Thursday, September 08, 2005
People who are undecided or unlikely to vote in this year's election could yet make a monkey of the political opinion polls, a Massey University expert says. Marketing lecturer Janet Hoek says these are the two critical things that the polls do not tell us but are the very things that could decide who wins on September 17. The undecideds, she said, could be genuinely undecided, just plain not interested or of the mind-your-own-business variety. If there are many of them, they could influence the polls in ways that are not being seen. As for the don't knows, Dr Hoek said their numbers were reflected in the rising number of people who had not voted since the first MMP election in 1996. Since then the no-vote has climbed by 11 per cent, so that by last election just over three-quarters of those eligible to vote did so.
California lawmakers surprised just about everybody by narrowly approving a gay marriage bill late Tuesday night. Members of the state Assembly voted 41-35 to approve openly gay Assemblyman Mark Leno's bill, AB 849, which removes references to "male" and "female" in the marriage code—and adds the phrase "two persons" to the definition of marriage, thereby allowing homosexual couples to wed. It is the first legislative body in the USA to back the idea as Massachusetts issued marriage licenses to gays and lesbians only after court rulings.
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0037841.cfm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050902/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage
The Bill may not yet make it into law, however, as many analysts believe Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will veto it.
Despite the devastation and ongoing suffering by thousands from Hurricane Katrina, homosexuals paraded on Bourbon Street in New Orleans over the weekend, and have rescheduled their "Southern Decadence" event for tomorrow. "It's New Orleans, man. We're going to celebrate," Matt Menold, a 23-year musician wearing a sombrero and a guitar slung on his back, told the Associated Press. "The shocking callousness of New Orleans' gay activists towards the severe suffering of its fellow citizens cannot be adequately articulated in a news report," says James Hartline, a former homosexual, who describes the "Southern Decadence" festival as being "replete with tens of thousands of men and women engaged in public nudity, prostitution, illegal drug use and destructive public S & M sex." "The idea that human beings are continuing to party while hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens are starving, dying and suffering from a multitude of sicknesses brings into focus the real lack of judgment that these constant advocates of special gay rights demonstrate in a time of crisis."
Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
A new Trojan horse program circulating around the internet this week appears to be on a moral mission to stamp out adult websites, according to security research firm Sophos. The Trojan, called Yusufali-A, monitors web surfing habits. When it spots an objectionable term such as "sex" or "exhibition," in the browser's title bar, it hides the website and instead pops up a message taken from the Koran. "Allah knows how ye move about and how ye dwell in your homes," reads part of the message. If the user does not quit the offending website, the Trojan will eventually display a message reading "Oh! NO i'm in the Cage" and force the computer to log out.
California lawmakers surprised just about everybody by narrowly approving a gay marriage bill late Tuesday night. Members of the state Assembly voted 41-35 to approve openly gay Assemblyman Mark Leno's bill, AB 849, which removes references to "male" and "female" in the marriage code—and adds the phrase "two persons" to the definition of marriage, thereby allowing homosexual couples to wed. It is the first legislative body in the USA to back the idea as Massachusetts issued marriage licenses to gays and lesbians only after court rulings.
http://www.family.org/cforum/news/a0037841.cfm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050902/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage
The Bill may not yet make it into law, however, as many analysts believe Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will veto it.
Despite the devastation and ongoing suffering by thousands from Hurricane Katrina, homosexuals paraded on Bourbon Street in New Orleans over the weekend, and have rescheduled their "Southern Decadence" event for tomorrow. "It's New Orleans, man. We're going to celebrate," Matt Menold, a 23-year musician wearing a sombrero and a guitar slung on his back, told the Associated Press. "The shocking callousness of New Orleans' gay activists towards the severe suffering of its fellow citizens cannot be adequately articulated in a news report," says James Hartline, a former homosexual, who describes the "Southern Decadence" festival as being "replete with tens of thousands of men and women engaged in public nudity, prostitution, illegal drug use and destructive public S & M sex." "The idea that human beings are continuing to party while hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens are starving, dying and suffering from a multitude of sicknesses brings into focus the real lack of judgment that these constant advocates of special gay rights demonstrate in a time of crisis."
Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
A new Trojan horse program circulating around the internet this week appears to be on a moral mission to stamp out adult websites, according to security research firm Sophos. The Trojan, called Yusufali-A, monitors web surfing habits. When it spots an objectionable term such as "sex" or "exhibition," in the browser's title bar, it hides the website and instead pops up a message taken from the Koran. "Allah knows how ye move about and how ye dwell in your homes," reads part of the message. If the user does not quit the offending website, the Trojan will eventually display a message reading "Oh! NO i'm in the Cage" and force the computer to log out.
