The Foreign Press Says The Wackiest Things According to the Times of India, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had struck a deal with the US to not capture Osama bin Laden, fearing this could lead to unrest in nuclear-armed Pakistan. Bin Laden is believed to be hiding in the mountainous border-region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, within a belt of areas under the control of deeply conservative tribes. This would help explain the bewildering "All Saddam All the Time" Iraq-focus in the War on Terror that seemingly forgot about Osama and that 9-11 thing that happened two years ago. If this alleged policy of containment ends and Osama does get captured, you can bet it will happen conveniently sometime in late October.
Poor People In The US, Faking It/Doing It For Attention While the US Conference of Mayors have released a study that shows that homelessness and hunger have increased on an average of 16% annually for the past decade and a half, and the Census Bureau have found the number of poor people in the US at 35 million, the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation have just released a study that attempts to show that the poor in the US don't have it that bad, at least according to world standards. Most poor people have a TV and sometimes a VCR, so how can poverty be that bad? According to FoxNews' take on the study, "The bottom line is that a very small percentage of the 35 million people considered 'poor' actually suffer real material hardships." Expect a follow-up study from the Heritage Foundation proving that the poor are poor because God doesn't like them that much.
Like A Russian Doll Set Of Corruption Halliburton has told the Pentagon that two employees took $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti-based company for awarding it lucrative work supplying US troops in Iraq. This is on top of recent charges that Halliburton overcharged the US government for fuel deliveries by $61 million. And that is on top of charges that Halliburton received its unchallenged contracts thanks to its connections with Vice President Dick Cheney who receives large annual checks from the corporation for "past services" when he's not holed up in his cave.
This Is Like SOO 19th Century... Several legislators in Missouri have signed onto a proposal that would require public school teachers to teach "intelligent design" as well as the theory of evolution, as well as requiring new textbooks to label evolution as a theory that cannot be proved. A teacher, principal or administrator that failed to meet these requirements could be fired. Joe White, who is president of the citizens group that worked for years to prepare the proposed legislation, was quick to point out that this proposed law would not have a Christian-slant. "We are not defining who intelligence is. If you are Christian, you may say God. If you are an atheist, you may say it was an extraterrestrial intelligent cosmic being." And you could also say it was the Hamburgerler and Grimace that created existence. Charles Granger, a professor at the University of Missouri had a better hope than trying to disprove science in the 21st century, "I hope we don't make fools of ourselves like Kansas."
-The Sikh Geek
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