Wow, Haloscan started accepting new members again, so instead of using DC - Dot Comment, the php version, which takes forever sometimes to t/s and get working, I put 2 lines of code in for Haloscan. Following suit since I noticed EveryDayStranger had signed up. The only draw back, that unlike DC, the comments are hosted on another server. DC is hosted on wetwired, I have DC setup on anoter couple of sites, but it just takes forever to get going.
Archive for September, 2003
Can’t I just go to work and come home and not know I’ve been there, think that I’ve been fishing all day or something? That
Crazy Norwegian what the hell was he thinking?
SOTRA, WESTERN NORWAY:
9-year-old drove to school
Tilrettelagt av Carin Pettersson 29.09.03 12:39
The car owner was supposed to drive the 9-year-old to school on Sotra, but since he did not have a license, he put the child behind the wheel.
When the 9-year-old drove into the schoolyard Monday of last week, the boy stopped in front of the door, and left for class. Shocked parents took down the license plate and contacted the police. The case is now under investigation.
Wow.. long weekend. If you check out the gallery you’ll see the latest album added, the telescope party, not too many pics, I was too busy doing other things to snap a barrage of pictures. Awsome ribs, and chicken, props to Michael Jackson (check out the forum if you don’t know who he is), and of course props to myself since I did have the assist.
I have been spending a good deal of the afternoon working on the site, got the articles link/page up, and after an hour of fiddling around i got the archives up, I had to go through some old code to remind myself, and I was missing one little piece of java script. I hate coding sometimes cause I always miss stuff. Also on the table I was able to get the RSS feed up, not really much, just a few lines of code, but it allows for the site to be syndicated.
I’m noticing a lot of people are coming to my site, but no one is bothering to register on the forum and comment. Today, 9 members have come to the site, and 26 guests who haven’t registered. The forums are the highlight of the site, more news is posted there and some of the strangest conversations happen. If you haven’t already, register and find out whats going on.
Ever seen Magnolia? You find that part where Tom Cruise, aka. Frank T.J. Macky, talks about his seminar and book Seduce and Destroy? “In this life, it’s not what you hope for, it’s not what you deserve — it’s what you take. Do you think they’re your friends? They’re not your friends. Do you really think she’ll be there when things go bad? Huh? When things go wrong? You think again. Fucking Denise. Denise the piece. Oh, you’re gonna give me that cherry pie sweet mama baby! ”
Well it was total chauvinistic - testosterone- filed made-for-tv hokey crap that is funny as hell. But, and I stress the “but,” the idea is based on proven psychological techniques of human interaction. Now some of the stuff he talked about, it helps to be Tom Cruise. If Tom Cruise were to walk up to a woman and say, get on your knees. A good percentage of women would consider it just because of him being a star. So don’t try that one unless you are indeed Tom Cruise.
So what can an average guy do to attract good looking women? What attracts a woman to a man when she sees him in a bar? What can an average guy do to get that woman? Certainly cheesy pickup lines and bright smiles can only go so far. I guess you need to ask yourself what are you looking for. Are you looking to take her home just for the night? Are you looking to meet that soul mate and take her home forever? Well sorry to say, most of the time your not going to meet your end all be all in a bar - (aside from my roommates but they are hobbits).
First of all, regardless of what they say, I’ve posted about this before, women are not looking for someone with personality. That’s what gay men are for. There are numerous articles about instinct, survival of the species and how the attractive mate with the attractive. How often do you really see a drop dead gorgeous girl with a guy that looks like the hunchback of Notre Dame? Exactly. I’m not going to dwell too much on it other than to say that women are looking for a good looking guy, or a guy with some quality that appeals to them.
After surveying women friends of mine, most of them look at eyes and for a good smile. After that, they look for the awe inspiring muscles. So what do you do if you aren’t a muscle bound gift from the Gods? Something different. In thinking of what a guy could do different, a conversation starter, I came up with these silly thoughts.
1.) A crazy t-shirt. This is good, you don’t alter your body in anyway and with the right funny t-shirt, she might even walk up to you. Now, you have to be very picky in your choice, and know the bar that your going to. You don’t want to go into a gay bar with a t-shirt that says “inflate here” and points to your crotch. Most likely it will get you beaten to a pulp by 2 women who are more manly than yourself.
2.) Dye your hair. Yes, dye your hair some off color. This will definitely attract attention. Now just make sure you don’t dye your hair and come to work the next day to find yourself out of a job. I suggest something subtle. Ever look at those guys who have this little white streak in their hair? They always say some traumatic event causes that. Could be child birth, could be struck by lighting, could be you watched your parents murdered in front of you… You get the idea, someone will want to know. I’m not saying dye your hair like that and then come up with a story, but if you did, I’m sure you could come up with a really good story.
3.) Become a human pin cushion. Yes, make the decision to put a few pieces of metal in your body. And by all means, pierce that tongue and show it off because they know what that tongue can do. You may not be able to enunciate her name, but what does it matter if she
Okay…
This is funny; I can just imagine the look of the people at poolside when they saw people coming out of the pool with green hair. That must have been one heck of a sight.
CRUISE SHIP POOL TURNS PASSENGERS’ HAIR GREEN
Cruise passengers ended up with bright green hair after taking a dip in a ship’s luxury pool.
Chlorine in the water on the P&O ship Oceana dyed the hair of nine passengers when they went for a swim.
On-board hairdressing staff had to work to change their hair colour back to normal before the ship docked at Southampton today.
A spokeswoman for P&O Cruises confirmed the incident had happened and that as a “gesture of goodwill” the passengers had been referred to the ship’s beauty salon for corrective treatment.
She said: “We checked all of the chemical levels at the time and they all fell into acceptable levels. We are looking into it but initial tests proved that the levels were OK.”
The swimmers were men and women, all with either very fair or dyed hair, she said. The pool was emptied and refilled as a precautionary measure.
There were 2,000 passengers on board the Oceana during the 10-day cruise around Spain, Portugal and the Canary Islands.
As well as the swimming pool incident, 95 passengers were struck by a mild gastro-intestinal illness during the voyage.
The spokeswoman said that an investigation was under way to establish the cause of the illness although the symptoms were short-lived.
“Everyone fully recovered,” she said. “And really both were very mild complaints effecting relatively small numbers of passengers. But we do take any incident like this very seriously.”
This article first appeared on the 9-22-03 edition of the McAllen Monitor Newspaper (Themonitor.com) this happens to be the newspaper from my hometown.
As some of you may know this is banned book week. For, more info on banned books go here
I cannot believe people still do this. When will people learn that banning books is not the proper solution? The proper solution is communicating and educating your children properly. Parents need to take an active part in educating and communicating with their children. The books mentioned in this article are not sexually arousing in the least. I do not know where these parents got this information. I think the parents are doing what they almost always actually do which is to judge the music or book in question without having ever read or heard the music.
Parents seek to ban books
By Jennine Zeleznik
Monitor Staff Writer
jzeleznik@themonitor.com
MERCEDES
I don’t even know what to say about this, this is beyond words
Just read it….
MAN CUTS OFF PENIS TO TEACH WIFE A LESSON
A Kenyan villager has cut off his penis and testicles with a kitchen knife “to teach his wife a lesson.”
Police say Alfonse Mumbo, of Kajulu Wath Orego, near Kisumu, severed his genitalia after accusing his wife, Penina of unfaithfulness.
Officers say the 38-year-old former barber said he wanted “to give her a free hand to go after other men.” He told police he loved her so much, he could make the sacrifice.
Mr Mumbo has told the East African Standard: ” It was around 8 o’clock in the morning when I started feeling dizzy. My wife had left for the farm. I don’t know what came over me.
“All I remember is walking around the compound anxiously and answering many calls of nature. I found myself disgusted with the penis and decided to cut it off.
“I went into the kitchen, took a knife, undressed and just chopped it off. The knife was too sharp and before I realised what I had done, it was too late.”
He said blood gushed out of the gaping hole in his crotch and he says he began screaming with pain. Mrs Mumbo came home 10 minutes after the incident, with her brother-in-law, to find her husband unconscious in a pool of blood.
He was taken to the New Nyanza General Hospital, where medics had a hard time stemming the blood. Mrs Mumbo has now dismissed her husband’s allegations of affairs outside the marriage.
She told the newspaper she loves her husband very much, and could not do that to him. The 29-year-old says she feels sorry for her husband and has asked people to stop blaming her for his actions.
“When I am walking around the village or going on safari, those who recognise me talk about me in low tones,” says Mr Mumbo, who is recovering from a bladder operation.
Well we’re halfway through the week, only 2 more days until the weekend and wetwireds mars viewing. The only thing that can cause a problem at this point will be the weather. If we get inclimate weather, then we’ll either just hang out inside or cancel it all together and schedule it for another day. You’ll notice that I have added a little button for linkage on the right hand side underneath the buzznet pics.
My advice for the day, or my wisdom… :
Life is a series or relationships, causes and effects, and wrongs and rights. We can only hope that our causes have less negative effects, our relationships are better than worse and our rights outweigh our wrongs.
This is Just plain crazy
How can this be self-defense, when you chop the victim
Hungary, well I would of never guessed.
Hungarians get horny
Tue Sep 23, 8:11 AM ET
By Kate Kelland
LONDON (Reuters) - Forget Latin lovers — horny Hungarians are now the most active between the sheets, leading a charge of eastern Europeans in the global sex charts.
Condom maker Durex’s annual global sex survey published on Tuesday showed that Hungarian lovers enjoy sex 152 times a year. The French — fiercely proud of their sexual prowess — only manage 144 performances a year.
The British can’t beat the Australians at cricket but outperformed them between the sheets, managing 135 sessions a year to the Aussies 125.
The Italians and Spanish lag even further with scores of 119 and 123 times a year, while Americans make love an average of 118 times a year, Germans and Dutch 120.
“Bedtime in Budapest is the most passionate of all,” Durex said in its survey.
Eastern Europe performed well, with Bulgaria, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro all showing above average annual ratings.
But if you want sex in Sweden or Singapore, you may be disappointed. Swedes chalk up a below-average score of 102 times a year, while Singaporeans only manage 96.
The survey of more than 150,000 people found lovers across the globe are having sex an average of 127 times a year and 73 percent of people say they are happy with their sex lives.
The most sexually satisfied couples are in Thailand with 92 percent, Vietnam with 90 percent, China and Spain with 83 percent, and Iceland with 80 percent.
Russians were the least happy with their lot. Only 59 percent said they were satisfied, despite having sex an average of 150 times a year.
One-night stands proved relatively popular across the world with 45 percent of people admitting to having had one.
But Nordic nights were the most adventurous — 71 percent of Icelanders, 70 percent of Norwegians and 68 percent of Finns have had sex with someone they had just met, compared with only 37 percent of Germans and 24 percent of Indians.
Keeping up with the times, Americans are at the forefront of the techno trend for virtual reality sex with 54 percent saying they have had sex via phone, e-mail or text message.
The French scoffed at such modern nonsense — only 20 percent of them saying they could see the point of it.
Lovers in Hong Kong are the most likely to be honest in bed — only 15 percent say their passion is a pretence. But many Australians have no such scruples — 47 percent say they have faked orgasms.
This is crazy and funny. I can just picture this in my head I would of bust out laughing if I was one of the guards at the border
Donkey passport a pain in the ass for police
September 23 2003 at 06:36AM
Nicosia - A man and his donkey were arrested in Cyprus when they tried to poke fun at passport checks by crossing the island’s divide equipped only with a “donkey passport”.
Greek Cypriot pensioner Savvas Christodoulou and his donkey, Shelidona, were part of a protest which activists hoped would highlight opposition to passport checks at the recently opened border, which has divided the island since 1974.
Turkish Cypriot police encouraged them to cross the Nicosia checkpoint into Turkish-controlled territory but moments later plainclothes officers bundled Christodoulou into a car.
His donkey, the heavily pregnant Shelidona, was led off to the nearest police station to be put in quarantine.
“They’ve been taken into custody,” a Turkish Cypriot guard at the checkpoint said.
The protest plan recalled an off-the-cuff comment made some years ago by the Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, who said donkeys were the only species which was indigenous to Cyprus.
It was not immediately clear if the arrests occurred because of mistaken identity. A spoof passport prepared for Shelidona by activists identified her as a male.
Bush ‘not paying attention’ to Democratic race
President getting his news from aides
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 Posted: 8:51 AM EDT (1251 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush says he is paying virtually no attention to the Democratic race for his job, even as the candidates sharpen their criticism of his performance.
“Well, occasionally it blips on my radar screen, but not nearly as much as you would think. I’ve got a job to do. I’m occupied,” Bush said in a taped interview telecast Monday night on the Fox Broadcast Network.
“Their slogan is, ‘Vote for me, I don’t like George Bush,”‘ Bush said. “The American people are going to make that ultimate judgment as to whether or not I ought to be re-elected.”
The president’s 2004 campaign has been humming for months. He has raised more than $65 million at 21 fund-raising events since June for a Republican nomination for which he faces no opponent. His campaign offices employ dozens of people.
Nevertheless, Bush insisted he was “not paying attention” to the Democratic race. He said he knew who the candidates are, but had not watched a Democratic debate.
Likewise, Bush’s response to the Democrats’ specific criticisms about his handling of the war in Iraq and the economy. “I repeat, I’m not really paying attention to it,” he said.
Bush said he insulates himself from the “opinions” that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories.
“I appreciate people’s opinions, but I’m more interested in news,” the president said. “And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what’s happening in the world.”
The interview was conducted Sunday and aired on the eve of Bush’s address to the United Nations, where he will seek to broaden the international body’s role in Iraq and persuade other nations to contribute troops and money.
Bush expressed confidence about the passage of a new resolution, and called French President Jacques Chirac “a strong-willed soul.”
“He and I have had some pretty frank discussions before about issues,” Bush said. “I will continue to remind him, though — and he needs to hear this clearly from me, which he will — that America is a good nation, genuinely good.”
The president dismissed critics who accuse the administration of poor postwar planning for Iraq.
“Obviously, I think they’re going badly for the soldiers who lost their lives, and I weep for that person and their family. But no, I think we’re making good progress.”
On or since May 1, when Bush declared, aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 164 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq. Bush said he was referring to “major military actions” — “tight movement armored divisions and massive airstrikes.”
He said he had warned Americans on May 1 that Iraq remained a “dangerous” place, yet he maintained that his administration had not underestimated the postwar violence.
“Like any other situation, we weren’t exactly sure as to the nature of the terror that was being inflicted upon the people,” he said. “We know there would be Baathists that would be angry at the fact that they weren’t in power. We knew there was a lot of kind of loose operatives around the country.”
Answering critics who say that a main reason for going to war has not been borne out, Bush said he thinks ousted leader Saddam Hussein hid his weapons of mass destruction.
“But I firmly believe he had weapons of mass destruction,” Bush said. “I know he used them at one time, and I’m confident he had programs that would enable him to have a weapon of mass destruction at his disposal.”
Turning to other topics, Bush stood strongly behind Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell on new media ownership rules that ease decades-old ownership restrictions. The changes included allowing a single company to own TV stations reaching nearly half the nation’s viewers as well as broadcast stations and a newspaper in the same area.
The new rules touched off a firestorm of criticism from lawmakers of both parties, and Congress is now weighing repealing them.
“I support what Michael Powell did. He took a long, deliberative process,” Bush said. But he was noncommittal on whether he would veto such repeal legislation.
Bush recovered from a calf strain earlier this summer that had slowed his running regimen. He revealed in the interview that he believed he had a meniscus tear — a common injury to the cartilage that lines the inside surfaces of the knee — that has again halted his running routine.
“I am hoping to find a lot of sympathy around here, but I haven’t found any yet,” he joked. “Maybe I ought to go up to Capitol Hill.”
The president also said he talks to his father, former President Bush about every two weeks, and his brother Jeb, the Florida governor, “maybe once a month.”
“I love to be with my family, but we are not pick-up-the-phone, chitchat people that much,” Bush said.
Hello all
I am Agamemnon and I posting and commenting on some of the weirdest and dumbest things that people do.
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Teacher promised girl a miracle, lawsuit says
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBANY, Ore. — An Albany family has filed suit against the city’s school district, alleging that a middle school substitute teacher told their daughter that Jesus would miraculously cure her.
In the lawsuit filed this month by Robert and Tina George, the family seeks $750,000 for each of three complaints: violation of their daughter’s civil rights, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
Named in the suit are substitute teacher Linda Woldeit and Memorial Middle School, as well as the school district. Woldeit said she wasn’t aware of the lawsuit and wasn’t prepared to comment.
Court papers say that when Woldeit learned the girl suffered from a rare disease that affects her hair follicles, leaving her bald, Woldeit wrote a note to her that said Jesus would perform a miracle that night while she showered, causing her to grow “the most beautiful blond hair anyone has ever seen.”
If not, Woldeit said, she would shave off her own hair. The girl’s hair wasn’t restored, and Woldeit did shave her head.
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) — A panel of federal judges is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California’s gubernatorial election may be held as scheduled next month or postponed until March.
The 11 judges of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals peppered lawyers for both sides of the issue with questions for an hour Monday, pushing them to explain how punch-card voting systems used in six California counties would disenfranchise voters, as the pro-postponement side argued.
They also asked whether the punch-card error rate is significant enough to require the vote to be postponed until March, when a newer voting system is scheduled to be in place.
Last week, a three-judge panel of the same court ordered the election postponed until March, saying the punch-card systems would disadvantage those voters who use them.
The six counties, including Los Angeles, the state’s largest, have about 44 percent of the state’s voters.
The panel’s decision is expected sometime Tuesday morning, according to the court clerk’s office.
Arguing for the postponement Monday was Mark Rosenbaum of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe.
“The error experienced with these now-notorious ballots, even after human beings look at them, is so great that they are not lawful to use once they’ve been deemed deficient and outmoded,” Tribe told the judges.
Tribe cited the state’s Proposition 41, approved by voters last year, which authorized improvements in voting systems statewide.
The secretary of state, who pushed for the measure, urged that punch-card systems be replaced “as soon as possible” because of the errors in voting they produce.
The proposition set a March 2004 deadline for new systems to be in place.
Using the punch-card systems instead of more advanced touch-screen voting systems or optical scanners, Tribe argued, at the very least undermines the confidence of voters when they make their selections on a ballot.
“We’re not counting sheep, we’re counting votes, and it matters that people do or don’t have confidence,” said Tribe, who argued for the Democrats before the Supreme Court in the 2000 presidential election dispute.
‘Reasonably practical’ method
Douglas Woods, the state’s deputy attorney general, and Charles Diamond, a lawyer for the pro-recall group Rescue California, argued against the postponement.
They said the error rate of punch-card systems is comparable to that of other systems.
Diamond said the secretary of state “emphatically, emphatically avoided saying that punch cards were defective or unreliable or inaccurate or not trustworthy” when he pushed for modernizing voting systems.
Speaking to reporters after the court session, Diamond said errors with current punch-card systems don’t constitute “intentional discrimination” and that punch cards remain a “reasonably practical” method of voting.
“I think what the court indicated strongly today is suspicion of the plaintiff’s case that, in fact, punch-card voting is at all unreliable,” Diamond said.
He said he believed the court would not call off the election “simply based on a claim — and one that I think they’ll toss out as flimsy — that a couple of votes might be lost because of mechanical difficulties.”
Rosenbaum said his figures show that one of every 25 voters in the six California counties will fail to have their votes counted because of errors with punch-card systems.
“It’s like putting a sign up there,” he said. “Every 25th person doesn’t need to vote.”
Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain then pointed out that moving the election to March would require throwing out the 500,000 absentee ballots already submitted for the October 7 vote, thus disenfranchising those voters.
“The other way around, your honor,” Rosenbaum said. “If the election goes forward on October 7, with the knowledge that one out of every 25 minority votes in those counties will not count, then we are treating votes like refuse.”
Requiring absentee voters to recast their ballots amounts to an inconvenience compared with actual disenfranchisement for those voters whose ballots are disqualified because of voting errors, Rosenbaum said.
Rosenbaum also focused on the fact that Proposition 54, a ballot initiative dealing with questions of race, is due to appear on the October ballot.
Problems with voting, he said, would further disenfranchise voters deciding on the issue.
Proposition 54 would prohibit the government from classifying any person by race, ethnicity, color, or national origin.
It was originally scheduled to be on the March ballot but was moved up to the October election.
Judges chosen at random
The election to replace Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, will first ask voters whether they want to recall him. The ballot then asks voters which candidate they would like to replace him.
A poll released Sunday by the Public Policy Institute of California showed support for the recall slipping, although 53 percent of likely voters said they still support it.
The poll also found Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and film star Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, running neck-and-neck, though nearly one in five voters has yet to decide on a replacement candidate.
The 11 judges were chosen at random from among active judges on the 9th Circuit. They include eight appointed by Democratic presidents and three appointed by Republican presidents.
Seven were appointed by then-President Bill Clinton, who has been in California campaigning with Davis against the recall.
Bowing to the strong public interest in the case, the 9th Circuit took the unusual step of allowing Monday’s hearing to be televised live. Cameras are rarely allowed in federal courts.
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