China Seals Off SARS Research Lab After Virus Escapes

The lab infections "are an embarrassment to China," said World Health Organization spokesman Bob Dietz, in Beijing. "It's not good that this happened in the lab. It's not good that the health of these people was apparently not monitored."

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Controlling the News

"At one point during a staff conference, the President stood up and began to speak in an unknown language. Mr. Rove was able to stop the President and get him to resume his seat. It was reported by [redacted] that for a period of time (about fifteen minutes) after this incident, the President appeared to be 'somewhat confused and very inarticulate.'"

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Journey to the 10th Dimension

Things happen in more than three dimensions of space; to see them in only three is to succumb to a trick that the universe is constantly playing on us.
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E-Vote Firm on the Hotseat

Diebold's problems, however, were exacerbated by the embarrassing release this week of several confidential documents leaked from its legal correspondence with Jones Day
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CAPITAL GAMES

Woodward said he believed Bush had a disdain for "the fancy-pants intellectual world." Is this chilling? A president takes the country and the world to war for a very specific reason, and then this reason turns out to have been wrong. Yet that does not bother him in the least, and he brushes aside the matter by suggesting only elitists care about it. Talk about denial.
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Woman loses her job over coffins photo

A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday's edition of The Seattle Times.

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Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment

The Pentagon deleted from a public transcript a statement Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob Woodward suggesting that the administration gave Saudi Arabia a two-month heads-up that President Bush had decided to invade Iraq.

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Black Box Battleground

As the battle over voting machines rages across the country, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights met on Friday, April 9th, to examine the Integrity, Security and Accessibility in the Nation's Readiness to Vote. Two scientists and four representatives of civil rights organizations were invited to brief the Commission.
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Church group slams Bush on Clean Air Act

A national group of Christian leaders is sending a scathing letter to President Bush to coincide with Earth Day, accusing his administration of chipping away at the Clean Air Act.
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Bush's Approval Ratings BULLSHIT

With CNN and other pundit media outlets stating that Bush's approval rating is at 51% we are all left scratching our heads. How the fuck is that possible with the war going to shit, the administrations lies being validated as such in public and a majority perception that this president is PURE FUCKING EVIL? Quick answer, it?s not possible. The "real" war is for your brain. Sorry, I just had to say what we are all thinking...

The Case For Martian Fossils

While there has been a great deal of controversy lately about the subject, I have amassed a substantial body of data that clearly supports the fact that MER-B (Opportunity) has discovered fossil remains on Mars. In particular, the "blueberries" are the fossil remains of a type of sea urchin, similar to fossils found on Earth.
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When the last oil well runs dry

Just as certain as death and taxes is the knowledge that we shall one day be forced to learn to live without oil.
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J U R A S S I C A R T

Strange Clay Statues, 1500 Years Old, Puzzle Archaeologists
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The Gospel According to George

Their $50 million worth of ads hasn't done much to dent Kerry thus far, except among Republicans. A campaign of preaching on the text of wartime resolve is risky. The Iraq news may not brighten any time soon. Indeed, the latest war video is of a frightened young American hostage, Pfc. Keith Maupin. He describes himself as married, the father of a 10-month-old son. "I didn't want to come here because I wanted to be with my son,"
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John Breneman's satire

BUSH (actual words): "I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it. John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could've done it better this way or that way. You know, I just -- I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn't yet. …"

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U.S. Deaths from Enemy Fire at Highest Level Since Vietnam

With fighting in Iraq now at its worst, the number of U.S. troops killed by enemy fire has reached the highest level since the Vietnam War.
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Spain PM orders Iraq troops home

Spain's new prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has given orders for Spanish troops in Iraq to be brought home in "as short a time as possible".
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