Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Cuban Government Releases Votes of Teenaged Elian Gonzalez
Keith, the Elian issue slipped into a near-Pythonesque level of comedy about two days after it began. That's when I washed my brain of it. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Well, I'm not happy that little Elian is being indoctrinated into the Communist party of Cuba, nor that he's used as a propaganda tool for the government. But i also know that returning him to his father was the right thing to do. There was no real reason for his legal, biological father to be denied custody of his son--the late mother's feelings notwithstanding. While I understand his relatives and other Cubans wanting him to enjoy the freedoms of America, they didn't have a leg to stand on in this case. Elian wasn't abused, he loved his father, and, reports to the contrary, he wasn't starving. We can't start breaking the bonds of family across international waters just because we don't like the governmental system under which a child may be raised. I also must say I found all the wailing and teary-eyed celebs, ex-pats, and Americans decrying his horrible future a bit irritating, given all the children living here in the States who could use some of that concern. A lady at my old job was extremely upset with me when I said he should go back to Cuba. But Keith, he want even have milk to drink there! she cried, quoting that curiously oft-stated fact. I replied, I can take you to half a dozen spots not twenty miles away right here in Atlanta where black kids don't have milk, bread, or eggs, I replied, and I've *never* heard you utter one word about wanting to help them. The horrified look on her face as she walked away was memorable. She rarely spoke to me after that... Oh--and what's up with this Yahoo story talking about a paramilitary outfit menacing Elian? They weren't menacing the boy, they were simply following orders to retrieve him. Menacing would connote intentionally trying to threaten, frighten, bully, or hurt him... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100406/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1481_4 Cuban government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalez Ten years ago this month, the saga of a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalezcaptivated the nation and much of the world. Elian, 6, was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Florida, after his mother drowned trying to reach America. The Cuban immigrant community in Florida embraced the boy as a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro's communist regime, and rallied behind the boy's extended family in Miami, which sought custody of young Elian. But U.S. immigration officials insisted that the boy be returned to his father in Havana. Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service conducted an armed raid on Elian's adoptive Miami home - yielding a powerful imagehttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts1481/35718970/SIG=12f5917sp/*http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00188/Elian_Gonzalez_blir_188999c.jpgof paramilitary forces in America menacing a frightened 6-year-old. Florida's Cuban immigrant community brandished that infamous photo as a reminder of what they considered American power effectively doing the bidding of a heartless Castro government. A decade later, however, there are new photos of a nearly grown-up Elian Gonzalezhttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/news/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts1481/35718970/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100405/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_elian_gonzalez- and they present a very different kind of propaganda image. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/news/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts1481/35718970/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100405/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_f9178cda03e14bf9a035dd63d5a7a82c/ (*AP*) The new pictures show a serious-looking 16-year-old sporting a closely cropped haircut, wearing an olive-green military school uniform with red shoulder patches, as he attends a Young Communist Union meeting. The Cuban government press released the images under the none-too-subtle headlinehttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts1481/35718970/SIG=129oe16c6/*http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/06/elian-gonzalez-cuba-pictureYoung Elian Gonzalez defends his revolution in the youth congress. Since winning Elian's return to Cuba in 2000, the Castro regime has closely tracked the boy and his father. (Indeed, Cuban State Security has a monitoring station next to their home.) In his homeland, Elian Gonzalez is hailed as a national hero who embodies the triumph of Cuba over the United States. Every few years, the Cuban government has floated news updates and photographs trumpeting Elian's progress as a model young citizen of the Castro regime. In 2004, NBC's Keith Morrison traveled to
Re: [scifinoir2] Dubai upholds British pair's jail term over kiss
Note to self -- avoid Dubai. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Dubai upholds British pair's jail term over kiss DUBAI Mon Apr 5, 2010 10:56am EDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A Dubai court Sunday upheld a one-month jail sentence given to a British pair for kissing in public, media reports said. Oddly Enough http://www.reuters.com/news/oddlyEnough The British man living in Dubai and a female friend were arrested in November on charges of kissing intimately in public and consuming alcohol. An Emirati mother had complained her child had seen their indiscretion. The case is the third time in under two years that Britons have fallen foul of indecency laws in Dubai, a Muslim emirate popular with sun-seeking Western tourists and expatriates. The defendants are consulting their lawyer on whether to appeal Sunday's ruling before a cassation court, the website of the daily Gulf News reported. The pair, who had been free on bail, are also to pay a fine of 1,000 dirhams ($272) for illegal consumption of alcohol and will be deported after serving their jail term, the website said. Dubai's foreign population expanded rapidly in recent years as expatriates flocked to the Gulf Arab trade and tourism hub for its tax-free earnings and year-round sunshine. The changes have challenged the Emirati population, now vastly outnumbered by foreigners, raising concerns that the rapid pace of growth is a threat to their social and religious identity in what remains a deeply conservative region. In 2008, a British couple narrowly escaped jail after a court found them guilty of engaging in drunken sexual activity out of wedlock and in public on a beach in the emirate. They were sentenced to three months in prison followed by deportation, but had their jail terms overturned on appeal. In another case this year, a British couple who shared a hotel room managed to escape trial in Dubai for having sex out of wedlock by producing a marriage certificate. (Reporting by Firouz Sedarat) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] FCC loses Comcast's court challenge
A victory only for the broadband industry and their lobbyists. [?][?] On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Man, this is really bad for us. I'm amazed that Comcast is allowed to block certain types of traffic without telling subscribers. But then, this is the same damn outfit that cut off service to subscribers who were using too much bandwidth on downloads, but refused to give a number as to what exactly the download limit in GB's was. The FCC has been a weak, shortsighted body for years. Here they are actually working on something good: bringing our communications infrastructure up to the 20th century, and putting our Internet capabilities into maybe the top 20 or so industrialized countries. And now this blow? I am very disappointed... *** http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/04/fcc_loses_comcasts_court_chall.html FCC loses Comcast's court challenge, a major setback for agency on Internet policies *Comcast *on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency's ability to regulate Internet service providers just as it unrolls a sweeping broadband agenda. The decision also sparks pressing questions on how the agency will respond, with public interest groups advocating that the FCC attempt to move those services into a regulatory regime clearly under the agency's control. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 3-0 decision, ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to require Comcast, the nation's biggest broadband services provider, to treat all Internet traffic equally on its network. That decision -- based on a 2008 ruling under former FCC chairman *Kevin Martin* -- addresses Comcast's argument that the agency didn't follow proper procedures and that it failed to justify exercising jurisdiction when it ruled Comcast violated broadband principles by blocking or slowing a peer-sharing Web site, Bit Torrent. But it also unleashed a broader debate over the agency's ability to regulate broadband service providers such as *ATT*, Comcast, and *Verizon Communication*s. The judges focused on whether the FCC has legal authority over broadband services, which are categorized separately from phone, cable television and wireless services. The agency currently has only ancillary authority over broadband services, a decision made by past agency leaders in an attempt to keep the fast-moving Internet services market at an arm's distance from the agency. A key part of the opinion: The Commission may exercise this ancillary authority only if it demonstrates that its action . . . is reasonably ancillary to the ... effective performance of its statutorily mandated responsibilities. The Commission has failed to make that showing. The court's decision comes just days before the agency accepts final comments on a separate open Internet regulatory effort this Thursday. And the agency will be faced with a steep legal challenge going forward as it attempts to convert itself from a broadcast- and phone-era agency into one that draws new rules for the Internet era. *Andrew Schwartzman*, policy director for Media Access Project, said the ruling represents a severe restriction on the FCC's powers. Public interest groups have urged the agency to reclassify broadband services so that they are more concretely under the agency's authority. The FCC has been reluctant to say if it would do so, and a spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Analysts said the agency may not be able to proceed on its net neutrality policy -- a rule that Internet service providers have fought against. And there is doubt the agency could reform an $8 billion federal phone subsidy to include money to bring broadband services to rural areas. *Bruce Mehlman*, former assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy, however, said the decision may help speed the development of faster and more robust networks. It may drive greater investment in broadband networks by removing regulatory uncertainty and perceived disincentives to invest in infrastructure, Mehlman said. 323.gif320.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] FCC loses Comcast's court challenge
I'm willing to be first on the line in the war. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They are an evil entity that must be destroyed. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Man, this is really bad for us. I'm amazed that Comcast is allowed to block certain types of traffic without telling subscribers. But then, this is the same damn outfit that cut off service to subscribers who were using too much bandwidth on downloads, but refused to give a number as to what exactly the download limit in GB's was. The FCC has been a weak, shortsighted body for years. Here they are actually working on something good: bringing our communications infrastructure up to the 20th century, and putting our Internet capabilities into maybe the top 20 or so industrialized countries. And now this blow? I am very disappointed... *** http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/04/fcc_loses_comcasts_court_chall.html FCC loses Comcast's court challenge, a major setback for agency on Internet policies *Comcast *on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency's ability to regulate Internet service providers just as it unrolls a sweeping broadband agenda. The decision also sparks pressing questions on how the agency will respond, with public interest groups advocating that the FCC attempt to move those services into a regulatory regime clearly under the agency's control. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 3-0 decision, ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to require Comcast, the nation's biggest broadband services provider, to treat all Internet traffic equally on its network. That decision -- based on a 2008 ruling under former FCC chairman *Kevin Martin* -- addresses Comcast's argument that the agency didn't follow proper procedures and that it failed to justify exercising jurisdiction when it ruled Comcast violated broadband principles by blocking or slowing a peer-sharing Web site, Bit Torrent. But it also unleashed a broader debate over the agency's ability to regulate broadband service providers such as *ATT*, Comcast, and *Verizon Communication*s. The judges focused on whether the FCC has legal authority over broadband services, which are categorized separately from phone, cable television and wireless services. The agency currently has only ancillary authority over broadband services, a decision made by past agency leaders in an attempt to keep the fast-moving Internet services market at an arm's distance from the agency. A key part of the opinion: The Commission may exercise this ancillary authority only if it demonstrates that its action . . . is reasonably ancillary to the ... effective performance of its statutorily mandated responsibilities. The Commission has failed to make that showing. The court's decision comes just days before the agency accepts final comments on a separate open Internet regulatory effort this Thursday. And the agency will be faced with a steep legal challenge going forward as it attempts to convert itself from a broadcast- and phone-era agency into one that draws new rules for the Internet era. *Andrew Schwartzman*, policy director for Media Access Project, said the ruling represents a severe restriction on the FCC's powers. Public interest groups have urged the agency to reclassify broadband services so that they are more concretely under the agency's authority. The FCC has been reluctant to say if it would do so, and a spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Analysts said the agency may not be able to proceed on its net neutrality policy -- a rule that Internet service providers have fought against. And there is doubt the agency could reform an $8 billion federal phone subsidy to include money to bring broadband services to rural areas. *Bruce Mehlman*, former assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy, however, said the decision may help speed the development of faster and more robust networks. It may drive greater investment in broadband networks by removing regulatory uncertainty and perceived disincentives to invest in infrastructure, Mehlman said. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Cuban Government Releases Votes of Teenaged Elian Gonzalez
I hear you, Martin. News junkie that I am, I followed it long past the point of sanity. I still remember when the government had to go in and get the boy. I am well aware of the excesses to which the government can go, but this time I was angered that the family forced them to do what was needed in this way. Worst of all was when they made Elian do that pathetic video where he said Papa, I do not want to come back to Cuba. The fact that the kid was smiling the whole time tells you it thought it was all a game. Disgusting how many people felt that was okay, even necessary. Ironic that, in the name of Elian's freedom from a society his family said would brainwash and manipulate him, they tried to brainwash and manipulate him to make that false video. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:17:51 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Cuban Government Releases Votes of Teenaged Elian Gonzalez Keith, the Elian issue slipped into a near-Pythonesque level of comedy about two days after it began. That's when I washed my brain of it. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Well, I'm not happy that little Elian is being indoctrinated into the Communist party of Cuba, nor that he's used as a propaganda tool for the government. But i also know that returning him to his father was the right thing to do. There was no real reason for his legal, biological father to be denied custody of his son--the late mother's feelings notwithstanding. While I understand his relatives and other Cubans wanting him to enjoy the freedoms of America, they didn't have a leg to stand on in this case. Elian wasn't abused, he loved his father, and, reports to the contrary, he wasn't starving. We can't start breaking the bonds of family across international waters just because we don't like the governmental system under which a child may be raised. I also must say I found all the wailing and teary-eyed celebs, ex-pats, and Americans decrying his horrible future a bit irritating, given all the children living here in the States who could use some of that concern. A lady at my old job was extremely upset with me when I said he should go back to Cuba. But Keith, he want even have milk to drink there! she cried, quoting that curiously oft-stated fact. I replied, I can take you to half a dozen spots not twenty miles away right here in Atlanta where black kids don't have milk, bread, or eggs, I replied, and I've *never* heard you utter one word about wanting to help them. The horrified look on her face as she walked away was memorable. She rarely spoke to me after that... Oh--and what's up with this Yahoo story talking about a paramilitary outfit menacing Elian? They weren't menacing the boy, they were simply following orders to retrieve him. Menacing would connote intentionally trying to threaten, frighten, bully, or hurt him... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100406/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1481_4 Cuban government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalez Ten years ago this month, the saga of a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez captivated the nation and much of the world. Elian, 6, was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Florida, after his mother drowned trying to reach America. The Cuban immigrant community in Florida embraced the boy as a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro 's communist regime, and rallied behind the boy's extended family in Miami, which sought custody of young Elian. But U.S. immigration officials insisted that the boy be returned to his father in Havana . Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service conducted an armed raid on Elian's adoptive Miami home - yielding a powerful image of paramilitary forces in America menacing a frightened 6-year-old. Florida's Cuban immigrant community brandished that infamous photo as a reminder of what they considered American power effectively doing the bidding of a heartless Castro government. A decade later, however, there are new photos of a nearly grown-up Elian Gonzalez - and they present a very different kind of propaganda image. ( AP ) The new pictures show a serious-looking 16-year-old sporting a closely cropped haircut, wearing an olive-green military school uniform with red shoulder patches, as he attends a Young Communist Union meeting. The Cuban government press released the images under the none-too-subtle headline Young Elian Gonzalez defends his revolution in the youth congress . Since winning Elian's return to Cuba in 2000, the Castro regime has closely tracked the boy and his father. (Indeed, Cuban State Security has a monitoring station next to their home.) In his homeland, Elian Gonzalez is hailed as a
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Cuban Government Releases Votes of Teenaged Elian Gonzalez
You are absolutely right. There was no child abuse, no legal proceedings, nothing. His mother just up and left with the kid. Again, i get wanting to raise him in America versus Cuba. This just ain't the way - Original Message - From: Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 9:19:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Cuban Government Releases Votes of Teenaged Elian Gonzalez If I remember correctly, this was also a case of custodial kidnapping. The father had primary custody and the childcare responsibilities in Cuba. No one even bothered to come up with a legal justification for treating this case differently than we would any other kidnapping. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: Well, I'm not happy that little Elian is being indoctrinated into the Communist party of Cuba, nor that he's used as a propaganda tool for the government. But i also know that returning him to his father was the right thing to do. There was no real reason for his legal, biological father to be denied custody of his son--the late mother's feelings notwithstanding. While I understand his relatives and other Cubans wanting him to enjoy the freedoms of America, they didn't have a leg to stand on in this case. Elian wasn't abused, he loved his father, and, reports to the contrary, he wasn't starving. We can't start breaking the bonds of family across international waters just because we don't like the governmental system under which a child may be raised. I also must say I found all the wailing and teary-eyed celebs, ex-pats, and Americans decrying his horrible future a bit irritating, given all the children living here in the States who could use some of that concern. A lady at my old job was extremely upset with me when I said he should go back to Cuba. But Keith, he want even have milk to drink there! she cried, quoting that curiously oft-stated fact. I replied, I can take you to half a dozen spots not twenty miles away right here in Atlanta where black kids don't have milk, bread, or eggs, I replied, and I've *never* heard you utter one word about wanting to help them. The horrified look on her face as she walked away was memorable. She rarely spoke to me after that... Oh--and what's up with this Yahoo story talking about a paramilitary outfit menacing Elian? They weren't menacing the boy, they were simply following orders to retrieve him. Menacing would connote intentionally trying to threaten, frighten, bully, or hurt him... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100406/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1481_4 Cuban government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalez Ten years ago this month, the saga of a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez captivated the nation and much of the world. Elian, 6, was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Florida, after his mother drowned trying to reach America. The Cuban immigrant community in Florida embraced the boy as a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro 's communist regime, and rallied behind the boy's extended family in Miami, which sought custody of young Elian. But U.S. immigration officials insisted that the boy be returned to his father in Havana . Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service conducted an armed raid on Elian's adoptive Miami home - yielding a powerful image of paramilitary forces in America menacing a frightened 6-year-old. Florida's Cuban immigrant community brandished that infamous photo as a reminder of what they considered American power effectively doing the bidding of a heartless Castro government. A decade later, however, there are new photos of a nearly grown-up Elian Gonzalez - and they present a very different kind of propaganda image. ( AP ) The new pictures show a serious-looking 16-year-old sporting a closely cropped haircut, wearing an olive-green military school uniform with red shoulder patches, as he attends a Young Communist Union meeting. The Cuban government press released the images under the none-too-subtle headline Young Elian Gonzalez defends his revolution in the youth congress . Since winning Elian's return to Cuba in 2000, the Castro regime has closely tracked the boy and his father. (Indeed, Cuban State Security has a monitoring station next to their home.) In his homeland, Elian Gonzalez is hailed as a national hero who embodies the triumph of Cuba over the United States. Every few years, the Cuban government has floated news updates and photographs trumpeting Elian's progress as a model young citizen of the Castro regime. In 2004, NBC's Keith Morrison traveled to Cuba to interview Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, and filmed footage of a communist museum that houses a bronze statue of Elian raising a
[scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show
I may have missed the SGU ep, Darkness, but evidently it generated some talk about actress Julia Benson's...assets? What did I miss? I do remember when show when Eli was using one of those remote cams, and everyone noticed he seemed to be hovering around the character's chest area. Aside from that, I've missed a few eps of SGU. Does the adult stuff work in the narrative of the show, or is it a bit unnecessary, the way there were sometimes gratuitous scenes in Enterprise, and, I'd argue, some of the more explicit stuff in BSG with Number 6 and Baltar? ** http://www.juliabensononline.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00max-results=5 In the last two days I have started a blog and joined the world of Twitter! All year people have been trying to get me to -start a blog, join twitter, get a facebook fanpage or a website and all year I have resisted...and now after Stargate Universe's episode Darkness aired on Friday night, I find myself with something to say. Something that people may or may not want to read. As an actor, Stargate Universe has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. The producers have created the best atmosphere! I love going to work. I love the character I get to play, I love the people I get to act with, and I love the crew. I am now introduced to the fans. What an amazing franchise that so many people out there are so passionate about our show. It is a gift to be involved in something that people have opinions about. As an actor it is an honor for people to have opinions about you. Better that then nothing at all, right? I play 2nd Lt. Vanessa James and for all the talk about my natural (and believe me they are 100%) assets I promise you that there is much more to my character. Who knew that a tank top could cause such a stir. LOL!! Our show is about people and people have sexuality. The creators are not exploiting it, they are exploring it. That is what writers, actors and directors do. I thank all of you for your kind words and excitement about the show- it is thrilling to be in this world and I hope that you continue to enjoy SGU as the season goes on. You will get to see all of the characters grow! Aaaah first blog done! Thanks for reading...I promise to post again soon. Julia
[scifinoir2] Lost and Found
I recently discovered I own a copy of DC's Superman vs. Muhammad Ali. It literally fell out of a box I accidentally knocked over in my ridiculously cluttered office. I suspect this may have been part of my late brother's collection as I was an unrepentant Marvel snob back in 1978. Two things jump out at me immediately: first, how BIG the book is. It is 13 and 1/2 inch long and ten inches wide and 72 pages. The pencils by Neal Adams, the inking of Dick Giordano and the colors by Cory Adams are big, bold and vibrant - and frankly - stunning. Whenever I sample a comic book these days I am startled by how slight and expensive they are. Superman vs. Muhammad Ali cost $2.50 (currently $34.99 on Ebay). Also in the box: Superman vs. Wonder Woman ($2.00 in 1978) with great pencils by the incomparable Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. and The Astonishing Spider-Man #18 (A special collector's edition of Spidey's Greatest Team-ups featuring The X-Men, Iron Fist, Werewolf by Night and Ghost Rider - $2.00 for 80 pages). ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] Lost and Found
Any of those worth any dough? I can relate to size/pricing. When I was a wee lad, my mom used to take me on errands with her, and we'd always stop by the neighborhood drugstore (back when it was a true neighborhood store, locally owned, soda fountains, etc). The drugstore was the local source for comics, and Mom would always buy a few for me. The cost? Ten cents each. I still budget for my weekly comic run--to specialty stores now--and I still choke at the average price now of three to four bucks, with specials going up to five or six dollars. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 10:34:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Lost and Found I recently discovered I own a copy of DC's Superman vs. Muhammad Ali. It literally fell out of a box I accidentally knocked over in my ridiculously cluttered office. I suspect this may have been part of my late brother's collection as I was an unrepentant Marvel snob back in 1978. Two things jump out at me immediately: first, how BIG the book is. It is 13 and 1/2 inch long and ten inches wide and 72 pages. The pencils by Neal Adams, the inking of Dick Giordano and the colors by Cory Adams are big, bold and vibrant - and frankly - stunning. Whenever I sample a comic book these days I am startled by how slight and expensive they are. Superman vs. Muhammad Ali cost $2.50 (currently $34.99 on Ebay). Also in the box: Superman vs. Wonder Woman ($2.00 in 1978) with great pencils by the incomparable Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. and The Astonishing Spider-Man #18 (A special collector's edition of Spidey's Greatest Team-ups featuring The X-Men, Iron Fist, Werewolf by Night and Ghost Rider - $2.00 for 80 pages). ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] Lost and Found
(rubbing rave's e-mail, hoping that his luck is transferrable) On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: I recently discovered I own a copy of DC's Superman vs. Muhammad Ali. It literally fell out of a box I accidentally knocked over in my ridiculously cluttered office. I suspect this may have been part of my late brother's collection as I was an unrepentant Marvel snob back in 1978. Two things jump out at me immediately: first, how BIG the book is. It is 13 and 1/2 inch long and ten inches wide and 72 pages. The pencils by Neal Adams, the inking of Dick Giordano and the colors by Cory Adams are big, bold and vibrant - and frankly - stunning. Whenever I sample a comic book these days I am startled by how slight and expensive they are. Superman vs. Muhammad Ali cost $2.50 (currently $34.99 on Ebay). Also in the box: Superman vs. Wonder Woman ($2.00 in 1978) with great pencils by the incomparable Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. and The Astonishing Spider-Man #18 (A special collector's edition of Spidey's Greatest Team-ups featuring The X-Men, Iron Fist, Werewolf by Night and Ghost Rider - $2.00 for 80 pages). ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show
Keith, I saw it twice and, in perfect honesty, I never noticed these assets she and others speak of. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I may have missed the SGU ep, Darkness, but evidently it generated some talk about actress Julia Benson's...assets? What did I miss? I do remember when show when Eli was using one of those remote cams, and everyone noticed he seemed to be hovering around the character's chest area. Aside from that, I've missed a few eps of SGU. Does the adult stuff work in the narrative of the show, or is it a bit unnecessary, the way there were sometimes gratuitous scenes in Enterprise, and, I'd argue, some of the more explicit stuff in BSG with Number 6 and Baltar? ** http://www.juliabensononline.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00max-results=5 In the last two days I have started a blog and joined the world of Twitter! All year people have been trying to get me to -start a blog, join twitter, get a facebook fanpage or a website and all year I have resisted...and now after Stargate Universe's episode Darkness aired on Friday night, I find myself with something to say. Something that people may or may not want to read. As an actor, Stargate Universe has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. The producers have created the best atmosphere! I love going to work. I love the character I get to play, I love the people I get to act with, and I love the crew. I am now introduced to the fans. What an amazing franchise that so many people out there are so passionate about our show. It is a gift to be involved in something that people have opinions about. As an actor it is an honor for people to have opinions about you. Better that then nothing at all, right? I play 2nd Lt. Vanessa James and for all the talk about my natural (and believe me they are 100%) assets I promise you that there is much more to my character. Who knew that a tank top could cause such a stir. LOL!! Our show is about people and people have sexuality. The creators are not exploiting it, they are exploring it. That is what writers, actors and directors do. I thank all of you for your kind words and excitement about the show- it is thrilling to be in this world and I hope that you continue to enjoy SGU as the season goes on. You will get to see all of the characters grow! Aaaah first blog done! Thanks for reading...I promise to post again soon. Julia
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Cuban Government Releases Votes of Teenaged Elian Gonzalez
You're nail on the head, Tracy. If memory now serves me as well, the mother's family (she died during the boat passage from Cuba to Florida) said that she took the boy to give him a better life here in America. Oddly enough, the publicity this all engendered resulted in his having a far better life in Cuba than he would ever have had, had he beeen allowed to stay here. Had he done so, he'd be an afterthought, a Dateline story years after the fact. Whatever Happened to Little Elian? On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Tracy Curtis tlcurti...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly, this was also a case of custodial kidnapping. The father had primary custody and the childcare responsibilities in Cuba. No one even bothered to come up with a legal justification for treating this case differently than we would any other kidnapping. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Well, I'm not happy that little Elian is being indoctrinated into the Communist party of Cuba, nor that he's used as a propaganda tool for the government. But i also know that returning him to his father was the right thing to do. There was no real reason for his legal, biological father to be denied custody of his son--the late mother's feelings notwithstanding. While I understand his relatives and other Cubans wanting him to enjoy the freedoms of America, they didn't have a leg to stand on in this case. Elian wasn't abused, he loved his father, and, reports to the contrary, he wasn't starving. We can't start breaking the bonds of family across international waters just because we don't like the governmental system under which a child may be raised. I also must say I found all the wailing and teary-eyed celebs, ex-pats, and Americans decrying his horrible future a bit irritating, given all the children living here in the States who could use some of that concern. A lady at my old job was extremely upset with me when I said he should go back to Cuba. But Keith, he want even have milk to drink there! she cried, quoting that curiously oft-stated fact. I replied, I can take you to half a dozen spots not twenty miles away right here in Atlanta where black kids don't have milk, bread, or eggs, I replied, and I've *never* heard you utter one word about wanting to help them. The horrified look on her face as she walked away was memorable. She rarely spoke to me after that... Oh--and what's up with this Yahoo story talking about a paramilitary outfit menacing Elian? They weren't menacing the boy, they were simply following orders to retrieve him. Menacing would connote intentionally trying to threaten, frighten, bully, or hurt him... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100406/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1481_4 Cuban government releases photos of teenaged Elian Gonzalez Ten years ago this month, the saga of a Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalezcaptivated the nation and much of the world. Elian, 6, was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Florida, after his mother drowned trying to reach America. The Cuban immigrant community in Florida embraced the boy as a symbol of the struggle of ordinary Cubans to flee the oppression of Fidel Castro's communist regime, and rallied behind the boy's extended family in Miami, which sought custody of young Elian. But U.S. immigration officials insisted that the boy be returned to his father in Havana. Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization Service conducted an armed raid on Elian's adoptive Miami home - yielding a powerful imagehttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts1481/35718970/SIG=12f5917sp/*http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00188/Elian_Gonzalez_blir_188999c.jpgof paramilitary forces in America menacing a frightened 6-year-old. Florida's Cuban immigrant community brandished that infamous photo as a reminder of what they considered American power effectively doing the bidding of a heartless Castro government. A decade later, however, there are new photos of a nearly grown-up Elian Gonzalezhttp://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/news/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts1481/35718970/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100405/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_elian_gonzalez- and they present a very different kind of propaganda image. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/news/ynews/ts_ynews/storytext/ynews_ts1481/35718970/*http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100405/481/urn_publicid_ap_org_f9178cda03e14bf9a035dd63d5a7a82c/ (*AP*) The new pictures show a serious-looking 16-year-old sporting a closely cropped haircut, wearing an olive-green military school uniform with red shoulder patches, as he attends a Young Communist Union meeting. The Cuban government press released the images under the none-too-subtle
Re: [scifinoir2] Lando's Love Lessons
this was freaking GREAT! thanks!--- On Tue, 4/6/10, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com wrote:From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comSubject: Re: [scifinoir2] Lando's Love LessonsTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comDate: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 6:23 PM On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ gmail.com wrote: Someone turn on the Barry White, awww yeah... Lando's Love LessonsHere are 8 simple rules for getting galactic tail courtesyof Lando Calrissian.Visit: http://egotvonline. com/2010/ 04/01/landos- love-lessons- eight-simple- rules-for- getting-galactic -tail/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] 150-pound velociraptor on the loose in suburbs
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/04/couple-says-dinosaur-sculpture-swiped-from-front-yard.html Gary and Cathy Crawford could use some help locating their 150-pound steel dinosaur sculpture. The sculpture of a velociraptor -- the same dinosaur shown hunting in packs in Jurassic Park-- was stolen last week from the front yard of their Midlothian home and they hope someone will spot the 3-foot high by 6-foot-long work of art before it ends up in a scrap yard somewhere
Re: [scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show
Some guys are looking a little too hard for just about anything. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I may have missed the SGU ep, Darkness, but evidently it generated some talk about actress Julia Benson's...assets? What did I miss? I do remember when show when Eli was using one of those remote cams, and everyone noticed he seemed to be hovering around the character's chest area. Aside from that, I've missed a few eps of SGU. Does the adult stuff work in the narrative of the show, or is it a bit unnecessary, the way there were sometimes gratuitous scenes in Enterprise, and, I'd argue, some of the more explicit stuff in BSG with Number 6 and Baltar? ** http://www.juliabensononline.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00max-results=5 In the last two days I have started a blog and joined the world of Twitter! All year people have been trying to get me to -start a blog, join twitter, get a facebook fanpage or a website and all year I have resisted...and now after Stargate Universe's episode Darkness aired on Friday night, I find myself with something to say. Something that people may or may not want to read. As an actor, Stargate Universe has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. The producers have created the best atmosphere! I love going to work. I love the character I get to play, I love the people I get to act with, and I love the crew. I am now introduced to the fans. What an amazing franchise that so many people out there are so passionate about our show. It is a gift to be involved in something that people have opinions about. As an actor it is an honor for people to have opinions about you. Better that then nothing at all, right? I play 2nd Lt. Vanessa James and for all the talk about my natural (and believe me they are 100%) assets I promise you that there is much more to my character. Who knew that a tank top could cause such a stir. LOL!! Our show is about people and people have sexuality. The creators are not exploiting it, they are exploring it. That is what writers, actors and directors do. I thank all of you for your kind words and excitement about the show- it is thrilling to be in this world and I hope that you continue to enjoy SGU as the season goes on. You will get to see all of the characters grow! Aaaah first blog done! Thanks for reading...I promise to post again soon. Julia -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Croatia comes out with an electric car
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=68752421feedType=nlfeedName=ustechnologyvideoChannel=6 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] FCC loses Comcast's court challenge
Mr Worf, in cases like these, all I'm seeing/hearing is the money talking. And anyone who believes that the courts are impartial... I've got prime oceanfront property south of Rapid City that might interest them. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I'm always bothered at how often the courts rule in favor of big businesses. Sometimes it is because the courts don't know much about the issue at hand so they play it safe. I believe this ruling is holding us back in unforeseen ways. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: A victory only for the broadband industry and their lobbyists. [?][?] On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Man, this is really bad for us. I'm amazed that Comcast is allowed to block certain types of traffic without telling subscribers. But then, this is the same damn outfit that cut off service to subscribers who were using too much bandwidth on downloads, but refused to give a number as to what exactly the download limit in GB's was. The FCC has been a weak, shortsighted body for years. Here they are actually working on something good: bringing our communications infrastructure up to the 20th century, and putting our Internet capabilities into maybe the top 20 or so industrialized countries. And now this blow? I am very disappointed... *** http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/04/fcc_loses_comcasts_court_chall.html FCC loses Comcast's court challenge, a major setback for agency on Internet policies *Comcast *on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency's ability to regulate Internet service providers just as it unrolls a sweeping broadband agenda. The decision also sparks pressing questions on how the agency will respond, with public interest groups advocating that the FCC attempt to move those services into a regulatory regime clearly under the agency's control. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 3-0 decision, ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to require Comcast, the nation's biggest broadband services provider, to treat all Internet traffic equally on its network. That decision -- based on a 2008 ruling under former FCC chairman *Kevin Martin* -- addresses Comcast's argument that the agency didn't follow proper procedures and that it failed to justify exercising jurisdiction when it ruled Comcast violated broadband principles by blocking or slowing a peer-sharing Web site, Bit Torrent. But it also unleashed a broader debate over the agency's ability to regulate broadband service providers such as *ATT*, Comcast, and *Verizon Communication*s. The judges focused on whether the FCC has legal authority over broadband services, which are categorized separately from phone, cable television and wireless services. The agency currently has only ancillary authority over broadband services, a decision made by past agency leaders in an attempt to keep the fast-moving Internet services market at an arm's distance from the agency. A key part of the opinion: The Commission may exercise this ancillary authority only if it demonstrates that its action . . . is reasonably ancillary to the ... effective performance of its statutorily mandated responsibilities. The Commission has failed to make that showing. The court's decision comes just days before the agency accepts final comments on a separate open Internet regulatory effort this Thursday. And the agency will be faced with a steep legal challenge going forward as it attempts to convert itself from a broadcast- and phone-era agency into one that draws new rules for the Internet era. *Andrew Schwartzman*, policy director for Media Access Project, said the ruling represents a severe restriction on the FCC's powers. Public interest groups have urged the agency to reclassify broadband services so that they are more concretely under the agency's authority. The FCC has been reluctant to say if it would do so, and a spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Analysts said the agency may not be able to proceed on its net neutrality policy -- a rule that Internet service providers have fought against. And there is doubt the agency could reform an $8 billion federal phone subsidy to include money to bring broadband services to rural areas. *Bruce Mehlman*, former assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy, however, said the decision may help speed the development of faster and more robust networks. It may drive greater investment in broadband networks by removing regulatory uncertainty and perceived disincentives to invest in infrastructure, Mehlman said. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at:
Re: [scifinoir2] Croatia comes out with an electric car
Strangely enough, the land Great Tesla Himself hails from... must be something in the air. I'd buy one in a heartbeat. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=68752421feedType=nlfeedName=ustechnologyvideoChannel=6 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Dubai upholds British pair's jail term over kiss
Funny thing, B. Thirty seconds after posting that, I realized that I have been there, traveling with an ex-SO who was on business. She never did try to kiss me while we were there, and it never occurred to me as to why she didn't (lots of looks instead). Once we were on the way back to the States, though, she laid one on me that still remains in memory. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM, B Smith daikaij...@yahoo.com wrote: Big time. I don't see the appeal considering their laws are harsh and western style fun is frowned upon at the very least. There are plenty of other places to see in the world. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: Note to self -- avoid Dubai. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Dubai upholds British pair's jail term over kiss DUBAI Mon Apr 5, 2010 10:56am EDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A Dubai court Sunday upheld a one-month jail sentence given to a British pair for kissing in public, media reports said. Oddly Enough http://www.reuters.com/news/oddlyEnough The British man living in Dubai and a female friend were arrested in November on charges of kissing intimately in public and consuming alcohol. An Emirati mother had complained her child had seen their indiscretion. The case is the third time in under two years that Britons have fallen foul of indecency laws in Dubai, a Muslim emirate popular with sun-seeking Western tourists and expatriates. The defendants are consulting their lawyer on whether to appeal Sunday's ruling before a cassation court, the website of the daily Gulf News reported. The pair, who had been free on bail, are also to pay a fine of 1,000 dirhams ($272) for illegal consumption of alcohol and will be deported after serving their jail term, the website said. Dubai's foreign population expanded rapidly in recent years as expatriates flocked to the Gulf Arab trade and tourism hub for its tax-free earnings and year-round sunshine. The changes have challenged the Emirati population, now vastly outnumbered by foreigners, raising concerns that the rapid pace of growth is a threat to their social and religious identity in what remains a deeply conservative region. In 2008, a British couple narrowly escaped jail after a court found them guilty of engaging in drunken sexual activity out of wedlock and in public on a beach in the emirate. They were sentenced to three months in prison followed by deportation, but had their jail terms overturned on appeal. In another case this year, a British couple who shared a hotel room managed to escape trial in Dubai for having sex out of wedlock by producing a marriage certificate. (Reporting by Firouz Sedarat) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show
Mr Worf, I did know a ouple of guys when I was at Virginia State who only watched shows for the T*t Appreciation Factor. Ask them anything about content... you could hear the crickets. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Some guys are looking a little too hard for just about anything. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I may have missed the SGU ep, Darkness, but evidently it generated some talk about actress Julia Benson's...assets? What did I miss? I do remember when show when Eli was using one of those remote cams, and everyone noticed he seemed to be hovering around the character's chest area. Aside from that, I've missed a few eps of SGU. Does the adult stuff work in the narrative of the show, or is it a bit unnecessary, the way there were sometimes gratuitous scenes in Enterprise, and, I'd argue, some of the more explicit stuff in BSG with Number 6 and Baltar? ** http://www.juliabensononline.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00max-results=5 In the last two days I have started a blog and joined the world of Twitter! All year people have been trying to get me to -start a blog, join twitter, get a facebook fanpage or a website and all year I have resisted...and now after Stargate Universe's episode Darkness aired on Friday night, I find myself with something to say. Something that people may or may not want to read. As an actor, Stargate Universe has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. The producers have created the best atmosphere! I love going to work. I love the character I get to play, I love the people I get to act with, and I love the crew. I am now introduced to the fans. What an amazing franchise that so many people out there are so passionate about our show. It is a gift to be involved in something that people have opinions about. As an actor it is an honor for people to have opinions about you. Better that then nothing at all, right? I play 2nd Lt. Vanessa James and for all the talk about my natural (and believe me they are 100%) assets I promise you that there is much more to my character. Who knew that a tank top could cause such a stir. LOL!! Our show is about people and people have sexuality. The creators are not exploiting it, they are exploring it. That is what writers, actors and directors do. I thank all of you for your kind words and excitement about the show- it is thrilling to be in this world and I hope that you continue to enjoy SGU as the season goes on. You will get to see all of the characters grow! Aaaah first blog done! Thanks for reading...I promise to post again soon. Julia -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] 150-pound velociraptor on the loose in suburbs
Danged headlines! Always promising hew-mon death and terror, then failing to provide! [?] On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/04/couple-says-dinosaur-sculpture-swiped-from-front-yard.html Gary and Cathy Crawford could use some help locating their 150-pound steel dinosaur sculpture. The sculpture of a velociraptor -- the same dinosaur shown hunting in packs in Jurassic Park-- was stolen last week from the front yard of their Midlothian home and they hope someone will spot the 3-foot high by 6-foot-long work of art before it ends up in a scrap yard somewhere 320.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] Missing link between man and apes found
I am considering that, but I want to finish it first, because I've read a couple of other stories posted online that were truly spectacular, but ended up unfinished because the writers lost steam or focus. Don't want to leave readers hanging. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:53 PM, brent wodehouse brent_wodeho...@thefence.us wrote: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com martinbaxter7%40gmail.com writes: Basically, a modern-day nobleman revisiting his pirate days in order to help a friend and save his own life (through the injudicious use of time travel). This comes in because I have a character whose species evolved from a primitive offshoot of mankind . Do you have plans to post it once you've completed it? It sounds an interesting read. Good luck with it. :-) Brent On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM, brent wodehouse [ mailto:brent_wodeho...@thefence.us brent_wodehouse%40thefence.us ] brent_wodeho...@thefence.us brent_wodehouse%40thefence.us wrote: Martin Baxter [ mailto:martinbaxter7%40gmail.commartinbaxter7%2540gmail.com ]martinbaxt...@gmail.com martinbaxter7%40gmail.com wrote: The screaming you hear is from every fire-and-brimstone preacher south of the Mason-Dixon, lest anyone wonder... Seriously, this is amazing stuff. Fuel for part of the story I'm working on. Thanks again, Brent! Story? Of what variety? Inquiring minds... Brent On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:49 PM, brent wodehouse [ mailto:brent_wodehouse%40thefence.usbrent_wodehouse%2540thefence.us] brent_wodeho...@thefence.us brent_wodehouse%40thefence.us wrote: [ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/7550033/Missing-link-between-man-and-apes-found.html ] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/7550033/Missing-link-between-man-and-apes-found.html Missing link between man and apes found. A missing link between humans and their apelike ancestors has been discovered
Re: [scifinoir2] Boondocks season 3 sneak preview
GOTTA catch this, if for no other reason than to know what right thing Huey did to end up being burned in effigy. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.boondocksbootleg.com/profiles/blogs/season-3-trailer-leaked-hurry?id=4938447%3ABlogPost%3A4159page=1#comments -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw
Aubrey, there are those fools inside the Beltway who truly believe that a few well-placed nukes can turn the trick. They conveniently ignore the fact that the craft can pull Mach 12 on a slow day, turn on the width of a positron and can't even be reliably tracked by conventional means. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com wrote: That was along the lines of what I was going to say... Who had any faith that we could prevent an invasion in the first place? *Aubrey Leatherwood *www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 * MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood Model Lover Dime http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/modellover.htm *Imperfection* http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw I did, Mr Worf, but I doubt that we're talking an invasion from beyond. If that were true, they could've mopped the floor with Humanity fifty years ago. IMO, they're observers from the future, UFOs being time machines, flitting back and forth via artificial wormholes. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James Fox who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal accounts of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military, and airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National Press Club in DC. By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real but we have no way to prevent an invasion. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4
Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
Yes! A few years a go, I got something NSFW in the mail, a video of a couple making love in the boyfriend's apartment. At one point, the young lady slips below the sheets for... well, do I need to draw a map here? The camera then focuses on the man's face, filled with pleasure. Then, in the background, you begin to here whimpered muffling... the man eventually is curious enough to open his eyes and looka round, where he sees his girlfriend on the floor to his right, tied up, terror in her eyes. The man then looks down, seeing someone still under the covers... They rise, revealing the Burger King, with a smear of something white and gooey at one corner of that grinning mask... That's the day I began cringing every time a BK commercial came on. On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste.
[scifinoir2] Re: FCC loses Comcast's court challenge
Comcrap...Curses! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: A victory only for the broadband industry and their lobbyists. [?][?] On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: Man, this is really bad for us. I'm amazed that Comcast is allowed to block certain types of traffic without telling subscribers. But then, this is the same damn outfit that cut off service to subscribers who were using too much bandwidth on downloads, but refused to give a number as to what exactly the download limit in GB's was. The FCC has been a weak, shortsighted body for years. Here they are actually working on something good: bringing our communications infrastructure up to the 20th century, and putting our Internet capabilities into maybe the top 20 or so industrialized countries. And now this blow? I am very disappointed... *** http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/04/fcc_loses_comcasts_court_chall.html FCC loses Comcast's court challenge, a major setback for agency on Internet policies *Comcast *on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency's ability to regulate Internet service providers just as it unrolls a sweeping broadband agenda. The decision also sparks pressing questions on how the agency will respond, with public interest groups advocating that the FCC attempt to move those services into a regulatory regime clearly under the agency's control. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 3-0 decision, ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to require Comcast, the nation's biggest broadband services provider, to treat all Internet traffic equally on its network. That decision -- based on a 2008 ruling under former FCC chairman *Kevin Martin* -- addresses Comcast's argument that the agency didn't follow proper procedures and that it failed to justify exercising jurisdiction when it ruled Comcast violated broadband principles by blocking or slowing a peer-sharing Web site, Bit Torrent. But it also unleashed a broader debate over the agency's ability to regulate broadband service providers such as *ATT*, Comcast, and *Verizon Communication*s. The judges focused on whether the FCC has legal authority over broadband services, which are categorized separately from phone, cable television and wireless services. The agency currently has only ancillary authority over broadband services, a decision made by past agency leaders in an attempt to keep the fast-moving Internet services market at an arm's distance from the agency. A key part of the opinion: The Commission may exercise this ancillary authority only if it demonstrates that its action . . . is reasonably ancillary to the ... effective performance of its statutorily mandated responsibilities. The Commission has failed to make that showing. The court's decision comes just days before the agency accepts final comments on a separate open Internet regulatory effort this Thursday. And the agency will be faced with a steep legal challenge going forward as it attempts to convert itself from a broadcast- and phone-era agency into one that draws new rules for the Internet era. *Andrew Schwartzman*, policy director for Media Access Project, said the ruling represents a severe restriction on the FCC's powers. Public interest groups have urged the agency to reclassify broadband services so that they are more concretely under the agency's authority. The FCC has been reluctant to say if it would do so, and a spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Analysts said the agency may not be able to proceed on its net neutrality policy -- a rule that Internet service providers have fought against. And there is doubt the agency could reform an $8 billion federal phone subsidy to include money to bring broadband services to rural areas. *Bruce Mehlman*, former assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy, however, said the decision may help speed the development of faster and more robust networks. It may drive greater investment in broadband networks by removing regulatory uncertainty and perceived disincentives to invest in infrastructure, Mehlman said.
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: FCC loses Comcast's court challenge
Speak your curses louder, pal... some damfool neighbor of mine is getting the hook-up from them as I type. [?] And how does the day find you, sir? On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com wrote: Comcrap...Curses! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@... wrote: A victory only for the broadband industry and their lobbyists. [?][?] On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: Man, this is really bad for us. I'm amazed that Comcast is allowed to block certain types of traffic without telling subscribers. But then, this is the same damn outfit that cut off service to subscribers who were using too much bandwidth on downloads, but refused to give a number as to what exactly the download limit in GB's was. The FCC has been a weak, shortsighted body for years. Here they are actually working on something good: bringing our communications infrastructure up to the 20th century, and putting our Internet capabilities into maybe the top 20 or so industrialized countries. And now this blow? I am very disappointed... *** http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/04/fcc_loses_comcasts_court_chall.html FCC loses Comcast's court challenge, a major setback for agency on Internet policies *Comcast *on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency's ability to regulate Internet service providers just as it unrolls a sweeping broadband agenda. The decision also sparks pressing questions on how the agency will respond, with public interest groups advocating that the FCC attempt to move those services into a regulatory regime clearly under the agency's control. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 3-0 decision, ruled that the FCC lacked the authority to require Comcast, the nation's biggest broadband services provider, to treat all Internet traffic equally on its network. That decision -- based on a 2008 ruling under former FCC chairman *Kevin Martin* -- addresses Comcast's argument that the agency didn't follow proper procedures and that it failed to justify exercising jurisdiction when it ruled Comcast violated broadband principles by blocking or slowing a peer-sharing Web site, Bit Torrent. But it also unleashed a broader debate over the agency's ability to regulate broadband service providers such as *ATT*, Comcast, and *Verizon Communication*s. The judges focused on whether the FCC has legal authority over broadband services, which are categorized separately from phone, cable television and wireless services. The agency currently has only ancillary authority over broadband services, a decision made by past agency leaders in an attempt to keep the fast-moving Internet services market at an arm's distance from the agency. A key part of the opinion: The Commission may exercise this ancillary authority only if it demonstrates that its action . . . is reasonably ancillary to the ... effective performance of its statutorily mandated responsibilities. The Commission has failed to make that showing. The court's decision comes just days before the agency accepts final comments on a separate open Internet regulatory effort this Thursday. And the agency will be faced with a steep legal challenge going forward as it attempts to convert itself from a broadcast- and phone-era agency into one that draws new rules for the Internet era. *Andrew Schwartzman*, policy director for Media Access Project, said the ruling represents a severe restriction on the FCC's powers. Public interest groups have urged the agency to reclassify broadband services so that they are more concretely under the agency's authority. The FCC has been reluctant to say if it would do so, and a spokesperson didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Analysts said the agency may not be able to proceed on its net neutrality policy -- a rule that Internet service providers have fought against. And there is doubt the agency could reform an $8 billion federal phone subsidy to include money to bring broadband services to rural areas. *Bruce Mehlman*, former assistant secretary of commerce for technology policy, however, said the decision may help speed the development of faster and more robust networks. It may drive greater investment in broadband networks by removing regulatory uncertainty and perceived disincentives to invest in infrastructure, Mehlman said. 320.gif
Re: [scifinoir2] what if: immortality
Depends on the family. Not every victim family is for the death penalty but the every time they show something like that on tv they show the families that are for it. Also, the type of crime doesn't always fit. For example, I mentioned the story about a guy that ran a financial fraud scheme. He was sentenced with 800+ years. Meanwhile, a guy that committed a rape or assault will receive a lot less time. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:23 AM, jmp.sp...@verizon.net wrote: Interesting question... Should such technology happen, I think existing prisoners would be deemed ineligible for life extension and continue to serve existing sentences. BUT... should inmates be offered such a life extension, I can't see the rationale for exoneration based on longevity alone. That case would likely continue to be made based on its merits, exclusive of age. I'm reminded of an old saying from military school, When the enemy is in range, so are you! My sense is that if inmates were to live forever, so would their victims and/or families. Who would represent a powerful voice against an inmate's release, again, based on longevity. -later -jeff Mar 25, 2010 12:58:53 AM, scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com wrote: I was watching the tv show American Greed. The show was about a guy named Shalom Weiss who ripped off over $450 million from an insurance company here in the US. At his trial he was charged with 845 years for his crimes. The question that popped into my head after watching the show was what if tomorrow they develop something that allowed us to live forever. What happens to people in prison? Would they be forced to stay in jail for 1000 or 15000 years? Or even worse, the rest of eternity? -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... wrote: A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;) Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover Dime Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see that plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop the body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer you food. Do you: (a) Jump for joy and say, Hey, King! Thanks for the burger! and then invite him to share it with you in your bed? (b) Say, Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the window on your way out, then roll over and go to sleep... or (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball bat/golf club/mace/pepper spray? Me? Option C all the way baby! - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group I love the creepy king! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. _ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4
Re: [scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show
Well, it's not exactly unknown in the annals of scifi TV: Uhura, Troi, Seven, T'Pol, Number Six (never did see the attraction there), etc., etc. I did notice that Benson's character is always in clingy shirts, which I assume are part of the uniform for her rank. But I have also noticed the camera lingers in certain places at times. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 5:49:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show Mr Worf, I did know a ouple of guys when I was at Virginia State who only watched shows for the T*t Appreciation Factor. Ask them anything about content... you could hear the crickets. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Some guys are looking a little too hard for just about anything. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I may have missed the SGU ep, Darkness, but evidently it generated some talk about actress Julia Benson's...assets? What did I miss? I do remember when show when Eli was using one of those remote cams, and everyone noticed he seemed to be hovering around the character's chest area. Aside from that, I've missed a few eps of SGU. Does the adult stuff work in the narrative of the show, or is it a bit unnecessary, the way there were sometimes gratuitous scenes in Enterprise, and, I'd argue, some of the more explicit stuff in BSG with Number 6 and Baltar? ** http://www.juliabensononline.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00max-results=5 In the last two days I have started a blog and joined the world of Twitter! All year people have been trying to get me to -start a blog, join twitter, get a facebook fanpage or a website and all year I have resisted...and now after Stargate Universe's episode Darkness aired on Friday night, I find myself with something to say. Something that people may or may not want to read. As an actor, Stargate Universe has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. The producers have created the best atmosphere! I love going to work. I love the character I get to play, I love the people I get to act with, and I love the crew. I am now introduced to the fans. What an amazing franchise that so many people out there are so passionate about our show. It is a gift to be involved in something that people have opinions about. As an actor it is an honor for people to have opinions about you. Better that then nothing at all, right? I play 2nd Lt. Vanessa James and for all the talk about my natural (and believe me they are 100%) assets I promise you that there is much more to my character. Who knew that a tank top could cause such a stir. LOL!! Our show is about people and people have sexuality. The creators are not exploiting it, they are exploring it. That is what writers, actors and directors do. I thank all of you for your kind words and excitement about the show- it is thrilling to be in this world and I hope that you continue to enjoy SGU as the season goes on. You will get to see all of the characters grow! Aaaah first blog done! Thanks for reading...I promise to post again soon. Julia -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw
They seem to think that they can do it because they have shot a couple down before. (probably by accident) One of the things that I find interesting is that there have been ufo sightings in the DC area before. Back in the 50s there was one that put the government on high alert and prompted project blue book. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Aubrey, there are those fools inside the Beltway who truly believe that a few well-placed nukes can turn the trick. They conveniently ignore the fact that the craft can pull Mach 12 on a slow day, turn on the width of a positron and can't even be reliably tracked by conventional means. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com wrote: That was along the lines of what I was going to say... Who had any faith that we could prevent an invasion in the first place? *Aubrey Leatherwood *www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 * MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood Model Lover Dime http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/modellover.htm *Imperfection* http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw I did, Mr Worf, but I doubt that we're talking an invasion from beyond. If that were true, they could've mopped the floor with Humanity fifty years ago. IMO, they're observers from the future, UFOs being time machines, flitting back and forth via artificial wormholes. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James Fox who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal accounts of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military, and airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National Press Club in DC. By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real but we have no way to prevent an invasion. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show
The last two trek shows played up the sexual aspect. The holodeck action and the ladies in the clingy outfits was pushing the eye candy factor. (Dax should have been on that list too.) I think that someone in management is thinking that if they make sex symbols out of the characters that they will increase their ratings with numbers from the puberty set. That's why Dollhouse poured it on. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Well, it's not exactly unknown in the annals of scifi TV: Uhura, Troi, Seven, T'Pol, Number Six (never did see the attraction there), etc., etc. I did notice that Benson's character is always in clingy shirts, which I assume are part of the uniform for her rank. But I have also noticed the camera lingers in certain places at times. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 5:49:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] SGU Actress Blogs about Adult Themes on Show Mr Worf, I did know a ouple of guys when I was at Virginia State who only watched shows for the T*t Appreciation Factor. Ask them anything about content... you could hear the crickets. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: Some guys are looking a little too hard for just about anything. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I may have missed the SGU ep, Darkness, but evidently it generated some talk about actress Julia Benson's...assets? What did I miss? I do remember when show when Eli was using one of those remote cams, and everyone noticed he seemed to be hovering around the character's chest area. Aside from that, I've missed a few eps of SGU. Does the adult stuff work in the narrative of the show, or is it a bit unnecessary, the way there were sometimes gratuitous scenes in Enterprise, and, I'd argue, some of the more explicit stuff in BSG with Number 6 and Baltar? ** http://www.juliabensononline.com/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00updated-max=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00max-results=5 In the last two days I have started a blog and joined the world of Twitter! All year people have been trying to get me to -start a blog, join twitter, get a facebook fanpage or a website and all year I have resisted...and now after Stargate Universe's episode Darkness aired on Friday night, I find myself with something to say. Something that people may or may not want to read. As an actor, Stargate Universe has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. The producers have created the best atmosphere! I love going to work. I love the character I get to play, I love the people I get to act with, and I love the crew. I am now introduced to the fans. What an amazing franchise that so many people out there are so passionate about our show. It is a gift to be involved in something that people have opinions about. As an actor it is an honor for people to have opinions about you. Better that then nothing at all, right? I play 2nd Lt. Vanessa James and for all the talk about my natural (and believe me they are 100%) assets I promise you that there is much more to my character. Who knew that a tank top could cause such a stir. LOL!! Our show is about people and people have sexuality. The creators are not exploiting it, they are exploring it. That is what writers, actors and directors do. I thank all of you for your kind words and excitement about the show- it is thrilling to be in this world and I hope that you continue to enjoy SGU as the season goes on. You will get to see all of the characters grow! Aaaah first blog done! Thanks for reading...I promise to post again soon. Julia -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw
I'd love to see how they'd deal with an actual alien attack. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They seem to think that they can do it because they have shot a couple down before. (probably by accident) One of the things that I find interesting is that there have been ufo sightings in the DC area before. Back in the 50s there was one that put the government on high alert and prompted project blue book. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Aubrey, there are those fools inside the Beltway who truly believe that a few well-placed nukes can turn the trick. They conveniently ignore the fact that the craft can pull Mach 12 on a slow day, turn on the width of a positron and can't even be reliably tracked by conventional means. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com wrote: That was along the lines of what I was going to say... Who had any faith that we could prevent an invasion in the first place? *Aubrey Leatherwood *www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 * MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood Model Lover Dime http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/modellover.htm *Imperfection* http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw I did, Mr Worf, but I doubt that we're talking an invasion from beyond. If that were true, they could've mopped the floor with Humanity fifty years ago. IMO, they're observers from the future, UFOs being time machines, flitting back and forth via artificial wormholes. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James Fox who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal accounts of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military, and airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National Press Club in DC. By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real but we have no way to prevent an invasion. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com wrote: Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... wrote: A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;) Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover Dime Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see that plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop the body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer you food. Do you: (a) Jump for joy and say, Hey, King! Thanks for the burger! and then invite him to share it with you in your bed? (b) Say, Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the window on your way out, then roll over and go to sleep... or (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball bat/golf club/mace/pepper spray? Me? Option C all the way baby! - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group I love the creepy king! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. __ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4
Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw
Let us know how it works out, Mr Worf. Sounds like a great one. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I have been working on that story. I'm stuck in the middle. I've also been thinking about doing it in an alternate reality. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love to see how they'd deal with an actual alien attack. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: They seem to think that they can do it because they have shot a couple down before. (probably by accident) One of the things that I find interesting is that there have been ufo sightings in the DC area before. Back in the 50s there was one that put the government on high alert and prompted project blue book. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Aubrey, there are those fools inside the Beltway who truly believe that a few well-placed nukes can turn the trick. They conveniently ignore the fact that the craft can pull Mach 12 on a slow day, turn on the width of a positron and can't even be reliably tracked by conventional means. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com wrote: That was along the lines of what I was going to say... Who had any faith that we could prevent an invasion in the first place? *Aubrey Leatherwood *www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 * MySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood Model Lover Dime http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/modellover.htm *Imperfection* http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw I did, Mr Worf, but I doubt that we're talking an invasion from beyond. If that were true, they could've mopped the floor with Humanity fifty years ago. IMO, they're observers from the future, UFOs being time machines, flitting back and forth via artificial wormholes. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James Fox who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal accounts of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military, and airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National Press Club in DC. By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real but we have no way to prevent an invasion. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group
Last year Jack in the box had to pull a series of ads that featured a group of angry mothers. (anyone remember this ad?) They were out to kill jack because he made the grilled cheese sandwich to well. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Scared BK enough to pull the ads, pal. We live in the PC Era. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com wrote: Offends mental health group...excuse me...GET A FRICKIN' LIFE --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... wrote: A... I'd like to get him talking for once ;) Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover Dime Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 20:51:32 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group Okay, pretend you roll over in bed in the middle of the night...you sense a presence in the room, so you pop on the light, only to see that plasticized face, that manic frozen grin staring at you, sitting atop the body of someone dressed crazily, hands outstretched trying to offer you food. Do you: (a) Jump for joy and say, Hey, King! Thanks for the burger! and then invite him to share it with you in your bed? (b) Say, Thanks dude, but I'm not hungry now. Be sure to close the window on your way out, then roll over and go to sleep... or (c) Scream bloody murder and reach for the gun/knife/baseball bat/golf club/mace/pepper spray? Me? Option C all the way baby! - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2010 8:22:54 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group I love the creepy king! Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Model Lover - Cobblestone Press Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 20:38:20 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group That's the least of the issues. Am I the only one creeped out by that grinning, leering rictus of a mask the King wears? Remember the commercials where people would wake up in the morning to find him in their bedrooms, staring at them, holding out a burger or egg sandwich or something? man, that'd be like having Freddy Kreuger's face on the pillow next to you! - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2%40yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Crazy Burger King Ads offend Mental Health Group http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/02/AR2010040204113.html?hpid%3Dtopnewssub=AR Bad week for fast-food mascots. In the same period that RetireRonald.com launched to blast McDonald's clown for luring kids into unhealthy lifestyles, two locally based mental health organizations have been deeply upset by a Burger King advertisement that can best be described as completely bonk . . . er, nut . . . er, cucko . . . er, in poor taste. The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. Get busy. __ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw
I've been using the voice recognition program while I write the current story I'm working on. It has increased my productivity by 300%. About 5 pages an hour. I can probably do more once I train it more and outline the story more in advance. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Let us know how it works out, Mr Worf. Sounds like a great one. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com wrote: I have been working on that story. I'm stuck in the middle. I've also been thinking about doing it in an alternate reality. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: I'd love to see how they'd deal with an actual alien attack. On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: They seem to think that they can do it because they have shot a couple down before. (probably by accident) One of the things that I find interesting is that there have been ufo sightings in the DC area before. Back in the 50s there was one that put the government on high alert and prompted project blue book. On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: Aubrey, there are those fools inside the Beltway who truly believe that a few well-placed nukes can turn the trick. They conveniently ignore the fact that the craft can pull Mach 12 on a slow day, turn on the width of a positron and can't even be reliably tracked by conventional means. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com wrote: That was along the lines of what I was going to say... Who had any faith that we could prevent an invasion in the first place? *Aubrey Leatherwood *www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 * MySpace http://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood Model Lover Dime http://www.cobblestone-press.com/catalog/books/modellover.htm *Imperfection* http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. *The People You Know, The Sex They Have*http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: martinbaxt...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:10:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] I know what I saw I did, Mr Worf, but I doubt that we're talking an invasion from beyond. If that were true, they could've mopped the floor with Humanity fifty years ago. IMO, they're observers from the future, UFOs being time machines, flitting back and forth via artificial wormholes. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.comwrote: Did anyone catch this show? It is a documentary on UFOs made by James Fox who gathered people from all over the world to tell their personal accounts of UFO sightings. The people that he invited were all former military, and airline pilots from the UK, France, Spain, and the US to the National Press Club in DC. By the end of the show, it made me think that UFOs were not only real but we have no way to prevent an invasion. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccountocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] The Perfect Weapon--Pollen
You know those movies like War of the Worlds, where vicious, technologically advanced aliens are brought low by something such as a measly bacterium? Well I say bunk that! Just send 'em down here to Atlanta and let the pollen do a number on them! This is one of the most beautiful cities you'll see in North America in the spring, literally a riot of colors: Reds, pinks, violets, lavenders--every color under the rainbow. Every yard, park, and street is filled with dogwoods, azaleas, roses, crepe myrtles. But the pollen? Oh my gosh. An extremely high pollen count--where just about anyone with even the slightest allergy tendencies will feel some effects--is a measure of 120. Our pollen count today? A whopping 5733! I literally wrote my name on my car windshield with my finger today, the pollen's so thick. I washed the car off, went to the gym for one hour, and came out to see the entire car completely covered again in yellow dust. Pictures taken from news copters show the entire city covered in a thick haze like smog, obscuring visibility, but it ain't smog. That's pollen so thick in the air the city is barely visible from a thousand feet up! Needless to say I am miserable: running eyes, congestion, coughing, sneezing, wheezing. So let Mars attack. Bring on the Invaders. Let the First Wave come. They might decimate the rest of the country, but an hour of sneezing in Atlanta will have them fleeing the Earth never to return--with a brief stop at CVS on the way for some Benedryl! ** http://www.atlantaallergy.com/EducationDetail.aspx?Id=33Cat=3 ATLANTA - The Metro area is seeing a record high pollen count Wednesday. Wednesday's pollen count is an incredible 5733, nearly double Tuesday's count. The recent spike in pollen has allergy sufferers facing miserable symptoms. I literally could not sleep at night. I was up all night coughing, sneezing, my eyes were watering, said allergy sufferer Kathleen Daniel. Kathleen Daniel has struggled with allergy problems since childhood and says she knows she'll be on allergy medication for much of her life. So when the warm weather hit our area -- she knew she was in a world of trouble. When I see all those pretty blooms I think oh no, here it comes, said Daniel. A pollen count of 120 is considered high -- Tuesday's pollen count was a whopping 2967. Wednesday's warm weather could make it even higher. Allergist Dr.. Stanley Fineman said this year's pollen season has hit hard and quickly. There's been a delay in the high pollen counts, so now we're seeing it all of a sudden, said Dr. Stanley Fineman of Atlanta Allergy and Asthma Clinic. And it's not just the thick yellow film that covers your car that makes life miserable, adding that microscopic pollens from nut trees may be causing the most difficulty. Fineman said for patients like Daniel -- doctors recommend limiting their exposure to the outside conditions. They should be indoors. Close the windows, use the a.c., wash their hair before they go to sleep. Because there may be pollen in their hair, and basically strict avoidance techniques, said Fineman.
[scifinoir2] Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteamid=7374140 Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior Wednesday, April 07, 2010 [image: Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behavior] Related Video All Live Video http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/live : All Videohttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video ยป [image: Greg Giusti was arrested for making threatening phone calls to Nancy Pelosi.] [image: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington] - Accused man's mom blames Fox News for behaviorhttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7374223 - FBI arrests man for threatening Pelosihttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7374228 Tags: nancy pelosi http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/explore?tag=nancy-pelosi, health care http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/explore?tag=health-care, health insurancehttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/explore?tag=health-insurance, i-team http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/explore?section=kgo/news/iteam, dan noyes http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/explore?columnist=dan-noyes - Comment Nowhttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteamid=7374140#comments - Emailhttp://webapp.abclocal.go.com/formmailer/emailFriend?station=kgoheadline=Accused%20man%27s%20mom%20blames%20Fox%20News%20for%20behaviorURL=/kgo/story%3Fsection%3Dnews%2Fiteam%26id%3D7374140contentId=7374140contentType=Article - Printhttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/iteamid=7374140pt=print - Report a typohttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/feature?section=newsid=7112889 - - - - - - [image: ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc.] javascript:void(0); http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/bio?section=resources/inside_station/newsteamid=5771710 Dan Noyeshttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/bio?section=resources/inside_station/newsteamid=5771710, Chief Investigative Reporter More: Biohttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/bio?section=resources/inside_station/newsteamid=5771710, E-mail %20dan.no...@abc.com, Blog http://iteamblog.abc7news.com/, Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=567930426, Twitter http://twitter.com/dannoyes, News Teamhttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/newsteam SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Gregory Giusti's 83-year-old mother had not heard that her son had been arrested, but she told ABC7 he has a history of mental problems. She does not think he would be capable of carrying out the threat; he has never owned a gun, and she blames Fox News for getting her son worked up. Giusti was arrested Wednesday afternoon for threatening Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over recent healthcare legislation. Greg frequently gets in with a group of people that have really radical ideas and that are not consistent with myself or the rest of the family, which gets him into problems, Eleanor Giusti said. I say Fox News, or all of those that are really radical, and he, that's where he comes from. Related Content Story: FBI arrests man for threatening Pelosihttp://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_worldid=7373535 Giusti, 48, has a long history of encounters with law enforcement. In 2004, Giusti was convicted of criminal threats. The San Mateo District Attorney's office says he was trying to evade the fare on a Caltrain, and when the conductor tried to kick him off, Giusti started yelling and threatening the conductor's life. As a result, Giusti was sentenced to one year in county jail and three years supervised probation. He was also ordered to undergo mental health counseling. There is also a lawsuit filed in February by Hamilton Square Baptist Church in San Francisco. It says, Giusti has engaged in and continues to engage in a campaign of harassment against people at the church. Giusti also has a record of skipping out on his BART fares and causing disruptions. BART sued him in 1996. He also has two convictions in San Francisco for welfare fraud and petty theft from 1992. According to ABC7 legal analyst Dean Johnson, there is a point at which free speech ends and a threat begins. Communicating a threat with the intent that it be taken seriously is one of those types of speech that is simply not protected, Johnson said. Even under state law, as well as the federal law that applies here, there are crimes that are based on threatening another individual, you simply cannot do that. Eleanor Giusti also told ABC7 she talked to her son earlier in the day -- apparently before the arrest. He asked about his niece and nephew and acted as though nothing was going on. The FBI told ABC7 Giusti will be booked into San Francisco County Jail to spend the night, before appearing in federal court Thursday morning. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
