ibenez wrote:

The results suggest that marijuana, or its derivatives, could actually be good for the brain.

Uhm.... sweet!

Unless of course you work with me, in that cause I deplore the use of all drugs... bad bad drugs!

Results also suggest that actual marijuana has no such effect. Doh!

RE: New Scientist Breaking News - Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain

"The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia," Bush said.

Isn't this the same thing (from the other side of the fence) that Bush is trying to do? Throw down one country and rally the entire Muslim world to American style democracy? I hate to say this but being a betting man, I'd bet on the Muslims. You can sometimes rally nationalism to fight between countries, but you can always rally God to fight within them.

What's worse is that by now framing the war in this way, the Muslim fundamantalists can use this and say that this is a holy war, and that we've been lying about what it was the entire time. Whether they are right about that is another question, but they can point to it and scream we are against Allah, that everything that has happened is because of that and make that charge stick.

Bush: Radicals Seek to Intimidate World

"We are in end times," Wagner said. "This is Armageddon, the end of all things. Basically, what we're in right now is the appearance of the antichrist who we believe to be
Pope Benedict (XVI). ... That's the main reason we chose the Catholic church. It didn't have anything to do with the people in it."

He calls it a vision, I call it delusional psychosis. It also doesn't surprise me.

Suspect Says Vision Spurred Altar-Toppling

Bush made clear that the potential for an outbreak of avian flu is much on his mind, and has had him talking with "as many (world) leaders as I could find," consulting a book he read over the summer on the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that killed 40 million and meeting with staff and experts.

Why not just watch Outbreak? Oh, because the government is involved, silly me.

And in response to the plan, NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. You want to get people to stay inside in case of a major flu outbreak? Go on TV and scare the crap out of them. They'll stay in. You want to make it hundreds of times worse? Put guys with guns on the street roaming around spreading the damn flu!

Bush Reads Book!

"The nominees will be people that, one, obviously can do the job and, secondly, will be independent," Bush said.

He's right. It's too bad there is no way in hell that he would ever choose such a person.

Bush Preparing for Greenspan Successor

City Manager Steve LeBlanc said the storm surge could reach 50 feet.

Holy crap!

Rita Could Be Strongest Storm to Hit Texas - Yahoo! News

This is going on RIGHT NOW

Okay, it's over, but... If you didn't see this, you will on the news or somewhere. Hands down this is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.

I zapped the link because it was dead after the incident, I'll see if I can find footage of it.

I found footage! The link now goes to it!

Jet Blue Emergency

More women — particularly those in their late teens and 20s — are experimenting with bisexuality or at least feel more comfortable reporting same-sex encounters, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Sweet! Can we watch?

Survey Finds More Women Try Bisexuality - Yahoo! News

In closed-door meetings, fiscal conservatives have begged their colleagues not to put the cost of disaster relief on the government credit card for future generations to carry.

Hahahahaha! Fiscal conservatives? I don't think I've seen one of those since I last saw a passenger pigeon!

Fiscal Conservatives Riled

After Sept. 11, there was an external enemy, "evildoers" against whom to summon fear and fervor. Now, instead, the flood has brought to the surface the deepest national questions of race, class and inequality. On Aug. 30, the day after the hurricane hit, the Census Bureau released figures showing that the poor had increased by 1.1 million since 2003, to 12.7 percent of the population, the fourth annual increase, with blacks and Hispanics the poorest, and the South remaining the poorest region. Since Bush has been in office, poverty has grown by almost 9 percent. (Under President Clinton, poverty fell by 25 percent.) As these issues began to receive serious attention for the first time in years, Bush reiterated that it was inappropriate to "play the blame game."

Meanwhile, his aides sought to blame New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco. On Sept. 3, the Washington Post, citing an anonymous "senior administration official," reported that Blanco "still had not declared a state of emergency." Newsweek published a similar report. Within hours, however, the Post published a correction; the report was false. In fact, Blanco had declared an emergency on Aug. 26 and sent President Bush a letter on Aug. 27 requesting that the federal government declare an emergency and provide aid; and, in fact, Bush did make such a declaration, thereby accepting responsibility. Nonetheless, these facts have not stymied White House aides from their drumbeat that state and local officials -- but curiously, not the Republican governors of Mississippi and Alabama -- are ultimately to blame.

Salon has had some really good coverage of the flood porn aspect of other peoples' misfortunes. Earlier this week they pointed out how Geraldo Rivera made some poor elderly woman walk from the heliport to the Superdome twice just so he could get another take for the newscast. Now we have a look at all of the self congratulating in the current Administration, who thinks that they've done everything right once they started.

'What didn't go right?'