Thursday, October 02, 2003
Ok - yah - this headline really just doesn't sit well with me...
Military Ready to Shoot Down Airliners - U.S. General
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Air Force pilots practice weekly and are psychologically ready to shoot down civilian airliners in any new attack on America like Sept. 11, the general in charge of domestic defense said on Thursday.
...o..oooh... ne-neat...
Al Gore in Talks to Buy TV News Channel :
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore and a group of investors are close to buying a small cable news channel from Vivendi Universal for $70 million, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
If Gore succeeds, the channel, Newsworld International, could potentially emerge as a competitor with Fox News Channel, which has unseated CNN as the most widely watched cable news outlet in the United States.
This, of course, giving Gore rights to "invent" something else.
To his dismay, though, the creation of a 24/7/365 bullsh*t news channel happened long ago, thanks to a drunken one night merger between Microsoft and NBC.
Dog-sex trial in November
Johannesburg - The trial of two dual SA-Taiwanese nationals, who allegedly forced their domestic worker to have sex with a dog, has been postponed in Kempton Park regional court to November 21 to give the State time to get additional reports.
Wait - It gets better...
The accused are brother and sister Cheri and Ken Wang.
Pentagon blimp is 25 times size of Goodyear's
AKRON, Ohio - It's back to the future for the Pentagon.
The latest high-tech weapon might look awfully familiar to a World War I Zeppelin pilot. Lockheed Martin has a contract worth at least $40 million to develop a high-altitude airship for use in homeland defense...
...sponsored by eBay!
Studies: Don't Believe Homework Hype:
WASHINGTON -- The image of students lugging home heavy packs of books may be familiar in many homes, but two new studies offer a different picture: The nation's homework load is light.
'The popular belief out there, the conventional wisdom, is that homework is rising and becoming onerous. It's just simply not true,' said Tom Loveless, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at The Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank.
Sh*t... They're on to us.
Billboard milks it, say critics
A billboard sporting a naked, genetically engineered woman whose four breasts are being milked is designed to "disturb", its creator says.
You be the judge.. Picture via link.
Rush Limbaugh resigns from ESPN after criticism of Philly QB:
NEW YORK (AP) - Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN tonight, three days after saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.
Earlier today, Democratic presidential candidates Wesley Clark, Howard Dean and Rev. Al Sharpton called for the cable sports network to fire Limbaugh."
Leave it to political figures to try and take over sports, too.
One word: "Fumble."
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Interstate 69 - planned to run from Canada to Mexico - should go through the heart of Memphis, but only if there's an eastern bypass, I-269.
That's the recently announced conclusion of a technical advisory committee representing the Tennessee and Mississippi transportation departments, Federal Highway Administration and the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization.
Best summarized by the headline:
Panel prefers I-69 through downtown, with East bypass
Man shoots at son's head after Bama defeat:
PINSON, Ala. -- A Pinson man was charged with attempted murder for holding a gun to his son's head and pulling the trigger in the midst of a tantrum after Alabama's double overtime loss to Arkansas Saturday.
The bullet narrowly missed 20-year-old Seth Logan, who said he picked the wrong time to ask his dad for a car, sheriff's spokesman Deputy Randy Christian said Monday.
Damn Southerners....
Man involved in radio sex stunt dies
NEW YORK - A 38-year-old man who had sex inside St. Patrick's Cathedral has died of apparent heart failure, it was revealed in court Tuesday.
Irony....
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Wal-Mart agrees to curb tobacco sales to minors
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, and attorneys general in 43 states have reached an agreement to curb tobacco sales to minors.
Weren't they to be doing this already?
Monday, September 29, 2003
Teen in hospital after being buried in sand tunnel at SoCal beach:
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) - A sand tunnel that he built collapsed on a 15-year-old boy leaving him buried for several minutes before witnesses rescued him, authorities said Sunday.
Alex was taken to the county hospital but his condition was not immediately known.
..but was expected to be grainy.
Grandforks.com - Your Grand Forks Everything Guide
TOKYO - Yukichi Chuganji, a retired silkworm breeder documented as the world's oldest man, died at his home in Japan at age 114, his family said Monday.
Umm.. So he's not really the world's oldest man anymore, is he?
ROFLMAO
QVC at its finest!
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Sunday, September 28, 2003
Massive blackout sweeps Italy
ROME, Italy (AP) -- Power went out across Italy before dawn, police and news reports said, plunging the nation into darkness. Authorities did not immediatly know the cause.
Reports of power outages started to come in around 4 a.m. local time (0200 GMT) in Rome, where the city was celebrating an all-night party, with museums and restaurants open around the clock.
Ohio and Canada have refused to comment.
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