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No Comment Don Imus Award Prescott, Arizona, City Councilman Steve Blair spouted off on his AM radio show, reports the Yavapai College student newspaper. "After referring to Mexicans and other...
...Moving Water Industries employed former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in the 1980s, and top company officials have been major contributors to the GOP...
...Refs in Black and White An academic study of the National Basketball Association found racial bias in fouls called by referees, reports The New York Times...
...Keys to Freedom From AP: "A 135-year-old penitentiary changed some of its locks after keys to the maximum security prison were apparently sold on eBay...
...Sensitivity Training "IF YOU ARE GAY WE DON'T TAKE YOU...
...Pakistan's nuclear authority recently published advertisements for information on "lost" radioactive material in major Urdu-language newspapers, reports BBC...
...The one thing that drives me up the wall is [people] saying, 'Look at all the deaths you Americans have caused in Iraq,'" said Fox News radio host John Gibson...
...After referring to Mexicans and other Latin nationals as 'Spanish' several times, Blair corrected himself by stating, 'I'm not sure what you call them . . . Mexicans...
...Bible Thumping A Mankato, Minnesota, jail guard has been suspended after allegedly hitting an inmate with a Bible, reports AP Another FEMA Mistake "As many as six million prepared meals stockpiled near potential victims of the 2006 hurricane season spoiled in the Gulf Coast heat last summer when the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran short of warehouse and refrigeration space, according to agency officials," reports The Washington Post...
...I don't know . . . taco flippers?' Who's the Savage...
...Basically, it suggests that if you spray-painted one of your starters white, you'd win a few more games," said researcher Justin Wolfers...
...In an exchange of inflammatory e-mails, Ramode wrote, "GO BACK TO AFRICA AND DO YOUR GAY VOODOO LIMBO TANGO AND WANGO DANCE AND JUMP AROUND AND PRANCE AND RUN ALL OVER THE PLACE HALF NAKED THERE...
...Give me a break...
...The keys belonged to a locksmith who retired from Anamosa State Penitentiary [in Iowa] in 1974...
...These are Iraqis killing each other...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Defects of Cronyism "When the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for New Orleans, it copied the specifications-typos and all-from the catalog of the manufacturer that ultimately won the $32 million contract," reports AP Moving Water Industries supplied and installed the pumps, which proved to be defective...
...There is nothing to worry about," said an agency spokesman...
...It was two people doing their thing, it was full-on, and it was disgusting," said one father, who found his five-year-old son watching the X-rated material...
...The researchers say the bias is large enough to affect the outcome of a game...
...Army recruiter Sergeant Marcia Ramode in an e-mail to a gay man who asked about the Army's policy to ban those who are openly gay or lesbian from its ranks, reports The Jersey Journal...
...YOU ARE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED," wrote U.S...
...Later FEMA raised the estimate to thirteen million meals...
...False Alarm...
...He died two years later, and when his wife died last year, an auctioneer was hired to sell off the estate, which included the keys...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...I'll take credit...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...If you're saying that it's our fault that we unmasked them as knuckle-dragging savages from the tenth century, fine...
...Disney Does Dallas Cable company Comcast is investigating how hardcore pornography was broadcast during a children's cartoon on the Disney channel, reports AP...
...So what did we do...
...He went on to say, "But who is doing this killing...
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