News – Addicted to Doin It
Americas
A former IBM employee sues for wrongful termination after he was found using company computers to access a sexual chat room. He says that IBM should have offered sympathy and treatment instead because his post traumatic stress disorder from the Vietnam War left him with sex addiction. Particularly involving adult chat rooms. Ren is doubtful on that score. Is sex addiction real? Ren doesn’t know on that score.
Hugo Chavez rejects criticism on his decision to take opposition TV channel RCTV off the air. He plans to replace it with a public service broadcast. Considering RCTV was complicit in a coup attempt, by the looks, it’s a wonder it is still broadcasting 4 years later. The public is divided on both sides of the issue.
Now that the funding bill without timetable has been sent through, the pundits can obsess over what it means for both Hillary and Obama to have voted against it.
The start of a series looking at the weaknesses of the presidential candidates, starting with Giuliani.
In some says, Bush does alQueda’s own PR for them.
How law enforcement prices seized drugs.
Middle East
It’s going to happen eventually. So lets put the ifs and hows and whens aside on a US withdrawal from Iraq and look at how it might happen.
Sadr shows up in public once more. Still doing his rabble rousing thing.
Lebanon gets some military aid from the US.
Israel focuses on Hamas politicians, thinking that might stop the rockets. I can tell the future by asserting it will not. They can raid and detain and blow things up, but in the end the homemade rockets will continue to fire, despite their flailing about in every direction. One wonders how long it will take for them to realize they might be better served by a different plan of action. How long has it been, decades of the same thing? Yeah, I rag on Israel’s leaders a lot, but since when have they given me reason to do otherwise? I’d love to praise them for success, but all I see from them is failure after failure, escalation after escalation. The Palestinians do it too, but they’ve tried, if not successfully, to get some order going. Maybe it isn’t how everyone would like, but there is effort.
Africa
In South Africa it isn’t a lack of drugs, but a lack of doctors in some areas that is killing AIDS/HIV patients. Poor pay and volumes of work are driving some to leave and seek greener pastures.
Now that the gold and guns scandal in DR Congo is being looked into, how bad is the damage to the UN? Personally, I think the best thing is to find out who buried the first look into it and get with the head chopping.
Asia/Pacific
Greenspan thinks China’s stock market is due for some negative motion. The jury is still out as to whether he knows what he’s talking about or not, but there was a negative lurch from him just levying his opinion.
Of course, these constant product scares as of late won’t help anything when it comes to China’s economy.
Europe
A documentary about the death of Alexander Litvinenko will get it’s world premier at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ukraine is still in the midst of some serious internal issues. One wonders if it will end up in a sort of coup or just devolve into some level of internal fighting. I hope neither.
General
Using drugs as weapons is dangerous. Obviously, as any incapacitating substance can be deadly if used in too great a quantity. The better decision to make is if the risk is outweighed by the benefit. A tranquilizing substance might occasionally kill a person, but a gunshot is far more likely to do serious bodily injury.
A mix of RFID and wi-fi could be used to protect people and assets. True, but it can also be used to maliciously track and monitor that which is private and personal. We need to find a comfortable medium for this technology before we get too hot on using it.
The Blogs look at Monica Goodling’s testimony(former Gonzales aide), the results of American Idol and a new iPod-themed sex toy.
Today’s Papers has talk of potential new heads for the World Bank, the passing of down ethics legislation, that 51 percent of Americans favor the provision in the immigration bill that would prioritize education and skills over family ties for those who want to settle in the United States and more in the one page news.
Amusements
Mark Fiore: Whale Removal
The new 2007 stereotypes are in. First off the lot: Homosexuals can’t read maps
Man walks into 7-11 and tries to pay for chips and Gatorade with half a bag of weed
Man applies for patent on ‘Godly Powers’, seeking the exclusive right to the ethical use and financial gain in the use of godly powers on planet Earth
Today’s story of 50 chickens crammed into a house brought to you by Orlando Florida. Bonus: They may have used them to cover the smell of drugs
The Nanny State is poised to strike again: Report recommends FDA limit nicotine content in cigarettes, thereby practically guaranteeing an increase in consumption
Drug running rule #1. Do not attract attention. Especially by binge drinking on a flight, running around the cabin in pajamas, exposing yourself and sexually harassing the crew
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After your kid fails the minimum skills assessment, a sign reading “Let are kids walk” is probably not going to convince the school he/she should walk for graduation
Dickens World, a theme park that “recreates the filth, squalor, and even the unpleasant whiffs of Victorian London” to open near London
Another sign of the coming Apocalypse: alligator squirrels
Bar owner fined for selling Coors as Miller, didn’t think his customers would be able to tell the difference between two types of cheap canoe conjugals
Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop this lawnmowing superhero
Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop this man and his goggles
Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop Jerry Seinfeld in a bee costume. Yes, that Jerry Seinfeld. No, it’s not photoshopped already
Ukraine probably won’t see violence. Just muddling, and plenty of it.
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Africa’s biggest problem is a lack of education. You can’t just go in and throw medicine and doctors at them and expect the disease not to spread if no one is teaching them that AIDS spreads through unprotected sex. Africa needs teachers. Oh and sex addiction is real…although a lot of people use it as an excuse for perv behavior when they can control their actions.
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I’d say Africa’s biggest problems are corruption and armed conflict. There are tons of educated Africans helping the economies of North America and Europe because their talents would be wasted back home. Or they would risk death.
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“Considering RCTV was complicit in a coup attempt, by the looks, it’s a wonder it is still broadcasting 4 years later. ” This is the key point. If they really were complicit in a coup attempt, then pursue for treason via the judicial courts, rather than using regulators to settle a political score.
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