At its World Wide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple Computer unveiled the new Mac Pro, a quad Xeon, 64-bit desktop workstation featuring two new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors running up to 3.0 GHz and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of the Power Mac G5 Quad.
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Why garden naked? First of all, it's fun! Second only to swimming, gardening is at the top of the list of family-friendly activities people are most ready to consider doing nude.Ewwwww.
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BP discovered corrosion in the transit lines only after the Department of Transportation ordered their inspection following a 270,000 gallon spill in March at another section of the field.But, a 270,000 gallon spill? And only then do they think maybe the ought to do some routine maintenance on their lines?
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The city of Hiroshima invited government representatives from 140 countries [to a memorial service marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima], of which 35 countries sent delegates. But of the seven declared nuclear powers - Britain, China, France, India, Pakistan, Russia and the United States - as well as North Korea and Iran, only Russia and Iran sent delegates.
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Washington: Condoleezza Rice has chalked up a remarkable first for a US secretary of state with her inclusion on Vanity Fair's International Best-Dressed List.
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“I'm not having sex for a year. ... I'll kiss, but nothing else,” says Hilton, who told the magazine she has had sex with only two men during her lifetime.Relates to Princess Diana, she tells Brit GQ.
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Levitown is a bus ride beyond the aptly named Hicksville in the outer suburbs of New York.
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President Bush will move U.S. troops out of Iraq if the country descends into civil war, according to one senior Bush aide who declined to be named while talking about internal strategy. “If there's a full-blown civil war, the president isn't going to allow our forces to be caught in the crossfire,” the aide said.
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The Israel Defense Forces plan to ramp up their offensive in Lebanon in response to Sunday's rocket attacks on northern Israel.
A senior General Staff officer told Haaretz that for the first time since the fighting began, Israel plans to attack strategic infrastructure targets and symbols of the Lebanese government.
Other than bombing the Beirut airport to prevent arms transfers to Hezbollah, Israel has hitherto not targeted Lebanon's infrastructure, insisting that it is only at war with Hezbollah, not with the Lebanese government or people.
However, the officer said, “we are now in a process of renewed escalation. We will continue hitting everything that moves in Hezbollah - but we will also hit strategic civilian infrastructure.”
Prosecutors suspect Hizbullah has fund-raising cells in the United States, but not terrorists—so far, that is.
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Patients report experiencing all sorts of symptoms, sometimes within hours of stopping their medication. They can suffer from flu-like nausea, muscle aches, uncontrollable crying, dizziness and diarrhea. Many patients suffer “brain zaps,” bizarre and briefly overwhelming electrical sensations that propagate from the back of the head.Brain zaps. Whoa. That sounds...well, “not exactly painful,” the story says, but how not exactly painful would that be? Exactly.
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BOGOTÁ -- After an ailing Fidel Castro ceded power last week to his younger brother, Raúl, reinvigorated foes of the legendary revolutionary returned to their situation rooms in Washington and Miami to strategize about how to bring about a democratic transition on the island 90 miles south of Florida.
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That was the beginning of a career built on what Mr. Wilkes [a Washington lobbyist] calls “transactional lobbying”....
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Proctor and Gamble’s warehouse in Beirut was bombed with damage to stores estimated at $20m.See how you like wearing faded socks.
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Bush did not to speak to other foreign leaders Saturday, Snow said, including Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.Earlier in the same snowjob, as reported by WaPo, we find the DOOFUS, Condi Rice, and some guy named Stephen Hadley talking about “not only what's going on with this [UN] resolution but generally about the contours of the president's vision for the Middle East.”
“I don't know if he needs to,” Snow said. “I haven't heard Olmert complaining”
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”With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate theI've been reading in recent weeks about an anti-alcoholism vaccine, an anti-smoking vaccine, an anti-obesity vaccine, and now - wonder of wonders, glory of glories - anti-stupid pills. Yeah! That'll solve everything!
loss of short-term memory,“ Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the ”world's first anti-stupidity pill.“
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“It basically reflects busy times and a busy schedule,” said Dan Bartlett, counselor to Mr. Bush, explaining the abbreviated visit.This guy Bartlett is, in fact, Dubya's top PR flack. I was in the PR game myself, once - this in an alternate universe - and nobody ever called me a counselor. What's up with that?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is no evidence that senior Pentagon commanders intentionally provided false testimony to about the military's actions on the morning of the September 11 attacks, according to a report by the Defense Department's watchdog agency cited in the New York Times on Saturday.
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The White House has insisted no such threat exists, with press secretary Tony Snow dismissing the suggestion that the United States would attack the island as “absurd.”
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Lt. Colonel Less Collins says over the last two years, there have been two [Army recruiting] age changes. They've gone from 38 to 40 and then from 40 to 42.Dude, that just makes my bones hurt to think about. Twenty is one thing. forty is a whole something else. Forty is the time to start thinking about getting out, not getting in.
Collins says, “Mostly that's been because we've had a lot of folks out there that had wanted to serve their country, but were ineligible because of their age.”
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eBay: AC-15 GEORGE DENNIS BLUE BEETLE AMP.. (item 130010987332 end time Jul-29-06 11:45:00 PDT)I don't have no money and I don't need no amp anyway, but nobody's ever had a better reason for selling one.
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“It is a bit of a publicity stunt...”
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“Culture war” in America may be overblownOr maybe Pew has discovered a whole new kind of poll. Meanwhile, in other headlines:
“Summer” may be hottest season
“Air” may be useful for breathing
“Votes” may be how people get “elected”
“Rummy” may be nuts.
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Since the beginning of July, the men in our area have been patrolling the streets. Some of them patrol the rooftops and others sit quietly by the homemade road blocks we have on the major roads leading into the area. You cannot in any way rely on Americans or the government. You can only hope your family and friends will remain alive- not safe, not secure- just alive. That’s good enough.
...all of you [in Cuba] must know that you have no greater friend than the United States of America.
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Nevertheless, the division among evangelicals on this issue is growing increasingly stark. Robertson joins Rich Cizik and the National Association of Evangelicals on the side of those who acknowledge reality. On the other side we find James Dobson and Jerry Falwell, both of whom reject the overwhelming evidence.How did global warming become a religious issue? I don't get that at all.
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LONDON, Aug. 4 — After speaking repeatedly this week about an “elemental struggle” with radical Islam in an “arc of extremism,” Prime Minister Tony Blair delayed a Caribbean vacation today saying the coming days would be crucial in the diplomatic effort to secure a cease-fire in Lebanon.
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Crowds of al-Sadr supporters from across Iraq's Shi'ite heartland converged on the capital's Sadr City district, chanting “Death to Israel, Death to America” in the biggest pro-Hizbullah rally since Israel launched attacks against the guerrillas in Lebanon on July 12.“Pro-Hizbullah” is, it just seems to me, a somewhat quaint characterization of “Death to America,” but then this is the Jerusalem Post, not the New York Times.
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I have watched the D.C. press corps play courtier to Bush since he openly insulted Helen Thomas, who is not only a first-rate journalist but a lady as well. Shame on you all. No principle, no guts, no grace.
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Ned Lamont, the Democratic challenger who faces off against incumbent Joe Lieberman in Tuesday's Connecticut primary, has run into another problem with his multi-million dollar stock portfolio. Last spring the anti-war candidate had to deal with revelations that he owned up to $50,000 worth of stock in Halliburton, the services giant that has been at the center of controversy over its lucrative post-war contracts in Iraq. And now, only a day after he took Wal-Mart to task at a campaign stop in Bridgeport, a review of his personal financial disclosure forms has revealed that he owns between $2,000 and $30,000 worth of Wal-Mart stock in two managed accounts.See, I didn't understand you have to agree with how a company does business before you can buy stock in it. Dumb, huh?
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Police in the German city of Aachen received an unusual call for help late on Wednesday when a woman telephoned to complain her husband was not fulfilling his sexual obligations.Police “did not feel able to resolve the dispute.”
With temperatures soaring Wednesday, Fontaine placed two trays of cookie dough on the dashboard, shut the doors and retreated inside to her air conditioned office.“Mrs. Fields has nothing on Sandi,” says a co-worker.
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I want you to think for think for a moment of how incompetent and stupid and worthless, how -- that's right, I used those words -- how incompetent, how ignorant, how worthless is an adult that can't earn more than the minimum wage? You have to really, really, really be a pretty pathetic human being to not be able to earn more than the human wage. Uh -- human, the minimum wage.
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Does the violence tend to be up during the summer, in the spring, summer and fall months? Yes it does. And it tends to decline during the winter period. Does that represent failed policy? I don’t know. I would say not.It's the weather! Give 'em some air conditioning and we're home free!
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"The Republican Party of Texas intends to expeditiously appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court," said party Chair Tina Baker in a release, "the 5th Circuit's decision to force Tom DeLay, an ineligible candidate for Congress, to stay on the ballot in Texas Congressional District 22 as the Republican nominee."The Rs petitioning the Supremes to take DeLay's name off the ballot. I mean, how perfectly awesome is that.
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A number of other car manufacturers, both domestic and foreign, have already accommodated some or all of their new models to allow for iPod integration--among them are DaimlerChrysler's Jeep, Volkswagen, BMW and its Mini, and Honda Motor. With the addition of Ford, Mazda and GM, Apple estimates that more than 70 percent of new cars sold in the United States by the end of 2007 will have some kind of iPod integration technology.
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“I have never painted a rosy picture,” the Defense Secretary said with a straight face. “I have been very measured in my words, and you’d have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I have been excessively optimistic.”Count me in! I can't tell you how long it's been since I had a dickens of a time. And believe me, Bunky, there is nothing better than a good dickens of a time.
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“And then we would face not only the evil ideology of these extremists, but an enemy that will have grown accustomed to succeeding in telling free people everywhere what to do.”Remember the domino theory? It's back. If we get out of Iraq, says Dr. Rummy, the next thing, they'll be telling us to get out of Cleveland. And all our base will belong to them, those evil ideologists. Of course Cleveland is in Ohio, but even so.
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The drive took about 30 hours. Chicken’s bus is amazing and we had a good time and slept well. Props to the drivers (Chicken and Jim) as well as the rotating crew who drove the rented box truck behind us, carrying most of what had been piled onto the trailer (before the axle debacle).
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We're now up to 275,000 Iraqi security forces, heading toward 325,000 by the end of the year. The president has announced a reconciliation process. He's working on it. He's a serious person. He's working with some of the neighboring countries to try to encourage the Sunnis to participate. He's worked with Sistani, the leading Shia cleric in the country, and had him support a reconciliation process, as well as support of the disarming of some of the militias.It's nothing but a “high level of sectarian violence,” Rummy says.
So there's a number of good things happening. There are four provinces in the country where almost all the violence is occurring, and there are 14 where there is relatively little violence.
And so, amidst all of this difficulty, the currency is fairly stable, the schools are open, the hospitals are open, the people are functioning.
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American and Iraqi officials have been promising for weeks to address the problem [of guys in official uniforms doing all sorts of scary things]. This week, the interior minister, Jawad Bolani, acknowledged that rogues were among his ranks. He told Parliament that new uniforms and identification cards would soon be supplied to hobble those “who carry out bad activities under the cover of this institution.”New uniforms!
But only a small percentage of the 145,000 Interior Ministry officers — from the national police, public order brigades and other forces — will get them.Oh. Well then.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair wants a radical foreign policy rethink to combat an “arc of extremism” across the Middle East.When I first moved to New York in the (very) early 60s, a callow incredibly sophisticated youth of 22 and a veteran English major, I was sent off by my boss to tour the company's ad agency. And as I was walking down the hall accompanied by one of the agency's copywriters, an ancient (meaning guy with white hair) walked past and the copywriter leaned to me and whispered, in a voice filled with awe, “he's the author of 'Tower of Power'.“
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Tropical Storm Chris could become a Category 1 hurricane as early as Thursday, and officials at the state emergency operations center are gearing up for a possible hurricane strike.(Sorry, Christopher. Just kidding. Ha ha ha!
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And by the way, how do you really know that 400 innocent civilians were killed? How do you know who is innocent and who is not? Why? This is not an army. They don’t wear uniforms that distinguish them from other civilians.
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LONDON Mabel, the teddy bear once cuddled by Elvis, is all chewed up.A Doberman pinscher named Barney ripped Mabel's head off at a children's museum near Wells, England. Barney was supposed to be guarding hundreds of rare bears, but the museum's general manager Daniel Medley says "he just went berserk."
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Of course, everybody has been moved by the terrible scenes of dead civilians, many of them children, after the Israeli attack on the Lebanese village of Qana. But put such a loss of life in a wider context, and it becomes clear that the death toll to date is not particularly high by historical standards.How about the Black Plague? Work for you?
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MATTHEWS:And another thing. Neither did Rutherford B. Hayes.
Bill Clinton. Do you think he did a good job of stopping a second attack on the World Trade Center when he was president for eight years?
GREEN:
We can't know whether he stopped it. Richard Clarke --
MATTHEWS:
We know he didn't stop it.
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In Baalbek, the commandos captured five Hezbollah militants and killed at least 10 others before completing the operation and safely returning to Israel, IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said.More like a capture. Or maybe a seizing. I don't know. Is there a scorekeeper?
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Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’:Pot calls Islam, apparently, or something or other, "the religion of perpetual outrage."
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Jones, who came up with the brilliant idea, told one reporter, "This isn’t a political or publicity stunt. We feel sincere as to what we’ve done. This isn’t going to change the debate or course of the world. It’s a gesture just to say to the French, ‘Up yours!’"But no more. The Gallic (actually Belgian) dish is back on the menu in the basement of the House. And if the French send peacekeepers to Lebanon maybe we can call them Vive la French Fries.
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All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians...No such term as “innocents” of the enemy, rabbinical council says.
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And I want the American people to know that, even if they don't think that we're still at war, I do, and, therefore, will deploy the — the assets of the federal government to protect us here at home and to bring the people who — who intend to hurt us to justice.And this.
But, you know, the words "amnesty" are loaded words...Last I looked there were toys that did better than that.
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Tales of the Freewayblogger: Israel Attacks GibsonThe picture, I mean. You can look and decide for yourself.
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It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.
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CARLSON:
Let's see, the solution in Iraq is just level it, turn it into a parking lot, an ice rink, just kill everybody, knock every building down, pulverize it to dust. On the other hand, macho solutions are no solutions. This is what happens when cable news does foreign policy. Bill O'Reilly, he's an intellectual.
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"The odds of this waitress recovering her own license defy calculation," police Capt. Guy Turner said Monday.And anyway, the odds we want here are the odds on somebody being dumb enough to hand her her own license. Which are apparently not all that bad.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An English fishing town has banned the sport of conger cuddling after an animal activist complained.Oh. Whew. For a minute there I thought they said codger. But conger - what's a conger anyway?
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Shortly after 11 p.m., a couple of men in Little Havana - not far from the home where Elian Gonzalez was seized - climbed palm trees and hung a giant Cuban flag.I mean, if you think waving a Mexican flag is a big deal. Those Cubans are commies!
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The Interior Ministry denied that the kidnappers were police — despite the uniforms — and blamed the attack on “terrorists,” Iraqi state television reported.Or wait. Maybe it's the other way around. And anyway, this is all so ten minutes ago, isn't it? I mean, Iraq. Big whoop. We're on to new opportunities now.
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1) "...until those civilians start paying a price for propping up these kinds of regimes, it's not going to end, folks..."Go on, say it. You give up. Right? Well then, Bunky, here you go.
2) "...they are not exonerated from responsibility, because they chose this government and voted for it despite their knowledge of its crimes..."
1) Rush Limbaugh, July 31, 2006, on the Qana bombing.(You can read the full quotes here, thanks to billmon.)
2) Osama bin Laden, March, 1977, on his "fatwa against America."
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"We'll stay here for as long as it takes, but we're not going to let them impose a president on us," said farmer Anacleto Garcia Martinez, 53, as he warmed his coffee on a wood-burning grill set up beneath a tarp strung from the wrought-iron gate leading to Chapultepec Park.Oh, wait. Mexicans. Damn.
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“Our choice is: Are we going to let those other countries take that oil? Or are we going to look at our strategic interests and recognize that very close to our shores is a substantial quantity of oil that is going to be exploited?”So says Kirby Jones of the US-Cuba Trade Association, according to the Ottawa Sun. How can there be a US-Cuba Trade Association when the US doesn't trade with Cuba, you're wondering? Well, Bunky, don't ask me.
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