"Gang rape shows the people who do it are still vigorous, and that is okay. I think that might make them close to normal," domestic media quoted Ota as saying in reference to the recent arrest of five university students for alleged gang rape
"It's quite aesthetically pleasing to watch the chicken wander around the yard," said Herrine, 41. "My husband was not particularly interested in having chickens - he's away all day - but when he comes home and they're wandering around, there's something really cool about it, having fowl in the yard."
On January 28, 2003, President Bush said in his State of the Union Address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." [State of the Union, 1/28/03, pg. 7] Yet, according to news reports, the CIA knew that this claim was false as early as March 2002. In addition, the International Atomic Energy Agency has since discredited this allegation.
On February 5, Secretary of State Colin Powell told the United Nations Security Council: "Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. That is enough to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets." [Remarks to UN Security Council, 2/5/03, pg. 12] The truth is, to date we have not found any of this material, nor those thousands of rockets loaded with chemical weapons.
On February 8, President Bush told the nation: "We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons – the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have." [Radio Address, 2/8/03] Mr. President, we are all relieved that such weapons were not used, but it has not yet been explained why the Iraqi army did not use them. Did the Iraqi army flee their positions before chemical weapons could be used? If so, why were the weapons not left behind? Or is it that the army was never issued chemical weapons? We need answers.
U.S. troops have psyched up on a bizarre musical reprise from Vietnam war film "Apocalypse Now" before crashing into Iraqi homes to hunt gunmen, as Shi'ite Muslims rallied against the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
With the strains of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" still ringing in their ears and the clatter of helicopters overhead, soldiers rammed vehicles into metal gates and hundreds of troops raided houses in the western city of Ramadi after sunrise as part of a drive to quell a spate of attacks on U.S. forces.
Luc Besson produced this english-subtitled Jean Reno vehicle, which has him as a bad-ass French cop who goes to Japan to meet the 19 year old daughter he never knew he had; Yakuza-related hijinks ensue. Pretty much exactly what you expect (does Reno get suspended for not playing by the book? is there a comedy sidekick? does his daughter hate cops? do the Yakuzas dress all in black and drive black cars around? - the answeres are yes, yes, yes, and yes). Light and breezy; it was a lot of fun to see american cop-movie cliches dropped into a french movie, and Reno is excellent as usual.
If you see only one movie this year where Jean Reno gets his ass handed to him playing Dance Dance Revolution, make it WASABI
At 9:03 AM on 11 September 2001, the second airplane hit the South Tower of the World Trade Center. President Bush was in Florida, at the Emma T. Booker Elementary School, listening to children read. Chief of Staff Andrew Card came over and whispered in Bush's ear, "A second plane hit the second tower. America is under attack."
What did the Commander in Chief do? Nothing. He sat there. He sat for well over 5 minutes, doing nothing while 3,000 people were dying and the attacks were still in progress.
This is from an illustrated book on the history of Scientology. My favorite pages so far would have to be page eleven (haven't we *all* been there?), and the sinister page forty four.
Whenever anyone asked him about Zen, the great master Gutei would quietly raise one finger into the air. A boy in the village began to imitate this behavior. Whenever he heard people talking about Gutei's teachings, he would interrupt the discussion and raise his finger. Gutei heard about the boy's mischief. When he saw him in the street, he seized him and cut off his finger. The boy cried and began to run off, but Gutei called out to him. When the boy turned to look, Gutei raised his finger into the air. At that
moment the boy became enlightened.
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Earlier this year, Marvel Comics announced that they were creating a new line of comics called Epic. The goal of Epic was to offer wannabes an oportunity to break into the industry through Marvel. Although they just started to accept submissions from the public, they were actively courting comic creators before the announcement to create some buzz for the new line. One of the comics selected was Mark Millar's Trouble. One that was not, was Micah Wright's Joe A.I.M. First of all, you're probably asking yourself, "What's A.I.M"? If you're a hardcore Marvel junkie, you'll recall that A.I.M. is a group of scientists that dress up in fear inspiring yellow costumes and create killer robots. Their most well known one? MODOK. Joe A.I.M. would have been a comic about those one of those annonymous scientists and the trouble he gets into when he joins A.I.M. by mistake. From Micah Wright's pitch
Sounds pretty interesting, eh? It's too bad that it was never picked up. Wright has this to say about Marvel's failure to pick it up" "Yeah, I can totally see why they couldn't be bothered to read this. How Weak this would be! I mean, I only had Garth Ennis in stitches at a bar in NYC telling him pieces of the story (like my favorite section where Joe tries to get his wife to breastfeed the new MODOK baby which has decided that Joe is its Father and won't let anyone else near it without blasting them dead with Mental Rays." Too bad. Any comic featuring a breast-fed MODOK is ace in my books. |
An underground group known as the Sims Shadow Government has taken over the fantasy world that is ``The Sims Online,'' meting out mob justice.
It's a violent twist for ``The Sims,'' the dollhouse-inspired computer game that has long been portrayed as the antithesis to guns-'n-gore bestsellers like ``Grand Theft Auto.'' The emergence of a seedy underbelly in the online game may reveal more about the dark fantasies of middle-aged suburbanites than anyone suspected.
A team of international palaeontologists has unearthed human fossils which date back 160,000 years. The scientists say the three skulls are the oldest human fossils ever discovered and provide hard evidence that Africa is the birthplace of Homo Sapiens.
And the findings published in the prestigious journal Nature also reveal these ancient people used sophisticated tools, had a taste for hippopotamus and engaged in some bizarre death rituals...
A High Court judge has admitted that when asked to examine the lyrics of a rap song, he could not understand a word of it.
Judge Lewison had to rule whether composer Andrew Alcee had suffered damage to his honor or reputation through the "derogatory" use of his UK garage number one hit, "Burnin."
The judge said the claim "led to the faintly surreal experience of three gentlemen in horsehair wigs examining the meaning of such phrases as 'mish mish man' and 'shizzle my nizzle.'"
...In a statement, the committee said that “despite the high technology and fabulous effects of the movie, it explicitly handles the issue of existence and creation, which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.”
It said the movie “tackles the issue of the creator and his creations, searching the origin of creation and the issue of compulsion and free will.” It added that “such religious issues, raised in previous times, caused crises."
A beautiful woman who is wearing a skirt. The fascination is very much a question of what you don't see.
For the devotee it is not only that only one leg is coming out of the skirt. The skirt serves as an appetizer. What's under it? Is there a stump and does it dangle when the lady walks?
Sometimes you can see something that must be a stump. Sometimes it seems obvious that there is nothing...
Alpha Flight was always one of Marvel's quirkier titles, no matter whom the writer. This is, after all, the book that somehow slipped past the higher-ups such events as Sasquatch becoming an unwilling transsexual and another teammate being the product of a supervillain mind-controlling her mother. The one thing it seemed they weren't able to get past the powers-that-be, though, was Northstar being gay. To be fair, it got by them for some time; the John Byrne era of the book was very subtle, but you could tell where it was going. That all changed when Bill Mantlo took over, with constant comments on Northstar liking men in tights and such. When Mantlo gave Northstar a "sickness", eyebrows were certainly raised, and Marvel informed Mantlo that Northstar having AIDS was right out. Mantlo wrote the character out by revealing that he was sick because he was a fairy (I am not making this up), and that was that.
