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A newly invented anti-rape device has caused a stir in South Africa where an estimated 1.69 million rapes occur each year (one every 26 seconds). The device is basically a female condom that is internally lined with sharp microscopic barbs that “latch on” to an attacker’s penis when he withdraws. Once the device is “latched” it is only removable by surgery signaling authorities of an incident.

I say more power to the women who wear them. If a man doesn’t want his junk caught in the device, keep it out of where it doesn’t belong. Others surprisingly disagree.

Remember that one time, in Brueggers… this was the invention I was talking about…. And you thought I was on crack.

Great for the business traveler who misses the Mrs.

Salon Article
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Televangelist Calls for Assassination of Chavez
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming ”a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.”

(source nytimes.com)

What ever happened to turn the other cheek, and take the log out of your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from your neighbor’s?

Author of Bush’s summer book choices says “Oh, he reads books?!”

Gas prices are climbing, motorists are fuming and President Bush is at his ranch with a book about the history of salt. According to the White House, one of three books Bush chose to read on his five-week vacation is “Salt: A World History” by Mark Kurlansky, who chronicled the rise and fall of what once was considered the world’s most strategic commodity.

The other two books he reportedly brought to Crawford are “Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar” by Edvard Radzinsky and “The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History” by John M. Barry.(Source La Times)

“Kurlansky said he was surprised to hear that Bush had taken his book to the ranch: ‘My first reaction was, ‘Oh, he reads books?’

“The author said he was a ‘virulent Bush opponent’ who had given speeches denouncing the war in Iraq.

” ‘What I find fascinating, and it’s probably a positive thing about the White House, is they don’t seem to do any research about the writers when they pick the books,’ Kurlansky said.” (Source Washington Post)

With cases like this, it is no wonder why recruitment numbers are plummeting. Why anyone would want to devote a life to the military, have an outstanding unblemished record, become a four star general, only to be booted out three months before you could retire. I wonder how many other soldiers have had extramarital affairs that have gone unpunished? How come when you torture and kill people it falls under service to your country but when you sleep around it is criminal and against the “Code”? How come one president can fix intelligence around the policy to get us into an illegal war it goes unmentioned, but when another president has an extramarital affair he gets a special counsel Ken Starr giving him the fifth degree (ultimately leading to an impeachment trial)?

WTF – Apparently adultery is a family value on a whole higher level than lying, torture, war, needless death and suffering. I guess I really need to get my priorities straight.

(Source Washington Post – 4-Star General Relieved Of Duty)

This artical was so right on … I had to reproduce it all right here. ENJOY!

When it comes to science, President Bush is of two minds, one of which is wrong.

Concerning the space shuttle program, he defers to the views of experts.

In a conversation with Texas reporters Monday, he said that “the experts at NASA” will determine whether the shuttle should be retired before 2010.

But when it comes to science education, he unfortunately sees no need for experts. Answering a question about evolution vs. intelligent design, he said it was a question for local school districts, but he felt “both sides ought to be properly taught.”

And he added, “so people can understand what the debate is about.”

But among experts, there is no debate worth mentioning. The theory of evolution underpins all modern biology, and like any vibrant science it is constantly being expanded and modified as new lines of evidence appear. Thousands upon thousands of research scientists have contributed to it since Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as an explanation for the relationships among species living and extinct.

Intelligent design, in contrast, is taken seriously by scarcely any scientific experts. It proposes that the natural world is too complex to have been created by entirely natural processes, so there must be a designer of some kind. As to how the designer acts, or how scientists could study those actions, it has no answers. Intelligent design explains nothing and predicts nothing; it isn’t even a theory. It has no place in science classrooms.

The president said that part of education is to be exposed to different schools of thought. Up to a point, yes. But in planning lessons on space exploration, how much time is due to the people who believe – quite sincerely – that the Apollo program and the moon landings were nothing but a hoax?

Source news.cincypost.com

As a journalist to risk and ultimitaly give it all, he is a true patriot. Almost predicting his future kidnapping, Steven writes in the National Review – Back in Basra, one year later, what the Iraqis are saying –

Beneath the surface, though, this is not the easy-going municipality of 1.5 million people I recall. For one thing, I can no longer wander the streets, take a cab, or dine in restaurants for fear of being spotted as a foreigner: Kidnapping, by criminal gangs or terrorists, remains a lucrative business. Instead, for safety’s sake, I’m tied to my hotel, dependent on expensive drivers, unable to go anywhere without Iraqi escort. “You really shouldn’t be here at all,” a British-embassy official warned me.

In that same piece he describes the Iraqis feelings of helplessness and anger. He paints a bleak picture of the infrastructure and rebuilding; electricity three hours on, three hours off, sewage a nightmare, water still bad, and gas lines intolerable. He relays questions about the apparent nonexistence of billions of dollars that are being spent on reconstruction efforts from a British Army translator, “Where is the money going, why is nothing happening? Tell your readers”.

Steven also maintained a blog for his book, In the Red Zone.

Steven Vincent – Wikipedia
NY Times Article

Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm. — Senator Rick “The Frothy Mixture” Santorum

Is Rick standing alone or do others on the right really equate higher education and progressive values with pedophilia and sex abuse? If this is the case, is this some sort of deflection tactic to take the heat off of their educational shortcomings? It seems to me like the old school yard manipulation where one jealous kid says, “transformers are dumb” to the other kid that just got a new transformer.

This article explains how liberal values make great family values.

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