No Home Cooking for Homeless
Fairfax County in Virginia has a new policy which
prohibits home and church cooked meals from being served to homeless folk unless the kitchen is approved by the county.
"We're dealing with a medically fragile population . . . so they're more susceptible to food-borne illnesses than the general population," said Tom Crow, the county Health Department's director of environmental health. "We're trying to protect those people."
via Obscure Store
Pants on Fire!
So, how should the media refer to a President who has trouble telling the truth? Maybe
LIAR is a good place to start.
Kerry: Last in Likability
Once and future presidential candidate John Kerry
finished "dead last" in a poll on the likability of 20 American political figures conducted by the
Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut.
"Americans know who he is, and have pretty much decided they don't like him,"
Comedy Central Breaks Rumsfeld Resignation
It seems the Comedy Central Blog was the first to
break the news of Donald Rumsfeld's resignation this morning at 12:15am.
The buzz I'm hearing from a friend, and a totally unconfirmed White House source (remember Comedy Central doesn't have journalistic standards), is that Rumsfeld will be out of the administration tomorrow.
via BoingBoing
Science Censorship Investigated
The AP is reporting Senator Frank Lautenberg has been told the inspectors general for the Commerce Department and NASA are investigating whether the Bush administration has been
suppressing and censoring the results of federal research into global warming.
He said the investigations "will uncover internal documents and agency correspondence that may expose widespread misconduct." He added, "Taxpayers do not fund scientific research so the Bush White House can alter it."
via HuffPo
