Wohin das Geld, das Bush junior will, u.a. fliessen soll, laut Senator Ted Kennedy: $400 million for maximum-security prisons. That's $50,000 a bed. $800 million for international police training for 1,500 officers. That's $530,000 an officer. (...) $164 million to develop a curriculum for training Iraqi soldiers. Why does it cost that much to develop a curriculum? (...) It is more than the combined budget deficits of all 50 states for 2004. It is 87 times what the federal government spends annually on after-school programs. It is 2 years worth of unemployment benefits. It is enough to pay each of the 3.3 million people who have lost their jobs in the past three years more than $25,000. It is 7 times what President Bush proposed to spend on education for low-income schools in 2004. It is 9 times what the federal government spends on special education each year. It is 8 times what the government spends on Pell Grants to help middle and low-income students go to College. And it is larger than the total economy of 166 nations.

"If you don't vote for Arnold, it's totally cool with me! Because I'll get him back fulltime, and the kids will get him back fulltime. But it'll be the state's loss. (...) Vote for Arnold Schwarzenegger, wether you can spell it or not!"

Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger, Nachrichtenredaktorin / Korrespondetin bei NBC

...dann vielleicht die 250 Seiten "schräge News" und "verrückte Nachrichten", gesammelt von der Landeshelfervereinigung Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. <a href=www.helferverein.de>Download (PDF, 1,38 MB)

"Irakische Frauen heiraten verboten!" befahl ihr Vorgesetzter, aber zwei US-Soldaten haben diese Order verweigert.

Ich hab den Längsten.

Im Irak sind laut CIA-Bericht bis heute keine Massenvernichtungswaffen gefunden worden. Trotzdem zeige der Bericht, so US-Präsident Bush, dass Ex-Staatschef Saddam Hussein «eine Gefahr für die Welt» gewesen sei. «Jetzt ist er nicht mehr an der Macht, und der Welt geht es besser.»

... der Zoo von Baghdad?

(globalsecurity.org) On 18 September 2003 a US soldier shot and killed a rare Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, after a reportedly drunken soldier tried to feed it through bars in its cage only to be bitten by the Tiger. The incident occured during a party with Iraqi police after the Zoo's normal business hours. (...) Head keeper Adil Salman Musa said: “The tiger bit his finger off and clawed his arm. So his colleague took a gun and shot the tiger.”

ST. LOUIS -- Babies who are put to sleep in an adult bed face a risk of suffocation that is as much as 40 times greater than babies who sleep in standard cribs, a Saint Louis University researcher says in this month's issue of Pediatrics. "The odds of death go up dramatically among babies who use adult beds," says James Kemp, M.D., one of the researchers and an associate professor of pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and director the Sleep Lab at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital. "The numbers are gigantic, much higher than I had thought. It's the best data available right now." Between 13 and 14 percent of parents say they share beds with their babies. Dr. Kemp calls for a public awareness campaign to alert parents to the dangers of the practice. "Granted, you want to be close to your baby at night time. But we don't think babies should be in adult beds. This has to be a risk assessment and it remains a terrible idea to share an adult bed with a baby." (...) Dr. Kemp says younger infants may be at the greatest risk of death in adult beds because they lack the motor skills to escape potential threats to their safety, such as soft bedding or being trapped between the bed and the wall.

Spot für ein Getränk namens Tooheys Extra Dry, in dem diese Zunge (siehe Bild) ein regelrechtes Eigenleben entwickelt... RealVideoFile: zungenspot (audio/x-pn-realaudio, 947 KB)

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(persoenlich) Roger Monnerat beendet auf Ende September seine Tätigkeit als WOZ-Redaktor. Er wird aber weiter für die WOZ schreiben, liess die unabhängige linke Wochenzeitung wissen. Monnerat gehörte 1981 zur Basler Gründergruppe der WOZ in Basel und hat Reportagen zu Wirtschaftsthemen, Gesellschafts- und Gewerkschaftssfragen geschrieben, darunter eine aus Seveso. Seit Herbst 2001 war er verantwortlich für die Wissenschaftsseite und hat nebenbei für das Ressort Schweiz geschrieben.