1973 The Senate began hearings into the Watergate scandal.
2007 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz announced he would resign following controversy over his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. - - - Michael Jay Tucker
“We are failing to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . a dead weight of human waste . . . an ever-increasing spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” - - - Margaret Sanger
"Bring 'em on." - - - George W. Bush
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:
a) Rummy's war within the White House
So, Rummy disobeyed, or ignored orders to share information and cooperate with the Russians. He hid data and ignored efforts to coordinate Katrina work. He lied to his superiors, and misled and insulted, ignored, berated, and attacked those below him who disagreed with him. And his daily war briefings? The cover sheet was religious in nature. for a military briefing.
http://men.style.com/...
The story is worth the read here:
http://men.style.com/...
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b) Alameda School District teaches tolerance. Bigoted christians erupt in anger.
Quote:
"Nowhere at anytime did it give any protection for children being bullied because of their faith, their religion, their size, their race, ethnicity," he points out. "It is only going to give this special anti-bullying protection for homosexuals and transsexuals."
http://www.onenewsnow.com/...
Funny. The President, himself a christian, teaches respect, love and understanding at Notre Dame, is greeted by hordes of chanting students (applauding) and these creeps claim that teaching respect is wrong. What is wrong with this picture?
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c) "Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up." - - - Terry Pratchett
"If I had a hammer, I'd use it on Peter Paul & Mary." - - - Pastor Agnostic
Just give it a whack. Sometimes, it seems, even in the highest tech circles, there is no substitute for good old brute force. And so the question aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on Sunday came down to this: would Michael Massimino rock a handrail back and forth first to fatigue a stripped bolt that was stubbornly holding the handrail on the Hubble Space Telescope, or just give it a big yank to break it and the bolt off.
Beyond the rail were 111 screws. Beyond the 111 screws were the internal electronics of Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, or STIS, the intended object of “brain surgery” on the fourth of five days of spacewalks intended to repair and upgrade the space telescope.
The spectrograph, which has been used to measure the masses of giant black holes in galactic centers and to identify the constituents in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star, shut down in 2004 because of a short circuit in its power supply. It was not designed to be opened up and operated on in space. Nevertheless, for the past three years engineers and astronauts have studied and rehearsed a procedure to break into the instrument, capturing all those screws, and fix a broken power supply.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
NASA's spaced shuttled astronauts finished their 4th of 5 strolls in space, working long hours on the Hubble Spy Center, the human technology used to peer back into the beginning of all time, (some 7,019 years ago) when some one (god) set off an explosion (god) and created all life (it really started off with a "bang", nudge nudge, wink wink!) and after seven long days (totalling 14 billion revolutions around our sun), there was, ahem, LIGHT. Originally designed to be myopic, Hubble has become an entirely different and more useful platform. With its new power sources, improved eyesight, processing units, increased sensitivity, replaced low power boards, and replaced gyroscopes, it should last 10 more years.
NASA was embarrassed into this mission, and almost physically forced to do this by public opinion. No true Hubble replacement is fully designed, much less built, and won't seriously be considered until long after 2016. The far less able James Webb infrared telescope may launch in 2014. Maybe. But do NOT call it a replacement for Hubble. Hubble's best optical observing takes place in the visible-light spectrum, the kind of light we see with the naked eye. Webb is blind except for infrared wavelengths.
Still, the Webb will use segmented mirrors and will peer quite far back down those 7, 019 years.
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e) Why not have an IQ test for future dads?
A 26-year-old Fresno man is in jail after allegedly forcing his 7-year-old son to get a gang tattoo.
Enrique Gonzalez pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of aggravated mayhem and street terrorism after the boy told his mother he was forced to get the tattoo and she altered police.
http://www.sfgate.com/...
But wait. Things DO get worse:
f) Mom forced pre teen kids to have sex in exchange for dinner
A building that once housed a daycare center and later became a "swingers' club" in Mineola, Texas, turned into a house of horrors for four children who were forced to perform sex acts on others and each other.
Shauntel Mayo, 29, the ringleader of this unthinkable abuse, made her three kids (then ages 5, 6, and 7) and her own 6-year-old baby sister perform sex acts if they wanted dinner.
http://www.momlogic.com/...
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"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin