newsblurb: March 2002 Archives

God Save the Queen:

LONDON (Reuters) - Pop-up toilets that rise from the ground at night will be installed in central London in a bid to dissuade late-night male revelers from urinating against walls and doorways.

The self-cleaning telescopic urinals, which Westminister City Council hopes to have in place by autumn, will emerge from under the ground and be retracted in the day via remote control.

"By moving them underground it means they are not an obstacle in the day," a council spokeswoman said Monday.

The council has already deployed mobile urinals which have been placed on the streets Friday and Saturday nights to cut down street urination.

The telescopic toilet is currently only available in Europe, Westminster council said.

-- yahoo

Journalism is dead and Maxim is dancing on it's grave.

At a news conference with Cheney at this Red Sea resort, Mubarak also addressed another difficult Mideast issue, saying he believes Iraq's Saddam Hussein is close to agreeing to allow the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.
Okay... eveybody here who believes this is going to work out, raise their hand.

Now it may just be because I'm alone here, but I don't see any hands.

Within six months, the inspectors will either be running for their life, or withdrawn for lack of results. Even when Iraq was pretending to go along with the inspections, the UN teams never found anything despite the fact we knew there was something there.

How mny times are we going to do this?

Any crack or perceived crack in the support, in the unity, of the American people and our leaders in Washington is not helpful,%uFFD3 Lott added, %uFFD2and it is important that we not be critical of the commander-in-chief in a time that we are at war."

-- msnbc.com

Kiss.

my.

fuzzy.

pink.

ass.

There is no time when anyone, especially our governmental leaders, should be immune to criticism.

There is no period when a president experiences more power than during wartime. Meaning there should be no time when they are under closer scrutiny.

We may not be able to do anything about violations of humanity and common sense until after the fact, but everyone is accountable for their actions. How happy will the Shrub be when he is Milosovic's place?

"A Louisiana woman is suing Nintendo, alleging her 30-year-old son suffered seizures after playing video games for eight hours a day, six days a week."
Lady... if you have a 30 year old man living with you playing Nintendo 8 hours a day 6 days a week... you have some problems of your own you should deal with.

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