Ronald Reagan Quotes:

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."

"Well, I learned a lot....I went down to (Latin America) to find out from them and (learn) their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries"

"Facts are stupid things." –at the 1988 Republican National Convention, attempting to quote John Adams, who said, "Facts are stubborn things."

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles."

"The state of California has no business subsidizing intellectual curiosity." –responding to student protests on college campuses during his tenure as California governor

"We are trying to get unemployment to go up, and I think we're going to succeed."

"How are you, Mr. Mayor? I'm glad to meet you. How are things in your city?" –greeting Samual Pierce, his secretary of Housing and Urban Development, during a White House reception for mayors.

"My name is Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" –introducing himself after delivering a prep school commencement address. The individual responded, "I'm your son, Mike," to which Reagan replied, "Oh, I didn't recognize you."

"What does an actor know about politics?" –criticizing Ed Asner for opposing American foreign policy.

                                    Brigham and harem

Some dubious figures acquire 'hero' status in Mormon faith

Report: Wal-Mart growth often subsidized by taxpayers

By Thomas Wilson
STAR STAFF
twilson@starhq.com

   Wal-Mart Stores have enjoyed more than $1 billion in economic development subsidies from state and local governments across the United States, according to a new study released by Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C.-based research group.

The subsidy deals for individual distribution centers ranged as high as $46 million (with an average of $7.4 million), while for retail outlets the largest was $12 million (with an average of $2.8 million).

 Wal-Mart reported annual revenues of $258 billion for 2003. The company's net profit for the past year exceeded $9 billion.

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A captain and two senior officers of a cargo ship have been detained by Spanish police after they allegedly cast four Senegalese stowaways adrift. The stowaways became castaways when they were forced by the officers into a   one-man raft and then cast adrift.

Apparently, the officers were trying to save money as they would have had to pay for the repatriation of the stowaways if it had docked with them on board. Now the stowaways can only survive if they are spotted by a passing ship. Their last known position was over 1,000 km south of the Canary Islands. The captain and officers were arrested when their ship, the Wisteria,   docked in a Spanish port. 

-Bizarre News

Philadelphia Police Say Dog Ate Man

Concerned Relatives Call Police

Police and family members entered the house and found Burt Burhart's remains scattered throughout the first floor of his rowhouse.

Burhart's dog, Buddy, had apparently eaten some of the remains.

Relatives say every time they came to his door Burhart would scream at them, "Go away, I'm fine."

Burhart's family said he got Buddy about six months ago for companionship. Despite what happened, nobody seems to blame the dog.

Royal funeral for pickled heart

Thursday, June 3, 2004 Posted: 8:08 AM EDT (1208 GMT)

	Royal heart: "A wound in the history of France"

PARIS, France (AP) -- The heart of the 10-year-old heir to France's throne was cut from his body when he died in prison, pickled, stolen, returned, and DNA-tested two centuries later.

Next week, Louis XVII's heart will be placed in France's royal crypt north of Paris now that genetic testing has persuaded many historians that the tiny petrified heart is almost certainly the real thing.

Louis XVII lost his parents to the guillotine.

He was locked in Paris' Temple prison for three years -- for part of that time, in solitary confinement in a darkened cell, without anyone to wash him or clean up after him.

The boy finally died of tuberculosis in 1795, his body reportedly ravaged by tumors and scabies.

The child's corpse was dumped in a common grave -- but first, a doctor secretly carved out his heart in keeping with a tradition of preserving royal hearts separate from their bodies.

The doctor smuggled it away in a handkerchief and kept it as a curiosity.

London ducks quack it louder

Ex-cook is charged with tainting food
By William Lamb
Of the Post-Dispatch
06/03/2004

A former night-shift cook at the Denny's restaurant on Illinois Route 3 in Waterloo has been charged with aggravated battery.

Police said that Anthony J. Lindhorst, 26, of Waterloo, deliberately contaminated food on at least two occasions by putting his semen into the honey-mustard dressing that the restaurant serves with its chicken strips.

Lindhorst worked at the restaurant for about a year until he was fired in April for bringing brownies to work that he had baked with marijuana. Lindhorst served the brownies to two co-workers and that two of the aggravated battery charges stem from that incident.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2004
It Happened Here First: Exporting America's Most Notorious Prison Officials to Abu Ghraib 

One man ran a prison system in Utah where a 29-year-old schizophrenic died after he was stripped naked and strapped to a restraining chair for 16 hours.

Another man ran the system in Arizona where 14 women were raped, sodomized or assaulted by prison guards.

Another ran Connecticut's prison system where at least two people died after being severely beaten.

All of the men who ran these prison systems were forced out by lawsuits or political controversy. But rather than being sent to prison themselves, these men were sent to Iraq by the US government to set up the prisons there.

Over the past few weeks, Seymour Hersh revealed that the torture at Abu Ghraib was part of a Pentagon-approved Black Ops program authorized by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Martha 101: Teaching Housecleaning To The Poor
Dan Ackman, 06.01.04, 9:54 AM ET

NEW YORK -  As part of an effort to reduce her presumptive jail sentence Martha Stewart wants to teach women how to tidy other people's homes, and their hotel rooms.

Stewart recently approached the Women's Venture Fund (WVF), a New York nonprofit, offering to work 20 hours a week teaching low-income and minority women to become entrepreneurs, according to Newsweek. The magazine says the domestic diva even created her own "curriculum" to teach "the art and science of cleaning."

Stewart will ask U.S. District Judge Miriam Cedarbaum to cut her prison time so she can work at WVF instead. This strategy would go into effect if her plea for a new trial fails.

At her trial, witnesses said Stewart employed dozens of maids, gardeners and others to attend to her several homes

Good help was hard to find and, according to Newsweek, the cleaning-service idea comes from her own experience of having difficulty finding employees to clean her estates.