Pennsylvania won’t release its list of polling places to the public.
The reason? So that terrorists won’t disrupt the election process.
I’m just spitballin’ here, but keeping the polling places a secret from the public? Won’t that disrupt the election process?
FEMA holds a press conference with itself:
The agency gave reporters 15 minutes’ notice before the press briefing, making it almost impossible for most reporters to get FEMA’s DC offices (which are nowhere near downtown or Capitol Hill). But the agency didn’t want to hold a press conference on national television without questions, so FEMA employees stood in and gave Johnson the chance to “wax on and on about FEMA’s greatness.”
Of course, that could be because the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters. We’re told the questions were asked by Cindy Taylor, FEMA’s deputy director of external affairs, and by “Mike” Widomski, the deputy director of public affairs. Director of External Affairs John “Pat” Philbin asked a question, and another came, we understand, from someone who sounds like press aide Ali Kirin.
Asked about this, Widomski said: “We had been getting mobbed with phone calls from reporters, and this was thrown together at the last minute.”
The administration pays pundits to toe the Bush line, and it sends out fake-news segments for local TV stations to air, so I suppose it stands to reason that it would host press conferences with administration employees pretending to be reporters.
It’s not that I disagree with Cosmo’s seven "new rules for keeping your man" or whatever it’s called. (In fact, most of these relationship tips are quite sound and common-sensical.)
It’s just that they’ll be publishing, in six to seven months, another set of rules which totally contradict these ones….
I’m surprised nobody is covering this:
With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully neutralise the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents HIV from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune system to the same levels as the rest of the population.
To date, it represents the most significant treatment for patients suffering from HIV.
Professor Jens Lundgren from the University of Copenhagen, together with other members of the research group EuroSIDA, have conducted a study, which demonstrates that the immune system of all HIV-infected patients can be restored and normalised. The only stipulation is that patients begin and continue to follow their course of treatment.
Every lawyer knows — because it’s drilled into us — that it is unethical to have sex with a client. It violates the Rules of Professional Conduct in every state bar, and can lead to fines or suspension of your legal license. The rationale is that having sex with a client creates a conflict of interest. Also demeans the profession, I suppose.
Professor Eugene Volokh, always with an eye out for the interesting legal case, discovers a story out of Wisconsin, where a lawyer was suspended for having a three-way with his client and his client’s girlfriend.
It gets a bit dicey here, but apparently the lawyer (a male) and his client (another male) engaged in sexual conduct at the same time with the client’s girlfriend (a female). This, believe it or not, was in lieu of legal fees.
The legal question that the court had to consider was — in doing so, can it be said that the lawyer had sex "with" his client? The key word here is "with".
You’ll want to read about it here (and the discussion/tittering in the comments), but the consensus is that the court got it right. Although the attorney was rightfully suspended (there were other things involved — drugs, etc.), it seems that — technically — he did not have sex with his client. See if you agree.
Michelle Rodriguez ("Ana Lucia Cortez"): DWI
Cynthia Watros ("Libby"): DWI
Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje ("Mr. Eko"): Traffic violation; disobeying a police officer
Daniel Dae Kim ("Jin-Soo Kwon"): DWI
2 games to 0. Nice 2-1 win. Schilling, who is no longer the Schilling of yore, still knows how to compete. Then came the "dynamic duo of Hideki Okajima and Jonathan Papelbon" who kept the Rockies in place for the back end of the game. Nice to see that even when the bats aren’t connecting (unlike Wednesday’s blowout), the pitching takes charge.
Best part: Pap’s pickoff of Holliday to quelch an 8th inning rally. Sweeeeeeet.
This might be the sought-after toy this Christmas:
I’m gonna get me one just to scare the crap out of the dogs…..
Ah, such a bright future ahead. From a local Utah newspaper, dated September 1, 2004:
Crissy Morris is just starting her career as a teacher at HHS and will be teaching geography, sociology and PE. She hopes to make learning enjoyable for the students and make an impact in their lives.
Crissy was born to John and Carol Thorpe and raised in Santa Maria, Calif., where she lived until her family moved to St. George when she was age 14 and at the beginning of her freshman year.
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“I have a wonderful husband who works with at-risk youth [Triumph Youth Expeditions of Toquerville] and loves it,” Morris said. She is married to Rusty Morris and they have one 4-year-old son, Andrew, “going on 20,” and another son on the way.
Morris loves the outdoors, not only track and soccer, but other sports have been a major draw to her, whether fishing or water sports. She is looking forward to coaching HHS girls’ soccer and track teams.
“I am very excited to start my career in a place where the community gets very involved and everyone seems to care about the youth,” said Morris.
(Emphasis mine). Look how exciting and happy Crissy is to be starting her new career as a teacher and get involved with the youth.
But Crissy apparently took getting "involved" with the "youth" to extremes.
A teacher at Hurricane High School was arrested today, charged with five counts of rape.
Cris Morris, a 29-year-old female teacher from Washington City, is accused of having sexual intercourse with a juvenile male student. Under Utah law, a juvenile student is incapable of consenting to sexual relations with a teacher, which constitutes the act as rape.
Morris was booked into the Washington County Jail and has been placed on administrative leave while the Washington County School District investigates.
Not so happy anymore.
The Poughkeepsie Journal in New York reports that “Vice President Dick Cheney is coming to Dutchess County again to go hunting.”
Click through and watch the video.
If the video is real, it’s really creepy:
A ‘HAUNTED’ playground swing that rocks backwards and forwards on its own for days has scientists baffled.
Parents and children are convinced a ghost is to blame.
They were so spooked they reported the swing to cops after it began moving four months ago.
The phenomenon flummoxed police, who called physics professors into Firmat, Argentina.
But so far the boffins have failed to find a logical explanation.
Locals claim the seat moves nonstop for TEN DAYS before stopping dead, while other swings remain still.
Teacher Maria de Silva Agustina said yesterday: “One child called it the Blair Witch Playground. We believe it is haunted.”
A day after the White House through Dana Perino said they weren’t concerned about the newest CBO estimates that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will cost the treasury over $2 trillion dollars, Perino this morning says that Bush will veto the newest SCHIP bill coming from Congress this week. The reason? Because Congress hasn’t justified why $35 billion more over five years is needed for our nation’s kids.
Someone explain that to me.
If I could live my life over again, I think I would want this person’s job.
With millions of Americans obsessively tracing their roots, Ms. [Maureen] Taylor has emerged as the nation’s foremost historical photo detective. During a recent meeting of the Maine Genealogical Society, attendees lined up a dozen deep as she handled their images with a cotton glove and peered at the details through a photographer’s loupe. One man offered a portrait photo and asked if it could be of his great grandmother, who died in 1890. "It’s not," Ms. Taylor said after about 15 seconds; she’d dated the hairstyle and billowy blouse to the early 20th century. When another attendee asked why her great-great-grandfather was wearing small hoops in his ears in a portrait, Ms. Taylor explained, "He was in the maritime trade."
Ms. Taylor, who charges $60 an hour, has learned to spot details that reveal not only a photo’s period, but the story behind it. A broom at the feet of a couple in a mid-19th-century portrait, for instance, often marks it as a wedding picture. A photograph of a baby in a carriage from the 1860s might not be a birth announcement, but a death card; in that period of high infant mortality, dead infants were commonly photographed in carriages. A 19th-century woman with unusually short hair may have had scarlet fever, because it was common to shave a victim’s head.
It’s kind of like forensic work, with old photographs and a knowledge of cultural history.
Maureen Taylor has a website, and an interesting blog, too.
