] One of this year's candidates for president, to hear his
] opposition tell it, has a long history of policy
] reversals and rhetorical about-faces -- a zigzag trail
] that proves his willingness to massage positions and even
] switch sides when politically convenient.
]
] The flip-flopper, Democrats say, is President Bush.
] Over the past four years, he abandoned
] positions on issues such as how to regulate air pollution
] or whether states should be allowed to sanction same-sex
] marriage. He changed his mind about the merits of
] creating the Homeland Security Department, and made a
] major exception to his stance on free trade by agreeing
] to tariffs on steel. After resisting, the president
] yielded to pressure in supporting an independent
] commission to study policy failures preceding the Sept.
] 11, 2001, attacks. Bush did the same with questions about
] whether he would allow his national security adviser to
] testify, or whether he would answer commissioners'
] questions for only an hour, or for as long they needed.

Yahoo! News - Despite Bush Flip-Flops, Kerry Gets Label

] I received this stupid pen on my birthday years ago from
] my ex-wife, and even before I divorced her flabby body, I
] hated the pen. I have no idea why she bought me this
] piece of crap. Sure, it writes fine and could "seem"
] kind of cool, but I hate it. The color is ugly, it
] barely fits in my banana sized hands, and it comes with
] some weird carrying case. King Kong could barely write
] with it. Every time I open up my drawer and see this
] waste of space, I am reminded that I used to be married
] to that skank who gave me a stupid pen for my birthday.
] It's not like I collect pens or anything, or even take
] time to write stuff down. I use a computer to write.
] OK, call me different, but even if I did like or use
] pens, this is not the one I would have spent money on. I
] have no idea how much she paid for it, but I can
] guarantee you it was my money she used to buy it. She
] could barely hold down a job, let alone cook for herself.
] This dismal lazy slug sat on the couch for entertainment
] and watched old movies all day.

eBay item 3837676332 (Ends Sep-12-04 11:50:06 PDT) - Jean Pierre Le'pine pen from Ex-Wife

] The Last Starfighter, a world premiere science fiction
] musical inspired by the 1984 screenplay of the motion
] picture of the same name, will open the 2004-05 season of
] Off Broadway's Storm Theatre, Oct. 15-30.

Yahoo! News - 'The Last Starfighter', the Musical, Beams Down Into World Premiere in NYC

] House Republicans rallied around Majority Leader Tom
] DeLay (Tex.) yesterday, but they could not prevent news
] of Tuesday's indictments of three of his political
] associates from dampening a GOP celebration marking
] nearly 10 years of House control.
]
] Republican leaders and back-benchers defended DeLay,
] saying a Texas grand jury's action this week has not
] shaken their confidence in the 10-term lawmaker. The
] panel indicted three of DeLay's political associates on
] charges of illegally collecting corporate donations and
] funneling them to Texas legislative races.

GOP Unites Behind DeLay After 3 Aides Are Charged (washingtonpost.com)

Dreier clearly meets that standard, for his voting record is strewn with anti-gay positions. To cite just a few: He voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would have banned discrimination against gay people in hiring; voted for the gay-bashing Defense of Marriage Act; voted for banning adoption by gay and lesbian couples in the District of Columbia (3,000 miles away from Dreier’s district); voted to allow federally funded charities to discriminate against gays in employment, even where local laws prohibit such bias; and voted against the Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

LA Weekly: News: The Outing [of an Anti-Gay Legislator]

] A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine when
] it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam --
] formerly known as singer Cat Stevens -- was on a
] government watch list and barred from entering the
] country.
]
] United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles
] International Airport when the match was made Tuesday
] between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said
] Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation
] Security Administration.
]
] The plane was met by federal agents at Maine's Bangor
] International Airport around 3 p.m., Melendez said.
]
] Homeland Security Department spokesman Dennis Murphy
] identified the passenger as Islam. "He was interviewed
] and denied admission to the United States on national
] security grounds," Murphy said.

That rumble you hear is the crumbling resolve of Al-Qaeda.

Bush 1 Terrorists 0: Cat Stevens Banned From America

] Google, $1.67 billion richer from its August initial
] public offering, is spending its money poaching the
] brightest minds from arch-rival Microsoft and other tech
] giants.
]
] Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google
] appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and
] other software products to challenge Microsoft.

New York Post Online Edition: business

] US secretary of state Colin Powell is the main candidate
] to be the next American ambassador to London, the Evening
] Standard has learned.
]
] Mr Powell is widely expected to step down from his
] current post after the presidential elections in
] November.
]
] It is understood President Bush, if re-elected, may use
] the offer of the ambassadorship, one of the most
] sought-after diplomatic postings, to ease the departure
] of Mr Powell, 67.

ThisisLondon

] The Foreign Office was thrown into turmoil yesterday
] after the British ambassador to Rome, Sir Ivor Roberts,
] described President George Bush as "the best recruiting
] sergeant ever for al-Qaida".

Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | Al-Qaida would back Bush, says UK envoy

] Secret Worlds: The Universe Within
]
] View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the
] Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in
] successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak
] tree just outside the buildings of the National High
] Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After
] that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a
] microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell
] nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic
] universe of electrons and protons.

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial