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"Bush, a hateful (edited) himself, nominates a hateful (edited) to the Supreme Court, even as his circle of hateful (edited) narrows under indictments" Samuel Alito. This is the guy Bush chose to replace the Bob-Dylan/birdwoman Harriet Meiers. Alito's record shows he supports HUGE restrictions on civil rights. Here is how a well-known law journal summed up his views on minorities and women: "Alito has a disturbing record in cases involving discrimination based on race, disability and gender. Under his judicial philosophy, victims would face near-impossible burdens to..." The AP reported today that Alito was going to the Capitol Rotunda with...

I just finished reading another amazing novel by Dean Koontz, "Cold Fire". The afterword ... is hilarious: "Then, as is often the case when life is good, someone said, 'Hey, let's make a movie!' and life got strange, dark, and scary. "By this I do not mean to imply - although I can't stop you from inferring - that a lot of movie-industry executives are as brainless, voracious, and destructive as the flesh-eating bacteria ... I've met smart, fair, creative executives over the years...although I've noticed their kind either eventually get fired," (NOTE TO SELF: KELLY GOODE!!!) ... He goes...

I pick up a copy of the NY Times yesterday, and read an arts brief with the headline "Diversity Still a Problem For Hollywood Writers." ... A few minutes after reading this story, I get a call from my TV agent at ICM, telling me that the new management of Lifetime is not very interested in The Dirty Girls Social Club TV show. That, in fact, they wanted to "kill" it immediately, but that they are willing to listen to a re-pitch. That means that even though Lifetime owns the option for now (meaning I can't do anything with it)...

Trudy Childs is a co-owner of land which was recently used for a large scale party in the Diamond Fork area of Spanish Fork Canyon. Childs has plans to build an ampitheater on the land in the near future. Utah County Health Department, they insist the party was illegal because no one obtained the other required mass-gathering permit from the Utah County Commission. In addition to the health permit ensuring portable toilets, food and other health concerns, Utah County Code 13-4-2-1 mandates a security-related permit for any "anticipated assembly of 250 or more people which continues or can reasonably...

Quote: First hand account from Knick of Evol Intent... Last night, I was booked to play an event about an hour outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. The hype behind this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did an amazing job with the show.. they even made slipmats with the flyers on them to promote in local shops. So, we got to the show around 11:15 or so and it was really cool. It was all outdoors, in a valley surrounded by huge mountains. They had an amazing light...

PARIS - An Internet film clip that depicts the Auschwitz death camp as a rave party drew sharp criticism from a leading Jewish rights group Wednesday, which urged authorities to order the film to be removed from several European Web sites. ADVERTISEMENT The 3-minute video depicts SS soldiers as DJs and flashes offensive messages over images of concentration camp victims. The video alternates black-and-white photos of Holocaust atrocities with color images of youths partying at an open-air rave. The Simon Wiesenthal Center's European office in Paris denounced the film as "outrageous," saying in a statement that it goes "beyond the...

Eagles Get Drug Law Clarification The Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, D.C., has issued guidance to its field offices nationwide after an incident in Billings involving enforcement of a new anti-drug law. On May 30, a DEA agent visited the local Eagles Lodge and told the manager that the business could be fined up to $250,000 if it allowed the Billings chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to hold a fund-raiser concert there and people attending smoked marijuana. Public outcry The lodge canceled the concert date. Public outcry locally and nationally prompted the DEA...

Is It the Music? The crackdown on raves continues. Sen. Joseph Biden's anti-rave law is only a few months old, but other drug warriors in Congress are already trying to improve upon it. Two bills would make it easier to hold event sponsors liable for drug use by their guests. And unlike the final version of Biden's legislation, both explicitly target raves. When Biden introduced the bill that became this year's Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, the Delaware Democrat called it the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy (RAVE) Act. The "findings" section began: "Each year tens of thousands of young people...

The mere mention of Democratic Sen. Joe Biden's name should send partygoers everywhere into paroxysms of sputtering rage for hours. He's the decrepit brain behind the putrid RAVE Act, which bizarrely tried to equate a crack house with a rave and threatened anyone who sponsored a rave where drugs were used with up to 20 years in prison. Ravers everywhere thought Biden got the hint last year when the RAVE (that's an acronym for "Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy") Act basically died the graphic, explosive death of a hamster in a microwave. His pet legislation violated people's rights to party...

<p>St. Johns is a small Episcopal parish, a little gem of a church in a tough corner of the Mission District. For two decades, it has been a predominantly gay congregation that sees itself as "a community of faith welcoming all colors, cultures and sexual orientations."</p>

Last year, many of you helped us to stop the misguided RAVE Act from becoming law. Thanks to the work of drug reform activists from many organizations across the country, the original bill lost two of its co-sponsors and was stalled in committee without becoming law. The bad news is that the bill is back, in even more dangerous form. This year, the Senators in favor of the original RAVE Act have inserted its language as an amendment to S.22, a popular new bill introduced only as "A Bill To Enhance Domestic Security." The bill itself is very likely to...

Do the ketchup Las Ketchup ... starting a new dance craze Also in today's Bizarre • Noel's minders roughed me up • Hayley: I am gone on Gareth • Madeley's makeover IT’S a dance craze you can’t have missed if you were on holiday in Europe this summer – now it’s on its way here too. The Ketchup Song by LAS KETCHUP is, dare I say it, the new Macarena. Sung in Spanglish, it could turn into the most irritating hit of the year – which is saying something with the current charts.La Ketchup are three sort-of-gorgeous sisters (think...

<p>We’re at war. The people in charge of running the war say that we have to trust them: trust their integrity, and trust their judgment.</p> <p>But how can we trust our government to spot terrorists when it thinks that glow-sticks are items of "drug paraphernalia?"</p>

After the rave by Matt Drudge this morning Anne's book has risen over 4,000 spots to the #1 position on the Amazon.com book chart.Well done Ann and Matt sounds like a great read, can't wait till June.