political nonsense

A 108-year-old woman was told she has to wait at least 18 months to receive a new hearing aid. “I could be dead by then,” she said.
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It was reported that Charles Manson took 150 hours of Scientology classes, and then rejected it as too crazy.

[too sane for scientology]
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A number of Palestinians who have fled war-torn Iraq will be allowed to come to live in the West Bank, Israeli officials said Monday, presenting the decision as the latest in a series of gestures meant to bolster the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
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Scientists discovered that a growing numbers of vegans refuse to have sex meat-eaters, because they are a “a graveyard for animals.”

[not hot]
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A school in Australia made sunglasses mandatory.

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The aid group Oxfam is warning that about 8 million Iraqis – nearly a third of the population – need immediate emergency aid because of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war, at least two Iraqis were killed and two others wounded in a blast in Baghdad, while a US marine was killed in Anbar province, a soldier accused of acting as a lookout while other troops raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killed her, her parents and her sister pleaded guilty to some lesser offenses, admitting arson, conspiracy to obstruct justice, wrongfully touching a corpse and drinking, war-crime hearings indicated that “rules of engagement” that govern when Marines can use deadly force in Iraq are ambiguous and subjective, celebrations were held across Iraq on Sunday after the national soccer team stunned the sporting world by beating Saudi Arabia in the Asian Cup Finals, and two prominent US political analysts just back from Iraq noted that things were better than they expected- “I still don’t think the odds for Iraq are so great,” they said.
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A prisoner in Ft. Lauderdale was convicted of indecent exposure for masturbating in his cell.
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Asked what he liked and disliked about his fellow Presidential candidates, John Edwards said that he approved of Hillary Clinton’s record of national service, but perhaps not her salmon-colored jacket. “I don’t know about that jacket,” he said.

[it is kinda ugly]
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The Bush administration is preparing to ask Congress to approve an arms sale package for Saudi Arabia and its neighbors that is expected to eventually total $20 billion at a time when some United States officials contend that the Saudis are playing a counterproductive role in Iraq.
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A new Gallup poll on smoking shows that 21 percent of U.S. adults currently smoke cigarettes, the lowest percentage since U.S. polling began in 1944.
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President Bush called for Congress to revise a US security law in order to ease restrictions on the government’s secret communications surveillance of terror suspects.
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State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California’s voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems’ electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday.
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Scientists discovered that facial similarity increases between couples over long periods of time.
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A group of prostitutes thought to be immune to HIV have now become infected, causing dismay to scientists hoping to develop an AIDS vaccine.
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The New York Times called on Congress to impeach Alberto Gonzales.
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Scientists reported that skinny people don’t like fat people because being too fat is mistaken by the brain for a sign of disease.
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Current and former public health officials revealed that a surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems were kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration’s policy accomplishments.
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Scientists pointed out that science is not a faith. Neither is atheism.
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Democrats are considering asking for a special counsel to investigate whether Gonzales perjured himself during his testimony before House Judiciary Committee after FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed a confrontation between Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft over U.S. domestic spying while Ashcroft was hospitalized, directly contradicting Gonzales testimony that the confrontation did not occur.
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A dozen Christian men were convicted Thursday and sentenced to up to 14 years in jail for beating to death and beheading two Muslims to avenge the government executions of three Christians in Indonesia last year.
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