Suit: NBA Player Watching Porn, Drunk Before Crash
Claim Targets Minnesota Timberwolves' Eddie Griffin
(CBS) MINNEAPOLIS On March 30, Minnesota Timberwolves center Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash.WCCO-TV obtained copies of 911 calls and store surveillance video of the incident, along with an accident report the police submitted to the state, reports WCCO-TV's Caroline Lowe.Several of the 911 callers that night said Griffin was drunk. One witness said Griffin told him he was watching pornography in a DVD player mounted on the dashboard of his Cadillac Escalade SUV when he struck a Chevy Suburban parked on University Avenue Southeast.
Friday, June 30, 2006
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"I have collected the most common arguments made by irrational people into a handy reference guide and titled it "You are Wrong Because." Select the irrational arguments that apply to your situation and give the generated URL to the person who is bugging you. Look smug, as though this were conclusive evidence of your rightness. A rational person might point out that just because something is on a website doesn't make it so. But since you're not giving the list to anyone with that much insight, it doesn't really matter. What matters is that you will feel as though you brought closure to a potentially frustrating situation."
Amazingly Bad Analogy Example: You can train a dog to fetch a stick. Therefore, you can train a potato to dance.
Faulty Cause and Effect Example: On the basis of my observations, wearing huge trousers makes you fat.
I am the World Example: I don't listen to country music. Therefore, country music is not popular.
The Few are the Same as the Whole Example: Some Elbonians are animal rights activists. Some Elbonians wear fur coats. Therefore, Elbonians are hypocrites.
Generalizing from Self Example: I'm a liar. Therefore, I don't believe what you're saying.
Argument by Bizarre Definition Example: He's not a criminal. He just does things that are against the law.
Total Logical Disconnect Example: I enjoy pasta because my house is made of bricks.
Judging Things Without Comparison to Alternatives Example: I don't invest in US Treasury bills. There's too much risk.
Anything You Don't Understand is Easy to Do Example: If you have the right tools, how hard could it be to generate nuclear fission at home?
Ignorance of statistics Example: I'm putting ALL of my money on the lottery this week because the jackpot is so big.
Ignoring the Downside Risk Example: I know that bungee jumping could kill me, but it's three seconds of great fun!
Substituting Famous Quotes for Common Sense Example: Remember, "All good things come to those who wait." So don't bother looking for a job.
Irrelevant Comparisons Example: A hundred dollars is a good price for a toaster, compared to buying a Ferrari.
Circular Reasoning Example: I'm correct because I'm smarter than you. And I must be smarter than you because I'm correct.
Incompleteness as Proof of Defect Example: Your theory of gravity doesn't address the question of why there are no unicorns, so it must be wrong.
Ignoring the Advice of Experts Without Good Reason Example: Sure, the experts think you shouldn't ride a bicycle into the eye of a hurricane, but I have my own theory.
Following the Advice of Known Idiots Example: Uncle Billy says pork makes you smarter. That's good enough for me!
Reaching Bizarre Conclusions Without Any Information Example: the car won't start. I'm certain the spark plugs have been stolen by rogue clowns.
Faulty Pattern Recognition Example: His last six wives were murdered mysteriously. I hope to be wife number seven.
Failure to Recognise what's Important Example: My house is on fire! Quick, call the post office and tell them to hold my mail!
Unclear on the concept of sunk costs Example: We've spent millions developing a water-powered pogo stick. We can't stop investing now or it will all be wasted.
Overapplication of Occam's Razor (Which says that the simplest explanation is usually right)Example: The simplest explanation for the moon landings is that they were hoaxes.
Ignoring all Anecdotal Evidence Example: I always get hives immediately after eating strawberries. But withouta scientifically controlled experiment, it's not reliable data. So I continue to eat strawberries every day, since I can't tell if they cause hives.
Inability to Understand That Some Things Have Multiple Causes Example: The Beatles were popular for one reason only: They were good singers.
Judging the Whole by One of Its Characteristics Example: The sun causes sunburns. Therefore, the planet would be better off without the sun.
Blinding Flashes of the Obvious Example: If everyone had more money, we could eliminate poverty
Blaming the tool Example: I bought an encyclopaedia but I'm still stupid. This encyclopaedia must be defective.
Hallicinations of Reality Example: I got my facts from a talking tree.
Taking Things to Their Illogical Conclusion Example: If you let your barber cut your hair, the next thing you know he'll be lopping off your limbs!
Failure to Understand Why Rules Don't Have Exceptions Example: It should be legal to shoplift, as long as you don't take enough to hurt the company's earnings.
Proof by Lack of Evidence Example: I've never seen you drunk, so you must be one of those Amish people.
Amazingly Bad Analogy Example: You can train a dog to fetch a stick. Therefore, you can train a potato to dance.
Faulty Cause and Effect Example: On the basis of my observations, wearing huge trousers makes you fat.
I am the World Example: I don't listen to country music. Therefore, country music is not popular.
The Few are the Same as the Whole Example: Some Elbonians are animal rights activists. Some Elbonians wear fur coats. Therefore, Elbonians are hypocrites.
Generalizing from Self Example: I'm a liar. Therefore, I don't believe what you're saying.
Argument by Bizarre Definition Example: He's not a criminal. He just does things that are against the law.
Total Logical Disconnect Example: I enjoy pasta because my house is made of bricks.
Judging Things Without Comparison to Alternatives Example: I don't invest in US Treasury bills. There's too much risk.
Anything You Don't Understand is Easy to Do Example: If you have the right tools, how hard could it be to generate nuclear fission at home?
Ignorance of statistics Example: I'm putting ALL of my money on the lottery this week because the jackpot is so big.
Ignoring the Downside Risk Example: I know that bungee jumping could kill me, but it's three seconds of great fun!
Substituting Famous Quotes for Common Sense Example: Remember, "All good things come to those who wait." So don't bother looking for a job.
Irrelevant Comparisons Example: A hundred dollars is a good price for a toaster, compared to buying a Ferrari.
Circular Reasoning Example: I'm correct because I'm smarter than you. And I must be smarter than you because I'm correct.
Incompleteness as Proof of Defect Example: Your theory of gravity doesn't address the question of why there are no unicorns, so it must be wrong.
Ignoring the Advice of Experts Without Good Reason Example: Sure, the experts think you shouldn't ride a bicycle into the eye of a hurricane, but I have my own theory.
Following the Advice of Known Idiots Example: Uncle Billy says pork makes you smarter. That's good enough for me!
Reaching Bizarre Conclusions Without Any Information Example: the car won't start. I'm certain the spark plugs have been stolen by rogue clowns.
Faulty Pattern Recognition Example: His last six wives were murdered mysteriously. I hope to be wife number seven.
Failure to Recognise what's Important Example: My house is on fire! Quick, call the post office and tell them to hold my mail!
Unclear on the concept of sunk costs Example: We've spent millions developing a water-powered pogo stick. We can't stop investing now or it will all be wasted.
Overapplication of Occam's Razor (Which says that the simplest explanation is usually right)Example: The simplest explanation for the moon landings is that they were hoaxes.
Ignoring all Anecdotal Evidence Example: I always get hives immediately after eating strawberries. But withouta scientifically controlled experiment, it's not reliable data. So I continue to eat strawberries every day, since I can't tell if they cause hives.
Inability to Understand That Some Things Have Multiple Causes Example: The Beatles were popular for one reason only: They were good singers.
Judging the Whole by One of Its Characteristics Example: The sun causes sunburns. Therefore, the planet would be better off without the sun.
Blinding Flashes of the Obvious Example: If everyone had more money, we could eliminate poverty
Blaming the tool Example: I bought an encyclopaedia but I'm still stupid. This encyclopaedia must be defective.
Hallicinations of Reality Example: I got my facts from a talking tree.
Taking Things to Their Illogical Conclusion Example: If you let your barber cut your hair, the next thing you know he'll be lopping off your limbs!
Failure to Understand Why Rules Don't Have Exceptions Example: It should be legal to shoplift, as long as you don't take enough to hurt the company's earnings.
Proof by Lack of Evidence Example: I've never seen you drunk, so you must be one of those Amish people.
A Wall Street Journal Editorial rips the New York Times for letting their hatred for Bush take precedence over the security of their own country: Fit and Unfit to Print.
After being asked by several administration officials not to publish the SWIFT story...
The Times decided to publish anyway, letting Mr. Fratto know about its decision a week ago Wednesday. The Times agreed to delay publishing by a day to give Mr. Fratto a chance to bring the appropriate Treasury official home from overseas. Based on his own discussions with Times reporters and editors, Mr. Fratto says he believed “they had about 80% of the story, but they had about 30% of it wrong.” So the Administration decided that, in the interest of telling a more complete and accurate story, they would declassify a series of talking points about the program. They discussed those with the Times the next day, June 22.
Around the same time, Treasury contacted Journal reporter Glenn Simpson to offer him the same declassified information. Mr. Simpson has been working the terror finance beat for some time, including asking questions about the operations of Swift, and it is a common practice in Washington for government officials to disclose a story that is going to become public anyway to more than one reporter. Our guess is that Treasury also felt Mr. Simpson would write a straighter story than the Times, which was pushing a violation-of-privacy angle; on our reading of the two June 23 stories, he did. ...
We suspect that the Times has tried to use the Journal as its political heatshield precisely because it knows our editors have more credibility on these matters.
As Alexander Bickel wrote, the relationship between government and the press in the free society is an inevitable and essential contest. The government needs a certain amount of secrecy to function, especially on national security, and the press in its watchdog role tries to discover what it can. The government can’t expect total secrecy, Bickel writes, “but the game similarly calls on the press to consider the responsibilities that its position implies. Not everything is fit to print.” The obligation of the press is to take the government seriously when it makes a request not to publish. Is the motive mainly political? How important are the national security concerns? And how do those concerns balance against the public’s right to know?
The problem with the Times is that millions of Americans no longer believe that its editors would make those calculations in anything close to good faith. We certainly don’t. On issue after issue, it has become clear that the Times believes the U.S. is not really at war, and in any case the Bush Administration lacks the legitimacy to wage it.
After being asked by several administration officials not to publish the SWIFT story...
The Times decided to publish anyway, letting Mr. Fratto know about its decision a week ago Wednesday. The Times agreed to delay publishing by a day to give Mr. Fratto a chance to bring the appropriate Treasury official home from overseas. Based on his own discussions with Times reporters and editors, Mr. Fratto says he believed “they had about 80% of the story, but they had about 30% of it wrong.” So the Administration decided that, in the interest of telling a more complete and accurate story, they would declassify a series of talking points about the program. They discussed those with the Times the next day, June 22.
Around the same time, Treasury contacted Journal reporter Glenn Simpson to offer him the same declassified information. Mr. Simpson has been working the terror finance beat for some time, including asking questions about the operations of Swift, and it is a common practice in Washington for government officials to disclose a story that is going to become public anyway to more than one reporter. Our guess is that Treasury also felt Mr. Simpson would write a straighter story than the Times, which was pushing a violation-of-privacy angle; on our reading of the two June 23 stories, he did. ...
We suspect that the Times has tried to use the Journal as its political heatshield precisely because it knows our editors have more credibility on these matters.
As Alexander Bickel wrote, the relationship between government and the press in the free society is an inevitable and essential contest. The government needs a certain amount of secrecy to function, especially on national security, and the press in its watchdog role tries to discover what it can. The government can’t expect total secrecy, Bickel writes, “but the game similarly calls on the press to consider the responsibilities that its position implies. Not everything is fit to print.” The obligation of the press is to take the government seriously when it makes a request not to publish. Is the motive mainly political? How important are the national security concerns? And how do those concerns balance against the public’s right to know?
The problem with the Times is that millions of Americans no longer believe that its editors would make those calculations in anything close to good faith. We certainly don’t. On issue after issue, it has become clear that the Times believes the U.S. is not really at war, and in any case the Bush Administration lacks the legitimacy to wage it.
Hasselhoff Injured
Actor David Hasselhoff was rushed to a London hospital on Thursday after slicing his hand open during a bathroom accident. The 53-year-old Baywatch star, who is currently in the British capital to shoot an advertising campaign, was taken from his hotel to St. Thomas' Hospital for emergency surgery. Hasselhoff severe a tendon on shards from a glass shelf, which he accidentally smashed on the restroom wall while shaving. A hospital aide tells British newspaper The Sun, "David was about to shave when he hit his head on a shelf, which shattered. His hand was cut quite badly."
Thursday, June 29, 2006
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5625
Gore’s Grave New WorldJune 29th, 2006
Imagine, if you can, a modern society in which scientists positing theories contrary to those accepted by agents of the government are declared heretics and swiftly punished. Ray Bradbury imagined one in his novel Fahrenheit 451, as did Pierre Boulle in Planet of the Apes. Unfortunately, Al Gore has also envisioned such a culture – ours.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5625
Imagine, if you can, a modern society in which scientists positing theories contrary to those accepted by agents of the government are declared heretics and swiftly punished. Ray Bradbury imagined one in his novel Fahrenheit 451, as did Pierre Boulle in Planet of the Apes. Unfortunately, Al Gore has also envisioned such a culture – ours.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5625
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