Sally Kern on Homosexuality (Video)
Republican state representative Sally Kern took to the floor of the Oklahoma legislature recently to speak on homosexuality. "I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam," she said. Listen to Sally Kern's speech here:
A Letter to Rep Kern (democraticunderground.com)
On April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City a terrorist detonated a bomb that killed my mother and 167 others. 19 children died that day. Had I not had the chicken pox that day, the body count would've likely have included one more. Over 800 other Oklahomans were injured that day and many of those still suffer through their permanent wounds. That terrorist was neither a homosexual or was he involved in Islam. He was an extremist Christian forcing his views through a body count. He held his beliefs and made those who didn't live up to them pay with their lives.
Annalee Newitz: Virtual Revolution
Protesting online can be just as revolutionary as carrying signs, yelling, and storming the gates of power in the real world.
Does it offend me? Yeah (music.guardian.co.uk)
The Broken Family Band's Steven Adams is pretty sure his group's name is a good one. What a shame so few musicians have equally good taste in monikers.
Most Scotch Bonnets have a heat rating of 150,000-325,000 Scoville Units.
Most Habañero will rate between 200,000 and 300,000 Scoville units.
Tabascos rate from 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville scale of heat levels.
The Jalapeño rates between 2,500 and 10,000 Scoville units in heat.
Dick Mcd was first, but wrong with:
Scotch bonnet
Charlie was second, and correct, writing:
Most of the tables list Habañero on top, but based on
this, I'm going with
A: Ghost Chili
AKA Bhut Jolokia
mj said:
Sort of guessing again
Since I don't know the actual name from memory, I'll go with A. Although they are used interchangeably, I think I've read that D is slightly hotter and different in background flavors tha B. I'm pretty sure E comes next, with C on the bottm. Jalapeños only seem hot to people raised on styrofoam bread.
Alan J replied:
Of the ones that are listed it would be the Habanero. At www.usahotstuff,com/Heat.Scale.htm the hottest pepper is Naga Jolokia. The Red Savina Habanero is third, followed by the Chocolate Habanero, then the Scotch Bonnet.
joe b answered:
My wife told me it's "D"
DanD responded:
While doing duty in the Air Force, the only "hot" pepper that I learned
to easily consume multiple units of is the Jalapen(y)o. In my younger
days, it got to where I could wolf down eight or twelve of them in smooth
succession with no serious side effects. I would use this neat little
trick to prove to many people that I really was insane. What I actually
did is barely chewed and then swallowed them almost whole. Since I
really did (well, almost) have an iron stomach in those leaner, meaner
(younger) years, that internal receptacle normally could deal with what
even my mouth found difficult.
But then, a truly insane, jarhead who had temporarily escaped from Camp
Butler innocently threw a Scotch Bonnet PMD (pepper of mass destruction)
among my Jalapeno sparklers and I experienced a minor cardiac event as I
smoothly let it slip down my throat.
Also later that evening, the first stages of a Saturn rocket blew my
posterior out, almost cracked the porclain, and nearly caught the dorm on
fire.
If the answer isn't "D," it should be.
Marian the Teacher replied:
Scotch Bonnet
Sally said:
The hottest pepper is, "A" or the Ghost Chili AKA the "Bhut Jolokia Chili Pepper." I have read that, "One seed from a Bhut Jolokia can sustain intense pain sensations in the mouth for up to 30 minutes before subsiding." (Jeeze, can't help wondering about the bodily evacuation of this fiery devil, huh?)
On another note, this fiery hot pepper is allegedly used, "As a spice in food or eaten alone!" Yikes, I can't imagine anyone actually eating this scorching seed and living to tell the tale. It is, however, used to, "cure" stomach ailments - if one actually has a stomach left after ingesting "de seed..."
PS mj, loved your explanation of DanD's "observation..." While, I can almost believe I'm a descendant of an "B-Arc" person, I absolutely feel as if I'm living amongst the Golgafrinchan's on their home planet while they await their demise. Hummmmm, do I feel a Vassillian tune from the Song Cycles coming on? :)
PPS Unlike those who fled on, "B-Arc" the people left-behind on the planet Golgafrincham, "stayed firmly at home and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone." (Turd bacteria?) (I.e., Nero fiddling while Rome burned...)
Vic in Alaska responded:
the real answer isn't one included in your choices it is of course "The Chile de Locura aka Merciless Peppers of Quetzaltenango- Grown deep in the jungle primeval by the inmates of a Guatemalan insane asylum".
Normally my wife and I watch SciFi Saturday together….the usual thematic bundling of movies includes Snake Day, Gargoyle Day, Monsters from the deep Day, Bug Day Etc…..Today is Vampire Day…..she's gone and I'm alone.
This ones the worst
The recent spate of blood suckers began with "Vampires" (1986) ….then "Vampire's Kiss" (1989)…..and "John Carpenter's Vampires" (1998)……some how they got Jon Bon Jovi ("Shot Through the Heart" NY Rocker) in the lead role played previously and effectively by James Woods…..but this flick is a flaccid walk through….except for….
Best Vampire Line….ever…
The stroll is interrupted when Ray (Darius McCrary), the token black vampire hunter gets bitten by a "sucker" in a weird place and as he is dying says……"you ain't lived 'til you got head from a vampire…." Fade to red….
Not worth the Time
Now Jon Bon was pretty bad in "Young Guns II" (1990) and he was pretty awful in "Homegrown" (1998) but he is just pretty forgettable in "Vampires: Los Muertos"….not even any greased up torn shirt pec scenes….and the leading lady vampire aint so cute.
Purple Gene gives "Vampires: Los Muertos" 2 wimpy whittled wooden stakes out of 10 for being boring on a rainy Saturday
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother 9', then a RERUN'Cold Case', followed by a recycled 'Dexter'.
NBC opens the night with 2 hours of 'Dateline', followed by a RERUN'Law & Order', then a RERUN'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Oprah's Fake Reality Show', followed by a FRESH'Here Come The Newlyweds'.
The CW offers a RERUN'America's Next Top Model', followed by a FRESH'Everybody Hates Chris', then a FRESH'Aliens In America', followed by a RERUN'Girlfriends', then a RERUN'The Game'.
Faux has a RERUN'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a FRESH'Unhitched'.
MY has an old 'Married...With Children', followed by another old 'Married....With Children', then the movie 'Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery'.
A&E has 'The Sopranos', 'The First 48', another'The First 48', and still another 'The First 48'.
AMC offers 'Breaking Bad' (pilot), followed by 'Breaking Bad' (pilot, again), then 'Mad Men', followed by 'Breaking Bad' (pilot, still again).
BBC -
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2;
[1:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 42;
[2:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 8 Human Nature;
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 1 Ruby Tates;
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory;
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 The Fish and Anchor;
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 The Curry Lounge;
[7:00 PM] MI-5 - Ep 1 Project Friendly Fire;
[8:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls;
[10:00 PM] Dumped - Episode 2;
[11:00 PM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls;
[1:00 AM] Dumped - Episode 2;
[2:00 AM] Calendar Girls - Calendar Girls;
[4:00 AM] Dumped - Episode 2;
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 30 Stewart;
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 31 Burdett;
[6:00 AM] BBC World News. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has all 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' all night.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Waiting', 'South Park', 'Kenny Vs. Spenny', then the movie 'Waiting'.
FX has 'Dirt', the same episode of 'Dirt', again, 'That 70s Show', another 'That 70s Show', and the same episode of 'Dirt', yet again.
History has 'Ax Men', 'Gangland', 'Modern Marvels', and another 'Ax Men'.
IFC -
[06:25 AM] All over Me;
[08:00 AM] The Seventh Seal;
[09:45 AM] Fanny & Alexander;
[01:00 PM] Three Times;
[03:20 PM] The Seventh Seal;
[05:00 PM] Double Happiness;
[06:30 PM] All over Me;
[08:30 PM] Underground;
[08:45 PM] Dancing at the Blue Iguana;
[11:00 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #206;
[11:30 PM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #205;
[12:00 AM] Girls Will Be Girls;
[02:00 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #206;
[02:30 AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know #205;
[03:00 AM] Dancing at the Blue Iguana;
[05:15 AM] Three Times. (ALL TIMES EST)
SciFi has the movie 'Hybrid', followed by the movie 'Rothweiler', 'Twilight Zone', and another 'Twilight Zone'.
Sundance -
[05:00 AM] Look Both Ways;
[07:00 AM] Transylvania;
[09:00 AM] Ray LaMontagne, The Zutons, Shawn Colvin & Nerina Pallot;
[10:00 AM] Episode 2;
[11:00 AM] Robert Redford on Paul Newman;
[12:00 PM] Thick as Thieves;
[01:45 PM] Hotel Infinity;
[02:00 PM] Episode 1: Season's End;
[03:00 PM] Episode 6;
[03:35 PM] We Feed the World;
[05:15 PM] Drive;
[05:50 PM] French Beauty;
[07:00 PM] Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress;
[09:00 PM] Episode 3;
[10:00 PM] The Event;
[12:00 AM] Witch Board: Bunshinsaba;
[01:30 AM] Tina in Mexico;
[03:00 AM] Episode 1;
[03:30 AM] Episode 7;
[04:00 AM] Episode 3;
[05:00 AM] Red Lights. (ALL TIMES EST)
French actress Catherine Deneuve attends a news conference at the Sofitel Wentworth to introduce her film "After Him" at the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival in Sydney March 15, 2008.
Photo by Patrick Riviere
China should suffer a boycott of its cherished Beijing Olympics if it mishandles protests in restive Tibet, Hollywood actor and Tibetan activist Richard Gere said on Friday.
Gere, a close follower of the Dalai Lama and chairman of the International Campaign for Tibet, stressed that neither the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader nor the ICT advocates a boycott of the Summer Olympics.
But he said it was his personal opinion that it would be "unconscionable" to attend the Beijing Games if China failed to deal peacefully with unrest in the Himalayan region -- protests that have turned to riots and already claimed several lives.
"I've not been pro-boycott, but I think if this is not handled correctly, yes we should boycott. Everyone should boycott," Gere told Reuters in a telephone interview.
As federal judges order more reporters to disclose their confidential sources, news organizations are pinning their hopes on congressional passage of a media shield bill the Bush administration opposes as a threat to national security.
The legislation being considered in the Senate offers only modest shelter for reporters wanting to protect the identity of confidential sources. In many cases, it would leave the fate of journalists - and their sources - to the discretion of judges who increasingly have been willing to jail or fine them.
Out of nine high-profile cases since 2003 where journalists were ordered to reveal information, four might have turned out differently had the proposal awaiting Senate action been law.
For them and dozens of other reporters subpoenaed for confidential information or the names of those providing that information, judges generally would have to weigh the "public interest" of the media reports; that is a legal analysis many judges already do. They would retain the power to jail reporters who refuse to name sources who leak information involving national security.
An anti-war demonstrator carries a doll with the image of U.S. resident George W. Bush during a rally in Hollywood, California March 15, 2008. Protesters rallied on the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Two-time Grammy winner Dee Dee Bridgewater was honored Friday with an award from France's prestigious National Order of Arts and Letters.
The 57-year-old jazz singer, who has spent many years of her life in France, was named a commander in the order - one of its highest ranks, and one she shares with two other Americans, director Clint Eastwood and choreographer William Forsythe.
After Culture Minister Christine Albanel honored Bridgewater, the singer - who won a Tony in 1975 for her performance as Glinda the Good Witch in the musical "The Wiz" - performed "J'ai Deux Amours," a song made famous by Josephine Baker.
Rock stars are known for excesses, but Led Zeppelin guitar god Jimmy Page is reluctantly admitting his limits.
Britain's Guardian newspaper reports that Page has to curb his most expensive habit - collecting pre-Raphaelite art - by selling a giant tapestry depicting a vision of the Holy Grail.
Page's friend Raul Reeves says Sotheby's auction house will sell the tapestry designed by painter Edward Burne-Jones next week. He says it is expected to fetch up to $2 million.
Page is also selling other King Arthur-inspired pieces, including stained glass works and a round table.
Bluegrass star Ricky Skaggs is getting an honorary doctorate from Boston's Berklee College of Music.
Skaggs is slated to receive the honor Tuesday during a performance at the Grand Ole Opry, putting the 53-year-old singer in the company of luminaries such as Duke Ellington, Sting, B.B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Loretta Lynn and Paul Simon.
Berklee President Roger Brown said that by saluting Skaggs, "we shine a light on the present and future of bluegrass; its heritage and its infinite potential. And besides that, the man can pick."
Exene Cervenka, right, and Billy Zoom of X perform at a day party during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Friday, March 14 , 2008.
Photo by Jack Plunkett
Vince McMahon, the promoter who helped turn professional wrestling into prime-time TV entertainment, got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday.
He humbly thanked wrestlers and fans before shifting into the cocky, evil Mr. McMahon persona he uses on World Wrestling Entertainment telecasts.
"I already know I'm a star," he said, drawing cheers from the crowd. "I'm the biggest star of all time."
UCLA Medical Center will fire some employees and discipline others for snooping at the confidential medical records of Britney Spears, who was hospitalized in its psychiatric ward, a hospital official told The Associated Press.
Jeri Simpson, the hospital's director of human resources who was involved in the investigations of the confidentiality breach, confirmed the action but could not say how many employees were affected. The hospital did not say when the snooping took place or which of Spears records were looked at.
The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site Friday that the breaches occurred during Spears most recent hospital stay. While the disciplined employees were unable to access her psychiatric records, they did look at non-psychiatric records from her previous visits to the medical center, the Times reported.
The newspaper said more than 13 employees, none of whom are doctors, would be fired. Twelve others, including several doctors, will be disciplined otherwise for looking at her computerized records, it reported.
Actor and comedian Martin Short throws out the first pitch in the Tampa Bay Rays game against the New York Yankees in their spring training baseball game at Legends Field in Tampa, Fla., Saturday, March 15, 2008.
Photo by Kathy Willens
CNN switched to its scheduled taped programming early Saturday even though a major story - downtown Atlanta's first recorded tornado - had literally blown right through its news headquarters.
The storm shattered windows in the CNN.com newsroom and the network's library late Friday. A computer was missing after it was apparently sucked through a window. No one at CNN was hurt, a spokeswoman said.
CNN started covering the story on its doorstep shortly before 10:30 p.m., but at midnight switched to tape of Larry King interviewing Tori Spelling for its normal overnight schedule, until resuming news live at 7 a.m. Saturday.
Rival MSGOP also showed taped programming during the overnight hours, but did occasional live reports about the storm.
A federal appeals court has overturned a 366-day prison term for a man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars by claiming to be producing a government-backed television show about the Department of Homeland Security, saying it fell far short of sentencing guidelines.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday set aside Joseph Medawar's sentence, which was a fraction of what prosecutors sought and even less than his own attorney requested.
A three-judge panel decided that U.S. District Judge Manuel Real "committed procedural error" in not using federal guidelines to determine Medawar's sentence and ordered that he be re-sentenced.
Medawar, 46, pleaded guilty in May 2006 to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, admitting fleecing about 50 people of millions of dollars. He could now face further prison time.
Russian singer Valeriya (L) and former Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb attend a news conference in Moscow March 15, 2008. Valeriya, one of Eastern Europe's best selling pop artists, recorded with English singer Robin Gibb the Bee Gees classic 'Stayin' Alive' for her new album that is due to be released in the UK next month.
Photo by Alexander Natruskin
A former manager for George Lopez has sued the comedian for $600,000 he claims the TV star owes him for unpaid commissions and profit-sharing from his hit ABC show.
The breach-of-contract suit, filed by Ron De Blasio in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday and obtained by Reuters on Friday, names the 46-year-old performer and his production company, Encanto Enterprises, as defendants.
It says De Blasio worked for Lopez as his manager for about six years, until Lopez terminated their relationship in August 2006.
The suit clams Lopez has "improperly refused to pay De Blasio residuals from all his work" on the show.
Bone-white stretches of salt, leached up from the lifeless soil, lay like a shroud over the high desert where a paranoid Charles Manson holed up after an orgy of murder nearly four decades ago.
Now, as then, few venture into this alkaline wilderness - gold-diggers, outlaws, loners content to live and let live.
But a determined group of outsiders recently made the trek. They were leading forensic investigators searching for new evidence of death - clues pointing to possible decades-old clandestine graves.
For years, rumors have swirled about other possible Manson family victims - hitchhikers who visited them at the ranch and were not seen again, runaways who drifted into the camp then fell out of favor.
A portrait believed to be of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is pictured at King's College in London. This portrait, which is presented as the most important find of its kind since the death of the composer in 1791, has been authentified by Professor Eisen, a world expert on Mozart.
Photo by Ben Stansall
A woman who claims the recording industry's anti-music piracy campaign threatens and intimidates innocent people has filed a new complaint accusing record companies of racketeering, fraud and illegal spying.
Tanya Andersen originally sued the Recording Industry Association of America after RIAA representatives threatened to interrogate her young daughter if she didn't pay thousands of dollars for music she downloaded from somebody else.
Her amended complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland seeks national class-action status for other people allegedly victimized by the industry's anti-piracy campaign and the company it hired, MediaSentry.
The new lawsuit claims accuses the industry and MediaSentry of spying "by unlicensed, unregistered and uncertified private investigators" who "have illegally entered the hard drives of tens of thousands of private American citizens" in violation of laws "in virtually every state in the country."
The oldest bordello in Hamburg's red-light district is shutting down for lack of business, according to newspaper reports published Friday.
The family-run Hotel Luxor, established in 1948, is being sold to an investor and will close down for good next month, madam Waltraud Mehrer said, according to the Hamburg Morgenpost and Bild newspapers.
She blamed the decline in business on easily available Internet porn, the rise of call-girl services, and "noisy discos and dance clubs" on the same street as her business, the newspapers reported.
"You can't make any big money selling sex in St. Pauli any more," she was quoted as saying, referring to the area that includes the red-light district. "The only thing still in operation are the table dance clubs."
In this photo released by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a two month old Bolivian gray titi monkey clings to its mother, Thursday, March 13, 2008, at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Native to South America, titis live in family groups with parents and offspring and are very territorial. Their adult zoo diet consists of fruits and leafy vegetables like kale.
Photo by Julie Larsen Maher
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