Want lots of sex? Don't feel bad about it

There's no sin in it -- God gave it to you, it's genetic.

The scientists, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examined the DNA of 148 healthy male and female university students and compared the results with questionnaires asking for the students' self-descriptions of their sexual desire, arousal and sexual function. They found a correlation between variants in a gene called the D4 receptor and the students' self-reports on sexuality.

The results suggest that low sexual desire might be a normal biological condition rather than a psychological problem, the researchers say. Further, it might be possible to develop drugs to alter sexual desire based on the new findings.

Hmm....It's sort of you're born in that way.

Bloomberg is now seriously for marriage equality

It's perticularly good to see people say something like this. Lots of people said they're not against gay marriage, but they're against to let the court legalizing gay marriage, and you never see them bring anything to the legislature. It seems Mickael Bloomberg is serious about the issue now.

"If the Court of Appeals rules that same-sex marriages are legal, then we'll perform them,” said the mayor. “If they rule the other way, our administration will begin working with the State Legislature for a new law that establishes marriage equality for all New Yorkers, and will do so in partnership with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the growing number of elected and civic leaders who stand with us.”

I'm somehow more pro legislative means, so there won't be a ground for those Constitutional ban folks to say there is a problem with activist judges.

Bib Laden's new tape

I forgot whose talk show I heard it from, saying you need to have plenty of leisure time to shoot a video. I'm not sure an audio tape is any better.

Osama bin Laden purportedly said in an audio tape Tuesday that neither Zacarias Moussaoui — the only person convicted in the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks — nor anyone held at Guantanamo had anything to do with the al-Qaida operation.

"He had no connection at all with Sept. 11," the speaker claiming to be bin Laden said in the tape posted on the Internet.

"I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission," he said, referring to the 19 hijackers.

Bin Laden also said that none of the hundreds of terror suspects held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved and most had no ties to al-Qaida.

"Our brothers in Guantanamo ... have no connection whatsoever to the events of Sept. 11," he said, adding that "some of them oppose al-Qaida's methods of calling to fight America."

The terror mastermind did indicate that two suspects had links to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon: "All the prisoners to date have no connection to the Sept. 11 events or knew anything about them, except for two of the brothers," bin Laden said. But he did not provide names or elaborate further and it wasn't possible to determine if or where they were held.

"Since Zacarias Moussaoui was still learning how to fly, he wasn't No. 20 in the group, as your government has claimed," bin Laden said.

That's quite some talking....

How much did AT&T involve with NSA

A lot. Via AMERICAblog and Wired,

In 2003 AT&T built "secret rooms" hidden deep in the bowels of its central offices in various cities, housing computer gear for a government spy operation which taps into the company's popular WorldNet service and the entire internet. These installations enable the government to look at every individual message on the internet and analyze exactly what people are doing. Documents showing the hardwire installation in San Francisco suggest that there are similar locations being installed in numerous other cities.

US Attorney General: it's "unclear" how my grandparents came to US

Oh....This is hilarious to see how Alberto Ganzales said it himself in the clip. "It's unclear, ...... it's just not clear." Comment from AMERICAblog:

How is it unclear? I mean, I know damn well how my grandparents came to the US - it's called a passport, and you read it and see if it did or didn't have a visa in it.

You know....It's almost always very clear if you came in legally, can be unclear only if undocumented, at least in my knowledge. It's a bit sad to see the Attorney General sitting there and talking about American dream while the whole debate is to restrain the immigration.

Common questions into heterosexuality

There was a questionaire distributed in Wisconsin to ask about some "fundamental" questions.

Some of the questions apparently were intended to make heterosexuals understand what it's like to be gay or lesbian. Those questions included: "What do you think caused your heterosexuality?" and "When did you decide you were heterosexual?"

and

"If you have never slept with someone of your same gender, then how do you know you wouldn't prefer it?"

No doubt it made a huge distubance. The intention was definitely good, and they do ask key questions, but to "ask" students to answer it is a bit too far. I think it's good for everyone to think about it though.

Bush to deploy troops at the border

He finally announced it.

"We do not yet have full control of the border and I am determined to change that," the president said in pressing for his $1.9 billion plan in a 17-minute prime-time address from the Oval Office.

The Guard troops would mostly serve two-week stints before rotating out of the assignment, so keeping the force level at 6,000 over the course of a year could require up to 156,000 troops.

And a Republican Governor says he doesn't like it

"So if you have 6,000 in Iraq and send another 6,000 to the border, what do we have left?" Schwarzenegger asked.

Instead of solving any problem in immigration, I actually think it's an important step for the Bush government to pull the troops out f Iraq. He can easily claim that now we need more troops here rather than there. Who knows.

Laura Bush: gay marriage not a campaign issue

Last time she spoke for a female justice to replace O'Connor, that turned out to be Samuel Alito. Now she said no one should use same sex marriage as an election issue.

Some election-year advice to Republicans from a high-ranking source who has the president's ear: Don't use a proposed constitutional amendment against gay marriage as a campaign tool.

The first lady told "Fox News Sunday" that she thinks the American people want a debate on the issue. But, she said, "I don't think it should be used as a campaign tool, obviously."

"It requires a lot of sensitivity to just talk about the issue — a lot of sensitivity," she said.

My gut feeling is that Republicans are still trying their best to make gay marriage the central issue this year, hopefully won't work out, especially gay marriage has been accepted by majority of people in opinion polls in some states (and NJ is one of them).

What's the probelm to send troops to the border

Apparently lots of the troops are still stuck in Iraq. Even worse, they have record to kill people live along the border.

The last time the U.S. military posted troops on the border near this tiny cluster of farms and ranches, an 18-year-old goat herder was shot to death.

Hardly a day passes that Esequiel Hernandez Jr.'s family and neighbors don't think of May 20, 1997, the day a Marine corporal shot and killed him.

"There was no motive for them to (shoot) Esequiel and I worry that the same thing could happen, or worse," his grandfather, 79-year-old Valerio Pando, said in Spanish.

I didn't really study the case but this fact is really disturbing to me. People are worried about the evolving of this immigration debate, saying it's fostering the white supremacy and racial discrimination. I hope it's not.

Coconut oil for fuel

I heard about this long ago, now I finally find it on major news outlet.

Coconut oil -- extracted from copra, or coconut meat -- can be used to make biodiesel to directly substitute diesel, or be blended with diesel. SOPAC said engines only need to be adapted for diesel blends of more than 10 percent coconut oil.

Electricity companies in Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa are testing blends of coconut oil and diesel to run power generators.

Looks quite real. Hopefully it helps on the energy crisis, although I don't think it will be a huge source for energy.

Full version of Colbert Report from White House

As I said, I never really enjoy Colbert Report too much. Now we have the full version of his special edition from White House. I think it's good, though I don't perticularly like its closing.

Even catching a big fish can be a lie from Bush

Now we all know that the best moment of Bush presidency is when he caught a 7.5 pounds perch at his own lake. Now we heard even that is a lie

The only problem is that the world's record for the largest freshwater perch caught is 4 pounds 3 ounces.

How amazing it is!! Now the White House says is a bass, but it's quite unbeliebable for any reason a reporter would write a bass into a perch.

Gay couples in Mass. look here

It's now your chance to make history. The 9th Circuit dismissed the case to challenge the federal DOMA, because that California couple doesn't have standing on this issue

A federal appeals court today dismissed a challenge by two Orange County men to a law denying federal marriage benefits to same-sex couples, saying a couple that isn't legally married under state law has no right to contest the federal definition of marriage.

And I do think they are right. You have standing on this only if you're legally married, say in Mass., then you filed for join tax return, and got rejected by IRS. BTW I found "lack of standing" the easiest way to avoid difficult constitutional issues.

America is a nation of prayer

At least the president said so

"America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray," Bush said during a White House celebration of the National Day of Prayer. "At decisive moments in our history and in quiet times around family tables, we are a people humbled and strengthened and blessed by prayer."

Not everyone understand what that means though. It would be fun if they put that onto the Federal Government license plate.

The problem of "Chinese" Catholic Church

I've long said that the "Catholic" in Mainland China is not Roman Catholic, the "one church", but Chinese Catholic, their own church in name of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association. They ordain their own bishops, and Vatican is pissed about that.

On Wednesday, the official church, known as the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, ordained Liu Xinhong as bishop at the city of Wuhu's St. Joseph's Church in the eastern province of Anhui.

It was the second ordination in three days without the consent of the Vatican, which traditionally appoints its own bishops. On Sunday, China's official church ordained Ma Yinglin as a bishop in the southwestern province of Yunnan.

and Vatican responded to it with excommunication

The Vatican on Thursday excommunicated two bishops ordained by China's state-controlled church without the pope's consent, escalating tensions as the two sides explored preliminary moves toward improving ties.

The Vatican also excommunicated the two bishops who ordained them, citing church law.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls cited Article 1382 of the Roman Catholic Church's canon law. That article states that "both the bishop who, without a pontifical mandate, consecrates a person a bishop, and the one who receives the consecration from him, incur a 'latae sententiae excommunication,'" which means they are automatically excommunicated.