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BlogNYC has been sending out invitations to other area bloggers to contribute to the site. A few of them have actually accepted the invitation, going against what has to be assumed is their better judgement. So this is just a quick note to thank those people and to let you know that you may see other authors popping up around here, we just didn’t want to alarm anyone.
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The United States is one of only a handful of countries that does that. Life without parole, the most severe form of life sentence, is theoretically available for juvenile criminals in about a dozen countries. But a report to be issued on Oct. 12 by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International found juveniles serving such sentences in only three others. Israel has seven, South Africa has four and Tanzania has one.
—adminBy contrast, the report counted some 2,200 people in the United States serving life without parole for crimes they committed before turning 18. More than 350 of them were 15 or younger, according to the report.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In apparent anticipation of the human race bringing extinction upon itself either through war or massive environment damage, the great ape is stepping up and starting to evolve.
Gorillas have been seen for the first time using simple tools to perform tasks in the wild, researchers say.
Scientists observed gorillas in a remote Congolese forest using sticks to test the depth of muddy water and to cross swampy areas.
This is quite a coup for the scientific community, for years now they have only been able to capture simple primates using their hands while working. While this may be a step forward for the great ape, they’re still not evolved enough to have a spokesape, so try as we might, there was no comment from the apes on this shocking discovery.
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Meet your new Supreme Court Nominee. Not a lot is known about Miers but one thing seems certain, she’s been a Bush devotee for a while. It seems we should have learned our lesson about letting this man put unqualified people in positions of power to satisfy his own moribund ego. From sniffing around here are a few facts I have found.
Miers has never been a judge. And we thought it was absurd that Roberts was being nominated to the Supreme Court with only two years of judgery under his belt. Bush has managed to best that precedent and find someone with no experience. We all saw how someone with no experience ran FEMA.
Miers was Bush’s personal lawyer. Is no one else offended that Bush seems to be filling the most important positons in the country with people who have done him personal favors? I’m still waiting for Bush to name some guy that loaned him $5 in 1962 Supreme Commander of Jesus Land.
Miers has experience fellating the President. No, really. It’s true. Go read the Q&A she gave at the White House in Oct. of 2004. I particularly like the guy that says how swell the President is and what a great job he’s doing with his "No Child Left Behind" act. Miers thanks him for the excellent question, which wasn’t a question and goes on to explain that yes, Bush is indeed great and so are his policies. I guess that’s why the states are starting to sue the federal government since they haven’t seen any of the money Bush promised in his "No Child Left Behind" act. Hey, maybe miers will be able to overturn that decision some day.
She once uttered the words that "the President was the most brilliant man she’d ever met". Ok seriously. I may have been able to let the rest of it slide, sure it would have been tough to swallow, but this woman has to be a complete mental case if she did indeed utter those words. The fact that someone who said those words may be appointed to the Supreme Court is a scary, scary proposition.
—admin (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Today we have lost one of the greatest playwrights of our generation. August Wilson succumbed to cancer at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. He was surrounded by his family.
A few weeks ago, when Gilligan died, you would have thought he had actually been America’s sweetheart for the past 30 years. I actually had to do a search for Wilson’s name to find the story about his death. Sad.
UPDATE: The headline just showed up on Yahoo’s homepage.
—admin (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...If you’ve never had the chance to check out Jake Dobkin’s photoblog you should really check him out. He has a great eye and takes some amazing pictures of the city.
I like this picture because it captures street art, old time building advertisment and a modern day billboard ad all in the same frame. Three different mediums, all with the same purpose. Jake has a unique ability to make you feel like you’re actually there at the moment in time when he snapped the picture. For me there’s one reaction from a good photograph, the longing, the want to be there in that moment, to be in that moment that is captured forever on film. It’s not easy to capture that feeling, but Dobkin does it. Do yourself a favor and go take a look at some of his other work.
—admin (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BlogNYC is proud to announce it’s first official political endorsement, Jon Corzine for Governor of New Jersey. Ok, so we don’t live in Jersey and we can’t vote in Jersey, to be honest we don’t even particularly like Jersey, but we love Jon Corzine. We only wish Corzine was running for Governor of New York so we could vote for him. Corzine is exactly the kind of leader we need more of, a liberal with guts.
He has pushed for universal health care and stringent gun laws. He was
one of only 23 senators to vote against the use of force in Iraq,
one of 34 opposed to the ban against what critics call partial-birth
abortion and one of 22 who voted to reject Judge John G. Roberts Jr. as
chief justice of the Supreme Court. He has also clashed with the Bush
administration on tax cuts, trade and Social Security.
If you’d like to contribute to Corzine’s campaign you can go here and give a few dollars to help elect a man who has proven he has the courage to stand up for his convictions. And as we all know in this current political environment, that is a very rare thing to find.
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