newsblurb: September 2002 Archives

"The incident on Delta Flight 442 was scary enough last month: U.S. marshals seized an unruly passenger, then one aimed a pistol at other passengers for a half hour and shouted at them to stay seated.

"The event, however, didn't end there. Unknown to most passengers on the Atlanta-to-Philadelphia flight, the marshals upon landing also seized an Indian passenger from first class and silently whisked him away in handcuffs.

"Far from being a terror suspect, the second detainee turned out to be a former U.S. Army major and military doctor from Lake Worth, Fla., where he has had a family practice for two decades. Both detainees later were released without charge, and the physician's angry account of his ordeal offers a glimpse at the dark side of America's war on terrorism."

-- Philadelphia Inquirer

A couple yokle, gun-nut cops with no training on a flight (in first class where all terrorists hide) and no idea what they're doing, waving a gun around inside a pressurized vehicle at 30,000 feet.

"When 15-year-old Katie Sierra wore T-shirts bearing this version of the American pledge as well as other sayings that showed her opposition to the war in Afghanistan, teachers and students at her West Virginia High School were outraged. Some students of Sissonville High School allegedly threatened to give Katie a taste of "West Virginia justice". The school's principal, Forrest Mann, suspended Katie for three days and forbid her to wear the controversial shirts, saying that her behavior was "disrupting school activity."

On the morning of Oct. 23, 2001, Katie asked Mann if she could start an anarchy club, so that like-minded or curious students could gather, have reading and discussion groups and do community service. She'd spent all weekend working on a Constitution and Manifesto for the club. "This anarchist club will not tolerate hate or violence," says her Manifesto. "It is our final goal to dispel myths about anarchism, especially the belief that anarchy is chaos and destruction."

Forrest Mann didn't look at her literature before rendering his decision that he would not permit such a club in his school. Katie asked him to read the documents, and though he agreed to read them later he said that he wouldn't change his mind. "

-- COURTTV

I am so gonna marry this girl in 5 years.

That's American schools people... home of theweak and land of the depraved. Their administrators make rush limbough look like a pot smoking peacenik. And they're teaching your children.

"A statue of a falling woman -- designed as a memorial to those who jumped or fell to their death from the World Trade Center -- was abruptly draped in cloth and curtained off Wednesday because of complaints that it was too disturbing.

"I don't think it dignifies their deaths," said Paul Labb. "It's not art. It is very disrupting when you see it."

-- AP

okay... that's it...

YOU!

Out of the gene pool!

We're taking that piece of crap landscape you have hanging over your musty ass sofa and burning it.

Art does not ask your permission. Art comes up and spits in your face and asks you what the hell you are gonna do about it.

"Russian satellites have discovered a river flowing 700 feet under the Sahara. It carries enough water to supply 50,000 people and is said to surge with 'colossal power'"

-- Ananova

Shades of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Yes, you should read it, runt.

U.S. national security agencies are on alert for a terrorist attack after the discovery that a Middle Eastern man carried out suspicious surveillance of the Washington Monument, the Pentagon and other buildings in the area.

The man in question videotaped the Washington Monument on the Mall on Sept. 1 and paced off several distances around the monument, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

-- The Washington Times

1. When has a single one of these threat warning panned out?

2. When has a single terrorist attack ever occurred on the anniversary of another terrorist attack?

3. Need we even discuss the sheer incredulity of worrying about a man -- any man -- videotaping the biggest tourist attractions in one of the most visited cities in the world? (Pacing off at the Washingotn Monument? It's a big spike surrounded by a circle... what the hell else do you do but walk around it?)

4. A man who has done nothing illegal, or even interesting, is the news story... but not the fact that he was illegally robbed by government agents?

“Stephanie Bell, a fourth-grade teacher at Williams Elementary School, taught the word "niggardly" to her class last week in an effort to improve her students' vocabularies.

Now, a parent wants her fired.

Although the word means stingy, Akwana Walker said it was inappropriate to use it because it sounds similar to a racial slur.”

-- Wilmington Star

People have such terminally short memories.

There is a now old argument that my generation may be the first to do worse than it's parent's. (this was before the 1990s of course). But it seems to me the children would be a lot better off if it weren't for such ignorant parents.

"The legislation would also provide $25 million in federal matching grants to states to help them buy electronic highway signs and other equipment needed to set up an Amber alert system, as well as education and training programs."

-- CNN.com

Okay... now wasn't the point of the Amber alert system that it utilized existing resources to spread the word?

Why the fuck is the government offering anywhere from 25 to 100 million dollars for this program? Even if you hired 3 people in each state to manage the program at a cost of $50,000 each with expenses of $100,000 for each state, and all this seems generous on my part, and wholly unwarrented considering the origin of the program...would only amount to $12.5 million.

Keeping in mind the federal funds for the cheapest plan are matching funds, this means only 6.25 million would be needed. But that number would not make it sound like the government was really putting support behind the program.

Government solutions: throw money at the problem till it goes away.

After all.. it worked with Iran. And Nicaragua. And Afghanastan. And...

um... nevermind.

You just can't make this shit up:

Britney turned on by lesbian porn: Pop star gets tight with sultry adult-movie queen

We now have every teenage boys wet dream.