The world is full of lyin’ mud-crawlin’ gravy-suckin’ sonsabitches, who ain’t got the wisdom God gave geese to get in out of the rain. These stories merely prove it.
Actress Sienna Miller Slights Pittsburgh
Oct 06 4:30 PM US/Eastern (AP) Sienna Miller apologized Friday for disparaging Pittsburgh in a magazine interview, saying her remarks were taken out of context and that she found the city and residents gracious.
The 24-year-old British actress, in town shooting the screen adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," called the city a profane name that rhymes Pittsburgh.
Miller, who starred in "Layer Cake," "Casanova" and the remake of "Alfie," told Rolling Stone, "Can you believe this is my life? Will you pity me when you’re back in your funky New York apartment and I’m still in Pittsburgh? I need to get more glamorous films and stop with my indie year."
In response, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Sienna Miller, "Hasn’t got enough up top to qualify for residency in Titsburg, let alone be a cab slut on the Southside Flats. Pittsburgh is the City of Champions, the City of Iron and we like our women folk to have some sweater-puffs we can grab ahold of on payday."
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Times Online
October 05, 2006
Jack Straw calls on Muslim women to lift their veils
By Russell Jenkins
Jack Straw, the leader of the House of Commons, has called on Muslim women to lift their veils as a way of breaking down barriers between communities.
In a disclosure that risks upsetting Muslims, he says he now asks women to remove their veils when they attend weekly surgeries in his Blackburn constituency.
Mr Straw, a former Foreign Secretary, says that the veil can be regarded as a visible statement of “separation and difference”. Some Muslim scholars do not believe it is obligatory.
Mr. Straw, in acknowledging the importance of the veil and modesty in the Muslim faith said that as an alternative, the women visiting his office could consider either raising their blouses to, "flash some tit or lifting their skirts to flash some clam. Either one is lots of fun!"
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Analysis: Ashcroft blasts 9-11 Commission
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (UPI) — Former Attorney General John Ashcroft this week became the only Cabinet-level Bush official to attack the Sept. 11 Commission, writing in his memoirs it "seemed obsessed with trying to lay the blame for the terrorist attacks at the feet of the Bush administration, while virtually absolving the previous administration of responsibility."
Ashcroft also writes that the commission’s hearings "were not so much about discovering the truth as they were about assessing blame and grandstanding," adding that they "degenerated into show trials."
GOP Commissioner Slade Gorton, a former senator from Washington State, told United Press International Thursday that he found the charges "extraordinary," recalling that President Bush had personally repudiated Ashcroft’s tactics in his sparring with the commission.
"Most of the criticism (the commission received) was the exact opposite: that we didn’t blame anyone," he said. "Our job was to write a factual account which readers could use to assess blame for themselves." Ashcroft "may very well have been the worst witness we interviewed," he said, adding he was "very unresponsive and unhelpful."
Gorton continued, "Ashcroft is dumber than a box of hammers and the only reason he’s angry at us, is we called ‘bullshit’ on just about everything he said. I wouldn’t trust that dork to tell me the correct time."
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TV spot links Braley to Communist Party
By Ed Tibbetts | Tuesday, October 03, 2006 | Quad-City Times
A new Republican television ad links Democratic congressional candidate Bruce Braley to the Communist Party and says he’s supported by “ultra liberals.”
The ad, which began running Friday, prompted the Braley campaign to label it a “joke.” The ad says Braley was endorsed by the Council for a Livable World and was called a “peace candidate” by the Communist Party.
The council, the new ad says, advocates “huge defense cuts” and has a leader that once proposed negotiating with the Taliban.
It concludes by saying Braley’s support from “ultra liberals” shows he’s “out of touch” with Iowa.
Jeff Giertz, a Braley spokesman, did not dispute the ad’s accuracy but said it is “over the top.”
“It’s absolutely laughable,” he said, adding Braley hasn’t been endorsed by the Communist Party, nor is the ad claiming that. Giertz said that "Braley never negotiated with the Taliban; he left that up to Vice-President Dick Cheney who was representing Unocal."
Giertz added "Bruce Braley assured me was completely shitfaced on some amazing Afghan hash that Hamid Karzi was hot-knifing at the time, so he doesn’t remember much of the meeting with the Taliban."
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Oct 6, 3:49 PM (ET) By Evelyn Leopold
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Friday urged North Korea not to carry out a planned nuclear-weapon test and warned Pyongyang of unspecified consequences if it did.
The warning, in a formal statement adopted unanimously, came three days after North Korea’s announced it planned its first underground nuclear test, saying its hand had been forced by a U.S. "threat of nuclear war and sanctions."
U.S. officials have said the reclusive state might detonate a device as early as this weekend, and a Chinese source said Pyongyang planned to carry out the test deep inside an abandoned mine.
A nuclear test would "jeopardize peace, stability and security in the region and beyond" and "bring universal condemnation by the international community," said the Security Council statement, read at a formal meeting by Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, this month’s council president.
It warned North Korea that a nuclear test would lead to further unspecified Security Council action "consistent with its responsibility under the Charter of the United Nations."
Analysts say North Korea probably has enough fissile material to make six to eight nuclear bombs but probably does not have the technology to devise one small enough to mount on a missile. Analysts also said that they might also be kidding.
"We truly have no clue whatsoever," said Maynard G Krebs, a UN Nuclear Proliferation Analyst. "We’re so out of touch here, half the staff think that U Thant is still the Secretary-General and the other half think they’re working on the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles."
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Inquiry To Look At House, Not Foley
By Charles Babington, Washington Post Staff Writer (With file from http://www.cbc.ca)
Friday, October 6, 2006; A01
The House ethics committee launched a wide-ranging investigation into Congress’s handling of information about a Florida lawmaker and teenage pages yesterday, as Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) vowed to keep his job, saying, "I haven’t done anything wrong. At least nothing you’ve got transcripts of."
The ethics panel approved nearly four dozen subpoenas for documents and testimony from House members, officers and aides. Its leaders said they plan to complete the inquiry in a matter of weeks, but not necessarily before the Nov. 7 congressional elections.
"Our investigation will go wherever the evidence leads us," Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) told reporters at the Capitol.
The committee is evenly divided between the two parties, and Hastings and Rep. Howard L. Berman (Calif.), the top Democrat, promised to conduct an impartial investigation into the House’s handling of warnings about the conduct of then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.). "We believe the committee could use a scanning electron microscope to find what is left of Speaker Hastert’s credibility." said Rep. Berman.
As part of his statement, Speaker Dennis Hastert also announced a toll-free number that Americans could call to suggest ways of making sure young pages are free from harassment or other forms of ill treatment by politicians or government officials.
"Our children need to be protected and we’re going to do everything that we can to protect them," he said."
Several callers to the toll-free line said that they were amazed that grown humans in Congress, the Senate and the Speaker’s Office still do not understand that it is illegal to have sex with anyone underage, regardless of gender and needed a toll-free line to have regular citizens explain it to them.
A typical comment came from Ms. Angela Fleedmocker who recorded her comments on the toll-free advice line, "At least Clinton was getting some consensual skull lovin’ from an adult. Foley wanted to holepunch the young stuff and that ain’t right, even for West Virginia. What part of this do you not understand?"
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I really have to get a new hobby.
RoadDave 