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calendar   Thursday - July 20, 2006

Darkness Falls

There I sat, watching Fox News chewing away on leftover pizza and suddenly the bass drums and cymbals started up and bright lights started flashing. The opera was about to begin. It was around 6:30pm last night and hadn’t even got real dark yet. It was about to.

BOOM! BOOM! CRASH! KA-BOOM! All around us. I hadn’t heard racket like this since I lived in New Orleans and we had to put up with the thunderboomers every single afternoon.  The storm gods were having a field day. Then they decided to get serious. A few REALLY loud crashes and all of a sudden Shep Smith was cut off in mid-sentence. Silence. More crashing for about an hour then nothing. The electricity in the apartment went away to hide from its big brother playing around outside. Darkness descends.

The apartment started to get warm so I decided to throw in the towel and turn in. The UPS’s on my servers protected everything but they were only good for about 30 minutes. I powered the home network off and settled into bed in dead silence. Until the clock on the wall decided to tick louder than thunder. Remove battery from clock, go to sleep.

About 2:00 I woke up in miserable heat. An excursion to the basement, where it was cool, ended up uncovering my night’s resting place. Sometime around 5:15am, I was in the bathroom on the throne, reading the Weekly Standard by candlelight (you ought to try it some time) when power finally came back on. Relief, at last!

Now for the bad news, if you live in St. Louis get ready. The weatherman just said we stand a good chance of a repeat performance tonight. Ya know, I kinda miss the Gulf Coast and those annoying little hurricanes ...

imageimageStorms Cut Power, Snap Trees, Topple Trucks Across Region
(St LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) - 07/19/2006

A powerful summer storm slammed into the St. Louis area Wednesday evening, toppling buildings, street lights, tractor trailers and hundreds of trees. At least 476,000 customers lost power, Metrolink was shut down and just one-third of flights were getting in and out of Lambert Field.

“This is one of the worst storms we can all remember to hit the city of St. Louis in recent years,” St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said at a hurriedly called news conference. The power outages will present a challenge to utility crews trying to get the power back on in temperatures expected to exceed 100 degrees today.

Until Wednesday, the two biggest storms to hit the area in the last few years were in July 2004, when about 225,000 lost power, and in August 2005, which affected about 250,000. It took AmerenUE crews four days to restore power to all customers in 2004 and five days in 2005.

The storm brewed quickly in central Illinois and swept southwest toward the St. Louis area shortly after 7 p.m. Meteorologists said the storm was unusual, not because of its path, but because a powerful “gust front” preceded the rain and thunder, causing damage from St. Charles County in the west to Madison County in the east, but hitting St. Louis and St. Louis County hardest.

Skies darkened with blowing dust, shingles flew from roofs, and windows were shattered, all before a drop of rain fell. Blowing dust and debris and then torrents of rain limited visibility on roads.

Westbound lanes of Highway 370 were shut down at the Discovery Bridge across the Missouri River because of at least two overturned tractor-trailers, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. In downtown St. Louis, part of the Switzer building near the Eads Bridge collapsed onto the bridge, trapping a driver - eight months pregnant - in her car for some time.

By noon today, airline travel had returned to normal at Lambert Field. Passengers whose luggage was stranded at the airport’s Main Terminal because of the Wednesday night power outage returned to the baggage claim area to hunt for their bags.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 04:04 PM   
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Report From Obvious News Network

There are some headlines that crack me up and there are some that are truly weird. Then again there are headlines that make me just stop, shake my head and go “DUH!?”. A Homer Simpson moment - kinda like the one I had when my eye caught the following headline in the story below. This one had to have been filed from ONN (Obvious News Network) ... not to be confused with CNN (Commie Network News). Tell me - what would you expect to happen to murder rates if arrests were up? DUH!?

imageimageMurders Down,
Arrests Up in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - July 20, 2006, 2:52 PM EDT

The homicide rate in New Orleans has been cut in half since the National Guard and state police arrived to help patrol the city a month ago, city police statistics show. At the same time, arrests in some crime-plagued neighborhoods have almost doubled.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco sent the Guard and state police into the city after a bloody June weekend that ended with six people slain. In the 30 days before the reinforcements arrived, there were 21 killings in the city.

In the 30 days afterward, there were 11. Police superintendent Warren Riley claimed success in reducing the violent crime rate. Deputy Chief John Bryson called the results “remarkable.”

The Guard was sent June 20 to patrol largely deserted, flooded-out areas where looting was still a problem since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city late last August. Police task forces were then reassigned to beats in the troubled streets of Central City, Pigeon Town and other neighborhoods that have grown increasingly violent.

In Central City, where 18 of this year’s 67 homicides were recorded, arrests have nearly doubled since the shift of police manpower, said Capt. Bob Bardy. His officers had been averaging 150 to 180 arrests per week before June 20. Last week, they made 318 arrests.

New Orleans homicides hit their historic peak in 1994, with 421 dead, more per-capita than any other U.S. city that year. The number dropped to 159 in 1999, but rose again, reaching 274 in 2003 and 265 in 2004.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 03:27 PM   
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Tip O’Neill’s Gift

I can’t say it better than Jeff Jacoby does, so I’ll just shut up and let you read about government bloat, pork and the Democrat who is the prime example of useless government projects, throwing taxpayer money away and ... never mind. Just read ...

imageimageO’Neill’s Crumbling Legacy
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | July 19, 2006

All politics is local, Tip O’Neill famously said, and it surely doesn’t get any more local than when a 6,000-pound slab from a project championed by the late House speaker falls on a 38-year-old newlywed from Jamaica Plain, crushing her to death as her husband drives her to the airport. O’Neill died in 1994, but the political culture he epitomized is alive and well and enshrined in the Big Dig, a slough of corruption, callousness, and cover-ups that had become a synonym for government mismanagement long before it killed Milena Del Valle on July 10.

It would be going too far to link O’Neill to the incompetent workmanship and negligent oversight that led to the collapse of a 3-ton ceiling panel in the Interstate 90 connector just as the Del Valles drove beneath it last week. But the culture that he embodied is still solidly in place. Only one month earlier the lords and ladies of Bay State politics had gathered to christen the longest section of the Big Dig as the Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. Tunnel and proclaim the immense—and immensely expensive—highway project his triumphant legacy.

“That project could never be complete until it bears the name of the person who made it all possible,” gushed US Senator Ted Kennedy. “So let us celebrate his great legacy today . . . and remember that our job in public life is to improve the lives of others.” Valle’s life was not improved by this troubled project. It was ended by it.

Kennedy isn’t the only one whose comments, in retrospect, were cringe-making. “Whenever you have a monumental project like this, you’re going to have . . . inconveniences,” lectured Boston Mayor Tom Menino just five weeks before the falling ceiling shattered the Del Valle family. “Anybody who didn’t think about those inconveniences is not realistic.”

(-- thanx to BruceLH for the tip on this one --)

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 03:09 PM   
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How The Other Half Thinks

This is too much. I’m too angry to even bother to fisk this bastard. It probably wouldn’t sink in anyway. A good beating might be the best thing that could happen to this jerk. Unfortunately, I’m a real peaceful kinda guy and I know all you folks out there are kind, intelligent people. So read how the “other half” thinks and tell me if you can find even an ounce of rationality or civility in this man’s comments. I’ll leave the fisking up to you. I need to go cool down, maybe torture a few hippies in the BMEWS prison to work off steam ...

imageimageBush Gropes, Planet Cringes
Knead a German chancellor, banter dumbly, reveal global ignorance. It’s Dubya abroad!
OPINION (SFGATE.COM)

So now we know.

I mean, we sort of thought we knew, before, what kind of guy George W. Bush is, essentially our very own inept, inarticulate ex-alcoholic ex-frat-guy failed-businessman pseudo-leader who famously appeals to the most God-fearin’ and least educated and least attuned among us because he is, well, one of them.

We thought we had him pegged: Just a casual and aw-shucks sort of walkin’, talkin’, war-happy embarrassment to the country who was rumored to be a Genuinely Nice Guy in person but who, when he traveled abroad, nevertheless caused the entire nation to pre-emptively cringe in preparation for all sorts of imminent humiliations and lots of hilarious-yet-excruciating new material for “The Complete Bushisms.”

But every so often we get a glimpse of just a little more. Or, rather, less. Of what lies just beneath that carefully controlled sheen of White House spin, what happens when Dubya is away from his handlers and his prefab scripts. We get a hint of just what fuels that clueless amble, that Chosen One bumble, that graceless and decidedly dorky sort of approach to everything from ordering a Diet Coke to comprehending Middle East chaos.

Witness, won’t you, the latest in a huge pile of embarrassing Bush-on-tape moments. (Warning: Not for the faint of intellect.) Here he is, the leader of the Free World, fresh off being caught on a live microphone at the Group of Eight summit meeting muttering to his favorite poodle Tony Blair, using his bestest Texas-boy shtick, that if them gul-dang Syrians would just tell Hezbollah to knock this s-- off, everything would be dandy ...

Here is the president of the most powerful nation on the planet, fresh from an awkward smackdown by Vladimir Putin on Bush’s failed war in Iraq, muttering to Blair and Chinese President Hu Jintao, actually more amazed and confounded by the fact that Jintao’s flight home takes about as long as Bush’s to Washington ...

(Bush: “You eight hours? Me too. Russia’s a big country and you’re a big country. Takes him eight hours to fly home ... Russia’s big and so is China. Yo Blair, what’re you doing? Are you leaving?” Ah, dumb-guy banter. Makes you feel proud all over, no?)

And now, the icing on the giant cake o’ domestic torture. Here is Dubya, strolling speedily into a G-8 summit meeting where powerful, intent world leaders are already gathered to discuss, presumably, serious issues of the day, walking straight up to a seated German Chancellor Angela Merkel and giving her a weird, unsolicited shoulder rub from behind, before dashing to his seat. Oh yes he did.

- More Liberal vomitus from San Francisco here (if you can stand any more) ...

- You may e-mail this moron at .


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 10:18 AM   
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Most Ridiculous Headline Of The Day

Truth is stranger than fiction, as the saying goes. As proof, I present the following report. You can’t make this s**t up. It just happens. I have only one question: who decided to name this snake “Houdini” ... and why?

imageimagePython Gulps Queen-Size Electric Blanket
July 20, 2006, 7:36 AM EDT

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) - It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket—with the electrical cord and control box.

The blanket must have gotten tangled up in the snake’s rabbit dinner, owner Karl Beznoska said. He kept the blanket in the cage to keep the 60-pound reptile, named Houdini, warm.

“Somehow, he was able to unplug the electric cord,” Beznoska said Wednesday. “He at least wasn’t hooked up to the power. It might have been pretty warm there.”

Veterinarian Karsten Fostvedt conducted a two-hour operation on the python Tuesday, and said afterward, “The prognosis is great.”

Neither Fostvedt nor fellow veterinarian Barry Rathfon had operated on a snake before. “We just basically called a couple of specialists and they told us where to go in,” Fostvedt said.

X-rays showed the tangle of the blanket’s wiring extending through about 8 feet of the python’s digestive tract. The surgery to remove it took an 18-inch incision.

Specialists at the University of California-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine told them it probably would have taken Houdini six hours to swallow the blanket and the snake probably would have died without the operation.

Beznoska, a retired ski instructor who now works as a draftsman and carpenter, is from Austria and moved to the resort area in 1965. He has had Houdini for 16 years and takes him to local schools for show-and-tell.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 09:34 AM   
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Rocket Science

Memo To Kim Jung Mentally Ill: What’s the matter little man? Run out of Rocket Viagra™? Couldn’t keep your missile up in the air longer than ten seconds? Did your tiny little TaePoDong wilt and go limp in the Sea Of Japan? Well, let me show you how it’s done.

You see, you take a bunch of scientists, put them in a room, take the results and turn it over to Boeing and before you know it you have a real missile. One that will hold up under pressure and can penetrate anywhere with ease. And you want to talk about payload? This baby can deliver the goods and can impregnate any pissant country with up to three separate MIRV warheads.

And for real excitement each warhead can be a real nuke, not some firecracker thrown together in a Third World craphole. We’re talking NOOKULER ANNIHILATION, babe! So play with your toys, little man. Just don’t piss us off any time soon. We have thousands of these missiles and one of them might just have your name on it. Now go have a nice day. Better yet, go get laid. If you’re man enough ....

imageimageU.S. Successfully Completes Missile Test
July 20, 2006, 8:49 AM EDT

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Air Force successfully launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile early Thursday.

The Minuteman III dummy warheads were fired at 3:14 a.m. and traveled about 4,200 miles before hitting a water target in the Marshall Islands.

The launch was delayed by a day because of a power outage at a radar facility that handles flights in and out of Southern California. The purpose is to test the defense system’s reliability and accuracy.

Earlier this month, North Korea shook up the world by firing several missiles into the Sea of Japan, including a failed long-range missile.

The North Korean launch raised questions about the readiness of the U.S. missile defense system, which includes interceptors housed in underground silos in California and Alaska.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 09:05 AM   
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Indian Idiocy

imageimageHave You Seen This Man!

If so, you are urged to be cautious at all times. He is apparently a very dangerous individual ... and he has a blog site! In fact, his blog site is so offensive to the Indian government that he has been banned and cannot be viewed by anyone in India - and that includes the tech support people in Bangalore who are trying to help you with your credit card problems!

This evil individual, who goes under the alias of “Macker” is considered to be armed and dangerous. He is armed with a blog and is dangerous because ... erh ... uh ... well, just consider him dangerous. He has been known to lurk in the comments on this blog at times. BE CAREFUL! He can exercise mind control over people. He also knows how to apply the Vulcan Nerve Pinch.

So be on your toes and keep a watchful eye out for this madman ... or you can visit Macker’s World right now and have a good laugh at this whole silliness. In all honesty, it turns out that Macker was banned by some government weenies in Delhi who goofed up and banned entire ISP’s and domain names instead of a few individual blog sites that the democratic government of India (mheh) decided were anti-government. What a hoot!


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 08:34 AM   
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Threats From Iran?

Want more proof that Iran is behind this mess in the Middle East? If so, you’re incredibly stupid and probably shouldn’t be allowed out of the house. Hezbollah in Iran is marching in the streets, prodded on and funded by the Whack-Job government of Mad Mullahs and Muslim Morons. These freaks aren’t going to quit blustering and boasting about their ability to destroy the Great Satan until somebody smacks the living shit out of them.

There is no reasoning with these asshats. They’re completely mad. Insane. Drunk with power and determined to kill as many people as they can. Forget diplomacy - you’re wasting your time. Screw appeasement ... and to hell with bargaining with them to get them to play nice and not make naughty nuclear weapons.

I’m going on record here and now, stating plainly, that this crap will not end until somebody bombs the bejeezus out of Teheran. You know it and I know it. It’s time to start laying our own plans and I don’t mean defending our shores. Take the fight to these mental midgets. Fill the skies over Iran with bombers and missiles. Watch how fast they STFU and sit down. There is no other alternative. NUKE IRAN BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE! We’re running out of time here.

imageimageIran’s Hizbollah Says Ready To Attack US, Israel
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:09pm ET140

Iran’s Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.

“We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year,” said Iranian Hizbollah’s spokesman Mojtaba Bigdeli, speaking by telephone from the central seminary city of Qom.

“They have been trained and they can become fully armed. We are ready to dispatch them to every corner of the world to jeopardise Israel and America’s interests. We are only waiting for the Supreme Leader’s green light to take action. If America wants to ignite World War Three ... we welcome it,” he said.

Iranian religious organisations have made great public show of recruiting volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking operations” in recent years, usually threatening U.S. interests in case of any attack against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme.

But there is no record of an Iranian volunteer from these recruitment campaigns taking part in an attack. Iran’s Hizbollah (Party of God) says it is spiritually bound to Shi’ite Muslim guerrillas in Lebanon but its command structure and funding are unclear.

Despite Iranian Hizbollah’s insistence that it takes orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, government ministries say Hizbollah does not implement official policy. Iran’s government has said it hopes for a diplomatic solution to the Israeli offensive in Lebanon.

While Iran did fund and support Lebanese Hizbollah during the 1980s, Tehran says it has not contributed troops or weapons in the latest violence. Israel says Iranian armaments have been fired against it.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 08:09 AM   
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Cowardly Jackals

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Cameron Cardow - The Ottawa Citizen

Hezbollah Is Bombed Out
By NICK PARKER
(THE SUN) - July 20, 2006

Hezbollah’s lair in southern Beirut is a ghost town wracked with fear. For 20 minutes, I and photographer Roger Crump explored the city suburbs most targeted by Israeli jets. Streets normally teeming with a population of 800,000 were totally deserted. Just two hours earlier, missiles had exploded in the labyrinth of back streets where the terror group’s chiefs are thought to be bunkered.

When we arrived in Lebanon’s capital, taxi drivers refused to take us beyond the airport road flyover. So we entered Hezbollah’s Ghobeiry stronghold on foot, past bomb craters, wrecked cars and mountains of rubble. I had been told the fighters may want us to show the world the destruction of their community.

But we met no one, and the only sound was the flap of banners emblazoned with the face of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. Finally, a motor scooter came towards us from a cordon set up by Hezbollah guerillas. The two men on it advised us to leave immediately. As we reached the edge of the area, we saw the bomb-ravaged Sahei General Hospital.

Dr Basskam Thome told us: “We have no patients left because this place is too dangerous — Israeli jets could strike at any moment. “This is normally a busy place but now it’s empty and dead. It’s hard to see an end to all this.”


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/20/2006 at 07:40 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - July 19, 2006

Telephone tips Iraqi style

In a press release dated today a telephone tip saved a police station in Iraq.

Telephone tip leads to capture of 4 terrorist cell members
Wednesday, 19 July 2006

Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Press Release
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RELEASE No. 20060719-03
July 19, 2006

Telephone tip leads to capture of 4 terrorist cell members

BAGHDAD – Iraqi police and Multi-National Division – Baghdad’s 1st Battalion, 66th Armor, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division detained four terrorist cell members Sunday afternoon after receiving a call from a concerned citizen, who informed them of an attack planned against the Rashadia police station.

The telephone tip warned that attackers had surrounded the police station; Soldiers from 1st Bn., 66th Armor, 1st BCT responded to the area to provide assistance to Iraqi police.

After exchanging gunfire, the terrorists attempted to escape Iraqi police and MND-B Soldiers pursued them.  Four local citizens stopped the fleeing suspects, and the Iraqi police took them into custody.

According to information gleaned from the individuals taken into custody, their plan was to attack the police station because they wanted to kill two terrorist leaders they believed were being held there.

I especially liked that four local (and dare I assume armed?) citizens stopped the suspects.


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 07/19/2006 at 06:13 PM   
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A Little Texas Humor

imageimageThe Bronze Rat

This guy walks into an exotic antiques shop near the port in Galveston, Texas looking for something unique for his mantle. They have all kinds of unique stuff in this place but one item gets his attention and he can’t take his eye off of it.

The item is a life sized bronzed figure of a rat. It appears perfect in every way and it almost seems to glow with a life of its own.

The guy decides he just has to have the bronzed rat so he walks up to the counter and asks the proprieter how much he wants for it.

“Well”, the proprieter responds, “I’ll sell the rat to you for $12.00. But...if’n y’all bring it back you gotta give me a hundred bucks to take it off ya hands.”

The guy is puzzled by this but he laughs at the shop owner and tells him. “That ain’t gonna happen!!”

“We’ll see ‘bout that in an hour or so”, deadpans the shop owner.

So the guy goes off with his prize.

A couple of minutes later, as he is walking down the street heading back towards the port where he parked his car, the guy notices that he is being followed by a couple of rats squeeking loudly as he proceeds down the street. The guy picks up his pace but block after block more and more rats appear, coming out of the alleys, the dumpsters, the drains, everywhere.

The guy is really starting to get nervous as the rats, now numbering in the thousands, are closing on him. He breaks into a run and it is quite a sight: a guy with his arms wrapped around a large bronzed rat running as fast as his legs can carry him, leading an enormous parade of squeeking and chirping rats in numbers so large as to fill the whole street behind him for several blocks.

Finally the guy reaches a dead-end. He’s at the water’s edge and surrounded by a huge multitude of enraged rats bearing down on him with a madness in their eyes. In desparation the guy turns and with every ounce of his strength, flings the bronzed rat far out into the water. The rats come running up on him…

...and run on past into the water, oblivious to the guy standing in their midst. The rats follow their bronzed idol into the deep, drowning to the last rodent.

A few minutes later the guy walks back into the shop where he purchased the bronzed rat. The owner looks up and sees his former customer walking disheveled back into his shop. “So...y’all’ve come back to return your purchase! Remember what I told ya it would cost?”, the owner says smiling. 

“No. No...”, says the guy. “That’s not why I’m here”

“I’d like to talk to you about that little bronzed Mexican you have over there in the corner...”

(-- thanks to Babylonandon fer this tickler --)


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/19/2006 at 01:47 PM   
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Stem Cell Poll

The Congress passed H.R.810 by a vote of 238 to 194 and the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 63-37. President Bush has promised to veto the bill. It will take 67 votes in the Senate to override the President’s veto if he does indeed veto it. Those are the facts.

The text of the bill is provided below so you can judge for yourself. Cast your vote in the poll and let us know what you think. Vote limiting is enabled for this very serious question. One vote per IP address. Democratic Party ballot stuffing will not be allowed.

Poll is now closed. By an overwhelming 2 to 1 majority you decided to back President Bush in vetoing H.R.810.

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- UPDATE: BREAKING NEWS!

In First Veto, Bush Blocks Stem Cell Bill
(WASHINGTON POST) - Wednesday, July 19, 2006; 2:36 PM

President Bush today used the first veto of his presidency to stop legislation that would have lifted restrictions on federally funded human embryonic stem cell research.

“This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others,” Bush, speaking at the White House, said after he followed through on his promise to veto the bill. “It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect. So I vetoed it.”

H.R.810

One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION


Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and six

An Act

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research.

      Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

      This Act may be cited as the `Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005’.

SEC. 2. HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH.

      Part H of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 498C the following:

‘SEC. 498D. HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH.

      `(a) In General- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any regulation or guidance), the Secretary shall conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells in accordance with this section (regardless of the date on which the stem cells were derived from a human embryo).

      `(b) Ethical Requirements- Human embryonic stem cells shall be eligible for use in any research conducted or supported by the Secretary if the cells meet each of the following:

            `(1) The stem cells were derived from human embryos that have been donated from in vitro fertilization clinics, were created for the purposes of fertility treatment, and were in excess of the clinical need of the individuals seeking such treatment.

            `(2) Prior to the consideration of embryo donation and through consultation with the individuals seeking fertility treatment, it was determined that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded.

            `(3) The individuals seeking fertility treatment donated the embryos with written informed consent and without receiving any financial or other inducements to make the donation.

      `(c) Guidelines- Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of NIH, shall issue final guidelines to carry out this section.

      `(d) Reporting Requirements- The Secretary shall annually prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report describing the activities carried out under this section during the preceding fiscal year, and including a description of whether and to what extent research under subsection (a) has been conducted in accordance with this section.’.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 07/19/2006 at 09:37 AM   
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Diversion

Iran is under the gun on the issue of nuclear weapons development. An offer is made by the US and EU to resolve the issue. Iran stalls. Suddenly, violence flares up in Gaza and Lebanon as Iranian-backed terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbullah strike across the border into Israel igniting a violent war that occupies the front page of every major newspaper. Iran’s stalling on the nuclear weapons issue has forced the issue to the UN Security Council where sanctions may be imposed - but is off the media radar and has become a secondary priority for world leaders due to the conflict in Lebanon.

Coincidence? Get real. If this is a coincidence, I’ll eat my hat. The Iranians are playing the media PR game with a little sleight of hand that David Copperfield would be proud of. The key to magic is to divert attention and Ahmawhackjob and the Mad Mullahs are making the Iranian nuclear weapons issue disappear right before your eyes. Unfortunately, the next part of the Iranian Magic Show involves making Israel disappear ...

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Henry Payne - The Detroit News

Hezbollah Attacks A Diversion From Iran Nuclear Issue?

Tel Aviv (MIDDLE EAST NEWS) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert believes Hezbollah coordinated its rocket attacks on Israel with Iran in an effort to divert from Iranian nuclear ambitions, media reported Tuesday.

‘The timing of the attack across the northern border was no coincidence and was coordinated with Iran to divert international attention from the issue of the Iranian nuclear programme,’ Olmert was quoted as telling a gathering of Israeli diplomats.

The prime minister Tuesday made an unannounced visit to the northern coastal city of Haifa, which has been hit repeatedly by Hezbollah rockets since cross-border fighting broke out last week.

Israel will continue its military offensive against Lebanon until the Lebanon-based Shiite militant group frees two Israeli soldiers it abducted last week, Olmert was reported as telling local politicians.

‘I will ensure that Israeli citizens are no longer targeted by rockets,’ he was quoted as saying.

Hezbollah’s abduction of the two soldiers sparked the Israeli bombing of Lebanon, which Israel has said is aimed at forcing the Lebanese government to take control of the southern part of the country bordering Israel where Hezbollah holds sway.


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