Is it just me or …

… was it a slow news day? Almost everything out there is about the fallout from the UAE port deal drama and I honestly want to give that one a rest for a few days. I’ve perused the news and blogs for the last hour and a half so I could do some blogging and found nothing that really snagged my interest. I’ll keep checking, though.

In the meantime, what stories have caught your eye? Maybe I’m just lookin’ in all the wrong places (story of my life! )

10 Responses to "Is it just me or …"

Eric Lindholm says:

March 11, 2006 at 10:46 pm

I felt the same way. The ports deal is dead and there’s only so much you can say about Milosovic.
fine dry wit says:

March 11, 2006 at 10:57 pm

Sister, I’m definitely a wrong place to look, but I put up an interview on my site yesterday that you might find funny. I interview…(musical sting for effect)
The Prophet Mohammed.
sanity says:

March 11, 2006 at 11:16 pm

Hmm a small list of a few interesting things:

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Ten Commandments could be posted in schools and government buildings and a large monument with the biblical directives would be placed outside the Capitol under legislation awaiting the signature of Gov. Ernie Fletcher, an ordained Baptist minister.

“The governor looks forward to signing this bill,” said Brett Hall, spokesman for the Republican governor who is currently in the hospital where he is being treated for a blood clot. “I’m sure he will be very happy to hear this news.”

The measure passed without debate in the House on Friday in a 90-5 vote, and drew immediate criticism from the American Civil Liberty Union of Kentucky.

Ten Commandments bill approved in Kentucky

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Ambien is often factor in crashes, cops warn

Some people say they were sleep-driving and have no memory of taking the wheel.

With a tendency to stare zombie-like and run into stationary objects, a new species of impaired motorist is hitting the roads: the Ambien driver.

Ambien, the nation’s best-selling prescription sleeping pill, is showing up with regularity as a factor in traffic arrests, sometimes involving drivers who later say they were sleep-driving and have no memory of taking the wheel after taking the drug.

Ambien is often factor in crashes, cops warn

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Tommy Woods uses a snake tong to lift one of hundreds of Western Diamondbacks turned in Friday, March 10, 2006, at the World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. What started as a way to control rattlesnakes has grown into a four-day attraction that brings about 30,000 visitors and an economic impact of more than $5 million.
PIC

Story

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How Islamic inventors changed the world

From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them

Twenty of the greatest Muslim inventions

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and just for fun…..

Blonde Extinction

Claim: A study undertaken by the World Health Organization concluded that natural blondes are likely to be extinct within 200 years.

Status: False.

Origins: Some factoids are just too intriguing, their hold on our imaginations too tenacious, for us to let go of them — no matter how often or how thoroughly they may be debunked. One such factoid, about a scientific study’s supposedly predicting that the naturally blonde-haired segment of the human population will die out within the next few centuries, gets trotted out when something prompts a mention of blondes in new stories. Take, for example, this concluding paragraph from a recent Sunday Times article about the origins of blonde hair:

Read the rest of it here
sanity says:

March 11, 2006 at 11:29 pm

Ah another one:
30 US Reps for Bush Impeachment Inquiry

APN Interviews Conyers, Swanson, and Goodman

(APN) ATLANTA â€“ 30 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.

“There has been massive support for House Resolution 635 from a very vigorous network of grassroots activists and people committed to holding the Bush Administration accountable for its widespread abuses of power” US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said in a statement prepared for Atlanta Progressive News.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) also released a book, Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush. The Center is extremely influential in high-profile court fights over issues such as wiretapping, the treatment of detainees by the US, and felon voting rights.

“We have the book, we are calling for the impeachment of the President, and we’re supporting Conyers’s resolution” Bill Goodman, CCR Legal Director, told Atlanta Progressive News.

Read the rest of it here
Big Bang Hunter says:

March 12, 2006 at 12:51 am

– Just an aside… the Euro investigation has found the CIA did nothing ilegal and were NOT transporting prisoners to secret toture camps…

“The Council of Europe [official website] said Wednesday that an investigation into allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency operated secret prisons [JURIST report] in Europe revealed no “smoking gun” evidence that proved the existence of the prisons.”

– As usual the coverage by the US press was overwhelmingly absent.

– Bang
sanity says:

March 12, 2006 at 1:15 am

Now lets see proof from the allegations that the MSm were all over the place with…where are your sources?
sanity says:

March 12, 2006 at 6:48 am

Something else to look at:

Wheelchairs for Iraqi Children

Posted at my site but also covers story from Michael Yon.

Please help get the word out if you are able to ST.

I would not ask normally, but there is nothing that tears my heart apart more than children in need or children suffering.
steve says:

March 12, 2006 at 7:31 am

>The Toledo Blade says the marines are carrying out excersises in downtown office buildings. Why? >Claude Allen was arrested and he never told his bosses at the WH. >The elections in Iraq are 3 months old and still no government. >Norton resigns from Interior, due to Abramoff connections. Peace
sanity says:

March 12, 2006 at 8:30 am

>steve found in airport handing out daisies dressed in a sheet and sandals….

Hmm what do you call them again…Hairy krispee kremes?

ah, hari kistnas I think….
sanity says:

March 12, 2006 at 8:17 pm

I cannot abide by idiots, whether liberal twits or extremist idiot so-called religous people.

Why you ask?

Hecklers harass families of US soldiers killed in Iraq

Five women sang and danced as they held up signs saying “thank God for dead soldiers” at the funeral of an army sergeant who was killed by an Iraqi bomb.

For them, it was the perfect way to spread God’s word: America was being punished for tolerating homosexuality.

For the hundreds of flag waving bikers who came to this small town in Michigan Saturday to shield the soldier’s family, it was disgusting.

“That could be me in that church,” said Jackie Sandler whose son Keith is currently serving his second tour of duty in Iraq.

The fringe group of fire and brimstone Baptists from Kansas has been courting controversy for more than 15 years, traveling the country with their hateful signs and slogans.

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In Flushing, Michigan they turned their leather-clad backs to the five women and held flags and tarps up so that mourners walking past wouldn’t see the signs saying “God hates fags,” “fag vets” and “America is doomed.”

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Many found it hard to hide their anger when Margie Phelps, the daughter of Westboro’s founder, called out “All this for little old us? Oh, you shouldn’t have. I feel so special,” before she started singing “the Pope, the Pope, the Pope is on fire. He don’t get no water let the heretics burn” in front of a Catholic church.

The glee with which the women hurled insults made John Franklin, 64, sick to his stomach.

“This guy’s family deserves a peaceful funeral. It’s not right what they’re doing,” said Franklin, who fought in the Vietnam War. “The only reason they’re able to walk around like that is because the veterans fought for their freedom.”

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Phelps said he and his congregants are targeting the funerals because God’s way of punishing an “evil nation” of “fags and fag enablers” is to “pick off its children.”

“I don’t have any sympathy for these parents. They’re all going to hell,” Phelps said. “The family’s in pain because they haven’t obeyed the Lord God.”

Link

People like this literally make me grind my teeth in anger.

These are not Christians. They are a religon, I will grant you that, but a religon unto themselves of hate-filled, disgusting individuals that have joined up to spread thier idiocy and disgust every other American out there.

This is not ‘right wing’ christians, so don’t even try it. I know some pretty religous people, and they are pious people, not hate-filled bigots like these ones are.

Most christians live by, Love the person, hate the sin.

There is a difference.

Argh this just burns me up to no end.

I wonder if what they say can be listed as hate speech and cart thier moronic butts to jail.

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