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skreidle ([personal profile] skreidle) wrote2004-02-11 10:51 pm

CNN.commentary :)

  • Yellowstone snowmobile ban overturned: It would hurt business! (Always more important than environmental and noise pollution.)
  • Atkins' widow criticizes report of husband's obesity: "Shh! You're not supposed to have that information!"
  • Microsoft warns of hacker-friendly flaw: Uh-huh.
  • Swimmer drives for help with shark attached to leg: "There's nothing in our procedure manual for that type of thing!"
  • Sea lion leaves ocean for 65-mile trip inland: "Maybe he was going after fish, and there are far fewer sea lions to compete with in the delta." True that.
  • Pornographer to sell Whitehouse.com: Sure, it's to protect your kid from taunting, nothing to do with the new misleading-URL law.
  • Woman drops Jackson lawsuit: Made her point, she says. Right--that she's a freaking idiot an overly sensitive and repressed git?
  • China 'won't meddle' with Taiwan: Nope, no meddling, but "Chen cannot conceal his evil intention of using [the referendum] to pave the way for future referendums on Taiwan independence." Eeeevil!
  • Chocolate sweet for heart, science shows: Huzzah!
  • Coalition: Diplomas losing meaning: And we're surprised?
  • France backs head scarf ban: Offensive to some, sure, but 70% of polled French, including over half of the polled French Muslims, support the ban.
  • Love school: The country's first certification course for matchmakers: Specialists for every niche of every niche.
  • "Pizzagra": Plans are underway to unveil the world's sexiest ... pizza?: Just when you thought pizza couldn't get any better..
  • [identity profile] weyakin.livejournal.com 2004-02-11 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
    Yeah.. money.. environment... money is ALWAYS more important.. until humans start dying in large quantities..and even then, it still might be more important...

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    [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com 2004-02-12 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
    Once that happens, money will be the solution, of course. Or at least money will be poured into trying to find a solution.

    [identity profile] idoru.livejournal.com 2004-02-11 11:30 am (UTC)(link)
    okay, aphrodisiac pizza seems like at LEAST a twofold bad idea:
  • pizza gives many people indigestion. sexAY.
  • people do not want to have sex immediately after eating. in fact, most people don't want to do ANY intensely physical activity on a full stomach.


    .. also, banana asparagus ginger chocolate artichoke pizza sounds FOUL, not libido-enhancing.
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    [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com 2004-02-12 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
    Maybe, uh, they'll be mixed in well and not, say, sliced on top. :)

    [identity profile] weeping-angel.livejournal.com 2004-02-12 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
    and every Muslim I know thinks it's a slap in the face to Muslims world wide. funny that.

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    [identity profile] skreidle.livejournal.com 2004-02-14 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
    I'm not sure where I stand on the issue. On the one hand, it's banning a symbol that will single out particular people, be it for good or ill, like banning gang paraphernalia, or dress codes that either mandate a particular uniform or disallow things that "could be disruptive," or disallowing clothing that would assist concealment of identity--like the Florida driver's license case. On the other hand, it's banning something that's viewed by many to be a religious mandate.