TV's 10 Least Appealing Women
Maxim magazine has published a list of TV's 10 least appealing women. I can't access Maxim's website from work ("provocative attire"), but I do see that Fran Drescher, Tina Fey, Pam Grier and Christine Amanpour are on the list. What I immediately thought of is their noses. None of those four women have what you would call a "normal, WASP button nose." They are all sort of ethnic-looking. I don't know who made their "most appealing" list, but apparently if you don't look like a Stepford Wife, you don't make the cut. None of these four women are unattractive in the least. I didn't compare their breast sizes--that might have something to do with it, too. Tina Yothers is punk-looking now (have you seen Celebrity Fit Club?) and Peggy from King of the Hill is a cartoon. Just the fact the Kathy Najimy does her voice should give her some extra points to keep her off of this list.

Hotel Security Guard Killed
This man was probably going to retire next year. He was killed during a robbery at a Fairfield Inn in Clearwater, Florida

Does he really buy his own bullshit?
Ok, who HASN'T heard the quote about "bombing Pakistan back to the stone age"? Bush is seriously trying to pass off that he only just heard about this today? You KNOW Rove and Cheney were smirking and chortling about it when it was first said right after 9/11! And Bush has the best intel in the world--so good that he knows things about Iraq that no one else in the entire world knows (including Saddam Hussein)--yet he NEVER EVEN HEARD this quote until today? I am the LAST one to help out Bush, but he would have been much more "credible" (if that is possible) for him to say that he had heard the comment, but that it was not representative of the Administration's viewpoint, or something like that. This is not a case where plausible deniability applies, since the quote was all over every press agency (I'm sure Fox News had a banner with the quote put up on their wall).

Death of Hatred
Louis Farrakhan has revealed he is seriously ill. This man has spread division and hate across the US and the world for the last 50 years. It will be a great day indeed when he finally kicks the bucket.

Further Proof of Serfdom
Two things have surfaced that further prove the the rich are becoming richer and the poor are being relegated to serfs or indentured servants again.

(1) I have a bunch of bills to pay off, including medical bills, and have been trying to find a part-time job. So far, every job I have applied for has checked my credit score. I've applied at over half a dozen companies, and so far I can't even get an INTERVIEW at any of them. I've been at my job for 13 years, have only lived at 2 different addresses in the last 10 years, can provide a dozen personal and business references, can pass a criminal background check and a drug test, and I have a 1-year diploma in retail management. However, I am voted "most likely to steal" in the Job Applicant Yearbook because of my low credit score. The people that most need a job and make money can't get work (or extremely low-paying work) because of economic status discrimination. If I said, "Oh, statistically a higher percentage of blacks steal than whites, so I'm not going to hire blacks to handle money at my store," I would be in court so fast my head would spin. But, I'm allowed to say, "Oh, statistically a higher percentage of poor people steal than wealthy people, so I'm not going to hire poor people at my store," and it's perfectly legal. As a matter of fact, studies have shown that credit checks are UNRELIABLE when trying to predict when someone will steal. I wonder if Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling had good credit scores? I'm betting that they did.

(2) There are no more millionaires on the Forbes Richest 400 list. They are all BILLIONAIRES now. In fact, the total net worth of the Richest 400 went UP by $120 billion from last year.

President Clinton addresses criticisms of his handling of bin Laden
Clinton finally tears into someone for criticizing how he handled bin Laden. I distinctly remember the Embassy bombings. I remember Clinton's retalination against al Qaeda and the media reaction. (1) It was during the Monica Lewinsky hearings and (2) it was just after the movie "Wag the Dog" came out. People were SCREAMING that Clinton was just trying to take attention away from his sex scandal, instead of legitimately reacting to an attack against US property. You can think what you want to about his infidelity, but Clinton reacted to al Qaeda. As he says in this interview, he had an anti-terrorism plan when he left office and Bush didn't do anything with it until after 9/11. Now, those same people are SCREAMING that 9/11 is all Clinton's fault because he didn't do ANYTHING about the threat of bin Laden and al Qaeda while he was in office. Well, hopefully the gloves are off and Clinton can start telling it how it really is. It might also help strengthen the Democrat's position for the November elections, since being weak on National defense is a major obstacle for them. Be sure to read the whole interview; it's very good.