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January 3, 2002 - January 16, 2002 You can't offend all the people all the time...
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• Sahara caravan.
• Another caravan, bit closer.
• Aftermath of a lahar on Pinatubo.
• "Christ the Redeemer" overlooking Guanabara Bay.
• Almond harvesting in the Balearic Islands.
• Madagascar hillside.
• Thai rice workers.
• Date harvest in Egypt.
• Yankee stadium outfield.
• Flock of pink flamingos - stunning!
• Flock of red ibis.
• Flock of gannets.
• Versailles
• Istanbul
• Sand dune covering a highway in the Nile valley.
• Gosse Bluff in Northern Territory, Australia.
• Venice
• Bronza age Celt carving of a horse…365 feet long in a chalk hillside.
• Charente region around Cognac.
• Buddhist sanctuary in Bodnath, Nepal.
• Petra in Jordan.

• Here is one really cool clock.
• A binary clock.
• Cigarette calendar.
• Block clock.
• Official time (yawn).
• Beautiful clock/calendar (java?).
• A collection of java timepieces. (This one seems especially nice and useless).
• The human clock.

Day 36 :
Everyone keeps hitting on me. Cannot cope. Off to Mordor.

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Moses:

OK, like, listen up guys. God says that it's really cruel to boil a kid in its mother's milk, so don't do it, K?

One Of Moses's People and God's Chosen (possibly with a Welsh accent):

How do we know if it's its mother? I got lots of goats, and they all look the same to me. At least, they do from the front.

[Hoots of laughter and derision]

Moses:

Fair point, brother. No, stop tittering you lot. Titter ye not! Brother Hugh has raised a valid point and, while I'm obviously not Our Lord, I do have certain negotiation rights during this transition period from slavery to full PL/MH citizenship. Therefore, in deference to Brother Hugh's failing eyesight - Oy! I said no tittering! - I am empowered to interpret this particular requirement to mean that no kid shall be boiled in any goat's milk /in case/ it was its mother's.

Another One of M's P & G's C:

What about lambs?

Moses:

Huh? "Don't boil a lamb in goat's milk"? Why not?

AOoM'sP&G'sC:

No, what about boiling a lamb in ewe's milk?

Hugh:

No, Iestyn, I already told you, mine's goat's milk.

Iestyn:

Not you, Hugh, ewe!

Hugh:

OIC

Moses:

When you two have quite finished...

[Hugh and Iestyn shuffle uncomfortably]

Moses:

Right, brother Iestyn has raised a valid point. For the avoidance of doubt, and in a spirit of equal opportunity for young even-toed ruminant ungulates, thou shalt not boil a kid in goat's milk, nor a lamb in ewe's.

Hugh:

I already told y...

Moses:

Shut up, Hugh.

Hugh:

Sorry.

Yet AOoM'sP&G'sC:

Do we have to not boil it?

Moses:

Sorry, Brother Dai, you lost me.

Dai:

Do we have to not boil the lamb? Only, I don't like boiled lamb. Goes tough and loses all its flavour the way my wife does it. I'd rather not have mine oven-baked, if it's all the same to you.

Moses:

Well, Brother Dai, your Bronwyn's cooking is famous throughout the Wilderness...

[Howls of derisive laughter]

Moses:

...but are you telling me that she bakes lamb with ewe's milk?

Dai:

No, but she uses garlic butter, and that's made from milk, isn't it?

[Mumbles of "No, it grows in the ground, you twat!"]

Moses:

OK, Brother Dai, fair enough. I think that we can extend the rules from the specific case outlined by Him to cover all forms of cooking lamb or kid wherever milk, or milk-derived produce, is used, and there is a risk that the milk or milk-derived produce might have come from the animal's mother.

Still AOoM'sP&G'sC:

What if it's older?

Moses:

Sorry, Brother Gareth, do you mean cheese, or what?

Gareth:

No, not cheese. Cheese is made from carpet weevils, as any fule kno. I mean, what if it's a big sheep, or a big goat. Its mother might still be alive.

Moses:

Is that likely?

[General murmurs of "Ol' Geraint's Daisy lived to be over 22 years old before she accidentally glanced into a mirror and lased herself to death" and similar tales of aged beasts]

Moses:

OK, OK. No lambs or kids or ewes or rams or goats to be cooked in any way where the method of cooking involves milk or milk derivatives that have come from the same species.

ASAOoM'sP&G'sC:

Wether!

Moses:

It's a desert. The outlook is sunny. What's that got to do with the price of fish?

AYAOoM'sP&G'sC:

I like a bit of boiled fish, me.

All:

Shut up, Tomos!

ASAOoM'sP&G'sC:

No, a wether is a castrated sheep, innit?

Moses:

I never knu dat! OK, wethers too. Thank you, Brother Lloyd.

AROOoM'sP&G'sC:

Calves. You forgot calves.

Moses:

We haven't got any calves. I broke the golden one, and the rest died of BSE four years ago.

AROOoM'sP&G'sC:

We might buy some more.

Moses:

Who from?

Lloyd:

"From whom".

All:

Shut up, Lloyd!

Tomas:

We might encounter a band of roving cattle salesmen. You never know.

Moses [irritated]:

OK, calves too, if we ever get any.

Bronwyn:

I get my milk delivered.

[More tittering, and accusations of children looking more like the milkman than Dai.]

Moses [testily]:

So, it's still milk, isn't it?

Bronwyn:

Yes, but I don't know what kind it is, do I? It could be goat's or ewe's or *anything*. It's just white stuff in a bottle to me.

Moses:

My God, Brother Dai, whatever did you see in this woman?

Dai:

Big tits, Mo'.

[Gales of laughter. Bronwyn hits Moses and Dai with her handbag and storms off to her tent. Hugh follows, trying to look inconspicuous.]

Moses:

Seriously, though, brother, the lady does have a point. How many of you can't tell goat's milk from ewe's milk?

[A number of hands are raised. Moses is becoming extremely irate.]

Moses:

Right then. Brother Aaron, take a note of this. No animal, of any form, and regardless of age or sex, is to be cooked in any manner that involves milk, or milk-derived produce, regardless of the species that produced the milk, because it might be its mother's milk. Said regulation shall from hereon in apply to all goats, and sheep, and cows.

Lloyd:

And deer.

Aaron [writing]:

...and...deer...

Iestyn:

And antelope.

Aaron:

...and...antelope...

Lloyd [getting in the swing of things]:

And gnu.

[Various "What's gnu?" "Nothing, what's gnu with you" etc.]

Aaron:

...and...gnu...

[Moses is almost beside himself]

Tomas:

And chickens.

Aaron:

...and...chickens...

Moses:

Noooooooo!

[Fade]

"Think of the World Wide Web as an orange peel, and the Internet as the actual orange beneath the peel. The orange is the juicy, nutritive, meaty information that you want to get to. The orange consists of FTP, Telnet, e-mail, WAIS, and other tools. This is where all the "good stuff" resides. This part of the orange is why you buy the orange in the first place - to get to the meat and the juice. The orange peel, however, is what holds the orange together. The peel allows you to transport the orange with ease, it protects the orange from dirt and dust, and it keeps it moist and flavorful. The orange without the peel is dry, strange looking, and perhaps not initially very appetizing. The peel without the orange is a sweet-smelling, tough husk that is virtually useless. Together however, the orange (the Internet) and the orange peel (the Web) make a great team!"

this Boondocks from Thanksgiving day.

"The General Court"

The House and Senate together; the Massachusetts analog to "The Congress."

"The Supreme Court"

The General Court (see above) together with the Governor (I'm not making this up).

"The Supreme Judicial Court"

The highest court in the Commonwealth; the Massachusetts analog to the U.S. Supreme Court. But it's not called the "supreme court" or the "high court" as I've seen done in some foreign (non-Massachusetts) news sources

Nashville Cop Killed by Infant Son

By Associated Press
January 4, 2002, 10:26 AM EST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A rookie police officer was shot to death by his 3-year-old son, who had grabbed the man's service weapon from a kitchen table.

Joshua Haffner, 22, was pronounced dead early Friday after several hours of surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He had been flown by helicopter from an airport near his home in Smyrna, about 20 miles to the southeast.

The shooting occurred late Thursday, shortly after Haffner had gotten home from his shift at Nashville's South Sector Precinct, said Sgt. Ken Hampton of the Smyrna Police Department.

"He was taking off his duty equipment and laid his gun on the kitchen table. Apparently while he had his back turned and was talking to his wife, their 3-year-old picked the gun up and shot him," Hampton said.

He was shot once in the upper back with the Glock .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol, Hampton said.

Haffner graduated from Nashville's police academy Nov. 1 and was completing his field training.

"This is something he always talked about, being a police officer," Hampton said.

Copyright © 2002, The Associated Press

This fine figure of a man is the center of a lawsuit between UPS and www.beproud.com

Jane Swift chooses her deputy chief of staff as running mate

By John Mcelhenny, Associated Press, 1/3/2002 17:40

BOSTON (AP) Acting Gov. Jane Swift named former Melrose Mayor Patrick Guerriero as her running mate on Thursday, dismissing questions about their youthful ticket and their disagreement over gay marriage.

Guerriero, Swift's deputy chief of staff, will challenge James Rappaport, a millionaire businessman and former state party chairman who is running for lieutenant governor even though Swift doesn't want him to.

Swift, the youngest governor in the country at 36, has been assailed by some as inexperienced, but she said it's not the 33-year-old Guerriero's age that matters most, but his experience as a two-term mayor and three-term state representative.

"I would match Patrick's experience against that of any candidate of either party," Swift said, pointing out that Guerriero voted over 1,000 times as a state representative and never missed a vote.

Swift and Guerriero already disagree about one issue: gay marriage. Swift opposes it, but Guerriero, who is gay, supports it. The issue made headlines in August when Swift's gay stepson Brian Hunt publicly decried her stance.

"Patrick and I have agreed to disagree on this issue," Swift said. "It was not my goal or one of my main criteria in selecting a running mate to find a carbon copy of myself."

Democrats seized on the GOP ticket's youth.

"A 36-year-old acting governor with a 33-year-old running mate isn't adding a lot of experience," said Dan Payne, a Democratic political consultant. "The kids are in charge."

Rappaport, 45, referred to Guerriero during an interview as a "nice young fellow" and a "nice young man," but said he has no intention of withdrawing.

"It doesn't change my position or my beliefs that I'm the strongest candidate," he said.

The Republican Party convention is April 6 and the primary election is Sept. 17.

Swift, who had called a ticket with her and Rappaport an "awkward marriage," took a jab at Rappaport when she said that she was happy to be running with someone who never lost an election. Rappaport was defeated by U.S. Sen. John Kerry in the 1990 race for Senate.

While Swift made it clear she doesn't want to run with Rappaport, she also was running out of choices. Suffolk County District Attorney Ralph Martin took a pass, as did lesser-known Essex County Sheriff Frank Cousins.

Democratic Party spokeswoman Jane Lane called it "embarrassing" that Swift had to resort to choosing a running mate who already worked for her.

"If all the people who rejected her offer to join the Republican ticket actually voted for her, Jane Swift just might be capable of winning this election," Lane said in a statement.

Guerriero joked about not being Swift's first choice, saying he took inspiration from New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, who was chosen in the sixth round in 2000 but made the Pro Bowl this week.

On Thursday, Guerriero and Swift sounded two themes that will likely define their campaign lowering taxes and strengthening education.

Guerriero, the son of an Italian immigrant and grandson of an Albanian immigrant, has worked in Swift's office since May as a liaison with the state's mayors, an important constituency for gubernatorial candidates.

As mayor of Melrose, a suburb north of Boston, Guerriero garnered international attention for his campaign to promote public civility among residents.

Candidates for lieutenant governor and governor technically do not run as a ticket in state primaries, but since William Weld chose Paul Cellucci as his running mate in 1990, Republicans have teamed up for political and financial reasons.

Kevin Sowyrda, a political consultant and Melrose native whose cousin dated Guerriero's sister, said the Guerriero-Rappaport contest could boost Swift's visibility without the damaging primary campaign that the half-dozen Democratic candidates will have to endure.

Sowyrda, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association, said Guerriero is telegenic and will do especially well in televised debates.

"He will make the old ladies go goo-gah," Sowyrda said.

Dr. Bronner's soaps.

Woodman's Of Essex