Yahoo! News - Docs Need to Focus on Kids' Obesity, Hypertension

I hate seeing overweight kids. Sometimes there is a medical reason, but most often there is not. They should be outside running around, riding bikes, playing tag. It is just not right.

Yahoo! Sports - Olympics - Italy 95, United States 78

"COLOGNE, Germany (AP) -- The U.S. men's Olympic team did more than merely lose. It was embarrassed and exposed in its most lopsided defeat since adding NBA players in 1992. "

More proof that the Laker shakeup has impacted the entire world. Actually this is just more evidence that supports the need for the NBA to start taking the rest of the world more seriously.

The Amazing Race

I don't know about you, but this is one of my favorite shows. I enjoy seeing all the places around the world and the game is just fun. I'd certainly consider playing.

Yahoo! News - Intel That Sparked Alert Dates to 2000

"WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say the detailed surveillance photos and documents that prompted higher terror warnings dated from as far back as 2000 and 2001, and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Tuesday the government concluded 'it was essential' to publicize it and raise the terror alert. "

A Slick Islamist Heads to Jail - article by Daniel Pipes

"The Alamoudi story points to the urgent need that the FBI, White House, Congress, State Department, Pentagon, and Homeland Security � as well as other institutions, public and private, throughout the West � not continue guilelessly to assume that smooth-talking Islamists are free of criminal, extremist, or terrorist ties. Or, as I put it in late 2001: 'Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers.'
Militant Islam is the enemy; even its slickest adherents need to be viewed as such."

We live in a different world in which we are going to be placed in a position in which we need to take a serious look at how our society operates and determine how much risk we are willing to assume and how many liberties we are willing to abridge so that we can protect ourselves.

CNN.com - Hearing begins for Army reservist England - Aug 3, 2004

"FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (CNN) -- Army Pfc. Lynndie England, almost seven months' pregnant and looking glum, arrived Tuesday morning for the start of a preliminary hearing that could lead to a court-martial for her part in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal."

Sometimes young people don't take the time to consider their actions. This is one young lady who is going to pay the price for her indiscretion, and rightly so.

Pilot fatigue grows as problem for airlines | csmonitor.com

"'Every pilot I talk to feels like they're being pushed to the limit,' says Captain Meher. 'It hasn't created a problem yet, but it could.'"

That is not very reassuring.

Not Dead Yet

Been a whole slew of crazy things that have happened since I last updated this joint.  It is not an exaggeration to say I am not dead yet, c...