GeekNews - Jan18

I tire of finding an excuse to present BLOGMEAT.

Henceforth, I'll save it up and compile it every couple of weeks.

The trick is to present the MSM news items without editorializing.
However, I reserve the right to slug my own headlines.

Announcing the first fortnightly version of

GEEKNEWS: News That Caught My Attention In The Past Couple of Weeks!

Volume I, Edition I: January 4 - January 18, 2006

January 4, 2005
Old Man Misses Victim Burglar With Evil Gunshot!
Vows To Take Shooting Lessons.
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Undocumented Non-Migrants Bravely Defend Against Harsh Police-State:
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico, Jan. 8, 2005 — A few weeks ago, five men were shot to death in a car repair shop in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

In any other city, it might be called a massacre. In Nuevo Laredo, it's called business as usual.

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January 12, 2006
The Boston Herald
Bush Is Killing Sean Penn!

Although politically overactive actor Sean Penn has not stepped into battle, the country’s involvement in Iraq is going to slowly kill him.
The Oscar winner told the audience at an anti-war forum hosted by the Progressive Democrats of America in Sacramento, Calif. the other night that the stress of living under the Bush administration is making it impossible for him to quit smoking, the PDA’s Web site reported.
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January 13, 2006
Alito Reveals More In One Week Than Kerry Did In One-Year Presidential Campaign
Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court is gliding toward confirmation despite a week of hearings in which Democrats tried and failed to hobble his prospects with withering questions on abortion, presidential power and ethics.

Democrats argue that the former Reagan administration lawyer is likely to tip the court's balance to the right in replacing centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But with little success so far peeling votes from Alito's confirmation as the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice, Democrats showed not much appetite for mounting a filibuster on the Senate floor.

Instead, they are seeking to slow Alito's ascension by demanding that the Judiciary Committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., delay the panel's vote a week.

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The Charlotte Observer, January 12, 2006
Can we say "Bible"????
A Rock Hill man leaving church Wednesday night used his Bible to shield himself from the blows of a man who tried to rob him, according to a Rock Hill Police report.

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Associated Press; January 12, 2006
Man Is For The Birds

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds.

"These types of discoveries give us real insight into the past lives of these human ancestors, the world they lived in and the things they feared," Lee Berger, a paleo-anthropologist at Johannesburg's University of Witwatersrand, said as he presented his conclusions about a mystery that has been debated since the remains of the possible human ancestor known as the Taung child were discovered in 1924.

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January 18, 2006
Ann Coulter Disses Hillary "You Know What I'm Talkin' About" Clinton
Coulter arrogantly expresses disrespect for comments by former White House Distaff, spoken in a Black Church, on MLK Day, to a Black Audience, using Black Argot: Where is the outrage against this unwarranted attack on The First Black First Lady?

So Hillary Clinton thinks the House of Representatives is being "run like a plantation." And, she added, "you know what I'm talking about."

First of all: Think about what a weird coincidence it is that Hillary would have made these remarks in a black church in Harlem on Martin Luther King Day. What are the odds? Did she even know it was a holiday? Bravely spoken, Senator. I haven't been this surprised since finding out Hollywood likes a movie about gay cowboys.

As Hillary explained, the House "has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

Yes, that's what was really missing on plantations during the slavery era: the opportunity to present a contrary view. Gosh, if only the slaves had been allowed to call for cloture votes. What a difference that would have made!

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January 19, 2006
WFRV Television: Madison, Wisconson
Wisconson Governor Bravely Resists Efforts of NRA-Funded Senate to Impose Concealed-Carry Law on Citizens
(AP) MADISON The state Senate approved a Republican bill Tuesday that would let Wisconsin residents carry concealed weapons, setting up what could be a fierce political clash between the Legislature and Gov. Jim Doyle.

The Senate's 28-5 vote sends the bill to Doyle, a Democrat who already has nixed one version of it and has vowed to veto this one.

"The governor believes people carrying loaded weapons around will make Wisconsin less safe," Doyle spokeswoman Melanie Fonder said.

But Republicans say people should be allowed to fight off criminals.

Wisconsin is one of only four states that bans concealed weapons. National Rifle Association lobbyists working with Republican legislators have been trying make them legal here for years.

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