Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal – Video – WTVQ 36 – Lexington, Kentucky _- Another law enforcement nightmare that is bound to become a dead-letter law. Cripes. What’s worse is that the onus is on the website operator!

Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site. Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.

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Dingbat

Waiting for services to start

A man who was found with a woman’s body packed in dry ice in his hotel room told a newspaper that the situation was in some way connected to religion…

“Everything that happened was for religious reasons,” Stephen David Royds told The Orange County Register…

Royds was arrested Thursday at the Fairmont Newport Beach for investigation of selling and possessing cocaine, police Sgt. Evan Sailor said.

In his room, detectives found the body of Monique Felicia Trepp, 33, fully clothed inside a large Rubbermaid container.

Maybe it’s a new religion?

msnbc.com Harvard University has banned men from one of its gyms for a few hours a week, a move to accommodate Muslim women who, for religious and cultural reasons, cannot exercise comfortably in their presence. The policy is already unpopular with many on campus, however, including some women who consider it sexist.

The new look in gym wear?

“I think that it’s incorrect in a college setting to institute a policy in which half of the campus gets wronged or denied a resource that’s supposed to be for everyone,” said student Lucy Caldwell, who also wrote a column in The Harvard Crimson newspaper critical of the new hours. Student Ola Aljawhary, who is Muslim and works out elsewhere on campus but is not one of the women who requested the change, rejected that argument.

“The majority should be willing to compromise,” she said. “I think that’s just basic courtesy. ” “We get special requests from religious groups all the time and we try to honor them whenever possible,” he said, noting that the school has designated spaces for Muslim and Hindu students to pray. The special hours allow the Muslim women, who adhere to traditional dress codes by covering their hair and most of their skin while in public, to dress more appropriately for exercising, said Susan Marine, director of the women’s center.

Is this how we are to assimilate into the Muslim community? Where Muslims are the majority, are they willing to compromise?

Help ’em to grow up with large, cuddly versions of e.coli, influenza and Ebola viruses and bacteria.

Thanks, Pat

Scales from the skin of a shark. These sharply pointed placoid scales are also known as dermal teeth or denticles. They give the shark’s skin the feel of sandpaper. The tip of each scale is made of dentine overlayed with dental enamel. The lower part of each scale is made of bone. The scales disrupt turbulence over the skin, considerably reducing the drag on the shark as it swims. This design has been investigated by engineers for use on the surfaces of aircraft and boats.

The other nine photos are at eMazings.com.

Countrywide Said to Be Subject of Federal Criminal Inquiry – New York Times Why isn’t anyone asked the question: What good is Sarbanes-Oxley if this could so easily happen?

The federal authorities have opened a criminal inquiry into Countrywide Financial for suspected securities fraud as part of the continuing fallout over the mortgage crisis, government officials with knowledge of the case said on Saturday.

The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are looking at whether officials at Countrywide, the nation’s largest mortgage lender, misrepresented its financial condition and the soundness of its loans in security filings, the officials said.

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Tomorrow a young man in traditional white robe and headdress will walk out through the iron gates of an anonymous low-rise compound down a gravel lane behind a Lebanese restaurant, 30 minutes’ drive from the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh…

The compound is the latest weapon of the Saudi Arabian government in the ‘war on terror‘, a rehabilitation centre where young men spend months being ‘deradicalised’. The two al-Ghatanis will leave behind another 12 or so inmates – or ‘students’ as the psychologists, sociologists and clerics working with them prefer – who also travelled, or tried to travel, to Iraq. Under treatment are another dozen men who have recently been repatriated from Guantánamo Bay. No one will leave the centre until they are deemed no further threat to society…