http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/forums/13 General discussion board dealing with all kinds of issues and ideas. A resting realm of curious subjects, ancient and modern, foolish and profound. ]]> en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:04:13 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/forums/13 Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3660/t/ebooks-for-the-taking.html
www.fullbooks.com/ ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Zenman) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3660 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:50:45 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3661/t/Nepal-s-Political-Crisis.html
The fate of Nepal, the region Nepal (I couldn't spot Nepal on the map. Is it somewhere close to India?), and -- nay, the World is in the balance. Time to take sides as armchair bystanders!

Who's side on you on?

[I heard an NPR interview with a young guy who was kidnapped by Napalese Maoists who says that he used that he used to think he was kidnapped -- but... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Howie) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3661 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:50:22 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3664/t/Flu-Pandemic-Imminent-.html Multi-Agency Proposal Awaits Bush's Approval

By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 16, 2006; A01

President Bush is expected to approve soon a national pandemic influenza response plan that identifies more than 300 specific tasks for federal agencies, including determining which frontline workers should be the first vaccinated and expanding Internet capacity to handle what would probably be a flood of people... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3664 Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:23:54 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3665/t/TN-May-Outlaw-Landscaping-Herb.html
Elise Stephens , News Editor
The Associated Press
Last updated: 4/11/2006 10:20:51 PM

A proposal making its way through the Tennessee legislature would make a mint-like herb illegal for consumption while keeping it lawful for landscaping purposes.

The bill's sponsor, state Representative Parkey Strader, said students in his Knox County district use the leaves of the plant for mood-altering purposes.

The... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3665 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:42:07 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3666/t/The-War-on-Easter.html www.crooksandliars.com/20...html#a7891

And with that opening shot of the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and the words "Under Attack", Bill O'Reilly interviews some schmuck on the matter of Secularists out to destroy the Christian holidays of Easter (and Christmas).

Um. Huh.

I missed those parts of the Bible. How does this work? Jesus is... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Howie) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3666 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:07:46 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3667/t/DEA-Agent-Who-Shot-Self-In-Foot-Sues-U-S-.html Seeks damages for distribution of humiliating gun accident video

APRIL 11--A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape's release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he's become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip's distribution. Lee Paige, 45, blames the video's release on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Zenman) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3667 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:06:54 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3662/t/Boy-Who-Posed-On-Web-With-Weapons-Convicted.html
Boy Who Posed On Web With Weapons Convicted

By Sue Lindsay
Rocky Mountain News
April 5, 2006

An Evergreen High School student who posted Internet photos of himself posing with guns was convicted Tuesday on a charge of possession of a handgun by a juvenile.

The conviction came despite his parents' testimony that they gave him permission to handle guns in their home without... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3662 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:44:32 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3663/t/Spanning-the-Globe.html


A spokesman for the magazine, which has promised to tone down its erotic photographs, said copies would be available in major cities on Friday.

The launch has drawn criticism from Muslim clerics, who condemn the magazine as a corrupting influence.

Earlier this year there were street protests in many towns when... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Howie) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3663 Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:35:59 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3668/t/a-bomb-in-every-port.html
Wouldn't one?

??

feeds@yuku.com (Zenman) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3668 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:53:11 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3669/t/Palestinian-Election-Simulation.html
I was tempted to add "Libertarian Party", but then I realized that to do so would be to invite people to throw their votes away.

Vote early and vote often. I'll compare the results with Palestine's results, and proceed to fix the dispute in the middle east from there. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Howie) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3669 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:37:45 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3672/t/Clinton-on-Bush-but-not-that-Clinton.html www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS...index.html

I had read over the weekend (in Parade inside cover celeb questions and answers ?) that the elder Bush and Bill Clinton had gotten along politely in their joint ventures because the assignments had something for both: Clinton gets to brush off his image and in return it makes it harder for him to bash the younger... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (From Afar) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3672 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:20:50 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3671/t/Ray-Nagin-pulls-a-Pat-Robertson.html www.breitbart.com/news/20...5JUG5.html

Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting.

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Howie) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3671 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:22:55 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3674/t/Marilyn-Monroe-and-Joe-an-epic-tragedy-.html
By Mat Wilson

Joe DiMaggio met Marilyn Monroe in 1952, he was thirty-seven, she was twenty-five. He was the original, Broadway Joe the dominant force in the New York Yankees dynasty and the most famous star in Baseball history. Marilyn Monroe would become the most famous star in Hollywood history, but when she met Joe, he was the star.

Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe On January 14, 1954, and it was the dawn... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (RickTurpin) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3674 Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:49:03 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3675/t/Could-The-US-Win-A-War-With-ET-.html
Former Canadian Minister Of Defence Asks Canadian Parliament Asked To Hold Hearings On Relations With Alien "Et" Civilizations

(PRWEB) - OTTAWA, CANADA (PRWEB) November 24, 2005 -- A former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister under Pierre Trudeau has joined forces with three Non-governmental organizations to ask the Parliament of Canada to hold public hearings on Exopolitics -- relations with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3675 Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:27:30 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3681/t/Another-Day-at-the-.html
So...lessee if I can do this in such away to avoid getting EM, FA, or myself into trouble...

EM...a `Yay' or `Nay' or anything else on the items below...

1) Boss tells EM `We are having a very hard time working your facts into our (political) reality'.

2) Boss tells EM `Spending your time looking into (X) is a waste of our time'. (Even if X is relevant or critical to the rest of the project).

3)... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Thinker102) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3681 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:34:48 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3680/t/Letters-to-the-Editor.html
Letters to the Editor:

In an editorial published Nov 15 in the Nashville Tennesseean, the heading says, "The president should simply admit he acted to go to war on what turned out to be bad intelligence". That statement is not true.

The White House had, at its disposal, a complete intelligence assessment which included opinions from our own and the international intelligence... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3680 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 09:34:58 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3678/t/It-aint-what-they-call-rock-and-roll.html
MUSIC.

The Right Brothers, a conservative music duo out of Nashville, has released a new song that does what needed to be done: it tells the TRUTH. Titled Bush Was Right, the song hits the listener with fact after fact after fact - but the tune is so catchy, and the music is so driving, you can't help but sing along (especially on... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Howie) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3678 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:02:59 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3682/t/Internet-Grab-Gains-Ground.html
EU Says Internet Plan Gains Support

Nov 15 8:49 AM US/Eastern
By ALISON LAPP
Associated Press Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium

The European Union's compromise proposal on how to govern the Internet is gaining international support ahead of this week's U.N. technology summit, the EU's executive Commission said Tuesday.

The EU has... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3682 Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:13:09 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3683/t/Eye-In-The-Sky.html
DRONES 'TO FLY OVER CITIES'

DRUDGE
NOV 13 2005

HONEYWELL is developing a micro flying spy drone -- that would be used for civilian law enforcement!

The device, a hovering robot carrying video cameras and other sensors, is being created and tested at HONEYWELL's Albuquerque, NM plant.

The first round of testing on the drone [MICRO AIR VEHICLE] has been... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3683 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:01:19 GMT http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3684/t/The-British-Empire-Bureaucratic-Boredom.html feeds@yuku.com (Howie) http://freedomofspeech.yuku.com/topic/3684 Thu, 10 Nov 2005 08:09:45 GMT