Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 61 (64 kbps .mp3 12:13 5.6 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Lying out of habit, truthing out of spite.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR THURSDAY, MARCH FIRST, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.armytimes.com%2Fnews%2F2007%2F02%2FTNSreedinspect070227%2F
OKAY, FIRST OF ALL, DON'T JOIN THE MILITARY. SECOND OF ALL, IF YOU DO JOIN THE MILITARY, KNOW THAT WHAT THEY TELL YOU WILL NOT BE THE TRUTH. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE TO KEEP ITS END OF ANY DEAL MADE WITH MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES. AND IF YOU THINK YOU'RE GETTING SHAFTED WHILE IN THE MILITARY -- SAY, IF YOU LIVE IN A ROACH-INFESTED CRAPHOLE HOSPITAL FULL OF MOLD AND BROKEN ELEVATORS AS YOU HEAL UP FROM HAVING HALF YOUR HEAD BLOWN OFF IN THE SERVICE OF YOUR COUNTRY -- AND YOU GO WHINING TO THE MEDIA, WELL, THIS HAPPENS. FROM ARMY TIMES: Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.
“Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media,” one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
It is unusual for soldiers to have daily inspections after Basic Training.
PLEASE GO TO CONGRESS DOT ORG OR YOUR CONGRESSPERSON'S WEB SITES AND ALSO WRITE THE PRESIDENT AND TELL THEM TO MAKE THE BRASS AT WALTER REED CUT THIS SHIT OUT.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702116_pf.html
I'M GLAD THAT THOSE WITH MEDICAL INSURANCE IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE A CHOICE OF DOCTORS, BECAUSE THAT'S CERTAINLY WORTH THE LIFE OF A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY. GOOD THING WE DON'T HAVE THAT EVIL SINGLE-PAYER UNIVERAL HEALTH CARE COVERAGE! FROM THE WASHINGTON POST:
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured.
If his family had not lost its Medicaid.
If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find.
If his mother hadn't been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.
By the time Deamonte's own aching tooth got any attention, the bacteria from the abscess had spread to his brain, doctors said. After two operations and more than six weeks of hospital care, the Prince George's County boy died.
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http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63796
WE NOW PRESENT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR FRITZ'S ESSAY ENTITLED, ANNA NICOLE SMITH DIED OF PNEUMONIA.
Smith's life and death have become, for me, even more essentially contemporary than even Princess Diana's death. This story defines the celebrity age. Diana was killed by the paparazzi, and that has a certain manic zing to it, but ultimately she was still a person whos identity existed distinct from her celebrity.
Smith, whose real name was Vickie Lynn Marshall (nee' Hogan), was a cypher entirely created by her own celebrity. She was almost the ubermensch in a classically Nietzchean sense: she had embraced nihilism so completely, had so completely destroyed herself and her identity, and replaced it with an aesthetic identity, a pose, which obliterated all past, that she has come as close as most anyone else to the Over Man Nietzche describes.
And here, her physicality seeks its vengeance on her numinous self. She had Pneumonia, a diesease of the flesh, but she denied her own reality: apparently the pain killers she was taking aleviated her suffering, but masked how serious the real disease was. She died of pneumonia, feeling fine the whole way.
This is truth. And fact.
And now her orbit of mirrors, the lawyers and hangers on, and the discarded past as embodied by her corpulent mother, all spiral inward toward the collapsing star that was her fragile identity. As her body rots, they tear at it and each other. Because while her guise was only a glamour, it had still managed to accumulate at least the chance of real gold to pair with the artful glimmer. Artifice of the body begat an odd artificial love, which begat an artificial fortune, 500 million dollars, so many zeros it has no physical form, instead having transubstatiated itself beyond mere currency into some new plane composed of pure power, and who ever can tear away the last shreds of that physical form Anna struggled so hard to overcome will win that power for themselves, and they will follow her down that path.
She started as a KFC waitress, and through force of will she created a universe of her very own.
My uncle, Harry Hartman, died of pneumonia two nights ago. He was eighty. He lived longer than any Hartman has ever lived. Pneumonia in this day and age is a death reserved for the poor, the old, the enfeebled. Uncle Harry was some measure of all those things.
For Smith to die of it is like the maw of her past, her physical past, tearing its way through the boundaries of her universe so as to devour her, to tear her back to that moment when she was seventeen, pregant with her son, married to the KFC cook.
Daniel died, then she died. He was destroyed by the drugs that come with her fame. She was destroyed by the delusion of the universe itself, how it hid her basic and original self.
And now, it is like that former woman never existed. She has succeeded in her dream. Everything about Vickie Lynn Hogan is gone, rotting on a slab, soon to be buried in the islands by Daniel, the other remnant. If there is justice, little five month old Dani Lynn will get all of the money in a trust. And she will be the rich beautiful perfect and untainted creature, the wholly made creature, the creature whose substance is artifice and whose artifice is substantial, that her mother always struggled to become but was always denied.
Fatherless Dani Lynn.
Vickie Lynn is dead. But Dani Lynn may yet be risen up.
Rise Up, Dani Lynn! Rise Up!
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http://www.newswire.poormojo.org/archives/014382.php
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE CONTRIBUTOR LONGO COMMENTS ON WHAT GOD HATH WROUGHT WHEN SHE CONNECTED THOSE INTERNETS TUBES:
When Rosie O'Donnell was talking about the international news covering Danny Devito's drunken escapades on the View, she said something along the lines of:"Imagine in China [people talking about it saying], Ching chong ching. Danny Devito. Ching Chong Ching. Drunk. The View. Ching chong."
The audience laughed and that was the end of that.
But then Beau Sia, a well-known poet within the slam poet community posted a response entitled "Open Letter to All the Rosie O'Donnells" on Youtube. And Rosie saw it and responded.
I guess this isn't such a big deal but it is fascinating to me the way technology is changing our social interactions and giving us a voice, enabling us to hold people, especially celebrities, who previously were protected by their disconnect with us normal folk living normal lives, accountable for their actions. Of course, there was the possibility that she wouldn't have seen the video, but it could potentially be passed around and shared until it got so big she couldn't ignore it. In the past, what could SIA have done? Written an angry letter that was thrown in the trash by the intern who opens the mail? Ah. The internet. Is there anything you can't do? Besides make me pancakes, that is. Oh, and hug.
CHECK OUT BOTH YOUTUBE VIDEOS CONVENIENTLY JUXTAPOSED ON POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE.
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news07/070227e.php
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO RALLIES ALL YOU GEEKS OUT THERE TO PREPARE FOR WORLD WAR Z -- THE MOVIE. ACCORDING TO DARK HORIZONS DOT COM:
J. Michael Straczynski, the man who created what remains one of TV most complex serial dramas --"Babylon 5"-- is set to write the adaptation of "World War Z" by Max Brooks for Paramount Pictures reports IGN.
The novel, a clever collection of retrospective interview anecdotes, covers the accounts of nearly four dozen people from all walks of life who played different parts in a virus pandemic that turned most of the world's population into zombies and threatened to overwhelm the globe until we fought back.
HERE'S MOJO'S PERSONAL NOTE: I gobbled the book down in a weekend and loved every page of it. The book is a Studs Terkel-esque look back at the Zombie War and is fragmented and short and jumps all over the globe. It looks like they plan to stay true to the structure and have the main character be a reporter working on chronicling the War.
The Magic Eighball of my soul has been shook, and the reading is: cautiously excited.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Swift_Boat_financier_pressed_by_Kerry_0228.html
REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD, AND WE END TODAY'S PROGRAM HOPING TO ASSIST SENATOR JOHN KERRY TO SPREAD THE WORD OF HOW HE BENT OVER SWIFTBOATER SAM FOX AND MADE HIM SQUEAL LIKE A PIG. RAW STORY DOT COM HAS THE PLAY-BY-PLAY:
A staid confirmation hearing yesterday took an exciting turn when it gave Senator John Kerry the opportunity to confront a major financier of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a political group that maligned the decorated Vietnam Veteran in the 2004 presidential race. When the senator pressed Sam Fox, a businessman and Bush supporter nominated to be America's next ambassador to Belgium, on the issue, the nominee admitted to Kerry "you're a hero" and called for the government to ban all advocacy groups like the Swift Boat Vets.
And then Fox cried like a little girl. SO FUCKING Pwnd!
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 60 for Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 60 (64 kbps .mp3 11:45 5.3 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
We don't like you, either.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-EIGHTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.mississauga.com/mi/news/story/3887975p-4496787c.html
A PLUCKY CANADIAN 12-YEAR-OLD WAS SILENCED BY SCHOOL OFFICIALS FOR WRITING A HUMOROUS SPEECH ABOUT HOW BORED HE WAS IN FRENCH CLASS. Gianmarco Trimboli's father is livid that his son wasn't allowed to deliver his speech in front of his class, ACCORDING TO THE MISSISAGUA NEWS. HIS PRINCIPAL THOUGHT IT WOULD BE DISRESPECTFUL TO THE FRENCH TEACHER IF THE BOY -- WHO WON LAST YEAR'S SCHOOL SPEECH CONTEST -- READ IT OUT LOUD. DUDE, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY SUBMIT THAT TO THE RANT SECTION AT POORMOJO.ORG. POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE CONTRIBUTOR JIM'S COMMENT: Teaching lesson 1: Give a twelve year-old an inch and a vector on your position and that's an inch's running start.
http://www.aka.kite.org/data/download/pdf/Pamphlets/AKAPamphlet_fighters.pdf
YESTERDAY WE COVERED PAKISTAN'S ANNUAL KITE-STRING MASSACRE, IN WHICH DOZENS ARE MAIMED AND MURDERED BY STRAY BULLETS, SHARPENED KITE STRING AND FALLING OFF ROOFS AT A SPRING KITE FLYING FESTIVAL. JIM ONCE AGAIN ENLIGHTENS US WITH A LINK TO The American Kitefliers Association' PUBLICATION: "Flying Basics for Fighter Kites". CATCH THE PDF AT THE NEWSWIRE. JIM SAYS: You'll notice that the AKA doesn't recommend the use of dor (though I'm not sure if that's what it's called in Pakistan), or "glass-encrusted, sharp, stretched cotton kite line."
I've gotten to fly these kites a couple of times, and believe me... once you start to get the hang of it it's incredibly engrossing and fun, to the point that I can see how you might not notice if you accidentally beheaded a couple of kids downfield. Not sure how bullets entered the equation... but still.
Why would a newspaper in San Fransisco called AsianWEEK run an article by an avowed Asian Supremecist entitled "I Hate Blacks?" I guess it's refreshing to let a complete asshole be a complete asshole in print once in a while, and a nice slap in our complacent, 21st-Century faces to see such bald-faced, completely honest racism. Sickening, but perhaps necessary. FROM THE S-F GATE DOT COM ARTICLE: THE 20-YEAR-OLD COLUMNIST'S REASONS FOR HATING BLACK PEOPLE INCLUDE: "
-- "Blacks hate us. Every Asian who has ever come across them knows that they take almost every opportunity to hurl racist remarks at us."
-- "Contrary to media depictions, I would argue that blacks are weak-willed. They are the only race that has been enslaved for 300 years."
-- "Blacks are easy to coerce. This is proven by the fact that so many of them, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, tend to be Christians."
I'm praying for this complete asshole. May he find inner peace, or a deep hole to crawl into. Or both.
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IF YOU EVER IN YOUR LIFE PAID THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF ATTENTION TO COLLECTABLES, YOU KNOW WHO HONUS WAGNER WAS. HE WAS THE PITTSFIELD PIRATES SHORTSTOP WHO HATED TOBACCO AND ENDED UP ON A TOBACCO CARD, A PRECURSOR TO BUBBLE-GUM CARDS, IN 1909. ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THE CARD IN EXISTENCE -- THERE ARE ONLY 60 -- JUST SOLD FOR TWO POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. FROM THE PITTSBURGH-TRIBINE-REVIEW ARTICLE, VIA RAW STORY: The seller, Brian Seigel, said the Wagner cards are so rare that even tattered ones will sell for hundreds of thousands of dollarS. "you could [them] stick in middle of the street and let cars drive over it through the day, take it in your hand and crumple it up, and it still would be a $100,000 card,
THE U-S ATTORNEY FIRING SCANDAL HAS REACHED THE NEW YORK TIMES OPINION PAGES. ADAM COHEN SAYS: It is hard to call what’s happening anything other than a political purge. The Bush administration cleared the way for these personnel changes by slipping a little-noticed provision into the Patriot Act last year that allows the president to appoint interim U.S. attorneys for an indefinite period without Senate confirmation.
U.S. attorneys have enormous power. Their decision to investigate or indict can bankrupt a business or destroy a life. They must be, and long have been, insulated from political pressures. Although appointed by the president, once in office they are almost never asked to leave until a new president is elected.
The Congressional Research Service has confirmed how unprecedented these firings are. It found that of 486 U.S. attorneys confirmed since 1981, perhaps no more than three U-S ATTORNEYS were forced out in similar ways — three in 25 years, compared with seven in recent months.
It is not just the large numbers. The firing of H. E. Cummins III is raising many questions. he was forced out to make room for J. Timothy Griffin, a former Karl Rove deputy with thin legal experience who did opposition research for the Republican National Committee.
ADAM DOES A PRETTY GOOD JOB, BUT OVERLOOKS ONE IMPORTANT FUNCTION OF U-S ATTORNEYS. THEY PROSECUTE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION. ANY WONDER BUSH IS SWITCHING OUT GOOD PROSECUTORS FOR HIS DRONES?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/25/seymour-hersh-negroponte-iran-contra-fundsoh-my/
IF YOU LIVED THROUGH IRAN/CONTRA IN THE 1980S, YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER JOHN NEGROPONTE. HE WAS AMBASSADOR TO HONDOURAS WHILE THE SECRET GOVERNMENT IN THE BASEMENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE WAS SELLING MISSLES TO OUR ENEMY, IRAN, TO FUND THE INSURGENT TERRORIST CONTRAS IN NEIGHBORING NICARAGUA. IT'S DOCUMENTED FACT THAT NEGROPONTE KNEW THE CIA WAS TRAINING HONDURAN DEATH SQUADS TO TORTURE AND KILL PEASANTS. THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE REASON SEYMOUR HERSH GIVES IN HIS LATEST ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORKER FOR NEGROPONTE TO GIVE UP RUNNING THE ENTIRE U-S SPY SYSTEM TO BECOME CONDOLEEZA RICE'S GOFER AS AN UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE SO AMAZING. HERSH SAYS THE REASON NEGORPONTE STEPPED DOWN WAS HE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE HIS NAME ANYWHERE NEAR THE WIERD AND ILLEGAL SHIT COMING OUT OF THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY. LIKE WHAT? http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070305fa_fact_hersh?page=5
HOW ABOUT OFFERING CLANDESTINE SUPPORT TO SUNNI TERRORISTS IN LEBANNON? CHENY SEEMS TO HAVE GOTTEN HIS MARCHING ORDERS FROM SAUDI ARABIA LAST NOVEMBER, DURING HIS COMMAND PERFORMANCE ON THANKSGIVING DAY BEFORE THE HOUSE OF SAUD. AND SO, CHENEY IS ILLEGALLY OFFERING AID AND COMFORT TO OUR TERRORIST ENEMIES, SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY STRUGGLE AGAINST OUR OTHER TERRORIST ENEMIES, IRAN-BACKED HEZBOLLAH. LISTEN, IF WAR CRIMINALS LIKE NEGROPONTE DON'T WANT TO PLAY WITH YOU ANYMORE, WHAT YOU'RE DOING MUST BE PRETTY FUCKED UP.
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THE UNITED STATES FOUGHT A CIVIL WAR OVER THE VALUE THAT EVERYONE BORN IN THIS COUNTRY IS AN AMERICAN AND HAS GOD-GIVEN, INALIENABLE RIGHTS. THAT GOOD IDEA IS CALLED THE 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE U-S CONSTITUTION. (AND YES, I KNOW, THE CIVIL WAR WAS ALSO ABOUT INDUSTRIALIZATION.) ANYWAY, I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, FUCKING IDIOTS IN THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE ARE FORCING A COURT BATTLE TO PUT THE QUESTION OF WHAT THE 14TH AMENDMENT REALLY MEANS BEFORE A FEDERAL JUDGE. THE REASON? THEY HATE SOME ILLEGAL ALIENS. NOT THE CUTE, CUDDLY IRISH ILLEGAL ALIENS THAT TEND BAR AND MAKE BEDS. NOT THE RUSSIAN ILLEGAL ALIENS THAT ARE ALSO WHITE AND MAKE SUCH WONDERFUL STRIPPERS. NO, OF COURSE WE MEAN DARK-SKINNED, MEXICAN ILLEGAL ALIENS. AND THEIR BABIES, WHICH CURRENTLY, WHEN BORN IN THE UNITED STATES, BECOME CITIZENS OF OUR BASTION OF LIBERTY. THE GOAL, ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE, IS TO STRIP ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THIER CHILDREN OF STATE-FUNDED SERVICES. LIKE EDUCATION. AND HEALTH CARE. NEVER MIND THAT PISSANT TEXAS STATE LEGISLATORS ARE SEVERAL MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY FROM BEING THE PEOPLE WHO COULD POSSIBLY QUESTION CONSITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, LIKE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES OR MEMBERS OF THE U-S HOUSE AND SENATE. KNOW WHAT THIS REMINDS ME OF? EVER HEARD OF THE NUREMBURG LAWS? http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holokron.html LOOKING UP ANY SCHOLARLY CRONOLOGY OF THE HOLOCAUST, WE LEARN THAT ON September 15TH, 1935, THE German Congress passeD the so-called Nuremburg Laws which redefineD German Jews as non-citizens and banED Jews from any political participation. DO YOU WANT TO START MONKEYING WITH THE 14TH AMEMENDMENT? DO YOU WANT TO CREATE A DIS-ENFRANCHISED UNDERCLASS OF NATIVE-BORN PEOPLE WITH BROWN SKIN? What does it mean when a country starts fucking with its citizenship laws? What kind of people revoke citizenship FROM INNOCENT CHILDREN once it is legally given?
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
Bush and Co. show their priorities, pledge to veto any security bill that is favorable to labor
The Army wants Jack Bauer to condemn torture
Using bacteria to earthquake-proof California?
Tape dispenser causes UK terror alert
Take a bite and take a hit - An artificial tooth which automatically releases medicine
rape victims in Missouri are billed for their rape kits
The Coming War with China Dept.: Dow Average Falls 416 Points After Sell-Off in China
The glaring problem of private police
How the world could stop us: dump the dollar
Massive landslide in SAN FRANSISCO'S North Beach AREA
Portland Vegan Bakery Offers Bike-Thru Window
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ARTIST Arik Roper has a store now
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 59 for Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 59 (64 kbps .mp3 9:21 4.7 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Fun Fact: Elvis, JFK, Hoffa and Hitler are really dead.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-SEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-0/117250460836450.xml?aanews?NEO&coll=2
Poor Mojo Editor Dave-o published the following in his hometown newspaper:
Monday, February 26, 2007
To: President George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Yesterday our trees were full of robins eating juniper berries. I've lived in Michigan all of my life, and have never heard of a robin eating anything other than grubs or worms (and, perhaps, the occasional ripe cherry), and never seen a robin in early February.
Our winter almost didn't come this year: between October and mid-January, our temperatures rarely dipped below 40 degrees, hovering mostly between 50s and 60s - that's May weather here, shirt-sleeves weather. We had gnats and mosquitos in December. Then, in mid-January, the freeze snapped shut like a leg-hold trap, and we've since had weeks of single-digit cold, mornings so frigid that school is canceled because the buses won't start (also unprecedented in Michigan). Until February it never got cold enough for the ground to freeze, and so the robins never migrated. Now it's too late for them to leave, and they are starving and freezing.
Roughly 1,800 years ago, midway through the first millennium, there was a worldwide temperature drop of a bit more than two degrees. This caused the failure of Egyptian wheat crops. At the time Egypt was controlled by Rome, who relied on the ample harvest. Rome was a city of more than a million people, requiring 300,000 tons of grain per year to keep the citizens fed. Assuring an ample bread supply was a major hot-button political issue. Since the failed harvests meant no vast wheat surplus from within their empire, the Roman government needed to buy foreign grain. This caused a budget shortfall, and Rome was no longer able to afford their enormous army. Without consistent military protection, the fringes of the empire began to fray; barbarians succeeded more and more often in their looting raids, destabilizing the Roman hinterlands. Ultimately, Rome collapsed and the Dark Ages began, all because of a two-degree temperature drop.
Since I was born the mean worldwide temperature has risen about one degree, and is projected to rise another seven or eight during my infant son's lifetime - a precipitous, unprecedented climate shift. What does this mean? What will it mean?
My son is 9 months old, and our little family works to keep our carbon footprint small: we drive a hybrid, bike and walk whenever possible, buy our meat and produce locally whenever we can. All of our bulbs are fluorescent. We've blown in as much insulation as will fit in our attic, removed our old basement windows in favor of insulating glass blocks, and replaced our major appliances with Energy Star and high-efficiency models. We use cloth diapers, washing them ourselves in our high-efficiency washer. Most of what we own is recycled, reused or hand-me-down.
Still, by the time my son is my age - and certainly by the time he's yours - Michigan will have no winter.
This absolutely terrifies me. It terrifies me more than war, more than our growing domestic poverty, more than terrorism. I'm a registered voter, a participant in our democracy, and I want to know what you are doing about this now, today. Please contact me at your earliest convenience.
All best,
David Erik Nelson
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http://www.breakingnews.ie/World/?jp=CWSNSNGBGBSN&rss=rss2
IF THIS IS FEBRUARY, IT MUST BE KITESTRING DECAPTIATION TIME IN PAKISTAN. POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO EXPLAINS:
This happens every single year. I imagine that Pakistan has an odd relationship with kites. With all of the death and throat-slashing and injury, they probably don't have the same connotation of childhood innocence like they do here.
I imagine that Pakistan feels the same way about kites that Charlie Brown does about footballs. And they return to them for the very same reason.
FROM THE ARTICLE AT BREAKING NEWS DOT I-E --
At least 11 people died and more than 100 people were injured at an annual spring festival in eastern Pakistan celebrated with the flying of thousands of colourful kites, officials said today.
The deaths and injuries were caused by stray bullets, sharpened kite-strings, electrocution and people falling off rooftops yesterday at the conclusion of the two-day Basant festival, sAID OFFICIALS IN Lahore.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11243&feedId=online-news_rss20
SEVERAL OF NEW SPECIES OF BATS AND BIRDS HAVE BEEN DIFERENTIAED FROM EXISTING SPECIES THANKS TO A NEW GENETIC TESTING SCHEME. NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM REPORTED ON THE SO-CALLED D-N-A BAR-CODING PROCESS. FROM THE ARTICLE: Only when the animals' DNA had been screened did it become clear that they belonged to distinct species.
Researchers scanned the DNA of 643 bird species in North America - some 93 per cent of all species breeding in the region - and 87 bat species in Guyana to test the barcoding approach. RESEARCHERS CLAIM THAT THE CREATION OF A REGISTRY OF EVERY SPECIES ON EARTH IS WITHIN REACH.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/cnn-libby-juror-exposed-to-outside-info/
GEE, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PERJURY TRIAL OF I. LEWIS SCOOTER LIBBY FUCKED UP. NO ONE AT ALL. THINK PROGRESS SAYS LOTS OF PEOPLE THINK THAT THIS WHOLE THING WHERE ONE OF THE JURORS WAS TOSSED OUT BECAUSE SHE HEARD SOME OUTSIDE MEDIA INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRIAL COULD BE SABOTAGE. BUT WHO WOULD HAVE THE MOTIVE TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE ON SUCH A MASSIVE SCALE? WELL, ANYWAY, IT DIDN'T WORK. TRY HARDER, BOYS.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/education/25sorority.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
THE Delta Zeta SORORITY NATIONAL OFFICE CAME UP WITH TWO RULES TO HELP INCREASE MEMBERSHIP AT ITS HALF-EMPTY CHAPTER AT DEPAW UNIVERSITY IN GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. -- NUMBER ONE, WHITES ONLY. NUMBER TWO, NO FAT CHICKS. THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED AT GREAT LENGHTH ON THIS APPALLING STATE OF AFFAIRS, HOLDING DELTA ZETA UP TO SHAME. BY THE WAY, IF YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ANTI-WOMAN, RACIST SORORITY CALLED DELTA ZETA, GOOGLE UP THEIR WEB SITE AND SEND THEM A MESSAGE. IT'S GOOD FOR THE SOUL, I CAN TELL YOU. FROM THE ARTICLE: Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.
REMEMBER, FRIENDS, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING UP THEIR WEB SITE, IT'S SPELLED D-E-L-T-A-SPACE-Z-E-T-A. LET THEM KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK OF RACISTS AND SHALLOW PEOPLE.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
GameCube is dead or not - Gamersledge Daily Podcast
Postage costs may go up
James Cameron claims to have found the tomb of Jesus
Melting antarctic ice reveals weird new animals
Iran has a space program
Pregnancy is fashionable now among 14-year-olds in england
What if video game bosses were *your* boss?
Cosplay at the New York Comic Con
BBC Omnibus attempts to keep up with Ralph Steadman and Hunter S. Thompson IN 1978
Fox news issued gas masks in Iraq
The Last Angry Man makes an excellent point about the weeping judge
Civil War #7 Re-dialogued and made awesome
and
Buick towed, squished
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A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Fun Fact: Elvis, JFK, Hoffa and Hitler are really dead.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-SEVENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.mlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-0/117250460836450.xml?aanews?NEO&coll=2
Poor Mojo Editor Dave-o published the following in his hometown newspaper:
Monday, February 26, 2007
To: President George Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
I live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Yesterday our trees were full of robins eating juniper berries. I've lived in Michigan all of my life, and have never heard of a robin eating anything other than grubs or worms (and, perhaps, the occasional ripe cherry), and never seen a robin in early February.
Our winter almost didn't come this year: between October and mid-January, our temperatures rarely dipped below 40 degrees, hovering mostly between 50s and 60s - that's May weather here, shirt-sleeves weather. We had gnats and mosquitos in December. Then, in mid-January, the freeze snapped shut like a leg-hold trap, and we've since had weeks of single-digit cold, mornings so frigid that school is canceled because the buses won't start (also unprecedented in Michigan). Until February it never got cold enough for the ground to freeze, and so the robins never migrated. Now it's too late for them to leave, and they are starving and freezing.
Roughly 1,800 years ago, midway through the first millennium, there was a worldwide temperature drop of a bit more than two degrees. This caused the failure of Egyptian wheat crops. At the time Egypt was controlled by Rome, who relied on the ample harvest. Rome was a city of more than a million people, requiring 300,000 tons of grain per year to keep the citizens fed. Assuring an ample bread supply was a major hot-button political issue. Since the failed harvests meant no vast wheat surplus from within their empire, the Roman government needed to buy foreign grain. This caused a budget shortfall, and Rome was no longer able to afford their enormous army. Without consistent military protection, the fringes of the empire began to fray; barbarians succeeded more and more often in their looting raids, destabilizing the Roman hinterlands. Ultimately, Rome collapsed and the Dark Ages began, all because of a two-degree temperature drop.
Since I was born the mean worldwide temperature has risen about one degree, and is projected to rise another seven or eight during my infant son's lifetime - a precipitous, unprecedented climate shift. What does this mean? What will it mean?
My son is 9 months old, and our little family works to keep our carbon footprint small: we drive a hybrid, bike and walk whenever possible, buy our meat and produce locally whenever we can. All of our bulbs are fluorescent. We've blown in as much insulation as will fit in our attic, removed our old basement windows in favor of insulating glass blocks, and replaced our major appliances with Energy Star and high-efficiency models. We use cloth diapers, washing them ourselves in our high-efficiency washer. Most of what we own is recycled, reused or hand-me-down.
Still, by the time my son is my age - and certainly by the time he's yours - Michigan will have no winter.
This absolutely terrifies me. It terrifies me more than war, more than our growing domestic poverty, more than terrorism. I'm a registered voter, a participant in our democracy, and I want to know what you are doing about this now, today. Please contact me at your earliest convenience.
All best,
David Erik Nelson
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http://www.breakingnews.ie/World/?jp=CWSNSNGBGBSN&rss=rss2
IF THIS IS FEBRUARY, IT MUST BE KITESTRING DECAPTIATION TIME IN PAKISTAN. POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO EXPLAINS:
This happens every single year. I imagine that Pakistan has an odd relationship with kites. With all of the death and throat-slashing and injury, they probably don't have the same connotation of childhood innocence like they do here.
I imagine that Pakistan feels the same way about kites that Charlie Brown does about footballs. And they return to them for the very same reason.
FROM THE ARTICLE AT BREAKING NEWS DOT I-E --
At least 11 people died and more than 100 people were injured at an annual spring festival in eastern Pakistan celebrated with the flying of thousands of colourful kites, officials said today.
The deaths and injuries were caused by stray bullets, sharpened kite-strings, electrocution and people falling off rooftops yesterday at the conclusion of the two-day Basant festival, sAID OFFICIALS IN Lahore.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11243&feedId=online-news_rss20
SEVERAL OF NEW SPECIES OF BATS AND BIRDS HAVE BEEN DIFERENTIAED FROM EXISTING SPECIES THANKS TO A NEW GENETIC TESTING SCHEME. NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM REPORTED ON THE SO-CALLED D-N-A BAR-CODING PROCESS. FROM THE ARTICLE: Only when the animals' DNA had been screened did it become clear that they belonged to distinct species.
Researchers scanned the DNA of 643 bird species in North America - some 93 per cent of all species breeding in the region - and 87 bat species in Guyana to test the barcoding approach. RESEARCHERS CLAIM THAT THE CREATION OF A REGISTRY OF EVERY SPECIES ON EARTH IS WITHIN REACH.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/cnn-libby-juror-exposed-to-outside-info/
GEE, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PERJURY TRIAL OF I. LEWIS SCOOTER LIBBY FUCKED UP. NO ONE AT ALL. THINK PROGRESS SAYS LOTS OF PEOPLE THINK THAT THIS WHOLE THING WHERE ONE OF THE JURORS WAS TOSSED OUT BECAUSE SHE HEARD SOME OUTSIDE MEDIA INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRIAL COULD BE SABOTAGE. BUT WHO WOULD HAVE THE MOTIVE TO PERVERT THE COURSE OF JUSTICE ON SUCH A MASSIVE SCALE? WELL, ANYWAY, IT DIDN'T WORK. TRY HARDER, BOYS.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/education/25sorority.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
THE Delta Zeta SORORITY NATIONAL OFFICE CAME UP WITH TWO RULES TO HELP INCREASE MEMBERSHIP AT ITS HALF-EMPTY CHAPTER AT DEPAW UNIVERSITY IN GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. -- NUMBER ONE, WHITES ONLY. NUMBER TWO, NO FAT CHICKS. THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTED AT GREAT LENGHTH ON THIS APPALLING STATE OF AFFAIRS, HOLDING DELTA ZETA UP TO SHAME. BY THE WAY, IF YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ANTI-WOMAN, RACIST SORORITY CALLED DELTA ZETA, GOOGLE UP THEIR WEB SITE AND SEND THEM A MESSAGE. IT'S GOOD FOR THE SOUL, I CAN TELL YOU. FROM THE ARTICLE: Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit.
REMEMBER, FRIENDS, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING UP THEIR WEB SITE, IT'S SPELLED D-E-L-T-A-SPACE-Z-E-T-A. LET THEM KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK OF RACISTS AND SHALLOW PEOPLE.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
GameCube is dead or not - Gamersledge Daily Podcast
Postage costs may go up
James Cameron claims to have found the tomb of Jesus
Melting antarctic ice reveals weird new animals
Iran has a space program
Pregnancy is fashionable now among 14-year-olds in england
What if video game bosses were *your* boss?
Cosplay at the New York Comic Con
BBC Omnibus attempts to keep up with Ralph Steadman and Hunter S. Thompson IN 1978
Fox news issued gas masks in Iraq
The Last Angry Man makes an excellent point about the weeping judge
Civil War #7 Re-dialogued and made awesome
and
Buick towed, squished
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 58 for Monday, February 26, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 58 (64 kbps .mp3 9:21 4.3 Mb))
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
A hall pass for Nirvana.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY TWENY-SIXTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN.
A RAPID-FIRE ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT SINCE FRIDAY .
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2007/feb/22/kirkrundstrom/
POOR MOJOS NEWSWIRE CONTIBUTOR JIM MARKS THE PASSING OF WITCHITA KANSAS- BASED MUSICIAN KIRK RUNDSTROM ON THURSADAY OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER. HE WAS 38. JIM WRITES: Anybody that saw Kirk play with Split Lip Rayfield knows That THE man and the music he made with his friends would leap into you and make colors brighter, girls prettier, and turn cheap beer drunks into nights you'll never forget. I feel bad for the whole world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6389105.stm
EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING THE BUGS OUT OF EMOTIONALLY AVAILABLE ROBOTS, ACCORDING TO B-B-C NEWS. Dr Lola Canamero, CO-COORDINATOR OF THE FEELIX GROWING PROJECT, said the aim was to build robots that "learn from humans and respond in a socially and emotionally appropriate manner".
"We are focusing on emotions relevant to a baby robot that has to grow and help humanS with every day life."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6390755.stm
IS ISRAEL IN A STATE OF APARTHEID? THAT'S THE CLAIM MADE BY A UNITED NATIONS ENVOY FROM SOUTH AFRICA WHO HAS STUDIED APARTHEID THERE EXTENSIVELY. John Dugard, THE UN's Special Rapporteur,describes the regime as being designed to dominate and systematically oppress the occupied population, THE PALESTINIANS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6387611.stm
CHIMPANZEES HUNTING WITH SPEARS. THAT'S WHAT RESEARCHERS IN SENEGAL HAVE OBSERVED MORE THAN 20 TIMES, ACCORDING TO A STUDY IN CURRENT BIOLOGY QUOTED BY B-B-C NEWS. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECORDED HISTORY, chimps WERE SEEN fashioniNG tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.
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http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2007_02_18_archive.html#3692907746792256568#3692907746792256568
What kind of fellow would conservative GOP presidential candidate Duncan Hunter hire to chair his campaign in South Carolina? Screw the Buddists and kill the Muslims, Dr. Henry Jordan said during a meeting of THE South Carolina State Board of Education's finance and legislative committee meeting in 1997. "And put that in the minutes," he added. That item dug up by the Roger Ailes blog.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1530247
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DEMAND THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SHUT DOWN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS SEEKING ASYLUM WHICH IS HOLDING ENTIRE FAMILIES, INCLUDING INFANTS. THE PRISON IN HUTTO, TEXAS, IS OPERATED BY U-S IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT. DEMOCRACY NOW REPORTED THAT THE ONLY GROUPS ALLOWED IN TO OBSERVE THE CAMP -- Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service - HAVE PUBLISHED A REPORT CALLED "Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families.” D-H-S HAS REFUSED TO MAKE ANY COMMENT ABOUT THE CAMP.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17251571/
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS THAT SO-CALLED INTERNET ADDICTS IN CHINA MAY FIND TEMSELVES IN MILITARY PRISONS, SUCH AS THE ONE IN DAXING, AWOKEN AT 5:30 A.M. BY A GUARD SCREAMING "THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!" IN THEIR FACES. TREATMENTS INCLUDE STRONG PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND LOW-LEVEL ELECTRIC SHOCK. NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN THE CLINIC'S THIRD FLOOR.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11250&feedId=online-news_rss20
VOLCABIC LIGHTENING IS A NEWLY DISCOVERED FORM OF ELECTRICAL DISPLAY FOUND AT THE MOUTHS OF ERUPTING VOLCANOES, ACCORDING TO NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM. researchers have shown conclusively that THE new form of low-energy lightning is active during eruptions, arcing between particles as they exit the volcanic vent at around 100 metres per second.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070225/pl_nm/usa_iran_dc
SO, WHAT DID SEYMOUR HERSH FIND OUT THIS TIME? IN HIS LATEST NEW YORKER ARTICLE, IT TURNS OUT THAT a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack AGAINST IRAN that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush. THIS, DESPITE REPEATED CLAIMS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE THAT THERE ARE NO PLANS TO ATACK IRAN. THE PENTAGON PANEL panel initially focused on destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been directed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in IRAQ.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-02-23T192723Z_01_N23279121_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-NEWYORK-BEAVER.XML&WTmodLoc=SciHealth-R6-MostRead-3
IT'S BEEN MORE THAN 200 YEARS SINCE BEAVER WERE SEEN IN THE ONCE-DEAD BRONX RIVER, BUT THAT'S JUST WHAT OBSERVERS SAW RECENTLY. ACCORDING TO REUTERS, Wildlife Conservation Society BIOLOGISTS HAVE NAMED THE BEAVER JOSE, AFTER U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano of the Bronx WHO SECURED $14.6 million n federal funding since 2000 TO CLEAN UP THE RIVER. STILL NO BEAVER SIGHTED IN TIMES SQUARE.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/tony-blair-reportedly-hired-psychics-to-find-bin-laden/
UK PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR REPORTEDLY HIRED PSYCHICS TO FIND OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ACCORDING TO THINK PROGRESS. Newly declassified documents revealed that the Ministry of Defense spent 18,000 POUNDS of taxpayers’ money in an experiment “to see if volunteers could ’see’ objects hidden inside an envelope.
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/02/23/second-life-sketches-please-stop-doing-that-to-the-cat/
FROM REUTERS SECOND LIFE BUREAU CHIEF AND INTERNET JESUS WARREN ELLIS COMES THIS STORY OF VIRTUAL TRESSPASSING AND KINKY SEX. FROM THE ARTICLE:
It’s not often you come home to find people having sex in your house....
during the course of the week, I’d spent a couple of hours constructing a simple underground bunker [ON MY NEW LAND], associating sounds with flooring, erecting a blockhouse for a Stargate teleport mechanism and other basic things in order to get a feel for construction.... [LATER THAT WEEKEND] I immediately noticed two pings on the “minimap” radar screen that’s placed in the top left of the Second Life viewer. There were two people on my land.
The first thing I saw in the blockhouse was the avatar of a naked man strapped face-down over a piece of sexual apparatus that presented his backside. I then realised that the blockhouse had been filled with dungeon toys. A couple of dozen of them. And, sitting on a chair I didn’t recognise, was a dominatrix with long dark hair, idly waving a riding crop.
“Please be quiet,” she said. “We are busy.”
“Um, I don’t think so,” I typed.
“Go away,” typed the slave.
“I not tell you to talk,” the dominatrix tapped out.
Feeling more than a little stupid, I explained that they and all their objects had invited themselves on to my land.
“We will be done soon. Please be quiet,” typed the domme, whose name was Mastress and who hailed from somewhere in Germany.
## C L O S E R ##
OTHER STORIES WE COVERED THIS WEEKEND AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
Al Sharpton's Great-Grandfather was Owned by Strom Thurmond's Great-Great-Grandfather
College bans Wikipedia as research souce
US basically taxes citizens a flat 40%
Marvel's "Civil War" in 30 seconds
Eddie izzard's "The Riches" to Premiere on FX This Monday at 10
The First Russian Space Dogs AND THEIR DOGGY SPACESUITS
Scott Ritter on the Randi Rhodes Show
Upside-down rainbow spotted
Adventuring in Second Life; or, "yeah, but how do I hit people?"
A US combat boot stomping on an Iraqi face forever
NYC KFC/Taco Bell has massive rat infestation
CompUSA closing half their stores
AND
Man jailed 17 months for stealing one soda
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
A hall pass for Nirvana.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY TWENY-SIXTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN.
A RAPID-FIRE ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT SINCE FRIDAY .
http://www.lawrence.com/news/2007/feb/22/kirkrundstrom/
POOR MOJOS NEWSWIRE CONTIBUTOR JIM MARKS THE PASSING OF WITCHITA KANSAS- BASED MUSICIAN KIRK RUNDSTROM ON THURSADAY OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER. HE WAS 38. JIM WRITES: Anybody that saw Kirk play with Split Lip Rayfield knows That THE man and the music he made with his friends would leap into you and make colors brighter, girls prettier, and turn cheap beer drunks into nights you'll never forget. I feel bad for the whole world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6389105.stm
EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING THE BUGS OUT OF EMOTIONALLY AVAILABLE ROBOTS, ACCORDING TO B-B-C NEWS. Dr Lola Canamero, CO-COORDINATOR OF THE FEELIX GROWING PROJECT, said the aim was to build robots that "learn from humans and respond in a socially and emotionally appropriate manner".
"We are focusing on emotions relevant to a baby robot that has to grow and help humanS with every day life."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6390755.stm
IS ISRAEL IN A STATE OF APARTHEID? THAT'S THE CLAIM MADE BY A UNITED NATIONS ENVOY FROM SOUTH AFRICA WHO HAS STUDIED APARTHEID THERE EXTENSIVELY. John Dugard, THE UN's Special Rapporteur,describes the regime as being designed to dominate and systematically oppress the occupied population, THE PALESTINIANS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6387611.stm
CHIMPANZEES HUNTING WITH SPEARS. THAT'S WHAT RESEARCHERS IN SENEGAL HAVE OBSERVED MORE THAN 20 TIMES, ACCORDING TO A STUDY IN CURRENT BIOLOGY QUOTED BY B-B-C NEWS. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECORDED HISTORY, chimps WERE SEEN fashioniNG tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2007_02_18_archive.html#3692907746792256568#3692907746792256568
What kind of fellow would conservative GOP presidential candidate Duncan Hunter hire to chair his campaign in South Carolina? Screw the Buddists and kill the Muslims, Dr. Henry Jordan said during a meeting of THE South Carolina State Board of Education's finance and legislative committee meeting in 1997. "And put that in the minutes," he added. That item dug up by the Roger Ailes blog.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1530247
HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DEMAND THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SHUT DOWN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS SEEKING ASYLUM WHICH IS HOLDING ENTIRE FAMILIES, INCLUDING INFANTS. THE PRISON IN HUTTO, TEXAS, IS OPERATED BY U-S IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT. DEMOCRACY NOW REPORTED THAT THE ONLY GROUPS ALLOWED IN TO OBSERVE THE CAMP -- Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service - HAVE PUBLISHED A REPORT CALLED "Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families.” D-H-S HAS REFUSED TO MAKE ANY COMMENT ABOUT THE CAMP.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17251571/
THE WASHINGTON POST REPORTS THAT SO-CALLED INTERNET ADDICTS IN CHINA MAY FIND TEMSELVES IN MILITARY PRISONS, SUCH AS THE ONE IN DAXING, AWOKEN AT 5:30 A.M. BY A GUARD SCREAMING "THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!" IN THEIR FACES. TREATMENTS INCLUDE STRONG PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND LOW-LEVEL ELECTRIC SHOCK. NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN THE CLINIC'S THIRD FLOOR.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11250&feedId=online-news_rss20
VOLCABIC LIGHTENING IS A NEWLY DISCOVERED FORM OF ELECTRICAL DISPLAY FOUND AT THE MOUTHS OF ERUPTING VOLCANOES, ACCORDING TO NEW SCIENTIST DOT COM. researchers have shown conclusively that THE new form of low-energy lightning is active during eruptions, arcing between particles as they exit the volcanic vent at around 100 metres per second.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070225/pl_nm/usa_iran_dc
SO, WHAT DID SEYMOUR HERSH FIND OUT THIS TIME? IN HIS LATEST NEW YORKER ARTICLE, IT TURNS OUT THAT a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack AGAINST IRAN that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from President George W. Bush. THIS, DESPITE REPEATED CLAIMS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE THAT THERE ARE NO PLANS TO ATACK IRAN. THE PENTAGON PANEL panel initially focused on destroying Iran's nuclear facilities and on regime change but has more recently been directed to identify targets in Iran that may be involved in supplying or aiding militants in IRAQ.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-02-23T192723Z_01_N23279121_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-NEWYORK-BEAVER.XML&WTmodLoc=SciHealth-R6-MostRead-3
IT'S BEEN MORE THAN 200 YEARS SINCE BEAVER WERE SEEN IN THE ONCE-DEAD BRONX RIVER, BUT THAT'S JUST WHAT OBSERVERS SAW RECENTLY. ACCORDING TO REUTERS, Wildlife Conservation Society BIOLOGISTS HAVE NAMED THE BEAVER JOSE, AFTER U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano of the Bronx WHO SECURED $14.6 million n federal funding since 2000 TO CLEAN UP THE RIVER. STILL NO BEAVER SIGHTED IN TIMES SQUARE.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/tony-blair-reportedly-hired-psychics-to-find-bin-laden/
UK PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR REPORTEDLY HIRED PSYCHICS TO FIND OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ACCORDING TO THINK PROGRESS. Newly declassified documents revealed that the Ministry of Defense spent 18,000 POUNDS of taxpayers’ money in an experiment “to see if volunteers could ’see’ objects hidden inside an envelope.
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/02/23/second-life-sketches-please-stop-doing-that-to-the-cat/
FROM REUTERS SECOND LIFE BUREAU CHIEF AND INTERNET JESUS WARREN ELLIS COMES THIS STORY OF VIRTUAL TRESSPASSING AND KINKY SEX. FROM THE ARTICLE:
It’s not often you come home to find people having sex in your house....
during the course of the week, I’d spent a couple of hours constructing a simple underground bunker [ON MY NEW LAND], associating sounds with flooring, erecting a blockhouse for a Stargate teleport mechanism and other basic things in order to get a feel for construction.... [LATER THAT WEEKEND] I immediately noticed two pings on the “minimap” radar screen that’s placed in the top left of the Second Life viewer. There were two people on my land.
The first thing I saw in the blockhouse was the avatar of a naked man strapped face-down over a piece of sexual apparatus that presented his backside. I then realised that the blockhouse had been filled with dungeon toys. A couple of dozen of them. And, sitting on a chair I didn’t recognise, was a dominatrix with long dark hair, idly waving a riding crop.
“Please be quiet,” she said. “We are busy.”
“Um, I don’t think so,” I typed.
“Go away,” typed the slave.
“I not tell you to talk,” the dominatrix tapped out.
Feeling more than a little stupid, I explained that they and all their objects had invited themselves on to my land.
“We will be done soon. Please be quiet,” typed the domme, whose name was Mastress and who hailed from somewhere in Germany.
## C L O S E R ##
OTHER STORIES WE COVERED THIS WEEKEND AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
Al Sharpton's Great-Grandfather was Owned by Strom Thurmond's Great-Great-Grandfather
College bans Wikipedia as research souce
US basically taxes citizens a flat 40%
Marvel's "Civil War" in 30 seconds
Eddie izzard's "The Riches" to Premiere on FX This Monday at 10
The First Russian Space Dogs AND THEIR DOGGY SPACESUITS
Scott Ritter on the Randi Rhodes Show
Upside-down rainbow spotted
Adventuring in Second Life; or, "yeah, but how do I hit people?"
A US combat boot stomping on an Iraqi face forever
NYC KFC/Taco Bell has massive rat infestation
CompUSA closing half their stores
AND
Man jailed 17 months for stealing one soda
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 57 for Friday, February 23, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 57 (64 kbps .mp3 10:42 4.5 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Wrestling gators is for pussies-- try wrestling lemurs!
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-THIRD, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://consumerist.com/consumer/hewlett%20packard/14-hewlettpackard-company-secrets-from-a-former-employee-236517.php
CONSUMERIST PRESENTS - 14 SECRETS FROM FORMER HEWLETT-PACKARD EMPLOYEES. HERE'S ONE:
Many HP Printers, like their laser printers, have a built-in page-count after which they won't work. This resides in the transpart sometimes called image or drum kit. Rather than get the printer fixed, it's often cheaper to buy a new printer, OR you can do a NV ram reset. It resets everything in the printer, including all the page counts, but it's not without risks.
http://amsam.org/2007/02/blackwater-brass-forms-intelligence.html
ISN'T SPYING ILLEGAL? ASKS POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO. TELL THAT TO THE GOOD PEOPLE AT BLACKWATER, U-S-A! AND THEY'LL PROBABLY SPY ON YOU. AMERICAN SAMIZDAT REPORTS: Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, announced Tuesday the formation of a new CIA-type private company to provide intelligence services to commercial clients.
A spokeswoman for Total Intelligence said there is no corporate affiliation with Blackwater, the Moyock, N.C.-based private military company, but the new firm clearly has a Blackwater stamp.
"Total Intel brings the intelligence gathering methodology and analytical skills traditionally honed by CIA operatives directly to the board room," Black said in a statement Tuesday.
http://www.alternet.org/story/48278
ALTER NET DOT ORG EXPLAINS HOW THE BUSH BUDGET SCREWS YOU IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN SEVERAL BILLION A YEAR. FROM THE ARTICLE: the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite. Not only does it make many of Bush's tax cuts permanent, but it envisions a complete repeal of the Estate Tax, which mainly affects only those who are in the top two-tenths of the top one percent of the richest people in this country.
I*f the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family -- the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune -- would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years.
The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion.
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http://www.vbs.tv/
HERE'S POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE CONTRIBUTOR JIM'S REVIEW OF VBS.TV
If you're like me, the thing you hate most about TV is that it isn't the Internet. Vice is working on a fix for that that's a little more structured than the pirated music videos and teenagers fighting that Youtube bings you.
We got a press release from one of their flunkies encouraging us to check out VBS and I spent my lunch time doing it. Nifty stuff. It's shows, just like regular TV, and with the irony and fashion-forwardness that you expect from Vice, plus you can share the videos like Youtube, all you bloggy types.
Nifty stuff so far. My favorite so far is Soft Focus, the interview show.
REMEMBER, THAT'S V-B-S DOT T-V.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_dc
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report Iran had installed two cascades, or networks, of 164 centrifuges in its underground Natanz enrichment plant with another two cascades close to completion, ACCORDING TO WIRE SERVICE REPORTS.
This amounted to an effort to escalate research-level enrichment of nuclear fuel into "industrial scale" production.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_sc/new_zealand_colossal_squid
IT'S GIANT SQUID CATCHIN' WEATHER OUT THERE, FOLKS! THE LESS-AND-LESS ELUSIVE CREATURE MAKES THE NEWS AGAIN. MOJO TOLD OF A SQUID CAUGHT OFF OR , WELLINGTON, New Zealand . IT GOT REELED IN WITH THE SEA BASS IT WAS EATING.
BRET FOUND THE M-S-N-B-C VERSION OF THE TALE, WITH THIS WONDERFUL SUB-HEADLINE If calamari rings were made, expert says, they'd be size of tractor tires.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-19-hungary-porn_x.htm?csp=34 IS HUNGARY LEGALIZING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY? THERE IS A BILL IN ITS PARLIAMENT WHICH WOULD LEGALIZE IMAGES OF 14-YEAR OLDS AND UP HAVING SEX. MOJO THOUGH ABOUT IT:
My first reaction to this was, "Ewww, Hungary is legalizing child porn." But then the idea of "for home-use only" stuck with me, and I remembered a case that's happening here in America where two seventeen-year-olds videotaped themselves having sex. And they are both being charged as adults for creating child porn. Charged as adults, but still considered children enough to qualify as child porn. That makes no sense.
Maybe Hungary is trying to deal with this kind of situation?
FROM THE U-S-A TODAY ARTICLE:
Hungarian Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei SAID the proposal had taken into account the age in Hungary — 14 — at which consensual sexual relations are allowed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_re_us/old_child_porn
IN A RELATED STORY, AN EIGHTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD MAN MUST HAVE FIGURED IT WAS SAFE TO HIDE HIS VIDEO RECORDINGS OF HIM HAVING SEX WITH UNDERAGED GIRLS DURING THE PAST 40 YEARS, ACCORDING TO U-S-A TODAY. A FLOOD DISLOGED HIS STASH FROM ITS HIDING PLACE NEXT TO THE SEPTIC TANK LAST AUGUST. OFFICIALS HAVE CHARGED Walter C. Stevens with one federal count of possessing child pornography.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2044649020070221
STILL SMOKING TOBACCO? Smoking causes long-lasting changes in the brain similar to changes seen in animals when they are given cocaine, heroin and other addictive drugs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
A study of the brain tissue of smokers and nonsmokers who had died showed that smokers had the changes, even if they had quit years before, the team at the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported ACCORDING TO REUTERS..
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http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/riaa_contests_d.html
DO YOU HAVE WI-FI? DO YOU LEAVE IT OPEN, SO THAT YOUR NEIGHBORS CAN USE YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION? IF SO, YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTON TO A COURT CASE THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA IS WORKING PRETTY HARD TO WIN. FROM THE ARTICLE:
Debbie Foster was sued by RIAA member company Capitol Records for allegedly sharing copyrighted material on a P2P file sharing network. However, the alleged infringement was apparently committed by someone else with access to her ISP account. Foster had the case dismissed last summer, and as reported by Listening Post earlier this month, was awarded attorney's fees in excess of $50,000.
Predictably, the RIAA has filed a "motion for reconsideration" of Judge West's decision to force the RIAA to pay for Foster's legal fees. they want the judge to rule that the owner of an ISP account is responsible for all activity on that account, which could have a chilling effect on public wireless access and open hotspots.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6383833.stm
WE CLOSE WITH NEWS OF THE BAT-DEMON, AND IT'S NEED TO RAPE MEN IN TANZINIA, AS REPORTED ON THE-B-B-C
: Men in parts of Tanzania's main city, Dar es Salaam, are living in fear of a night-time sex attacker.
A BBC correspondent says the attacks are being blamed by some on a demon called "Popo Bawa" meaning winged bat.
Some men are staying awake or sleeping in groups outside their homes. Others are smearing themselves with pig's oil, believing this repels attacks.
Reports of the demon's existence have been common for many years in Zanzibar, where locals claim it originated.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
Clowns murdered on stage in Colombia
YOU TUBE VIDEO | Purple and Brown by PenWard
A new drive-by attack on wifi routers
Cover-Your-Ass Security; or, Why Boston Went Apeshit Over Blinky Signs
The end of the uncanny valley?
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A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Wrestling gators is for pussies-- try wrestling lemurs!
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-THIRD, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://consumerist.com/consumer/hewlett%20packard/14-hewlettpackard-company-secrets-from-a-former-employee-236517.php
CONSUMERIST PRESENTS - 14 SECRETS FROM FORMER HEWLETT-PACKARD EMPLOYEES. HERE'S ONE:
Many HP Printers, like their laser printers, have a built-in page-count after which they won't work. This resides in the transpart sometimes called image or drum kit. Rather than get the printer fixed, it's often cheaper to buy a new printer, OR you can do a NV ram reset. It resets everything in the printer, including all the page counts, but it's not without risks.
http://amsam.org/2007/02/blackwater-brass-forms-intelligence.html
ISN'T SPYING ILLEGAL? ASKS POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO. TELL THAT TO THE GOOD PEOPLE AT BLACKWATER, U-S-A! AND THEY'LL PROBABLY SPY ON YOU. AMERICAN SAMIZDAT REPORTS: Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, announced Tuesday the formation of a new CIA-type private company to provide intelligence services to commercial clients.
A spokeswoman for Total Intelligence said there is no corporate affiliation with Blackwater, the Moyock, N.C.-based private military company, but the new firm clearly has a Blackwater stamp.
"Total Intel brings the intelligence gathering methodology and analytical skills traditionally honed by CIA operatives directly to the board room," Black said in a statement Tuesday.
http://www.alternet.org/story/48278
ALTER NET DOT ORG EXPLAINS HOW THE BUSH BUDGET SCREWS YOU IF YOU MAKE LESS THAN SEVERAL BILLION A YEAR. FROM THE ARTICLE: the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite. Not only does it make many of Bush's tax cuts permanent, but it envisions a complete repeal of the Estate Tax, which mainly affects only those who are in the top two-tenths of the top one percent of the richest people in this country.
I*f the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family -- the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune -- would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years.
The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion.
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http://www.vbs.tv/
HERE'S POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE CONTRIBUTOR JIM'S REVIEW OF VBS.TV
If you're like me, the thing you hate most about TV is that it isn't the Internet. Vice is working on a fix for that that's a little more structured than the pirated music videos and teenagers fighting that Youtube bings you.
We got a press release from one of their flunkies encouraging us to check out VBS and I spent my lunch time doing it. Nifty stuff. It's shows, just like regular TV, and with the irony and fashion-forwardness that you expect from Vice, plus you can share the videos like Youtube, all you bloggy types.
Nifty stuff so far. My favorite so far is Soft Focus, the interview show.
REMEMBER, THAT'S V-B-S DOT T-V.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_dc
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report Iran had installed two cascades, or networks, of 164 centrifuges in its underground Natanz enrichment plant with another two cascades close to completion, ACCORDING TO WIRE SERVICE REPORTS.
This amounted to an effort to escalate research-level enrichment of nuclear fuel into "industrial scale" production.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_sc/new_zealand_colossal_squid
IT'S GIANT SQUID CATCHIN' WEATHER OUT THERE, FOLKS! THE LESS-AND-LESS ELUSIVE CREATURE MAKES THE NEWS AGAIN. MOJO TOLD OF A SQUID CAUGHT OFF OR , WELLINGTON, New Zealand . IT GOT REELED IN WITH THE SEA BASS IT WAS EATING.
BRET FOUND THE M-S-N-B-C VERSION OF THE TALE, WITH THIS WONDERFUL SUB-HEADLINE If calamari rings were made, expert says, they'd be size of tractor tires.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-19-hungary-porn_x.htm?csp=34 IS HUNGARY LEGALIZING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY? THERE IS A BILL IN ITS PARLIAMENT WHICH WOULD LEGALIZE IMAGES OF 14-YEAR OLDS AND UP HAVING SEX. MOJO THOUGH ABOUT IT:
My first reaction to this was, "Ewww, Hungary is legalizing child porn." But then the idea of "for home-use only" stuck with me, and I remembered a case that's happening here in America where two seventeen-year-olds videotaped themselves having sex. And they are both being charged as adults for creating child porn. Charged as adults, but still considered children enough to qualify as child porn. That makes no sense.
Maybe Hungary is trying to deal with this kind of situation?
FROM THE U-S-A TODAY ARTICLE:
Hungarian Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei SAID the proposal had taken into account the age in Hungary — 14 — at which consensual sexual relations are allowed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070222/ap_on_re_us/old_child_porn
IN A RELATED STORY, AN EIGHTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD MAN MUST HAVE FIGURED IT WAS SAFE TO HIDE HIS VIDEO RECORDINGS OF HIM HAVING SEX WITH UNDERAGED GIRLS DURING THE PAST 40 YEARS, ACCORDING TO U-S-A TODAY. A FLOOD DISLOGED HIS STASH FROM ITS HIDING PLACE NEXT TO THE SEPTIC TANK LAST AUGUST. OFFICIALS HAVE CHARGED Walter C. Stevens with one federal count of possessing child pornography.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN2044649020070221
STILL SMOKING TOBACCO? Smoking causes long-lasting changes in the brain similar to changes seen in animals when they are given cocaine, heroin and other addictive drugs, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
A study of the brain tissue of smokers and nonsmokers who had died showed that smokers had the changes, even if they had quit years before, the team at the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported ACCORDING TO REUTERS..
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http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/02/riaa_contests_d.html
DO YOU HAVE WI-FI? DO YOU LEAVE IT OPEN, SO THAT YOUR NEIGHBORS CAN USE YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION? IF SO, YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTON TO A COURT CASE THE RECORDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA IS WORKING PRETTY HARD TO WIN. FROM THE ARTICLE:
Debbie Foster was sued by RIAA member company Capitol Records for allegedly sharing copyrighted material on a P2P file sharing network. However, the alleged infringement was apparently committed by someone else with access to her ISP account. Foster had the case dismissed last summer, and as reported by Listening Post earlier this month, was awarded attorney's fees in excess of $50,000.
Predictably, the RIAA has filed a "motion for reconsideration" of Judge West's decision to force the RIAA to pay for Foster's legal fees. they want the judge to rule that the owner of an ISP account is responsible for all activity on that account, which could have a chilling effect on public wireless access and open hotspots.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6383833.stm
WE CLOSE WITH NEWS OF THE BAT-DEMON, AND IT'S NEED TO RAPE MEN IN TANZINIA, AS REPORTED ON THE-B-B-C
: Men in parts of Tanzania's main city, Dar es Salaam, are living in fear of a night-time sex attacker.
A BBC correspondent says the attacks are being blamed by some on a demon called "Popo Bawa" meaning winged bat.
Some men are staying awake or sleeping in groups outside their homes. Others are smearing themselves with pig's oil, believing this repels attacks.
Reports of the demon's existence have been common for many years in Zanzibar, where locals claim it originated.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
Clowns murdered on stage in Colombia
YOU TUBE VIDEO | Purple and Brown by PenWard
A new drive-by attack on wifi routers
Cover-Your-Ass Security; or, Why Boston Went Apeshit Over Blinky Signs
The end of the uncanny valley?
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 56 for Thursday, February 22, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 56 (64 kbps .mp3 10:42 5.0 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Awaiting the coming of the Deep Ones.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
WHO ARE THE HOMELESS? PEOPLE WHO STOPPED GETTING THAT ONE PAYCHECK BETWEEN THEM AND THE STREET. PEOPLE ABUSING SUBSTANCES WHO HAVE NO ACCESS TO TREATMENT. PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS WITH NO ACCESS TO TREATMENT. PEOPLE WHO WOULD RATHER SLEEP ROUGH, FOR WHATEVER REASON. SINCE 1980, YOU SEE A LOT MORE HOMELESS PEOPLE. WHY IS THAT? I BLAME RONALD REaGAN, WHO DEFUNDED MENTAL HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE, STARVED STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR FUNDS WHICH SHRANK ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, and DEREGULATED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK. KIDS, YOU CRANK UP THAT NEWFANGLED WIKIPEDIA WHATSIS AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH ON MR. REAGAN AND THE IDEOLOGY OF CONSERVATIVISM. THAT SAID, IF YOU HAVE LEADERSHIP THAT SPENDS A GENERATION APPROVING OF DEHUMANIZING THE POOR AND SICK, WHAT DO YOU END UP WITH? CHILDREN WHO ACCEPT DEHUMANIZATION, OF THEMSELVES AND OTHERS, AS BEING A PART OF LIFE. WHO DON'T SEE THE HOMELESS AS PEOPLE. AND THEN YOU GET STORIES LIKE THESE.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/19/homeless.attacks/index.html?eref=rss_latest
FROM CNN:
"It all started off as a game," NATHAN Moore said.
The 15-year-old and his friends were taunting the homeless man -- throwing sticks and leaves -- after having a couple of beers with him.
No big deal, Moore says, but he's sorry for what came next.
It was a mistake, he said, a sudden primal surge that made him and his friends Luis Oyola, 16, and 17-year-old Andrew Ihrcke begin punching and kicking Rex Baum.
"Luis says 'I'm gonna go hit him,' We're all laughing, thought he was joking around,'" but he wasn't, Moore concedes. "We just all started hitting him."
They hurled anything they could find -- rocks, bricks, even Baum's barbecue grill -- and pounded the 49-year-old with a pipe and with the baseball bat he kept at his campsite for protection.
Ihrcke smeared his own feces on Baum's face before cutting him with a knife "to see if he was alive," Moore said.
After destroying Baum's camp, the boys left the homeless man -- head wedged in his own grill -- under a piece of plastic where they hoped the "animals would eat" him.
Then, Moore says, they took off to grab a bite at McDonald's.
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO COMMENTS: CNN paints this as a "disturbing trend" but doesn;t really discuss what to do to combat the trend. Here are some ideas: teach kids compassion; treat homeless people like they are fucking human beings; offer free health care and free mental health care to help the homeless get back into society.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/02/21#1172088960
LATER IN THIS CNN ARTICLE, Ihrcke told police that killing "the bum" reminded him of playing a violent video game, a police report shows. THIS ENRAGES PENNY ARCADE'S GABE, AND PROPERLY SO. LONG STAUNCH PROMOTERS AND DEFENDERS OF GAMING, THE PENNY ARCADE BOYS DECIRED THIS LATEST BIT OF NONSENSE, THE KID'S ASSERTION THAT PIXELS ON A SCREEN MAKE HIM A KILLER -- WHICH HAS AND WILL BE GRABBED ONTO BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA LIKE A DOG GRABS A RAG AND SHAKES IT. BUT THANKS TO THE AMAZING INTERNETS, GABE'S CRY OF INDIGNATION WAS ANSWERED BY ONE OF THE KILLER KIDS' STEP-PARENTS. TURNS OUT THE KID COULD HAVE USED SOME FREE MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT, HIMSELF, BUT COUNSELOR AFTER COUNSELOR AND LAW ENFORCEMENT JUST BLAMED THE PARENTS AND DUMPED THE KID BACK IN THEIR LAPS. AFTER ALL, IN REAGAN'S UNIVERSE, THERE IS NO SOCIETY, THERE IS NO SHARED RESPONSIBLITY, THERE IS NO COMMON INTEREST IN TREATING A SICK YOUNG MAN LIKE THIS BEFORE HE KILLS. FROM THE STEP-MOM'S LETTER:
The boy’s father and I have been together for almost seven years, and I had what I guess could be called a “stepmother” relationship with the kid. To say that living with this kid was hell would be a complete understatement.
I don’t think I have ever actively hated anyone in my entire life, but this kid just makes my blood boil.
As I write this, my teeth are clenched, my hands are shaking, and my whole body is seething with the hatred I feel for this kid and what he has done. Seeing the article brings back all the horrible memories from when he lived with us.
He was constantly in trouble in school, with the cops, with us, with his mother, and with anyone else who was an authority figure. Not a week went by that the school or the cops wouldn’t call us for something. His attitude was basically “fuck you, I don’t have to listen to you” said with a shrug.
we’re not talking the usual teenager stuff, like coming home late, or refusing to do the dishes. We’re talking stealing cars, setting fires, drinking, getting picked up for drugs, beating up handicapped kids at school (yes, really) stealing things out of our house… all with this “I’ll do whatever the fuck I want” attitude.
We had absolutely no idea what else we could do. We already had him in counseling, and we did everything the counselors suggested.
Then, things took an even worse turn when he decided that whenever he didn’t get his way, or we did something he didn’t like, he told his counselors and teachers that we were abusing him. (Never happened.) And for some inexplicable reason, everybody believed him.
I completely agree with your statement of “These kids were twelve kinds of nuts and that’s a fact.” But the reason I am writing this to you is that, after reading your news post yesterday, I felt that I needed to defend the boy’s parents. His mother and father and I did absolutely everything we could think of to try to keep this kid in line.
The thing that really gets me with this whole thing is that the kid knows full well that by equating what he’s done to a video game, that he will generate controversy and media coverage. It makes me sick that the media is jumping all over this, because that is exactly the result that he wants.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/what-would-you-do-if-bush_b_41674.html
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF GEORGE BUSH DECLARED MARTIAL LAW? THE QUESTION IS NOT A HYPOTHETICAL. THE ADMINISTRATION WHICH SUBVERTED THE WILL OF EVEN ITS OWN LAP-DOG REPUBLIAN-DOMINATED CONGRESS WITH SIGNING STATEMENTS AND PHONEIED-UP FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS...THE ADMINISTRATION WHICH HAS REPLACED U-S DISTRICT ATTORNEYS WITH ITS CRONIES TO QUASH INVESTIGATIONS OF ITS CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AND CORRUPTION...GAVE ITSELF THE POWER TO EASILY AND QUICKLY DECLARE MARTIAL LAW LAST OCTOBER BY HIDING IT IN THE MILITARY'S BUDGET BILL. IN THE HUFFINGTON POST, JANE SMILEY CITES A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL THAT WARNED ABOUT THE SCARY NEW PRESIDENTIAL POWERS AND WRITES: Senators Leahy and Bond have introduced a bill to repeal these changes, and it is important that voters keep track of this bill and hold their Congresspeople to account on it. Along with several other measures the Bush adminstration has proposed, the introduction of these changes amounts, not to an attack on the Congress and the balance of power, but to a particular and concerted attack on the citizens of the nation. Bush is laying the legal groundwork to repeal even the appearance of democracy. Any senator who does not vote in favor of the Leahy/Bond repeal of these provisions should promptly be recalled by his or her constituents. IT'S EASY TO WARN YOUR SENATOR AT CONGRESS DOT O-R-G.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/02/20/uk.iraq.troops/index.html
THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ IS GOING SO WELL THAT PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR HAS DECIDED TO BRING HOME MORE THAN HALF OF THE UK'S 7,500 TROOPS. ACCORDING TO A B-B-C NEWS ITEM, Britain has a contingent of 7,000 in Iraq now, based mostly in the southern city of Basra. COULD THAT BE WHY THE PRESIDENT IS SO WORKED UP OVER HIS SO-CALLED SURGE? TO COVER FOR THE COALITION OF THE LEAVING?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_go_su_co/detainees_lawsuits;_ylt=AqyKaDlABWHQ.8dNUGmme.is0NUE
A 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismissesD hundreds of cases filed by foreign-born GUANTANAMO detainees in federal court ACCORDING TO A WIRE SERVICE REPORT. "The detainees held at Guantanamo Bay do not have an unfettered constitutional right," George H.W. Bush appointee Judge A. Raymond Randolph said. "In fact, the legal and humane actions of the U.S. government stand in stark contrast to our al-Qaeda enemies who behead those they capture."
It's a legal zen koan, OUR OWN MOJO POINTS OUT. The detainees have no rights, but america is better because we respect the rights of detainees.
THE DECISOIN also threatens to strip away court access to millions of lawful permanent residents currently in the United States." LIKE MY WIFE.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
The weirdest muppet show videos ever
Trailer: This American Life, the TV Show
Breakdancing in Walmart
Male prostitute sighted at National Press Club -- HI, JEFFY!
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AND LOVERS - Inside "genetic sexual attraction"
Would you elect an atheist?
Shame on you -Everything was a lie--There is still a hole in the ground and in our souls.- The Last Angry Man Podcast
Mark Morford <3's>
Cholera outbreak in Ethiopia kills 680, infects tens of thousands more
Daylight Savings Time is coming early -- March 11, to be exact.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 55 for Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 55 (64 kbps .mp3 10:31 4.8 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Avenging the death of our parents.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
POOR MOJO'S ALMANAC(K) EDITOR IN CHIEF THE GIANT SQUID PENNED THIS EPISTLE REGARDING FAT TUESDAY SOME YEARS AGO, BUT THE MESSAGE IS STILL TIMELY.
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Squid+74+bi
This past Yule Time, it seems, Sang acquired a most curious chart. This is a paperboard diptych, mounted vertically (the one paper pane directly above the other.) The upper pane features a depiction of human infants disguised to appear to be various fruits, vegetables and other flora, and the bottom pane consists of a grid. This paper grid tracks the days present in each surface month, and while such a makeshift calendar is quite insufficient (lacking any notations viz. the movements of embracing-cold and treacherous warm currents, migratory patterns of clams or whales, or any real tracking of astral events apart from a simplistic charting of the phases of Earth Moon), it is a nonetheless the sort of quaint folkcraft which seems to brighten the drear of many an office chimp's day.
And, while this calendar grid is quite deficient in managing any of the important data of the day-to-day, it does contain a great wealth of information on the spiritual events which do not simply dot or punctuate your year, but quite nearly overrun it altogether, like barnacles about the stubled jaw of a hunchbaked whale. I was unaware that you grunties exist in such an ecstatic state of perpetual religious and civic zeal. It is impressive, indeed.
While gazing at the buttercup-themed babies-- or, quite plausibly baby-corpses, for the infants photographed do have a terrible stillness about them-- adorning Sang's day-grid, I happened to note an annual celebration most fascinating:
February the Twentieth: Chinese New Years Lincoln's Birthday Mardi Gras.
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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/02/indignant_and_illegal_fictions.html
FREE SPEECH? WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS IN DIFFERENT PLACES... IN THE UK, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S THE Terrorism Act of 2006. CHARLIE, FROM ANTI POPE DOT COM, WILL EXPLAIN: Among other things, this piece of legislation created several new crimes — including the rather peculiar one of "glorifying terrorism". The proximate justification for this offense seems to be public indignation at the sight of preachers praising suicide bombers in Iraq and Israel from the pulpit, but the effect of it is corrosive — it undermines political free speech. Just consider for a moment the vexing question of who is, or isn't, a terrorist. Is Nelson Mandela? Certainly if this law had been on the books in the 1980s it's possible that supporters of the ANC would have been prosecuted. Is the animal rights movement supportive of terrorists? Is Sinn Fein? Once you get into the gritty business of trying to pin down who is and isn't a terrorist you end up with a peculiar conjugation: "I am a freedom fighter, you are a guerilla, they are terrorists"
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http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/jetblue-announces-passenger-bill-of-rights-238037.php
IF YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE JET BLUE SAGA, YOU KNOW THAT NEW YORK CITY'S BUSIEST AIRLINE COLLAPSED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF LAST WEDNESDAY'S SNOW STORMS AND HAD TO CANCEL HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS ALL WEEKEND TO BECOME FUNCTIONAL AGAIN. DURING THE STORM, PASSENGERS SPENT UP TO ELEVEN HOURS IN ALUMINIUM TUBES THAT SOUNDED LIKE SCREAMING BABIES, SMELLED LIKE URINE AND MOVED NOT AT ALL. IN AN EFFORT TO NOT BECOME DEFUNCT, JET BLUE IS NOW MAKING LOTS OF NOISE ABOUT ITS PASSENGER BILL OF RIGHTS. THE MOST NOTABLE THING ABOUT THE BILL AS FOUND ON CONSUMERIST IS ITS COMPLETE LACK OF SEMBLANCE TO BILLS OF RIGHTS WRITTEN BY ACTUAL PASSENGERS. POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO SAYS: On one hand it's great to see JetBlue responding to their eleven-hour fuckup so quickly with this fairly awesome policy. On the other hand, I'm sure they are voluntarily creating a non-binding, quasi-legal "bill of rights" just so Congress doesn't feel the need to create a binding, legal Passenger Bill of Rights to slapP on them. WHAT IS JET BLUE'S BANDAID?
The airline announced a new reimbursement program for delayed passengers, retroactive to last Thursday, February 15.
• Delays 1-2 hours: $25 off a future flight
• Delays 2-4 hours: $50 off a future flight
• Delays 6 hours: Free round-trip ticket
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070220/tc_pcworld/129126
WINDOWS VISTA's gonna check out all your PROGRAMS for you
WINDOWS VISTA won't let anyone dirty get through
WINDOWS VISTA's gonna wait up till you get in
WINDOWS VISTA will always find out where you've been
WINDOWS VISTA's gonna keep baby healthy and clean...
EARTH'S MOST ANNOYING O-S HAS A REALLY, REALLY ANNOYING HABIT. P-C WORLD EXPLAINS: We often worry about Microsoft playing Big Brother, but now it's playing Big Mother, attempting to protect you from your own rash impulses to run new software. Try to download a program, and Internet Explorer will block it. ("It's for your own good. You can't be too careful, you know. Who knows where that program has been!") Unblock it, and IE will ask if you really, truly want to download the software. ("These programs can be dangerous, you know. I just don't want you to get hurt.")
Once you manage to get the program onto your machine, Windows tosses up its own roadblocks, forcing you to authorize the installer program to run, sometimes as an administrator. ("You're going to have to convince me you really know what you're doing here, young man.") Click through enough dialog boxes, and you'll eventually be running your new software, but you can almost hear Windows grumbling in the background. ("Fine! Ruin your life! But don't say I didn't warn you!")
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/20/boortz-teachers-terrorists/
POOR MOJO CONTRIBUTOR JIM BRINGS US A TRULY MIND-BLOWING BIT OF RIGHT-WING STUPIDITY, REMARKING THAT : The brave folks at Think Progress watch Sean Hannity so you don't have to do your own puking. HERE IS AN ACTUAL, ON AIR CONVERSATION BETWEEN LYING DOUCHEBAG CHICKEN HAWK SEAN HANNITY AND UTTER PSYCHOPATH NEIL BOORTZ:
SEAN HANNITY: Alright, let me ask you. Because, you — when you said about the Department of Education — you want to abolish it — when you said that the teachers unions is more dangerous to this country in the long term –
NEAL BOORTZ: In the long term, yeah.
HANNITY: Than al Qaeda.
BOORTZ: Right. Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring in a nuke into this country and kill 100,000 people with a well-placed nuke somewhere. Ok. We would recover from that. It would be a terrible tragedy, but the teachers unions in this country can destroy a generation.
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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/20/dana-priest-walter-reed/
THIS SERIES AT THE WASHINGTON POST IS INCREDIBLE. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO DESCRIBE Dana Priest and Anne Hull'S STORY that Walter Reed hospital, once perceived as the “crown jewel of military medicine,” has become “something else entirely — a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients.” THINK PROGRESS DESCRIBES THE SERIES: Priest and Hull snuck in and out of the Walter Reed facilities over the course of four months without the knowledge or permission of hospital officials. They said they wanted to bypass the hospital’s “very well-oiled public relations machine.” Some examples of what they saw:
– The “legions” of injured soldiers housed at the facility “take up every available bed on post and spill into dozens of nearby hotels and apartments leased by the Army.”
– Building 18 “has been plagued with mold, leaky plumbing and a broken elevator.”
– “The wounded manage other wounded. Soldiers dealing with psychological disorders of their own have been put in charge of others at risk of suicide.”
– “Disengaged clerks, unqualified platoon sergeants and overworked case managers fumble with simple needs.”
JUDY WOODRUFF ON THE P-B-S NEWS HOUR SAID: While receiving treatment at Walter Reed, service members have been housed in buildings, including one with a rodent infestation. Army Specialist Jeremy Duncan can stand in the shower and see through to the room above him. And Army Staff Sergeant Dan Shannon, who lost an eye and sustained brain injury in Iraq, said when he arrived at Walter Reed, he was given a map of the facilities and told to find his room on his own. He says he was often left for weeks without an appointment to see a doctor.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
world's geekiest crossword puzzle - REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF Klingon, Elvish, Furbish, AND Esperanto
George Takei SPECIAL MESSAGE to Tim Hardaway
Happy Pacaki Day!
How to: Track down runaway Mac apps
Use Badger to neatly package the newsfeeds of your site
AND
Mother sentenced to two years in jail for throwing a cup of ice
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Avenging the death of our parents.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
POOR MOJO'S ALMANAC(K) EDITOR IN CHIEF THE GIANT SQUID PENNED THIS EPISTLE REGARDING FAT TUESDAY SOME YEARS AGO, BUT THE MESSAGE IS STILL TIMELY.
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Squid+74+bi
This past Yule Time, it seems, Sang acquired a most curious chart. This is a paperboard diptych, mounted vertically (the one paper pane directly above the other.) The upper pane features a depiction of human infants disguised to appear to be various fruits, vegetables and other flora, and the bottom pane consists of a grid. This paper grid tracks the days present in each surface month, and while such a makeshift calendar is quite insufficient (lacking any notations viz. the movements of embracing-cold and treacherous warm currents, migratory patterns of clams or whales, or any real tracking of astral events apart from a simplistic charting of the phases of Earth Moon), it is a nonetheless the sort of quaint folkcraft which seems to brighten the drear of many an office chimp's day.
And, while this calendar grid is quite deficient in managing any of the important data of the day-to-day, it does contain a great wealth of information on the spiritual events which do not simply dot or punctuate your year, but quite nearly overrun it altogether, like barnacles about the stubled jaw of a hunchbaked whale. I was unaware that you grunties exist in such an ecstatic state of perpetual religious and civic zeal. It is impressive, indeed.
While gazing at the buttercup-themed babies-- or, quite plausibly baby-corpses, for the infants photographed do have a terrible stillness about them-- adorning Sang's day-grid, I happened to note an annual celebration most fascinating:
February the Twentieth: Chinese New Years Lincoln's Birthday Mardi Gras.
TO READ THE REST, AND LEARN THE SECRET OF THE POONCHSKI, HEAD TO POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/02/indignant_and_illegal_fictions.html
FREE SPEECH? WHAT EXACTLY DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS IN DIFFERENT PLACES... IN THE UK, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S THE Terrorism Act of 2006. CHARLIE, FROM ANTI POPE DOT COM, WILL EXPLAIN: Among other things, this piece of legislation created several new crimes — including the rather peculiar one of "glorifying terrorism". The proximate justification for this offense seems to be public indignation at the sight of preachers praising suicide bombers in Iraq and Israel from the pulpit, but the effect of it is corrosive — it undermines political free speech. Just consider for a moment the vexing question of who is, or isn't, a terrorist. Is Nelson Mandela? Certainly if this law had been on the books in the 1980s it's possible that supporters of the ANC would have been prosecuted. Is the animal rights movement supportive of terrorists? Is Sinn Fein? Once you get into the gritty business of trying to pin down who is and isn't a terrorist you end up with a peculiar conjugation: "I am a freedom fighter, you are a guerilla, they are terrorists"
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http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/jetblue-announces-passenger-bill-of-rights-238037.php
IF YOU'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE JET BLUE SAGA, YOU KNOW THAT NEW YORK CITY'S BUSIEST AIRLINE COLLAPSED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF LAST WEDNESDAY'S SNOW STORMS AND HAD TO CANCEL HUNDREDS OF FLIGHTS ALL WEEKEND TO BECOME FUNCTIONAL AGAIN. DURING THE STORM, PASSENGERS SPENT UP TO ELEVEN HOURS IN ALUMINIUM TUBES THAT SOUNDED LIKE SCREAMING BABIES, SMELLED LIKE URINE AND MOVED NOT AT ALL. IN AN EFFORT TO NOT BECOME DEFUNCT, JET BLUE IS NOW MAKING LOTS OF NOISE ABOUT ITS PASSENGER BILL OF RIGHTS. THE MOST NOTABLE THING ABOUT THE BILL AS FOUND ON CONSUMERIST IS ITS COMPLETE LACK OF SEMBLANCE TO BILLS OF RIGHTS WRITTEN BY ACTUAL PASSENGERS. POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO SAYS: On one hand it's great to see JetBlue responding to their eleven-hour fuckup so quickly with this fairly awesome policy. On the other hand, I'm sure they are voluntarily creating a non-binding, quasi-legal "bill of rights" just so Congress doesn't feel the need to create a binding, legal Passenger Bill of Rights to slapP on them. WHAT IS JET BLUE'S BANDAID?
The airline announced a new reimbursement program for delayed passengers, retroactive to last Thursday, February 15.
• Delays 1-2 hours: $25 off a future flight
• Delays 2-4 hours: $50 off a future flight
• Delays 6 hours: Free round-trip ticket
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070220/tc_pcworld/129126
WINDOWS VISTA's gonna check out all your PROGRAMS for you
WINDOWS VISTA won't let anyone dirty get through
WINDOWS VISTA's gonna wait up till you get in
WINDOWS VISTA will always find out where you've been
WINDOWS VISTA's gonna keep baby healthy and clean...
EARTH'S MOST ANNOYING O-S HAS A REALLY, REALLY ANNOYING HABIT. P-C WORLD EXPLAINS: We often worry about Microsoft playing Big Brother, but now it's playing Big Mother, attempting to protect you from your own rash impulses to run new software. Try to download a program, and Internet Explorer will block it. ("It's for your own good. You can't be too careful, you know. Who knows where that program has been!") Unblock it, and IE will ask if you really, truly want to download the software. ("These programs can be dangerous, you know. I just don't want you to get hurt.")
Once you manage to get the program onto your machine, Windows tosses up its own roadblocks, forcing you to authorize the installer program to run, sometimes as an administrator. ("You're going to have to convince me you really know what you're doing here, young man.") Click through enough dialog boxes, and you'll eventually be running your new software, but you can almost hear Windows grumbling in the background. ("Fine! Ruin your life! But don't say I didn't warn you!")
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/20/boortz-teachers-terrorists/
POOR MOJO CONTRIBUTOR JIM BRINGS US A TRULY MIND-BLOWING BIT OF RIGHT-WING STUPIDITY, REMARKING THAT : The brave folks at Think Progress watch Sean Hannity so you don't have to do your own puking. HERE IS AN ACTUAL, ON AIR CONVERSATION BETWEEN LYING DOUCHEBAG CHICKEN HAWK SEAN HANNITY AND UTTER PSYCHOPATH NEIL BOORTZ:
SEAN HANNITY: Alright, let me ask you. Because, you — when you said about the Department of Education — you want to abolish it — when you said that the teachers unions is more dangerous to this country in the long term –
NEAL BOORTZ: In the long term, yeah.
HANNITY: Than al Qaeda.
BOORTZ: Right. Look, Al Qaeda, they could bring in a nuke into this country and kill 100,000 people with a well-placed nuke somewhere. Ok. We would recover from that. It would be a terrible tragedy, but the teachers unions in this country can destroy a generation.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/20/dana-priest-walter-reed/
THIS SERIES AT THE WASHINGTON POST IS INCREDIBLE. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO DESCRIBE Dana Priest and Anne Hull'S STORY that Walter Reed hospital, once perceived as the “crown jewel of military medicine,” has become “something else entirely — a holding ground for physically and psychologically damaged outpatients.” THINK PROGRESS DESCRIBES THE SERIES: Priest and Hull snuck in and out of the Walter Reed facilities over the course of four months without the knowledge or permission of hospital officials. They said they wanted to bypass the hospital’s “very well-oiled public relations machine.” Some examples of what they saw:
– The “legions” of injured soldiers housed at the facility “take up every available bed on post and spill into dozens of nearby hotels and apartments leased by the Army.”
– Building 18 “has been plagued with mold, leaky plumbing and a broken elevator.”
– “The wounded manage other wounded. Soldiers dealing with psychological disorders of their own have been put in charge of others at risk of suicide.”
– “Disengaged clerks, unqualified platoon sergeants and overworked case managers fumble with simple needs.”
JUDY WOODRUFF ON THE P-B-S NEWS HOUR SAID: While receiving treatment at Walter Reed, service members have been housed in buildings, including one with a rodent infestation. Army Specialist Jeremy Duncan can stand in the shower and see through to the room above him. And Army Staff Sergeant Dan Shannon, who lost an eye and sustained brain injury in Iraq, said when he arrived at Walter Reed, he was given a map of the facilities and told to find his room on his own. He says he was often left for weeks without an appointment to see a doctor.
## C L O S E R ##
OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
world's geekiest crossword puzzle - REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF Klingon, Elvish, Furbish, AND Esperanto
George Takei SPECIAL MESSAGE to Tim Hardaway
Happy Pacaki Day!
How to: Track down runaway Mac apps
Use Badger to neatly package the newsfeeds of your site
AND
Mother sentenced to two years in jail for throwing a cup of ice
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 54 for Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 54 (64 kbps .mp3 8:59 4.2 Mb)
We're the little boy with the chicken.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTIETH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/19/MNG3AO7BT11.DTL
WE AT POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, AND ESPECIALLY OUR OWN MOJO, WISH TO SAY: Gung hay fat choy! S-F GATE DOT COM WELCOMED IN THE CHINESE YEAR OF THE PIG WITH THE PASSING OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR THIS WEEKEND. People born this lunar year, or who turn 12, 24 or any multiple of 12, are all pigs and believed to be lucky, especially those born in a "fire pig" year like this one. Pregnancies are up in South Korea and China and among followers of the lunar calendar in the United States trying to bestow more luck on their families.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_sc/regrowing_fingers
IS IT POSSIBLE TO GROW BACK A FINGER AFTER IT IS BLOWN OFF OR BURNED UP? WITH SO MANY WOUNDED RETURNING FROM THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, THIS QUESTION IS INCREASINGLY PERTINENT. WIRE SERVICES REPORT THAT EXPERIMENTS WITH EXTRACT OF PIG BLADDER AND OTHER EXOTIC SUBSTANCES SEEK TO GIVE THOSE WHO HAVE LOST MOST OR ALL OF THEIR FINGERS ANOTHER CHANCE AT HOLDING THINGS. SO FAR, There's the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an extract of pig bladder. And the scientists who grow extra arms on salamanders. And the laboratory mice with the eerie ability to heal themselves.
A WOMAN FROM DEVON, IN THE UK, CLAIMS SHE CAUGHT Mesothelioma when SHE WAS SIX, HUGGING HER FATHER WHO CAME HOME FROM WORKING WITH THE CARCINOGEN ASBESTOS. ACCORDING TO B-B-C NEWS THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE WILL WORK QUICKLY TO BRING A SETTLEMENT OF Debbie Brewer'S SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUND CLAIM IF IT IS DETERMINED HER CASE HAS MERIT.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=D7C80F75-E7F2-99DF-3F71D9FC07888C4F&chanId=sa017
IS AUTISM GENETIC? SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE SAYS RESARCHERS HAVE PINPOINTED TWO GENETIC CULPRITS IN THE LARGEST GENOME SCAN EVER CONDUCTED TO PINPOINT AUTISM. the genomes of 1,168 families WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF at least two autism sufferers. IT IS HOPED THAT NEW THERAPIES CAN BE DEVELOPED FROM THE DATA. In the last decade, the diagnosis of autism has increased 10-fold. It's now believed to affect one in 166 children born in the U.S. and four boys for every girl.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070218/sc_nm/asteroid_deflector_dc_5
What if only a ragtag bunch of deep sea oil platform jockeys can save us FROM DEATH BY ASTEROID? ASKS OUR OWN EDITOR MOJO. WIRE SERVICE REPORTS TELL OF HOW an asteroid named Apophis HAS A 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036. EVEN IF, LIKE ME, YOU EXPECT TO BE SAFELY DEAD BY THEN, YOU WON'T BE HAPPY TO LEARN THAT CALLS FROM CONGRESS FOR NASA TO IMPOVE IT'S ASTEROID TRACKING WILL TELL US WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW -- THAT THERE ARE POTENTIALLY HUNDREDS -- OR THOUSANDS -- OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS READY TO SCREW UP YOUR DAY.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11215&feedId=online-news_rss20
DO COUNTRIES LIKE THE UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, OR FRANCE -- THAT HAVE A OFFICIAL OR NEARLY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE WHICH PUSHES OUT ALL OTHERS -- SUFFER FROM A LACK OF FOLK WISDOM ABOUT USEFUL PLANTS AND ANIMALS? WHAT DO WE LOSE WITH EACH LANGUAGE'S DEATH IN THE WAKE OF ENRCOACHING MODERN MASS CULTURE? NEW SCIENTIST ONLINE ASKED linguist and cultural expert David Harrison at Swarthmore College.
Information about local ecosystems is so intricately woven into these languages that it cannot be replaced simply through translation, he explains. The indigenous taxonomy alone can provide a huge range of information about species, which young speakers in these tribes acquire instantly through learning the name.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://www.newswire.poormojo.org/archives/014198.php
WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH DAIMLER CHRYSLER? THE AWKWARD MARRIAGE BETWEEN HIGH-END GERMAN ENGINEERING AND PEESASHIT GUTBUCKETS THAT GET YOU TO WORK AND BACK IS UNRAVELING, BUT DAVE-O DISCOVERED DISSONANCE AT THE AUTOMOTIVE DESK OF DETROIT'S NOT WONDERFUL NEWSPAPER, THE FREE PRESS. HE WROTE:
Now, February 19, according to the Detroit Free Press, KOREAN CONCERN Hyundai is both rumored to want Chrysler and totally uninterested in Chrysler. Fascinatingly, the two Freep business writers who wrote these articles made their diametrically opposed conclusions based on the same factless, unsourced Times of London article:.
Frankly, Detroit, we sound like the auto industry's stilted ex-boyfriend, still mooning over a crumby relationship that went sour years ago. She isn't coming back, fellas. Maybe we need to find another mate to complete us.
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fphp%2Fpfriendly%2Fprint.php%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fseven%2F02192007%2Fbusiness%2Fheavenly_deal_business_peter_lauria.htm
CAN OPRAH AND HOWARD STERN LIVE TOGETHER? WILL SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO HONCHO MEL KARMASIN HAVE THE PLEASURE OF PUTTING HIS FOOT UP THE ASSES OF OPIE AND ANTHONY, WHOM HE PASSIONATELY HATES? SIRIUS AND ITS ARCH RIVAL, X-M, ARE DEEP IN MERGER TALKS. AT PRESS TIME THE TALK IS STILL ALL TALK, AND THE DEAL MUST PASS REGULATORY MUSTER, BUT IF IT GOES AHEAD, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PURPORTED MERGER OF EQUALS WILL ACTUALLY BE SIRIUS EATING X-M.
IS THERE A WORSE IDEA ON TELEVISION THAN FOX NEWS TRYING TO RIP OFF THE DAILY SHOW? THEY COULD BRING BACK COP ROCK, OR TELEVISE PENILE IMPLANT SURGERY... NO, SORRY, THERE IS NO WORSE IDEA. KUNG FU ROGERS EXPLAINS WHY TALKING POINTS DON'T MAKE THE FUNNY: This is obviously someone who's never worked a real comedy writer's room. For topical runs, you start with "okay, what happened today," and you look at everything. Everything. This is because comedy has maybe a 10% success rate on the pitch, and that's just for joke-like objects, never mind actual functioning funny jokes. To fill a show with a couple dozen funny jokes, you don't have the time or luxury to stick to talking points.
http://www.bookninja.com/?p=2290
GOOGLE -- FRESH FROM HELPING THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CENSOR THE WEB FOR ITS CITIZENS, -- CONTINUES TO DO EVIL IN POLAND, THIS TIME PICKING ON POETS. BOOKNINJA DOT COM SAYS THE Grupa Mlodych Artystow i Literatow,” or Group of Young Artists and Writers — told AFP that Google had turned to the country’s IT and telecommunications tribunal to try to stop them using the Web site address www.gmail.pl. GOOGLE SAYS THEY'RE CYBER SQUATTERS, AND THE POLISH POETS TAKE UMBRIDGE AT THE VERY IDEA.
http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Columnist_Authoritarianism_can_happen_in_United_0219.html
SLATE COLUMNIST JOE CONASON ASKS YOU IF YOU'RE READY FOR AN AUTHORITARIAN AMERICA. IN AN ARTICLE ON RAW STORY, CONASON SAYS IT'S ON THE WAY, COMING CLOSER WITH EACH PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING STATEMENT THAT SUBVERTS THE WILL OF CONGRESS, EACH U-S ATTORNEY REPLACED WITH A POLITICAL HACK WHO WON'T INVESTIGATE GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, EACH SMEAR OF DISSENTERS. FROM THE ARTICLE: "we do not know the full dimensions of the scandals behind Iraq and Katrina, because the Republican leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives abdicated the traditional congressional duties of oversight and investigation." CONASON CONTINUES: for the first time since Nixon, Americans have "reason to doubt the future of democracy and the rule of law in our own country."...
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
THE X-K-C-D WEBCOMIC OFFERS WORDS TO LIVE BY - FUCK THAT SHIT!
Viceland's fashion: Do's -- The Racism Repairman
John McCain tells everyone what they want to hear
Killer Korean Cameras
White House advisor caught funding terrorist training camps
Another great video from Ok-GO
Skiing the moon
Trailer: The Simpsons Movie
Giuliani, in drag, making out with Trump
A Nazi toaster?
Custom Mii Sculptures of your wii avatar
AND
Advice on fatherhood from Penny Arcade's Tycho
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
We're the little boy with the chicken.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY TWENTIETH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/19/MNG3AO7BT11.DTL
WE AT POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, AND ESPECIALLY OUR OWN MOJO, WISH TO SAY: Gung hay fat choy! S-F GATE DOT COM WELCOMED IN THE CHINESE YEAR OF THE PIG WITH THE PASSING OF THE LUNAR NEW YEAR THIS WEEKEND. People born this lunar year, or who turn 12, 24 or any multiple of 12, are all pigs and believed to be lucky, especially those born in a "fire pig" year like this one. Pregnancies are up in South Korea and China and among followers of the lunar calendar in the United States trying to bestow more luck on their families.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_sc/regrowing_fingers
IS IT POSSIBLE TO GROW BACK A FINGER AFTER IT IS BLOWN OFF OR BURNED UP? WITH SO MANY WOUNDED RETURNING FROM THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, THIS QUESTION IS INCREASINGLY PERTINENT. WIRE SERVICES REPORT THAT EXPERIMENTS WITH EXTRACT OF PIG BLADDER AND OTHER EXOTIC SUBSTANCES SEEK TO GIVE THOSE WHO HAVE LOST MOST OR ALL OF THEIR FINGERS ANOTHER CHANCE AT HOLDING THINGS. SO FAR, There's the guy who sliced off a fingertip but grew it back, after he treated the wound with an extract of pig bladder. And the scientists who grow extra arms on salamanders. And the laboratory mice with the eerie ability to heal themselves.
A WOMAN FROM DEVON, IN THE UK, CLAIMS SHE CAUGHT Mesothelioma when SHE WAS SIX, HUGGING HER FATHER WHO CAME HOME FROM WORKING WITH THE CARCINOGEN ASBESTOS. ACCORDING TO B-B-C NEWS THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE WILL WORK QUICKLY TO BRING A SETTLEMENT OF Debbie Brewer'S SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUND CLAIM IF IT IS DETERMINED HER CASE HAS MERIT.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleid=D7C80F75-E7F2-99DF-3F71D9FC07888C4F&chanId=sa017
IS AUTISM GENETIC? SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE SAYS RESARCHERS HAVE PINPOINTED TWO GENETIC CULPRITS IN THE LARGEST GENOME SCAN EVER CONDUCTED TO PINPOINT AUTISM. the genomes of 1,168 families WERE COMPARED WITH THOSE OF at least two autism sufferers. IT IS HOPED THAT NEW THERAPIES CAN BE DEVELOPED FROM THE DATA. In the last decade, the diagnosis of autism has increased 10-fold. It's now believed to affect one in 166 children born in the U.S. and four boys for every girl.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070218/sc_nm/asteroid_deflector_dc_5
What if only a ragtag bunch of deep sea oil platform jockeys can save us FROM DEATH BY ASTEROID? ASKS OUR OWN EDITOR MOJO. WIRE SERVICE REPORTS TELL OF HOW an asteroid named Apophis HAS A 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036. EVEN IF, LIKE ME, YOU EXPECT TO BE SAFELY DEAD BY THEN, YOU WON'T BE HAPPY TO LEARN THAT CALLS FROM CONGRESS FOR NASA TO IMPOVE IT'S ASTEROID TRACKING WILL TELL US WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW -- THAT THERE ARE POTENTIALLY HUNDREDS -- OR THOUSANDS -- OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECTS READY TO SCREW UP YOUR DAY.
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11215&feedId=online-news_rss20
DO COUNTRIES LIKE THE UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, OR FRANCE -- THAT HAVE A OFFICIAL OR NEARLY OFFICIAL LANGUAGE WHICH PUSHES OUT ALL OTHERS -- SUFFER FROM A LACK OF FOLK WISDOM ABOUT USEFUL PLANTS AND ANIMALS? WHAT DO WE LOSE WITH EACH LANGUAGE'S DEATH IN THE WAKE OF ENRCOACHING MODERN MASS CULTURE? NEW SCIENTIST ONLINE ASKED linguist and cultural expert David Harrison at Swarthmore College.
Information about local ecosystems is so intricately woven into these languages that it cannot be replaced simply through translation, he explains. The indigenous taxonomy alone can provide a huge range of information about species, which young speakers in these tribes acquire instantly through learning the name.
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http://www.newswire.poormojo.org/archives/014198.php
WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH DAIMLER CHRYSLER? THE AWKWARD MARRIAGE BETWEEN HIGH-END GERMAN ENGINEERING AND PEESASHIT GUTBUCKETS THAT GET YOU TO WORK AND BACK IS UNRAVELING, BUT DAVE-O DISCOVERED DISSONANCE AT THE AUTOMOTIVE DESK OF DETROIT'S NOT WONDERFUL NEWSPAPER, THE FREE PRESS. HE WROTE:
Now, February 19, according to the Detroit Free Press, KOREAN CONCERN Hyundai is both rumored to want Chrysler and totally uninterested in Chrysler. Fascinatingly, the two Freep business writers who wrote these articles made their diametrically opposed conclusions based on the same factless, unsourced Times of London article:.
Frankly, Detroit, we sound like the auto industry's stilted ex-boyfriend, still mooning over a crumby relationship that went sour years ago. She isn't coming back, fellas. Maybe we need to find another mate to complete us.
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fphp%2Fpfriendly%2Fprint.php%3Furl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.nypost.com%2Fseven%2F02192007%2Fbusiness%2Fheavenly_deal_business_peter_lauria.htm
CAN OPRAH AND HOWARD STERN LIVE TOGETHER? WILL SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO HONCHO MEL KARMASIN HAVE THE PLEASURE OF PUTTING HIS FOOT UP THE ASSES OF OPIE AND ANTHONY, WHOM HE PASSIONATELY HATES? SIRIUS AND ITS ARCH RIVAL, X-M, ARE DEEP IN MERGER TALKS. AT PRESS TIME THE TALK IS STILL ALL TALK, AND THE DEAL MUST PASS REGULATORY MUSTER, BUT IF IT GOES AHEAD, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE PURPORTED MERGER OF EQUALS WILL ACTUALLY BE SIRIUS EATING X-M.
IS THERE A WORSE IDEA ON TELEVISION THAN FOX NEWS TRYING TO RIP OFF THE DAILY SHOW? THEY COULD BRING BACK COP ROCK, OR TELEVISE PENILE IMPLANT SURGERY... NO, SORRY, THERE IS NO WORSE IDEA. KUNG FU ROGERS EXPLAINS WHY TALKING POINTS DON'T MAKE THE FUNNY: This is obviously someone who's never worked a real comedy writer's room. For topical runs, you start with "okay, what happened today," and you look at everything. Everything. This is because comedy has maybe a 10% success rate on the pitch, and that's just for joke-like objects, never mind actual functioning funny jokes. To fill a show with a couple dozen funny jokes, you don't have the time or luxury to stick to talking points.
http://www.bookninja.com/?p=2290
GOOGLE -- FRESH FROM HELPING THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CENSOR THE WEB FOR ITS CITIZENS, -- CONTINUES TO DO EVIL IN POLAND, THIS TIME PICKING ON POETS. BOOKNINJA DOT COM SAYS THE Grupa Mlodych Artystow i Literatow,” or Group of Young Artists and Writers — told AFP that Google had turned to the country’s IT and telecommunications tribunal to try to stop them using the Web site address www.gmail.pl. GOOGLE SAYS THEY'RE CYBER SQUATTERS, AND THE POLISH POETS TAKE UMBRIDGE AT THE VERY IDEA.
http://www.rawstory.com//news/2007/Columnist_Authoritarianism_can_happen_in_United_0219.html
SLATE COLUMNIST JOE CONASON ASKS YOU IF YOU'RE READY FOR AN AUTHORITARIAN AMERICA. IN AN ARTICLE ON RAW STORY, CONASON SAYS IT'S ON THE WAY, COMING CLOSER WITH EACH PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING STATEMENT THAT SUBVERTS THE WILL OF CONGRESS, EACH U-S ATTORNEY REPLACED WITH A POLITICAL HACK WHO WON'T INVESTIGATE GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, EACH SMEAR OF DISSENTERS. FROM THE ARTICLE: "we do not know the full dimensions of the scandals behind Iraq and Katrina, because the Republican leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives abdicated the traditional congressional duties of oversight and investigation." CONASON CONTINUES: for the first time since Nixon, Americans have "reason to doubt the future of democracy and the rule of law in our own country."...
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
THE X-K-C-D WEBCOMIC OFFERS WORDS TO LIVE BY - FUCK THAT SHIT!
Viceland's fashion: Do's -- The Racism Repairman
John McCain tells everyone what they want to hear
Killer Korean Cameras
White House advisor caught funding terrorist training camps
Another great video from Ok-GO
Skiing the moon
Trailer: The Simpsons Movie
Giuliani, in drag, making out with Trump
A Nazi toaster?
Custom Mii Sculptures of your wii avatar
AND
Advice on fatherhood from Penny Arcade's Tycho
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 53 for Monday, February 19, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 53 (64 kpbs .mp3 8:51 4.2 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Culture for the uncouth.
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY NINETEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
LOVE IS A CONSTANT EFFORT, A SIGN OF WEAKNESS, AN ANNOYING WASTE OF TIME, UNATTAINABLE. A national survey of 18-to-29-year-olds by the Pew Research Center reported that almost 60 percent were not in committed relationships and the majority of those were not interested in being committed. ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST, Absent old-fashioned dating, which has virtually disappeared, the alternative for these young women is hooking up, which can happen in any semi-private place and includes anything from kissing to intercourse.
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=6105287&nav=0RbQ
JET BLUE, THE AIRLINE THAT STRANDED PASSENGERS IN NEW YORK IN PLANES WITH NO AIR, WATER AND CLOGGED-UP CRAPPERS FOR UP TO 10 HOURS ON WEDNESDAY, CANCELLED ALL FLIGHTS THIS WEEKEND IN AND EFFORT TO FUNCTION PROPERLY AGAIN, ACCORDING TO W-L-N-S DOT COM. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/16/MNGGHO5PU71.DTL POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO POSTED UP AN ARTICLE ABOUT A PASSENGER'S BILL OF RIGHTS THAT HAS BEEN MAKING THE ROUNDS SINCE IT WAS WRITTEN BY ANOTHER ALUMINIUM TUBE FULL OF ENRAGED PASSENGERS MOVING ZERO MILES PER HOUR.... HIS TAKE ON IT:
What people are asking for is that airlines not be allowed to hold them indefinitely in a plane. 11 hours without food, water, insulin, baby food, etc. is just plain uncivilized. This is very sensible, but will be very difficult to get passed unless some big name Congressperson takes up the fight.
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/16/BUGQ8O5J811.DTL
MOJO ALSO POSTED UP GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS FOR THE SAN FRANSICO BAY AREA... GOOD NEWS IS, THERE'S A ROBUST ECONOMY EXPECTED ANY TIME NOW... ACCORDING TO S-F GATE DOT COM, A PALO ALTO RESEARCH GROUP PREDICTS the region will add about 700,000 jobs, 850,000 residents and 400,000 households from 2005 to 2015. THE BAD NEWS -- HOUSING WILL BE TIGHT, BUT AGING BABY BOOMERS MAY HELP SOLVE SOME OF THAT PROBLEM BY MOVING INTO SMALLER QUARTERS IN MORE HIGH-DENSITY AREAS.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070216/ap_on_re_us/winter_weather
DUMB-ASSED OFFICIALS IN PENNSYLVANIA CONTINUED TO LET CARS ENTER INTERSTATE 78 FOR MORE THAN A DAY AFTER IT BECAME IMPASSABLE DUE TO SNOW AND ICE THIS PAST WEEK. WIRE SERVICES REPORTED THAT GOVERNOR ED RENDELL FELL ON HIS SWORD AND CITED AN ALMOST TOTAL BREAKDOWN IN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN STATE AGENCIES FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S DUMB-ASSEDNESS.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/15/BAG6RO4VDQ1.DTL
HOW DO TEENS FEEL AFTER SEX? LIKE ROLLING OVER AND GOING TO SLEEP? LIKE GETTING A PIZZA? LIKE WRITING BAD POETRY? LIKE CHEAP WHORES? A UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SURVEY CITED IN S-F GATE DOT COM FOUND Of the 618 students Followed from their freshman year OF HIGH SCHOOL, 44 percent reported having intercourse or oral sex by the end of 10th grade. A majority said they enjoyed sex, ESPECIALLY ORAL SEX, BUT FOUND THAT IT DID NOT PROVIDE THE INTMACY THEY CRAVED. Forty-one percent said they felt bad about themselves later, nearly 20 percent felt guilty, and 25 percent felt used.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/6371901.stm
A DUCK WITH FOUR FEET IS THRIVING IN HAMPSIRE, ENGLAND, ACCORDING THE B-B-C. A rare mutation has left eight-day-old Stumpy with two extra legs behind the two he moves around on.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/17/bush-bypass-congress/
EVER WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF THE U-S WAS RUN BY A DICTATOR? CONSERVATIVES MIGHT ARGUE THAT ALREADY HAPPENED ONCE, WHEN F-D-R WAS PACKING THE SUPREME COURT AND DECLARING EMERGENCIES RIGHT AND LEFT. WELL, THE HISTORICAL FLIP-FLOP MAY BE ON THE OTHER FOOT, AS THINK PROGRESS DESCRIBED THE THOUGHT PROCESSES OF SOME IN THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERING BY-PASSIGN CONGRESS ALTOGETHER, AND RUNNING THE UNITED STATES VIA EXECUTIVE ORDERS. One proposal that fiscal conservatives are pushing is to halve all capital-gains taxes, as a way to encourage investment and job creation.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070214/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=AuROBgXn2rtkeGJzr1EUMeqs0NUE
WILL WE GO TO WAR WITH IRAN? WELL, YOUR PRESIDENT IS DEMANDING IT, ACCORDING TO WIRE SERVICE REPORTS. REPORTERS CALLED BULLSHIT FRIDAY ON REPORTS IRAN IS SUPPLYING HUM-VEE MELTING ORDINANCE TO IT'S SWORN SHIA ENEMIES, BUT BUSH POO-POOED THIER SKEPTICISM AND PROMISED TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL WITH THE DEMOCRATICALLY- CONTROLLED HOUSE TO OPEN HIS THIRD FRONT.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6370847.stm
SPEAKING OF THOSE PESKY TRAITORS, ON FRIDAY Seventeen RepublicanS joined the Democrats in passing the non-binding motion 246 to 182 CRITICIZING BUSH'S PLAN TO INCREASE TROOP STRENGTHIN IRAQ BY BETWEEN 19,000 AND 40,000 TROOPS DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE TRYING TO FOOL PEOPLE. THE SENATE STAYED OPEN FOR A RARE SATURDAY SESSION TO ACT UPON THE HOUSE MEASURE. HOWEVER, ONLY 56 OF THE REQUIRED 60 SENATORS VOTED YES, ACCORDING TO B=B=C NEWS.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2012697,00.html
THE GUARDIAN UNLMITED REPORTS THAT LOCAL CHINESE AUTHORITIES IN THE COUNTRY'S SOUTH WEST HAVE PAINTED THE SIDE OF THE Laoshou MOUNTAIN GREEN. NO ON WILL OFFICIALY ADMIT AS TO WHY, BUT VILLAGERS NEARBY THINK IT'S GOT SOMETHING TO DO WITH FENG SHUI, the ancient Chinese belief of harmonising the physical environment for maximum health and financial benefit.
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2007/02/16/second-life-sketches-news-from-nowhere/
INTERNET JESUS AND NATURAL HIGH WARREN ELLIS SPENT SOME TIME RELATING TO US WHO DON'T DO THE SECOND LIFE THING WHAT IT'S LIKE TO DO ONLINE DRUGS. FROM REUTERS SECOND LIFE BUREAU: Digital drug simulations have been around almost as long as the Internet. They all work in much the same way, and have been adapted for remote sex work by an apparently booming business of “hypnodomme” erotic submission specialists: compound audiovisual systems intended to induce a mild trance in the uninterrupted viewer.
I think it was Ash Scanlan who shot me the landmark to the Seclimine Drug Shack, saying “you really need to see this.” It looks like a well-kept squat. A couple of nasty-looking sofas, a big image of ex-Suicide Girl Apnea dominating one wall. And a rack of pill bottles. Popping the notecard out of the nearest bottle gives you an explanation of the score. The drug Seclimine is designed to get you and your avatar stoned.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED THIS WEEKEND AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
mark Morford has been cured! He is now a Republican!
Bionic eyes to be available within two years
Chrysler Up For Sale Again
The Cold War is heating up
Super-lethal tropical fungus thriving in Vancouver
The stripmining of Ann Arbor -- Pfizer's enormous bribes and threats to get employees to move to St. Louis
Jon Stewart on the drums of war that beat for Iran
The United States' new concentration camp for muslims
Powerful Texas lawmaker circulates memo claiming that evolution is a Jewish hoax, AND IN A RELATED STORY, A Shanda fur die Goyim
GM rumored to be thinking of buying Chrysler
Man wrestles shark, blames vodka
Airplane windshields cracking mid-flight
South Pacificers Await the Return of Magical White Man Despite Disapproval of Other Villagers Holding Out for Different Magical White Man
AND
The Daily Show: Scalia is a huge dick
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
THIS HAS BEEN POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW, I'M ALAN BENARD.
Friday, February 16, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 52 for Friday, February 16, 2007
Poor Mojo's News Show Podcast No. 52 (64 kpbs .mp3 9:11 4.2 Mb)
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Fun Fact: Professor Leon Theremin died while attempting to remove his own appendix
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY SIXTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/15/national/a071642S85.DTL
IF YOU'VE BEEN ON A THREE-DAY DRUNK YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE HEARD THAT YOU NEED TO THROW OUT ALL YOUR PEANUT BUTTER. THEN, GO TO YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND THROW OUT HIS PEANUT BUTTER. BREAK INTO EVERY HOUSE ON THE STREET, BUILD A PYRAMID OF PEANUT BUTTER JARS IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR DRIVEWAY, DOUSE IT IN GASOLINE AND SET IT ALIGHT. BEACUSE IT'S GOT SALMONELLA. IN IT. NOT ALL OF IT, ACTUALLY, JUST THE CON-AGRA MANUFACTURED JIFFY AND GREAT VALUE PEANUT BUTTER WITH A LID NUMBER STARTING IN 2-1-1-1. BUT THAT'S A LOT TO REMEMBER, SO JUMP CUSTOMERS AT RANDOM ON THEIR WAY OUT OF KROGERS AND GET THAT GODDAMN DEADLY PEANUT BUTTER OUT OF THEIR HANDS BEFORE THEY KILL SOMEONE. AND IF YOU MUST EAT PEANUT BUTTER, MAKE IT ORGANIC.
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Squid
AND NOW, ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN FROM POOR MOJO'S OWN THE GIANT SQUID. TODAY'S QUESTION
Dear Giant Squid,
I was wondering why throw up smells so bad. Why does it have to have this odor. Couldn't it smell a little better. What do you think?
Signed,
Jonnie Twobags
Here is a preview of his answer.
Dear Jonnie Two Bags,
As I write this it is the day of Saint Valentine, named for the patron saint martyred via electro-chair after he slew a crowd of cupids in the ancient Grecian city-state of Chi Cago. It is also the day of Lupercalia, known to some as the Day of the Amorous Wolf. Warren Ellis, Chief Propagandist for the Internets, has taken to calling this the day of the Horny Werewolf. As ever, his reasoning is obscure, but propitious:
In ancient times those beset by Love would flee through the dusty streets of Rome, driven before men wearing wolf masks and bearing scourges. The masked men -- symbolic of the lunar-locked wolfish demi-men, who founded Rome-Upon-the-Hills -- would whipcrack upon the Love-struck, tearing their amorous backs to tatters. If their Love survived the onslaught, then it was true and blessed -- although, until the lacerations healed, it was awkward, and generally insisted on "standing quickies" or the "modele du chien" rather than the posture of the missionary saints. If their Love failed the test and fled from the whip-flurried streets, then it was but a fleeting fancy, and unfit to be called Love. "Let it live out its days alone in the hills beyond our Hills," the Romans would say, "Let it masturbate in the dust and dirt, among the thorned bushes, lubricated only with its own pitiful tears. It is not worthy of lycant hropic cupidites such as we."
TO HEAR THE REST, GO TO POOR MOJO DOT ORG.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11190&feedId=online-news_rss20
The EARTH'S hum is a low rumble continually present in the ground even when there are no earthquakes happening, but is detectable only by very sensitive seismometers. Its frequency is near 10 millihertz, below the range of human hearing, ACCORDING TO NEW SCIENTIST. WHAT'S CAUSING IT? JAPANESE RESEARCHERS SAID IT WAS THE WIND POUNDING THE EARTH'S SURFACE, BUT AN AMERICAN SCIENTIST HAS DETERMINED THE HUM COMES FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
http://www.azstarnet.com/business/169072
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO SAYS THAT IF BANK OF AMERICA WANTS TO EXTEND CREDIT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS, WHY THE HELL NOT? Their money spends just as well as everyone else's. USED TO be you had TO HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND A CREDIT HISTORY TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT... OFFICIALS AT THE BANK WILL REVIEW APPLICANT'S QUALIFICATIONS RATHER THAN RELY ON CREDIT HISTORIES. THE NEW PROCESS WAS TRIED OUT IN 51 BANK OF AMERICA BRANCHES IN LOS ANGELES.
http://feministing.com/archives/006536.html
THE FEMINISTING BLOG REPORTS ON TENNESSEE LEGISLATOR'S PLANS TO REQUIRE THAT ABORTIONS RECEIVE DEATH CERTIFICATES, MAKING THE PERSONAL INFORMATION OF THE WOMEN WHO ABORT THEM PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD. FROM THE ARTICLE: The thing is, the number of abortions performed is already reported to the state’s Office of Vital Records. So the only purpose of this bill is to identify women having abortions—it would even include their social security numbers!
House Judiciary Chairman Rob Briley called this "the most preposterous bill I've seen." No fucking joke. THE BILL'S SPONSOR DOES NOT EXPECT IT TO SURVIVE THE DEMOCRATICLY CONTROLLED STATE SENATE.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/14/gizmodo_emeritus_rip.html
AND NOW VIA BOING-BOING, A WORD FROM GADGET SITE GIZMODO'S EMERITUS BLOGGER Joel Johnson ON THE STUPIDITY OF BEING A BLEEDING EDGE EARLY ADOPTER: And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings, because you wanted a new chromed robot turd to put in your pocket to impress your friends and make you forget for just a few minutes, blood coursing as you tremblingly cut through the blister pack, that your life is utterly void of any lasting purpose...
Stop buying this crap. Just stop it. You don't need it. Wait a year until the reviews come out and the other suckers too addicted to having the very latest and greatest buy it, put up a review, and have moved on to something else. Stop buying broken products and then shrugging your shoulders when it doesn't do what it is supposed to. Stop buying products that serve any other master than you. Use older stuff that works. Make it yourself. Only buy new stuff from companies that have proven themselves good servants of their customers in the past. Complaining online about this stuff helps, but really, just stop buying it...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/15/MNG52O50LO1.DTL
OUT OF TWENTY-ONE WEALTHY NATIONS, THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITIAN ARE THE WORST --- IF YOU'RE A CHILD. FROM THE S-F GATE DOT COM ARTICLE ABOUT THE UINCEF STUDY OF TWENTY-ONE WEALTHY NATIONS. The Netherlands was the best, it said, followed by Sweden and Denmark.
The Czech Republic ranked above countries with a higher per capita income, such as Austria, France, the United States and Britain, in part because of a more equal distribution of wealth and higher relative investment in education and public health.
UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre in Italy ranked the countries in material well-being, health, education, relationships, behaviors and risks, and young people's sense of happiness.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
The St. Valentine's Day Pillowfight Massacre
'I hate gay people,' cries washed-up basketball player
The Daily Show on diplomacy with North Korea
Painfully unfunny. With canned laughter. You have to see it to believe it. A preview of Fox's new satire news show
Colbert tells Australia just what he thinks of it
An Inflatable powered exo-suit that weighs only four punds
RFID powder - all kNids of creepy
$6M in Cocaine Found in TV Sets
Dancing on a pool of non-Newtonian liquids
AND
30 minutes of cartoon openings from the 80's
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
FIND US ONLINE AT P-O-O-R-M-O-J-O DOT O-R-G, AND FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE NEWSWIRE
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.
A daily roundup of things that seemed important.
Fun Fact: Professor Leon Theremin died while attempting to remove his own appendix
IT’S POOR MOJO’S NEWS SHOW! FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY SIXTEENTH, TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN
A DAILY ROUNDUP OF THINGS THAT SEEMED IMPORTANT .
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/15/national/a071642S85.DTL
IF YOU'VE BEEN ON A THREE-DAY DRUNK YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE HEARD THAT YOU NEED TO THROW OUT ALL YOUR PEANUT BUTTER. THEN, GO TO YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND THROW OUT HIS PEANUT BUTTER. BREAK INTO EVERY HOUSE ON THE STREET, BUILD A PYRAMID OF PEANUT BUTTER JARS IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR DRIVEWAY, DOUSE IT IN GASOLINE AND SET IT ALIGHT. BEACUSE IT'S GOT SALMONELLA. IN IT. NOT ALL OF IT, ACTUALLY, JUST THE CON-AGRA MANUFACTURED JIFFY AND GREAT VALUE PEANUT BUTTER WITH A LID NUMBER STARTING IN 2-1-1-1. BUT THAT'S A LOT TO REMEMBER, SO JUMP CUSTOMERS AT RANDOM ON THEIR WAY OUT OF KROGERS AND GET THAT GODDAMN DEADLY PEANUT BUTTER OUT OF THEIR HANDS BEFORE THEY KILL SOMEONE. AND IF YOU MUST EAT PEANUT BUTTER, MAKE IT ORGANIC.
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Squid
AND NOW, ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN FROM POOR MOJO'S OWN THE GIANT SQUID. TODAY'S QUESTION
Dear Giant Squid,
I was wondering why throw up smells so bad. Why does it have to have this odor. Couldn't it smell a little better. What do you think?
Signed,
Jonnie Twobags
Here is a preview of his answer.
Dear Jonnie Two Bags,
As I write this it is the day of Saint Valentine, named for the patron saint martyred via electro-chair after he slew a crowd of cupids in the ancient Grecian city-state of Chi Cago. It is also the day of Lupercalia, known to some as the Day of the Amorous Wolf. Warren Ellis, Chief Propagandist for the Internets, has taken to calling this the day of the Horny Werewolf. As ever, his reasoning is obscure, but propitious:
In ancient times those beset by Love would flee through the dusty streets of Rome, driven before men wearing wolf masks and bearing scourges. The masked men -- symbolic of the lunar-locked wolfish demi-men, who founded Rome-Upon-the-Hills -- would whipcrack upon the Love-struck, tearing their amorous backs to tatters. If their Love survived the onslaught, then it was true and blessed -- although, until the lacerations healed, it was awkward, and generally insisted on "standing quickies" or the "modele du chien" rather than the posture of the missionary saints. If their Love failed the test and fled from the whip-flurried streets, then it was but a fleeting fancy, and unfit to be called Love. "Let it live out its days alone in the hills beyond our Hills," the Romans would say, "Let it masturbate in the dust and dirt, among the thorned bushes, lubricated only with its own pitiful tears. It is not worthy of lycant hropic cupidites such as we."
TO HEAR THE REST, GO TO POOR MOJO DOT ORG.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11190&feedId=online-news_rss20
The EARTH'S hum is a low rumble continually present in the ground even when there are no earthquakes happening, but is detectable only by very sensitive seismometers. Its frequency is near 10 millihertz, below the range of human hearing, ACCORDING TO NEW SCIENTIST. WHAT'S CAUSING IT? JAPANESE RESEARCHERS SAID IT WAS THE WIND POUNDING THE EARTH'S SURFACE, BUT AN AMERICAN SCIENTIST HAS DETERMINED THE HUM COMES FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
http://www.azstarnet.com/business/169072
POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE EDITOR MOJO SAYS THAT IF BANK OF AMERICA WANTS TO EXTEND CREDIT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS, WHY THE HELL NOT? Their money spends just as well as everyone else's. USED TO be you had TO HAVE A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND A CREDIT HISTORY TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT... OFFICIALS AT THE BANK WILL REVIEW APPLICANT'S QUALIFICATIONS RATHER THAN RELY ON CREDIT HISTORIES. THE NEW PROCESS WAS TRIED OUT IN 51 BANK OF AMERICA BRANCHES IN LOS ANGELES.
http://feministing.com/archives/006536.html
THE FEMINISTING BLOG REPORTS ON TENNESSEE LEGISLATOR'S PLANS TO REQUIRE THAT ABORTIONS RECEIVE DEATH CERTIFICATES, MAKING THE PERSONAL INFORMATION OF THE WOMEN WHO ABORT THEM PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD. FROM THE ARTICLE: The thing is, the number of abortions performed is already reported to the state’s Office of Vital Records. So the only purpose of this bill is to identify women having abortions—it would even include their social security numbers!
House Judiciary Chairman Rob Briley called this "the most preposterous bill I've seen." No fucking joke. THE BILL'S SPONSOR DOES NOT EXPECT IT TO SURVIVE THE DEMOCRATICLY CONTROLLED STATE SENATE.
THIS IS POOR MOJO'S NEWS SHOW!
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/14/gizmodo_emeritus_rip.html
AND NOW VIA BOING-BOING, A WORD FROM GADGET SITE GIZMODO'S EMERITUS BLOGGER Joel Johnson ON THE STUPIDITY OF BEING A BLEEDING EDGE EARLY ADOPTER: And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings, because you wanted a new chromed robot turd to put in your pocket to impress your friends and make you forget for just a few minutes, blood coursing as you tremblingly cut through the blister pack, that your life is utterly void of any lasting purpose...
Stop buying this crap. Just stop it. You don't need it. Wait a year until the reviews come out and the other suckers too addicted to having the very latest and greatest buy it, put up a review, and have moved on to something else. Stop buying broken products and then shrugging your shoulders when it doesn't do what it is supposed to. Stop buying products that serve any other master than you. Use older stuff that works. Make it yourself. Only buy new stuff from companies that have proven themselves good servants of their customers in the past. Complaining online about this stuff helps, but really, just stop buying it...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/15/MNG52O50LO1.DTL
OUT OF TWENTY-ONE WEALTHY NATIONS, THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITIAN ARE THE WORST --- IF YOU'RE A CHILD. FROM THE S-F GATE DOT COM ARTICLE ABOUT THE UINCEF STUDY OF TWENTY-ONE WEALTHY NATIONS. The Netherlands was the best, it said, followed by Sweden and Denmark.
The Czech Republic ranked above countries with a higher per capita income, such as Austria, France, the United States and Britain, in part because of a more equal distribution of wealth and higher relative investment in education and public health.
UNICEF's Innocenti Research Centre in Italy ranked the countries in material well-being, health, education, relationships, behaviors and risks, and young people's sense of happiness.
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OTHER STORIES WE COVERED TODAY AT POOR MOJO'S NEWSWIRE:
The St. Valentine's Day Pillowfight Massacre
'I hate gay people,' cries washed-up basketball player
The Daily Show on diplomacy with North Korea
Painfully unfunny. With canned laughter. You have to see it to believe it. A preview of Fox's new satire news show
Colbert tells Australia just what he thinks of it
An Inflatable powered exo-suit that weighs only four punds
RFID powder - all kNids of creepy
$6M in Cocaine Found in TV Sets
Dancing on a pool of non-Newtonian liquids
AND
30 minutes of cartoon openings from the 80's
OUR THEME SONG IS AN UNTITLED PIECE FROM THE DISC "HIMNO NASIONAL" BY THE FIGURES, AVAILABLE AT FINGERPRINT DASH RECORDS DOT COM.
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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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