-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991210b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No newly-synthesized lifeforms were cauterized to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Your Daily Zippy: http://www.sfgate.com/sf/zippy/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Post office: Santa won't be sending any more nasty notes. When a Michigan post office used volunteers to answer letters to Santa last year, kids got notes like: "Santa is dead. I killed him." USPS is blaming teen hooligans for that and says only postal employees will handle Santa's correspondence this season. Ho ho ho: http://www.freep.com/news/metro/santa9_19991209.htm # Decking the halls. The history of holiday evergreens goes way, way back: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&pg=/et/99/12/4/tglore04.html : What's your favorite pagan solstice ceremonial that's been co-opted by a mainstream religion? Are stolen holydays the best kind? Have you # "JESUS HAS LEFT THE CAMPUS": Yet another stolen nativity statue story: www.postnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocId/8B69BBFD1EDA52E286256843000B7719 # Clinton Xmas: http://newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=1999/12/9/85726 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Arthritis scanner puts drugs in spotlight. (BBC) Important info about the effectiveness of arthritis drugs will be revealed by a hi-tech scanner: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_558000/558359.stm # Also: Ballet move 'causes arthritis': http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_544000/544604.stm # Bone and joint diseases threaten financial crisis: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_543000/543542.stm # Arthritis: A new north-south divide: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_363000/363288.stm : Should all medical treatments, mainstream and alternative, be subject to scanning to determine their actions and effectiveness? Would homeopathy survive? Does your art cause disease? Can you afford it? What are the world geopolitical implications of art-engendered disease? Will a world war ensue? # Herbal glee - St. John's Wort extract proved to ease depression: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_557000/557625.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Muslim pilgrims stranded in Jordan. AMMAN (AP) Jordanian cops prevented more than 1,000 pilgrims from leaving the country to visit Muslim shrines in Saudi Arabia because they were traveling in Saudi buses prohibited to operate in Jordan. The govt said the buses were not licensed to take passengers across the border into Saudi Arabia, but the buses had never- theless been leased by Jordanian firms because of their cheap fares. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562515948-927 : Do the vectors of religion, govt and economy inevitably intersect thusly? Will capitalist societies always strand believers in bureaucratic niches?? @ It's no accident that IBM and the US government are sick in the same ways: they grew up together. They may need the same medicine: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9909.worth.ibm.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT CRITICIZES U.S. FOR POLICE BRUTALITY, OTHER ABUSES. Although Pres. Clinton issued a 1998 executive order affirming the U.S. commitment to uphold human rights treaties, little progress has been made since. "Most public officials remained either ignorant of their human rights obligations or content to ignore them," Human Rights Watch said. Janet Reno commended: http://cnn.com/1999/US/12/09/us.human.rights/ # FBI spy 'fronts': Expert: Megiddo is domestic espionage network run amuck: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991210_xex_fbi_spy_fron.shtml # Megiddo warns of Y2K violence - but govt may cause, not prevent, mayhem: http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19991210_xex_megiddo_warn.shtml # Feds setup drug suspects - FBI 'rigged' cars, troopers 'falsified' reports (AP) http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991209/pl/feds_drug_arrests_1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Seattle-ites say: Hey, at least we're on the map now. Sure, it took a bigtime brouhaha, but at least the city's now known for more than Star- bucks & grunge. Seattle Weekly readers weigh in on the WTO disturbances. http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9949/letters-readers.shtml : What's your favorite multinational conspiracy? Are you an operative in a multinational conspiracy? Are you just a pawn? Are you sure? How d'ya know? # No-WTO - WTO Protest Organizers: Don't Throw the Radicals Overboard! Force the issue: http://www.konformist.com/1999/wto/anarchists.htm # Horror stories from Seattle - City officials hear of WTO police brutality http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/coun_19991209.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Sex and chips lose out to computer. (BBC) People in the UK prefer their computers to sex and the traditional bag of chips, a survey says. Bugger: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_556000/556229.stm # No Sex Please, We're on the Computer. LONDON (Reuters) If you're Swedish, you stroke it. If you're Spanish, you beat it. If you're German, you cover it in food. Kink-ola: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991210/07/odd-computer : Would you rather eat, fuck, compute, read, sleep, walk, fly, be abducted? How do you spend your time? Are silicon chips better than potato chips? Do you ever have sex with computers, potatoes, aliens, robots, whips, caribou? # X-rated prescription - Nurses fired for nude website - married & normal: http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_991209_afterhours_feature.html # Crush videos get squashed - Clinton bans sex tapes of animals getting stomped: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991209/pl/clinton_videos_1.html # War Over Abortion in Iowa: http://www.cbs.com/flat/story_208559.html @ Webmadam Heather Corinna wants a better grade of erotica on the Internet. 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