Sunday News Bucket

Posted by IndyLib | Feb 12, 2006 | 24 |

I’m never around when the Cafe needs tending, but lately I seem to stumble in when there’s a need for a new bucket. (Or did we decide to quit doing these and nobody told me?)

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IndyLib on February 12, 2006 at 10:54 am

US Govt accused of spying on gay groups who protest for equality

Lesbian couple together 20+ years sues for marriage equality in Ireland

Hets had the James Frey scandal; queers had the JT LeRoy scandal

US Govt admits to spying on gay groups who protest for equality

New HIV drug does well in clinical trials, moves into volunteer study phase

Gay man wins 2 free plane tickets; batshit insane Northwest Airlines says he can only use companion ticket for a spouse, child, or Northwest Airlines employee

Gay college students getting better college scholarships & academic funding, YAY

And don’t miss refinish69’s diary about progress toward equality in New York!
- ask on February 12, 2006 at 12:13 pm
  
  WTF is wrong with NW. This is just too stupid.
- chocolate ink on February 12, 2006 at 6:20 pm
  
  Oh yeah, tell me again the government is just spying on groups that may be terrorists….don’t ask and the government won’t tell who their spying on right, which is apparently every gdamn person in the country…and I include rethugs in that also. Wouldn’t be surprised to find that bushco is spying on them also just because their paranoid bastards.
maryb2004 on February 12, 2006 at 11:10 am

Jim Talent has gone national with his stem cell flip flop story but apparently he is spinning it that he is a uniter not a divider. Boston Globe carries a Bloomberg story on it.

”The answer is for both sides to take advantage of scientific changes to find proposals that they can mutually support and which offer advantages to each compared to the current stalemate,” Talent said Friday in the Senate.

But I still like the local angle, from the Kansas City Star
:

The upside for Sen. Jim Talent’s stem-cell switch Friday? Hard to see. His anti-abortion base is confused. Democrats will pound him for flip-flopping. It looks political. And proponents of early research still won’t trust him. …

Ah yes.
idredit on February 12, 2006 at 11:49 am

Yea, did you miss “A Guide to Hillaryland”? It tells who’s in, who’s out, on the road to the White House.

Some weigh Hillary has out-hawked the hawks, she’d continue the Iraq war – she voted for it – and the Iranian nuclear program is not to be tolerated.

I won’t put my 6 penny pots at risk-quite a few dollars- but she’s being heavily promoted as the nominee in ’08. Why? Imho, she’s a polarizing figure in national politics. Bush recently dubbed her ‘formidable.’ May the good forces help us.

don’t shoot me but read the piece here:
(via cursor.org)

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1575591/posts

Oh, don’t skip the comments section.
- IndyLib on February 12, 2006 at 12:15 pm
  
  Hey idredit, I’ve noticed your posts around lately. Let me offer you a belated warm welcome to the pond. (I’m kinda slow, lol.)
  
  Now, some netiquette. When you post links, please try to use HTML whenever possible since it keeps the margins of the threads at a manageable size. When people post longer urls the margins break and that makes the threads hard to read. Here’s how to use HTML to post a link:
  
  [a href=”http://www.website.address.goes.here”]description of your link goes here[/a]
  
  If you replace the brackets — [ and ] — with the greater than and lesser than symbols — <and> — and then put in the website address you want to link to and your own description where indicated, then you will have an HTML encoded hotlink, like this:
  
  Freeper link
  
  Also, on the page where you post comments from, you will notice a drop down menu in between the Preview and Post buttons. You will need to make sure that you select the HTML Formatted option from this menu. You can use the Preview button before you post to make sure your link comes out right. If you need any more tips to make it work, feel free to ask just about anyone here; folks around here are usually happy to help. Good luck, and thanks for dropping a link into the bucket!
  - DuctapeFatwa on February 12, 2006 at 12:25 pm
    
    that is nerdiquette.
    - IndyLib on February 12, 2006 at 12:47 pm
      
      Potato, potahto. But a roll of tape by any other name could never be such a hilarious wise-ass. 😉
  - idredit on February 12, 2006 at 2:28 pm
    
    Your’e most kind, thanks for that. I’m not html literate or whatever-you-call-it and needed the helpful hint. I’ll sure save it for future use.
  - Iowa Victory Gardener on February 12, 2006 at 7:35 pm
    
    Hey Indy, thanks for the HTML tip! I’ve been hesitating about trying to insert links in my comments cuz I just wasn’t sure how to do it, so appreciate your tip. I guess I just need to knuckle down and learn some HTML, since I’ve only used a designer program on my own website and avoided having to do real coding.
    
    Great Sunday bucket too! One of my newly favorite features of BT lately.
ask on February 12, 2006 at 12:19 pm

Keep them coming, Indy. I’ve been too busy lately to help out – rushing like a madman to get to work in the mornings.
Bird flu hits western Europe

Bird flu has reached western Europe for the first time, it was announced yesterday, as three new countries reported wild birds infected with the H5N1 strain.
Italy’s health minister, Francesco Storace, said that tests carried out on swans found dead in Sicily and the south of mainland Italy showed that the birds had the deadly variant, as did three migratory swans found dead at Thessaloniki, the Greek government confirmed.
Speaking after a press conference in Rome, Storace said: ‘Of the 17 dead swans, the majority [of deaths] were as a result of H5N1. But that does not mean all [were].’ He said he was awaiting further test results from a government-run laboratory in Padua.
CabinGirl on February 12, 2006 at 12:22 pm

Hi Indy,

Thanks for putting up the bucket this weekend! In case you missed it, when I started doing this, I invited anybody who’s interested to jump in and do it if it wasn’t up by 7:30 or 8AM ET.

Nice bucket, btw.
- IndyLib on February 12, 2006 at 12:48 pm
  
  Cool and thanks and hey, I hope you’re feeling better by now, CG.
  - CabinGirl on February 12, 2006 at 12:50 pm
    
    Yeah, I put away my bucket last night. 🙂
ask on February 12, 2006 at 12:22 pm

Shias nominate Jaafari as Iraq PM

The Shia bloc set to lead Iraq’s first full-term government has picked PM Ibrahim Jaafari as its candidate for prime minister in the new cabinet.
Mr Jaafari won by one vote over Vice-President Adel Abdel Mahdi.
Each was backed by two key factions in the United Iraqi Alliance, which fell just short of a majority in the poll.
Correspondents say the question for Mr Jaafari is if he can win the support of Sunni and Kurd politicians, who have been critical of his time in office.
His transitional government has been widely accused of poor performance and discrimination against Iraq’s Sunni Arabs.
ask on February 12, 2006 at 12:24 pm

Pacific islanders decide destiny

The tiny South Pacific territory of Tokelau is voting on whether to become one of the world’s smallest self-governing states.
The 1,500 islanders are holding a referendum, which could reclaim Tokelau’s sovereignty for the first time in 120 years.
Tokelau – made up of three coral atolls which have no airport, roads or capital – has been governed by New Zealand.
Four UN observers have made the 28-hour trip. Votes will be collected by ship.
ask on February 12, 2006 at 1:05 pm

A record-breaker.
We’re clobbered by the white stuff

A massive amount of snow blanketed the city on Sunday, with lightning and gusting snow joined in a rare display above the city’s streets in what meteorologists said was the second biggest storm to hit the Big Apple since records started being kept in 1869.
By 10 a.m., 22.8 inches of snow had fallen in Central Park, second only to the 26.4 inches that fell in December 1947.
“This is one to remember,” said National Weather Service meteorologist John Cristantello.
The blizzard warning was to last until 4 p.m. The service warned that winds gusting between 40 and 50 mph could bring down trees and power lines, and temperatures were expected to fall as low as 23 degrees.
ask on February 12, 2006 at 1:13 pm

US prepares military blitz against Iran’s nuclear sites

Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran’s nuclear sites as a “last resort” to block Teheran’s efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt.
They are reporting to the office of Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, as America updates plans for action if the diplomatic offensive fails to thwart the Islamic republic’s nuclear bomb ambitions. Teheran claims that it is developing only a civilian energy programme.
“This is more than just the standard military contingency assessment,” said a senior Pentagon adviser. “This has taken on much greater urgency in recent months.”
The prospect of military action could put Washington at odds with Britain which fears that an attack would spark violence across the Middle East, reprisals in the West and may not cripple Teheran’s nuclear programme.
maryb2004 on February 12, 2006 at 2:50 pm

yahoo

Geek Archaeologists discover largest underground tomb ever.

What’s that you say?

Oh.

GREEK archaeologists.
- AndiF on February 12, 2006 at 3:09 pm
  
  That’s very nifty. Have you been to Greece? It would be a fantastic destination for an archeology buff (or a food buff or a scenery buff or I-got-a-thing-for-guys-with-dark-curly-hair buff).
  - maryb2004 on February 12, 2006 at 3:18 pm
    
    No, but its on my list of places. Along with Egypt, Petra, parts of Turkey, and the south of Italy.
    
    And didn’t you mean buff guys with dark curly hair?
DuctapeFatwa on February 12, 2006 at 5:59 pm

Two Pakistani nomad women have been killed after a rocket fired across the border from Afghanistan landed on their tent, Pakistani officials say.
Four children were hurt in the attack late on Saturday in North Waziristan.

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- chocolate ink on February 12, 2006 at 6:13 pm
  
  Goddamit.
DuctapeFatwa on February 12, 2006 at 6:18 pm

THE United States is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat, according to western intelligence sources.
The sources confirmed last week that building was under way at Ain Aouda, above a wooded gorge south of Rabat’s diplomatic district. Locals said they had often seen American vehicles with diplomatic plates in the area.

The construction of the new compound, run by the Direction de la Securité du Territoire (DST), the Moroccan secret police, adds to a substantial body of evidence that Morocco is one of America’s principal partners in the secret “rendition” programme in which the CIA flies prisoners to third countries for interrogation.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other groups critical of the policy have compiled dossiers detailing the detention and apparent torture of radical Islamists at the DST’s current headquarters, at Temara, near Rabat…

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