July 19, 2006
Why hospitals need private rooms
Forgive me as I digress here from politics. But as a nurse, I’m telling you this is an excellent, overdue idea:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Private rooms would be standard in new U.S. hospitals under recommendations from an influential architects’ group that says building design can help curb infectious diseases and medical errors.
Recommendations on hospital design from the American Institute of Architects are used as the basis for regulations in 42 states, and private rooms are increasingly favored by hospitals nationwide to address safety, noise and privacy issues, said Dale Woodin of the American Hospital Association.
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• dignity and quiet for you or your loved one during what is usually a stressful, painful and embarrassing time of life;samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Hospitals aren’t yet required to offer private rooms. And it would in any event take many years before every hospital had them. So don’t expect one on your next visit. But at least the Nation’s architects have set us on the right path.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 14, 2006
Send pizza and soft drinks to IDF soldiers
Yes, you can actually do that.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Americans can also provide humanitarian support to Israeli civilians who’ve been hurt by Hezbollah terrorism.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
HT: Hugh.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 1, 2006
Before you judge somebody, get the facts
A reminder that things are not always as they appear.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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June 28, 2006
Awkward moments in trial of penis-pumping judge
“Thompson took the stand in his own defense:” No, no! One pump meant the motion was sustained and two pumps meant the motion was denied! samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A former judge is on trial for pumping his penis in the courtroom …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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June 11, 2006
The case for amnesty ...
Mexico defeats Iran.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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June 1, 2006
The 100 best computer-related products of 2006
Here, as determined by PC World.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks — and congratulations — to Nick Bradbury, whose RSS reader FeedDemon made the list.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 28, 2006
Leif?!
When I was a teenager, Leif Garrett was the bomb, the heartthrob of every straight girl and gay boy in America. I would purloin my sister’s copy of Tiger Beat to fawn over the pictures of him.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Until today, it had been eons since his name crossed my mind. I happened on this story of his arrest — evidently not the first — on drug charges.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
What can I say? Except that was then and this is now, and heroin is plainly not good for you. See for yourself.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 25, 2006
You’ll love this
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May 21, 2006
And now, a break from politics
From footage at the National Archives, our men in uniform, out of uniform. (Note: not porn, but not work safe either.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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And now, a break from politics
From footage at the National Archives, our men in uniform, out of uniform. (Note: not porn, but not work safe either.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 18, 2006
Pat Robertson is hearing voices ...
… again.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Why is it that God never tells your preacher or fortune teller the winning numbers to the power ball?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 16, 2006
If it’s good enough for the NSA, it’s good enough for me!
FeedDemon is my choice of RSS aggregator. Evidently, it’s also the choice of the Nation’s premier spy agency.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 4, 2006
Set frying pan to stun
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May 3, 2006
Let’s hope they can’t find a voting booth either
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April 23, 2006
“You need to be disinfected”
Via Hannity & Colmes, watch the hate:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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In a comment below, “mAcChaos” links to this report in the New York Times, which reads in part:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In the past few months, nine states, including Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Indiana, have approved laws that restrict demonstrations at a funeral or burial. In addition, 23 state legislatures are getting ready to vote on similar bills, and Congress, which has received thousands of e-mail messages on the issue, expects to take up legislation in May dealing with demonstrations at federal cemeteries.
“mAcChaos” asks what I think of this: “Is it a common sense restriction or an inappropriate infringement on our First Amendment rights?”samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I think the answer turns on the particulars of a given statute. Since I haven’t read any of the bills or statutes to which the Times refers, I can’t comment on them. But as a general proposition, I doubt the ratifiers of the First Amendment would have understood it to prevent state-level regulation of the sort of obscenity Fred Phelps and his relatives engage in. But that’s just my opinion; it’s not the law. For an informative overview of extant First Amendment law as it might relate to restrictions on funeral protests, see this article by Professor Eugene Volokh.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 22, 2006
Digital blasphemy
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April 18, 2006
Things that make you go “hmmm” ...
Arkansas Razorback players Clarke Moore, Brett Goode and Casey Dick. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to the reader who sent it.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 12, 2006
Wear contact lenses?
Read this.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 7, 2006
Americana
Boston Globe:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — An argument at a baby shower escalated into a brawl in which one man was shot and the pregnant guest of honor was beaten with a stick, police said.
Three people were arrested after the fight, described by police as a “baby shower gone bad.”
Authorities said the shooting victim, Aristotle Garcia, got into a fight with a man who is dating his ex-girlfriend. The argument, over whether the woman let their 5-year-old daughter drink beer, escalated and drew in two other people …
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April 6, 2006
In the name of the Lord ...
If you ask me, the very best part of this video clip is the tail end of it, where the Rev. Jerry Falwell calls a fatwa. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
It’s been 10 minutes and I can’t quit laughing.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 5, 2006
Ring tones for your butt
Funny video. (Disgusting, but funny.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 4, 2006
Laugh ‘till you pee
This video is a riot! (And before some Lefty goes off the edge, please note this is not an actual GM commerical.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Say Anything.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 30, 2006
U.S. voting machines programmed in Venezuela?!
Unbelievable:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The greater threat to our nation’s security comes not from Dubai and its pro-Western government, but from Venezuela, where software engineers with links to the leftist, anti-American regime of Hugo Chávez are programming electronic voting machines that will soon power U.S. elections.
Congress spent two weeks overreacting to news that Dubai Ports World would operate several American ports, including Miami’s, but a better target for their hysteria would be the acquisition by Smartmatic International of California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, whose machines serve millions of U.S. voters. That Smartmatic — which has been accused by Venezuela’s opposition of helping Chávez rig elections in his favor — now controls a major U.S. e-voting firm should give pause to anybody who thinks that replacing our antiquated butterfly ballots and hanging chads will restore Americans’ faith in our electoral process.
(Thanks to Little Green Footballs.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 27, 2006
It’s here
If you don’t have an RSS reader, you’re missing the boat. And if you’re going to have an RSS reader, you might as well have the best. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
For the last few weeks, I’ve been using beta versions and release candidates of FeedDemon 2.0, which made its debut today. And I’m telling you: it will change the way you use the Web.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
You can try FeedDemon 2.0 for free. If you think I’m full of it, delete it. But if you’ve never used an RSS reader, or never used a high quality RSS reader, I think you’ll be blown away.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
P.S. Yes, this endorsement is uncompensated. I just like things that work.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
P.P.S. Don’t know the first thing about RSS or RSS readers? It ain’t hard. You can learn.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 19, 2006
“The suspected pirates then opened fire on the Navy ships”
The pirates are now dead or wounded.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
It is — how to put this? oh, yes — “unwise” to fire on U.S. naval vessels.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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“Tom Cruise will not come out of the closet”
See the banned Scientology episode of South Park in its entirety. (Note: you’ll need a high speed Internet connection. And even with that, it’ll take a few minutes to download.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Backstory here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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If you prefer, you can just watch the episode here rather than download it. (Thanks to The Volokh Conspiracy.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Here’s why you can’t get your calls answered
And you thought they just didn’t care. In fact, they’re, uh, busy:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
They are the young faces and polite voices of India’s economic boom but the country’s growing number of call centre staff handling British and American customer inquiries have a guilty secret.
According to senior police officers and pollsters they are also leading a social revolution against traditional Indian values by having extramarital affairs and taking party drugs.
A survey found that one in five of those questioned had had a workplace affair and that the majority of those were married. In another recent poll one in four call centre staff said they regularly had casual affairs.
[…]
According to insiders the centres are generating a work-hard, play-hard culture where liberal attitudes to sex and club drugs are thriving.
Well, if that’s the excuse for keeping us on hold, it’s a poor one. It is possible to take a call and get banged at the same time …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 18, 2006
“He then tossed his own severed organ”
Yeah, dude, that’ll show her …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Buddha is missing
If you find him, please dial 1-800-PEOPLE-WILL-BELIEVE-ANYTHING.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 12, 2006
Nice
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March 4, 2006
“Where the phrase ‘sea sponge’ is found, this court should insert the phrase ‘sua sponte’”
Beware the spell checker!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 3, 2006
Sex, lies and videotape
Warning: adult content.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Transcript:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Male: I took your fucking pants down and started fucking you.
Moonier: You sure did!
Male: You liked it, didn’t you?
Moonier: Of course! [Laughs.] Did you?
Male: Fuck, yeah!
Moonier: All right then.
Backstory:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
This tale begins in the wee hours of June 6, 2004, when a distraught Tamara Anne Moonier entered a Fullerton police station. She said she’d been kidnapped a few hours earlier from a parking lot at Heroes Bar & Grill, hooded and driven to an unknown residence. Moonier, then 28, told police that a group of men brutally raped her at gunpoint for more than an hour, forced her to perform numerous degrading sex acts on film, demanded her silence and then released her.
Can you hear me now?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
During the gangbang, a cell phone rang, and one of the guys answered it and calmly talked to a buddy. While Moonier had sex in the doggie-style position, the guy handed her the phone. She didn’t scream for help. She said, “Hello? This is Tammy. Yes. He’s fucking me from behind!” The guy took the phone back and gave directions to the residence. Moonier simultaneously complimented one man’s penis: “Big and nice!” Later, she said, “How many people are we calling?”
Well, you’re finished:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
While performing in the reverse cowgirl position (use your imagination), Moonier turned to the camera and said, “This better not fucking end up on the Internet unless you’re gonna give me some of the money!” Minutes later, she yelled at the guys, “Get it up!” And, “That guy can’t ejaculate … Yeah, you fucking gave up on me … And this one can’t even finish either. I’m getting kind of pissed. I just want somebody to finish.”
Moral of the story: “always videotape your sex orgies.”samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 27, 2006
Why a college education is a lot of bunk
Bulldogpundit links to this great story about a lawyer — he rose to deputy general counsel at the New York Life Insurance Co — who had to resign because … well, he doesn’t have a law license!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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The fact that this guy was obviously good enough to have made it as far as he did before he got caught proves what I’ve been saying for a long time - both law school (which the guy apparently went to) and the bar exam (which he must not have passed) are total wastes of time and have no bearing on whether or not someone is going to be a good lawyer.
I’d be willing to bet over half of all practicing attorney’s couldn’t pass the bar exam if they took it tomorrow (I know I couldn’t - and yes I passed the 1st time in both PA and NJ), because it has absolutely zero relevance to what they do to earn a living.
I could say the same thing about being a registered nurse. The only thing nursing school taught me was how to pass the NCLEX-RN, which I did on my first attempt in July 1994. I could not pass it today. But that’s okay because both the test and the education that prepared me to take it have nothing whatsoever to do with a being a nurse. Bulldog says he had to take a course in wills and trusts but it didn’t teach him how to write a will. I had to take a course in basic nursing procedures but it didn’t teach me how to operate an IV pump. In school, you learn a lot of theory. What you don’t learn is how to take care of patients.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
You know how you learn to be a nurse? You learn by working in a hospital where experienced nurses teach you. Everything before that — the aptitude test, the interview, the coursework, the big exam — is just hoop-jumping, designed, I suspect, to maintain the salary-raising shortage of nurses.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 26, 2006
Intimidation by the police
Cops have an awful job. They really do. They deal mostly with the dregs of society and they’re usually not well paid. God bless ‘em. But some cops are first class A holes who do great damage to public trust in law enforcement.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Watch the video.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Among other things, you’ll see a cop threaten a man. While gripping his gun, he tells the man, “Take one step closer and see what happens.” Absent a legal justification for the threat of deadly force, that’s assault. The video needs to be shown to the civil rights or professional integrity division of the district attorney’s office in the county where that cop works.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Say Anything.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 25, 2006
Weekend fluff: who’s the hottest?
American Idol Contestants (Penis Division):samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 17, 2006
More praise for FeedDemon
So ya’ll already know I’m a big fan of the RSS reader FeedDemon. But I’m now more impressed with it than ever. Available in beta version, FeedDemon 2.0 is out, and folks, the thing is smokin’. We’re talking ass-on-fire fast. And it comes with a new interface that’s simple and clean.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Screwed by a doctor
Amazing:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A Hawaii surgeon is being sued for malpractice after he intentionally inserted a sawed-off screwdriver instead of a titanium rod into a man’s back.
Robert Ricketson said he had no choice but to implant the screwdriver into the back of Arturo Iturralde, then 73. He said he did not have the titanium rods needed to complete the operation properly.
“I didn’t feel I could risk keeping him under anesthetic with an unstable spine for two more hours,” Ricketson, who is representing himself, told the jury during his opening statement this week. “There on the back table was a sterile, stainless-steel screwdriver the same diameter as the rods I intended to use.”
The screwdriver piece snapped days after the January 2001 surgery, and Iturralde underwent three additional surgeries to insert the proper titanium rods and to repair other complications. However, Iturralde was rendered a paraplegic and died two years later.
Ricketson was busted by the surgical nurses, who “retrieved [pieces of the screwdriver] from the trash and took them to a lawyer.” samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Can you even imagine what joy must have filled that lawyer’s heart? After all, how often do OR nurses walk into his office bearing gifts?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I’m surprised Ricketson even took the case to trial, especially in light of this:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Iturralde’s family learned that before the botched surgery, Ricketson’s medical license had been suspended in Oklahoma and revoked in Texas, following a string of malpractice lawsuits and treatment for a narcotics addiction. He had also admitted to writing fake prescriptions to get drugs.
As I often remind my younger nursing colleagues, half of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 10, 2006
“There is great embarrassment in your future”
A New York politician unwittingly hands out x-rated fortune cookies …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 6, 2006
My favorite Super Bowl ad
You can see all of them here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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IE 7 beta is out
Microsoft has released a beta version of Internet Explorer 7. You can download it here. Fans of Firefox will notice the similarities.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 4, 2006
Gay basher, cop killer caught
CNN:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
An 18-year-old suspected in hatchet attacks and shootings at a Massachusetts gay bar was captured 1,200 miles away Saturday after killing a police officer and the passenger in his vehicle, authorities said.
Jacob Robida, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, was wounded during a gunfight in Norfork, Arkansas, and taken to a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, about 130 miles away, said state police spokesman Bill Sadler. (Link)
When cornered, Robida killed the woman in his vehicle and then began shooting at police through his windshield. Police returned fire, striking Robida twice in the head; he’s in critical condition. Here’s hoping he dies in the night.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Props to the cops for their accuracy. Head shots are hard to make.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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January 22, 2006
Italians to litigate existence of Christ
Associated Press (via CNN):samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
ROME — Lawyers for a small-town parish priest have been ordered to appear in court next week after the Roman Catholic cleric was accused of unlawfully asserting what many people take for granted: that Jesus Christ existed.
The Rev. Enrico Righi was named in a 2002 complaint filed by Luigi Cascioli after Righi wrote in a parish bulletin that Jesus did indeed exist, and that he was born of a couple named Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem and lived in Nazareth.
Cascioli, a lifelong atheist, claims that Righi violated two Italian laws by making the assertion: so-called “abuse of popular belief” in which someone fraudulently deceives people; and “impersonation” in which someone gains by attributing a false name to someone. (Link)
Doesn’t it seem as if atheists are often possessed of a … well … religious zeal?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Get FeedDemon!
First, to be clear: this is an uncompensated endorsement. I do not know Nick Bradbury, creator of FeedDemon; I’ve never even seen him, talked to him or exchanged e-mail with him. I just love his software. And the more I use it, the more I love it.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
FeedDemon is a news aggregator, or, if you prefer, a news reader; it “aggregates,” or collects, RSS and Atom feeds. If you don’t know what an RSS or Atom feed is, you simply must learn. Go here and here. It’s not hard.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
If you’re a blogger, an RSS reader is indispensable. For without one, you’re working a lot harder than necessary to find items to blog about.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
If you’re a blog reader, an RSS aggregator allows you to collect and organize efficiently the plethora of news and commentary available to you. It will radically simplify your online experience. You’ll no longer have to go to the news; the news will come to you.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Of all the commercially available RSS readers — you can get a lightweight for free — FeedDemon is far and away the best. It is software without a flaw. At $29.95, it’s also a steal.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
You’ll find a description of FeedDemon’s features here; screen shots are here; and a free trial version available for download is here. (Requires Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or 2003, and IE 6 for integrated browsing.) Try it. If you don’t like it, delete it. But I’m betting you’ll like it.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
As ya’ll know, I rarely endorse commercial products. For one thing, that’s not the mission of this blog; for another, I don’t usually have the taste for it. But it’s just so very pleasant to find something useful that works as advertised and that comes at a fair price.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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I’m glad I work for the private sector
One of the great things about being a nurse is the variety of settings in which you can practice. But not all jobs are created equal. Here’s what it means to be a nurse for the Federal Bureau of Prisons:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The incumbent is required to shakedown inmates,* conduct visual searches of inmate work and living areas for contraband, and is responsible for immediately responding to any institution emergencies. The incumbent must be prepared and trained to use physical control in situations where necessary, such as in fights among inmates, assaults on staff, and riots or escape attempts.
Umm, hmm.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The “incumbent” is also expected to hold a master’s degree and to accept a truly pathetic salary. No wonder the position is open. Word: it’s going to stay open. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(*What, exactly, does that mean?)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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“An efficient economy produces sluggish, inefficient bodies”
Michael Rosenwald takes a look at why America is fatter than ever.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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January 8, 2006
AP-Ipsos poll is misleading
The distortion:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A majority of Americans want the Bush administration to get court approval before eavesdropping on people inside the United States, even if those calls might involve suspected terrorists, an AP-Ipsos poll shows.
The truth:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
… why did the pollsters load the survey with voters registered to the Democratic Party? That’s not mentioned in the AP story; you have to visit the Ipsos website and download an Adobe Acrobat file to see just who was questioned …
What you’ll see is that the poll is weighted to Democrats by a whopping 12 points. At best, a 4 point weighting is in order. The overrepresentation of Democrats is more than enough to account for the poll’s result since the undersampled Republicans were much more likely to say no warrant is required.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Also, 18% of the poll’s respondents are not even registered to vote. Although no data are provided on the political affiliation of these respondents, we can be confident that they are overwhelmingly Democrats; Republicans are the clerical set. So not only does the poll oversample Democrats, it also samples Democrats who don’t vote. If you don’t vote, your views are without political consequence, and people can — and should — ignore them.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I think one of the reasons Leftists are so angry is that the mendacious major media have them convinced that the American electorate is with them, and that they are on the verge of victory. And then when election day comes and things don’t turn out as advertised, their anticipation turns to bitterness.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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January 6, 2006
Dead is dead
This sort of commentary perpetuates a false impression. If a person is brain dead, he is dead. Full stop.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Here’s the explanation:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Brain death is defined as a complete and irreversible cessation of brain activity. Absence of apparent brain function is not enough. Evidence of irreversibility is also required. Brain death is often confused with the state of vegetation.
Traditionally, death has been defined as the cessation of all body functions, including respiration and heartbeat. Since it became possible to revive some people after a period without respiration, heartbeat, or other visible signs of life, as well as to maintain respiration and blood flow artificially using life support treatments, an alternative definition for death was needed. In recent decades, the concept of “brain death” has emerged. By brain death criteria, a person can be pronounced legally dead even if the heart continues to beat due to life support measures. [Emphasis in original.]
If you say or write that a person is brain dead, do not imply that he is alive but seriously ill. He is dead.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A person can be clinically dead, i.e. without a pulse or respirations, but not yet brain dead; of course, if clinical death is not presently reversed, brain death will follow.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In the days of controversy over whether her feeding tube should be removed, Terri Schiavo was not brain dead. She was in a persistent vegetative state.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
For those of us in health care who work with brain injured patients, these terms have precise meanings. It’s important that we maintain this precision. We are, after all, talking about life and death.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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January 4, 2006
Attention news junkies ...
You’ll want to bookmark this.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Tom Maguire; he has more.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 31, 2005
Happy new year, everyone!
May 2006 bring you health and happiness!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Over at The Malcontent, you can read the new year’s resolutions of some of your favorite gay bloggers. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Enjoy the holiday. I’ll see you Monday.
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December 26, 2005
The straight male as drama queen ...
It ain’t pretty.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 24, 2005
We love soldiers, yes we do!
From restaurant checks to first-class plane seats, we’re putting out for our troops: samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In contrast to the hostile stares that greeted many Vietnam veterans 40 years ago, today’s soldiers are being treated as heroes throughout the year, in red states and blue, by peace activists and gung-ho supporters of the Iraq mission. The gestures are often spontaneous, affiliated with no association or cause, and credit is seldom claimed.
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December 23, 2005
Bush pardons 11
Three moonshiners were among the recipients of today’s pre-holiday presidential pardons. Story and full list here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
To learn more about presidential pardons and how to get one if you, ah, need it, visit the web site of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney.*samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(*I should be more precise. You can learn from the DOJ how to apply for a presidential pardon. The odds of actually getting one, from this or any president, are rather long. Moreover, a president can grant pardons only for violations of federal law.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 16, 2005
Red rover, red rover
Bob Novak is an ass clown extraordinaire and now he’s leaving CNN and taking his antics to Fox:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Novak walked off the set in August during a political debate after James Carville said that he’s “got to show these right-wingers that he’s got a backbone.”
Novak quickly apologized, but CNN never let him back on the air.
Storming off the set at CNN is not the funniest thing Mr. Novak has ever done. The funniest thing he’s ever done was to suggest that Senate Democrats were attempting to kill the late Strom Thurmond, then frail and elderly, by voting him to death with repeated calls for cloture!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 15, 2005
A wookie sings
Let Chewbacca add a note to your Christmas.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Ace of Spades.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 14, 2005
People have to have something to bitch about
Planet Out:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
WASHINGTON — Gay and lesbian advocacy groups believe gay aging issues were purposefully left off the table in this week’s White House Conference on Aging.
The White House conference, held every 10 years, was strongly scripted this week to eliminate resolutions from the floor or other avenues for gay rights advocates to bring community concerns to light, gay organizational leaders said. They had hoped to broach issues like funding of elder care services for gays and lesbians and economic security for a growing number of gay seniors. [Emphasis added.]
Those are gay-specific issues? Who knew? Somebody tell these clowns to get off our turf.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 12, 2005
New York road rage
I thought ya’ll might enjoy these:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I still haven’t quit laughing.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to my bud Chris.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 4, 2005
Iraq wasn’t the first
We’ve gone to war before over bogus intelligence:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The murky events in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 propelled the United States into the Vietnam War. Over three days, the U.S. government reported two attacks on its destroyers. The first assault by North Vietnamese PT boats on August 2 provoked only a protest from Washington. On the cloudy night of August 4, two U.S. ships detected another apparent ambush. They fired their guns in response, claiming to have sunk several enemy boats. The incident prompted Lyndon Johnson to order airstrikes and obtain what amounted to a declaration of war from Congress.
Within a few years, though, public doubts grew about the second incident. There was no physical evidence of an attack, though Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara assured Congress in 1968 that the intelligence was “unimpeachable.” He was referring mostly to North Vietnamese naval communications intercepted by the National Security Agency. In 1984, a U.S. News cover story quoted two top intelligence officials from the period expressing strong doubts about those reports. (More here.)
Now, a newly declassified NSA study—and over 140 formerly top secret intelligence reports—confirm just how wrong McNamara was.
Read the rest.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The declassified Gulf of Tonkin documents are here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Sunday music video
[New video next Sunday]samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 3, 2005
Avian flu: is the worst happening?
If this is true — if we get credible confirmation — please remember these.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Take a moment now to look in your local yellow pages and figure out where you’ll get them. And if confirmation comes, do not tarry. It’s a prudent precautionary step in case trouble reaches our shores, and you and I won’t be the only ones taking it. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 1, 2005
President Bush has been summoned for jury duty
And he apparently intends to answer, having asked the court to reschedule his Monday duty date.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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November 27, 2005
Sunday music video
[New video next Sunday.]samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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November 25, 2005
“Proving that the United States military does much more than just kill people and break things”
Our guys and gals in uniform are doing good work in a lot of places, and I’m happy to oblige a request from one of them. Folks, go here please.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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“ ... the other day I bent over to file my corns & didn’t come up for air for 45 minutes”
Go now and let Jeff break you up. The dude’s a riot.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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November 24, 2005
Fabulous, boys! Fabulous!
A must-see video. Enjoy.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Gay Patriot.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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November 19, 2005
Quotable
He-he:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
For God’s sake, people: don’t stand right by the conveyor belt. Stand 7-8 feet back. That way we can all see whether our bags are coming — and I won’t have to kneecap you when I take my heavy bag off the belt.
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November 15, 2005
The world deserves better fraud
You know those bogus e-mails that litter your inbox with promises of riches if only you’ll divulge your bank account and PIN numbers? I got one today from a woman who’s dying of cancer and wants to will me $1.5 million:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I have been touched by God to donate from what I have inherited from my late husband to the you for the good work of God, rather than allow my relatives to use my husband hard earned funds ungodly.
Well, praise God!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Alas, she says I can’t come over in person to pick up a check (so as to begin my godly spending promptly), or even call to tell her how much I know the Lord (& Taylor’s) would appreciate her generosity:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the fact that my relatives are around me and my health status.
At the moment right now, her relatives and health status are keeping her off the phone, but not the Internet?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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November 13, 2005
Got Rome?
Reminder: a new episode of the HBO original series Rome airs tonight at 9 p.m. EST. An encore of last week’s episode airs at 8 p.m. EST.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
And here, from Right Wing Nation, a more informative review than the one I provided, praising the series’ historical accuracy.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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November 11, 2005
Rome
If you’re not watching the HBO original series Rome, you are missing some of the very finest programming on cable television. It’s utterly engrossing. The next episode, “The Spoils,” airs Sunday at 9 p.m. EST. See a promotional clip here. (You can see an encore presentation of last week’s episode, “Triumph,” at 8 p.m. EST.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
It’s not possible to bring you up to date on all the particulars if you’re joining the series only now. But in brief, Julius Caesar has vanquished the opposition in the Senate and assumed dictatorial powers. He plans an ambitious program of social reform. But as a tyrant, he has many enemies.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Magnificently acted on well-designed sets, Rome is truly must-see TV.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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November 2, 2005
Containing a flu pandemic
If the United States is hit with an outbreak of the deadly Asian bird flu, conventional infection control practices will play an important role in containing it:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
… the Pandemic Influenza Plan offers specific instructions to local health officials: The sick or the people caring for them should wear masks.
Tuck away this tidbit: the N95 respirator mask is the kind of mask they’re talking about. [Link provided for image only; not an endorsement of the supplier. — Ed. ] These are the masks we use in the hospital. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Should word come that the bird flu is making person-to-person transmission anywhere in the world — something that has not happened yet — take that as your cue to acquire a box of N95 masks. Your local medical supply house should carry them. You’ll need these masks if you have to care for anyone infected. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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October 30, 2005
“It’s very easy to just dismiss anything I say”
Indeed it is, Your Royal Highness.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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“If it’s true, that’s pretty reprehensible”
Government-issued MREs for hurricane victims find their way to eBay.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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“I Lied”
An accuser in the infamous McMartin molestation case comes clean.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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October 26, 2005
Sox sweep Astros for Series title
It would have been nice to win, of course, but I’m still glad Houston sent a team to the World Series.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Congrats to Chicago!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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October 24, 2005
Rosa Parks is dead
Associated Press (via MSNBC):samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
DETROIT — Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.
Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.
Mrs. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of American history and earn her the title “mother of the civil rights movement.” (Link)
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October 23, 2005
A prediction
Since everyone on TV this Sunday is predicting what Fitzgerald will do, let me predict that he is unlikely to indict Karl Rove. (Link)
Mark Levin also writes:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In any event, we need some answers to the underlying issues that were used to launch this investigation.
Yeah, like how about an answer to this: even if Valerie Plame was a covert agent, covered at the time by federal statute, who had her identity unlawfully* leaked by someone in the Administration, what was the motive for the leak? The liberals say she was outed to strike back at her lying husband, Joe Wilson. But how would outing her as a spy get back at him? Do Americans now think it discreditable to have a spouse who works for the clandestine service at the CIA? **samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(*For more on the law, go here.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(**Original text edited for clarity.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Help wanted: the successful applicant will read and write English
Charles Fried, Harvard law professor, solicitor general for the Reagan Administration and former justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, on why justices of the U.S. Supreme Court must be to able write English:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Once a conclusion has been reached it must be announced in an opinion setting out the circumstances, the competing considerations, and the reasons for that conclusion. Otherwise the parties will feel cheated and lower court judges, lawyers, and affected interests will have no guidance in dealing with the problem in the future.
[…]
… if the justice cannot write then someone is going to have to do that writing for the justice, and that will inevitably be the justice’s law clerks. Those law clerks almost to a person are wizards at untangling legal puzzles and masters at setting out the answers in precise if usually turgid and uncompelling prose. But they are also young graduates without wisdom, experience, or a constitutional mandate to help run the country. (Link)
It’s a measure of the sadness of our current predicament that a Harvard law professor must pen a review of the painfully obvious. And it’s a mark of the degradation of our culture that some consider a demand for rudimentary skills in a Supreme Court justice to be “snobby” or “elitist.”samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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October 21, 2005
This guy (or gal?) is killing me
“Pick Harriet” to see more!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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October 20, 2005
Today’s best reads (I)
News and commentary for the South Park conservative
“Bush’s faith plan faces judgment”
Washington Post
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But the judge’s 48-page opinion upheld the principle that a religious group can hire and fire employees on the basis of their religious beliefs and practices, even if their salaries come from taxpayer funds. That principle is at the heart of the Bush administration’s policy.
“U.S. gives Florida a sweeping right to curb Medicaid”
New York Times
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The Florida program, likely to be a model for many other states, shifts from the traditional Medicaid “defined benefit” plan to a “defined contribution” plan, under which the state sets a ceiling on spending for each recipient.
John Derbyshire
“Doomed, doomed”
The Corner
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It’s over, conservatives. Go home. Take a cab.
Jonah Goldberg
“Sigh: gloom and doom”
The Corner
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Derb - I think there are strains within that pessimistic cri de coeur which are probably true or at least very real concerns. But in general, I think that’s a pile of — what is it you grey rainy Brits call it? — rubbish.
Patterico
“Out on the ledge”
Patterico’s Pontifications
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One of two things is true. Miers either 1) expressed herself unclearly, in a way that fooled several legal scholars, or 2) believes that the Equal Protection Clause mandates proportional racial representation. Option #1 is not as bad as #2 — but it’s not great, either.
Dahlia Lithwick
“Makeup test: A questionnaire Harriet Miers can answer”
Slate
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If Jesus and President Bush got into a fight, who would win?
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October 15, 2005
Some people have no shame
From the transcript of White House spokesman Scott McClellan’s October 13 press briefing:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
QUESTION: Presuming that the President is grateful that Oprah Winfrey is giving $100,000 rewards for assisting in the capture of child molesters, could you tell us whether the White House has seen any evidence of support for Oprah’s action from the nation’s many homosexual organizations, or has there been silence or opposition?
MR. McCLELLAN: All right, next question. I’m not going to dignify that.
The question was put by Les Kinsolving, White House correspondent for World Net Daily, which has yet to deny that the Nation’s many heterosexual organizations oppose Oprah’s actions.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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The Faggot Family
“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”
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October 14, 2005
“It is really affecting my business. In summer no one wants to go out and sit in the back garden when it stinks.”
Real problems.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Kausfiles.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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October 12, 2005
What must our critics libel us?
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HOUSTON — Fliers are being distributed throughout Texas accusing gays fighting a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage of voter fraud.
The fliers claim that gay groups have been bussing out-of-state voters into Texas to register here and steal the election. The leaflets have been stuffed in mailboxes and left in public buildings, but no one is claiming responsibility for them.
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The Secretary of State’s office says it is closely watching for any unusual spikes in voter registration, but has not seen anything significant.
Please. Homosexuals do not ride in buses.* If no private conveyance is available, we hail a cab. Everyone knows that. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(*Exception is made for buses that are chartered, serving cocktails and headed to the beach.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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October 10, 2005
Quotable
Rogers Cadenhead on why Mr. Bush will not withdraw his nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The president’s so stubborn that were he captain of the Titanic, he would have run the ship into a second iceberg to prove he meant to hit the first one.
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October 2, 2005
U.N. wants control of Internet
And the E.U. wants it to have control.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Fortunately, the U.S. has told them both to go to hell:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
“We will not agree to the United Nations taking over management of the Internet,” said David Gross, a U.S. Department of State official …
And as long as the U.S. does not agree to it, it cannot happen.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(By the way, isn’t that nice? A simple, declarative sentence from a Government official …)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Editorial cartoon courtesy of Cox & Forkum.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 30, 2005
“If there is another New Orleans out there, the public should know about it and should have to think about it”
Well, there is another New Orleans out there. It is inevitable. And we’re thinking about it now as much as we were thinking then about the first New Orleans, which is to say: not much. We think about disasters after they happen. That’s just how we are.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A national Disaster Review Board that encourages people to move? Please.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 28, 2005
Breaking: Tom DeLay has been indicted
More in due course.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
UPDATE — Sorry for the absence of blogging this evening. But I’ve been trying to reconcile Tom DeLay’s indictment for criminal conspiracy — see Texas Penal Code § 15.02 — with the Texas Election Code, a violation of which is the alleged predicate of the conspiracy.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I’ll have more tomorrow. But for now suffice to say the indictment stinks. Per Paul Burka, editor of Texas Monthly:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I doubt that the case will go to trial. It would be a difficult and technical prosecution.
Yes, very difficult. Especially since no crime has been committed.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 27, 2005
And isn’t everybody entitled to the presumption of innocence anyway?
Baseball Crank:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
But based on what we know so far, there is absolutely zero reason to believe that Frist did anything wrong, or that he will or should be in any legal jeopardy.
Sen. Bill First, R-TN, is a sorry majority leader and a highly implausible presidential candidate. (His chances of winning the 2008 GOP nomination are only slightly better than my own.) But that doesn’t make him a crook — especially when, as the Crank explains well, there’s not now any basis for thinking he’s done anything wrong.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 25, 2005
Back in the saddle again
I’m back home. Power is restored. And at least a few gas stations are open and selling product.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Thanks to everyone who expressed their well wishes either by comment or e-mail. And thanks also to my friend Jim for all his hospitality.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 18, 2005
Is Sen. Mary Landrieu going to jail?
Probably not, I’d say; a U.S. senator can get away with this. But were you or I to commit the federal offense of physically threatening a president — not once, but twice, no less — we’d get a visit from the Men in Black.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 16, 2005
Attention prostitutes: do you offer handicapped ‘parking’?
You can’t make this stuff up. You don’t have to make it up …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Mickey.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 13, 2005
A deadly breach of trust
CNN:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
BATON ROUGE — The owners of St. Rita’s Nursing Home in St. Bernard Parish, where 34 people drowned as Hurricane Katrina hit, have been charged with negligent homicide, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. said Tuesday.
Foti told reporters that Mable B. Mangano and Salvador A. Mangano Sr. surrendered to Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigators in Baton Rouge, where they charged with 34 counts of negligent homicide and jailed prior to posting bond. Each count carries up to five years in prison.
“We feel we have criminal negligence,” Foti said. “They did not follow the standards of care that a reasonable person would follow in a similar circumstance.”
He said the owners had plenty of opportunity to move their charges out of the facility. The Manganos were asked if they wanted to evacuate the building and were offered buses; in addition, they had signed last April a contract with Acadian Ambulance to provide transportation in the event an evacuation was needed, Foti said, but “they were never called.”
Authorities in the parish east of New Orleans began retrieving the bodies of the 34 people from St. Rita’s on Wednesday, nine days after the storm hit and a huge storm surge consumed the home. (Link)
The report doesn’t indicate whether any registered nurses were on duty when the patients were abandoned to the flood waters. But if so, the state should charge them as well.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I’m an RN. I also happen to know that a couple of my readers are in nursing school; for their benefit, and for the general edification of the layman, this is how it works. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In my state — and, I assume, in every state — the registered nurse has a legal and moral duty to his patients. This duty exists independent of the physician’s duty, and of the hospital’s duty. If the physician or hospital fail to do what they’re required to do, this failure does not excuse the RN from doing what he’s required to do. The nurse may draw a check from the hospital (or other institution), but the nurse doesn’t work for the hospital. He works for the board of nurse examiners, which licensed him, and for the people of his state, who put their trust in him.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Once it became clear to the nurses on duty at St. Rita’s that the administrators, whether by decision or neglect, had no plans to evacuate their patients, the nurses should have sought independently to arrange for their evacuation. And when evacuation was no longer an option, the nurses should have remained with the patients — even though it meant putting their own safety at risk. That was their duty.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Most of my colleagues are extraordinarily conscientious about their responsibilities, which may explain why Gallup rather consistently finds nurses to be the most respected professionals in America. I’m deeply sorry that this appears not to have been the case here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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September 6, 2005
BREAKING: ‘Gilligan’ is dead
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September 3, 2005
Firefox 1.5 beta coming September 8
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August 28, 2005
Pray for New Orleans
This is serious:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I put the odds of New Orleans getting its levees breached and the city submerged at about 70%. This scenario, which has been discussed extensively in literature I have read, could result in a death toll in the thousands, since many people will be unable or unwilling to get out of the city. I recommend that if you are trapped in New Orleans tomorrow, that you wear a life jacket and a helmet if you have them. High rise buildings may offer good refuge, but Katrina has the potential to knock down a high-rise building.
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As I write this, Hurricane Katrina is approaching New Orleans. New Orleans is about 12 feet below sea level and has always lived under a death sentence of a nightmare scenario which may very well unfold in the next 12-18 hours. Basically, if Katrina’s storm surge causes Lake Ponchartrain to flood the levees surrounding the city, New Orleans will be under 30 feet of water.
Experts say that such a scenario could lead to a death toll in the tens of thousands. Some place the toll as high as 50,000-100,000. The city has no natural drainage and some estimate that it could take up to 10 months for the lake of the dead to drain.
In short, tomorrow could be one of the deadliest days in American History. (Link)
I hope he’s overstating the danger. We’ll know in a few hours.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Hugh Hewitt explains why in the aftermath of Katrina we may be paying $4 a gallon for gas.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
But right now I’m thinking about the people stuck in New Orleans, including my colleagues in health care. The doctors and nurses who were on duty when their hospitals declared an emergency would not have been allowed to leave at the end of their shift, at least not without losing their jobs and risking their careers. But they took an oath to care for their patients, and that’s what they’ll do, even though it means they can’t be with their own families or help them to evacuate. And now they’ll work around the clock, without relief. Pray for them. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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August 26, 2005
Do not call
CORRECTED
THIS POST HAS BEEN CORRECTED.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
At about this time next month, your cell phone provider is going to release your number to telemarketing companies and you may begin to receive sales calls. These calls will, of course, eat into your minutes.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
You can prevent this by adding your cell phone number to the Federal Trade Commission’s “do not call” registry. Dial 888-382-1222 from your cell phone. The process takes about 1 minute.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Alternatively, you can add your number to the registry at the Government’s “do not call” website. Once your number is registered, the block is good for five years.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
ADDED — An employee of Verizon Wireless sends e-mail to say that his company “will NOT be participating in this. Your Verizon Wireless number will remain unlisted.”samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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August 18, 2005
Sheehan leaves Crawford anti-war camp
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August 17, 2005
MALE PMS
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August 14, 2005
You can't make this stuff up
Houston police stopped a funeral procession to arrest the brother of the dead man and charge him with the dead man’s murder.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
But that’s not the best part of the story. The family advised police that “this was a family issue and not a police issue … and they were going to handle it internally.” samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I can’t quit laughing.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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August 13, 2005
Was Lawrence a set-up?
A forthcoming book, “Sex Appealed: Was the Supreme Court Fooled?,” explores what has long been rumored in Houston’s gay community, namely that the case resulting in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas was a set-up:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
… on the night of Sept. 17, 1998, Houston’s Harris County deputies on patrol got a message that a man with a gun was firing the weapon at a certain address. Proceeding there and receiving no answer when they called out who they were, the deputies drew their pistols and cautiously entered the apartment.Instead of someone with a gun, they encountered a man calmly talking on a phone in the kitchen. Then they opened the bedroom door and were stunned to see two men engaged in a sex act. What really shocked the officers, however, was the fact that the two men kept right on performing the sex act even after the deputies identified themselves and ordered them to stop. Finally, the deputies had to push and pull the two men apart. No gun or sign of shooting ever was found.
Now here’s the thing that has always piqued my curosity about the facts in Lawrence. As indicated above, deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Department were dispatched to answer a ‘man with a gun’ call. But the call came from Pasadena, Houston’s largest suburb, where John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were arrested. This means the caller/complainant dialed the sheriff’s department directly; otherwise, had he dialed 911, the call would have been routed to the city police.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A man is supposedly brandishing, if not discharging a weapon, and the caller either has handy or takes the time to look up the sheriff’s phone number — do you know your sheriff’s number? — rather than just dial 911? samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Moreover, what were sheriff’s deputies doing in Pasadena? I’ve lived in greater Houston all my life, and I grew up in the Pasadena/Deer Park area. So I know firsthand that sheriff’s deputies do not routinely patrol the incorporated cities; they patrol the unincorporated portions of the county. Now I’m not saying you’ll never see a sheriff’s deputy on patrol in the city. But it isn’t commonplace. Did these deputies have to travel from the county to John Lawrence’s apartment in Pasadena, or did they happen to already be in the city when the call came? And if so, what occasioned their presence in the city on that particular September night? And if not — if they had to travel from outside the city — shouldn’t they have called ahead to the local police, who could have arrived timely to the scene of a reportedly dangerous situation? samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The book, written by Janice Law, a former Houston criminal court judge, is still awaiting release by the publisher, so I haven’t read it yet. Perhaps she explores the role of the sheriff’s deputies. I hope so. I know I’ve always wanted to question them. For if Lawrence was indeed a set-up, as Judge Law and others believe, the conspirators could not have left the identity of the arriving officers to chance. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(NOTE — Content altered to correct my (consistent) misspelling of sheriff, and to correct my diction, from the incorrect “peaked” to the correct “piqued.”)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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August 11, 2005
The inhumanity of it all ...
Associated Press (via Yahoo News):samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. military plans to ease conditions for some detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — housing them in a renovated section with televisions, stereos and a view of the Caribbean, the detention center’s commanding officer said in court papers.
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August 7, 2005
So that explains it ...
Having always found the voices of men easier on the ear than those of women, I just wrote it off to being gay. But comes now word that it’s a guy thing, not a gay thing:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
LONDON — Men who are accused of never listening by women now have an excuse — women’s voices are more difficult for men to listen to than other men’s, a report said.The Daily Mail, quoting findings published in the specialist magazine NeuroImage, said researchers at Sheffield university in northern England discovered startling differences in the way the brain responds to male and female sounds.
Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, it said.
The Mail quoted researcher Michael Hunter as saying, “The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural ‘melody’ in their voices. This causes a more complex range of sound frequencies than in a male voice.”
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Good for the Ruskies
They got ‘em out:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Seven submarine crew members trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued Sunday after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away the undersea cables that had snarled the vessel.The seven crew members, whose oxygen supplies had been dwindling amid underwater temperatures in the mid-40s, appeared to be in satisfactory condition, naval spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said. The seven were being examined by ship medics, he said.
The sub surfaced late Sunday afternoon, some three days after becoming stranded in 600 feet of water off the Pacific Coast on Thursday.
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August 5, 2005
Sexiest World Leader
Notice: this is just a bit of Friday fluff and fun.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
At the request of Bridget Johnson at GOP Vixen, I participated in a survey (of mostly Republican bloggers) to determine the “sexiest world leader.” Judges ranked the “contestants” on a 1 to 10 scale, with the win going to the world leader who earned the highest composite score. To rule out partisan bias, President Bush was not eligible. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
See the sexiest world leader.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I gave my highest score to King Abdullah of Jordan — articulate, gracious, well-dressed and royal — and my lowest to Jacques Chirac of France. To quote judge Nancy Eisenhart of Republican Women Federated: “If he [Chirac] was the last man on Earth, celibacy would look good.” Indeed. The spineless and self-serving are never sexy.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 28, 2005
“Judge, she’s being dishonest ... I didn’t threaten her. I didn’t call her what she says I called her. I called her a chicken shit.”
Oh well, in that case …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to How Appealing.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 25, 2005
Foreign-born troops become U.S. citizens
As one for whom the blessing of American citizenship came as birthright, this is humbling: samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
BAGHDAD — A total of 147 foreign-born US military personnel serving in Iraq gathered inside a former Saddam Hussein palace to be granted US citizenship.In a mass ceremony the soldiers, sailors, and airmen, along with one marine and a navy medic, simultaneously raised their right hands and swore to “support and defend the constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
Those sworn in as US citizens came from 46 countries, with the single largest group born in Mexico (27), followed by the Philippines (15), Jamaica (nine) and Nicaragua (eight) and Nigeria (five).
Other nations of origin included China, India, Taiwan and Vietnam. There was even one Iraqi-born soldier.
The ceremony, in the giant indoor rotunda of the Al-Faw palace, in Baghdad’s Camp Victory military base, was led by Lieutenant General John Vines, the commander of the Multinational Corps in Iraq.
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“Welcome into that exclusive club called American citizenship,” Vines told the group.
Did you know that 45,000 permanent alien residents now serve in the U.S. armed forces? Since November 2003, the law has, quite rightly, made it easier for them to become citizens.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 23, 2005
“She cut the entire penis off. She left a tiny little nub.”
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July 21, 2005
"The politics of the warm fuzzy slaughter"
The city of Denver, Colorado is killing pets …samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 20, 2005
In case you were wondering ...
I couldn’t help but to notice during yesterday’s announcement that Mr. Bush was smirking more than usual. You noticed too, yes? Well, there was a reason for it. John Robert’s 4-year-old son, Jack, decided to break dance:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Another picture here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Might I suggest the White House disseminate these photos as widely as possible? Is there any better way to ingratiate the nominee with the American people?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to Michelle Malkin.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 15, 2005
A story of American compassion in Iraq
Houston Chronicle:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In the end, a 7-year-old Iraqi boy's long, dark eyelashes may have saved his life.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Kadhem Jawad Kathem [pictured here] is doing well after arriving in Houston last week and undergoing a five-hour operation Tuesday at Texas Children's Hospital to "replumb" his congenitally malformed heart, his surgeon said.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Purple-lipped when he arrived because of his heart's inability to adequately circulate blood through his lungs, Kadhem is showing normal blood-oxygen levels and will likely be well enough to go home in a month.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
"I am very grateful to everybody, to the American troops back in Iraq, to all Houstonians and I'm very grateful to the doctors who did the surgery" said the boy's father, Jawad Kathem, a 33-year-old mechanic from southern Iraq. Kathem, who speaks Arabic, spoke to the Associated Press through a translator.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In January, Kadhem met Maj. Brian Stevens, a civil affairs officer serving in Iraq with the Fort Worth-based 56th Brigade Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division, Texas National Guard. Stevens had arrived in a town in southern Iraq -- the exact location is confidential -- a month earlier, beginning a yearlong deployment to build schools and hospitals.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Kadhem's mother made a wrenching plea for her son, too weak to attend school or play. She gave Stevens X-rays and medical documents to take to a military doctor at the base.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
It was "those eyelashes" that captivated soldiers, said Chief Master Sgt. Gonda Moncada, Texas National Guard spokeswoman. "Obviously, many (Iraqi) children would benefit from surgery. We can't help them all."samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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From Kuwait, the boy traveled by commercial jet to Houston. While he went through tests and waited for his operation, Kadhem, who doesn't speak English, communicated with thumbs-up and thumb-down gestures. His fragile condition didn't keep him from developing a passion for video games at the hospital.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
According to the Chronicle, it took a lot of effort on the part of our troops to get Kadhem out of Iraq and to Houston. Those men and women are heros. And kudos to the world-class Texas Children's Hospital, Dr. Charles Fraser Jr. and Kadhem's other physicians, who took the case pro bono.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 13, 2005
"It was too freaky for me"
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DALLAS -- The body of a Louisiana man strapped to a gurney fell from the back of a pickup truck Tuesday onto a south Dallas highway and into the path of oncoming traffic.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver"I didn't think it was possible for that to happen," said Mary Ellen Douglas, who was driving to work when she saw what she initially thought was a package that had fallen from a truck. "I wanted to get out of there. It was too freaky for me," she said in a story in Wednesday's editions of The Dallas Morning News.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Authorities said the driver was carrying the body to a Shreveport, La., funeral home after the man died Monday at a Mesquite hospital.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
"The driver of the truck was not aware that he had lost the body," Dallas police Lt. Rick Andrews said. "He saw the open door. He stopped and looked. He turned around, went back and retraced his steps and found the body."samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Drivers swerved to avoid the corpse and gurney.
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July 12, 2005
Hang up the damn phone and drive
By the way, using a hands-free phone isn't any safer. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 10, 2005
The history of Al-Qaeda's terror
It began, of course, long before the election of George Bush or the liberation of Iraq.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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July 3, 2005
Winner of ugly dog contest
And deservedly so ...samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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(Thanks to jozjozjoz, via Professor Bainbridge, who opines that "[t]he poor pup looks like something demonic ... ")samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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June 26, 2005
"The Internet today is buckling"
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June 21, 2005
Who knew?
"Cellphones take up driver attention, study finds" -- Reuters headlinesamsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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"What torments me almost to madness ..."
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June 17, 2005
Friday night ass clown blogging: Aguilera music as torture
Underneath Their Robes:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
You have requested our opinion whether the federal criminal prohibition against torture codified at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A prohibits playing the music of Christina Aguilera ("Aguilera") to a detainee under interrogation. For the reasons stated below, we conclude that the statutory prohibition does bar the playing to a detainee of some Aguilera songs, but not others.
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June 14, 2005
Sad and demented
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BOISE -- The Kansas preacher who tried to erect an anti-gay monument in a Boise city park says he's coming to Idaho this week to picket the funeral of a fallen soldier.samsung sgh-p510 irda driverFred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, says God killed Idaho National Guard Corporal Carrie French with an improvised explosive device. Phelps says God is retaliating against America for a bombing of his church six years ago.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
French was a 19-year-old Caldwell High School graduate and varsity cheerleader. She was killed June 5 in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk by an improvised explosive device.
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June 13, 2005
Who knew?
"Appetite loss for elderly not a good sign" -- AP headlinesamsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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June 10, 2005
Friday dog blogging
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June 8, 2005
Now this is tip-worthy service
Associated Press:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
TAMPA -- A robbery attempt by a masked man and a gunshot wound to the leg didn't stop a pizza delivery man from making his rounds, pies in hand.samsung sgh-p510 irda driverThomas Stefanelli, 37, said dedication to his job at Hungry Howie's Pizza kept him on the job after a struggle with a robber Saturday night left him bleeding from a bullet wound in his left thigh. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Stefanelli arrived at a home only to realize it was vacant, police said. The masked man approached Stefanelli, pointed a gun and demanded money. Stefanelli said he fought with the man, and two shots were fired. One hit Stefanelli, but he did not immediately notice. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Stefanelli finally noticed his wound. His cell phone wasn't working, so he drove to his next delivery address, dropped off the pie and called his boss to ask him to call the police. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Stefanelli went on to make three more deliveries.
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June 1, 2005
"Together, you and I will destroy the gays"
Crank up your Windows Media Player: this stuff is hysterical.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 29, 2005
Nanny state: female body "obscene"
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NASHVILLE -- A mother faces criminal charges after she hired a stripper to dance at her 16-year-old son's birthday party. Anette Pharris, 34, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and involving a minor in obscene acts. The boy's father, the stripper and two others also face charges. "I tried to do something special for my son," Pharris said. "It didn't harm him."samsung sgh-p510 irda driverAbout 10 people under the age of 18 were at the birthday party in September, including minors who were not related to the family, authorities said.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Police spokesman Don Aaron said minors are not permitted in adult establishments.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
"A person shouldn't be allowed to circumvent that law by hiring a stripper, a lady who took all her clothes off and spent a good amount of time dancing around minors," he said.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Anette Pharris took photos at the party and tried to have them developed at a nearby drug store. Drug store employees notified authorities, police said.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
"Who are they to tell me what I can and can't show to my own children?" the mother said.
After reading the first sentence of the lead paragraph, I half expected to learn that the boy was gay and that the mother had been arrested for a hate crime. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Tell me: to work in a drug store, do you have to be a killjoy?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 27, 2005
Careening to a ban on the broom handle
Scotsman:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Long, pointed kitchen knives should be banned as part of a concerted effort to reduce the terrible injuries and deaths caused by stabbing attacks, doctors warned today.samsung sgh-p510 irda driverAccident and emergency medics claim the knives serve no useful purpose in the kitchen but are proving deadly on the streets of Britain, with the doctors claiming the knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The doctors claimed they had consulted leading chefs who said the knives were not needed for cooking - a claim disputed by chefs contacted by The Scotsman. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Latest figures from the Scottish Executive show that in 2003, 55 of 108 homicide victims were stabbed by a sharp instrument - often a kitchen knife.
Well, imagine that. Ban guns and hoodlums still find a way to assault or kill people. Who knew?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Writes Alpha Patriot:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Next will be fireplace pokers, heavy frying pans and any sporting equipment made for bashing a ball. Then hammers and screwdrivers. Then . . . ah well, you get the point.
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May 16, 2005
Legal footnotes in the era of rap
Footnote 1 in the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in United States v. Murphy:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
1 The trial transcript quotes Ms. Hayden as saying Murphy called her a snitch bitch hoe. A hoe, of course, is a tool used for weeding and gardening. We think the court reporter, unfamiliar with rap music (perhaps thankfully so), misunderstood Haydens response. We have taken the liberty of changing hoe to ho, a staple of rap music vernacular as, for example, when Ludacris raps You doin ho activities with ho tendencies.
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May 11, 2005
"US snipers were visible on rooftops"
In the wake of yesterday's security scare during Mr. Bush's visit to Georgia, the BBC reports on the lengths to which the U.S. goes to protect its president:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
From the moment a trip is discussed in the White House, secret service agents begin looking at the various security scenarios. Plans are worked and re-worked, taking in changing intelligence information. Advance teams of agents are then dispatched to the various destinations on the president's itinerary.samsung sgh-p510 irda driverWhen the president does finally turn up, he does so with a small air force, a massive entourage and a motorcade of armour-plated vehicles. These include the president's bullet-proof limo, a military ambulance and a communications van packed with state-of-the art devices. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The mobile armoury in the presidential cavalcade often includes a piece of military hardware called a "mini-gun," which is fired from a tank and can kill dozens of people. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Around 250 heavily-armed secret service agents, dozens of advisers from the National Security department and teams of sniffer dogs escort Mr Bush on most foreign trips. White House cooks join government political aides. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
"When the president travels, the White House travels with him from the cars he drives, the water he drinks, the gasoline he uses, the food he eats," says John Barletta, former secret service agent for Ronald Reagan, who organised overseas visits.
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May 10, 2005
Homosexual Republican mayor takes leave amid sex probe
Reuters:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane's Republican mayor took a leave of absence on Monday after officials seized a city computer in his home to investigate whether he used it illegally to solicit sex on gay Web sites.
Mayor James West, 54, a former state legislator known for his strong positions against gay rights and teen sex, said in a statement last week that he had explored homosexual relationships online. But he described himself as a "law-abiding citizen" said he had not broken the law.
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Spokane's morning newspaper, the Spokesman-Review, reported last week that West had sexually abused two boys 25 years ago, when they were members of West's Boy Scout troop.
The newspaper also said that West had tried to arrange a sexual liaison with a 17-year-old boy on Gay.com. The newspaper hired a consultant posing as a gay high-school student to arrange a meeting with the mayor.
After the stories appeared, West acknowledged in his statement that he had been leading "a double life" as a homosexual, but denied the newspaper's molestation claims.
Sad, no?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 8, 2005
Welcome radio listeners!
If you found this site by way of the Todd Feinburg Show, welcome! Here's the story you're looking for.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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May 1, 2005
"Looks like there are some L.A. residents who are not taking reconquista lying down"
What is it that "my people" say? Oh, yeah: Fabulous! Fabulous!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Crme de la crme: the top 20 political websites
John Hawkins at Right Wing News asks bloggers what political websites they would read if, in the next year, they could read only 20 (and the links therefrom). My answers, in no particular order:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In compliance with John's request, I list here a mere 20 blogs. But in fact, I keep daily tabs on more than 100. I also follow dozens of legacy media outfits. The only efficient way to manage that kind of volume is with an RSS reader. I recommend FeedDemon. Unlike other RSS readers, FeedDemon isn't free. But you get what you pay for.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Several of the sites above you will of course recognize. But for the ones you don't, may I recommend a bookmark (or an RSS subscription)? In no case will you be disappointed.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 28, 2005
Understanding legal citations
If, like me, you're not a lawyer but have an avocational interest in occasionally reading court opinions, you might find the many legal citations baffling.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Luckily, the Boston College Law Library offers a handy 4-page guide to help us out.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 20, 2005
Order in the court: judge fines man for yawning
And then he tells the man not to talk about the yawn, claiming it was "privileged information." samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Umm, hmm.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Of course, I wasn't there; I didn't hear the yawn. Maybe it was, as the judge asserted, "very loud" and "downright disruptive." But my first impression is that His Honor is a bit of an ass. Judge for yourself.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to The Legal Reader.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 5:31 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
April 12, 2005
Now and again, the love of the religious right meets the tolerance of the secular left
Mountain Democrat:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Dressed in a devil suit, anti-gay activist Dick Otterstad and five other protesters stood outside the El Dorado County Office of Education and Indian Creek Elementary School Friday morning to oppose a "Teaching Tolerance/Safe Schools Workshop" put on for teachers by the Office of Education.
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When asked about his choice of wardrobe, Dick Otterstad told the Mountain Democrat, "I figure it's appropriate. This school is promoting perversity. I figure that's something the devil would do."
However, he wasn't the only one that morning to voice an opinion.
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Todd Schwenk, a concerned parent and politician who unsuccessfully ran for the California State Assembly last year, took it upon himself to personally counteract the protesters.
He found himself in cuffs, arrested briefly by sheriff's deputies, after allegedly stopping his car in a no-stopping zone in front of the protesters while blasting Green Day's tune "Idiot America" on his car stereo.
He was released after being given a traffic citation.
Undeterred, Schwenk put together a make-shift sign of four letters reading "LIAR," and stood next to Otterstad yelling, "This man's a liar! He lies in the name of the Lord!"
He was answered by Otterstad's shouts, "This man's a pervert! There's a pervert workshop going on!"
(Thanks to Freespace.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 9, 2005
These things have a way of getting out of hand
I remember vividly sitting several years ago in the audience of a U.S. scientific conference where a researcher from the University of Alabama at Birmingham explained how Simian Immunodeficiency Virus made the leap to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and from there to pandemic. It was a riveting account, and it leads me even now to find stories like this one worrisome.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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April 1, 2005
This is nice work if you can get it, and I'd like to get it
An independent prosecutor has spent in excess of $21 million -- including more than $1.26 million just last year -- on an investigation that started 10 years ago. Appointed in 1995, David M. Barrett was originally charged with determing whether Henry Cisneros, then the Secretary of Housing, had lied to the FBI about money he had given to a woman who had answered his booty calls.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Mr. Cisneros pled guilty, paid a fine and was subsequently pardoned by President Clinton, and the independent counsel statute under which Mr. Barrett was appointed long ago expired. Moreover, his overseers told Mr. Barrett in March 2003 to knock it off. And yet here it is, two years later, and the man is still in business:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
They're, quote-unquote, writing the final report. That's what we were told.
Do any of my lawyer readers know how I can reach Mr. Barrett? I'm tired of getting up everyday and working for a living, and I'd very much like to get in on this action. I can write, and I'm hopeful Mr. Barrett might have an opening on his staff. Please send e-mail; your confidentiality is assured.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 11:56 AM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
March 29, 2005
Report: Americans underpaying their taxes
Associated Press:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Americans' unpaid taxes are now topping $300 billion a year, with people who underreport their income the biggest culprits.
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The report Tuesday estimated the gap [between taxes owed and taxes paid] at $312 billion to $353 billion for 2001, about 15 percent of the total taxes owed. Taxpayers were slightly less likely to comply with tax laws than they had been at the time of the latest previous study, completed in 1988.
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The majority of unpaid-tax cases involved individuals, not businesses. Among the people who contributed to the tax gap, most understated their income, especially business income.
Excessive deductions, exemptions, credits and other adjustments accounted for $25 billion to $30 billion of the tax gap.
For three years now, I've used the software package TurboTax to file my federal return. Among other features, TurboTax allows you to compare your deductions to the average deductions taken by taxpayers in your income bracket. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The numbers no longer faze when they pop up on my screen. But the first year TurboTax apprised me of the average deductions claimed by my peers, I laughed uproariously. "Sickly but philanthropic, aren't we?!"samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 24, 2005
Ass clown fails sobriety test
Boston Globe:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
When Diane Viza got into an argument with her son over whether she was sober, she drove to the local police station asked to take a sobriety test. That turned out to be a bad idea.
The 45-year-old woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after she showed up at the police station in the Orleans County village of Albion and asked officers to administer a breath test.
The unusual request came after she had picked up her son at a friend's house and got into an argument with him because he suspected she had been drinking.
Gee, I wonder why the boy drinks?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 9:16 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Poll: majority, including most evangelicals, say Congress wrong to intervene in Schiavo case
Associated Press:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
More than two-thirds of people who describe themselves as evangelicals and conservatives disapprove of the intervention by Congress and President Bush in the case of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the center of a national debate.
A CBS News poll found that four of five people polled opposed federal intervention, with levels of disapproval among key groups supporting the GOP almost that high.
The poll's internals, in pdf format, are here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Among other questions, respondents were asked:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
"What do you think should have happened in this case -- should the feeding tube have been removed or should it have remained?"samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
| What should have been done? | % TOTAL | % MEN | % WOMEN |
| Tube removed | 61 | 62 | 59 |
| Tube left | 28 | 28 | 29 |
| Don't know/no opinion | 11 | 10 | 12 |
And, "What should happen now? Should the tube be re-inserted, or not?"samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
| What should be done now? | % TOTAL | % MEN | % WOMEN |
| Tube re-inserted | 27 | 25 | 28 |
| Not re-inserted | 66 | 69 | 62 |
| Don't know/no opinion | 7 | 6 | 10 |
Meanwhile, for commentary on whether this is just another "push poll for euthanasia," over to you, Ed. Ed pooh-poohed this ABC News poll for failing to make clear to respondents that Mrs. Schiavo's only medical support was from a feeding tube, and not from a ventilator. The CBS poll makes that clear -- as if people didn't know it -- and the results are unchanged.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 12:36 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
March 23, 2005
"Can we please stop using the term 'push poll' to describe every survey we consider objectionable?"
Posted by Paul at 7:12 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Americans get a lesson: put it in writing
Posted by Paul at 5:42 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
March 21, 2005
Background on Judge Whittemore
Learn more here about the Hon. James Whittemore of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida; Judge Whittemore is the jurist who will hear the Schiavo case at 3 p.m. EST today.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 19, 2005
Rule: in every field of life, people protect the prerogatives of their colleagues
... it's how they protect their own prerogatives.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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March 12, 2005
This doesn't support the "Michael Schiavo is motivated by money" meme
Posted by Paul at 3:31 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
March 11, 2005
Poll: two out of three Americans do not know words to national anthem
"The Star-Spangled Banner:" samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Posted by Paul at 11:09 AM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
February 19, 2005
Quotable
Aldous Huxley, English novelist (1894 - 1963):samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
Posted by Paul at 11:35 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
New York HIV case may not be harbinger of "supervirus"
Did last week's report that a New York gay man had been infected with an HIV superstrain hearld the emergence of a new, more virulent epidemic? Maybe not:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The virulent and highly drug-resistant case of AIDS recently found in a New York City man is similar in some ways to two Canadian cases that appeared in 2001 and did not lead to the spread of a "supervirus," as some fear may happen in New York.
The Canadian cases turned out to be readily treatable despite their worrisome features. The infected patients -- two men who had no contact with each other -- are alive and in good health, said the physician who treated them. He originally described the unusual findings two years ago in a medical journal.
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The dramatic downhill course the New York patient took could have meant that his HIV was especially virulent, but it could equally reflect preexisting weakness in his immune system that has nothing to do with the strain of virus.
"We know the whole progression to disease is multifactorial. It has to do with the patient, and it has to do with the virus. We don't know yet why some viruses cause rapid disease and some don't," said Miguel Quiones-Mateu, a virologist at the Cleveland Clinic.
Posted by Paul at 10:21 AM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Give those judges a treat
The Nebraska Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution -- to a dog.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The court's opinion, in pdf format, is here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to How Appealing.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 14, 2005
Finally, accurate reporting from CNN
Go to CNN's website, enter the words "fat chance" in the search bar, select "CNN.com" (as opposed to "The Web") and hit enter.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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Howard Dean promised cheering supporters Wednesday night he would harness their energy to lead the Democratic Party back to power in the halls of Congress and the White House by 2008.
(Thanks to the guys at Glock Talk.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 12, 2005
It's really not the same, is it?
In an effort to be congratulatory, I remarked today to a liberal Democratic friend and Howard Dean supporter: "Well, your man is chairman of the DNC now."samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
With eyes rolling, he replied: "Yes, and your man is commander in chief." samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Touch.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 7, 2005
Best ad of the Super Bowl
If by chance you haven't seen the Anheuser-Busch salute to our troops, which aired yesterday during the Super Bowl, it's here. Classy. And very moving.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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February 5, 2005
Exit polling in Iraq
LOL!samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The final votes in the Iraqi elections haven't been counted, but the early results of the Edison/Mitofsky exit poll has John Kerry leading by 3 points. Stay tuned.
Posted by Paul at 2:32 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
February 2, 2005
Court says web publishers not liable for visitors' comments
Here's a court decision with potentially important implications for bloggers:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Web site operators are not liable for electronic messages posted by anonymous visitors, even if the content of the postings is intentionally malicious or potentially libelous, an appeals court ruled Monday.
The Appellate Division of New Jersey Superior Court ruled that Stephen Moldow, whose "Eye on Emerson" Web site contained information on local government activities and included a discussion forum, was immune from liability under a provision of federal communications law. The panel's decision affirmed a ruling by a lower court.
The court's opinion, in PDF format, is here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The federal statute on which the case turned, 47 U.S.C § 230, is here.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I don't get a lot of comments -- I'm convinced most readers don't leave comments on blogs -- but I will delete any comment I think libelous, even if, as this ruling suggests, I couldn't be held liable for it. Fortunately, in the 11 months since I started this blog, I've had only one occasion to delete a comment that was defamatory in nature. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to How Appealing.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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January 28, 2005
Was she offended or titillated?
You've heard the old joke about the woman who calls the police complaining that a neighbor is exposing himself. The officer arrives, looks out her window and informs the woman that he can see nothing. To which she replies, "Well, you can if you stand up on this box."samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
You might think that woman exists only as a figment of tacky humor. But in fact she's alive and well and living in Canada: samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
The woman said she spotted Clark while she was watching television with her two young daughters in their family room.
She alerted her husband, and the couple observed Clark from their darkened bedroom for 10 or 15 minutes -- also using binoculars and a telescope -- before summoning the police ...
The Supreme Court of Canada yesterday overturned Mr. Clark's conviction for indecency.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
By the way, having had his member disparaged by the suggestion that it's viewable only by telescope, I wonder if Mr. Clark can now sue for slander.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 4:17 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
January 26, 2005
In defense of Gallagher
You are by now aware of the story, but here's the recap:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.
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But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal.
In her own defense, Ms. Gallagher wrote today:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
To me, this is an extremely serious charge. It is also completely false. I was not paid to promote the Presidents marriage proposal. In 2001 I was approached by HHS to do research and writing, not on the Presidents $300 million marriage initiative, but on marriage: specifically four brochures on the social science evidence on the benefits of marriage for populations serviced by HHS (such as unwed parents), a draft of an essay for Wade Horn, and a training presentation on the social science evidence on the benefits of marriage for regional HHS managers.
Anybody who's familiar with her work knows that Ms. Gallagher has been writing for years about marriage and families. Here's a piece she authored in 1997 -- well before the Bush administration came to town -- calling for an end to no-fault divorce. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
She's a writer, a social scientist and a policy expert. She didn't go to the Government; it came to her. And she wasn't paid to write in favor of a particular program or piece of legislation. She was paid to write broadly about the benefits of marriage.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
But Ms. Gallagher does have a syndicated column -- wherein, to my knowledge, she's never written about anything other than marriage and families -- and so I suppose that makes her a "journalist," broadly defined, which means she should have disclosed when she got a Government contract. But as she notes:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
It is not uncommon for researchers, scholars, or experts to get paid by the government to do work relating to their field of expertise. Nor is it considered unethical or shady: if anything, government funded work is considered a mark of an experts respectability. Until today, researchers and scholars have not generally been expected to disclose a government-funded research project in the past, when they later wrote about their field of expertise in the popular press or in scholarly journals.
For these reasons, it simply never occurred to me there was a need to disclose this information. I certainly had no intention or motive to hide my work from anyone. As a journalist, however, when the question is raised "Should you have disclosed?" the answer is always, yes. It was a mistake on my part not to have disclosed any government contract. It will not happen again.
I believe that it just never occurred to her to disclose, and I believe she won't make the same "mistake" again. I hope we let that be the end of it.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 9:54 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Stick figure drawings get two boys charged with felony
Good grief:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Two boys were arrested for making pencil-and-crayon stick figure drawings depicting a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. The children, charged with a felony, were taken from school in handcuffs.
The 9- and 10-year-old boys were arrested Monday and charged with making a written threat to kill or harm another person. They were also suspended from school.
One drawing showed the two boys standing on either side of the other boy and "holding knives pointed through" his body, according to a police report. The figures were identified by written names or initials.
A felony? For stick figure drawings by 10 year-old boys?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Please people. Get off the sauce and get help. Please.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 9:16 AM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
January 24, 2005
Sex crimes: going beyond the 'Full Monty'
Houston Chronicle:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Nonetheless, the issue [allowing cops to get naked to make arrests for prostitution] has been divisive in many communities, particularly in cases in which officers have allowed prostitutes to touch their genitals or have engaged in sex acts with prostitutes.
Houston police, who are now disrobing to get prostitutes to negotiate a sale price, insist they will not bone the ones they arrest. But I say if you bake a pie, somebody is going to have a slice.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 12:50 AM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
January 15, 2005
After all, Virginia is for lovers
Attention singles: you may now legally fornicate in Virginia.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 30, 2004
Blogging etiquette: the vacant trackback
In the past, it happened only rarely and I just ignored it. But now it happens a little more often. I refer here to "vacant trackbacks," the practicing of pinging a blog without making any reference to it in the entry from which the ping is sent.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
This morning I followed a trackback to my post on Mississippi abortion clinics. But the entry to which the trackback took me makes no mention whatsoever of either my post or my blog. So why did the author ping? Beats me.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
If you write something in response to what another blogger has written and you want to draw the other blogger's attention to your work, just send him an e-mail; don't send him a vacant trackback. Trackbacks are used to give credit where it's due or to expand discussion of a post. Accordingly, any time you send a trackback, your own entry should include a hyperlink to the post to which you're tracking back. Otherwise, there is no point in it.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
I've already deleted this morning's vacant trackback, and henceforth that's what I'll do with any others I get. If you just want me to read your post, send an e-mail and ask. I'll be glad to do it.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 7:34 AM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
December 27, 2004
Conservative students protest liberal indoctrination
There's a new push for diversity and academic freedom in the classroom, but this time it's coming from conservatives:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In many ways, the trend echoes past campus conflicts but turns them around. Once, it was liberal campus activists who cited the importance of "diversity" in pressing their agendas for curriculum change. Now, conservatives have adopted much of the same language in calling for a greater openness to their viewpoints.
Posted by Paul at 4:41 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
December 17, 2004
This page best viewed in Firefox
If you're using Firefox -- and according to my Statcounter, a third of you are -- meet the Florida teenager who brought it to you. If you're not using Firefox, click the image and get it free. You'll be glad you did.
Posted by Paul at 4:10 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
December 14, 2004
Miller signs up as Fox News contributor
U.S. Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., who did not seek re-election and whose term ends in January, has signed on as a contributor to Fox News. (Link requires registration.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Other than his fiery speech at the Republican National Convention in support of President Bush, Sen. Miller is probably best known for challenging Chris Matthews of MSNBC's "Hardball" to a duel.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
No matter how many times I watch that video -- if by chance you haven't seen it, click the image -- it still makes me laugh.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 13, 2004
Gay men in Canada hit by deadly bacterial outbreak
CTV Canada is reporting a deadly outbreak of meningococcal C infections among gay men:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A deadly bacterial infection outbreak has medical officials in B.C. urging gay men there to get vaccinated against it.
"We think we're seeing the beginning of an outbreak in gay men in B.C. and if we nip it in the bud, we can save a lot of people some grief," said Dr. David Patrick of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control.
Since October, three men have died as a result of meningococcal C disease. Four others have become ill but recovered.
There have been 19 cases detected all year. Sixteen of those occurred in men.
The infection, caused by the meningococcus bacterium, can strike very suddenly. It can cause brain damage and death. Symptoms include high fever, headache and a stiff neck.
The culprit, meningococcus bacterium, is spread by saliva.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 10:57 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
December 12, 2004
A president and his faith
"They're not code words; they're our culture." samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Chief speechwriter Michael Gerson defends the president's use of a religious vocabulary.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 10:21 AM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
December 8, 2004
Army court overturns sodomy conviction
Washington Post:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
A military appeals court has overturned the conviction of a soldier for consensual sodomy in a decision that gay rights activists are hailing as an important legal victory removing some of the barriers to homosexual activity in the armed forces.
The decision from the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals comes in the case of United States v. Bullock.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Interestingly, the case itself does not involve homosexual conduct. Kenneth Bullock, an Army specialist, was convicted of violating Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice after receiving a blow job in military barracks from a female civilian.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
From the transcript:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
MJ: So you had sexual intercourse with her in the
barracks' room and during the course of having
intercourse with her you had oral sodomy with her?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
ACC: Yes, ma'am.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
MJ: Tell me exactly what part of your body went into
what opening in her body?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
ACC: My penis into her mouth, ma'am.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
MJ: And you actually penetrated her mouth with your
penis?samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
ACC: Yes, ma'am.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
MJ: Do you agree that, as I read that definition to you,
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ACC: Yes, ma'am.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
It might be "unnatural carnal copulation," but there is some evidence, now old, that Republicans -- or at least Republicans of college age -- do not believe that oral sex is really sex.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
(Thanks to How Appealing.)samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 6:56 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
December 6, 2004
Excesses of the PC: the transgendered Muslim
In an otherwise unnotable fluff piece on homosexuals Muslims, the Houston Voice, a gay weekly, demonstrates the stupefying, reality-averse lengths to which political correctness now goes:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
In many countries where religion is the law, being gay can carry a heavy sentence. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who are discovered are imprisoned, tortured, and killed. [italics added]
For the uninitiated, a transvestite (see Tim Curry, left, as Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show) is a person who adopts the dress and mannerisms of the opposite sex. A transsexual (or "transgendered person"), on the other hand, is one who identifies with the opposite sex so strongly as to undergo medical treatment -- often culminating in surgical removal of the twig and berries -- to change his physical appearance. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Although figures are unavailable -- a Google search was fruitless (no pun intended) -- I'm thinking that post-operative transsexuals are unknown to Muslim societies. Of all the things for which, say, Saudi Arabia is known, sex reassignment surgery isn't one of them. samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
For reasons that even I as a gay man cannot explain, "transgendered persons" are now considered part of the gay and lesbian community; accordingly, the diversity-worshipping PC requires that all references to gays and lesbians incorporate not only the "bisexual," but also the "transgendered." This is true even when, as in the case of the transgendered Muslim, the reference is absurd on its face.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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December 4, 2004
From humble origins: the stories of the Bush cabinet
According to the Chicago Tribune, most of Mr. Bush's cabinet appointees share in common a personal trait: grit.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
If there is a pattern in President Bush's choices for key posts in his second term, it's that the people he has selected often have extraordinary personal stories of having succeeded after overcoming great obstacles.
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The president hails from an elite family and attended Yale and Harvard Universities. But he was raised in West Texas and appears drawn to people whose life stories show they achieved beyond most expectations, say experts who have studied Bush's presidency and life.
My favorite story is of the cabinet nominee who was abandoned in early childhood by his mother, a convicted prostitute. But he made it anyway.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 7:19 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
December 2, 2004
Kissing co-workers
Is it okay? A presidential peck ignites a national conversation over kissing colleagues. Not surprisingly, opinion is divided.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Posted by Paul at 8:55 PM samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
Prison pulls violent video games
Inmates at a maximum-security prison in Missouri can no longer play video games "in which players use everything from meat hooks to silencer-equipped pistols to carry out brutal contract killings," among other things.samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
According to one criminal justice professor:samsung sgh-p510 irda driver
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