Bush Jr. Save Us

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Lieberman as the Democratic Party candidate?  The Democrats do know that 
he's Jewish, right?  And a Republican?  As long as they know.

With the anniversary of Roe V. Wade upon us, I'm still trying to figure 
out why anyone would care if I aborted a pregnancy.  It's not hurting 
you.  It's helping you.  It's keeping your property taxes down because 
it's one less kid you have to send through school.  It's keeping the 
environment clean because it's one less kid who's driven around in an 
SUV and whose disposable diapers are going into landfills.  It's keeping 
your streets safe because it's one less unwanted kid looking for 
trouble.  It's helping to guarantee your kid a spot in Harvard's 
freshman class because it's one less kid as competition.

What's the problem?

We all tolerate laws or actions we might disagree with but recognize as 
largely benefitting us in the long term.  You might be morally opposed 
to abortion, but look at all of the benefits you receive.  Unless you 
want to send your kids to an overcrowded, run-down, eco-hazard school 
where my unloved hooligan beats the shit out of them daily.  Maybe I 
should reconsider this no kids thing.

I want to update.  I do.  But where to begin?  There's so much going on, 
and my attention span couldn't last through even half of "Lord of the 
Rings: Two Towers."  

You've got the situations in Iraq and North Korea.

Why does America pursue military action against Iraq but a course of 
diplomacy with North Korea?  Because Saddam Hussein is your 
run-of-the-mill dictator, chemical weapon attacks aside.  Boring, 
boring.  Flexing one's muscles is what someone like Saddam understands 
and respects.  He's our kind of dictator, the one Steven Seagal or 
Arnold Schwarzanegger could bring down in a 90-minute movie.

Kim Jong Il wears his hair in a pompadour and has amassed the world's 
largest collection of Daffy Duck cartoons.  Even Rumsfeld doesn't want 
to tangle with a guy who starves and tortures his people and kills 
anyone who doesn't agree his "You're desthpicable" impression is the 
best in the world.

If a 6-foot tall bully threatens to kick your ass, you might be tempted 
to fight, but if the 6-foot bully is also naked, wearing a plastic bag 
on his head, carrying a sword covered with Powerpuff Girl stickers and 
threatening to slit you wide open if you don't give him a box of Animal 
Crackers, your first instinct probably wouldn't be to throw the opening 
punch.

Two wacky dictactors, two methods of containing them.

(Oh, and oil.  It's all about the oil, of course.  Everything is.  If 
only North Korea had oil, we'd be kicking ass and bringing home war 
brides.  I can't get enough of that bulgogi.)

I'm divided on the war on Iraq because I can see both the diabolicalness 
of the Bush administration and the possible benefits from toppling 
Saddam.  I understand why Bush is pressing so hard for an immediate war, 
but that doesn't mean nothing good could come of it -- if we play our 
cards right (which is doubtful with these idiots in charge).  

If we succeed and stick around long enough to help the opposition 
weather any potential retribution or hardships or influence from Saudi 
Arabia (and somehow manage to keep the shit-eating grin off our faces), 
there's a decent chance that this could foster democratic movements 
(such as democracy can exist under the rigidity of Islam) in other 
Middle Eastern countries.  Take down Iraq and you could bring more 
Iranian kids out of the dens of freedom they've created in their 
basements.  That would be a positive for all of us.  Trust me on this.  
You want to encourage Muslims to embrace modernity.  The alternative 
isn't pretty.  That's why they cover it in burqas.  

But if we attack on our own and screw up things like you know we 
probably will, it will increase resentment in the Middle East and 
further cement their self-proclaimed status as the eternal victims of 
imperialism, and you've got a huge world out there all too eager to lap 
up anti-American sentiment.  The war isn't even supported in the 
homeland that they're allegedly trying to secure, but it's the 
work-a-day shlub who is going to pay the price for the Bush 
administration's actions.  They've got bomb-proof underground tunnels.  
We've got soft targets we toil away in and can't leave because the 
economy and job market suck.  The economy?  Yeah, I'm not too sure what 
that is, either.  

Then you've got the pawns who, between chants condemning the United 
States for forcing its values on the world, ascribe their own values to 
people whose cultural, religious and traditional beliefs radically 
differ from those of most protesters.  They don't operate how the United 
States would like, and they don't operate like you think they do.  They 
don't want to be your friend.  Sorry.  I know you hear that a lot.  It 
has to hurt.  Maybe Al Sharpton would like to go out for some veggie 
burgers with you.

My main objection to the drum-banging peace movement is that too many of 
the members refuse to accept that there's ever a legitimate reason for 
war.  Giving peace a chance is swell when you've been raised in a fairly 
tolerant, moderate, open society where you're free to exercise in 
constructive thought, but when much of your life has been spent 
surviving harsh conditions and fighting off rival tribes who want your 
livestock and women, you can shove a patchouli-scented incense stick up 
Noam Chomsky's ass for all the good it'll do you.  

Sometimes, war or the threat of war is the answer.  

Not necessarily in this case, at this time, but I don't know that 
there's a war that some of these people would ever get behind, unless it 
brought about a worker's revolution.  Though, I could use an extra week 
of vacation and a few personal days, and you know, I did kinda like 
Canada.

And I love the human shields: "The potential for white Western body 
parts flying around with the Iraqi ones should make them think again 
about this imperialist oil war," organizer Ken Nichols, a former U.S. 
marine in the 1991 Gulf War, told Reuters.

So Gulf War Syndrome IS a reality.  I didn't realize there were so many 
neurological side effects.  

Let's not overlook that most anti-war demonstrations in the United 
States are spearheaded by people whose political opinions are more out 
of the mainstream than my own.  If the middle-aged housewife protesting 
against the war because she's afraid of her son being sent to war knew 
that a good portion of the speakers and organizers supported communist 
or socialist movements, she'd stay at home and watch the "Trading 
Spaces" marathon instead.  

Then there's that conflict going on somewhere in the Middle East, near 
the Mediterranean, not too far from Egypt, take a left at the McDonald's 
on Jihad Boulevard and keep straight for about 10 miles.  You can't miss 
it.  It's hard to write a cogent article that can be summed up in one 
sentence: You both suck, so die.  I'll try, though.

You've got the sinister connection between kebabs and terrorism.  Wait, 
SUVs and terrorism.  No, that's not it.  The guy who sells halal hot 
dogs on Canal and terrorism?  Oh, I remember.  Drugs and terrorism.  
That's right.  Each time a Phish fan lights up, an American is soon to 
get his wings.  Oooh, I should use that one.

Someone told me recently that I'll be 24 soon, so I should start 
enjoying my youth and stop acting like my grandmother.  Have you met my 
grandmother?   She loves John Edwards, gets pissed off when my dead 
grandfather doesn't wish her good-night, and thinks aliens and apes 
mated thousands of years ago to create the species you are if you're 
reading this.  If that isn't a good time, I don't know what it is.  I 
can only hope to fill her dollar-store slip-on shoes someday.

And for some of us, bitching about the state of the world is how we want 
to spend our youth.  That and fucking.  That, fucking and watching DVDs. 
 That, fucking, watching DVDs and going on vacation.  That, fucking, 
watching DVDs, going on vacation and drinking.  That, fucking, watching 
DVDs, going on vacation, drinking and playing Bingo.  Don't knock it 
'til you've tried it.

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IOWA - Freedom of expression, it turns out, may not be for everyone. 

Kembrew McLeod, an artist and assistant professor at the University of 
Iowa, believes that "freedom of expression" -- or at least the phrase -- 
belongs to him, because he registered it as a trademark in 1998. And now 
that AT&T is using the phrase in some print ads, he wants them to stop. 

On Wednesday, McLeod sent AT&T a "cease and desist" letter, partly 
because consumers might infer a link between the company and McLeod's 
anti-corporate journal, Freedom of Expression. The bigger idea behind 
his legal action, he said, was to object to corporate power over words, 
speech and even ideas. 

"I do want to register my genuine protest that a big company that really 
doesn't represent freedom of expression is trying to appropriate this 
phrase," he said. 

While it may seem unlikely that McLeod will be able to push around a 
corporate titan like AT&T, stranger things have happened on the bizarre 
battleground of intellectual property, trademark and copyright law. 

Source: NY Times
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TACOMA, Wash. -- A woman with a brain tumor filed a lawsuit against 
Walgreens, saying when she arrived to pick up her painkiller 
prescription one day, a pharmacist had her arrested. 

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Pierce County Superior Court, Shannon 
O'Brien, 35, said she went to the drive-up window at a Walgreen Drug 
Store two blocks from her home last July 7. The pharmacist on duty 
thought she had faked her Percocet prescription and called police, the 
lawsuit stated. 

``I was in hysterics--crying, very upset and very embarrassed,'' O'Brien 
told The Associated Press on Thursday. ``They could have checked my 
records. I've had the same medicine every month.'' 

O'Brien's lawyer, Mike Withey, said he didn't know what led the 
pharmacist to suspect O'Brien of faking her prescription. According to 
the lawsuit, when the pharmacist called the University of Washington 
Medical Center's neurosurgery department to ask about it, he was told 
O'Brien's doctor, Alexander Spence, was unavailable, so the prescription 
couldn't be confirmed right away. 

That's when the pharmacist called Tacoma police, the lawsuit said. 
O'Brien was still sitting in her car at the drive-up window when they 
arrived. 

O'Brien, who was first diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1994, said she 
told the officer who handcuffed her that he could call her doctor or her 
nurse to verify the prescription. 

``I told him I had brain cancer, and I had a medical information card 
inside my wallet,'' she said. ``It didn't matter to him. He didn't 
believe anything I was telling him.'' 

O'Brien's family posted bail that night, but she was still without her 
medicine. She was arraigned the next day; as a condition of her release, 
she was required to attend a session at a drug treatment facility. 

Her lawyer eventually succeeded in getting the felony prescription fraud 
charge dropped--after her doctor provided confirming information to the 
Pierce County prosecutor's office. 

The Associated Press. 
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(Pygmies.  Being eaten.  If that isn't comedy...)

CONGO -- From a hilltop in Congo’s dense north-eastern forests, Amzati 
Njogi watched rebels eat his mother, brother, sister and her two small 
children. 

When the rebels came, Mr Njogi, a pygmy from the virtually impenetrable 
forests of the Ituri region, was out hunting for food with a bow and 
arrows. 

"I saw bad things taking place," he said, his 4ft frame rigid as he 
began to tell his story. "I heard people screaming, my mother, sister. I 
decided to go closer ... to see what was going on. Then it all went 
quiet." 

As Mr Njogi crept nearer to the family home, he saw men with guns. "I 
saw them with machetes cutting someone’s throat. Then there was a big 
fire. I asked God to get me through it." 

He crept even closer, making sure no-one could see him as he moved 
through the undergrowth. "I looked for a while. Then I saw that they 
were cooking them on the fire and adding salt," he said. "I saw them 
kill and eat and share … I fled for a whole day until I got to my 
uncle’s house." 

Mr Njogi’s is one of many witness accounts of atrocities in Congo’s 
remote Ituri region in recent months. Many tell of killings, rapes of 
12- or 14-year-old girls, looting on a massive scale. 

Rebels fighting their way through the north-eastern corner of the 
massive central African country have terrorised the civilian population, 
forcing thousands to flee their homes and spend months on the road. 

The stories of cannibalism, said to be targeted only at pygmies and 
members of the Bantu Nande tribe in the region, have travelled far and 
wide. It is difficult to verify the tales, or know on what scale 
cannibalism could have taken place. 

At Mangina, a gathering place for thousands of civilians who fled the 
terror in Ituri, groups of pygmies sit apart from the other refugees, 
easily recognisable from their tiny statures and tattooed faces. 

Aid workers say the pygmies are uncomfortable around the others, unused 
to mixing, sick from an unfamiliar diet and desperate to get home to 
their lives of hunting and gathering in the forests. 

At the pygmy help centre in Beni, 15 miles south of Mangina, Benoit 
Kalume says one of the main problems is the pygmies’ lack of access to 
health care or education, as well as a low sense of self-esteem after 
generations of mistreatment by other Congolese. 

"They have almost no land, they can’t find anything to eat because they 
can’t hunt as the forests are devastated by agriculture. They have no 
access to medical care, which means there is a very high death rate." 

The pygmies, or "children of the forest" as they call themselves, say it 
is the first time they have left the forests for any significant amount 
of time. 

Congo’s war, which has dragged in numerous foreign armies, rebel groups 
and unruly militias, began in 1998 and has killed around two million 
people, mainly through hunger and disease. 

The fighting rarely threatened the pygmies’ homes, and when it did they 
were able to plunge deeper into the forests and hide. 

But the heightened fighting and gruesome human rights violations in 
Ituri over the past few months have brought panic in the region. 

Mr Njogi’s uncle, Angali Sale, said a Bantu woman came to him for help 
after rebels forced her to cook and eat parts of her husband. 

"They slit the throat of this husband, took his head off and cut him 
into small pieces," he said. "Then they made his wife cook the meat, 
then made her eat it. She did. When she finished, they told her to go 
and not to look back." 

Others tell of houses being burned, small girls being raped, arbitrary 
killings. 

Father Silvano Ruaro, an Italian missionary working in the country, 
said: "I have been here for 33 years, and I have never seen anything 
like it."  


Source: Scotsman
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SAUDI ARABIA -— An international school in Jeddah, which has boys and 
girls of varying nationalities on its rolls, has banned an Egyptian 
Muslim girl for wearing a head scarf. The girl, Lujain, was banned from 
Jeddah Prep and Grammar School and was forced to look for another in 
order to continue her studies.

She said that other girls wearing head scarves are forced to remove them 
every morning before entering the school.

Tarek Mohammed Muneer, Lujain’s father, said he was surprised when the 
director of the school denied his daughter entry to the school last 
Ramadan.

“When I asked him the reason, he told me that the school is not 
religious and that the head scarf is a religious symbol,” the father 
said.

“When I argued that this is unacceptable in an Arab and Muslim country, 
especially if there are a large number of Muslim girls in the school, he 
said he would refer the matter to the school board for a final ruling.”

The matter, however, remains unresolved till present.

When contacted, the school administrative secretary said the school 
policy is a total ban on head scarves. She added, “Any girl wearing a 
head scarf will not be allowed to enter the school.”

Muneer, the father, said he managed to get admission for Lujain at 
Jeddah Continental School, which does not impose any ban on head scarf.


Source: Arab News
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Loyalist mobs, enraged by a French-brokered 
peace deal they say gives too much power to Ivory Coast rebels, attacked 
the French embassy and army base Sunday and beat foreigners. President 
Laurent Gbagbo urged his people to accept the agreement for ending the 
four-month insurgency.

"There are two ways to end a conflict. Either you win the war" or submit 
to negotiation and compromise, the Ivory Coast leader said in Paris, 
where two weeks of talks between his government and rebels led to the 
power-sharing peace deal which Gbagbo's own security forces called 
"humiliating."

"I did not win the war," he conceded.

As he spoke, smoke from fires and explosions filled the sky over the 
high-rises of Abidjan, a sprawling commercial hub of 3 million people 
and Ivory Coast's main city.

For hours, French forces fired tear gas, stun grenades and water cannon 
to hold back the rioters. Most attacks concentrated on the French 
embassy and other symbols of Ivory Coast's former colonial ruler, blamed 
for Gbagbo's coming home Sunday with anything less than a clear victory.

Thousands of people, some waving sticks and clutching rocks converged on 
the French embassy and set fires outside. Men armed with machine guns 
took positions on the embassy roof. French military helicopters buzzed 
across the city carrying reinforcements.

Elsewhere, mobs looted a French school and French cultural center, and 
ransacked a main shopping center and a private radio station. Men waving 
sticks and rocks set up roadblocks, attacking the few foreigners who 
ventured out to reach safety or their families. Embassies urged their 
citizens to stay indoors.

"France has disappointed us. They gave power to people who took up arms 
against Ivory Coast. They have opened Pandora's box," declared Ble 
Goude, an influential youth leader behind weeks of massive 
pro-government rallies that sometimes turned violent.

U.N. chief Kofi Annan and leaders at a West African summit in Paris 
dismissed accusations that France had bullied Gbagbo into the deal.

"This is an agreement negotiated by the Ivorian parties ... The 
agreement and peace cannot be imposed," Annan said at the summit, called 
in Paris to give the accord international support.

In Bouake, the northern rebel stronghold, supporters banged drums and 
danced in the streets, celebrating their chance to share in a transition 
government to lead Ivory Coast, the world's largest cocoa producer, 
until elections in 2005.

Sharing power is a key part of the accord to end the only war ever in 
Ivory Coast, which erupted Sept. 19 with a failed coup attempt against 
Gbagbo.

The rebels who accuse the president's southern-based government of 
fanning ethnic tensions quickly seized the northern half of the country 
and, since November, took parts of the west.

The northern-based rebels claim the deal awards them control of the 
Interior and Defense ministries, giving them say over the army and the 
heavily pro-government paramilitary police.

Top officials have refused to confirm or deny that split, but it 
appeared to be the element that ignited the pro-government riots.

Crucial to the success of any peace deal would be support of Ivory 
Coast's security forces. But that seemed in doubt Saturday, when forces 
failed to enforce a strict until now 9 p.m curfew, allowing crowds to 
spill onto the streets and begin rioting.

"It's not normal," army spokesman Lt. Col. Jules Yao Yao said of 
indications his bosses would now come from the northern rebel flanks. 
"The Ivorian security defense forces weren't even invited to the peace 
negotiations. It's humiliating."

The loyalty of Ivory Coast's security forces has been a prime worry for 
leaders since the once-stable and prosperous nation's first and only 
successful military coup in 1999.

Amid Sunday's attacks, a French Defense Ministry official said France 
would "reinforce" its military presence already 2,500 strong but said 
details still were being worked out.

But French President Jacques Chirac later said he saw "no reason" to 
increase troops at this point. He played down the violence, saying "an 
accord of this nature automatically gives rise to a few excesses."

Outside the U.S. Embassy in Abidjan, hundreds of Ivorians gathered 
peacefully to urge Washington to come out against the peace deal. One of 
the group held a sign that said, "Bush Jr. Save Us."

The United States has already welcomed the accord, however, and urged 
both sides to honor it.

Source: AP
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NORWAY - An Eidsivating court of appeals sensationally acquitted a man 
for sexually assaulting a mentally handicapped woman on the grounds that 
he had only lived 12 years in Norway and so had difficulty understanding 
the victim's condition.

The injured party, a woman suffering from Williams syndrome, was 
believed by the court on all counts, and the accused's actions were 
considered equivalent to sexual intercourse, newspaper Romerikes Blad 
reports. 

The court also ruled that the woman, because of her condition, did not 
have the necessary psychological strength to resist the man's desire for 
sex.

Williams Syndrome is a rare disorder. Like Downs Syndrome, sufferers 
have similar physical characteristics, such as an elfin face with a wide 
mouth, a large and slack bottom lip, a turned-up nose and irregular, 
widely spaced teeth. One other common characteristic is overly friendly 
and polite behavior and a desire to contact strangers.

The accused, a 22-year-old taxi driver originally from the Middle East, 
explained that he found nothing odd about the woman's appearance or 
behavior. The woman used a 'TT-card' - a transport sponsorship 
arrangement for the handicapped - when paying for the ride.

The accused also argued that cab drivers often talked about easy sex 
offers from female passengers, especially late on weekends. He also 
believed that it was easy to sleep with Norwegian girls one had just 
met.

The court ruled unanimously that the accused should not serve jail time, 
but was ordered to pay the woman NOK 25,000 in damages and to replace 
her ruined coat. 

The court found that the man's comprehension of the Norwegian language 
was worse than that expected of someone resident since 1990 and could 
not rule out that his age, cultural background and immaturity could have 
contributed to the assault.

The original trial sentenced the man to 60 days in prison plus damages 
and compensation.


Aftenposten English 

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CHICAGO - Had it actually been marijuana, the three wise men might be 
viewed in a whole new light.

What Chicago police thought was more than $660,000 worth of dope in a 
pickup truck last month turned out to be hay from a Roman Catholic 
church's nativity scene.

Prosecutors dropped felony drug charges Thursday against Jose Galvan, 
43, and his co-worker, Juan Luna, 21, after crime lab tests confirmed 
the mistake, said Jerry Lawrence, spokesman for the Cook County state's 
attorney's office. The two remained at Cook County Jail as federal 
immigration officials checked to see if they are in the country legally.

Also, Luna will appear in court Jan. 28 on an unrelated felony marijuana 
delivery charge he thought had been dismissed, said attorney Peter 
Vilkelis, who is representing both men.

Chicago police got an anonymous tip on Dec. 30 that a major marijuana 
stash was being moved in a truck that looked like the one Galvan was 
driving. After two officers pulled over Galvan and Luna in the 3800 
block of North Pulaski, two small plastic bags with crushed green plants 
fell out of the cab, police spokesman Pat Camden said.

Police tests in the field showed those plants to be marijuana. Camden 
did not know if the about 220 pounds worth of plants beneath the truck's 
liner were field-tested.

Galvan and Luna had been planning to haul the hay from St. Wenceslaus 
Roman Catholic Church, where they are parishioners, back to a far south 
suburban horse farm where a friend had loaned it to them, Vilkelis said. 
They were coming home from work in Skokie when they were arrested.

"Somebody must have seen these two big bales, saw the men were Mexican 
and made an assumption," Vilkelis said.

"These guys were treated like they were cartel drug traffickers," he 
added. "Once we finally secure their release, we will be talking to a 
civil rights lawyer."

Source: Chicago Sun-Times
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misogynists since 1997
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