And while bringing protection once meant a purse full of mad money, seniors must now be aware of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.is this some usage of "mad money" I am unfamiliar with.... and what is this doing in the Baltimore Sun?
"Some men who have never been players, in their 70s, in a retirement home, can become players," said Wayne Nelson, a Towson University gerontology professor. "They're a hot commodity."
The Italy defender said that while he had told FIFA he was willing to make a gesture of reconciliation with Zidane, he was not going to apologize.
"He has not apologized to me and I certainly don't have to apologize to him.
" If anything, I owe apologies to his sister, although I swear, before all this mess I didn't even know Zidane had a sister," he said.
My dearest Mavcici:
I should start by saying that I am a great admirer of your country's president: a soldier-democrat in the finest sense. Obasanjo's exploits are legion: his commitment to democratic reforms and his campaign against corruption have impressed me greatly. Additionally, you should know that I am the sworn enemy of Abacha and did not grieve that pill-popping meglomaniac's death for an instant.
It is for these reasons that your comminque intriques me so greatly. Indeed, I often feel that a piece of my heart beats as would an apala talking drum! Your great president wishes to follow the rule of law and return this money, a gracious gesture for which he should be congratulated heartily.
Please contact me immediately with the next step I must take to gain posession of this money. Trust me when I say that ever dime will be used to better the lives of individual Nigerians like you, Mavici!
Yours gratefully,
Col. Christopher Pollux Harcourt-Smith
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An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed each day in July, according to the figures. The total number of civilian deaths that month, 3,438, is a 9 percent increase over the tally in June and nearly double the toll in January.
The injury means he might not be able to take part in a match next Sunday between government representatives and special guests invited to the inauguration of the Constituent Assembly, who are expected to include Brazilian President Lula and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
From an international standpoint, the Israelis expect to be condemned. These international condemnations, however, are now having the opposite effect of what is intended. The Israeli view is that they will be condemned regardless of what they do. The differential between the condemnation of reprisal attacks and condemnation of a full invasion is not enough to deter more extreme action. If Israel is going to be attacked anyway, it might as well achieve its goals.The whole thing can be read here -- scroll down.
Moreover, an invasion of Hezbollah-held territory aligns Israel with the United States. U.S. intelligence has been extremely concerned about the growing activity of Hezbollah, and U.S. relations with Iran are not good. Lebanon is the center of gravity of Hezbollah, and the destruction of Hezbollah capabilities in Lebanon, particularly the command structure, would cripple Hezbollah operations globally in the near future. The United States would very much like to see that happen, but cannot do it itself. Moreover, an Israeli action would enrage the Islamic world, but it would also drive home the limits of Iranian power. Once again, Iran would have dropped Lebanon in the grease, and not been hurt itself. The lesson of Hezbollah would not be lost on the Iraqi Shia -- or so the Bush administration would hope.
Therefore, this is one Israeli action that benefits the United States, and thus helps the immediate situation as well as long-term geopolitical alignments. It realigns the United States and Israel. This also argues that any invasion must be devastating to Hezbollah. It must go deep. It must occupy temporarily. It must shatter Hezbollah.
"What the irony is, they need to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it's over."
[Researchers] studied 40 volunteers who used a driving simulator four times--while undistracted, using a handheld cell phone, using a hands-free cell phone and while intoxicated to a 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level--the average legal level of impairment in the United States--after drinking vodka and orange juice.Discussion question: who drinks screwdrivers anymore?
Three study participants rear-ended the simulated car in front of them. All were talking on cell phones and none was drunk, the researchers said.
Motorists who talked on either handheld or hands-free cell phones drove slightly more slowly, were 9 percent slower to hit the brakes, and varied their speed more than undistracted drivers.
McKinnon: A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files.
My dialup 56K connection was very slow trying to download one of these picture files. As this was happening, I had remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side. There were no visible seams or riveting. There was no reference to the size of the object and the picture was taken presumably by a satellite looking down on it. The object didn't look manmade or anything like what we have created. Because I was using a Java application, I could only get a screenshot of the picture -- it did not go into my temporary internet files. At my crowning moment, someone at NASA discovered what I was doing and I was disconnected.
I also got access to Excel spreadsheets. One was titled "Non-Terrestrial Officers." It contained names and ranks of U.S. Air Force personnel who are not registered anywhere else. It also contained information about ship-to-ship transfers, but I've never seen the names of these ships noted anywhere else.
... well, the guy's actually up for extradition, anyway.
Al-Qaeda terrorists came within 45 days of attacking the New York subway system with a lethal gas similar to that used in Nazi death camps. They were stopped not by any intelligence breakthrough, but by an order from Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Zawahiri.If we know why, we aren't telling.
The top five critics who sign up to fight him will be flown to Vancouver and will be extras in Postal... Five, 10-round fights will be staged over the last two days of filming and scenes from the matches will become part of the film, Boll said... To be eligible, critics must have written at least two negative articles about Boll in 2005.
A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet.This doesn't have a date attached to it, but I'm guessing 2001-2:
The plan will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas' border with Mexico and phone the authorities if they spot any apparently illegal crossings.
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo put their cards on the table here this week in the high stakes contest for control of the next generation video-game console market. And, while all bets are still off, the challengers' hands look stronger than ever.... That's a 2:1 metaphor-to-sentence ratio for those keeping track. Also the article quotes fucking Tycho and refers to Penny Arcade a "gaming website" when in fact it is a shitty webcomic.
Both items take advantage of Section 603 of Thomas Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which "allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature."
President Bush authorized White House official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to disclose highly sensitive intelligence information to the news media in an attempt to discredit a CIA adviser whose views undermined the rationale for the invasion of Iraq, according to a federal prosecutor's account of Libby's testimony to a grand jury.I believe the word is treason.
Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville, named after the “Dumont d’Urville,” a French scientific base in Antarctica. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. His Guidebook to Urvillewill be published later this year.
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