A female flight attendant has been suspended by Qantas after an “in-flight incident” with the actor Ralph Fiennes, the Australian airline said yesterday.
The star of The English Patient and Schindler’s List allegedly became “amorous” with Lisa Robertson, 38, in a lavatory on a flight from Australia to India last month.
At least two crew members saw the pair leave the cubicle within moments of each other during the flight from Darwin to Mumbai on Jan 24.
“The flight attendant has been stood down following an in-flight incident,” a Qantas spokesman said. “She is in the middle of a disciplinary process and the case is still panning out.”
Three days of intense debate over the Iraq war begins in the House today, with Democrats planning to propose a narrowly worded rebuke of President Bush’s troop buildup and Republicans girding for broad defections on their side.
Both parties will jockey for prime time before the C-SPAN cameras, with leaders claiming the best time slots and rank-and-file members trying to make the most of the five minutes each will be allotted. If all 435 House members use their five minutes, debate will last 36 hours. It is likely to begin by late morning and run until midnight tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. A vote is expected Friday.
After watching their counterparts in the Senate stall and sputter last week, unable to agree on ground rules for a debate on Iraq, House leaders are forging ahead, determined to send a statement to the White House to condemn a troop buildup.
Democrats will file a nonbinding resolution against the Bush plan while Republicans will try to broaden the dispute and seed doubt in the Democratic approach…
Good luck sowing those doubts, members of the GOP. The majority of the American public wants out of Iraq, now.
Using a map of more than 4,000 luminous quasars in the distant universe 10 billion light years away, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have shown that these brilliant beacons are strongly clumped, with huge quasar superclusters separated by vast stretches of empty space. The strong clustering shows that the quasars lie within massive concentrations of dark matter.
Methane gas bubbling through seafloor sediments has created hundreds of low hills on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. These enigmatic features, which can grow up to 40 meters (130 feet) tall and several hundred meters across, have puzzled scientists ever since they were first discovered in the 1940s. Researchers believe buried hydrates might be decomposing and releasing large amounts of methane gas. This seemed possible because the seafloor in this area has been gradually warming over the last 10,000 years, after being flooded as sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. The features are growing in response to warming that started thousands of years ago. Thus, their growth is not a result of human-induced global warming. However, the research shows features are still growing and releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, today.
Sleep deprivation can severely hamper the brain’s ability to learn, a new study demonstrates. The experiment showed that people who fail to get a good night’s sleep before studying new information remember roughly 10% less than their well-rested counterparts. The researchers say it is “a worrying finding” considering the average amount of sleep people get each night is decreasing.
Governments agreed to phase out the use of toxic mercury in industries ranging from mining to chemicals manufacture and power generation on Friday, breaking a deadlock at a major United Nations environment meeting in Kenya. However, the US and India – wait, wait, – you guess it! – rejected the idea of a binding treaty, (some people just have problems with commitment) preferring more flexible voluntary partnerships aimed at helping developing countries cut their use of the toxic metal.
Six major automakers told new California Attorney General Jerry Brown (yes, that Jerry Brown) that their lawyers were ready to discuss improving vehicle fuel efficiency but that he should dismiss the state’s greenhouse gas damage suit. But the automakers so far have given no indication that they will drop the industry’s suit against California’s tailpipe emissions rules. (What, you want them to play fair?)
I don’t recall how many international conferences like this have happened since bush took office but have we signed any treaty like this at all since he has been in office? My guess would be that the only thing we’ve become a leader in at this point is how many treaties we have refused to sign.
“Writer Naomi Ragen and other women of Jerusalem go to court against Jewish fundamentalists who they say have harassed, taunted and even physically assaulted women on public buses. In ultraorthodox neighborhoods, some men try to force women to sit in the back of buses and make them abstain from wearing immodest clothing. Eric Westervelt reports.”
“The fact is, of course, our Founding Fathers, those geniuses in gray wigs, knew exactly what they were doing. They knew that power corrupts and that the power of the government to invade a person’s property, belongings and beliefs constitutes the power to control. They understood that if government enjoyed absolute power to invade or take away a person’s privacy, then the government enjoyed absolute control over that person, who therefore had no liberty or freedom. It’s that simple.
At the time the Bill of Rights was being debated and adopted, and in the first few years thereafter, the United States faced a threat far greater than that posed by potential terrorist cells today. We faced invasion and conquest by the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth: Great Britain.
Yet, in the face of such a threat, our framers deliberately and knowingly limited the ability of the government to invade people’s privacy and gather evidence against them. The Fourth Amendment allows government to do so only in those instances in which it has good reason to suspect the person of criminal acts (yes, that includes suspected “terrorist” conduct). To claim that the limitations in the Fourth Amendment do not apply in the year 2007 because the threat we face is somehow different from or worse than the threat we faced two and a quarter centuries ago is at odds with historical reality; it is mere sophistry.”[.]
Why are these ultra-religious men always obsessing about what the women are doing? Maybe they should get control of their own selves (and thoughts) instead…
Reaction to psychological impotence?
“I have no power…I have no free will…But I need power. I need someone to feel superior to…so find me someone with darker skin, someone without a gang of bullies at their side…or some woman that will bow to me…”
They have to take the onus off their own stupid thoughts/actions and use the excuse of women’s clothing etc so they have someone to blame when they can’t control themselves..see not our fault it’s the evil women that made us do it cause they weren’t dressed right or whatever excuse they choose to use.
That and the whole domination thing which must really be some form of psychological problem in itself.
Someone said that ‘fun’damentalists really take the fun out of fundamental. No fun and they are all mental cases.
I’ve been wondering if Obama was tough enough to enter the real world of this campaign. His quote today re: the remarks of the Australian prime minister convinced me:
If he’s ginned up to fight the good fight in Iraq, let him send 20,000 Australians there…otherwise it’s just empty rhetoric.
I have to say, his handling of the “Are you black enough?” question last night on 60 Minutes impressed me enough that I’m going to have to flip through his book now and fins out a little more about him.
Prague – Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis, Czech media reported Friday. Klaus told the Hospodarske noviny daily that the panel did not include “neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists.”
“These are politicized scientists who arrive there with one-sided opinion and assignment,” he told interviewers.
According to the Czech president, “each serious person and scientist” says that global warming is a myth.
[Who knew Fox News was available by satellite in Prague?]
Did he give a list of these ‘serious persons and scientists’? Didn’t think so.
Hey I’m a serious person and I say global warming IS real so does that mean I can be taken seriously cause you know I’m a serious kind of person who seriously believes that we have a serious problem on our hands. No seriously like I’m really serious about this.
all the reporting on Anna Nicole or Ralph Fiennes Mile-High Exploits:
Unreal.
Meanwhile, back in Iran…
begins in the house today: WashPo
Good luck sowing those doubts, members of the GOP. The majority of the American public wants out of Iraq, now.
Using a map of more than 4,000 luminous quasars in the distant universe 10 billion light years away, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have shown that these brilliant beacons are strongly clumped, with huge quasar superclusters separated by vast stretches of empty space. The strong clustering shows that the quasars lie within massive concentrations of dark matter.
Methane gas bubbling through seafloor sediments has created hundreds of low hills on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. These enigmatic features, which can grow up to 40 meters (130 feet) tall and several hundred meters across, have puzzled scientists ever since they were first discovered in the 1940s. Researchers believe buried hydrates might be decomposing and releasing large amounts of methane gas. This seemed possible because the seafloor in this area has been gradually warming over the last 10,000 years, after being flooded as sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. The features are growing in response to warming that started thousands of years ago. Thus, their growth is not a result of human-induced global warming. However, the research shows features are still growing and releasing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, today.
Here’s a story from January 10 – on the latest psychological research into procrastination…
Global warming factoid du jour: Tokyo on Sunday set a record for its longest snowless winter amid growing worldwide concerns about global warming, meteorologists said. The metropolitan area of the capital has not had snow this season, making it the longest snowless winter since statistics were first kept in 1876.
Sleep deprivation can severely hamper the brain’s ability to learn, a new study demonstrates. The experiment showed that people who fail to get a good night’s sleep before studying new information remember roughly 10% less than their well-rested counterparts. The researchers say it is “a worrying finding” considering the average amount of sleep people get each night is decreasing.
Governments agreed to phase out the use of toxic mercury in industries ranging from mining to chemicals manufacture and power generation on Friday, breaking a deadlock at a major United Nations environment meeting in Kenya. However, the US and India – wait, wait, – you guess it! – rejected the idea of a binding treaty, (some people just have problems with commitment) preferring more flexible voluntary partnerships aimed at helping developing countries cut their use of the toxic metal.
The loss of ice cover along the coast of Antarctica with future global warming may result in changes to the oceanic food chain, as exposure to sunlight will result in more growth of algae in an ecosystem that, now shrouded in darkness and cold, more resembles that of the seep sea.
Six major automakers told new California Attorney General Jerry Brown (yes, that Jerry Brown) that their lawyers were ready to discuss improving vehicle fuel efficiency but that he should dismiss the state’s greenhouse gas damage suit. But the automakers so far have given no indication that they will drop the industry’s suit against California’s tailpipe emissions rules. (What, you want them to play fair?)
That should read “the deep sea” not “the seep sea” in the next to last story…
I love the procrastination story: “We really meant to post this sooner…”
🙂
I don’t recall how many international conferences like this have happened since bush took office but have we signed any treaty like this at all since he has been in office? My guess would be that the only thing we’ve become a leader in at this point is how many treaties we have refused to sign.
Heard on NPR, Morning Edition Israel’s ‘Rosa Parks’ fight Talebanization by ultra orthodox men.
Privacy or Protection? -Bob Barr, former Congressman, GA
Why are these ultra-religious men always obsessing about what the women are doing? Maybe they should get control of their own selves (and thoughts) instead…
Reaction to psychological impotence?
“I have no power…I have no free will…But I need power. I need someone to feel superior to…so find me someone with darker skin, someone without a gang of bullies at their side…or some woman that will bow to me…”
you’re close….it’s part of the control thingy.
They have to take the onus off their own stupid thoughts/actions and use the excuse of women’s clothing etc so they have someone to blame when they can’t control themselves..see not our fault it’s the evil women that made us do it cause they weren’t dressed right or whatever excuse they choose to use.
That and the whole domination thing which must really be some form of psychological problem in itself.
Someone said that ‘fun’damentalists really take the fun out of fundamental. No fun and they are all mental cases.
I’ve been wondering if Obama was tough enough to enter the real world of this campaign. His quote today re: the remarks of the Australian prime minister convinced me:
OK, I’m in.
I have to say, his handling of the “Are you black enough?” question last night on 60 Minutes impressed me enough that I’m going to have to flip through his book now and fins out a little more about him.
the next Vice-President.
Turns out the President of the Czech Republic is a Kool-Aid drinker and scientific soul-mate to our Fearless Leader W:
Prague – Czech president Vaclav Klaus has criticized the UN panel on global warming, claiming that it was a political authority without any scientific basis, Czech media reported Friday. Klaus told the Hospodarske noviny daily that the panel did not include “neutral scientists, a balanced group of scientists.”
“These are politicized scientists who arrive there with one-sided opinion and assignment,” he told interviewers.
According to the Czech president, “each serious person and scientist” says that global warming is a myth.
[Who knew Fox News was available by satellite in Prague?]
Did he give a list of these ‘serious persons and scientists’? Didn’t think so.
Hey I’m a serious person and I say global warming IS real so does that mean I can be taken seriously cause you know I’m a serious kind of person who seriously believes that we have a serious problem on our hands. No seriously like I’m really serious about this.
Daily Mail (UK) headline:
(Sorry…couldn’t resist, cabingirl.)
Extry, extry, read all about it!!!
I got yer news, right HERE!!!
AG
Damn! Now everyone knows!
Oh, the shame…
Oh…don’t be ashamed. cabingirl.
In a starfucker society like this one…why, IT’S THE IN THING!!!
AG
You mean I’m just like everybody else? But Ralph told me I was special! :::sob:::
We all get our 15…seconds…of specialness.
AG