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3 Years In the News

The Good,the Bad,& the Ugly

“In the News “

(by Pastor Kok III, Mustard Seed
Ministries)

Selected Excerpts from the News

Compiled April 11, 2004 through May3,
2006

(every letter typed by J.P. Kok. No
“Cut-n-Paste”).

3 YEARS IN THE NEWS BY PASTOR KOK III
5/14/06

TAGS: NEWS, YEARS, MUSTARD SEED NEWS,
MUSTARD SEED MINISTRIES, MSM,

News was Compiled Daily from Various News Agencies,
almost exclusively via my Cell Phone. Stories are referenced by news agency
along with the reporter (if it was included with the story, sometimes the
writer/reporter is not included, and sometimes, especially when I first began
doing this, I inadvertently ommitted  the
source).

Warning: Some of the news is graphic and can be
disturbing to read. Disturbing things happen in our world and they are reported
by various news agencies. Almost everything I personally read on my cell phone
news is included below, verbatim (meaning it is word for word even if all of
the below is not in quotation marks. Quotation marks are implied, unless I’ve
made a comment in brackets).

I’m bringing the World News to you along with the Good
News and my Sunday Morning Message for a particular reason, which is discussed
in more detail in the Sunday Morning Message.

April 11, 2004

Condoleeza Rice

Sony Pict Purchases Clarke Book “Against All Enemies”

Dozens dead.trapped in Russian Mine Blast

Al Quaeda memo shows FBI suspected hijack plot ( Bush
was aware by PDB)

Cory Spinks wins fight

April 19, 2004

A fan fell from the baseball stands trying to catch the
history 661’s career home run hit by Barry Bonds. The fan fell 20 feet landing
on his wrists,  and suffered a
laceration  to his head. The ball
ended  up splashing into the San Francisco bay

On an island in the middle of the Indian
Ocean is the world’s largest raised coral atoll. 1000’s of giant
tortoises roam, and huge robber crabs, the worlds largest anthropods up to 3
feet in length scour the beaches able to rip open coconut shells with the
pincers.

White throated rails the last surviving flightless bird
of the Indian Ocean wander the island.  Hawksbill and green turtles come in the
1000’s to breed.  There are over 200
plant species. Waters teeming with life include sharks, stingrays, groupeers,
and aldabra, Along with the Galapagos
Island it is one of the
world’s greatest natural treasures. Now this is threatened say conservationists
due to plans of the Seychelles
government to build .

Two fraternity brothers Friday were sentenced to
community service but escaped jail for stealing and eating a jumbo goldfish at
the University of
California Santa Cruz..
..the men were drunk when they snatched the 18 inch koi  fish which was referred to both as Midas
& Goldie  and lived in a university
of owned pond the men fried the gold fish and fed to fraternity pledges last
year as part of their sentence each man will have to work forty hours at a
Japanese …institute that has a pond filled with koi.. the incident was filming
for the MTV series fraternity life but never aired..

A Fort Meyers Florida
teen has been charged with hiring an undercover policeman to shoot and kill his
mother while instructing the purported hitman not to damage the family
television

More than a century after they died the men of the CSS
Hunley are finally being laid to rest.. the confederates had a primitive
submarine at their disposal during the Civil War and was the first submarine to
sink another ship.. but in the process it also …sank itself.. killing the 8 men
who volunteered for the mission.. a funeral ceremony will be held for the men
this week at Charleston’s historic Magnolia cemetery   The average retail price for a gallon of gas
has hit a record of $1.80  said AAA on
Saturday while in California the average is closer to  $2.15

The body of DruSjodin ..the University
of North Dakota student was found in Minnesota.., 5 months after she disappeared from the
parking lot of a N. Dakota Shopping mall where she was an employee at Victoria’s Secret..the
Body was found in a ditch in Crookston,
MN, the hometown of the suspected
killer.

An NHL player, Mike Danton of the St. Louis Blues has been arrested in
connection with an alleged murder-for-hire scheme..according to a criminal
complaint filed in federal court, Danton, age 23, and a woman face charges of
conspiring and using a telephone across state lines to set up a murder. The FBI
said Danton wanted somebody to kill a man hired to kill him, and that he
hatched a plot for the hitman to kill the hitman and make it look like two
burglars had broken in.

14 African migrants drowned trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands
Saturday when the boats crashed into each other and capsized. Two persons were
missing incl a 9 mo. Old baby…

April 25, 2004

A German Shepherd ate 28 golf balls owner Mike Wordrop of
N. England says.

Pat Tillman—killed in action, former St. Louis Cardinals NFL player

OTHER

Sad story of year—gal in coma after being beaten by
others after she kissed another girls boyfriend on a dare. Nicole Townes in Baltimore.

Sad Story—the gal dragged to death by the sleeve of her
jacket which got caught in the door after she was dropped off for school

News from Fresno..—man
killed wife or wives & children, some of whom were one and the same (so to
speak) . He was the father & grandfather of some of the children

May 2, 2004

Supreme Court Justice David Souter gets assaulted;
Kentucky Derby, –Smarty Jones wins; Emily Yzaguirre age 7 escapes from would
be kidnapper; Texas Floods; Hotel
Fire-Rome—Spotlight—Norman Jackson Flight bomber—Lancaster,
Honor Killings—Turkey..
Lakers-Angels, Tigers, Yankees. 7 Hubble stocks 9) Weather , 10 Koroneburg
–Renaissance Faire..

May 9, 2004

Iraqi abuse, Defense secretary Rumsfeld, Psychologists
opinions, Philip Zimbardo—Stanford University, Palo Alto, Blue Roses (Liver
Enzyme), Hydrogen Fuel (converter), The Sasser worm—18 year old boy in Germany,

May 16, 2004

Allegations of Prisoner abuse continue…

Prosthetic Limbs for Amputated Prisoners..

Brazil—33 persons
die in plane crash, propeller aircraft

Did Al-Zarquawi behead Nick Berg?

Cuban Protest against U.S. squeeze…

Daily Mirror admits fraudulent photos… Editor Piers
Morgan Resigns…

2 Disc Jockeys fired for laughing about beheading of
Nick Berg..

NBA Game of the Week Lakers v. Spurs last shot .4 seconds
by Derek Fisher

Baseball—Angels keep winning

May 24, 2004

Bush injures self on bike

Did U.S. bomb a Wedding party.ceremony?

Suspicious activity on the  NY—Philly- Washington Rail Corridor

Blimp crashes in Las Vegas.

Reggie Jackson’s Jersey retired.

Lakers beat Spurs, win first game against the T-Wolves.

Prisoners released in Iraq

New Dinosaur discovered in southern Montana.

May 30, 2004

Mexoryl— a powerful sunblock chemical

Pat Tilman—killed by friendly fire?

American Airlines attendant Gay Wilson

Arrested for penning a bomb note

Libya—not sure where missing nuclear parts are

Garden Grove Strawberry Festival

5.5 Earthquake in Iran

3 Children dead.decapitated in Baltimore

Smarty Jones

Pacers-Pistons

Am Military Vets. New Memorial in Wash D.C.

Ronald Reagan has died at age 93—on Saturday in his
Bel-Air home, the nations 40th president told the world in November of 1994
that he had  been diagnosed with early
stages of Alzheimers , an incurable illness that destroys brain cells. His body
was expected to be taken to his presidential library & museum in Simi
Valley, CA and then flown to Washington to lie in state in the capitol rotunda.
His funeral is expected to be at the National Cathedral and then the body
returned to California for a sunset burial at the library. Reagan lived longer
than any U.S. President, and spent his last decade in seclusion because of the
disease. Surviving ex-presidents today include Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter,
George Bush Sr., and Bill Clinton.

A month ago Nancy Reagan told the media that ‘Ronnie’s
long journey has finally taken him to a place where I can no longer reach him”
Reagan’s oldest daughter, Maureen, from his first marriage to Jane Wyman died
in August 2001 at age 60 from Cancer. By the way—she had been scheduled as a
guest speaker at the Care & Kindess conference at the Crystal Cathedral for
2002 until her unexpected death. Three other children survive, adopted son,
Michael, from his first marriage, Patti Davis and Ron from  his 2nd marriage , from ’81 to’89 Reagan
reshaped the Republican party reshaped the Republican party in his conservative
image, fixed his eyes on the demise of the Soviet Union—and E. Europe communism
and tripled the national debt to 3 trillion in his single-minded competition
with the other super power.

Before Reagan became president he had been involved in
radio broadcasting, acting, television performing and now is a spokesperson for
General Electric Co. as well as a two term governor for the state of
California. Reagan was known for his strong opinion about needing to downscale
government saying government is not the solution, it’s the problem. He
challenged welfare and other handout programs that had been started by FDR’s
New Deal. He managed also to achieve arms control agreement between the U.S.
And the Soviet Union . He was criticized for suspicions that he had authorized
secret arms sales to Iran while seeking their aid to gain release of American
hostages in Lebanon.

Despite that, he left office in 1989 with the highest
popularity ratings of any retiring president in the history of modern day
public opinion polls (according to ABC), 
The reason for his popularity, some say, was his ability to communicate
and connect with ordinary Americans even though some of his policies infuriated
the liberals. At age 69, Reagan was the oldest person ever elected president.
He came close to death when he was struck by at least one of six bullets
fired—which came close to his heart. On March 30, 1981, Regan was leaving a
Washington Hotel after addressing labor leaders when a young drifter John
Hinckley fired six shots at him. His wit even in times of gravity is shown by
his comment to his wife. Shortly later, saying, ‘Dear, I forgot to Duck.”
Another time as he was going in for surgery he quipped to the surgeons, “ I
hope you are all Republicans.” Four years later he was re-elected, defeating
Walter Mondale, while winning 49 of 50 states.

At the time of his death Reagan was apparently at a
stage of life when he could no longer speak, feed himself, or recognize his
family. President Bush was in Paris at the time of his death and said, “It’s a
sad day for  America.” All government
buildings are ordered to fly the flags at half-mast for thirty days. Reagan’s
politics were known as “Reaganomics” and was highlighted by his so-called
“Trickledown theory” .

Despite criticism, Reagan was able to deflect and
because of his thick skin, became known as the Teflon president. His tough talk
against the “evil empire” of the Soviet Union brought him  support at home and abroad. Some credit him
for hastening the demise of communism around the world. Reagan was born on
February 6, 1911, in the little town of Tampico, Illinois his father was a shoe
salesman who drank his slim profits, and the family moved often. His mother was
very religious and raised Ron and his brother Neil in the Disciples of Christ
church. Ronald was athletic, a lifeguard, a football player and participated in
drama. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and sociology. He was
a radio announcer  for a while and was
known as “Dutch”, albeit apparently had Irish heritage . Later, he acted in
movies such as “Bedtime for Bonzo”  as
well as “King’s Row” and “Knute Rockne: All American” which led to his
nickname, “The Gipper” .

Because of his poor eyesight, Reagan was ineligible for
combat duty , so he spent the war years in Los Angeles making army training
films and patriotic features, although for a while he apparently hung around
with a communist sympathetic group and he was president of the screen actor’s
guild from 1947-1960. However, his second wife, Actress, Nancy Davis Reagan
encouraged him in the Republican direction and Reagan ended up participating
with the FBI and Senator Eugene McCarthy in the blacklists of alleged
communists in Hollywood. Reagan was elected governor in  1966 and served two terms. His biggest
controversy was the arrangement he made with Iran to sell them arms n exchange
for release of hostages from Lebanon ( or help in procuring their release).

The arms sold to Iran apparently were given to
right-wing contra guerilla in Nicaragua which led to the involvement of Oliver
North, Reagan contended he had no idea what Oliver North was doing. He left
office at a time of high prosperity for the Nation—and it wasn’t until many
years later that the effects of a huge federal deficit and savings & loan
crisis were felt. Yahoo reports that early in his career analysts had  laughed him off as a shallow show business
buffoon—all grin and pomp. Clark Gifford called him an amiable dunce.

Nonetheless, Reagan was the answer to conservative
prayers, following in Barry Goldwater’s footsteps . His parting comments from
the president’s office were “We meant to change a nation, instead we changed a
world.” Despite Alzheimers, he was till able to write on November 5, 1994,
“When the Lord calls me home I will leave with the greatest love for this
country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I know that for America
there will always be a bright dawn ahead” . IN 
addition to the surgery for gunshot wounds. Reagan was also strong in
his position against terrorists. In April , 1986 he ordered air strikes on
Libya. He also protected gulf oil shipping lanes during the Iran-Iraq war, by
having warships escort U.S. Flagged Kuwaiti tankers . He invaded Grenada in
Oct. 1983, ousting a Marxist regime and rescuing stranded American soldiers.

..on his funeral crypt the memorial will read “ I know
in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually
triumph, and there’s a purpose and worth to each and every  Life” He attended Bel-Air Presbyterian after
leaving the office. The funeral service will be at the National Cathedral in
Washington D.C. at 11:30 est. Reagan once said, “I wonder what the Ten
Commandments would look like If Moses had run them through congress first

Meteorite hits New Zeeland home.. 3 Peru Men lost at
Sea survive on Turtle Cassini Nears Saturn seven years after leaving earth ..
Cassini will release Huygens  to land on
Titan in December… at least 3500 Iraqis have had their ears cut off by
Hussein for deserting the army in 1994.

Texas Man throws woman off overpass and then jumps off
himself…. Lake Chesterfield in St. Luis dries up…Malone accused of poking

Three officers killed in Birmingham , AL.’’’….
American executive killed in the Dominican Republic

June 19, 2004

They say Paul Johnson was beheaded .Shaquille
O’Neal   says he wants to be traded

June 20, 2004

Al quaeda claims it was justified in beheading Paul
Johnson because even though he was not a member of the military he worked on
military aviation, and therefore assisted the military, —Lakers are expected
to offer Kobe Bryant 7 year contract—140 million dollars—20 million per year.
Lakers say they will accommodate any trade demands or requests re. Shaq. What
makes Kobe different is the fact that he grew up somewhere else—not in
America—he’s not a typical or true American black, –with the same semi-veiled
anti-white sentiments as many black Americans.

Al quaeda is now holding a S. Korean man hostage with
demands that S. Korea pull out of Iraq or else the soldier will be killed. I’m
on Hwy 16, at 8 pm. An adult and two children are found dead—washed up on the
shore of Lake Michigan—all three tied together at the waist—which says an officer
would be expected if a boat capsized to keep each other together.

 A Northwest
Flight mistakenly lands at Ellsworth AFB rather than the commercial airport in
Rapid City. There is no explanation for it. An article about an internet
company that verifies internet mail delivery, called “Didtheyread it.com”. In
1975 there were only 250 bears left in Yellowstone, now it has doubled.
Vassopressin is released when humans have sex. The six day war—anti-Semitism is
at its highest since the holocaust.

Man spends 8 years in an apartment until elevator is
fixed. Barry Bonds has had 94 walks in 
57 games this year. Hope Clark was arrested for allegedly not paying a
fine she got in Yellowstone for not having kept a jar of peanut butter and
jelly closed

June 22, 2004

The S. Korean man was beheaded

June 24, 2004

 I get on my
wireless , AP tells the story of the day John Kerry killed one of the Vietcong
in Vietnam. HE was assigned to go up one of the rivers in a boat with a few
other soldiers and suddenly the came upon a Vietcong with a rocket blaster—
of some sort—which, if launched, would blow up the boat —so Kerry apparently
gave orders to “beach the boat”  so as to
make it impossible for the man with the rocket launcher to arm it—the rocket
apparently needing a few more yards to build up the speed needed to fly, and.or
the person holding the launcher unwilling to fire in such close range because
it would probably kill him as well.

So they beached the boat, and they say the launcher man
was still trying to arm the  thing—at
which point Kerry felt it was necessary to kill him. And he pulled out his gun
and shot him at close range. Sounds plausible, but—the question is were these
like the terrorists we know today who are willing to commit suicide for the
cause. If not, it lessens the likelihood that he was still trying to fire or
arm the gun at that point.

June 23, 2004,

AP says that the soldier who accidentally bombed the
Canadians  will not receive judicial
punishment. He will receive military punishment, probably thirty days of
confinement or one month of missed pay.

June 25, 2004

Judge Calabresis of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals
has apologized for making comments that compare the election of George Bush to
that of Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. The comment he says was meant to compare
the way Bush got elected not so much Bush as similar to Hitler or Musollini—the
judge says that Mussolini was appointed dictator by the King of Italy and
Hitler was appointed by Hindenburg.

Apparently he makes the comparison because of the
closeness of the election, which was ultimately determined by the court—which
concluded nebulously that Bush won. Also AP reports that Dick Cheny, the
vice-president, used the “f word” towards 
Senator Leahy after a congress session, overheard by many.

There’s an article on the wireless about the Kobe
Bryant trial—and an accidental leak of a transcript from a closed trial. The
judge subsequently issued an order prohibiting any publication of that
transcript. And the press is contesting it to the court of appeals on the basis
of “prior  restraint” not being allowed.

June 26, 2004

Saddam Hussein had his first appearance in Court,  declaring that he is the President of Iraq,
saying this is all about theatre for Bush. Cassini Probe doing exactly what
it’s supposed to says NASAM…Man with a Million pennies in Los Angeles. Spain
is proposing to double their troops in Afghanistan. , perhaps a diplomatic
gesture for heir planned pullout of Iraq. Slept by Castle Bluff—7-11—new
condominium complex

June 27, 2004

on my wireless they say that now Al Quaeda has
kidnapped three Turkish soldiers and are threatening to behead them as well if
they don’t with draw from Iraq. The president of Turkey has vowed he will not
negotiate with the terrorists.  —John
Kerry has cancelled a speaking engagement for a Mayors convention—because he
refuses to cross a police picket line.

There’s been another Mt. Lion attack in California—this
time central. They say there were 48 deaths in schools across the country this
year—one of the highest years ever. There’s news about a  man making a new world record in taking a
photo  of 2700 nude people on Lake Erie.
George Bush is at Dromoland Castle.

July 2, 2004

Marlon Brando died.

July 4, 2004

A man is attempting to golf across Mongolia.  wireless news—that  this Fahrenheit 911 film— by Michael Moore
is the Michael Moore who produced “Roger & Me” the documentary about the
closing of the auto plants in Flint , Mi, his hometown

July 6, 2004

The Austrian president died on the even of his
retirement.  Gay film producer  Von Praunheim is making a movie based on the
life of the fellow who wanted to have his penis eaten and then killed. This
fellow also made a film entitled :Can I be your bratwurst please?”  the running of the bulls in Pamplona Spain
starts Wednesday in the San Fermin festival and protestors are stripping in a
nearby town to gain attention , or take attention away from it—

July 7, 2004

 Leopards are
killing people in Bombay—they killed ten people in one month.

July 8, 2004 

There was a triple murder at the ranch of Sam
Donaldson—the TV newscaster—the son is suspected of killing his father, mother,
and sister. There’s a report about leopards killing humans in Bombay India—coming
out of the preserve and in one moth killed ten people. Now they’re dumping pigs
and chickens and other animals into the preserve for the jaguars.

[This has to be one of the saddest stories I’ve
heard]—a pregnant lady goes out to the bars with her friends—they don’t know
she’s pregnant. She’s high on cocaine. She gives birth to the baby in the
bathroom unbeknownst to anybody else—when one of her friends comes into the
bathroom she tells them she passed a kidney stone—to explain the blood. She
stuffs the baby into the trash can, leaving it there to die. She goes home with
her friends, changes clothes and goes out partying some more the same evening.
Later , somebody finds the dead baby, and puts the pieces of the puzzle
together. She’s arrested for murder. That was in Denver, CO, apparently the
second  instance of its kind in a few
months

Another sad story—a man sues his wife for divorce after
discovering she is bald—apparently she had an illness at an early age that
caused her to lose her hair and wore a wig all the way through their courtship.

July 10, 2004

 AP reports that
some missing nuclear information has been reported at Los Alamos. Also, the
Australians have discovered the chemical in smoke that causes seeds to
germinate.

There’s a story about a man raised by chickens —in
Fiji—apparently his parents locked him up in a chicken coop at a young age for
extended periods of time—or permanently—and when he was discovered they took
him to a psychiatric hospital—and they locked him to a bed in a confined
room—so he continued to act like a chicken for years before a social worker
discovered him and is now doing therapy with him —New Jersey of all
places—where I am right now—has ratified gay marriages. Bush proposes an
amendment to stop gay marriages permanently. I agree. —there’s an article about
so-called “Honor killings” in Pakistan—-when brides marry without the
permission and arrangement of family—some of the families go so far as to kill
their daughter.sister—because it was done without permission .

July 12, 2004

 Ronald Reagan
Jr. is now speaking out against George Bush and his policies for going to war
and also for his refusal to federally fund stem cell research. Convicted rapist
Scott Miller is holding a hostage in a Delaware prison right now.  —Iraq rebels—with the threat of death if the
Bulgarians do not withdraw, are now holding some of the Bulgarians hostage

July 14, 2004

The vote on an amendment to ban gay marriages—was
turned down 50-48—Orrin Hatch spoke out in favor of the amendment saying “If
protection of marriage—for male.female only doesn’t deserve protection I don’t
know what does.

July 15, 2004

Three kids survived a capsize but there’s no sign of
their parents and infant sister—they spent several days on deserted Islands or
in between swimming in Australia’s Cape York Peninsula near Papua New Guinea
–after their boat capsized—their parents told them to swim for it—and they
separated–.

Also —there’s a story about a conflict in China about
“cloud seeding”’—a process where they shoot some sort of chemicals into the
clouds to make them rain—and now different regions are claiming rights to
clouds or infringements of those rights“

The baby boomers largely managed to convert a
historically unique advantage in prosperity, education, and…into narcissistic
blight…it will take fifty years to overcome the damage wrought by the baby
boomers” this fellow asserts.

The writer is a self proclaimed hyphenated
hippie-yuppie who grew up wandering at Haight Ashbury—what’s Haight Ashbury?

Bobby Fischer 
was arrested in Japan after being detained by airport authorities for
passport discrepancies. Apparently Bobby Fischer is still wanted in the U.S.
for violating sanctions against Yugoslavia 
many years ago—and  played a chess
match there despite the then-current sanctions for which he is still wanted.

He was trying to go to the Philippines—now they are
sending him back to the U.S. I had come across something about him in
Pasadena—he posted something on the internet indicating he had been treated
wrongly by the Pasadena Police—which doesn’t surprise me What I didn’t know is
that Bobby Fischer praised the Sept 11 attacks—that surprises me

July 17, 2004

The CIA is being highly criticized by  Congress and the Committee formed to oversee
what went wrong that allowed the  9-11-01
attack to occur… and it appears that a lot of power will be taken away from
these so-called intelligence  .

July 18, 2004

This is the 5th anniversary of the death of  JFK Jr. —who crashed  in a plane with a few others after taking off
from Martha’s Vineyard—five years ago—they say he did a “death spiral” into the
water—having become disoriented in the 
overcast weather  –Tim Berners
Lee—the founder of the Worldwide Web is being “knighted” at Buckingham today—for
his achievements as the founder of the Web. William Bennet—admitted to being a
high stakes gambler about a year ago—I didn’t hear about that then—Bennet is
the  or was the U.S. Secretary of
Education.

Every July 20 Germany remembers those who attempted to
kill Hitler in a coup attempt- but failed –the bomb killed many of those around
Adolf but not Adolf himself—who apparently was unscathed by it—and this led to
deadly repercussions by Hitler against those he suspected of being against him.  A sign on the side of the road says “Get us
out of the United Nations” John Birch Society.

They’re talking about a Civil War fort on an island 68
miles west of Key West Florida—Fort Jefferson –apparently being  ravaged by the sea—but now being prepared for
renovations—the fort itself is gigantic—big enough to hold two coliseums—or a
pro football stadium—it was used to house prisoners during the Civil war.
There’s been a big dinosaur bone discover near Aragon Spain. Hoodia cactus has
been discovered to be an appetite suppressant—found in Africa—now being
marketed.

July 19, 2004

 Arnold
Schwaarzenaager calls some of those legislators who cater to special interests
“girlie men —fire in N. Los Angeles County keeps burning. –in Santa Clarita—and
something about the Scott Peterson murder trial Apparently a hawk electrocuted
by a wire—which  then fell to the
ground—started the So. California fire.

July 20, 2004

They say the prosecution interviewed or investigated
several hundred  sexual offenders in the
area where  Laci Peterson
disappeared.  But in some cases never
followed through on all the potential leads. —Lance Armstrong is doing
well—with five days left to go.  And the
Filipino hostage has been released —a story about Brandy Briggs in
Texas—accused of killing her infant baby by shaking–..—at the time of the
prosecution—her attorney advised her to plead guilty and that there was no way
the judge would give her prison time. She agreed—not able to pay the mounting
legal costs, but then the judge did, in fact, give her jail time—17 years.

Now—several years later—some attorneys took a closer
look and had some other coroners give their opinions—and  several coroners concur that they don’t they
the baby was shaken at all—and that there is evidence that hospital personnel
put the oxygen tube  into the stomach
rather than the lung for a while which could have contributed to the death of
the baby—who had been sick prior to being brought to the hospital. Now they’re
talking about Brandy Briggs being released.

Also —the identity of the scribe for Geoffrey Chaucer
edges of that bond—in fact—when I first arrived at Seymour–r has been
identified by matching signatures—this is the scribe who helped copy
“Canterbury Tales” for Chaucer—and whose name was never known until now.
Muhammad Ali’s daughter is a boxer—I didn’t know that and she apparently is
undefeated.

July 21, 2004

Stephen Hawkings now concedes that black holes may not
permanently swallow up everything—a departure from his original claim—black
holes are formed when stars lose their energy and collapse inward, causing
significant gravitational pull. Hawkings has a development disorder of some
sort—although it apparently does not effect his cognitive abilities—and he is
also the father of three children

July 22, 2004

The husband of the missing Utah jogger apparently lied
about having graduated from the university and  
apparently lied about having been accepted into medical school at UNC—in
Chapel Hill, NC

July 23, 2004

The existence of freak waves—these waves that
purportedly rise up –up to 100 feet high—out of a flat or calm sea—often the
topic of folklore, in some cases myth, and other cases debate—and the purported
cause of  many shipwrecks, has now been
documented by some sort of study—indicating they do , in fact, exist, albeit
the causes  are not yet known or
understood.

Talking about the Los Angeles Lakers—an interview with
Jeanne Buss—the daughter of Lakers owner, Dr. Jerry Buss—and girlfriend of  former Lakers coach, Phil Jackson. Jeanne
Buss says she wants a stronger commitment from Phil—and mentions marriage but
that Phil is not willing to commit himself that far.  And they ask her if Kobe Bryant was at the
heart of the big “shakeup” in the Lakers following their loss to the Pistons in
the championship series and she says she is not sure—only her father knows for
sure, but she says they did try to sign Shaquille O’Neal  but that the price he had in mind was more
than they could pay, and that they also offered Phil Jackson a contract but
that it wasn’t a matter of money with him—he just decided he was through
coaching for the time being.

July 24, 2004

There is continued talk about an intelligence director
to oversee the 15 agency intelligence community, Armstrong is now 3rd in terms
of number of stages won at the Tour de France, but will be first when he wins
the Tour de France on Sunday, making it his sixth consecutive.  —a robber in Milwaukee tried to return the
money he stole from a bank the same day—and was arrested upon return.

Senior golfer Graham Marsh gets two holes-in-one in the
same tournament on the same hole—at the British Seniors. TT1 finally got enough
gumption later in life to risk rejection.

July 25, 2004

There’s  a
story  about a woman beaten so badly by
her husband—an air traffic controller—in Wisconsin—she came to take custody of
her daughters—and he allegedly beat her—and stuffed her in some sort of garbage
bin, left her for dead—she had a cell phone in her pocket—and was able to call
the police, but was not found until the next 
day—having spent an entire evening in this garbage bin—with not much
clothes on—and it was close to zero degrees–.

 The police found
something that led them to the dumpster—and heard her yelling for help—which
saved her life—but because of the frostbite—all of her toes had to be
amputated—and now she cannot walk, or not 
very well. Her n me is Teri Jendusa Nicolai—and there is  a fund set up for her…at the 1st Ban king
Center 7998 S.  Loomis Road, Wind Lake
Wisconsin 53185.

With the Democratic National Convention this week in
Boston—there are concerns about White Supremacy groups being in or around the
area.. including Volksfront and White Revolution.

John Kerry asks the age old question in an
interview—‘Does life imitate art or does art imitate life” in regards to the
probing question by an interviewer about the problem of increasing violence in
Hollywood and his position on it given his closer affiliation with the
Hollywood people than George Bus—and his daughter went to film school at USC or
UCLA.

Lance Armstrong wings the Tour de France. –his sixth
consecutive -=-the son of a Kansas representative kills himself.

July 27, 2004

Dick Cheney, the vice president, says in defense of
going to war against Iraq—that terrorism “ is not increased by the use of force
against terrorists but is triggered by the perception of weakness” . One of the
Kennedy’s however suggests that we were better regarded by the world shortly
after   the attack despite our being in a
position of “weakness”.

July 28, 2004

Another suicide bombing goes off near a bus and kills
around 60 or more Iraqi citizens—not the apparent intent of the bombers.

David Kay the former chief weapons hunter for the U.S.
In Iraq  says it is fanciful to keep
hoping that we will find WMD’s in Iraq—he says there is none—and he also scoffs
at the misnomer of “intelligence community” 
saying that the various agencies that gather intelligence are not
cooperative  as the word “community”
suggests—he says they are more like  a
bunch of    feuding empires not wanting
to be  led by any other.

July 29, 2004

The judge has denied the defenses motion for mistrial
and dismissal of charges—and now Mark Geragos is saying that his client has run
out of the funds to pay the attorney fees. 
they say that Stephen Bing is the #1 political contributor to the
Democratic Party—having donated up to 16 million dollars—and he’s a Hollywood
behind-the-scenes figure—who he is—it’s not clear—they don’t say what he has
done in Hollywood just that he’s connected there somehow—but that he is also
affiliated with mobster “Donnie Shacks” who is now in jail for racketeering.

What will that contribution lead to if Kerry becomes
president? You can’t help but believe there will be some favoritism shown.  they are saying that John Kerry can prove
he’s not an Olympian Oratorian with his Democratic National Convention address
tonight.

Major floods in Dallas—two days after I passed through
there. -. —there’s a story about a dentist by the name of John Hall near
Mecklenberg County—accused of discrepancies with his patients. Concerning the
Kobe Bryant case—they say the alleged victim (or accuser) has already received
$20,000 from a victims compensation fund, which the defense says is an
incentive to make up a story. “Once in a blue moon     excoriating—attacking that was one word
used to describe the Kerry Speech—he attacked Bush and all things related.

July 30, 2004

Bush—picking up on Kerry’s’ theme of  “commander-in-Chief”  says he will not allow the U.S> to  appear weak on his watch—otherwise we will
drift towards tragedy. —there’s a new reality television show in which they
watch the Amish in action—some people are protesting that it exploits their
innocenceMike Tyson—the boxer—the aging boxer——apparently was knocked out in
the 4th round.

 July 31, 2004

A big mafia fellow, Massino, has been convicted  on numerous charges—there’s mention of him
being associated with Donnie Brasco—who is associated with this fellow by the
name of Stephen Bing—the #1 contributor to the Democratic political party.  Now were’ in the Arkansas Valley and various
national forests. — American soldiers admit that they forced Iraqi
soldiers  to jump off a bridge into the
water but didn’t think they died or drowned . 

August 1, 2004

New information from the husband of the missing Utah
jogger apparently has made further searching unnecessary. —a man in Valley
Springs, California—paid $10,000 ransom to get his dog back  . Through the town of Olathe at 1045 a.m.
–Ferial Masry, a teacher in Los Angeles, Is running for the assembly

And if she wins will be the first foreign-born assembly
person—she’s from Saudi Arabia

There’s an impending hurricane or tropical storm on the
east coast causing flooding and evacuations—only a week or so after I left—

August 2, 2004

I manage to get a little from my wireless—brief
connection—Bush apparently has  agreed to
go along with the 9.11 commissions 
recommendation to have an intelligence director—somebody who oversees
all of the so-called “intelligence community” which others ay  isn’t a community at all—but a group of
“feuding empires” –apparently the only stipulation Bush is making is the
question as to whether  the intelligence
director will be part of the executive office.

Bush apparently wants to retain the autonomy of the
intelligence community , which would be potentially diminished if the director
were politically influenced by the executive office.

The arrest of a terror suspect in Pakistan led to
intelligence from his computer—that may have contributed to the heightened
terror alerts in the financial districts of New York and New Jersey. There’s a
military branch called the Northern Command which is dedicated solely to
defending U.S. boundaries. —464 people died in the Paraguay Supermarket fire  a woman will apparently testify in the Kobe
Bryant trial that he “groped” her at a part at Shaquile O’Neals house in
Orlando several years ago. We just passed through and over the Virgin River and
Virgin Mountains prior to entering Mesquite.

For the defense in the Kobe Bryant case—an expert will
testify that she believes, based on tests of the accusers panties, that the
accuser had sexual intercourse with somebody else shortly after having sexual
intercourse with Kobe Bryant. This is starting to sound more and more like a
repeat of “To Kill a Mockingbird”—the only thing Kobe Bryant may be guilty
of  is being a black man having sex with
a white woman. If it is true that she had sex with somebody else shortly after
the Kobe Bryant sexual interaction—it would seem that she was not, in fact, a
that distraught about the incident. The prosecution says that the sperm of “Mr.
X”—found  alongside the sperm of Kobe
Bryant on the same pair of panties is old and that residue of sperm can remain
in panties even after being washed. The defense expert says that it is unlikely
because of the significant amount found on the panties—not just traces.

August 4, 2004

The American basketball team got beat by the
Italians—90 something to 78—wow—that’s an upset. A thirty-four year old
female teacher who has been in prison for seven years for seducing a 6th
grader  and having two children from him,
is being released from prison in Washington. I just saw  a mirage at 123 pm. —the accuser of Kobe
Bryant is now wondering if she will be able to get a fair criminal case and
may, instead, do a civil suit, Scott Peterson allegedly shopped for boats on
the internet the day after he was confronted by Amber Frey’s girlfriend for
being married. In Beijing a man slashed 15 kids in a kindergarten classroom
with a knife.   a Siberian boy was
discovered apparently raised by a dog—for 
5 or 6 years. —a Romanian man keeps a dead cow in his apartment—cutting
off pieces of it to eat when hungry. Three banks are robbed in Davenport, IA
while Kerry & Bush are campaigning.

August 5, 2004

Bobby Fischer wants to renounce his American
citizenship, and he also says that there’s an American-Jewish plot against him.

They are still reporting on Bobby Fischer’s
dilemma—detained in Japan for having an invalid U.S. Passport, he is now
seeking to renounce his American citizenship and to be given refuge in Japan.
A.P. News says that he has reportedly praised the 9.11 attack on America and
also denies the actuality of the Holocaust.

AP Science reports that a new study has discovered that
there is something in a mother’s hormones that makes her super-protective of
her children—and that their protectiveness is not necessarily due to “love” for
them, although I have to ask if God did not wire our bodies so that the various
mechanics of our human biology serve to create actions and feelings which we
call “love.” Love is what love does—so if a mother fiercely protects her baby
because God wired our bodies in such a manner—he wired mother’s to have
“superlove” for their children.

Sports: Lakers trade Gary Payton and Rick Fox to the
Celtics, further changing the chemistry of the Lakers team. International  An American woman in Oman faces death by
execution for the alleged killing of her husband. Some say that the woman had
been abused repeatedly by her husband and that therefore, there should be some
lenience. Mexican and Canadian border is now becoming an increasing place of
potential entry for terrorists which is difficult to guard say U.S. officials.
Ben Vanderford placed a tape on the internet showing him being beheaded by
terrorists, but now has told the media that he did it as a hoax and as a
commentary about how easy it is to fake a beheading and have it aired on the
internet. FBI is investigating and may pass it on to the D.A. for prosecution.

Talks between India and Pakistan continue concerning
the boundary line around Kashmir, Himalayan area, and the “Sir Creek” area.
Both India & Pakistan have nuclear capability. There’s a severe locust
plague in West Africa. After a woman died an autopsy revealed that there had
been a towel left in her body behind the lung after surgery for emphysema
several years prior. She had managed to live several years with it imbedded in
her body, but the attorney for the family says that it obviously caused her to
die earlier than she would have had it not been in her body. Danny DeVito was
born in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Jack Nicholson was born in Neptune, New
Jersey, and Bruce Springsteen was born in Freehold, New Jersey—AP reports in
regards to New Jersey born celebrities and the rise of movie making in the
state itself

August 7, 2004

They think they have detected a ghost in the Kent
County, Maryland courthouse. The story about the movie “Garden State” was by
Reuters, not AP. Angels have won six of 
their last eight. The son of Jeb Bush, governor, got married this
weekend—and they say that his mother was born in Mexico and that their
grandfather, George Sr. , referred to the kids as “the brown ones.” So the wife
of Jeb Bush is Mexican-American?

Reminder about Sr. Bush and his re-election bid. Bush
Sr. was not re-elected. This story says that Bush Jr. has planned
better—preparing for the campaign in advance.

Western flank of Volcano in Canary Islands, La Palma—if
it breaks off, which it will they say someday, it will cause a tsunami that
will swamp the east coast.

They say that the accuser in the Kobe Bryant case has
filed a civil law suit and that her chances are better in that venue because
the criteria is “more likely than not” whereas in the criminal court the
criteria for conviction is “beyond a reasonable doubt” . There’s a bill being
proposed that will make it legal to hunt Mute Swans which some people say are
over-protected and becoming a nuisance. Peter Goss  has been proposed as the new CIA director and
director of intelligence at large by President George Bush Jr.

There’s a new acronym being used—“Wendys—Would be
Environmentalists, Not Doing it Yet” . They say a company has invented an
edible plastic wrap

 New Jersey’s
governor has admitted to being gay, albeit married, and having had an affair
with a man on staff in the state office and says he will resign because of it.
In England, a convicted rapist won the Lotto—about 13 million U.S. dollars.

Something about the late John Steinbeck—the author of
“Mice And Men” among others—his son is still alive and is a writer and
participates in various Steinbeck 
festivities that periodically take place around Monterey, California.

 Michael Phelps
wins the first American gold of the Olympic Games and sets a new world record
in the process. —sports—in a gigantic upset—Puerto Rico defeated the U.S. men’s
basketball team—and soundly.

The U.S. Beat the Netherlands in men’s volleyball.
Attorneys for Peterson say being a “cad” doesn’t make him a killer. . A “cad”
is somebody who is “piggish”—takes advantage of others, out for the “score”—to
meet women for a one night stand, etc.—the 9.11.01 plane crash in Pennsylvania
occurred near Shanksville, PA which is southeast of Pittsburg  they say Ted Kennedy the senator had his name
on a no-fly list and had to call the Department of Homeland Security three
times before he was allowed on the plan  
—John Kerry says Bush vowed not to attack Kerry’s war record but he is
allowing other Republicans to do it for him instead with Bush campaign money.

Phelps wins his 5th gold medal  and decides not to swim in the Olympic teams
final relay—allowing his teammate Ian Thorpe to do so instead. Bob Perry
apparently was the biggest contributor to the Texas Republican party in 2002
–giving about $900,000, and is now part of the Vietnam Veterans Swift Boat
group which is placing ads on television questioning the truth about John
Kerry’s Vietnam War record. In Spain—the people are celebrating Holy Year with
a trek to the area which legend has it that St. James was buried, and  where they believe they can receive God’s
forgiveness if they enter a specific Cathedral which only opens its front doors
during Holy Year and only on July 25—-when July 25 is a Sunday, because
that’s what makes it a Holy Year—when St. James Day,  July 25, is on a Sunday. The last time it
happened was in 1999, and the next time will be 2010.

Visitors from all over Europe celebrate it with a
trek—sometimes a few days, for others a few months—walking to Santiago which is
in the northwest corner of Spain.

August 21, 2004

William Rood, an editor for the Chicago Tribune and a
member of John Kerry’s Vietnam group has confirmed the account by John Kerry of
what happened in Vietnam and has said that the Swift Boat Veterans account is
inaccurate and misleading. You see—there are those kids who never were forced
to undergo the humiliation of frustration that comes with learning things that
require diligence such as playing the piano. For me that took time—and
humility—a lot of kids never have to experience that.

 August 23, 2004

The men’s basketball team loses to Lithuania. Mike
Phelps gets his record-tying 8th medal. Thieves rob a Museum in Oslo Norway
taking Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and “Madonna”. Ancient Greek athletes
competed in the nude. They went to the “undressing” room rather than the
dressing room. There was an event called the pancreateon in which anything
goes, break fingers, break legs, what have you to get the opponent to let go.
The archeologist Steven Miller says he thinks nudity was the “great equalizer”
regardless of social standing, economics, politics, and he says that he thinks
this is what gave rise to democracy. Stephen Miller’s project is at
www.nemea.org.

Stephen Miller is rebuilding the temple of Zeus where
athletes once made their offerings to gods and they once carved their initials
in the tunnel. Senator Pat Roberts R-Kansas and the Senate Intelligence
Committee are discussing completely dismantling the CIA. The doyenne of
domesticity, Martha Stewart.  .. at the
Peterson trial, when Mark Geragos got up to cross-examine the former mistress
of Scott Peterson he first said “No questions” and waited a moment while everybody
became wide-eyed, then he said “Just kidding.”

August 24, 2004

 Peterson
apparently never told Amber Frye, his mistress, that he loved her, and he never
tried to stop her from going to the police. The gal from Facts of Life who
played Blair (and who has also been at the Womens Conference at the Crystal
Cathedral) believes in using “hotsaucing” to discipline her children—with a
drop of hot sauce on their tongue for bad behavior. Others vehemently object.
Lisa Welchel played “Blair” on Facts of Life. Two planes crash shortly after
taking off from the same airport almost simultaneously. “…as hose on the
autistic spectrum may lack understanding of emotions…or may have difficulty
interpreting facial expressions and body language.…teaching them to appreciate
theatre is a particular challenge…Convicted rapist in England wins 13 million
dollar lotto.

Angels sweep the yanks at the Bronx.. Japan wins the
women’s marathon leaving a British runner in tears who didn’t make it. Jack
Lalanne, physical fitness guru, is stil alive at age 89. Scientists are trying
to develop a robot that will use plankton as fuel.

August 25, 2004

They say that at the Republican Convention they will be
using new technology that “throws” sound in a “beam” of sorts, they will use it
for crowd control as well as a presidential display The son of Margaret
Thatcher was arrested in South Africa by the Scorpions on suspicion of a
mercenary plot against the president of Equatorial  Guinea. The 33 year old son of Johnny Cash is
continuing to produce his father’s music along with other country stars, and he
is auctioning off a lot of his father’s belongings. Why not a museum? It’s
half-time in the Spain-USA Olympic basketball game… eventually the U.S. went on
to defeat Spain

A father of a 20 year old Marine killed in Iraq set himself
and the Marines van on fire (the van of the Marines who cam to inform him of
the news).

August 28, 2004

USA wins gold in women’s soccer… Tlenzuela at parking
office. here’s a festival in Tomatina, Spain 25 miles west of Valencia, around
late August in which the entire day is devoted to a tomato throwing contest—at
each other. Carolyn Parish, a Canadian politician, called Americans “idiots”
recently. Last year she called them “damn bastards.”

The CIA, Department of Defense, and the National  Security Counsel was established in 1947 at
the outset of the Cold War.

Shocker: Mens U.S. Basketball Team loses to Argentina
at the Olympics thus  eliminating them
from Gold Medal competition. Concerning stem cell research—it apparently is
possible to get adult stem cells from body fat—and they tell a story about a
doctor who did liposuction on himself towards that end. Italian Journalist
Denzel Valdonian (?)  was apparently
executed by terrorists.

August 31, 2004

On the day she disappeared, Somebody surfed the web
between 830 am and 845 a.m from the Peterson House for a Sunflower umbrella.
Laci had a sunflower tattoo on her ankle. Prosecution says the dogs picked up
Laci’s scent at Berkley Marina, but isn’t it possible that if Laci hugged Scott
that he would have her scent on him. Or if she had even touched anything that
Peterson took along with him?

September 1, 2004

A fellow didn’t have enough money to pay for his front
bicycle tire to get fixed so every since then he has gone around on the back
tire only doing a “wheelie”—he did the longest wheelie –30 miles, says the
report.

The Kobe Bryant trial has been dismissed—the alleged
victim (or accuser) decided she could not go on albeit made one condition that
Kobe Bryant apologize and say that he while he may have believed it to be
consensual she did not perceive it to be that way. Turkey wants to make
adultery a crime.

September 2, 2004

There’s a story about 
the so-called “giraffe women” of Burma, or Myanmar, –women who wear
these metal collars of sorts around their necks to elongate them or give the
appearance of elongating them, which attracts tourists and provides income. And
there apparently is also a  tradition
behind it—mythical or partly fictional—i.e. to protect the ladies neck from the
teeth of tigers, etc. Doctors say  the
collars don’t actually elongate the neck of the women—but forces the collarbone
down thus giving the effect of elongation; but even after the collars are taken
off, the necks are no longer than before.

Bill Clinton apparently keeps an office in Harlem, New
York. His home is in Chapaqua.

-re. Arnold Schwaarzenaager’s Republican National
Convention Speech:

In Ananova (a British News Corporation) under their
section entitled “Quirkies”  there is a
story entitled “Historians Blast Arnie’s Bush Speech”: Arnold Schwarzenegger
was told to go back to school after his speech supporting President Bush’s  election campaign. Austrian historians say
the California governor made some schoolboy howlers in talking about his
homeland. Schwaarzenegger, up until now, Austria’s favorite son, upset
politicians  across the board with his
speech to the Republican National Convention in New York.

He told  how
Austria became a socialist country after the Second World War and said he
remembered seeing Soviet tanks in the street. But when Schwarzenegger emigrated
to the United States in 1968 Austria was ruled by the conservatives People’s
Party and had not had a single socialist chancellor. Martin Polaschek, a legal
historian at the Karl Franzen University, accused the Governor of “trying to
use the old communist threat for  Bush’s
election campaign. Saying “Austria was ruled by a  coalition government. He is getting a free
country mixed up with a socialist one.”

Another Austrian historian, Stefan Karner, added: “The
child in Styria, he could not have seen Soviet tanks. By the  time Schwarzenegger was born in 1947, the
province was occupied by the British.”

September 6, 2004

At least 350 persons were killed in the hostage
situation in southern Russia—it’s related to their relations with Chechnya.

Did you know the back half o the hurricane after the
eye is stronger than the first half, or is supposed to be. John Kerry has cut
short some of his campaign schedule to be with his ailing wife in the
hospital—who appears to be okay after all. The name of that southern Russian
town is Beslan. Ichiro Suzuki needs 35 hits in 27 games to pass the season hit
record set by George Sisler 84 years ago who has 257 hits. 151 game winning
streak by Dela Salle came to an end last night—the longest high school football
streak ever—they hadn’t lost since 1991. Sara McMann, female Olympic wrestler,
was charged with reckless driving in the death of her boyfriend, an NCAA
wrestler, as she was driving him from Colorado Springs to Washington DC where
he was a law school student.

They say that the hospital at which Clinton is
scheduled to have surgery has a higher percentage rate of deaths for this kind
of surgery than any other hospital in the area—double that of any other—at 4%
which is still very low, but does raise eyebrows.

September 7, 2004

Bush said because of medical  lawsuits too many doctors have been put out
of business  and too many OB.GYN’s are “
unable to practice their  love with women
all across the country

September 9, 2004

New robot is made to eat flies for fuel, but needs to
attract flies so it will have to carry garbage or excrement —Scott Peterson’s
father testified on behalf of his son

September 10, 2004

They may still be able to fulfill some of the
scientific objectives via the Genesis capsule after all, despite it crash
landing in the desert, they said that there is still some intact pieces

September 12, 2004

A mushroom cloud was observed in N. Korea near the
border, on the same day as N. Korea’s anniversary. Now N. Korea is saying it
was due to a demolition of a mountain which is part of their hydroelectric
planning. U.S. Airways may file for bankruptcy.

September 14, 2004

 AP reports on
the plight of animals during hurricane seasons, including squirrers, but also
Dove chicks, and even fish—because sometimes too much rain can deplete the
oxygen in the pond—or right after the storm when sun shines, algae rapidly
increases thereby also depleting oxygen. Oprah Winfrey gave a brand new car to
each member of the audience.Brian DeVries –was convicted as a child molester,
recently released to live in Washington state—voluntarily castrated himself.

September 16, 2004

And the Scott Peterson case—prosecution experts have
testified that the concrete used to make an anchor on the boat is not the same
concrete he used to fix the driveway. But the defense made the point that the
samples used from the driveway included large granules mixed in from the old
part of the driveway..  or something like
that. —Hurricane Ivan has already caused at least 20 deaths, and now they’re
talking about Hurricane Jeanne and possibly a Hurricane Carl.

The interesting thing about the Laci Peterson
death—despite her limbs missing the experts testified that there was no
indication that the bones had been sawed which would be the expected method
used by a killer trying to de-limb her so she may have been picked apart by
marine life. Another adult female teacher has been accused of having sex with a
fourteen year old male student.  they’re
saying the circadian rythyms of the body affect sleep and work performance in
space.

September 18, 2004

 “The worst in
mother nature brings out the best in human nature” said Betty kaster (?) a
member of some democratic senate committee in regards to the victims of the
hurricane being neither republican nor democrat at the moment, just human.

September 19, 2004

Pancho Doll searches for Americas best waterholes

September 20, 2004

Former pop singer Cat Stevens who converted to the
Muslim religion—and changed his name to “Islam” caused a plane to be diverted
upon entry to the U.S. le El was not allowed to enter.  Cat Stevens who changed his name to “Islam”
caused a plane from London to D.C. to be diverted to Maine and he was sentback.
700 are dead from Hurricane Jeane in Haiti. Scott Peterson bought a bought for
cash and didn’t register it. He also told somebody he went golfing all day and
later said he went fishing —prosecutions expert witness testifies that the baby
must have died the day after or the day that Laci Peterson was reported
missing. But another expert said the baby must have died on the 28th.

September 23, 2004

Intel says multicore is the wave of the future. So
there is a series between the Angels vs. A’s coming up—that could be the
clincher for who takes first place or the wild card. “Huge buildings reveal the
Nazi’s love of the bombastic and hatred of individuality”  says a news article about this old Nazi
building built as a vacation hotel that could hold 20,000 just sold for only a
few $100,000. New film including full shots of “fellatio”—what is
“fellatio”?  death toll of Hurricane
Jeane in Haiti may reach 2000.

September 27, 2004

  “Allad Alawi is
the interim prime minister of Iraq”  
Scott Peterson said he bought chicken wire to keep the cats from
scratching his trees. Detectives admitted they saw the cats scratching the
trees. —dogs are now being trained to smell bladder cancer.  a man changes his name to “they”.’You can’t
eat buckeyes.” —Governor Schwarzenaager says classic cars must be smogged;  dinocephalosaurs discovered long neck;  Montreal Expos might move to D.C. or
Arlington Bobby Shriver—the younger brother of Maria Shriver  is running for Santa Monica City Council; Don
Haidl OC County Sheriff resigns amid accusations concerning son.

September 28, 2004

Ministers in pas/alta are trying to prevent further
gang violence—including Dorothy Evans at the Christian Refugee Center.

September 29, 2004

Ichiro Suzuki is now two hits away from the most hits
in one season with three games left.

The Pope will beatify Anne Katherine Emerick (?) the
one person who inspired Mel Gibson’s “The Passion”  which some people think is controversial
because Gibson based so much “factual “evidence on her account oof the
Passion—with a devil chasing jews and incinting them to be mean towards
Jesus—the Jews think this is anti-semitic or encourage anti-semitism. More
controversial is the beatification of Karl I —Ichiro Suzuki needs two hits
with three games remaining to take the most hits in one season record.

October 1, 2004

 Ichiro Suzuki
got a single—nearing the single season hits record. Mileage at Edwards Air
Force Base– 71184 ;

October 2, 2004,

Angels won—big! Suzuki breaks Sisler’s 85 year old record.

October 2-5, 2004 : there’s a headline without
explanation asking, “Is Tuna red because of Carbon Monoxide?”  Curtis 
Lucas is the pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia
(?) Fort Bend? —he was accused of biting a police officer. Deep sea trawlers
destroy sea mounts for the sake of catching fish considered to be a
delicatessen such as Orange Roughy.

October 5, 2004

Rodney Dangerfield died. While the hearing was
proceeding the Angels lost 9-3.  they are
saying something about Bob Dylan being a great poet –and note that he was born
“Robert Zimmerman”.

October 7, 2004

They’re talking about the retirement of St. Bernards
from the service they provided at a monastery in Europe and which is where they
originally got their reputation as helping dogs.   —I listen to AP update on the hour and they
give a clip of John Kerry’s speech—and it is the first time I’ve ever heard
Kerry speak so adamantly—saying “When I take over in January…”—wow, I think to
myself—that’s the most assertive speech I’ve heard so far.  He goes on to say “ I hope I don’t inherit a
Lebanon”—referring to Iraq.

Now they are saying there is no actual link between
Husseim and Zarquawi, despite the assertions of President Bush otherwise a few
months prior.

Sammy Sosa was fined $87,000 for leaving their last
game early. Wangari Maathai  wns the
Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in Africa to plant trees among other things.
.   a young man from Carrol College (is
that in Helena Montana?) apparently committed suicide after he found out he was
going to be charged with rape of a young lady who maintains that she fell
asleep or passed out and woke up to find him sexually penetrating her in his
car. He maintains it was consenseual—the college had been informed but had
declined to do anything further saying it appeared consenseual, but apparently
the police decided to press charges. He apparently was mortified that this
would become public and killed himself instead.

A female guard helpd a prisoner escape and the guard (
married and a mother ) ran off with him. They were caught shortly later at a
hotel. Elsewhere, a man was burned alive for stealing a gas can in Peru. The
rural village where the murder took place apparently has been the site of some
other atrocities as well. In this case they doused the man with gasoline and
set him on fire as he was attached to a post with ropes. When the ropes broke
loose he stumbled away and may have been able to extinguish himself but someone
came along and re-ignited the fire with more gas. There’s an article  about a book by Alaim Clement called
Underground Paris—concerning the catacombs under the city of Paris—and the
night life that takes place down below.

Here’s something—there’s a “Sex Fair” planned to take
place in Warsaw Poland which involves X-rated actors (and anybody else
interested) to compete for the “sex master” prize—whichi they don’t eleaborate
upon but apparently is open to anybody interested to watch.  Protests are planned, but they say they
intend to go on with it.

October 10, 2004

They talk about a movie made by the producer
of____________, Cimini, who later produced an apparent box office bomb called
“Heaven’s Gate” which they are now trying to re-do again. This movie—despite a
lot of negative criticism apparently did better overseas.  They say Cimini was given “carte blanche” for
this movie. —in Morocco—the importance of virginity in newlywed females is so
vital that some of them have operations prior to their honeymoon so that bleeding
will occur. If bleeding does not occur and the husband suspects they may not be
virgins, in some cases it could cost them (the wives) their lives.

They say the highest priced gas is in San Diego—the
lowest in Houston.   —Christopher Reeve
died a day or so ago—he was the actor who played Superman—and became paralyzed
in 1995 after a horseback riding accident. He’s also looming large in the
debate over stem cell research—which Bush is against but Kerry is in favor
(of).

Other news—Robin Ventura, the baseball player,  is retiring. Apparently he grew up in Santa
Maria (where I just passed through). Nebraska Cornhuskers lost 70-10 to Texas
Tech.

Other sports news—Lebron James the rookie basketball
star had a baby—or his long-time girlfriend did—but he doesn’t want to talk
about it. —in Venezuela they toppled a statute of Columbus, according to the
dictates of the Venezuelan president who thinks that Columbus was as bad as
Hitler.

October 15, 2004

ABC went to Vietnam , to the specific place where this
little skirmish took place in which John Kerry killed a Vietcong soldier, man,
or boy. There are different accounts—some say it is exactly as Kerry told it.
Others say that Kerry shot a boy in the back, running away afterbeing wounded.
Still others say he shot the soldier in the chest.  , Kerry mentions Dick Cheney’s daughter in
the debate telling the world that she is lesbian.

The brother of Sara McMann, the female Olympic
wrestler,  who was convicted of
manslaughter when she accidentally killed her boyfriend in a car accident, was
murdered by somebody and the murder was convicted yesterday. , Felipe Solis is
the person of the week. He’s the curator at the Guggenheim Museum in New
York,  in charge of the Aztec Exhibit-,
the largest of its kind.

The boy/man who cut off his own arm in the rock
climbing accident is Aron Ralston—and now he wrote a book entitled  Between a Rock and a Hard Place. He lives in
Aspen. At the time he was climbing in Canyonlands NP in Utah.  IN  the
news, they’ve found a new fish in Lake Michigan called a “Frankenfish” which
apparently is an aggressive breed.

They are hoping somebody just threw it out of their
aquarium and that it has not infiltrated the lake. Other predator fish in Lake
Michigan include the Zebra Mussel, Sea Lamprey, the Round Goby, and now they are
taking steps to prevent the Asian Carp from entering in through the Mississippi
River—it is only fifty miles away they say—so they are setting up some sort of
electric filter at the mouth of the river. They are celebrating the  anniversary 
of the Taj Majal, which was completed in 1654—350 years ago.

New Book by Alan Tennant who followed falcolns in their
airplane—to see the effects that the changes in environment had on the
falcolns. R. Redford has the movie rights to it, for national geographic. A
scientist is trying to teach bacteria to eat caffeine so that eventually it can
make a better tasting cup of decaffeinated coffee

October 16, 2004

Houston Astros win, cutting the lead to 2-1.  Clemens was the winning pitcher. Currently at
707 pm. The Yankees and Boston are tied at 4-4 in the top of the 4th inning.
Yankees lead 2-0 in the series.

October 16, 2004

Navy has not beaten Notre Dame since 1963 when Roger
Staubach led them to victory—the same year he won the Heisman Trophy . TRAIN
accident in Whittier California caused evacuation of homes. Riddick Bowe ,
former heavyweight champion, is fighting again, hasn’t fought sinc- e 1996….
And served  15 months  in prison for kidnapping his ex-wife.  41-1 
He fought yesterdy on an Indian reservation and he won. Yankees win
19-8.

Ozzie Ozborne was banned from San Antonio Texas for
twenty years for urinating in front of the Alamo. Sheila Biliyeu lives in her
car in Oklahoma.. six percent of the vote… The Gherkin wins architectural award
in England . The highest architectural award is the Pritzker. Pierre Salinger,
former press secretary for JFK died, and he apparently insisted that the 1988
plane crash over Lockerbie Scotland was in fact a drug enforcement operation …
that went wrong.

And that TWA flight 800 was actually shot down by an
errant Navy Missle in 1996 Bush wrote a letter to Zapatero—the new president of
Spain.. saying friends shouldn’t act the way they did pulling their troops out
of Iraq, and Zapatero responded that sincerity is the highest value of
friendship.

Astros and Cardinals tied 5-5 seventh inning. Veronica
at Fair Oaks Mobil—not Martha, although heavy set like Martha—but polite.
Astros 6-5 bottom 7th. . Donated Jean Jacket to Good will. Astros win, tying
series at 2-2. Carlos Beltran has hit 5 homeruns in 5 games for Astros and 8 in
the post season son far.  Red Sox win
6-4, 12 innings, (and the next night win in 14 innings).

October 20, 2004

 Sgt. Ivan
Frederick gets eight years in prison for Abu 
Ghraib prison abuse scandal. After pleading guilty.

 Fidel Castro
falls and breaks his knee.  they’re
talking about the deterioration of Mexican historical ruins such as the Zapotec
Kingdom of Monte Alban in Mexic’s southern state of Oaxaca.

The expensive cost of dam removal. The Matilja Dam has
to be removed in Ventura County.  : Scott
Petersons parents took the stand—Scott’s mother and father took the stand.
Scott’s mother said that she gave $10,000 to Scott that day because of some
sort of bank account confusion. His father said that he told Scott to bring his
brother’s driver’s license with him so that he could get the San Diego County
golf discount, admitting he is “cheap”. And she told him to buy a Mercedes in
her name because of all the hooplah going on about the murder of Laci—and the
fact that the police would immediately trace a vehicle in Scott’s name and
attach a GPS to track him.  And they said
that Scott had been living like a nomad out of his car trying to avoid the
media—thus explaining the camping equipment. They have not explained, however,
the bleached hair—and the discrepancy between his testimony that it was because
he had been swimming in a friends’ pool versus the testimony of the friend who
said that was not true.

November 4, 2004

Chen Chung Ho at the city zoo in Taiwan  tried to convert the lions to
Christianity—jumped into the lions pen and said “Jesus will save you Come bite
me” and they attacked, he escaped with minor injuries. At the Taipei city zoo
in Mucha.  farmers in India are using
Coca cola or cola as pesticide –saying it kills bugs , Coke denies the use of
Coke as pesticide. Theo Van Gogh was killed by Muslims, found with knives in
his body.. he had  been a critic of
Muslim religion outspoken.. is he any relation to Vincent?  , man at LAX angered because he couldn’t buy
a plane ticket using a receipt stripped naked jumped the fence and ran over to
a departing plane and jumped in the wheel well

November 5, 2004

Pakistan   gal by
the name of Mai …. Was gang raped by  her
village me about 200 watched when she went there to ask for forgiveness for her
brother who had been accused of having sex with a woman from another tribe
(which he denied). The news of the story got out and the world was shocked.

Mt. St. Helens erupts magma.  Cofer Black the point man  for counter terrorism in Bush administration
resigns  ..he was embarrassed by a
botched report he made about the casualties due to international terrorism, and
then he compounded the mistake by apparently doubling it without checking
actual statistics and figures. —a National Guard pilot mistakenly shot off a
few rounds at Little Egg Intermediate School in Southern New Jersey a few days
ago.

Two boys may have died in a Mexican cave after falling
in.. and then it rained, flooding the cave while rescue attempts were
underway.   The Sir Creek area  between Pakistan and India remains a
contentious point between the two countries and fisherman regularly wander over
the boundary and get arrested either by Pakistan or Indian  police.

November 6, 2004

Grey  Seal Pups
Found bludgeoned on Beginish Island in Ireland, nails in their head. Baby pups
, 60 or more. First spaceship to go into space in the span of five days
(minimum allowed was fourteen days) on a private level got a check for 10
million dollars today. Burt Rutan 
accepted the prize money at the St. Louis Science Center .   The Spaceship was financed by more than 10
million dollars by Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen.

Upset Miami defeated by Clemson, Tennessee defeated by
Notre Dame—college football. Officials in Iraq are concerned about missing
SAMS—maybe as many as 6000 SAMS circulating worldwide outside of govt. control.
Some new archaeological discoveries in Bulgaria. In Uganda there’s been an
outbreak of Hippopotamus deaths due to anthrax poisoning—which breeds in dry
ground, and in dry weather when the animals eat dry vegetation they sometimes
get poisoned by the anthrax.

Radon baths in Japan –some say they cause cancer others
say they don’t—insisting they are curative. Man by the name of Andrew Veal
commit suicide at ground zero in protest of the re-election of Bush. The Dutch
have responded to the killing of Theo Van Gogh by attacking some of the
mosques, and tried to set fire to one of them.

Solar Sailing—the wave of the future.  Louis Freedman of Carl Sagan’s Planetary
Society in Pasadena, Ca plans a test along with cosmos studios in January.  More news—the Peterson jury may already be
deadlocked.

November 8, 2004

Mike Danton, NHL player was found guilty of plotting to
conspire to murder his agent and has been sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison. He
played for the St. Louis Blues. Truffles are a fungus that grow in symbiosis
with tree roots

November 9, 2004

A kid/student (college?Striegel finds a new
amphibian—new genus, new species near Pittsburgh.

Diane Sawyer spend a few days inside a women’s prison,
undercover, and said 90% of the inmates have a lesbian relationship with
others. Clergy in Canada are joining an Auto Union saying they need as much
protection as anybody else.  They’re
saying the Anaheim Angels may become the Los Angeles Angels. Kansas Jayhawks
are ranked #1 in college pre-season basketball. They haven’t been ranked #1
since Wilt Chamberlain played for them in 1950.

November 10, 2004

Hostage Slaughter houses were found in Fallujah. Meteor
field discovered under the Sahara desert—craters. Djibouti female circumcision
in this East African country. Rapala lures gained fame because of an article
about them in the Marilyn Monroe edition of Life Magazine Arafat dies Author
Iris Chang found dead apparently from suicide.

November 11, 2004

“Peterson convicted of killing wife and baby “found
guilty of first and second degree murder they said that  somebody yelled at Scott Peterson’s Mother”
“I hope they fry your son”  as she left
the court house. And that when they polled the people on the street most of
them were “ecstatic” about the verdict. 3:40 p.m. And the newspaper had already
printed a late-afternoon extra edition that said “Guilty” on it.

November 13, 2004

Evander Holyfield loses to Larry Donald—in an apparent
embarrassing fight for the former four time heavyweight champion. MSU beats
Wisconsin. The unclaimed baggage center in Scotsborough Alabama. ODB the rapper
dies of an apparent heart attack (Old Dirty Bastard)

November 15, 2004

Condoleeza Rice is named Secretary of State, Colin
Powell resigning; Man sets himself on fire outside the white house says they
hear him crying “allah, allah”; Hussein took 21 billion from the oil for food
program —smuggled it. They’ve found the Lost City of Atlantis off the coast of
Cypress. Mormons are the fastest growing denomination in America. Peruvian drug
smugglers are caught with drugs inside a squid.

November 17, 2004

 NASA
successfully launched the Scram jet which went 7000 mph over the Pacific Ocean
New translation of the Pentateuch  Robert
Alter.  A deer wandered into the O’Hare
baggage claim area. This CIA agent who just quit says that at one point a top
Osama Bin Laden associate was trapped and they knew where—the hotel and the
exact room and the CIA told  the military
but  the military declined.

At the Vibe awards in Santa Monica—at a Santa Monica
airport hangar—there was a fight and somebody got stabbed—apparently a man
approached Dr. Dre and slugged him and then David Buck aka________ rapper name
stabbed Johnson. Johnson is in stable condition in the hospital. David Buck is
wanted by the police. NASA has a research center in Langley and were part of
the participants in the SCRAM jet experiment. News I s Margaret Hassan Dead?
They’re starting to think so. Sears and K-Mart are going to merge.

November 18-19, 2004

Billy Graham .They’ve discovered the skeleton of what
they now consider to be the last common ancestor of all great apes. Peyton
Manning is quarter back for the Baltimore Colts. His brother Eli is with the
Giants. Their father is former Saints QB Archie Manning

Only 13% of Americans think that God had no role in the
creation of the world, but yet we still have evolution being taught in almost
all the schools. However, Dover area school district in southeastern
Pennsylvania has decided to teach “intelligent design.” Last time U. of M. was
national champion was in 1997 when they were co-champs with Nebraska. OSU has
beat U of M in 94, 98, and 2002; UM won in 96 and 2002  and is 11-4-1 against OSU in the last fifteen
games. In 1998 OSU defeated UM to thwart their hopes of an undefeated league
record. This is Billy Graham’s 416th crusade and his next to last.

NASA launches spacecraft named “Swift” to search for
black holes. World’s oldest living man dies at age 113. Michigan loses to OSU
but will go to Rose Bowl because Wisconsin lost to Iowa. Charles Manson got
turned down for a record contract by the son of Doris Day who died today.
Prince William of England says he does not want to be “mollycoddled” if the
order is for him to go to war Lori Berenson has been in prison in Peru since
1995 based on terrorism charges.

Flash floods kill 250 in the Philippines, Quezon
province.  Yale fans fool Harvard fans by
making them hold up signs to read “we suck. Ken Jennings, Jeopardy champion
finally lost. Dianna Deetric Berns is subject to excessive force by Atlanta
police and it is caught on video at the airport. Officer Clarence Alexander was
the instigating officer, seven other officers arrived thereafter. The district
attorney was Bob Keller, Berns attorney is Steven Lister.

Airplane attempting to make first round the world
nonstop , non-re-fueled flight.Dick Ebersol the NBC sports announcer was in an airplane
that crashed in Colorado. He apparently was returning from the Notre Dame-USC
football game and has one son at USC and another son at Notre Dame.  He and his older son survived but his
youngest son apparently died. Kevin Grady or O’Grady, of East Grand Rapids High
School,  is breaking all the Michigan
high school football records.

December 2, 2004

Giant Christmas tree sits on eleven barges in Rio
DeJaneiro-; . South Haven female middle school teacher is in jail for allegedly
having a sexual interaction with a female student. Friends and family testify
on behalf of Scott Peterson to try to convince the jury not to give him the
death sentence. A recount of the Ohio results is still slated to go forward in
the presidential race.. they’ve paid the 113,000 fee… if democrats had won the
20 electoral votes in Ohio they would have won the election. Class A
bio-terrorism agents include: smallpox, plague, botulism, and tularemia,
hemorrhagic fever, and anthrax.

December 3, 2004

38, 000 people die of influenza every year. Spanish flu
of 1918-19 killed 25 million people worldwide, more than all of WWI. They have
found a way to reverse paralysis in dogs if it is injected in the animal within
three days of the injury. School bus driver near Buffalo New York is fired for
talking with the students about stem cell research.

Some scientists are now saying that the global warming
leads to greater chill in the long run. It causes the icebergs to thaw and
causes fresh water to flow into the salty 
north Atlantic changing the balmy flow of water in the North Atlantic
Gulf Stream into cold water and around 8200 years ago caused a great chill.
24-year-old American Nancy Randall is favored to win the Miss World contest
being held in China. The Irish are the wealthiest of the European countries
according to AP.

December 4, 2004

Cheney and Rumsfeld apparently worked together for the
Ford administration in AP describes Rumsfeld as acid-tongued and hawkish…
Oklahoma, USC, Auburn all win.. they all remain undefeated. Columbia drug team
is extradited from Columbia to U.S. Jail. 
The Founder of Habitat for Humanity was under pressure to resign because
of sexual improprieties, but then Jimmy Carter stepped up and threatened to
revoke his support of Habitat and so they let him remain in an honorary
position. His name is Millard Fuller. In every profession there are
professionals and there are those who play the part.

December 5, 2004

Tilman apparently was definitely killed by “friendly
fire.” Story about e-junk took nine minutes to read. What do we do with all the
electronic gadgets we no longer need? Woman passenger may have fallen over the
Carnival Cruise ship 30 miles west of Ensenada Mexico. Man runs on court at the
Davis Cup Match between Roddic and…Carlos Moya (put a hat on top of Moya’s
head).

Black tomatoes are supposed to be an aphrodisiac.
Michigan will play Texas in the Rose Bowl, not California. More Peterson
relatives testify on behalf of Peterson. His father grew up poor in Minnesota.
His mother grew up an orphan after father was murdered. Chinaman wins lawsuit
concerning manhole covers..after breaking his leg in hole, a few months after
somebody fell in and drowned.. all because people steel the manhole covers and
sell them for a couple bucks which is a day’s wage for a lot of them.

In Zimbabwe they steal coffins for money. High Suicide
rate in China. Motorola makes a phone cover that will  grow into a sunflower. Possibility of
predicting earthquakes via chemical analysis of water in Iceland’s “tin bath”..
The 91101 tragedy has been deemed two separate attacks for the sake of
insurance. . St. Mary’s Coptic Church on Robinson  is architecturally impressive.  Good soup at the bagel show down the street
from Hamilton.

December 7, 2004

Trampled by his own wildebeest he was trampled and
bludgeoned to death in South Bend Indiana. …white boys beat up black boy in
Simi Valley … white hate incident.. or white supremacy… Scott Peterson went to
Cal Poly University and graduated with a 3.28 GPA.

December 8, 2004

The story about the “Penis Tree “ in Tuscany Italy
apparently used as political propaganda in an election against the opponent
saying that if they are elected they will bring perversion and problems
(originally this was thought to be a symbol of life(. HB at 1233 at school.

Researchers in the Netherlands theorize that some of
the inexplicable desert disappearances is due to “dry quicksand” which doesn’t
pack down but will swallow you up if you step in it. Lone whale accounts for a
unique speech pattern nine years in the Pacific.  Ronald Keith Williamson was taken off death
row five days  before he was to be
executed for  a crime they now know he
didn’t commit.

December 10, 2004

Lit up festival homes across the U.S. includes Elvis’
home, and the Vanderbilt home in Asheville, NC, and for information about the
Biltmore home call 1800624 1575. The Hearst Castle is also lit up around
Christmas. The U.S. Coast guard helicopter that rescued six people from a
freighter in the Bering sea subsequently crashed and now they’re looking for
the helicopter.

Arbitration hearing took place in Manhattan concerning
the NBA brawl.. despite NBA’s objection that the arbitrator has no
authority..They put an ice skating rink on top of Eiffel Tower in France. Kevin
Keogh city finance mgr. In Phoenix or Scottsdale got on top of his car as it
was moving and then fell off and died. His wife said he relapsed from a
tropical disease. He was a top city manager. Bennington College in Vermont is
one of the most liberal colleges in America. 
Possibility of predicting earthquakes is increased .. per the tremors
beneath the quake.. prior to the quake itself.

John Michael Harvey was released from prison after 12
years when alleged victim of child molestation—who was three years old at the time
–testified as an adult just recently that, in fact, she had not been molested
but had been coached to testify against him by a relative with a grudge against
him. Philip Badowski of Tennessee , 22 years old, shot and killed his parents
after they scolded him upon return from a mission trip to Haiti. Then he tried
to dismember their bodies with a chainsaw. Roger Clemens has not decided
whether he will play next year or not.

December 11, 2004

They apparently had a Martin Luther King memorial march
today and some were concerned that it was being used as an anti-gay platform.
Total of 2390 people died in the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7 1941. During
summer peak months the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor receives up to 4500
people daily

December 12, 2004

Bomb blast in southern Philippines in supermarket in
General Santos town. Saddam Hussein was captured on Dec. 13, 2003. “Life after
Exoneration “ programs based in California tries to  help wrongly convicted persons put their
lives back together after release. Founded by attorneys related to the
“Innocence Project”

December 13, 2004

People are stealing Cycads out of yards because they’re
so valuable. Jay VanAndel passed away. Tyrone Willingham fired by Notre Dame
has now been hired by Washington Huskies. He also used to work for Stanford
football. Matt Leinart won the Heisman trophy beating Jason White who won it
last year (and came in third this year) but they will face each other in the
Orange Bowl on Jan 4.

Charlie Weis of the New England Patriots takes the
Notre dame position and apparently graduated from Notre Dame but did not play
football there. Walt Harris takes Stanford football position. Norm Chow was
considered—he remains offensive coordinator for USC. The jury has reached a
sentence for Scott Peterson—to be announced any moment now ( 223 pm)  I heard the news at 421 pm ..the jury
sentenced him to death.

News Mars Rover discovers geothite which is formed by
water. Only ten executions have taken place in California since 1978 despite the
fact that California’s death row is the largest and most crowded. There are
currently 641 prisoners on death row.

Judge Ellender of Louisiana has been suspended for
dressing up as a “black” at a Halloween party. Scott Peterson Jurors include:
Steve Cardosi of Moon Bay. He apparently was the jury foreperson. Another juror
was Richelle Nice of East Palo Alto. A third juror was Greg Bertalis. They all
indicated that it was Petersons’ courtroom demeanor which made them most
suspicious saying he never showed any emotion.

But this contrasts with the journalists reports that
Peterson at times wept. This makes me think that for Anglos in good standing
suddenly up against the judicial system it can overwhelm you and the first
reaction is to try to  be a “good boy” to
comply with everybody and thing and clam up. Ironically, one’s “obedience” in
such regards may ultimately work against them aeb (as evidenced by)  the 
jury who thought his silence was suspicious.

Michigan teacher found guilty of murdering husband—the
jury was not convinced that it was justified because of the abuse she
experienced. Ashley McKathan wears ten commandments on his robe in Alabama
court—an attorney objected

December 15, 2004

Marion Jones is suing the owner of Balco for accusing her
of taking steroids.

December 16, 2004

The BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) Killer from Wichita who
killed ten or more in the 1970’s has reappeared leaving clues about himself.

This is the 20th anniversary of the Bernhard Goetz
subway shooting in New York City… that caused such a stir..some  applauding Goetz, others critical.. he was on
a subway , had his own gun (illegally) and was approached by four black boys
with sharpened screwdrivers, and he opened fire, leaving one of them paralyzed
from the waist down. He ran for Mayor in 2001 but lost.

December 17, 2004

Johnny Carl, the orchestra conductor at the Crystal
Cathedral, commits suicide.

December 18, 2004

A new building in the Brazilian town of Cureteba can
revolve, each room taking an hour to turn around completely. Search for Amelia
Earhart plan planned to commence soon (for the second or third time) near
Howland Island;

December 19, 2004

Man at Indiana University charged with animal abuse
after letting guinea pig fly out of his window on a balloon, and got caught in
a tree.

Defense attorneys in the Michael Jackson case are
asking for a dismissal based on “vindictive prosecution.” Bob Simonds in his
newsletter for November says Proctor and Gamble used homosexuals to advertise
their products, showing them in bed together, and asks consumers to stop buying
Tide, Crest, and Pampers. This ad is on www.pgboycott.com. And he says that
Arnold Schwaarzenager signed a bill that lowered the age of consensual sex to
14… making it more difficult to prosecute cases of adult-child sexual
relationships.

December 21, 2004

Settlement made in “Gold Train” case on behalf of Jews
robbed by American soldiers near the end of WWII. . : Something is cleaning the
solar panels on the Opportunity rover. This is National Homeless day. . And the
actor Poe—also a politician contender at one point in the Philippines died, the
funeral was today.

December 24, 2004

David Letterman is in Iraq for a Christmas special.

December 25, 2004

Genetic Savings & Cloan in Sausalito CA has cloned
a kitten for $50,000 and will begin cloning pets on a commercial basis. Miami
Heat and Shaq beat Lakers & Kobe in overtime by 2 points. Com Air has
cancelled 1100 flights due to computer breakdown, causing 30,000 passengers to
be delayed A play in New York called “Fat Pig” about an obese woman and the
insults she must endure. Shaquille O Neal says he misses the Fox Hills Mall and
the Beverly Center.

Celebrities at 
the game included Courtney Cox and Dyan Cannon. Who are they? Others
included Henry Winkler, Penny Marshall, and Sugar Ray Leonard.  They think they may have found the Siloam
Pool where Jesus healed a blind man near Jerusalem. NY Times says there is some
controversy about this new California web site which allows people to look up
registered sex offenders to see if they live in their neighborhood.

December 26, 2004

8.5 or more earthquake reported to have hit Indonesia
(1;32 a.m.). India & Sri Lanka have already reported 1000 deaths apiece due
to the tidal waves.

Reggie White—the defensive NFL star died today at age
43 of a heart attack.

December 27, 2004

Now they say the death toll for the Asian earthquake is
at 14000. Now the death toll from the Asia earthquake is at 23000.

December 28, 2004

The woman who killed the pregnant lady and cut the baby
out of her womb appeared in a Missouri Court today and the judge said she
“appeared to qualify for a public defender” . My question is (and not to
protect this woman who apparently is obviously guilty) but is a public defender
a farce—a sure failure? I would like to know Steve Boysaw’s record for
exonerations. I think the public defender is part of the evil system , putting
on a display of  caring for the
defendant, but not really .1055 am-the earthquake death toll is now at 40,000

December 29, 2004

on NPR a story about an organization called “Sound
Exchange” which tallies the number of times a song is played on the radio, or
on an elevator, or even as background music when you’re on hold and pays out
royalties to the singer.  They’re making
a mockery of American troops in these suicide attacks and other sneak
attacks—yesterday somebody gave the Iraq police a tip that insurgents were
hiding out in a house and when they went to check the house blew up, killing 29
people. Storm in Southern California. . 
The remarkable thing they say about this tsunami tragedy is that they
haven’t found any dead animals, as  if
they had sensed it and had gone inland before it hit.

December 31, 2004

174 people die in an Argentinean night club fire
(reports say the fire exits ,may have been locked). .  Attorney General Mike Hatch is suing Capitol
One Credit cards for their deceptive billing practices..advertising a fixed
interest rate and then raising them to 19% if you are one day late in paying
your bills

                                        2005

January 1, 2005 New Years Day

a Three-year old adopted  child is 
being returned  to it’s biological
parents per court order.  The U.S.
increased their donation amount from 35 million to 350 million after Sweden
topped the U.S with 50 million, but now Japan has pledged 500 million. The
island of Phi Phi was hit hard by the earthquake/tsunami (and is apparently
where the film “The Beach” was shot).

AP News Blooper: Sandy Cossel reported around 104 a.m.
that an aftershock hit one of the Asian areas but there is “ no report of
serious casualties”.  The U.S. Based
Christian Children’s Fund is involved in therapeutic intervention in the
tsunami areas—trying to create space for the children to recuperate, vent,
feel, talk, play etc.

January 3, 2005

Floyd Mayweather Jr. didn’t show up for his court
hearing in Grand Rapids. He’s a boxer who grew up in Grand Rapids and is
undefeated (31-0) . He’s scheduled to fight on January 20 in Miami but now
there’s a warrant for his arrest

January 4, 2005

Nelson Mandela’s son died of AIDS.

January 14, 2005

There’s been a mud slide in Ventura County that killed
at least five, although twelve are still missing. Woman who drove around
barricades ended up in river, lost grip on child while being saved, her 2 year
old child drowned. She may be charged with manslaughter. 

At least 10 killed in La Conchita Mudslide in Ventura
County. Man saved from icy creek—pants pulled off by river. Pulled up at
bridge.  they are amputating rather than
trying fine-tuned surgery with some of the tsunami victims, which is
problematic in addition to loss of limb is being outcast from a labor-based
society which doesn’t have sympathy for handicaps.

The foster home nearby where John Lennon grew up,
called Strawberry Fields, and the inspiration for the Beatles Song is closing
now because smaller homes are preferable to institutions. The Madden-Jullian
Oscillation is the cause of the storms on the west coast today…due to this
weather pattern over Asia and India Ocean. Burmese persons who were working in
Thailand are now in hiding for fear of deportation (because they lost their
papers).

Prince Harry has caused a stir  by going to a costume party dressed as a
Nazi. Son of Margaret Thatcher, Mark, has pled guilty to being an unwitting
participant in a plot to kill a political leader in provincial New Guinea.
Professor Ronald Jurische from Dessau in Sachsen-Anhalt Germany went to Costa
Rica  for a vacation went to a doctor for
a sore foot (something he’s had before due to diabetes, but nothing serious)
but the doctor decided to amputate against his will —and while still
protesting they drugged him, did the amputation, and he woke up at the
departure gate, and has since had to have 20 or more further surgeries back in
Germany to correct all the problems. He is now suing Costa Rica.
Schwaarzenaager visited the mudslide scene and said they said “We’ll be back..”
The CFO of Office Max is retiring after two months on the job.

NASA launches a comet smashing spacecraft scheduled to
get there on July 4. British Airways flight turned away due to suspected
militant on board. Mild winter in Russia. Radiation-proof RV’s. News:Aerogel is
now being used to warm jackets (one brand is called “frozen smoke”).

Tom Coleman, a former police officer suspected of
framing many blacks with drugs is now being put on trial for stealing gas and
subsequent perjury. New England Patriots have been in 3 of the last 4
superbowls? Mike Vander Jagt is the outspoken field-goal kicker for the
Indianapolis Colts. Andrew Geiger really screwed things up at OSU. I had never
heard of the term “flopping” before used to describe those who theatrically act
out a charging foul against them by “flopping” down.

Spaceship Cassini-Huygens has landed on Titan—one of
Saturn’s moons, and photos appear to indicate liquid on the surface of
Titan—perhaps methane they say although they do not indicate why it isn’t
frozen, it being around 200 degrees below zero on this moon. Seven year journey—they
left in 1997. They apparently evacuated the entire town of Corona ,
approximately 2300 people because of a dam seeping water. Officials say that if
the dam broke it would wipe out the entire town in 2 ½ minutes.

Problem in the Prague with taxis overcharging tourists,
up to 500 percent over the fair rate. Listerine mouthwash has  up to four times that of malt liquor, 27
percent alcohol. …a lady was charged with drunk driving after she admitted to
having drank four cups of it.  increase
the tsunami warning system for the United States perimeter.

James Cameron just completed a documentary on the
creatures of the deep sea—way down—miles below the surface, and now he’s going
to begin working on a science fiction project but says that we’ve lost real
science fiction ever since Star Wars which he says was “eye candy” He says he
is going to try to get more of a 
diatopian message with this movie about a cyborg of some sort.  to the tsunami , but due to global warming
could cause significant problems in 100 years they say.

There’s a ban on U.S selling arms to Indonesia Jets
lose to Pittsburgh Steelers. Jets could have won in over time with field goals,
one from 49 , the other from 43 but he missed both, despite being 24 of 29 for
the season. St. Louis is losing to Atlanta. Miami Heat is in first place but
Lakers are in the middle-just barely above the Clippers way behind the Phoenix
Suns and Kobe Bryant is out with a sprained ankle for 5 days. Mens College
Basketball—University of Illinois is undefeated.

The Ferrari motorsports team is going to meet with the
pope. Tsunami relief concert at Minute Maid Park in Houston TX. Three-year –old
boy is being returned to his natural parents after living the first three  man had nail in skull causing him paint and
he didn’t even know it was there.

Crimes involving persons posing as police officers are
increasing. When James Gottlieb  didn’t
come home for dinner, his wife and children went looking for him. They went to
his place of work and then to a restaurant to see if he had stopped to eat,
then they traced his usual route home. Stopping to see what the commotion on
the boulevard was all about, pulled over by an imposter, Gottlieb, a father of
three who was about to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary, was dead. He was
pulled over by someone in a vehicle with flashing lights, Franklin Square…New
York this wasn’t an ordinary traffic stop…attempted robbery, and he was shot
and killed by someone impersonating a police officer. The loss has left a hole
in the lives of his loved ones.

This type of crime is not new but it seems to be
happening at an alarming rate. In nearby Valley Stream a few days later a pair
of  fake police officers robbed two men
on a busy road in broad daylight. Police officer Kirk Faraczek was on patrol
when he spotted the robbery and went after the crooks. “I looked at the guys”,
he said, and “I didn’t recognize them as any officers I worked with.” As soon
as the two imposters saw Faraczek they jumped in their car and took off. After
a short chase the suspects crashed their car and were arrested. Outside of
Washington D.C. a woman was pulled over by someone with flashing blue lights.

When she rolled down her window the fake police officer
grabbed her shirt. The woman hit the gas and got away.  In Miami a robber pretending to be a police
detective talked his way into a fast food restaurant where unsuspecting staff
workers took him behind the counter and into the officer where they kept the
money.

There have been 660 deaths due to bombings  and drive-by shootings by Muslims in the
southern Thailand area in the past year. years of his life with the adoptive
parents. Private Graner who was accused of 
prisoner abuse in Abu Gahraib, Iraq has been found guilty and sentence
to 10 years in military prison

A fishing boat recently sunk –drowning five, off the
coast of New England—some are comparing it to the sinking of the Andrea Gail of
a decade ago, about which the movie “The Perfect Storm” was based.

The Indian Ocean tsunami traveled at speeds of 500 MPH
and was 180 miles wide. 20 or more whales stranded themselves on the Outer
Banks of North Carolina, killing 17. A lot of the damage I saw in Thailand was
above Phuket in the Khao Lak area. The movie called “Sideways” was filmed, in
part, near Buellton, CA, and part of it at the Fess Parker Winery (Fess Parker
played Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett or both at one time). 5000 more corpses
found in Sumatra—an area yet untouched by recovery efforts. In the U.S there
was a tsunami relief concert with Pink Floyd et. al. and Brad Pitt, Clint
Eastwood et. al. Man had nail in skull causing him pain and he didn’t even know
it was there.

January 16, 2005

Golden Globe Awards—“The Aviator” with Leonardo
DiCaprio wins Best Actor award.  South
Africa is trying to tout Johannesburg as a great place for tourists to visit.
Rolling Stones Magazine rejects a ad from Zondervan Books hoping to capture a
new audience with a different kind of Bible. 
Germany  is planning a TV show
called “sperm race” where men donate their sperm and they have the sperm race
in a test tube—winner gets a Porsche.

The police officer, Jeremy Morse,  who was sued or charged by the DA for
assault  of a black teenager in Ingelwood
resulted in a hung jury, twice and so the charges were dismissed. Morse was
fired two months after the incident. The chief-of-police of Ingelwood is black.
Jeremy Morse and his partner are white.

Then the police officer and his partner sued  for reverse discrimination and today were
rewarded 1.6 million and .8 million respectively in civil damages. The video
tape showed the police officer pounding the head of the boy, but the officer
said it was because the boy had a grip on his testicles, which the video did
not show. That low—so there was no way to corroborate yes or no. T

The group “Fuel” singing at the youth inaugural concert
in Washington D.C.  hosted by the Bush
twins  started the concert by saying
“Welcome to the greatest fucking country in the world.”  And then the lead singer, Brett Scallions
quickly apologized.  One of the NASA
rovers finds a  metal meteorite on Mars.
A new plane being built in France—the A380, has 
enough room to park 70 cars on its wing. It’s double-decker, with a  top section stretching all the way back to
the tail, not just a little hump like on the 747.

Bob Jones of Bob Jones University—is going to retire
as  president of Bob Jones university,,
ending a 34 year reign …the school grabbed headlines in 2000 after George Busch
spoke there because of it’s racist policies and its fundamentalist views and
their ban on inter-racial dating which has since been changed.

Jones son, Stephen, age 35, will take over the school
in May. The 65 year old Bob Jones’ grandfather founded the school  78 years ago. He says “It is time for someone
younger and closer to the present generation to take over. I’ve seen too many
institutions, churches, Christian ministries suffer when somebody stays on too
long. I never wanted that to happen here. Jones said he will spend more time
traveling and preaching but will remain a visible part of the campus as
chairman of the board of trustees and perhaps as “grandpa” to the 5000 student
campus.

A Nevada man castrated himself to lower his libido, but
ends up in the hospital. Senator Kevin Parker was arrested for allegedly
punching a traffic agent/officer who was 
writing him a ticket. The Brooklyn Democrat was charged with 3rd degree
assault. 100’s of giant squid are washing up on 
Orange County beaches, the Humboldt squid. Approximately 500 of them
began washing up on the sands of Laguna and Newport Beach, one of them up to 17
pounds.

J.P. Morgan apologizes for participating in slave trade
before the Civil War—having taken slaves as collateral for unpaid loans—their
researchers discovered, and so now they are setting up a scholarship fund
for  African American students in
Louisiana, with a program  called Smart
Start which will provide 5 million dollars for 
full tuition.

Battle of the Anaheim Angels baseball team name is
going to OC Superior Court—the Angels want to change their name to the Los
Angeles  Angels of Anaheim, but both the
city of Los Angeles and the City of Anaheim are contesting it.  When the Angels were founded in 1961 with
Gene Autry their owner they were the Los Angeles Angels and they played in Dodger
stadium. In 1965 they became the California Angels and moved to Anaheim.

When Disney bought 
the club in 1997 they changed the name to Anaheim Angels.  New study suggests that person with lower IQ
are more prone to suicide, and persons with low IQ as well as highly educated
parents are even more prone to suicide. 
Researchers from Bristol and 
__________________ conducted the test, although they note previous
conflicting results –one of which indicated that persons with higher IQ were
more prone to suicide ( Israel), whereas in Australia they found the opposite.

Lady went into labor during a parachute jump and
delivered the baby on the ground minutes after she landed. ).

January 21, 2005

An article says “An ancient version of global warming
may have been the cause of the greatest mass extinction in history…the event
known as the great dying  some 250
million years ago 90% of all marine life and nearly ¾ of all land-based plants
and animals went extinct. Scientists 
think it’s due to volcanic activity.

They think some animals evolved to survive at lower
oxygen levels, such as birds, —the atmosphere currently consists of 20%
oxygen, but at that time it could have been as low as 16%, or less. The Coqui
Frog is infesting the Hawaiian big island and is a problem because of the
shrieking loud noise it makes at night, it came over from Puerto Rico, which is
fond of the frog. The judge refuses to grant a 
preliminary injunction stopping the Anaheim Angels from changing their
name, meaning it will go to trial.

A real life Romeo & Juliet Story near Verona
Italy.. a 78 year old man, Ettore,  sat
by the bed of his comatose wife for four months and finally in despair took his
own life. Less than a day later his wife awoke and asked for him, just 40 miles
from Verona.

Movies like “Braveheart” and “Legends of the Fall” are
on a growing list of movies inspirational to some Christians that encourage
them to throw out the “nice guy” act and emulate warriors. John Eldrige
inspired the movement…with his book “Wild at Heart” which  has already sold 1.5 million copies . Eldrige
believes that many Christian men have become bored really nice guys and invites
them to newly discover passion by thinking of life as a battle to win and a
mission to accomplish, including somebody (such as their wife) to rescue. He
says the modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price? The
human heart is desperate for more than a quicker serving of popcorn. “Eldrige
calls on men to be prepared to take risks and re-discover their dreams,  but does not provide a specific route to
find. Career, marriage, and family become heroic quests  rather than chains that bind. He focuses on
how men can become less passive  and
engage those around them particularly 
their wives and children. The …who sits in front of the television is
unengaged..they need to be engaged whether it is playing on the floor with
their  1 year old or tougher games with
their fifteen year old. Eldridge has said he has been astounded by the response
to his book, steadily gathering since it was published by Nelsons in 2001. Men
have been  going to retreats even tribes
on the Amazon River, he said. One of these believers in “Wild at Heart”
___________ says it does remind you that we are in a battle every day, it might
be boredom and routine, but ..the moral of the story is that God has written a
story and we have to find  what the story
is and live it , Chase says. He says the book inspired him to teach his 15 year
old to ride a motorcycle. Eldridge was a trained counselor for fifteen years
with Focus on the Family,  and says we
are currently living in a fatherless age, with many men having abandoned their
children,  if not physically then
emotionally.  One father was an alcoholic
who after_____ years…became increasingly distant Chase had lost his father..who
he  described as very cold just months
before he attended the retreat…and makes the analogy of father figure to God
figure. Some women have welcome receiving more attention from their husband
than flowers. The movement has stirred controversy and criticism from some
Christian leaders who fear he may just be reinforcing stereotypes. While some
women have welcomed….[it] they are concerned about the long-term impact on
marriages…A professor at Fuller Seminary said that needing a “princess to
rescue has set back marriage and family relationships in the church by 30
years..sanctifying the mythological 1950 view of manhood says Chapman
Clark,  associate professor of family and
marriage at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena.. says “It is destructive to marriages
in the long run, “ Clark said, that “Treating women as a figurine rather than
the personal image of God will hurt relationships over time.” Clark says
Eldridge had “tapped into an angst  among
middle-aged white men who are 
dissatisfied with their lives and for whom depression had become a very
serious problem. “ Eldridge acknowledges the success of it will be judged by
the impact it has on family lives…and whether Wild At Heart makes life better
for children and/or women. When I receive letters from women who are immensely
grateful [I am happy].

The Alfalfa Club is named after the plant which has
roots that will go anywhere for a drink—and Bush spoke at their club a day
after the inauguration.

Donald Trump gets married again for the third time his
first two wives included Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, —in Palm Beach FL…
guests included Katy Couric and Barbara Walters. [ Stop at #21] now he married
Melania Kanuss, also guests Star Jones and Billy Joel & Tony Bennet and Rudy
Guilianna.   And Matt Louer. Married at
the Episcopal Church of Bethesda by the Sea. She’s 34 , he’s 58. She’s from
Slovania

The Green party in Austria is angry at Governor
Schwwaarzenaager for allowing a death penalty conviction to proceed. Arnold was
born in 1947 in the Village of Thal, just outside Graz. He still has Austrian
citizenship. They’re saying he should be stripped of his citizenship because of
it. A 40 year old mother in the Denver area had a party and supplied teenagers
with alcohol and methemphetamines and marijuana and  had sex with five of the boys—her name is
Sylvia Johnson. She said she wanted to be a “kool mom.”

Non-alcoholic beer can reduce the risk of cancer.
Scientists say it helps protect liver, lungs, and kidney against DNA damage. A
Japan University gave mice NA beer once a day and found it reduced cancer  by 85 %. 
It is thought that a compound in the beer blocks  harmful chemicals and  protects liver, lungs, and kidney from DNA
damage.

Evander Holyfield visits Sri Lanka and India to assess
the tsunami damage. Hector “macho” Camacho was released from jail in Gulfport ,
Mississippi after being charged with burglary of a Gulfport computer shop. Also
charged with drug possession after officers said they found him with ten ecstasy
pills. Camacho 70-5-2 with…he had been scheduled for a middleweight fight on
Jan. 21. He lost to DeLa Hoya in1997; Chris McCarron is retiring from his job
in administration at Santa Anita race track—moving to Kentucky to start a
jockey school. Russel Baze moved into a tie with Billy Shoemaker for second on
the all time victory list with  8330
wins.

Johnny Carson passes away age 79, due to complications
from emphysema. Letterman says a night doesn’t go by that he doesn’t ask
himself “What would Johnny do?” A former amateur magician and ventriloquist,
Carson started his career in Lincoln Nebraska 
in 1948 after a stint in the Navy during World War II. He was a writer
for the Variety series , “The Red Skelton Show” 
and hosted his first TV show “Carson’s Cellar” in 1951. He also hosted
the early ABC game show ‘Who can You Trust?” where he appeared with McMahon for
the first time in 1958.  He replaced Jack
Paar as the host of the Tonight Show in Oct 1962. Paar died only last January,
2004.  Steve Allen died in October 2000.
He was the first host of the Tonight Show. No Memorial Service—very private off
stage. He even refused to appear on NBC’s 75th anniversary show. Carson was
born in Corning Iowa in 1925. His family 
then moved to Norfolk NB. As he moved into the nascent [i.e. promising]
world of television at an Omaha station.

The federal court in Pittsburgh which the federal
government has been trying to implement—federal 
judge declared that the government’s anti-obscenity laws were
unconstitutional The Michigan elementary school teacher who hacked her husband
to death with a hatchet was sentenced Monday to life in prison without
possibility of parole.

January 27, 2005

Man parked his train on train tracks in Glendale—wanted
to kill himself, , changed his mind just moments before the train hit and
jumped out.. Manuel Alvarez of Compton, age 25, his Jeep Grand Cherokee, also
stabbed himself  and slashed his wrists.
Alvarez’ sister told TV interviewer that he had separated from his wife … then
the wife got a court order to keep him away from her and the children…he wanted
to see his wife and son… he was having problems with drugs she said and was
violent… he went around as if he wanted to kill himself.., she said to him if
you’re going to kill yourself  kill
yourself far away,  don’t come by here
telling that to my sister [ his wife] 
she said he had also threatened 
suicide in front of his son [ you see the problem, in part, there—they
further ostracize him in his grief,,.. making him all the more despondent..
taking away his manhood. ] They don’t have sympathy for his grief and despair..
the treat him like a lunatic, making him all the more  dejected… [creating a killer]  … at the same time if you indulge his  behavior too much you allow him to manipulate
you.. is there a happy middle? Yes.

This was the worst train derailment since March,
1999…in this particular case the accident was compounded by the fact that the
locomotive was pushing the train, not pulling , they said that if it had been
pulling the train it might have simply pushed the car off the track.. but as it
was—there was an accordion effect, increasing the damage to the middle cars.

Architect Philip Johnson died at age 98. HE did
participate in the Crystal Cathedral drafting. He also was known for the Glass
House—the centerpiece of his bachelor pad enclave in Connecticut. He also was
involved  with the Seagram building in
New  York. He did the west wing of the
Museum of Modern Art..and the library at New York University… and the
distinctive stacked lipstick ovals in New York.

Larry Green, a 29 year old man , was hit by ac car and
declared dead ..already in the morgue when an inspector came by and found him
barely breathing. JP Perdue, the medical inspector who found him  still alive…/ , several medical employees
were suspended pending an investigation.

A seven year old gal was found stabbed to death at a
Catholic school 50 miles north of New York City—no suspects they say( one day
later however they say , in fact, the gal was found in the men’s restroom and
the father was arrested). Jerrica Rhodes was the daughter of Chris Rhodes, the
son of a former police chief. A long article about detainee interrogations and
how they used women to interrogate Muslim prisoners using sexual tactics—some of
them highly offensive to Muslim norms. Scientists have discovered that hydrogen
fuels microbes at Yellowstone, not sulfur.

Michael Ross, the Connecticut serial killer–, was due
to be executed last night—but the execution as postponed at the last moment—he’s
an Ivy League graduate. Estes Park Town Trustee David Habecker is being
challenged to a recall election because he refuses to stand for the Pledge of
Allegiance and say the words “under God.” Those allegedly missing computer
discs at the Los Alamos Nuclear Plant computer lab—they now say never actually
existed. Methamphetamines become a bigger problem—across the USA—can quickly
make it with cold medicine and battery acid and a few other ingredients.

January 30, 2005

Angeline Jolie is am ambassador for the United nations
High Commission of Refugees, a Good Will ambassador, she says she would just as
soon do her ambassador work full time but realizes she needs to keep making
movies for the publicity and money… . 
Stem cells taken from human embryos were coaxed into becoming motor
neurons in an experiment that might one day help scientists to repair damaged
nervous systems…researchers say they can train embryonic cells to develop on
demand into any type of tissue in the body.. 
SBC one of the baby bells created with the break up of Ma Bell is now
buying AT&T the original ma bell

January 31, 2005

 Phytocerols in
potato chips—supposed to block the cholesterol. Usually the owner/founder
maintains control, but just recently 
they said that the founders of Habitat for Humanity had actually been
kicked off the board of directors and was no longer part of the Habitat (not
even in an honorary way Ward Churchill, 
a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder has compared the
victims of the World Trade Center attack to Nazis  and the attackers as good… it’s mentioned
because he was scheduled to make a speech at a college on the east coast but
there were death threats and it had to be cancelled.. subsequently  he has resigned as the department chairman..
but his colleagues defend his right to free speech…  and have no plans to fire him altogether.. …

February 1, 2005

James Pitino—one of the casualties from the train wreck
in Glendale and  a sheriff’s deputy was
mourned at a funeral by 1500 people, including letters and calls from prisoners
where he was a guard. Circus employee was trampled to death by an elephant
after falling down inside the truck/pen.

February 2, 2005

they’re doing a “Minuteman Project” in Arizona around
Tumbleweed along the border they are going to set up their own citizen
patrol,  ….Chris Simcox is the founder of
Civil Homeland Defense which runs its own 
border patrol with 417 people from 41 states had volunteered to take up
positions between two Arizona towns, one of them Douglas…the rally is planned
for April 1…when organizers expect 2000 people to park their cars along the
border.. stared by James Gilchrest of Aliso Viejo, CA, a retired
accountant…,they had a meeting at the Crenshaw Christian Center…one of the
largest L.A. Churches…of ministers who backed the Bush  re-election with an emphasis on the anti-gay
agenda.. Bishop Frank L. Stewart, Pastor of the Zoe Christian Church .. of L.A.
said he is a life long democrat but backed Bush because of moral issues.

The Nixon Library is now eligible for federal funds… a
young woman who had a friend call in a bomb threat to the Philadelphia Airport
in order to avoid missing a flight to London 
was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison..Ceylan age 19  and her friend Ilays Savas was also ordered
to reimburse American Airlines 9000 dollars 
to and to pay 100 dollars to each of the 17 people aboard the delayed
flight…the two were arrested in June when they tried to redeem the unused
tickets.

The King-Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is
losing its accreditation…the commission found incompetent staff, inconsistent
patient care, incomplete medical charts, 
and other problems.

February 3, 2005

Max Schmelling died 
at age 99 .. he was the German who fought Joe Louis back in 1932 or
thereabouts and was knocked out in the first round,  but the fight was billed as white v.  black and was intertwined with the Nazi
notion of superiority, so it was a big blow to them… he apparently had a decent
boxing career apart from the Joe Louis defeat—going about 50 wins out of 70
fights…..

Ossie Davis died. Alan Alda says he was his hero
article about Somalia. difficulty of doing tsunami relief  there because Somali has no central
government ever since the dictator was assassinated in 1991.. only recently
have all the factions and outlaws agreed on people to lead, but the leaders
don’t even dare live in their own country—they live in Kenya. Delivering aid
there is dangerous On Jan. 9 one of the aid volunteers was shot and killed by
bandits.  Sec of State Kevin Shelley
stepping down amid allegations of improprieties…he was a democrat.

February 4, 2005

Afghanistan airplane goes down in Afghanistan killing
around 100. As many as 6 of the passengers may have been Americans. Dr. Richard
Olney  a top neurologist who dedicated
his career to fighting Lou Gehrig’s disease suddenly became afflicted by it
himself. Idaho’s most famous outlaw, Claude Dallas, is scheduled to be released
from prison after 24 years for killing two game warden officers  who had come to his “campout” and found him
with bobcat hides in one of his tents—thereafter a gunfight ensued with Dallas
taking both of them down, and then putting a bullet into the head of each for
good measure.

They made it sound as if,  however, the game wardens, had tracked him
down looking for a fight and that he, Dallas, did not believe he was actually
poaching. A political associate of the Georgia prime minister found dead two
days ago commit suicide today. Ossie Davis died—he was a black man who was in
some of the Spike Lee films, including “Do the Right Thing”, but prior to that
he was involved in many many films dating back to the 60’s… he was also a guest
actor in Showtime’s “The L Word” series—so he was a radical liberal.  He also wrote Purie Victorious in 1961 which
lampoons racial stereotypes .

Alan Alda who 
appeared in the film version of Purie Victorious said Ossie was his
hero. Ossie delivered a eulogy for Malcolm X in 1965 and then he repeated it
for Spike Lee’s film, “Malcolm X”. He directed a film  called “Cotton Comes to Harlem.” He also did
“The Cardinal” in 1963, and “The Client “ in 1994, and “I’m not Rappaport” in
1936.  He also appeared in “12 Angry Men”
in 1997.

Burt Reynolds an aging actor also has high praise for
Ossie Davis saying “ NO man comes close to representing the man I want to be
“(apart from his late father he says). He goes on to say , “I know he’s sitting
next to God and I know God envies that voice.” He spent four years in the war
as a surgical technician in an army hospital in Liberia

NHL Hockey Star Dany 
Heatley thanked the family of Dan Snyder, his teammate, who was killed
in a car accident when Dany Heatley crashed his Ferrari into a wall, forsaking
the judge to keep him out of jail. He could have gotten up to 20 years in
prison. He got three years probation. No driving except under certain
circumstances and the car must be  six
cylinders or less and will be rigged to ensure it cannot go faster than 70 mph.
He also has to make 150 speeches about the dangers of speeding.

Attorney Dressbold says 
that a man given a ticket in Pennsylvania for following too close behind
another car was also given a citation for a incorrect hand signal—when he
actually apparently flipped the police officer off—(i.e. stuck his middle
finger up at him). The attorney says “either way its an abuse of his
constitutional rights” and that it is “lawful under the constitution to give
the middle finger” The trooper , Nassan, says the driver, Corey,  gave him a gesture indicating he was changing
lanes, making it an improper lane change signal. The trooper acknowledges Corey
has the right to give him the finger under some circumstances unless it is in
plain view of the motoring public.

Home of the Pixley national Wildlife Refuge. Every year
before the Superbowl apparently they have a festival of “wings and breasts”—not
chicken breasts—human female breasts in the stadium along with a chicken
wing-eating contest—scantily clad gals entertain the crowd while contestants
try to eat the most chicken wings in a specified period of time. This year
there were 23, 000 spectators. This is the 13th annual event.

In Texas a woman caused her husband’s death by giving
him a “Sherry enema”—because he couldn’t drink due to a sore throat she poured
two 1.5 liter bottles of Sherry in his butt. HE was an alcoholic and apparently
craved it—but it was too much to handle. Male model in San Francisco posed
for  Tasters Choice/Nestle and got a
nominal payment for it but didn’t think they actually used his picture…until
one day he comes across a bottle of Tasters Choice in the Supermarket and finds
his face on it… the court awarded him  16
million dollars.

Yogi Berra is suing TBS for their advertisements which
I include his name for the series “Sex and the City” saying it casts him in a
false light and damages his reputation and offends his personal sensibilities.
His attorney says he is religious,  and
has children and grandchildren. 
Prostitution was  legalized in
Germany in 2001.

[That’s a really bad sign I think—in terms of morale
and morality—when the country legalizes something immoral.  It’s a sign of depression. ]Their  unemployment rate is also going to be as high
as it has been since the re-unification of west and East Germany in ’91.

Rotterdam Independent Film Festival is one of the
premier showcase places for independent films.

Prime Minister Thaksin 
of Thailand got his college degree at Sam Houston University in Texas,
and has presided  over Thailand during a
time of enormous economic growth, but critics are worried he is going to become
too autocratic and dictatorial with a tendency to violate human rights, noting
the deaths of numerous drug dealers..and also some of the Muslim insurgents…and
say that the tsunami has actually helped his popularity in the way that he has
dealt with it—perhaps saving him for the upcoming election… he has refused
international aid and started the motto “Thais love Thais” which has increased
patriotism.

Sports: The Skins Game is in Hawaii this year—and this
will be the first time that Craig Stadler plays in it—alongside Tom Watson,
Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicholas, ; Arnold Palmer just got married—doesn’t say if
it’s re-marriage or not, and Nicholas just had back surgery in November.

Around 190 person have been kidnapped in Iraq in the
last year the latest being the Italian Journalist kidnapped near Baghdad
University. the president of Togo, a small African country, died today.

February 6, 2005

Couple wanted for Child torture in Florida have been
arrested in Utah. Alice Resnick, a state supreme court justice in Ohio, was
arrested for drunk driving. “My golly I decide all these cases in your favor
and look what you are doing to me” she said to the trooper. Her blood alcohol
content was twice the legal limit

February 7, 2005

Screen writer or alleged screen writer for Devils’
Advocate, Jonathon Lempkin, age 43… got lost hiking around Mt. Baldy along with
a friend Clay Senechal… Senechal is the son of Potts who starred in Designing
Women and who played bo peep in Toy Story 2..also his father is Scott Senechall
a director.

February 8, 2005

IN Affluent Glen Ridge New Jersey a soldier was
involved in shooting at his ex-wife (injuring her) as well as a man that was
with her and then killing himself.. He was involved in a case back in 1989 in
which a group of popular kids raped a mentally retarded girl with a broom and
baseball bat.

Corchoran  the
son of a police lieutenant was one of several involved but was acquitted or not
charged …three other boys were sentence to jail…in ’97 Corchoran won a $200,000
settlement… in a federal civil rights lawsuit that charged Essex County with
malicious prosecution…Corchoran was in Afghanistan for a year.

13 year old Devin Brown was shot and killed by police after
he stole a car and backed into the police vehicle.. 9 year veteran age 31 fired
the  shots and six year veteran  age 26 was also involved.

Britain’s Ellen Macarthur became the world’s fastest
person to sail solo around the world.. 71 days 14 hours.  Israeli born officer says China will take over
the U.S. economically by 2025… author’s name is Oded Shenkar… book
entitled  The Chinese Century  and he is a professor at Ohio State
Univ.  A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own
testicles to celebrate Wales beating England in rugby… age 26 was so convinced
that England would win Saturday’s match 
Geoff Hush  told fellow drinkers
at a club that he would cut off his testicles if Wales wins… he is hospitalized
in serious condition    they discovered a
new species of monkey in Brazil.. highest bidder gets the honor of naming it…
carbon increasing on all planets.

Notre Dame upsets Boston College in Top 25 basketball.
.  man found with rusty nail in
neck…stalker arrested for swimming across Miami Beach Bay and laying spread
eagle naked on the beach near her house… a four year old in Sand Lake Michigan
drove his mom’s car to a video store he would jump down hit the gas and then
jump back up to see where he was going..… at 2:00 in the morning and made it
there without incident but hit two cars and then a patrol car on the way back.
Refugee camps in Sudan.

Man who video tapes prostitutes for public awareness is
arrested for allegedly paying the prostitutes to do their sexual acts in front
of the camera.

Hakeem Olajuwon, former Houston Rockets star, is under
investigation for contributions his mosque made to various terrorist related
organizations…researchers are now saying it may be possible to predict some
tsunamis by watching the coastline .. a phenomena called subsidence before a
quake..as the oceanic plate dives under the continental plate it pulls the
continental plate down slowly and eventually so much so that it  snaps.. there seems to be a bending before it
snaps… so that the shoreline/tide levels decrease slightly—by watching for
slight decreases (which can also be determined by the life of microorganisms
along the shoreline) it may be able to predict future tsunamis but without any
way of saying exactly when.. but not all earthquakes move up and down  for example the San Andreas fault moves
laterally.

They are less concerned about this happening on the
southwest coast than the Cascadia subduction Zone which stretches from North
California to British Columbia, and also mentioned  parts of the Northeast coast.

The moose population in West Wyoming has become lower
than normal.. now about at 2700 some studies suggest malnutrition and
starvation , others say it was due to grizzly bears , 8% caused by car crashes,
wolves 2%, …North Korea acknowledges for the first time it has nuclear
weapons.. young gals and women are being sexually abused in Congo… new U.N
resolution makes it unlawful for them to have sex with the Congonese
women…Zimbabwe arrest man for competing as a woman athlete.. boy  stunned by police officers in Chicago with a
stun gun experienced cardiac arrest and has still not regained full
consciousness… the problem of actor missionaries.

February 10, 2005

Story about “John of God “ in remote Brazilian village
Abediania who calls himself a healer and has an avid faithful following of
people coming to him for healing .. some say 
he is successful… actor Corey Feldman has been subpoenaed to appear in
the Michael Jackson trial.

Now researchers are saying that even so-called
“healthy” juices are not much better for children (or adults) than sodas—the
juices being simply sugary water, not much different than soda…better off
drinking milk… a newborn boy was tossed out the car window with umbilical cord
still attached found on the grass less than an hour old ..serious condition in
hospital. Found in plastic bag.. in Fort Lauderdale

Minny Mandela, Nelson’s wife… was convicted of fraud in
2003.. bank loan scam.. sentenced to 3 ½ years of prison in ’91 convicted of
kidnapping a 14 year old Soweto 
activist… later found dead… she was 
sentenced to 6 years in prison which was reduced to a fine on appeal…
[Nelson’s son died of aids] … There’s fighting on the island of Jolo in the
Philippines…  30 soldiers and 60 rebels
have been killed since…Monday.

Tsunami/earthquake was 
9.0 on Richter scale and largest to rattle the earth since the 1968
Alaska quake..disrupted  the planets
rotation and shaved 2.8 microseconds.. from the length of a day…shifted the
earth’s north pole by 1 inch and made the earth slightly less  oblate , or flattened at the poles.. [this is
based on calculations rather than measurements].

Mangroves..and coral reef was destroyed by the
tsunami…. Leprosy in Tanzania—trying to create awareness that it is potentially
curable in some cases…or at least not as hopeless as once thought or commonly
believed…a couple from Michigan  who
brought medicine to a convent in Cuba were fined $5000 by a federal judge for
traveling to Cuba without a license…they should have applied  for a license to visit Cuba for humanitarian
reasons…which are issued by the OFCA.. for various reasons.

THE ABA reports that negligent or unprepared
lawyers  are leading to faulty
convictions…and more serious punishment than should be given.. lack of training
for lawyers for the indigent most states pay more for prosecutors than for
public defenders.

California allocates defense counsel $60.90  for every $100 prosecution receives…some
defense attorneys even negotiated plea agreements the first day they meet their
client.. reports of incidents of 
indigent clients languishing in jail for months…the study says that the
representation of indigents is in a state of crisis… the ABA committee wants
Congress.. and local governments to spend more money.. against shoddy legal
representation… an ABA meeting right now in Salt Lake City that runs through
Tuesday.. has not put this issue on its agenda..an Ohio State University
Professor by the name of Doug Bermin was interviewed by AP news in regards to
the ABA report…

February 11, 2005

Arthur Miller died. Christo & Jeanne Claude are
setting up an art exhibit in Central Park that cost them 20 million dollars to
create and display—called “The Gates” It will unfurl  Saturday…they’ve been working on it for a few
decades…Karl Malone has decided to retire—he considered playing another year
for the Lakers and also talked with the Spurs but finally said he would call it
quits altogether, finally—leaving the game as the 2nd highest scorer in NBA
history –his only regret not ever having won a championship ring, losing twice
in the finals with the Jazz to the Bulls and M. Jordan, and last year losing to
the Pistons with the Lakers.

Doctors say eating Thai Curry can help protect against
cancer.. ginger root called galangal used to flavor the dishes appears to kill
cancer cells..and the researchers at King’s College in London also believe it
can also protect healthy cells…Galangal has already been used as a treatment
for stomach cancer..and has also been used as an aphrodisiac…

74 year old American nun was shot to death in
Brazilia’s Amazon Rain Forest … she worked for decades to defend human rights..
Dorothy Stang..was shot in the state of Para.

 More about the
“Gates” exhibit in Central Park there are 7500 Gates along 23 miles of pathways
in Central Park.

Remember the lady who sued the two girls for delivering
her cookies… now she, Renee Young,  and
her husband, Herb,  have gone on Good
Morning America and told their side of the story—saying the two gals had to
scale two fences and crawl under a third to get to her door and then they
banged on the door so hard she was sure that somebody was trying to break in.
The two gals, Taylors Ostergaard and the other Linsey Zellitti, now 19 years
old…the girls on Good Morning America said they offered to pay them the money
without going to court but Renee & Herb say that is not true. The girls
have gotten all kinds of contributions because of this.. and a cookie company
has named a cookie the “Kindness Cookie” in regards to it. Ray Kurzweil,
professor & scientist, thinks he can live forever..and plans to do so.

A Tennessee community’s image of a teacher is shattered
after finding out that this female teacher, Pamela Turner, a physical education
teacher, a former college basketball player and blonde with “movie star looks”
—trying to reconcile the wholesome image with charges that she sexually
assaulted one of her male students, a 13 year old boy. “She’s absolutely
gorgeous” Warren County Sheriff Jackie Mathanie said…” I hate it for everyone”
She was charged with 13 counts of battery 
by an authority figure and 13 counts of statutory rape for allegedly
having sex with the boy at his home and school . Turner lived with the boy and
his family for a brief time after her marriage to a high school basketball
coach ended. School superintendent Hale said Turner was adamant in her defense
… ‘basically said she wasn’t guilty. She was shocked that she had been
accused.”

Kansas State University Education professor Bob Shoop
who has testified in 40 court cases 
involving sexual abuse in schools says people are always surprised when
a woman is involved  in such cases
because they assume boys are sexually aggressive and cannot be the victim. The
reality is a child is a child regardless of the gender, Shoop said. It’s
immoral, illegal, and unethical, for any educator to have sex with any student.

The case is reminiscent of the one involving Mary Kay
Letourneau, an elementary school teacher who had  sex 
with a 12 year old student  in suburban
Seattle. Letorneau eventually gave birth to two of the boy’s babies. She spent
seven years in prison.

Senator Larry Mumper is a former high school teacher
now a Republican Senator from Ohio (?)…is trying to get a bill passed that
would prevent public & private school professors from presenting opinion as
fact and for penalizing students for expressing their viewpoints in an attempt
to stop the liberal agenda in academia. Similar legislation failed in
California and Colorado last year. The California Bill that would effect only
public schools has been re-introduced.

February 13, 2005

Red Roses are banned in Saudi Arabia due to Muslim
religious rules.  Neo-nazis marched on
the 60th anniversary of the Allied bombing in Dresden, marring an otherwise
usually bright moment in history for Dresden to re-live. Dresden is known in
Germany as the “Florence of the North” and was untouched by WWII battles until
Feb 13, 1945  only a few months before
the war ended when it was bombed by British and American planes.

The neo-Nazi march was scheduled by the German’s
National Democratic Party (NDP) and Udo Voight one of the leaders of the rally
expressed great admiration for Adolf Hitler. The leader of the Christian Party
in Iraq was abducted. Lucia de Jesus de Santos 
(Sister Lucia Martos) was one of the three children who saw the vision
of  the 
Fatima  Virgin in 1916 died. She
was born in Aljustral, Portugal. Her two siblings, Jasunta and Francisco, died
shortly after the vision around 1920, both of them were beatified by the pope.

One of Lucia’s last visitors was Mel Gibson who brought
her a copy of his dvd in July, 2004. She says the main theme of the visions was
the struggle of Atheistic communism against Christianity. A fire in Madrid,
Spain destroys a sky scraper.

February 14, 2005

Michael Jackson is lining up defense witnesses which
include Kobe Bryant, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jay Leno. Have to wonder about the
wisdom of putting Kobe Bryant as a character witness for Michael Jackson.
Prince Charles is getting re-married.. The initials HRH mean “Her Royal
Highness” and it is a coveted title says AP News concerning the upcoming
marriage of Prince Charles to Camila Bowes who will become the Royal Duchess
rather than a , and it was “HRH’ that was taken away from Lady Di when she and
Charles got divorced.  Michael Jackson
comes down with severe flu on the way to court—goes to hospital for help—is
in stable condition… delays jury selection process. Cup of coffee per day may
be good for you they say now…. Can help prevent liver cancer

February 15, 2005

100’s mourn the death of Devin Brown—the teenage boy
show stole a car and was shot to death after a chase.. subsequently the LAPD is
revising their shooting policies for moving vehicles. Baby 81 is re-united with
its parents in Sri Lanka—after the baby was swept away from the mother’s arms
in the tsunami… 8 couples claimed the baby was theirs—but DNA tests proved
whose it was…entering Vacaville at 124 a.m. .. Department of Interior Secretary
Gale Norton took a trip through Yellowstone to see how the snowmobiles affected
the environment  and seemed pleased that
they did not seem to have a negative effect on the wildlife.

The presumed myth of Romulus and Remus—the two babies
who lost their mother and were raised by wolves, breastfed by wolves… the
myth  is that these two babies founded
Rome in 1753 B.C. and Romulus and Remus were the twin sons of the god Mars, the
god of War.. recently they found archeology that uncovered more royal remnants
than previously realized.. the previous archeologists found only huts.. ..
______________ discovered traces of regal splendor… at least 8 passengers
departed from the Cruise Ship Voyager with broken bones after waves pounded the
cruise liner in the Mediterranean Sea near Menorca (which is not far from
Mallorca). .. pummeled by Force 11 gales and waves u p to 45 feet while on
route from Tunisia to Barcelona… Harnessing the energy of the waves is becoming
a new challenge for energy companies.

St. Patrick was first taken to Ireland as a teenager
when raiders kidnapped him from his Roman parents British home…and used him as
a slave… he escaped years later but returned later as a clergyman…religion has
him introducing Christianity to the pagan islanders and banishing
snakes…historians dismiss both claims saying there have never been any snakes
in Ireland and there’s evidence that other Christians had attempted to convert
the island previously. However, Patrick was an astute converter who
incorporated pagan imagery into Christian evangelism…celebrating Easter with
bonfires…and placing a sun at the center of the cross…to produce a Celtic
cross..Patrick tried hard for 40 years to make Christianity work… and truly
dominated Ireland by targeting Irish Gaelic aristocrats…

February 17, 2005

Shots fired on bus in Milwaukee, 1 dead. … Former prime
minister of Lebanon was laid to rest today after being assassinated a few days
ago..Giuliana Sgrena a 56 year old Italian journalist was kidnapped a week or
so ago and was now forced to appear on videotape to plea for her life. She was
a journalist for the Communist Daily II Manifesto. Two ships collide in the
foggy port of Hong Kong. At least 100 people injured

Woman who dressed up as a giant Hummer in New York is
suing the city for false arrest saying she had the right to speak and demonstrate
against the sale of giant SUV’s.

Panda bears are expanding their territory according to
a study of their feces found in new areas. New emphasis on frog safaris.

Story about a group in New York that started
specifically to clean up after death scenes—i.e. to clean up the guts, body
parts, brain splatter, etc. Journalists on the Mexican side of the U.S/Mexican
border are facing increased persecution by the drug lords.. three journalists
killed recently … University of Illinois is 26-0 ,#1.

Lance Armstrong declares he will race again in the Tour
de France … Russian Astronaut  Salizhan
Sharipov is too tall to fit into the seat of the spaceship Soyuz to return
home.. in order to fit he will have to squeeze into what they call a “penguin
suit” which will shorten him. Sharipov lost the natural curve in his spine
after four months with no gravity, making him taller.

Sella Field Nuclear plant cannot account for 66 pounds
of plutonium but they say it’s not necessarily an actual loss but a “paper
loss.” Italian researchers are urging over weight kids to drink more milk.
Calcium  increased the rate of fat
burning  and slows the growth of fat
cells. It flies in the face of the notion that 
diets should include less milk and cheese.. which actually is not helpful…
because it not only prevents the burning of fat but also you lose the benefit
of calcium intake.

Arlen Spector, senator, has Hodgkins Disease and will
under go Chemotherapy.Cyclone Olaf is causing damage in the Cook Island area.
Two Kenyan boys were attacked by some sort of tribal group and had their
penises cut off with the intent of making an anti-aid potion. A Kenyan doctor
reconstructed their penises  so they can
live without a catheter.

The largest Presbyterian branch of churches is
threatening to divest the money they have invested in Palestine/Israel if peace
does not  prevail. Hole in the skull of
King Tut sparking questions about whether he was murdered—they are now doing
Cat scans..to determine the significance of the hole-in-the-skull. King Tut was
found in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter…King Tut  ruled during a “troubled and confusing”
period of Egyptian history, shortly after the death of monotheist (?) Akhenaten
in 1362 B.C. who may have been King Tut’s father. Michael Jackson’s Neverland
Ranch is near Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Mark Thatcher, son of Margaret Thatcher, had to appear
in court and answer more questions his involvement in the plot to
assassinate  the equatorial New Guinea
president (and he admitted purchasing a helicopter with a group of people)
—his wife and children are living in Texas.

Talking about the plaintiff in the Michael Jackson case
–defense attorneys are calling them “professional plaintiffs” and want the jury
to know about their involvement in lawsuits against J.C. Penny and Tower  Records in 2001.

The man who parked his SUV on the railroad track in
Glendale—initially it was thought to be a suicide attempt, but now prosecutors
point to the fact that he poured gasoline on the vehicle which would not be
necessary if the man simply wanted to die, himself. They say it indicates he
was trying to cause an explosion. Lindsay Lohan—the gal who  played the twins in the re-make of Parent
Trap (1998 version)—now is 18 years old—and is playing more controversial ,
risqué films.

February 18, 2005

U.S. is running ad in Pakistan on TV for the capture of
Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive, 25 million dollar bounty. Judge Ernest Murphy,
a superior court judge in Boston, sued reporter David Wedge of the Boston Herald
for misquoting him as saying “She should get over it” in a callous manner about
a 14-year-old rape victim.

Jury awarded 2.1 million for libel saying the paper and
reporter were wrong. The gorilla Koko in N. California.. two employees are
suing because they are saying the keeper who employed them wanted them to
expose their breasts for the gorilla in view of him saying he (the gorilla) has
a nipple fetish.

The tsunami uncovered an ancient town in India, covered
by sand near the coastal town of Maha Balapurum…another earthquake hits in
Indonesia at 6.9 on Richter scale in Sulawesi region.

California is one of eleven states allowing marijuana
for medical reasons. Mexico begins a new trial process, changing their system.
From secretive corrupt trial to oral trial similar to the U.S. system. Mother
of the Detroit Tiger pitcher who was kidnapped in Venezuela and held for 6
million dollar ransom was rescued by a law enforcement team , killing one of
the kidnappers in the process.

They raided the camp ..taking Urbina’s mom back. She
had been held for 5 months. Sr. Bush and Clinton  are in Thailand assessing the tsunami
disaster. USS Carter, a sea wolf class submarine is scheduled to be
commissioned tomorrow, Jimmy Carter was a submariner in his military years.

February 19, 2005

China is becoming more and more an economic power,
China is attempting to woo relationships with other countries away from rival
Taiwan, China has set a force of police to Haiti to help the country in the
first communist deployment in the western hemisphere, and they are especially
targeting the Caribbean, two countries in the Caribbean—Dominica & Granada
switched allegiance from Taiwan to China despite Taiwan’s “money diplomacy” and
the recent offer of 9 million dollars but China counter-offered 112 million
over  6 years.. …China still insists that
Taiwan is part of China. The two sides split in the Civil War in 1949  and Beijing has since refused to have ties
with  any government that recognizes
Taiwan. The Bahamas abandoned Taiwan in 1997. And it has added Antigua,
Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, and 
St. Lucia  as approved travel
destinations for Chinese tourists. China is the leading importer of Trinidadian
asphalt used for highways and airport runways.

Only four countries maintain relationships with  Taiwan—Dominican Republic, Haiti, St. Kits,
St. Vincent (Grenadines), but China has economic missions in the Dominican
Republic and Haiti.  When China became
communist in 1949, the U.S. supported Taiwan, the island where the former
Chinese government had taken refuge. U.S troops fought Chinese soldiers in the
1950-53 Korean War. In 1979  the U.N.
gave Beijing the China seat and Taiwan was expelled. In 1979 the U.S.
Recognized China’s legitimacy. IN 2001 
China entered the World Trade Organization and trade  is up 33% since 2003.

 The Father of
Lindsay Lohan who I just mentioned a few days ago as the star of the Parent
Trap (re-make of 1998) was arrested for driving under the influence in New York
and apparently has had several scrapes with the law over the past few years.

 George Bush Jr.
admits to having tried marijuana. In audio tapes before his initial run for the
presidency, in conversation with a friend he says “ I would never answer
question to the press like Al Gore did [about smoking marijuana] because I
would not want some little  kid doing
what I tried.” This conversation was with his friend Doug Wead, a former  aid to George Bush Sr.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice  Thomas Saylor could be fined up to $6000 for
trying to sneak a small pocketknife on to the airplane. He was initially told
during check-in that he could not carry the pocketknife on the plane and that
it must be put with stowed luggage. He apparently then tried to hide the knife
inside a shoe and was caught with it  at
the Harrisburg Intl. Airport.  Bush Sr.
and Clinton are in Thailand assessing tsunami damage and both of them
reportedly almost came to tears because of what they observed and their
interactions with some of the children who lost their parents, especially
around Ban Nam Khem, where an estimated 1500-2000 people, more than a third of
the village,  lost their lives.  I thought Thailand had refused any foreign
aid. They also observed the ruins in Khao Lak.

An Egyptian Doctor removed the second head of a 10
month old girl suffering from 
Craniopagus Parasiticus one of the rarest birth defects, the parasitic
head had been capable of smiling and blinking, but not independent life.
Correction about the Kenyan boys who had their penises cut off—it was not a
Kenyan doctor who did the surgery it was a doctor from Spain. Sports: Illinois
continues their unbeaten streak with a win over Iowa. Former baseball player
Canseco owes $32, 000 in back taxes to the state of Massachusetts but his attorney
says that it is a clerical error and that these taxes were deducted from his
payroll when he was playing baseball, but that the baseball clubs have not sent
the affidavits to the state. Iowa State upsets #2 Kansas in men’s basketball.
Iowa State started the season 0-5.

The Lakers are 26-24 this year and Shaquille O’Neal
says their record speaks for itself. Teacher at Fenway High School in Boston—an
immigrant from the Ivory Coast is being deported in a few weeks but parents,
students, teachers, and administrators are fighting to keep him here. He missed
an immigration hearing scheduled for June 7, 2001, saying he thought it was on
July 7, 2001 and because he missed the scheduled hearing he was ordered
deported, in absentia. He spent a few months in prison later.. and then was
ordered deported. He says that if he goes back to Ivory Coast he could end up
in prison or killed. He has been given three extra weeks to find a country to
go to that is safe for him.  His name is
Attouman, Obain.

 Spotlight Story
(AP NEWS)

“Do Red-Light Traffic Cameras Help?”

      Are Cameras
at Traffic Signals the Answer to     
Dangerous Intersections, or Part of the Problem?”

As red-light traffic cameras spring up at intersections
across the country, critics are raising questions about whether the devices
actually deter red-light running, or are just a way for local authorities to
make a quick buck. The cameras snap pictures of vehicles that run red lights.
The violator then receives a summons in the mail for the infraction. There’s no
exact count of how many cameras are being used, but one recent study shows that
they are currently used in more than a dozen states and more than 70 cities
across the country. Proponents say the cameras make roads safer by deterring
red-light runners from breaking the rules, but detractors say dangerous
intersections are the result of engineering deficiencies and the cameras are
just a way to increase revenue on the backs of unsuspecting drivers. Do we Need
them? “Red Light cameras just reward cities for bad  engineering” said Eric Skrum, spokesman for
the National Motorists Association, a motorist advocacy group that has been
arguing against the use of red-light cameras nationwide. The group contends
that the best remedies for dangerous intersections are engineering improvements
like longer yellow lights and shielding signals to prevent glare and make the
lights more visible as the sun sets.

According to the group’s web site, the organization
believes that “with properly posted speed limits and properly installed
traffic-control devices there is no need for camera-based law traffic law
enforcement devices.” The NMA  points to
studies of red-light cameras that show that while there is generally a decrease
in side-impact collisions, there is an increase in rear-end collisions as
drivers slam on their brakes to avoid running a red light. Robert Sinclair, a
spokesman for the Automobile Association of 
America’s New York offices, says the risks are too great not to have the
cameras in certain areas. “The nature of the collision that takes place when
someone runs a red light is a very dangerous one, the so-called ‘t-bone’ he
said is “the weakest part of the vehicle is its side. So someone runs a red
light and smashes into the side of a vehicle and lots of bad things can
happen.’ But Skrum argues that the cameras are not the only way to deal with
dangerous intersections.” Most drivers don’t want to run red lights” said
Skrum, ‘but due to engineering flaws at some intersections they sometimes have
no choice. Speed up or slow down? A number of studies have shown that by simply
increasing the length of “amber” or “yellow” lights dangerous intersections can
be made safe.

“By increasing the length of yellow lights,” Skrum
explained, “you can cut down on  the amount
of violations and accidents at an intersection. “It’s the moment for a  driver when he must make a choice. As a light
turns yellow he has to decide between speeding up to get through an
intersection and trying to stop in time to keep from running a red light.
Sinclair said that time of dilemma is shortened if a yellow light is too quick.
“It might actually encourage people to try and run the yellow” he said. “It’s
that go, no-go decision time we worry about.” Studies show that lengthening the
amber light gives  drivers more time to
make that choice and more time to brake. But in some cash-strapped communities,
shorter  yellow lights at intersections
equipped with red-light cameras means more tickets—and that means more money.
The AAA  supports the use of cameras, but
Sinclair agrees that their use needs to be monitored so drivers aren’t taken
advantage of. ‘We’ve seen ambers as as short as a second in those areas where
they might be  wanting to, lets say,
enhance revenue,”he said. There needs to be a national standard for the length
of amber lights.” A study released in January by the Texas Transportation
Institute concluded that extending a 
yellow light by 1.5 seconds would decrease red-light-running by at least
50 percent. The institute also found that cameras do have a positive impact:
that intersections equipped with the devices saw a 40- percent decrease in
violations on average. They also found that the cameras had a kind of ‘halo’
effect where nearby intersections also saw a drop in violations. Who is
profiting? The NMA says that towns and cities that want to  use red-light cameras disregard studies that
question the cameras effectiveness, instead turning to studies quoted by groups
like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety which is supported by many of
the nation’s insurance providers. The insurance institute’s Web site shows that
it believes in the cameras and sees them as a powerful weapon against red-light
runners. Skrum argues that insurance companies have a vested interest in the
success of the cameras. “The insurance industry is going to profit from the
cameras” he said “because more cameras means more tickets being issued and then
they can raise the driver’s insurance rates. “

In addition , the companies that manufacture , install,
and maintain the cameras generally make their profit from a portion of the
ticket revenue the devices generate. Because of this, Skrum says, anything that
might cause a decrease in tickets generated by the cameras would mean a
decrease in profits for the camera manufacturers, the insurance companies and
local municipalities. “In  many instances
engineering is being ignored because it’s easier to put up a camera,” Skrum
said. “It’s more lucrative to put up a camera.” Motorists groups offers $10,000
challenge a “prove us wrong” type move—NMA is offering a cash prize for proof
that dangerous intersections can’t be improved through engineering.

IN certain parts of the country, NMA is offering to
bring in its own engineer to study any intersection equipped with a camera and
to make recommendations on how the intersection could be made safer through
improved engineering. The group says that if its recommendations are
implemented in place of the camera the intersection will see at least 50
percent decline in red-light violations. If not, a $10,000 donation will be
made toward a road safety or road improvement program of that community’s
choosing. “We’re putting out money where our mouth is,”  Skrum explained, ‘We’re saying if you address
the problem with an engineering solution, you won’t need a camera.” So far no
one has taken the challenge.

February 20, 2005

Teen Film Star Sandra Dee, age 62, died. She starred in
“The Gidget” and other popular films such as “Tammy and the Doctor.”  The Dollar couple was arrested in Salt Lake
City and brought back to Florida for trial on child abuse. They had adopted
several children and were seemingly okay, the social workers thought everything
was okay but then suddenly it was discovered that they had beaten and starved
their children and even pulled out their toe nails. Los Angeles has already
gotten 28.55 inches of precipitation since July 1, the 7th wettest year on
record, the record being 38.18 inches from July 1883 to the following June. If
L.A. gets 10 more inches of rain by the end of June it will beat the record.
Thai Sex czar Chuvit Kamolvisit  has been
elected to parliament, and that he has put massage parlors behind him, now in
real estate and living an honest life, he says. 
Send tsunami video to Jean Throckmorton on Country Club Dr. in
Burbank.  Hunter Thompson, eccentric
writer commit suicide in Aspen Colorado

February 21, 2005

Levels of mercury found to be extremely high in Salt
Lake (Salt Lake City UT). 6.4 earthquake hits Iran, killing maybe up to 400 or
more. The quake was centered in the city of Zarand , in the province of Kerman.
Winn Dixie has filed for bankruptcy protection. 
Los Angeles mayor election coming up soon— recent events may  have lessened his popularity, the shooting of
Devin Brown and the beating on the head of the black man (no charges filed
against the officer).

February 22, 2005

Man accused of plotting to kill George Bush Jr. in 2002
and 2003 was indicted by a grand jury today in Virginia . He’s from Falls
Church. His name is Ahmed Omar Abu Ali . Danger of so-called “bird flue”—they
say it could become a pandemic.  Lady in
vegetative state for several years, debate continues whether to take her off
the tube and let her die, or keep her alive but maybe brain dead (15 years on
feeding tube).

Husband wants her taken off. Family wants to sustain
her and contends she is alert even though she doesn’t show it. They want
husband to divorce her so that they can become the guardians. Stephen Dale
Barbee  was charged with capitol murder
on Tuesday after  confessing to the
slaying of his wife, Alise Underwood and son Jayden (it turns out that Alise or
Lisa Underwood was not his wife—she was his mistress—he was married to somebody
else who did not know about this relationship.

Lisa wanted Barbee’s wife to know….they argued about it
and he killed her—while doing so, son Jayden walked in and so he killed him
too). His wife owned a bagel shop (in Texas?). More rain—1 a.m Feb. 23.
European Space Probe has unveiled a sea of ice on the equator of Mars, and that
it lies just below the surface. Total of 33.09 inches of rain has fallen in
southern California since July 1, 2004. The record amount is 38.18 inches set
in 1883.

February 24, 2005

 Surveys suggest
Schwarzenager’s popularity is declining. In Pennsylvania a police trooper
killed himself after police searched his home for child pornography  paraphernalia,  Dairy Cows affected by rainy season—Chino
area—losing cows mud piles up so fast, cows refuse to lie down in muck and die
of exhaustion, and they cannot let the water run off because laws re. Manure
water,. The dairy farmers say they’ve lost at least 38 million in milk
production because of dead and sick cows.

One farmer says he’s lost at least $2000 per day.
Normally the region receives about 14 inches of rain in the winter, so far this
year it has already gotten 30 inches since October. He says “Cows give less
milk when they have to expend so much energy slogging through muddy water.
Gunman shot his wife and another man with a rifle before being killed by police
Hernandez Arroyo also wounded four people in the rampage in Tyler Texas,
including two police officers and his own son.

The Pope is back in the 
hospital. A City employee in Los Angeles opened fire with a  _ killing two fellow employees at a city
yard. The Michael Jackson case is ready to begin on Monday with opening
statements. Lute Olsen got his 304th Pac 10 win in men’s college basketball
with the Arizona Wildcats, tying John Wooden’s Pac 10 record.

Former Steeler Lynn Swann is considering a run for
governor for 2006. He was with the Steelers who won four Superbowls, from ’74
to ’82. He’s a Republican. Criticism of George Bush in Russia for not taking
his gloves off to shake hands with Putin /. Discovery of a skull of an animal
that looks  like a cross between a bear
and a pit bull in California’s San Joaquin Valley. United Nations predicts
there will be 9.1 billion people on planet earth by the year 2050. A  drunk prosecutor Monroe County Asst.
Prosecutor Edward Tasker, age 28, … streaked across a motel parking lot naked
and jumped into the car of a person he thought was a friend, but turned out to
be a woman waiting for her boyfriend. ..Key West Police arrested Tasker

February 25, 2005

Paralegal who worked for the attorney representing the
the mother of the Michael Jackson accuser…says the mother lied and told her son
to lie and she (the paralegal) will testify about it.  The court has allowed the husband of the
woman in a vegetative state to take the feeding tube out of her mouth so that
she can die, but the parents of the woman have been given three weeeks to
appeal.

Wife of Hunter Thompson said he had mentioned suicide a
few times in the past few months. Operation Blue Book was supposed to
investigate UFO”s  in 1950-60 but they
say it never became a truly scientific inquiry—but they mention the fact that
some trained Air Force employees had even reported some unexplicable sightings.
Norwegian man caught a 320 poound 
Halibut—almost too big for his boat—he had to tow it in. Giant Panda
skeleton found in tomb in China-Wide.

Receiver Jerry Rice has been released from the Seattle
Seahawks—the Mississippi Valley State University grad played most of his career
with the 49ers,  and a few years with
Oakland  and will definitely be in the Hall
of Fame having broken and holding many of the reception records. South Carolina
Supreme Court has delayed its enforcement of Charm school for law school
graduation, or post-law school requirements.

Paris Hilton’s cell phone account got hacked ..a list
of celebrities, pictures of herself topless, and others stuff were plastered
all over the internet. An artist plans to tow an iceberg  to the city where they built the Titanic as a
tribute to the titanic. Hunter Thompson wants his ashes shot out of a cannon as
a final tribute to himself. Doctors in Thailand are trying to restore the
eyesight of a monk who mistakenly  used
superglue on his eyes, thinking it was eye drops. Both eyes are apparently
okay, but they have not yet separated the eyelids.

Authorities kill a tiger in Moorpark, near Simi Valley
(Reagan Presidential Library) , apparently somebody’s private pet got loose.
Woman in Alaska jealous about impending breakup with boyfriend or husband cut
off the man’s  penis and flushed it down
the toilet. They recovered the penis and re-attached it surgically. Sammy Sosa
has been traded from the Cubs to the Batlimore Orioles. Downtown Los Angeles
has had 27.37 inches of rain. Since December 1. beating the 24 inches recorded
in 1889-90.

They’ve found a person of interest in the BTK case.
Family of person having heart problems in the emergency room at the Hospital in
Santa Barbara might sue Michael Jackson and the hospital because when he came
in they put him (Jackson) in the larger room where the heart patient was and
moved the heart patient to another room where he subsequently had two more
heart attacks and died. Wife of Hunter Thompson says he talked about suicide
for a few months prior.

February 26, 2005

They have arrested somebody in Wichita Kansas who they
suspect to be the BTK killer.

February 27, 2005

The man arrested as the BTK Killer is Dennis Rader, a
cub scout leader, active in his Lutheran church , married with two children,
the municipal codes enforcer  supervisor
for the city, . Van Orden is suing to have the ten commandments monument from
the Texas Supreme Court state grounds . He is a former lawyer, now homeless
Vietnam veteran. They note that the U.S. Supreme Court has a display in their
marble lobby  of Moses holding a marble
carving of the ten commandments, but Van Orden 
rejects the comparison noting that the display also includes other
historical law givers such as Hammurabi, Confucius, and Muhammad, as  well as Napoleon and Cesar Augustus.

He said he would not have sued if the capitol bldg.
paid similar homage to other law givers/historical figures. He’s had his law
license suspended several times for issues ranging from taking  money for work he didn’t perform …[and other
things] he’s almost 60 years old. Gathering of governors from many of the
states to try to improve high school education, absent was Arnold and Jeb.
Benenson, founder of Amnesty Intl. Died 
at age 83,

Rosswell New Mexico –they found metal a few decades ago
that some insisted was from a UFO, but the govt insists it was from a hot air
balloon project they had participated in. It was a secret govt project known as
Mogul. Same  security as atomic bomb. For
surveillance. Jeff Kent—former S.F. Giant player , former team mate of Barry
Bonds, says all the hooplah about him and Bonds being enemies is exaggerated,
is now with the Dodgers. He was on the Giants when they played the Angels in
the world series. IRAQ or Syria captures Saddam Hussein’s half-brother, Sabawi
Ibrahim al-Husan.

February 28, 2005

Suicide bomber kills more than 100 and wounds  133 in an attack south of Baghdad. A
suicide  car bomber blew himself up
Monday in a crowd  at a police and
national guard recruit site south of Baghdad killing at least 106 and wounding
133, police and witnesses said. IT was one of the deadliest insurgent attacks
since President Bush declared the war over in May 2003. AP television news
footage showed large pools of blood outside the medical clinic, located on a
dusty street in Hilla, sixty miles south of Baghdad.

Scorchmarks infused 
covered the clinic walls and dozens of people helped to put body parts
in  blankets…soles of shoes and tattered
clothes were piled in a corner.  A
suicide car bomb hit a gathering of 
people who were applying to work in the security services. The incident
led to the death of a 106 people and 
injured 133 citizens,” Babil province police said in a statement
released to reporters. He added that several people were arrested about the
blast but did not elaborate. Iraqi security forces  have been regularly targeted by insurgents
who see them as collaborating with U.S. forces and want to undermine Iraq’s
American-backed government.

Dozens of bodies could be seen  lying on the ground after the blast and half
a dozen ambulances ferried casualties to  a nearby hospital, witnesses said.

The huge blast damaged 
nearby shops and  parked cars  and sent panicked people fleeing.  People were queuing up to get checked
medically in order to become policemen. 
A car came and exploded killing more than 50 people, more than what you
expect said ammar mosa  a wtiness told
EPTN. A second car exploded Monday at a police 
checkpoint in Musayyib, about 20 miles north of Hilla  killing at least 1 policeman and
wounding  several others, police said on
condition of anonymity.

The twin attacks came a day after Iraqi officials
announced that Syria had captured and handed over Sadam Hussein’s half-brother,
a most wanted leader in the Suni based insurgency, in the latest of a series of
arrests which the U.S/Iraq leaders hope will deal a crushing blow to violent
opposition forces .

The arrest of Sabawi 
Ibrahim al-husan ended months of Syrian denials  that it was harboring fugitives  of the ousted Saddam regime. Iraq authorities
said Damascus acted in a gesture of good will. Sabawai al husan   who shared a mother with Saddam, was nabbed
along with 29 other fugitive members of the former dictators Baath party in
Hasakaah, in northeaster Syria, 30 miles from the border, officials said Sunday
on condition of anonymity. U.S. military had no comment.

Syria is under 
intense pressure from the United States, United Nations, France &
Israel to drop its support for radical groups in the Middle East,  to stop harboring Iraqi fugitives and to
remove its troops from Lebanon. A week ago authorities grabbed a key associate
and the driver of Jordanian born terror leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi (who has
not been caught yet), a leader of Al-Quaeda in Iraq, and believed to be the
leader of the ongoing bombings, beheadings and attacks on Iraqi and American
forces. Iraqi officials said they expect to take al-Zarqawi soon. Iraqis broke
the news of al Husan’s capture.

“I hope all the terrorists will  be arrested soon and we can live in
peace”  said Sophia Sood,  a 54 year old Baghdad housewife. “Those
criminals deserve death for the crimes they committed against the Iraqi
people.” Iraqi officials did not specify when al-Husan was captured , only
saying he was detained after  the Feb 14
assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in Beirut Lebanon,
in a roadside bombing that killed 16 others.

Syria fell under suspicion in the killing  because of its military and political
domination of the country, where it maintains 15,000 troops. Hariri had quit
the premiership over Syria’s continued presence in Lebanon. Captain Ahmed
Ismael, an Iraqi intelligence officer said al-Husan was handed to the Iraqis
Sunday.

ANOTHER   Iraqi
official said Syrian security expelled al Husan after he and supporters  had been turned back in an earlier attempt to
cross the Syrian border into Lebanon and Jordan. Al-Husan was #36 , the six of
diamonds, on the list of most wanted terrorists in Iraq, compiled by U.S.
Authorities after Saddam was toppled in April, 2003. Eleven of the deck of 55
remain at large.

The U.S. had offered 1 million for Al-Husan’s capture.
Iraq’s post-election Shiite Muslim  power
broker united alliance leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim told AP that Husan’s arrest
signaled troubled times for  insurgency.
“those criminals are on the run and we will chase the rest of them . We will
work on arresting all the criminals, either those inside Iraq or those  in other neighboring countries so that they
can stand fair trial and be punished for the crimes  they have committed against the Iraqi
people”he said. AP reporter Salah Masrawi 
in Cairo contributed to this report.

March 1, 2005

New research  and
bran scan technology shows that some brain does originate in the brain, it’s
not imagined. Chronic back pain can even cause brain tissue to  shrink if it is prolonged. When people say
“pain is all in the head” some people think they mean it’s not real” says
Katherine Bushnell.

Researchers at ____________ University …through brain
imaging Bushnell has shown that something as simple as being distracted has a
real effect in decreasing the intensity of pain signals  in the brain. They had patients listen to
tones , while so their perception of pain diminished, and brain scans showed
the pain did lessen while they listened to the tones. She says this means that
having family around constantly asking how one is feeling can actually draw
more attention to the pain and enhance it. Emotions can either enhance or
decrease pain. Pleasant odors ease the sensation of pain while unpleasant
smells made the pain feel worse. Now they are looking for ways to target
pathways to the brain to stop some of the pain sensations.

A federal judge found two dead bodies in her home. U.S.
District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow found [what turned out to be, in fact, her
husband and mother, dead in her home] around 6 pm in the Chicago area. Another
kidnapped journalist pleads for help on a video tape. French journalist
Flourence Aubenas appeared on video tape begging for help. She went missing on
January 5, 2005.

Michigan State University is considering moving it’s
medical school to Grand Rapids. Ichiro Suzuki hit .429 from the All-Star Break
to the end of the season. Steve Fossett 
who sailed around the globe in a balloon two years ago  took off from a Kansas airfield on Monday
trying to circle the earth in a non-stop, non-refueled, one engine plane,  solo flight.

He hopes to touch back down in Kansas in three days, or
less. It would not be the first non-stop, non-refueled flight but would be the
first solo of that sort. Jeanna Yeager and Dick Rutan did so in  1986 but that took nine days. The fuel takes
up 83 percent of the aircrafts weight. University of Illinois is 28-0 and they
are two wins away from a perfect regular season.

The judge who was on the tribunal that was going to try
Saddam Hussein in court was assassinated outside his home. Judge Barwez
Mohammad Mahmoud, and his son, a lawyer, were both killed.

March 2, 2005

Clark, pastor of Christ Lutheran church in Kansas said
Dennis Radar, the alleged BTK killer, will continue to be a member of their
congregation and will remain on as president of the church council. Wow. Martha
Stewart is scheduled to be released from prison this week. 14 year old boy was
charged with shooting the bus driver in Tennessee. She had reported the boy a
day earlier for using smokeless tobacco on the bus.

The bus crashed into a utility pole Supreme Court
justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that for the court to tell the state that it
can not allow the Ten Commandments on state land would reflect on obsessive
concern with references to religion. They have not yet made a formal decision
yet. In The Van Orden Case,however,  the
homeless lawyer from Texas who wanted the 10 Commandments display removed from
the Texas Supreme Court lost his bid.

The name of of one of Michael Jackson’s attorneys is
David LeGrand. Kobe Bryant settled the civil case with accuser who is now
pregnant and married. The name of the Michael Jackson accuser is Gavin
Arvizo.The trial is in Santa Maria.

Sports: Illinois plays Purdue tomorrow and  play Ohio State on March 6  for their final two games . Mario Lemieux is
owner/player for Pittsburgh Penguins

March 3, 2005

Thermal vents near middle of Atlantic Ocean—discovered
new creatures by these vents. Near an area called the “Lost City”—black smokers
are chimney-like structures that form when very hot water from the earths
interior, up to 700 degrees fahrenheit breaks through into the ocean water
coming into contact with the frigid ocean water…minerals crystallize during the
process…and give the chimneys their black color.

They’ve discovered Tube Worms that can grow as long as
eight feet. Also tiny shrimp and crab, often translucent, and less than an inch
in size. Pilot Steve Fossett made a new world record by flying around the world
without refueling or landing, and doing it solo. He landed in Kansas. It took
him 67 hours to make the 23,000 mile flight. He survived on 12 milk shakes and
water. His main problems were headaches and lack of sleep. He used bottles for
a bathroom. He also set a ballooning record in 2002, has swum the English
Channel, taken part in an Iditarod Sled Dog race, and driven in the 24 hours of
LeMans auto race.

Umbilical cord blood apparently has high healing
powers—but is expensive to keep in a blood bank. Research suggests that those
who perform last in a contest will get better scores. Bruine de Bruin from
Netherlands conducted the research. They are going to sink the USS America—an
Air Craft Carrier—for the sake of research—to study its vulnerabilities and
strengths—since it was ready to be retired anyways…it will cost them 20 million
to sink it.

Mel Gibson appeared in court to testify about the
experience he and his family had with a stalker. Zack Sinclair, native of Idaho
is charged with one count of felony stalking—for writing unwanted letters and
showing up at Gibsons church and home (today, 3/4/05, he was convicted).
Archuleta. Gibson lives in Malibu with wife and children (or at least one
child).

Tyler Perry made film called “Mad Black Woman” and despite
having been homeless for a while has recently made a number of successful
movies which have made him wealthy. Coyotes are increasing in the Washington
D.C. area..Illinois defeats Purdue in mens college basketball 84-50 and is one
win away from a perfect regular season.

In the five month absence of Martha Stewart from her
company the value of the stock has increased times four. She was in Alderson
Federal Prison. Shaaban Hifiz Ahmad Ali-shaaban age 52 from Indiana was charged
with agreeing to act as a foreign agent for Iraq  and immigration violations…and was arrested
on Thursday. He agreed to sell the names of U.S. Intelligence Agents to Saddam
Hussein’s government  for 3 million
dollars, said Susan Brooks attorney for southern Indiana. Uri Kravachenko ,
former Ukranian interior minister, linked to the murder of investigative
journalist Georgiy Gangadze  committed
suicide.

March 4, 2005.

Military death toll in Iraq is now up to 1500. Raining
again. Four Canadian mounties were shot and killed while investigating a
marijuana farm.  The Jury has begun
deliberating in the Robert Blake Case. They say that the power being produced
in Iraq meets less than half of the demand,

The Mall Rapist “James perry” over five years committed
dozens of sexual attacks on children and women, many around Madison
Wisconsin,  (but also Illinois, Ohio, and
Texas), and  Harry’s wife may have been
his first victim. He made videos of his attacks and put them on internet porn.
When confronted with abuse the typical child will shut down and gets like a
small animal, like a rabbit or something, and just freezes, (said ___________),

Perry’s success depended upon that blank frozen
reaction from his child victim. James Perry, now 35, was sentenced on November
2004 to 470 years in prison for creating child pornography, child rape, and
kidnapping, the longest sexual crime sentence in Wisconsin history.

Glen Matlock, former bassist for the Sex Pistols, who
was subsequently replaced by Sid Vicious, –is now calling for the media to stop
using so much profanity—ironic given the Sex Pistols penchant for using
profanity themselves to shock people, years ago “When the earth shook and the
waters began receding from the creek near their 
settlement, the  Onje’s if India’s
little Andaman Island knew nature was telling them something and the primitive
hunter-gatherers did not wait to pick up their possessions or passports but
instinctively made for higher ground.

All of the 100 or so Onje left in the world seemed to
have survived the tsunami’s deadly power, now they are wondering what to do
–given their village has been destroyed.. they are considering moving inland
which may in fact be the best thing for them after all—a blessing in disguise.

March 5, 2005

New fighter technology or defense technology allows
Israel soldiers to wear wrist watch video monitors with footage from unmanned
drone planes video-taping the ground below during battle.

A LOT OF  people
adopt in the United States but not African American boys—they are, for some reason,
overlooked—Americans go abroad to find babies to adopt when there are a lot of
African American babies right here up for adoption—so many that other countries
are coming to American to adopt them.

Some people who 
say that Love is color blind and race is not an issue are naive says
Hughes (full name and title not provided), Phil Bertleson  an African American filmmaker in New York who
grew up in a white family in New Jersey says 
his upbringing almost created a cocoon of protection from the reality of
race in the world around him.

He began examining the issue in his new film “Outside
Looking In” about transracial adoption, and the impact it had on his sense of
cultural identity. He said it was a challenge facing the discord outside the
home when all you had experienced was something else.

They say while progressive minded adoptive parents may
be well intended  in the matter of race
it doesn’t matter Bertleson says –it can be dangerous and damaging because when
you ignore my race and ethnicity you are essentially taking away  a part of who I am.

Former Korn guitarist Brian “The Head” Welch was
baptized in the Jordan River weeks after quitting the band and quitting drugs.
He and about 20 others from his church in bakersfield were baptized by Pastor Ron
Vietti.  Dolphins beached themselves in
Marathon Florida—some are wondering if it is related to the submarine tests
done by the military off Key West around the same time.. The mother of the
accuser of Michael Jackson is Hispanic. They apparently interacted with a lot
of celebrities including Kobe Bryant and a fellow by the name of Tucker, and
Jay Leno apparently was approached by them at one point—but he called the
police telling them he thought they might be looking for a mark.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book entitled “The Tipping
Point” and cites a bottle of Ketchup for analogy—saying if you tap it a few
times it will come out little by little but then suddenly it will pour
out—[same analogy as ‘critical mass’ I think]Chief of Police Bratton of LAPD
(former NY)said that for three years they intentionally enforced even the most
minor crimes and in that same period the violent crime rate dropped by double
digits.

In New York’s most murderous precinct aka “The Killing
Fields” Bratton thinks the failure of the army to stop the looting in Iraq
after the initial bombing was a tipping point for the terrorists and insurgents
to rebel. Tom Friedman from NY Times gives an example of rock music having a
tipping point in th 60’s with the rise of portable radios and batteries …
Bratton hopes the election in Iraq will be a tipping point in the right
direction—Story by Chris Bury and Ted Koppel on Nightline

March 6, 2005

Mark Saina of Kenya wins the 20th annual L.A. Marathon.
Illinois loses 65-64 in final game of season vs. OSU—last  Big Ten team to go undefeated was the Indiana
Hoosiers of 1976.

Surfers created new world record  by surfing a 40 foot 10 foot wide surfboard
in Australia—20 to carry it to the water, 44-47 rode it beating the 2003 record
of 14 people. New implant for women who have had mastectomies—they use pig fat
cells—that will grow to the size of tennis balls in 12 weeks.

Reggie Jackson was hit by an SUV traveling at a high
speed—both vehicles flipped—Jackson was treated and released, the other driver
was in critical condition. Ethiopian archeologists have discovered 12 fossils
that appear to be older than the famous fossil Lucy. The specimens, estimated
to  be 3.8 to 4 million years old will be
important in terms of understanding  the
early phases of  human evolution, before
Lucy, said Yohannes Haile Selassie , an Ethiopian archaeologist. The discovery
of Lucy, the hominid skeleton estimated to be about . 3.2 million years old  in 1974 was a landmark in the search for
the  origins of humanity…the new
discovery was found approximately 37 miles north  of the site where Lucy was discovered in the
eastern region of Afar.

In my manual about “Missiology for Islamic Women” they
say too often missiologists have treated male and female  Muslims as the same—gender blind.  A Homosexual man, James Maestas age 21,  was beaten unconscious in Santa Fe Mexico in
a “hate crime”—Santa Fe is second only to San Francisco in the percentage of
same sex households.  The community holds
a gay pride parade each summer, and is know for its progressive politics.
Gabriel Maturan, age 20, Isaiah Medina 19, and David Trinidad were charged with
assault & battery.

March 7, 2005

Michael Jackson Case. They’re cross-examining the
accusers sister, Bryan Bland says, for AP news. Cross-examiner wants to know
why if they are such a close-knit family (which she claims) they have never
discussed the 1993 JC Penney Case in which her mother was awarded $150,000
after contending the guards abused her?

Former Sports Illustrated Cover Girl Model was in
Thailand when the tsunami hit—her boyfriend and photographer was swept away by
the tsunami. She was at the Khao Lak resort when the tsunami hit. She’s age 25,
her boyfriend, Simon Atlee,  was 33. The
other brother of Jacksons accuser, age 14, 
said he saw Jackson touching his brother when they were sleeping on his
bed together.

He said he twice saw Jackson masturbating with one hand
while Jackson’s others  hand was in his
brother’s underwear (today 3/9/05 they said he claimed Jacksons hand was on top
of the brothers crotch). He did not state the dates but that it occurred two
days apart. The defense says the allegations are  a fiction created by the children’s mother in
an attempt to extort money. He also described a time when Jackson grabbed a
female mannequin in his bedroom and pretended like he was having intercourse
with it on a bed fully clothed while laughing. Jacksons mother and father were
present but showed no reaction.

 A prison in the
Dominican Republic with a maximum capacity of 25 had 178 people in it when a
fire started. Prisoners have access to knives and drugs, 34 died, 2 Americans
from Puerto Rico apparently died in the fire. Garcia drank more than 50 shots
of tequila in a drinking contest and died of alcohol poisoning a few hours
later in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The Governor of Georgia, Perdue, is apparently a
licensed veterinarian—and is planning to participate in neutering a dog for
some sort of awareness campaign.

Bobby Fischer is still in Japan—apparently in solitary
for a few days because of some fracas he had with prison guards about a boiled
egg. Iceland has offered to give him citizenship if Japan will allow it
(Fischer wants to renounce his American citizenship but is currently wanted by
the U.S. for violating a ban on entering __________ a few decades ago—to play
Chess. His fiance,  Miyoko Watai,  a four time Japan women’s chess champion,  is supporting him from the outside.

 Michael
Jackson—the other brother is now testifying—says that Jackson showed him a
pornography magazine entitled “Barely Legal” 
but when the defense attorney asked him if this was it (having an actual
copy of “Barely Legal” ) and the boy said yes—he indicated the date on it was
after they had been there (to which the boy responded that he did not
necessarily mean that exact magazine but one like it , which is possible if
Jackson subscribes to it—he would throw out the old ones), the boy also
admitted that he lied under oath when he swore his mother and father never  fought and that his father never hit him.

The lawyer asked him if somebody told him to lie  in the JC Penney case and the boy responded
that he didn’t remember. The attorney then asked him about this alarm system
Jackson has which goes off anytime somebody enters the hallway outside his
bedroom, and the boy said that is true but that it only goes off if a second
door is opened. The attorney asked him if in both cases that he saw Jackson
touching his brother the alarm went off? Yes the boy said, but the previous day
he did not mention any alarm and that his brother slept through both incidents,
snoring at one point.

The Dept. of Engineers gives the United States a D for
infrastructure.  High School Football
coach in Oregon was accused of licking the scab 
or cut on the knee of one of his players. Missouri apparently has a
reputation for being pornography friendly and the governor wants to change it.
New female champion surfer in peru, 21 year old Sophia Mulanovich, puts Peru
back on the map as a surfing country.

March 9, 2005

Mt. St. Helens had a small eruption. The unpopular
leader of Hong Kong steps down—Hong Kong wants “universal suffrage” and  uninhibited democracy but Beijing—is holding
them back they appointed a leader by the name of Tung Chee-Hwa  who is disliked by the Hong Kong people—and
announced he is stepping down due to health concerns.

Star of heavy metal band Motorhead Ian Kilmeister aka
“Lenny” speaks out on WWII—saying he doesn’t think it was just the Germans
who were bad and Americans/British good—says he didn’t make as much money as
Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne—because he had warts on his face—he’s fifty
nine—and has many girlfriends some of whom he has shared with his son, but
draws the line about sharing his son’s wife.

The Barnes art collection , which has one of the
largest collections of Picassos, Cezannes, and matisse  is scheduled to move a few miles closer to
Philadelphia to make them more accessible to the public.

March 10, 2005

News professor who compared the victims of the World
Trade Center to little Adolf eichmanns at the Univ. of Colorado
—-negotiations are under way to buy out his contract—to get him to leave-,
professor Churchhill?.  Michael  Jackson showed up an hour late due to bad
back. Marijuana usages is increasing in Canada.

The Word Anaheim comes from German –Heim means home and
Ana comes from Santa Ana—the river—hence “home by the river.” The Mexicans
called it Campo Aleman. It originally had four gates to keep the cattle away
from the grape vines—the gates were the Los Angeles, the San Diego, Yorba,  and San Pedro,

The German families did not come to Anaheim until the
1859 when the grape vines began to produce. The Mission grape helped them
establish their wineries…brought to California by the Franciscan fathers, but
other grapes included the Barcelona, 
Malviosic, Zinfandel, and ____________ grapes; 400, 000 vines were
planted the first year. In 1861  75,000
gallons of wine were produced; by 1884 with 50 wineries in operation Anaheim
produced 1, 250,000gallons. Anaheim wine was said to be better than some
European wines. Between 1884 and 1888 the vines were destroyed  by disease—thus killing the wine industry.

Other crops took their place including walnuts, sugar
beets, lemons, apricots, and the Anaheim Chili pepper,  but most successful was the Valencian
Orange—so much so that they named the new county after it.

March 11, 2005

Shooting at a Fulton County Courthouse—in Georgia—an
accused rapist/defendant was being escorted into the court by the bailiff when
he grabbed the bailiffs gun, shot the bailiff, the court clerk, and the judge,
killing all three. Then he may have stolen a green Honda Accord—and is on the
loose.

Two  former
Police Officer/Detectives, Luis Espolito and Stephen Caracapa,  from New York , living in Nevada, were
arrested for conspiring with the mob/mafia. Spain is commemorating the March
11, 2004 bombings of the trains. The accuser in the Michael Jackson case says
that Jackson told him if he doesn’t masturbate he may be inclined to rape
somebody, and he said he once looked over the balcony and saw a boy having sex
with a dog.

 33 year old
Bryan Nichols, former computer technician, on trial for rape,  stole a gun on the way into court, shot the
bailiff, shot the clerk, shot the judge, shot a officer, killed all three but
the bailiff (who is in critical condition) 
(and the next day 3/12/05 shot a marshall and stole his truck), on the
loose (now caught 3/12/05).

Judge Rowland Barnes and Court Reporter Julie
Brandaus   were killed inside and Deputy
Sgt. Hoyt Teasley was killed outside the court. The bailiff/deputy, Cynthia
Hall, was in critical condition after being shot in the face—but will probably
survive. He was not handcuffed because the law requires they do not wear
handcuffs so as not to unfairly influence the jury. 27 kids died perhaps
of  food poisoning on the Island of Bohol
in the Philippines.

The state of Washington is experiencing a drought this
year—driest since 1977. Seattle, know for being 
one of the rainiest cities in the U.S., actually receives less rain, on
average, than does New York City. Seattle averages 37 inches whereas NYC
averages 47 inches. Harvard Sophomore Michael Kopko  has started a dorm cleaning business but
others are against it because they say it differentiates between the “haves”
and “ have nots” –.

Canadian Marlene Jennings (actually half american_)
parliamentary secretary for U.S. Canadian Relations who reports to Prime
Minister Paul Martin said “Lets embarrass the hell out of the Americans” in regard
to their reneging on a treaty—while they (the U.S) is attempting to negotiate
treaties with other countries.

Tax Defaulters in Southern India have to put up with
drummers assigned to drum outside their door until they agree to pay their
bill. North Carolina State upset #3 Wake Forest in the ACC quarterfinals,
81-65,—. Doug Flutie, age 42,  is being
released by the San Diego Charges.  He
played for Chicago, New England, Buffalo, and now San Diego—he started out with
the now defunct USFL, and also played in the Canadian League. The mother of
Univ. Illinois basketball  coach, Bruce
Webber, died of heart problems, and his brother is coach at Glenbrook North
High School in the northern part of Chicago.

March 13, 2005

In Japan mass suicides are becoming a problem—people
are going on line to make suicide pacts—most often done by lighting charcoal
inside a car and dying of carbon monoxide poisoning, most recently 7 people in
Siatama died together, six in Kanagawa, and 
four in Hokkaido died this way.

Geraldine Mccaughrean has been chosen to write the
official  sequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter
Pan, said the hospital who holds the copyright to the book. Barrie willed the
book to this British hospital in 1937. The New work will be entitled Captain
Pan.

Disney Company is expected to  announce that Robert Iger is going to replace
Michael Eisner as chief executive in September.

A team of American Dr.s flew secretly to Ukraine in
mid-December  to assist in the care of
Victor Yuschenko and made the assessment that he had been poisoned. 5.9
earthquake hit southern Iran on Sunday, but damage was minimal to the sparsely
populated area. A two year old was shot by his four year old brother who pulled
a loaded pistol out of his mothers purse. The baby  is in critical condition at the Ben Taub
Hospital in Houston Texas. The pope is leaving the hospital

 Randy Gregory
the pastor, age 51 and his son, James Gregory age 16 of Gurnee Illinois both
died in the shooting at the hotel worship service in Wisconsin.

March 14, 2005

Filipino Guards shoot dead 17 prisoners. In beijing
240,000 manhole covers have been stolen, in 2003. they are going to replace the
manholes with non-metallic, non-recyclable materials.

March 15, 2005

Bill Clintons home in New York isin Chappaqua 40 miles
north of Manhattan. “These people are not above the law you know, they may fly
on private planes, make millions of dollars, and be on baseball cards—but a
subpoena is exactly what it says it is and they have  to appear”, Representative Tom Davis said.
Davis, a republican from Virigina, said 
that Congress would issue contempt of Congress if they did not show up.

The subpoenas were issued after most of the witnesses
refused  invitations to appear, the panel
says. Some Muslims being held prisoners by the Fliipine govt took the guards
guns and shot through the guards—as they were being served  breakfast in a Manila Jail. One of Harvard’s
Colleges passes a no confidence vote about the Harvard President, Lawrence
Summers.

St. Nicholas was a 4th Century Christian Bishop who
lived and worked in what is now the southern Turkish town of Demare. He was
especially revered by Russia’s Orthodox Church. They’ve changed the statute
from an old bronze one with a Bible in one hand to the modern day Santa Claus
image—with a red & white suit. Schiavo speaks out about his wife in a
vegetative state—she had a heart attack in 1990—and she’s been
non-communicative for fifteen years now. Grizzly bears and Polar bears are
clashing on Melville Island. They’ve created a hydrogen powered bike in England
which can reach 50 miles per hour in 12 seconds.

March 16, 2005

Robert Blake was found not guilty of murder. They say
that Jay Leno will  testify in the
Jackson case that the accuser called him but that the boy sounded as if he were
rehearsing something… and that his mom handed the phone to him, whereas the
accuser has said that he only got through to an answering machine. Scott
Peterson moved to San Quentins death row

March 17, 2005

Police Chief Sam Roundy who operates a police station
in Colorado City Arizona which crosses over into Utah has been recommended to
have his license revoked due to a polygamous life style.

Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by senators in Rome
in 44 BC on March 15, the Ides of March. UCLA 
is planning a 20 million dollar stem cell research center—creating 12
new faculty positions and a lab.

A new species of shrimp has been found in Idaho—one of
only four species, among hundreds,  that
are longer than an inch and eat their relatives. John Aschroft is going to
teach a class “Leadership in Times of Crisis” 
at Regents University—which was started by televangelist Pat Robertson
who is still the president. It has 3000 undergraduate & graduate students
(combined?), Ashcroft’s father & grandfather were Assembly of God
ministers–, as is the university.

In 2002 the justice dept. spent 8000 dollars for blue
drapes that were placed over a bare breasted statute near the office. Before
becoming attorney general Ashcroft served two full terms as Missouri’s
governor, and a six year term as a U.S. Senator.

Family of murdered Belfast man, Robert McCartney, will
take their campaign  for justice to a new
level when they meet president Bush among growing outrage of the brutal murder
,  St. Patricks day celebrations   in Washington carry  particular resonance as Sinn Fein  (the country?) battles to win back valuable
support from Irish leaders. Leader Gerry Adams 
has been warned by senators that time was running out to make a break
with the IRA, but has not done so, and therefore he was excluded from the White
House invitation…for the first time in a decade all Northern Ireland  political leaders are banned from the annual
shamrock ceremony  at the white house,
but the McCartney family has been welcomed.

The  name  of the brother of  the Michael Jackson accuser  is Star Gavizo. Prostitutes in Groningen Netherlands
complain that the police have been watching them have sex with their clients
–prostitution being legal there in the sex zone

Priest in Italy by the name of Cesare Lodeserto ,
former head of an Italian foundation that looks after the welfare of
prostitutes, was arrested for mistreating prostitutes—being accused of keeping
them against their will; but he claims he was doing it for their own welfare—some
of them were drunk and if they had been allowed to wander in the streets they
would have been take advantage of. Another person claimed the scandal was a
setup and that he had been offered cash to file a complaint against the priest.

Millionaire by the name of Phil Walker, age 53, who
owns a warehouse , noticed a 6 year old gal with cerebral palsy and was so
touched by her physical challenges he bought a pool for her for $15,000 pounds.
Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates  is said to be the most expensive hotel ever
built—at an expense of 3 billion dollars.

The Ten Commandments monument at the center of
controversy in Alabama (and Judge Roy Moore) has been brought to Kalamazoo, MI.
(NFI),

Boy Named Zach Ingels hit a 3 pointer at the buzzer to
help Eastern Kentucky into the NCAA basketball tournament—they tell about his
life growing up in Michigan  (Gowen or
Greenvile) and the early death of his mother—sister left in a coma, but he had
vowed shortly before she died that hee would make it into the NCAA tournament,
and he did!. His other sister works as a high school basketball coach in Big
Rapids. Only 23 of the men’s NCAA tourney’s 65 managed to graduate at least 50
% of their athletes .

They are talking about changing the color of the NHL
ice from white to blue, and the lines to orange. Tennis tournament at Indian
Wells is underway?   Bill (?)
Schwartzbach was the attorney for Robert Blake, who was acquitted. Lakers play
the Heat today.

Little Kim the female rapper was convicted of perjury
and conspiracy. Dutch Court opens hearings on Friday against man accused of
helping former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein commit war crimes and genocide by
providing him with materials for chemical weapons.  Franz Van air iat, age 62, is accused of  1000’s of tons of raw materials for chemical
weapons used in the 1980-88war against Iran and Iraqi Kurds, including  a 1988 attack in which  and estimated 5000 people were killed.

Harold David Goldstein was convicted of impersonating
an attorney,  falsely representing
himself as an attorney, and was sentenced to 12 ½ years in prison . Goldstein,
age 59, said he sincerely did his best for clients and won 25 cases. He
operated a busy Newport Beach law practice. Goldstein represented 100’s of
clients, including many immigrants that were deported. Goldstein has
convictions dating to the 70’s when he was found guilty of defrauding 13, 000
investors in a commodity scheme, and selling millions of dollars in phony
contracts. In 1980 L.A. District Attorney charged him with stealing 4
million  from small businesses …and
seeking loans with a phony overseas bank that he and a partner established. He
was sentenced to 10 years in prison but was released in ’86.

Genetic mutations and diseases such as color blindness
, autism, and hemophilia , are linked to the X Chromosome, and therefore more
common in males because they do not have another X to compensate for the faults
of the other, whereas females have two X chromosomes , one of which  is largely turned off because a single X is
all they need, whereas males have an X and a Y. The X chromosome is larger than
the Y chromosome. There are disproportionate number of diseases associated with
the X chromosome, said Dr. David Bentley of the Welcome Trust Sangar Institute.

Experts are now suggesting the coast along the
Caribbean Sea is vulnerable to another tsunami /earthquake. At least  10 significant tsunamis have been documented
in the northern Caribbean  since 1492
…movement along plate boundary  that runs
2000 miles off the north coast of the island of Hispaniola, which includes the
countries of Haiti and Dominican Republic to the lesser Antilles.

And British experts are saying that  another earthquake/tsunami could occur in the
same area as the one on Boxing Day 2004 within the next year—perhaps even of
the same magnititude and re-occuring in some of the same places, including
Bande Aceh.  One of these destroyed Port
Royal Jamaica in 1692, another killed at least 10 Jamaicans in 1780. In 1946 a
magnitude 8.1 earthquake  hit  near the dominican republic causing a wave
that killed 1800 people.

Shaquille O’Neal had 25 points and 12 rebounds  as the Miami Heat beat the Lakers in the
second meeting between the two teams this season. In the first matchup the Heat
won by 2, in this matchup they won by a score of 102-89. This was the Heats
11th straight win and their single season record of 14 straight at home, just
behind San Antonia for the leagues best record

Kiki Fournier , a former housekeeper for Michael
Jackson, was called by the prosecution to testify. She said there was a parade
of boys who stayed at Jacksons estate, among them were the accuser but others
such as McCauley Caulkins , and that sometimes they ran wild and trashed the
living quarters, toward the end of their stay. She said she saw Jackson at the
dinner table with some children who appeared to be intoxicated ;  other times she saw them in an outbuilding
with local children, some of whom appeared intoxicated.  She described Jackson as an indulgent host
and suggested that the children took advantage of him .

She said that with the absence of an authority figure ,
the children became wild and without their parents there it became like
Pinocchios Pleasure Island.

Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy is publishing a book
featuring naked fat bottom girls, members of the  cabaret group, the Fat Bottom Revue, are
photographed in similar poses to models used by acclaimed erotic photographers
. Nimoy age 73 previously caused controversy with a book of photographs featuring
women wearing only ritual Jewish prayer items. The book was entitled Shekinah.
Islamic militants killed as many as 12 barbers for shaving their beards or
giving them western hair cuts. NCAA: UCLA lost to Texas Tech. Illinois beat
Farleigh Dickinson and play Nevada on Saturday.

Man named Mr. Frank who was working on David
Letterman’s ranch as a painter and hatched a plot to kidnap Letterman’s newborn
baby and their nanny—and hold them for 5 million dollar ransom. He confided in
somebody who reported it to police.

The Santa Anita Race track was used as a relocation
site for Japanese-Americans during WWII. 
Now the feeding Tube in the Schiavo case has been removed—the presiding
judge stepped in and ordered it removed. She could live two weeks without the
tube.

The accuser of Michael Jackson and his father went to
the home of George Lopez, the comedian, as guests and the boy left his
wallet—they called back to get it and said there was $300 in the wallet, but
Lopez said there was only $3.00. The prosecutors said that was the dad’s con,
not the son’s—the son didn’t want to go along with it.

Former Governor of Connecticut, John G. Rowland,  gets a year in prison The governor of
connecticut was sentenced to a year in prison for accepting bribes. Amina wadub
a professor of Islamic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University led a Muslim
service that included a mixed congregation, using the pronouns it, she, and he
for Allah, causing some Muslims locally and around the world to become very
upset, –one of the buildings they had planned to originally hold their service
received a bomb threat forcing them to move to a different location.

She said she was trying to address the problem of women
being treated unequally in the Muslim religion but others say it is not a
matter of being unequal, just different. The 1899 insurrection  in the Philippines costs 1000’s of more U.S.
lives than the Iraq War (so far). What was this insurrection in the
Philippines? The U.S. was in WW1 for only one and a half years, although the
number of American lives lost was greater than Iraq. Now they are saying it
is  possible that we may be in Iraq
longer than we were in WWII. The numbers of soldiers killed in Iraq (about 1500
so far) is far less than either WWI or WWII, which was in the 100’s of 1000’s.