Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 42 (64 Kbps .mp3 8:55 4.3Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
About as dumb as you'd expect.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY SECOND, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/31/BAGM3NSFGQ7.DTL
Da mayors a playa! FROM S-F GATE DOT COM... San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's re-election campaign manager resigned Wednesday after confronting the mayor about an affair Newsom had with his wife while she worked in the mayor's office, City Hall sources said.
Alex Tourk, 39, who served as Newsom's deputy chief of staff before becoming his campaign manager in September, confronted the mayor after his wife, Ruby Rippey-Tourk, told him of the affair as part of a rehabilitation program she has been undergoing for substance abuse, said the sources, who had direct knowledge of WEdnesday's meeting. ...
Asked in a City Hall interview about Tourk's resignation and the reported affair, Newsom said, "I'm not making any public comment. I'm just not."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/16580575.htm
MERCURY NEWS DOT COM BRINGS US the story OF A INTERACTIVE DRIVING GAME COURTESY OF THE MINI-COOOPER. FROM THE ARTICLE: When a new billboard in San Francisco scrolls the message ``Motor On Vera!'' it's a good bet that someone named Vera is driving her Mini Cooper at that moment.
Or that her car is nicknamed Vera.
A billboard using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology started ``talking'' Monday. In a new twist on tech-savvy marketing, the board flashes a personalized message as the driver cruises by with a Mini-provided key fob that sends a signal to activate the billboard.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/01/molly_ivins_dea.html
Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died Thursday at her home in Austin. She was 62...THIS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES...
After Patrick J. Buchanan, as a conservative candidate for president, declared at the 1992 Republican National Convention that America was engaged in a cultural war, she said his speech “probably sounded better in the original German.”
Her subject was Texas. SHE CALLED its legislature “reporter heaven.” When the legislature was set to convene, she warned her readers: “Every village is about to lose its idiot.”
In 1976, her writing, which she said was often fueled by “truly impressive amounts of beer,” landed her a job at The New York Times. She cut an unusual figure in The Times newsroom, wearing blue jeans, going barefoot and bringing in her dog, whose name was an expletive.
In her last column, earlier this month, she urged readers to “raise hell” against the war.
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http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_5126023
A WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK 16-YEAR-OLD IS TAKING ON THE RECORD INDUSTRY AFTER BEING SUED FOR ALLEGEDLY SHARING MUSIC FILES. HIS SISTER HAS ALREADY RECEIVED A SUMMARY JUDGEMENT FOR $30,000 BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS BEING SUED. HE SAYS THE RECORD INDUSTRY'S ATTAKCS ON FILESHARERS AMOUNTS TO COLLUSION IN VIOLATION OF ANTI-TRUST LAWS.From the DENVER POST DOT COM ARTICLE... Robert Santangelo, who was as young as 11 when the alleged piracy occurred, denied ever disseminating music and said it's impossible to prove that he did.
Santangelo is the son of Patti Santangelo, the 42-year-old suburban mother of five who was sued by the record companies in 2005. She refused to settle, took her case public and became a heroine to supporters of Internet freedom. His defenses to the industry's lawsuit include that he never sent copyrighted music to others, that the recording companies promoted file sharing before turning against it, ... and that all the music claimed to have been downloaded was actually owned by his sister on store-bought CDs.
Robert Santangelo also claims that the record companies, which have filed more than 18,000 piracy lawsuits in federal courts, "have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States."
The papers allege that the companies, "ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy" by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency "to make extortionate threats ... to force defendants to pay."
I can't believe I'm SAYING this, but it may come down to the United States' last best hope being a military coup. MAYBE THE GENERALS WILL REFUSE TO USE NUKES IN IRAN, A COUNTRY EXPERTS SAY IS BETWEEN FIVE AND EIGHT YEARS AWAY FROM BUILDING A NUCEAR DEVICE. NEW YORKER INVESTIGATIVE REPROTER SEYMOUR HERSH SPOKE AT A SYMPOSIUM AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY, SAYING "The fact of the matter is we have a government that will do what it wants to do for the next two years, "The worst is yet to come. It's sort of like we're essentially powerless [and] just play it out."... VIA RAW STORY, FROM THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY DAILY...anonymous sources within the government TOLD HERSH that the United States had begun formulating plans for an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities and has even been considering a nuclear first strike, claims that the administration has denied.
"It may come down to the president making an order that the military will object to," Hersh said. "It would be devastating, but it may come down to it. My fear is that he will do what he wants."...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6320733.stm
BBC NEWS REPORTS J-K ROWLING WILL RELEASE THE SEVENTH AND FINAL HARRY POTTER NOVEL, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ON JULY TWENTY FIRST. Rowling has said two characters die in the final book and fans are wondering whether Harry is one of them. IF THEY DON'T WANT TO FIND OUT THE HARD WAY, THEY'D BETTER STAY OFF THE INTERNETS UNTIL THEY FINISH THE BOOK.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11081-experimental-antihiv-gel-increased-infection-rates.html
INTERNET JESUS AND FURTIVE SCRIBBLER WARREN ELLIS IS DEPRESSED AT THIS NEWS, FROM NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM: trials of a new type of gel designed to help women protect themselves from HIV were halted on Wednesday after women using it became infected by the virus at a higher rate than women not using it, researchers said.
The trials involved 1333 women in South Africa, Benin, Uganda and India.
Women who become infected with HIV will be given drugs to control it, the researchers say.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070131-8745.html
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF VOTING IN THE UNITED STATES? ARS TECHNICA REPORTS: Rumor has it that Florida governor Charlie Crist will announce tomorrow that his state plans to scrap tens of millions of dollars worth of touchscreen voting equipment and move to a system based completely on optical scan ballots. MEANWHILE, IN Cuyahoga County OHIO, home of notorious levels of touchscreen-related trouble in both the primaries and the May 7 general elections last year, two election officials have been convicted of rigging a recount of ballots cast in the 2004 presidential election.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6306685.stm
Japan's health minister has referred to women as "birth-giving machines" in a speech to a local political meeting, ACCORDING TO A BBC NEWS STORY.
Hak u o Yana gis awa called for women to do their best to bear children in order to counter Japan's plummeting birth rate and rapidly ageing population.
"Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head," he said.
He added: "Although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines."
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
Hyperion, moon of Saturn
Rapwing Lair: a hip-hop guide to raiding Blackwing Lair
Gladiator Herpes triggers wrestling ban in Minnesota
Biodiesel from Algae?
Britain waves bye to privacy
Joe Biden eats his hat on the Daily Show
Vista's Speech Recognition hole
The Daily Show: Death by Black Hole
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ON BEHALF OF LONGO, BRETT, JIM, DAVE-O, FRITZ, THE GIANT SQUID AND MOJO, THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
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