrina yesterday, with Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) charging that the storm exposed the administration’s incompetence and ideological blinders and former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) asserting that even in its response, the administration backs policies that support the privileged over the working poor. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, said in a speech at Brown University that Michael D. Brown, who quit under fire as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s director, exemplified the administration’s failures over the past five years.

Using the nickname Bush used for Brown, Kerry said, “Brownie is to Katrina what Paul Bremer is to peace in Iraq, what George Tenet is to slam-dunk intelligence, what Paul Wolfowitz is to parades paved with flowers in Baghdad, what Dick Cheney is to visionary energy policy, what Donald Rumsfeld is to basic war planning, what Tom DeLay is to ethics and what George Bush is to ‘Mission Accomplished’ and ‘Wanted Dead or Alive.’ “

Bremer was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Wolfowitz served as deputy defense secretary until becoming president of the World Bank. Edwards, who has made poverty a signature issue, said the plight of many of those displaced by the flooding in New Orleans underscores an urgent need for the nation to attack the problem again. He offered policy initiatives aimed at ensuring that Americans who work full time do not fall below the poverty line. The former senator—who was tapped by Kerry to be his running mate last year and, like Kerry, is contemplating a 2008 presidential run—said the administration has long favored wealth over work. He criticized Bush for suspending a law requiring federal contractors along the Gulf Coast to pay prevailing wages on reconstruction projects.

“I might have missed something, but I don’t think the president ever talked about putting a cap on the salaries of the CEOs of Halliburton and the other companies . . . who are getting all these contracts,” he said in a speech at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank. “This president, who never met an earmark he wouldn’t approve or a millionaire’s tax cut he wouldn’t promote, decided to slash wages for the least of us and the most vulnerable.” The two speeches followed pointed comments along the same lines by former president Bill Clinton, who criticized the administration’s response to the storm Sunday. Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” Clinton said Bush should roll back tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to offset the cost of rebuilding, and he asserted that the poverty exposed by the storm-forced exodus was caused in part by the administration’s own policies.

“Whether it’s race-based or not, if you give your tax cuts to the rich and hope everything works out all right, and poverty goes up, and it disproportionately affects black and brown people, that’s a consequence of the action made,” he said. “That’s what they did in the ‘80s; that’s what they’ve done in this decade. In the middle, we had a different policy.” Of the speeches delivered yesterday by the Democrats’ 2004 ticket, Kerry’s was harsher by far, and it drew a sharp rebuttal from the Republican National Committee’s Tracey Schmitt. “Armchair-quarterbacking on tough issues has never been a problem for Senator Kerry,” she said. “Such tactics haven’t served him well in the past, and today is no exception.”

According to a text of Kerry’s speech made available in Washington, he said Katrina had provided an “accountability moment” for the administration. “This is about the broader pattern of incompetence and negligence that Katrina exposed and beyond that a truly systemic effort to distort and disable the people’s government and devote it to the interests of the privileged and the powerful,” he said. Kerry also charged that the administration is pursuing politics as usual in its prescription for rebuilding. “The plan they’re designing for the Gulf Coast turns the region into a vast laboratory for right-wing ideological experiments,” he said, citing private-school vouchers, subsidies to business and other proposals.

Edwards called for a restoration of community. “The administration may think every American is an island,” he said. “But Americans know that Katrina’s victims shouldn’t have been out there on their own and that no American should be out there on their own.” Edwards used the metaphor of the flooded levees in New Orleans to describe what he called society’s inadequate efforts to bolster the poor. Although he called for many new programs to help, he also said everyone, from parents and clergy to those most in need, must accept the responsibility to speak hard truths about behavior—particularly out-of-wedlock pregnancies—that condemn many to perpetual poverty.

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/20/2005 at 06:19 AM   
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UN-Rehearsed

_{Cox & Forkum}

Posted by The Skipper     on 09/20/2005 at 06:15 AM   
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   Monday - September 19, 2005

Things I Learned From Watching TV News

• The hurricane only hit black family’s property.


• New Orleans was devastated and no other city was affected by the hurricane.


• Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down.


• New Orleans has no white people.


• The hurricane blew a limb off a tree in the yard of an Alabama resident.


• When you are hungry after a hurricane, steal a big screen TV.


• The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in improvements to New Orleans: now the city is welfare, looter and gang free and they are in your city.


• White folks don’t make good news stories.


• Don’t give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you, instead bitch because the government hasn’t given you a debit card yet.


• Only black family members got separated in the hurricane rescue efforts.


• Ignore warnings to evacuate and the white folks will come get you and give you money for being stupid.

_{(-- thanks to Steve C.)}

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