Tortured Intelligence
A Syrian prisoner, Mohammed al-Tumani, 19, who was arrested in Pakistan, flatly denied to his [Guantánamo] Combatant Status Review Tribunal that he’d attended the jihadist training camp that the tribunal record said he did....
Monthly Archive: October 2007
Peter LaBarbera Plugs Away At BDSM
Left Behind Baptist guy Tim LaHaye‘s wife Beverly LaHaye set up “Concerned Women for America”, an organisation with which Peter LaBarbera was associated. In 2001, LaBarbera wrote, with others in this organisation, The Bush...
Folsom Street Fundies
Trust a bunch of overly agitated Fundies to force themselves to attend San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair for hours and then run an exquisitely detailed photo story of the event and various fellatory panoramas....
Monster.Com Suggests You The New Job – Transfer Manager
So after monster.com’s email database was stolen, my spam bin is getting filled with these “employment offers” allegedly from monster.com, all variants on the Nigerian 419 advance-fee scam. This one was allegedly From: elaina@monster.com...
$100 Billion Bank Bailout Broached
Leading U.S. banks have reportedly been meeting with U.S. Treasury officials about creating an up-to-$100-billion fund to stave off the danger that there could be a fire sale of shaky mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt...
Imperial Delusions
The SBX has been a source of ridicule. Although it was destined to work the Pacific rim of our defense, the entire unit was assembled in Texas, suggesting that some serious hometown earmarking went...
How Christians Die
Police have closed their investigation into the death of the Rev. Gary Aldridge. Detectives determined that no foul play existed in the case and therefore no crime had been committed … Aldridge, 51, was...
Foederati Economy
When they came home from Iraq, 2,600 members of the Minnesota National Guard had been deployed longer than any other ground combat unit. The tour lasted 22 months and had been extended as part...
Ovulating Strippers
Researchers have found that lap dancers … earn more when they are in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle. The finding suggests that women subtly signal when they are most fertile, although just...
All In The Family
A 72-year-old man is due to become the father of his own “grandchild” by acting as a sperm donor for his daughter-in-law … After failing to have a child naturally the couple sought fertility...