CNN.com - Report: Karr's DNA doesn't match; No charges to be filed - Aug 28, 2006:

The DNA sample taken from suspect John Mark Karr does not match DNA found on JonBenet Ramsey's body and no charges will be filed against the schoolteacher who claimed he was with the child when she died, CNN affiliate KUSA reported.

Looking at a photo of John Mark Karr makes me feel like a bat is flapping around in my hair. Get it away, get it away!

CNN.com - Rep. Harris: Church-state separation 'a lie' - Aug 28, 2006:

U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is 'a lie' and God and the nation's founding fathers did not intend the country be 'a nation of secular laws.'

Yeah, screw the Constitution! Who reads that thing anyway? All those big words? Thank God for the true leaders of the people who aren't afraid to impose their particular religious and moral beliefs on the blinking masses. Whatever evil might we invent, were our minds allowed to think for themselves? That's exactly how the devil invented buttsecks, and you know it.

In case you hadn't heard, this year's Survivor (which I don't watch anyway) features a new twist: the teams are separated by race. There will be a black team, an Asian team, a Latino team, and a white team.

If the world were filled with intelligent and tolerant people, this might be an acceptable and possibly even interesting experiment. But you know as well as I do how some people will react to this - they'll use it to justify and harden stereotypes that our society would be better off without.

It'll probably be great for ratings, which just makes it all the more irresponsible.

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Catching a wave in upstate New York? - Politics - MSNBC.com:

If you live in Onondaga county, apparently you're represented by a Republican who hasn't won by less than 55% since 1988. Last time, no Democrat even bothered to run against him. Must be a great guy, I guess.

So how does Walsh vote?

Last year, he supported President Bush 86 percent of the time on roll call votes on which the Bush administration took a position. He’s also voted:
• For a private-school voucher program in the District of Columbia;
• For a constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriages;
• For federal court intervention in the Terri Schiavo case;
• For the Medicare prescription drug entitlement;
• Against federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Apparently I'm a shitty guesser. Do you agree with any of the stuff above? Me neither.

Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story - csmonitor.com - I've been sitting here reading this with a lump in my throat for the last two hours. It might be the most intense thing I've ever read, even though I sort of know how it ends. Part 10 (the ending) isn't being released until next week.

In this case, you are an idiot.

In case you hadn't heard, AOL recently screwed up and released the search terms of 658,000 unnamed users - but they were identified by numbers. While only AOL knows how the numbers correspond to usernames, a lot of the users searched for their own names (AKA "googling yourself"), then later searched for other things (porn is only the beginning) that they'd rather the world not know they were searching for. The guy below revealed himself to be more or less a mental midget (with a creepy fetish for photos of dead reporters), though luckily for him, it never occurred to him to search for his own name.

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I found this on Fark. This was my contribution to the discussion thread.

Bombers likely hoped to maximize terror - Airline Terror Plot - MSNBC.com:

Such components are unnervingly difficult for security officers to detect, Chertoff said.

“Now, it is one thing if someone comes in with an obvious bottle of some liquid with duct tape and wires sticking out of it,” he said, “but when someone separates the bomb into components, and each of the components is benign and appears to be very similar to an ordinary beverage someone might bring on an airplane, then you are really dealing with a very sophisticated challenge.”

I'd be very surprised if this didn't result in all carry-on bags being banned. You can bring a book, an iPod, whatever you can carry in your hands, but no bags allowed whatsoever. It sucks, but clearly there's no way to really know what innocent-looking materials someone might have on them could be combined with something someone else on the plane has. Searching everyone's bags isn't feasible in the long term. It's unfortunate, especially for long flights, but I don't see how this can end any other way.

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This web site has been around for a while, but if you haven't checked it out before, I suggest you do. It's a complete evisceration of the case against marijuana, leaving no stone unturned or anti-weed argument unobliterated. In the end, it just leaves me feeling frustrated, because so many people have been falsely convinced that marijuana is dangerous that it would be almost impossible to get a pro-weed politician elected.

Here's the DEA's own findings on the danger posed by weed. To date, the DEA is still opposed to decriminalization. Huh?

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Drug Enforcement Administration
In The Matter Of MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION
Docket No. 86-22
OPINION AND RECOMMENDED RULING, FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge
DATED: SEPTEMBER 6, 1988

Section 8 of Judge Young's 'Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Decision.'

Page 56 & 57 http://mojo.calyx.net/~olsen/MEDICAL/YOUNG/young

3. The most obvious concern when dealing with drug safety is the possibility of lethal effects. Can the drug cause death?

4. Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality.

This is a remarkable statement. First, the record on marijuana encompasses 5,000 years of human experience. Second, marijuana is now used daily by enormous numbers of people throughout the world. Estimates suggest that from twenty million to fifty million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible medical reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death.

6. By contrast aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year.

7. Drugs used in medicine are routinely given what is called an LD-50. The LD-50 rating indicates at what dosage fifty percent of test animals receiving a drug will die as a result of drug induced toxicity. A number of researchers have attempted to determine marijuana's LD-50 rating in test animals, without success. Simply stated, researchers have been unable to give animals enough marijuana to induce death.

8. At present it is estimated that marijuana's LD-50 is around 1:20,000 or 1:40,000. In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.

9. In practical terms, marijuana cannot induce a lethal response as a result of drug-related toxicity.

I think so. It gets funnier the further you scroll down.

The Raw Story | Abramoff-linked Rep. withdraws from re-election bid:

A Congressman from Ohio linked to convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff has withdrawn from his bid for re-election, RAW STORY has learned.

In a statement issued by his campaign office, Bob Ney, Representative from Ohio's 18th district, said 'Ultimately this decision came down to my family. I must think of them first, and I can no longer put them through this ordeal.'

It's turning into the Abramoff Massacre out there.

Saratoga cancels horse racing amid heat wave - Horse Racing - MSNBC.com:

Saratoga Race Course canceled all nine of its thoroughbred races Wednesday because of high heat and humidity.

Trainers, jockeys, the track veterinarian and New York Racing Association officials unanimously decided to call off the day’s card.

“The consensus in the room was to take the ultimate precaution and cancel the entire card for the safety of all participants,” said NYRA senior vice president Bill Nader. “Racing will resume tomorrow and Friday’s card will be expanded to a 10-race program.”

Can't say I can recall ever seeing Saratoga on a national news web site before. Really, this is news? I can't get over how many front-page stories there have been lately with the same subject: "It's friggin hot!" We know it's hot! Isn't there a war or something to write about? Seriously, the front-page story in the Rochester newspaper today was about the heat. Really? It's hot outside? Thank God you were there to tell me so, newspaper, or I would have worn my long johns again. Man would I have looked stupid!

How's the weather where you are?

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1046 AM EDT TUE AUG 1 2006


...EXCESSIVE HEAT EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY...


.A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE MOVING EAST FROM THE PLAINS WILL BRING
US SOME OF THE HOTTEST...AND MOST HUMID CONDITIONS WE HAVE SEEN
IN MANY YEARS TODAY AND WEDNESDAY.


INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ROCHESTER...NEWARK
1046 AM EDT TUE AUG 1 2006


...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY...

...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT
WEDNESDAY...


AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY. AN AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
1 AM EDT WEDNESDAY.


EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO PEAK IN THE UPPER 90S TO 100 DEGREES THIS
AFTERNOON WITH UNCOMFORTABLE DEW POINTS IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S.
SUCH READINGS WILL RESULT IN HEAT INDICES AS HIGH AS 110 DEGREES
ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF THE AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP ONLY
INTO THE MID AND UPPER 70S TONIGHT...THEN WILL RISE BACK TO
SIMILAR LEVELS ON WEDNESDAY.


AN EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN HIGH HUMIDITIES ARE
EXPECTED TO COMBINE WITH HOT TEMPERATURES TO MAKE IT FEEL LIKE IT
IS 105 DEGREES OR GREATER. PERSONS IN THE WARNING AREA ARE
ADVISED TO AVOID PROLONGED WORK IN SUN...OR IN POORLY VENTILATED
AREAS. ALSO...KEEP PLENTY OF LIQUIDS ON HAND AND TRY TO STAY IN
AN AIR CONDITIONED ENVIRONMENT.


AN AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY INDICATES THAT DUE TO LIMITED MOVEMENT
OF AN AIRMASS ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA...POLLUTION WILL INCREASE
TO DANGEROUS LEVELS. PERSONS WITH RESPIRATORY ILLNESS SHOULD
FOLLOW THEIR PHYSICIANS ADVICE FOR DEALING WITH HIGH LEVELS OF
AIR POLLUTION.


$$

...He'll grant us the ultimate in unintentional comedy: We'll find out soon that Mel Gibson, in a valiant attempt to rescue a once-respected actor's career, just completed filming a buddy flick with Tom Cruise.