September 13, 2005
CHERTOFF UNVEILS APATHY ALERT SYSTEM- Satire
Color-coded System Would Warn Public of Sluggish Government Response
Reacting to criticism that the federal government does not respond quickly
enough in times of emergency and crisis, Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff
It's nice to have something to discuss other than Katrina and the
Brad Pitt/Jennifer Anniston breakup. I just upgraded from Basic
cable (a/k/a antenna service) to Standard cable with ESPN, ESPN2,
SciFi, and TBS. (Comcast upgraded my monthly bill from $8 to $55,
too. That is criminal as there
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9331322
Japanese probe pulls up alongside asteroid
Two-year trip to climax in November with touch-and-go landing
Sept. 14, 2005
TOKYO - Bringing Japan's most complex space mission near its climax, a
probe is within 12 miles of an asteroid almost 180 million miles
Not really. Bones, like I said below, was very standard. The two leads
were okay, but didn't stand out. The lady in particular, with the
backstory of her parents disappearing, is cliched. I mean, the female
detective on Law and Order: SVU is the product of a rape I believe,
and the blonde chick on
http://www.bsnews.com/mld/bsnews/news/politics/12637462.htm
Posted on Tue, Sep. 13, 2005
U.S. Presidency Outsourced
WASHINGTON - Congress today announced that the office of President of the
United States of America will be outsourced to overseas interests as of
September 30th. The move is
What was I thinking...that's NBC...
Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Not really. Bones, like I said below,
was very standard. The two leads
were okay, but didn't stand out. The lady in particular, with the
backstory of her parents disappearing, is cliched. I mean, the female
detective on
Prison Break isn't moving me. I watched it recently and just couldn't
get engrossed in the whole plot of the man sentenced to death for a
crime he didn't commit. The idea of a guy getting inside the prison to
break said innocent out is intriguing, but I'm not sure if they can
build on it to hold
As you saw on my followup post, I wasn't impressed with Bones at all.
If i don't watch CSI, I'm certainly not going to put Bones on the
must-see list. As for the topic, I agree, it's nice to discuss scifi
again. Not that I have any problems discussing socio-political issues,
mind you, but I've
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From: JSCASC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 2:42 PM
Subject: New Orleans and the Third World
FYI - forwarded by Center director Al Roberts, an
interesting commentary by Kenyan poet and activist
Mukoma Wa Ngugi.
Incidentally, in the
Gawd, did ANYONE see Bruce Evil Dead Campbell's
writing/directorial/producing debut last Saturday on the Sci Fi Channel?
It was a very, very low-budget, camp, implausible movie about an
arrogant pharmaceutical exec who gets killed by a crazy gypsy woman in
Bulgaria. (Told ya the plot was
Maybe it is because i caught the first episode and it involves a
presidential conspiracy and the fact that they break out early in the show,
But i love the show!!! I'm glad they gave a brother the lead - yes the
engineer step brother is a brother. - I think he is a good actor. He got
lots of
Souonds like a farce to me and I do so love farces...especially unintended
farces...(i.e. Starcrash...)
Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Gawd, did ANYONE see Bruce Evil Dead
Campbell's
writing/directorial/producing debut last Saturday on the Sci Fi Channel?
It was a very, very low-budget,
Cosmetics from executed Chinese, paper says
Tue Sep 13, 5:03 AM ET
A British newspaper said that a Chinese cosmetics company was using
skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty
products for sale in Europe.
Agents for the firm, which could not be named for legal
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