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Van Halen on tour is:

Eddie Van Halen – lead guitar

Alex Van Halen – drums

Michael Anthony – bass

David Lee Roth Sammy Hagar David Lee Roth Gary Cherone Sammy Hagar – lead vocals

Right Now, baby. Right Now.

California Assemblyman Proposes Building Standards that Promote Feng Shui

When California State Assemblyman Leland Y. Yee recently proposed a resolution urging the California Building Standards Commission (CBSC) to adopt building standards that promote Feng Shui – a Chinese practice in which a structure or site is chosen or configured so as to harmonize with the spiritual forces that inhabit it – in the California Building Standards Code, his office didn’t even think interest in the resolution warranted a simple press release. The fact that the resolution has spawned a controversy, garnering press coverage as far away as South Africa and Australia, proves just how provocative this 4,000-year-old design method is.

More pretty.

Okay, so, the question of what current U.S. administration officials did or didn’t say in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War has now taken center stage. (Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, on the March 14, 2004 FACE THE NATION, in response to a question about his use of the phrase “imminent threat” in relation to Iraq: “Well, you’re the — you and a few other critics are the only people I’ve heard use the phrase ‘immediate threat’. I didn’t. The president didn’t. And it’s become kind of folklore that that’s — that’s what’s happened.”) (PDF transcript of 3/14 FTN here.)

The public’s thanks, then, are due to Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), for commissioning a report entitled “Iraq On the Record: The Bush Administration’s Public Statements On Iraq”. Further thanks are due the Congressman for making it a searchable database containing statements made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Powell, National Security Adviser Rice, and Rumsfeld himself.

Next!

credit Aaron Veenstra with the find…

Too good to pass up. From the NYPress:

“Traditionally, Jack Chick Publications produce baseball-card-sized religious comic books. Who would have guessed they would make the feel-good movie of the year?

“Their DVD debut, The Light of the World, is a series of paintings strung together under voiceover narration, similar to a Ken Burns documentary. It’s a hodgepodge of Biblical and Chick comic book storylines, presented in lurid color and jarring voiceover. The movie is creepy and obviously aimed at elementary school children; imagine Mr. Rogers reading Slayer lyrics.

“The first chapter is a goofy retelling of Genesis. Adam is nondescript; Eve is an idealized 50s housewife, all round, rosy-cheeked and pleasantly vacant. Satan is a rainbow-colored snakeman who could work nights as a comic book villain. Eve gets Vampirella’s eyebrows after she eats the plum-tomato-like fruit of evil.”

And it just gets better from there.

found by peter over at artblog

LAS VEGAS – Charles A. McCoy Jr., suspected in two dozen sniper shootings that have terrorized motorists along Ohio highways, was arrested at a Las Vegas motel early Wednesday, authorities said.

“We got him in custody without incident,” said Las Vegas police Lt. Christopher Van Cleef.

Van Cleef said McCoy, 28, was arrested at a motel near the Stardust casino Wednesday, two days after he was named as a suspect in the two dozen Columbus-area shootings.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police were hunting for a 28-year-old man who they believe may be the elusive gunman linked to two dozen highway shootings that have terrorized area motorists for months.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect, Charles A. McCoy Jr., lived within miles of where the gunman’s bullets killed a passenger, shattered windshields, dented school buses and drilled into homes and a school.

“The key issue for us right now is to locate this guy,” Chief Deputy Steve Martin said. “We believe he bought another gun.”

…”I don’t know if he’s still local,” Martin said. “We don’t have any reason to believe he’s not.”

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…except, perhaps, his picture being plastered over every major news outlet in Franklin County…