Thursday 8/9/07 pre-party at the Goodfoot, plus pics from night 1 (8/10/07) by Vincent Al Keen.
MonthAugust 2007
Cassandra, who admits she was drinking that night even though she was underage, went to high school in the Houston area, where she was a proud member of the ROTC.
The night of the alleged assault, she was taken to the hospital and eventually given counsel and therapy, but the stress of it was all too much.
She says after a defense attorney with the Air Force harshly interrogated her without representation present, she backed off and decided not to testify.
‘It got very bad, I was getting calls late at night. She was in tears, and she was going back and forth on everything,’ Hernandez said.
But then the unthinkable happened.
Six months after the alleged assault, the Air Force charged Cassandra and the three men with indecent acts.
And it gave the men accused of the sexual assault immunity to testify against Cassandra, which they accepted.
More info:
(via Lupa)
A bunch of lefty blogs have recently compiled a bunch of data about Markos Moulitsas, proprietor of Daily Kos. They sound just as absurd as O’Reilly as they point out the following shocking truths about Kos:
1. He isn’t technically an “immigrant” since he was born in Chicago before moving back to El Salvador.
2. After the dot-com bubble burst, he applied for a job with the C.I.A in 2001 but later turned it down (but he can’t PROVE that he isn’t actually an undercover agent!).
3. He was a Republican when he was a teenager. He even worked on Henry Hyde’s campaign – when he was 17, not even old enough to vote.
4. He’s in favor of “state’s rights” (which apparently makes him a pro-slavery racist).
5. He has some rich relatives who may have been involved in some sketchy things in El Salvador.
Oh, and he was born on September 11, which some bloggers have insisted on emphasizing in bold. Are they suggesting the CIA planned 9/11 and made it happen on the birthday of their newest recruit (the guy with the oh so important job of infiltrating the blogosphere) on purpose as a little signature of their handy work (and people think Alex Jones is a crank).
So here’s the thing: Kos is not a socialist, anarchist, or pacifist and never claimed to be. He supported the invasion of Afghanistan and is pro-capitalism. This is not a secret, but it seems like everytime some liberal blogger finds this out they’re shocked. Daily Kos is a partisan, Democratic Party blog. (If you don’t like Daily Kos, read American Samizdat).
I have plenty of disagreements with Kos (here’s an example), so don’t read this as an endorsement of his politics (or his business practices). I just find it stupid that people are reading so much into the activities of his family, his politics as a teenager, and his application for employment at the C.I.A.
Relevant links:
The Secret “Family Business” of Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga (DailyKos).
A giant, smiling Lego man has been fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort.
Workers at a drinks stall rescued the 2.5-metre tall model, which had a yellow head and blue torso.
“We saw something bobbing about in the sea and we decided to take it out of the water,” said a stall worker. “It was a life-sized Lego toy.”
A woman nearby added: “I saw the Lego toy floating towards the beach from the direction of England.”
The toy was later placed in front of the drinks stall.
(via t0tem7).
From WFTV Florida’s “Strange News Photos”, check out this picture of a seven-legged lamb. The lamb was born on a farm in Metheven, on the South Island of New Zealand, where the most recent silver-screen incarnation of The Lord of the Rings was filmed after Peter Jackson decided it was the best location to emulate his vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic Middle Earth. Gandalf/ Odin was quoted as saying, “The only thing worse than the stretch is the title.”
Scientists have discovered a ground-breaking way of levitating ultra small objects, which may revolutionise the design of micro-machines, a new report says.
Physicists said they can create “incredible levitation effects” by manipulating so-called Casimir force, which normally causes objects to stick together by quantum force.
(thanks James!).
1. I’ve been using Yahoo! a lot longer and don’t want to change my e-mail address. The reason I signed up for Yahoo! Mail in the first place was that I was tired of changing my e-mail address and just wanted one address that I could rely on forever (and Yahoo! was better than Hotmail). So I’ve never been thrilled about making the jump to another e-mail service.
2. I can drag and drop messages between folders in Yahoo! Mail. Just one of those small conveniences that can really make a difference. The “label” and “search, don’t sort” motto of gmail doesn’t really work that well for me. I’d rather be able to quickly drag an e-mail into a container (reply, todo, save, etc) rather than type a label on it and let everything pile up.
3. Yahoo! Mail now offers unlimited storage. After Gmail started offering 1 gig of storage space, Yahoo! quickly moved to 2 gigs (or at least they did for premium users, I forgot what they offered for free). Yahoo!’s managed to stay ahead in the storage game, and now it’s unlimited for everyone.
4. My Yahoo! Premium account has no ads. My premium account only costs $20 a year. Originally I shelled it out for the extra storage (no longer an issue, see above) but I’ve gotten used to not having ads on my e-mail, and:
5. My Yahoo! Premium account as a “archive” feature that lets me back-up my mail and attachments. I can back everything up, maintaining my folder structure. You can grab all your Gmail with POP or IMAP but then you’ll lose all your labels.
Lee Hazelwood died today
Hazlewood was most famous for writing the 1960s Nancy Sinatra hit, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”. He also wrote “Houston,” a hit recorded by Dean Martin. However, his own output also achieved a cult status in the underground rock scene, with songs covered by artists such as Lydia Lunch, Primal Scream, Einst?rzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Anita Lane, Megadeth, and Boyd Rice.
Charles Hoy Fort (6 August 1874 – 3 May 1932) was an American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena. (According to some sources[attribution needed] he was born on 9 August.)
Jerome Clark writes that Fort was “Essentially a satirist hugely skeptical of human beings’ – especially scientists’ claims to ultimate knowledge”. (Clark 2000, 123) (see Pyrrhonism for a type of skepticism strongly reminiscent of Fort’s). Clark describes Fort’s writing style as a “distinctive blend of mocking humor, penetrating insight, and calculated outrageousness”. (Clark 1998, 200)
Writer Colin Wilson describes Fort as “a kind of patron saint of cranks” (Wilson, 199), and also argues that running through Fort’s work is “the feeling that no matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort’s principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.” (Wilson, 201; emphases his)
Fort’s books sold well, and remain in print. Today, the term Fortean or Forteana is used to describe various anomalous phenomena.
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