A man that was jailed for covertly taping a woman and a teenage girl has has brough a suit against a  police department to regain his vast porn collection confiscated during the investigation.

Dennis Saunders issued a lawsuit against San Rafael police  after the police refused to return some 500 pornographic movies and 250 smut magazines his attorney detailed as not relavent to the criminal case.

His attorney claims that theres no legal bias for witholding perfectly legal adult materials. He further contends the collection has a worth of more than 10,000 in video alone.

Saunders was placed under arrest in 2002 and legally charged with videotaping the 45-year-old woman and 16-year-old girl in their apartment. Saunders worked at the apartment complex. Saunders was convicted of 48 seperate crimes, and given more than 8 years in jail but got out early on good behavior.

The city’s lawyer said the police will comply under orders from a judge, and a ruling on whether its appropriate or even lawful to return the materials. Saunders has a record of peeping stemming from 1979.

George Bush has given specifics of a plan to assist Americans who could be losing their residences in the sub-prime crisis which has caused distress in money  markets worldwide.

Concern due to a credit crunch have disrupted stocks and increased borrowing costs all over the world, causing fears economic growth will be stunted.

The president said that people possessing loans who fall behind with their house payments would be asked if they want more protection.

By adding to the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), which backs up mortgage loans for low to middle income families, individuals with a beneficial credit/payment history who have dropped with their mortgage monthly disbursement would get some assistance to restructure their financial obligation at more favorable interest rates.

The presidents hope is that people who are currently struggling to refinance and reduce their regualr payments, and in that way keep their homes.

According to reports, the changes will allow another 80,000 homeowners to turn to the FHA, on top of the 160,000 who were already expected to use it this year and next.

The  crisis regarding sub-prime loans came about because borrowers loaned funds to people at low rates which speedily rose sharply, with people complaining about misunderstanding their loan.

The crisis moved to the credit sector on account of this debt was coupled  with other arrears and sold onward, causing perplexities over how vulnerable a multitude of financial institutions are to the critical issue at hand.

The president has claimed that the economy was strong enough make it through this, which the president said is just modest in size with relation the the size of the economy.He did note that if your family is having problems with their monthly payments it wouldn’t seem so modest.

Fires believed to have been set deliberately in due to the upcoming Greek elections have killed at least 44 people in the south of Greece.

Entire villages have been destroyed. The prime minister has declared a state of emergency . Allies in the European Union have pledged assistance.

Crews have retrieved burned bodies from residences, local media has the unofficial count at over 50.

Hospitals are overrun with people who have been badly burned, or have lung problems.

Officials had to close a major highway due to a new fire that sprang up near Athens International Airport. Many of the fires are focused in the South, but this new one is to the south east.

The prime minister has said he thinks the fires may have been caused by political extremists, in an effort to disrupt the elections.

The prime minister says that there can be no coincidence. He vows to punish the people who did this. He announced that a fund is set up to assist the victims, and remaining family members.

The hundreds of firefighters, soldiers, and water dropping planes have yet to begin to make a dent in the fires. They continue despite their best efforts.

Pakistan’s court decided today that the former leader Nawaz Sharif, who was sent into exile in 2000 after a military staged coup, could come back to the nation, in what may be a direct  defiance to Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

Sharif, who dislikes  the current government, heads one of the most powerful political campaigns against General Musharraf, and he desires to run opposite him for president in the upcoming elections.  The decision might  give fuel to the return to Pakistan of Benazir Bhutto, who was prime minister prior to Sharif, and has also been hiding and is a possible potential candidate to the presidency.

As a nemesis to both General Musharraf and Ms. Bhutto, Mr. Sharif’s return could force Washington to rethink their plan of backing the president as the pivot point of its war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the region, and many American officials’ desire to see the general and Ms. Bhutto in a  agreement  to share power in Pakistan.

DARPA has made driods that can pilot a plane during air to air refueling. This occurs when the fuel planes refuels an airborne jet, in flight. Its a technique  thats difficult at best.
Theoretically, an unmanned craft with the ability to air to air refuel would only need to land for occassional craft maintenance

In the past 12 months the droid pilots have successfully done an air to air refueling 11 times without any human input. The jet used in testing was an F18. The android was able to connect to the refueling jet in the toughest of conditions.

Not aonly could the robot pilot connect and take fuel in turbulence but even did so as the tanker was in a turn.
Human pilots have followed tankers through turns, but never connected during one.

Scientists have determined how to test the urine of an entire community using a small amount of sewer water from that city.

The isn’t to determine any single user of illicit drugs. It would instead enable federal agencies track drug patterns and spread across the country.

OSU scholars performed the tests on 10 unnamed cities for drugs, prescribed and otherwise, from the sewers. They were able to give a good idea of the consumed substances.The results were presented to the American Chemical Society in the city of Boston.

The government has tried testing the waterways to see if its possible to drug test a whole city, but the students have made much more progress.

The chemical seen most was caffeine.

   Two firefighters were killed and a half dozen others injured in a fire in an abandoned skyscraper adjacent to the Twin Towers site.

Smoke was seen from the fire and it panicked people concerned with toxicity.

These fears  appeared to be unwarranted.

It seems the NYC fire department keeps taking hits. We salute these fine men and the efforts they put forth and the risks they take.

The injured men are recovering well. The cause of the fire is not apparent.

The russian President said the reason they are resuming long range patrol flights is due to security threats.

Mr Putin said they had 14 bombers take off on Friday.

Moscow said its bombers began  training over the North Pole.

Russia has been conducting joint military training with the chinese.

Russia is complaining that we are too strong, and they appear to fear US aggression.

“Flights by other countries’ strategic aircraft continue and this creates certain problems for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation,” Putin said.

Russia stopped alot of its patrols due to inability to fuel their planes.

AT&T censored the popular band Pearl Jam.

At this past Lollapalooza AT&T played a pink floyd song during a song with lyrics that the media giant disagreed with. The Blue Room webcast that showed the concert to many many viewers was obfuscated.

When Pearl Jam was made aware of it, they posted a letter to all of their fans. Its available on their site. Whats more, I agree with them.

Pearl Jam is concerned about soemthing, and that something is media consolidation. SUppose that all the media corporations merge, in a sense, theres just one ISP, one tv station, one radio provider. And they dotn want a message to get to the masses, what then?

Hey as far as I know the constitution is still valid, and the bill of rights is intact…. But they cant sing a song because its not flattering to the white house?  Do i smell the “third reich”? Indeed, no apology, or court settlement can right this wrong. A grave action has occurred, and if you are remotely aware of it, then you shoudl be worried, very concerned.

Suppose theres no net nuetrality? Then your emails just get lost… They remove your ability to communicate, or edit your communications to serve their needs. I think the possibilities are great, and worse, just frightening. AT&T is a big player in global communications, and i think their actions are completely appalling and grievous.

Pearl Jam is referring to the event as a “wake up call.” I am inclined to agree.

the world produces more than enough food to sustain itself. In fact large quantities are wasted each year. The quantity of food isnt what makes world hunger, its world economy that does. People in other nations cant afford it, and a failed harvest is terrible because import costs are prohibitive.

But, you may wonder, the food will rot in our warehouses, why not just GIVE it to them. Simple. It would destroy the economy of an already struggling nation. In a nation where food is a great concern , the economies revolve around it, and their people will likely work in a food related industry. Farmers are very populous in a country like that. Others would work in a packaging or processing plant, etc.

Now take that same economic model, and add free food to it. Why would you buy food, if you could get free food? People wouldnt, and as a consequence, noone would farm, noone would be hired to package. Business would be bankrupted. Noone with jobs, and the government would have no tax money, degradation and war would soon follow.

Giving food to a third world nation would actually make them poorer…