Bits And Pieces
‘It all really makes you wonder what the French were doing when they built this place.’ Stevan Spencer, the New Orleans Levee District’s chief engineer.
Blaming the French, are we? Seriously? They’re sore losers, we all know that. Their soccer team sucks. And their hatred for Lance Armstrong is childish. But I’m pretty certain that they’re not to blame for what’s going on in the Big Easy…
One of my suggestions to counter Syrian pressure was to strike a deal for fuel with some Arab nation… My suggestion made sense, apparently, as PM Seniora did just that with Kuwait.
Whenever something happens, a Shiite cleric/leader has to blame Israel, the Zionist enemy. Naturally. Times have changed, however. When Sheikh Abdul Kamir Kabalan (apparently the highest Shiite authority in Lebanon) claimed that Berlin prosecutor, and U.N. chief investigator, Detlev Mehlis was a, ahem, “friend of Zionism, manipulated by the powers, coordinating with Israeli officers…” bla bla bla… It was faced with scorn. Pro-Syrian Kabalan (who is a supporter of Speaker Berri) was accused of attempting to alleviate some pressure off of Syria, and discredit the investigations… It seems these petty accusations are starting to fall on deaf ears…
Funnily enough, Kabalan’s office later issued a statement that the good Sheikh was merely repeating what he’d heard from others… It wasn’t his opinions being stated. Are you fucking kidding me? So, the Friday sermon, by the spiritual head of the SHIITE sect is now the equivalent of a gossip column? What’s next? The latest in the Jolie-Pitt-Aniston conflict? Seriously. There are still people who listen to and obey these fools… Sad? Pathetic.
Finally, some fun stuff. Research shows that coffee contains more antioxidants than fruits and vegetables. That means coffee combats cancer, and helps prevent heart disease….
a)Wooohoooo!!! It really will counter my smoking! (as I had mused about a while ago)
b)One day it’s good, one day it’s bad… The medical community is disappointingly indecisive.
August 30th, 2005 at 9:08 am
Unless you’re a woman, caffeine can cause fibroid cysts in the breasts. How uplifting.
It’s like people in the science and medical community are in a constant rivalry in terms of the findings in their research. If it’s good in one respect, it’s bad in another.
As you said about smoking, let’s hope the bad and good effects will cancel each other out!