Well, goths are people too, normal people even, according to this... ok, they're normal, but funnier... and they make me feel all manly and upbeat in comparison, that's nice.
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The most terrifying realization for youth is the near-certain knowledge that they will make a pointlessly vain attempt to appear the opposite of their parents, but will eventually, after the stuporous fog finally lifts, end up precisely the same as their parents. Give or take a nose-ring or pierced nipple. It's a time-honored tradition among the privileged offspring of the tolerant West.
Most parents needlessly fear this phase, though it does usually coincide with the waste of immeasurable hard-earned money poured down the educational rat-hole. Though you paid for the equivalent of a law degree, that he turned out to be a poodle-clipper shouldn't unhinge you. Buy a poodle and gloat over the fact that you get yours trimmed free. Lemons. Lemonade.
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A lot of Goths are that way because they are afraid.
That is, public school is infested with a "cult of nice" that discourages teachers from teaching the whole truth, if it is nasty, mean, unpleasant, cruel, or basically, "not nice". This is why history, for example, has been so utterly gutted in the public schools, giving pages to vapid nonsense.
The Goth kids are smart enough to realize that they are being lied to, by omission, and they see things on their TVs that show that the world really isn't Hello Kitty and the Teletubbies in soft pastel colors, like their teachers have said.
So something so fearful that the adults around them won't talk about it must be scary indeed. And the Goths seek it out, not to embrace it, but just to put a form on it, so they will know what it is, and can avoid it.
The cure for a lot of Goths, then, is to be honest with them. To show them that being aware of evil, and knowing what evil is, is not the same as being evil.
In other words, they need to surf Rantburg for a few weeks.
At the same time, they should learn a little discrimination; that is, just because it looks good on paper, doesn't necessarily mean that it is good. In fact, that those who preach "goodness", can often be the most evil of them all.
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rofl - can we open up a goth helpline?? who cares about the problem of youth violence or drug taking and gang wars - lets all worry and fret about goths. lol only al - gaurdian can print this stuff and get away with it :) ,thanks for the laughs for posting this up.
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I think Rantburg should be required reading for every high school student. I'm sure their grades in history, science, geography, and "social studies" would improve greatly.
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Well their knowledge will certainly improve :) (Mine certainly did (thanks to OP and others) and I'm over 40...)
Their grades however will probably suffer since they no longer toe the 'party line'....
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Goths are neither normal nor funny. They are mostly kids with attitude and self-image problems who feed on negative attention and who need help before they totally ruin their teen years with anti-social behavior.
Our 14-year-old daughter went into a Goth phase and we eventually reached a tipping point and resorted to "tough love". Her hair got cut by her mom and her Goth clothes and makeup went into the trash. Hanging out with the mall rats used to be forbidden and required some sneaking, but now she can only get the mall with her mom. She has to get approval for wardrobe each day and there are random room and bookbag searches. The pressure is subsiding in part because some of her Goth friends have voluntarily re-entered the normal world. She may go Goth again when she moves out of here, but I've had my fill of sitting across the dinner table from a Goth.
"Goth" is a social disease that can be treated with good old-fashioned parenting. Unfortunately, there's not so much of that around anymore.
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If I had my way, they would just kill all the bastards who do things like this and be done with it.
In fact, I'd be glad to help.
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Consider yourself lucky to be born an American, one of the very few places in the world to know and celebrate the true value of a woman. Other Western countries give it lip service, but when you look beneath the veneer, that is one of the reasons why America is the best place to live in the world.
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RVW - I'm grateful every morning I wake up that my ancestors got on those boats.
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Eff-all. I DO NOT need to cry at work right now.
Slow death, exceedingly slow and incredibly painful death is one of the few proper repayments for this sort of systematic torture (DO NOT call it "abuse").
The worst of it is that this is not an isolated incident. Typical, more like. This is why Islam must die.
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I also thank God I live in America. While this sort of thing probably happens here (people can be very ugly... ) -- its only in very rare and isolated incidents and would not be tolerated or condoned by the neighbors.
Her mother and stepfather should join her father-in-law in prison (or slow death as Zenster put it).
State radio in Algeria is reporting that at least four people have been killed, including three children, and 67 people hurt when an earthquake measuring 5.8 hit the country's north-eastern region. The tremor on Monday evening (local time) is said to have triggered the collapse of about 30 buildings in and around the village of Laalam in the province of Bejaia, 300 kilometres east of the capital Algiers. The dead children were aged five, nine, and 13. It is the deadliest tremor to have struck the earthquake-prone North African country since a 2003 quake in Boumerdes killed 2,300 people, injured more than 10,000 and made at least 100,000 homeless.
An investigation into the Boumerdes quake found serious faults in the construction of houses, apartment blocks and high-rise buildings which collapsed. Authorities have since tightened construction rules.
They have a choice: Become Lutherans now, or Unitarians later.
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The government claims many illegal aliens deported from South Africa are not Zimbabwean citizens - but from other African countries. Zimbabwe is now taking steps to prevent fake Zimbabweans entering the country after deportation. The Zimbabwe High Commissioner to South Africa, Simon Khaya-Moyo has embarked on a vetting excercise to ascertain whether illegal immigrants awaiting deportation in Lindela Holding Centre were true Zimbabweans.
Just how desparate do you have to be to want to leave South Africa and enter ... Zim-bob-we?
Zimbabwean High Commission spokesperson, Chris Mapanga, said more than 200 illegal immigrants from countries such as Malawi, Mozambique Nigeria and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were being deported to Zimbabwe nearly twice a week claiming to be Zimbabwean nationals.
After the recent restructuring at the illegal immigrants facility, South Africa has started deporting illegal immigrants to Zimbabwe twice a week and it is estimated that between 600 and 900 Zimbabweans are deported every week from the Lindela repatriation centre west of Johannesburg. South Africa is the destination of choice for illegal Zimbabweans who number around three million, according to recent official estimates.
Mapanga said the deportation of "fake" Zimbabweans has given the country a stereotype in the continent. "We are taking this process seriously because it is depicting a wrong image about our country, he said. Conditions in which illegal immigrants are held while in detention are reported to be harsh. Last year, three Zimbabweans, including a pregnant woman, died while in detention at Lindela.
It is said despite being deported, border jumpers quickly found their way back to South Africa through illegal entry points in Beit Bridge. Most border jumpers approach locals who help them cross the Limpopo River for a fee of between R500 and R800 per individual.
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The Zimbabwe High Commissioner to South Africa, Simon Khaya-Moyo has embarked on a vetting excercise to ascertain whether illegal immigrants awaiting deportation in Lindela Holding Centre were true Zimbabweans.
National residency cards and job permits coming soon.
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Most of the "fake" Zimbabweans probably understand that it's far easier to get BACK into South Africa from Zimbabwe than it is from their home states. It's not because Zimbabwe is so great, but that it's so lawless it's easy to get in and out of - especially back into South Africa.
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D: Holy criminy! What sort of dunghole do you have to live in to think Zim-Bob's-Way-or-the-Highway is step up?
Re Old Patriot, Zimbabwe's government doesn't want other countries' citizens competing with its citizens for the right to illegally migrate to South Africa. It's kind of like how Mexico is securing its southern borders to prevent non-Mexicans from competing with Mexicans for the right to illegally migrate to the US.
London's mayor has become embroiled in a new row after criticising two Jewish businessmen involved in building a key facility for the 2012 Olympics. Ken Livingstone attacked David and Simon Reuben for their role in an ongoing dispute about the Stratford City development in east London. He suggested the brothers "go back (to their own country) and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs".
The mayor made the comments during a speech at City Hall. The mayor's office said there was nothing further to add.
Conservative members of the London Assembly said the brothers were not Iranian, but had been born in India of Iraqi Jewish parents.
An international audit concluded there are tens of thousands of dead voters listed on Venezuela's voter rolls, but the country's top electoral official said Tuesday that those errors are being fixed and do not amount to significant flaws.
The audit confirmed the voter registry is sound despite critics' claims of gross irregularities, electoral council president Jorge Rodriguez said.
Critics expressed doubts about the auditors' independence and accused the electoral council of siding with President Hugo Chavez, who is seeking re-election in December.
"With the Venezuelan voter registry just as it is now, the upcoming elections could be held," Rodriguez said as he announced the audit's results. He said it found inaccurate records accounted for less than 2 percent of the total.
That included an estimated 54,900 dead voters on the rolls, and about 39,400 others whose deaths have yet to be confirmed but are listed as being older than 100. Rodriguez said both are significant problems but constitute a tiny fraction of some 15 million registered voters.
"There cannot be dead people in the voter registry," he said. "The inconsistencies that were found, no matter how small, will be addressed."
Electoral workers are constantly updating the voter registry and have already eliminated old records for 400,000 dead people in recent years to prevent any possible fraud, Rodriguez said.
Auditors from the Costa Rica-based Electoral Consulting and Promotion Center analyzed samples of thousands of voters last year to reach their conclusions, officials said. The center is part of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and functions as an association of electoral agencies in Latin America.
"The opposition has serious doubts" about the audit, said Roberto Ansuini, a former electoral official who opposes Chavez and has researched flaws in the voter lists. "When we have the report, we can make our observations."
Officials said the auditors' report will be released later this week.
The audit did not directly address a case raised by Ansuini in which 1,921 people by the name Gonzalez were listed with an identical birth date, all in the one western state.
Carlos Quintero, director of the voter registry office, said officials checked electronic records against paper archives, and found errors in some 900 of those cases. He said officials believe the wrong birth date was entered in many cases when the data was transferred from paper files to computers years ago.
Rodriguez said the electoral council would post the voter registry on the Internet starting Tuesday to dispel any suspicions.
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Dead voters. So Chavez is a classical modern Democrat. In a pudgy infantile girlie-man showbiz-stereotyped-strong-man sort of way. They'll have this small misunderstanding cleaned up in a jiffy. No harm done. No foul. Nothing to see here.
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This is why the left fears changing the voting procedures such as an ID card. Very few dead people are willing to get out of their grave to show ab ID before they vote.
Taiwan has started to dismantle statues of nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek to shed vestiges of an authoriatarian past. The decision to remove statues of the leader from military bases on the independent island, which is still claimed by China, has sparked an outcry of public anger, the Financial Times reports.
Members of the opposition Kuomintang, the political party that left the Chinese mainland in 1949 after losing a civil war, called the move "evil" on Monday. Lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Progressive party said it was time move beyond Chiang's cult of personality. An aid of President Chen Shui-bian said "the more mature our democracy gets the less we will see of this."
Chiang's rule on both mainland China prior to the revolution and on Taiwan were marred by political oppression and corruption. Taiwanese have been peacefully divided in their views of Chiang. Debate on his legacy has been minimal since the Taiwan's democratization more than ten years ago, but a recent government report implicated the leader in the deaths some Taiwanese who were killed in an uprising against his regime.
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Chiang did more to fight the Japanese occupiers than did Mao. The Taiwanese would do better to think of an authoritarian future rather than revise the true nature of Chiang's national security regime.
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Someone's never heard of indigenous Taiwanese...
(Don't ask me why ethnicity still plays a role in Asia, but it does. Not all Taiwanese are descended from post-civil-war Chinese immigrants, and not all identify as readily.)
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Poor Peanut.
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It's a bit lengthy, but there is a great description
on who the native Taiwanese where on WikiPedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_aborigine
Politically, the concept get's even more muddier.
See article from last year Asian Times when this issue was addressed from a political perspective.
Taiwan Poll: Who's the 'real' Taiwanese?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FC20Ad04.html
This section I found interesting:
"Three main groups on Taiwan
Taiwan people, most of whom came from the mainland or descended from those immigrants, can be classified in three groups:
1. Aborigines who have inhabited the island for thousands of years and are descended from small tribes related to groups in Indonesia and the Philippines;
2. Immigrants from China who arrived between 400 and 500 years ago, especially from what is now China's Fujian Province opposite Taiwan;
3. "Mainlanders" - those who fled to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek and the defeated KMT in or after 1949, when the communists won the civil war and took over the mainland. This influx of mainlanders added to tensions resulting from an island uprising in 1947 that highlighted the gap between the Taiwanese who had lived on the island for generations and those who had just arrived."
I have been always been puzzled by the Chinese Governments belief that they feel that Taiwan is a
Renegade Province that needs to be annexed into greater China.
Perhaps, other Rantburger's could shed some historical light on this.
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I find it hard to generate sympathy for that worthless gangster (he was a member of the Green Gang). China is better off without his ilk. Now to get rid of the commies too.
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#4
Taiwan under Chiang maintained that it was the legitimate government of China. The mainland Chinese maintained the mirror of that stance, that they were the legitimate government and Taiwan the breakaway province. Up until the Nixon years, China's UN seat was filled by Taiwan; the Nationalist government was the one that signed the original UN charter.
Up until Deng Xiao Ping, Taiwan and China were in about the same relation that South and North Korea are today. Despite Chiang's authoritarianism -- he was basically a warlord -- Taiwan has alway had much more economic freedom than the mainland. After the wreckage of the 2nd World War was cleared away, they built what had been a rustic backwater into an economic powerhouse, while the mainland played with oppression and purges and cultural revolution. Taiwan is what a Nationalist China would have grown into, had Mao lost.
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Thank you Fred for the Historical background on Taiwan.
I was checking Worldnet Daily and came across this article from Richard W. Hartzel and Roger C. S. Lin. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49379
I don't know if this applies in this situation regarding Taiwan/US/China affairs today; I am not fully familiar with all the relations between the 3 countries. But the authors makes the compelling argument that Taiwan is really a U.S. territory based on the rules of war and discredits China's claim to territorial ownership. And explains why the U.S. is still involved in the political/military affairs of this country and the basis for military intervening if the political leadership of Taiwan were to formally announce it's independent status and China launches military action against the island.
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Something else most people seem to forget is that Japan took control of Taiwan in 1895 and held the island until the end of World War II. That wasn't the first occupation by an outside power, either. The mainland Chinese look down on the people of Taiwan, but Taiwan has a significant GDP - higher than the mainland until recently.
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What young R Crawford said.
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Politics in Free China. The KMT is now the party advocating closer ties with the Communists. KMT leaders have visited Peking and were welcomed with open arms. Removing the statues, more than anything else, is a loss of face by the KMT, who still act as if they were the ruling party.
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same as removing Jefferson from school's names cuz' he once owned slaves - PC bullies trying to rewrite history. He was a man - you can bitch and moan, but he helped make Taiwan what it is today. Free, prosperous. Perhaps some prefer the PRC?
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Both Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek have huge memorial buildings in Taipei, although Chiang Kai-Shek's is much larger. I am not sure if this announcement affects the Chiang Kai-Shek memorial.
Tropical Cyclone Wati has come to a halt strengthening over the Coral Sea and forecasters admit they cannot predict whether it will turn and follow the destructive path of Cyclone Larry. As emergency services and the military struggled through torrrential rain to deliver aid to stricken far north Queensland communities, forecasters today changed their tune about Wati's next move. The cyclone, which has been intensifying for the past 24 hours, had been predicted to turn south. Today forecasters said it would "remain off the coast for the next few days" but said that it was hard to predict any movements after that.
"We just have to play a wait-and-see game," Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre forecaster Tony Wedd said. "Wati is much more of an erratically-moving cyclone than Larry, which moved in a straight line and very steadily. "Larry was well-behaved as far as cyclones go - apart from its destruction."
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*heh* lutefisk...
Norwegians in the Old Country look at those of us in the States who still go to the Lutheran Church basement for the lutefisk-n-lefse supper as being slightly goofy.
"Why eat it preserved in lye? We have refrigeration," is what I get from relatives there.
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We've screwed Norway at every turn; our most stalwart ally during, and since WWII.
I was the Norwegian-produced PENGUIN Anti-Ship Missile (Reverse FMS) Program logistics manager for USN in the late 1990's. The Norwegians have probably been our(USA) best We'll never learn...
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Why the reaction? While there were some humerous comments, I don't think anyone here was expressing disapproval of the Norwegians policing their waters.
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Hundreds of demonstrators in Belarus are holding a second night of protests against the election victory of President Alexander Lukashenko. Protesters in the centre of the capital Minsk have been joined by two of the candidates who lost out to Mr Lukashenko in the vote on Sunday - Alexander Milinkevich and Alexander Kozulin.
Earlier, the United States backed the Opposition's call for new elections and the European Union said the poll had taken place in a climate of fear. But Sergei Kasyan, a Member of Belarusian Parliament, has dismissed the criticism. "Neither Mr Barroso of the European Commission, nor the European Parliament are in the position to make these kind of pronouncements, let alone the US State Department," he said. "They are baseless. Let them put their own house in order. They're trying to make everyone in the world live according to their norms and principles. Well their principles are not for us Slavs."
"Us Slavs have no principles. We like being ruled with an iron fist."
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I'd heard the owners were seriously thinking of asking her about it...
NASSAU, Bahamas - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a big football fan, ruled out applying for the job of NFL commissioner after Paul Tagliabue retires.
"Unfortunately, it came open at the wrong time," Rice said Wednesday, clearly amused when a reporter posed the question. "Obviously, I'm very busy as secretary of state, and I intend to continue to be secretary of state as long as the president of the United States will have me."
Rice, an avid follower of the Cleveland Browns and pro football in general, has frequently said she aspires to run the league one day. In the days since Tagliabue announced he would retire in July, Rice's aides have said she was not interested.
Rice spoke while in the Bahamas to meet with 14 foreign ministers and the secretary general of the Caribbean Community and Common Market, a regional trade bloc.
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Hmmm - lessee, NFL Commissioner or Secretary of State of the United States?
Gee, that's a hard choice to make.
I think the NFL owners are legends in their own minds.
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She's made it very apparent that she's a big football fan, so I'm sure she didn't dismiss it out of hand.
However, I hope the real reason she dismissed it is because she's gearing up for the "Condi in '08" presidential campaign!
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Dar, wishful thinking. Condi has made it clear numerious times she isn't interested in the Presidency. Though we can all keep praying, I don't think it's going to happen.
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She had previously brushed off questions about Presidential aspirations with a statement to the effect of rather going for Commissioner of the NFL.
I suppose it would be unseemly for her to lobby for that job, but I wouldn't be surprised if sometime post-2009 she were to take that job.
Press release from the United Nations Environment Programme Division of Early Warning and Assessment (hold on to your wallets). Severely EFL.
Global International Waters Assessment Report Launched
"Freshwater Shortages, Engineering of River Flows, Pollution and Overfishing Highlighted in Final Global International Waters Assessment"
21 March 2006 - Freshwater shortages are likely to trigger increased environmental damage over the next 15 years, according to an international report of the worlds waters.
Falls in river flows, rising saltiness of estuaries, loss of fish and aquatic plant species and reductions in sediments to the coast are expected to rise in many areas of the globe by 2020.
These in turn will intensify farmland losses, food insecurity and damage to fisheries along with rises in malnutrition and disease.
Overall agriculture ranks highest as the key concern on the freshwater front among the 1,500 experts involved in the final report of the Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA). They left off the quotation marks around "experts"
Globally, there has been an increased demand for agricultural products and a trend towards more water-intensive food such as meat rather than vegetables and fruits rather than cereals. In other words, more people are eating better. AND the UN wants to tell everyone else besides themselves what they're allowed to eat. Figures.
Knowledge gaps are also to blame, with many developing countries operating in the dark on the size of their water resource, and the precise patterns of supply and demand. And why might that be? Couldn't have anything to do with spending their money on palaces and jets for the kleptocracy, could it?
Aquifers represent the largest information gap, which is an increasingly significant hindrance for effective water management given the growing dependence on groundwater," says the report released in advance of World Water Day 22 March. Tomorrow is World Water Day? Who knew? I'll be sure to take a shower in its honor.
The report recommends here it comes....
ecosystem service payments as one way of better valuing the goods and services provided by natural features like coral reefs and wetlands.
For example, it argues that wetlands in Mexico would be less vulnerable if landowners are paid for the waste water treatment provided by these natural pollution filters. Are paid? By whom? (Don't bother, I know the answer.) And what does that even mean? Here's a clue, assholes. Mexico's wetlands (and Mexico in general) would be better off if they got rid of their corrupt government. Ever think of recommending that?
Climate change is viewed as the overarching issue in the report, with specific concerns for fisheries and marine organisms. Ya' just knew they had to get "climate change" in there somewhere. I like climate change; I'm particularly glad the climate changed from the Ice Age of 10,000 years ago to what we have today. But maybe that's just me.
Their final report, Challenges to International Waters: Regional Assessments in a Global Perspective, is formally launched today, complete with a string of forward looking recommendations to reverse the damage and declines. Uh-oh. In other words, they want more of our money. As usual.
"I sincerely believe that overcoming poverty and meeting the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals requires us to look harder at the way we manage the natural world." Ya' want to overcome poverty worldwide? Eliminate (with extreme prejudice, preferably) all the kleptocrats, dictators, theocrats, mullahs, etc., who keep their people in poverty AND ignorance while they live the high life, and you're more than half-way there. Of course, the UN's ruling kleptocrats' mileage may vary on that.
Read the rest if you're interested - I'm going to use my time more productively. Like watching oil paint dry.
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More expensive crap for the UN to justify its pathetic exsitance. Can we kill it now? Pluuueeese???
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Well, I'll see your "Clean Water"...and raise you "Somalia".
U.N. Appeals for Aid to Help Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya - The United Nations appealed Tuesday for nearly $327 million in aid to help starving people in southern Somalia, which is suffering its worst drought in a decade.
About 2.1 million people are coping with severe food shortages caused by prolonged drought, war, displacement, flooding and human rights abuses, said the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"This current drought is unprecedented in 10 years, and the impact it is having on food, water, health, education and livelihoods is alarming," said Christian Balslev-Olesen, the world body's acting humanitarian coordinator for Somalia.
"With a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, the humanitarian community needs to scale up its current response exponentially."
Think I'll flush my spare bucks down a toilet, Mr. Humanitarian Coordinator. It'll do about as much good as sending it to the UN to solve what ails Somalia.
A Philippines volcano has spewed a column of ash nearly 1.5 kilometres high into the sky, raising fears of a major eruption. Officials say they are considering increasing the alert level after Mount Bulusan in the central Philippines belched ash an hour before midnight local time. The Philippine Institute of Seismology and Vulcanology (Phivolcs) says the ash is unlikely to cause any harm. But researcher Jojo Cordon says more earthquakes have been recorded in the area recently, a possible sign the volcano may be about to erupt more powerfully. He says the ash column may have been created by a reaction between water and hot materials, a "possible sign of rising magma".
A four-kilometre exclusion zone is already in place around the 1,565-metre volcano, which is 600 kilometres south-east of Manila. Phivolcs is considering raising the alert level for Bulusan from level one to level three, indicating "moderate unrest". The highest alert level is level five, indicating an actual eruption of lava.
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A Philippines volcano has spewed a column of ash nearly 1.5 kilometres high into the sky, raising fears of a major eruption.
Has to be Bush's fault[tm] cause Global Warming is Bush's fault[tm] and this type of material being put into the atmosphere is probably greater than what most humans put in a year. Therefore the increased warming caused by this ejection has to be Bush's fault[tm]. /sarcam off
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OK I admit, it's my fault.
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way to go..
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Mabey Jolo will erupt next or perhaps Basilan
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My fault, really. I'm working on a new chili recipe, and put WAY too much chipotle chile powder in it.
(Too little cumin, too. Weirdest chili I ever had -- not a lot of flavor until about five seconds after you swallow. Then it feels like you've gargled with sulfuric acid.)
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how DO you say that ? : chipotle
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Chee-pot-lay (long o)
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TEHRAN Seven new petrochemical plants will come on stream in the next year (Iranian year starts March 21), noted here on Saturday, Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh. Along with the crude oil sales, other oil products including petrochemicals as well as the natural gas are also exported, the minister said in response to a question asked by a reporter on why 100 years after the oil discovery in Iran the country was still a mere crude exporter.
The more we focus on the exports of our oil products the more value added we gain. However, the world is in need of energy too, the minister stated adding, therefore, a portion of our exports should be allocated to the energy consumers, the Persian service of Fars News Agency reported on Saturday.
An attorney for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel said Tuesday she would appeal his murder conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Connecticut Supreme Court refused to reconsider the case. Skakel, 45, is serving a sentence of 20 years to life for his 2002 conviction in the 1975 beating death of his Greenwich neighbor, Martha Moxley, when the two were teenagers.
Skakel's not a teenager anymore, but Martha never made it out of her teens.
Skakel appealed his conviction to the Connecticut Supreme Court last year, arguing among other things that the statute of limitations had expired when he was charged in 2000. The court unanimously rejected that appeal in January. The motion for reconsideration had asked the court to review its decision, which overturned a 1983 precedent. The court denied the motion last week.
"Bailiff! Throw them out!"
Attorney Hope Seeley said Tuesday she would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court within three months. Seeley said the appeal would likely focus on the statute of limitations; evidence not turned over during the trial; and the decision to try Skakel in adult court even though he was 15 at the time of the crime.
He grew out of being a child, so they can't charge him as a juvenile, and the statute of limitations has expired (really? for murder?) so they can't charge him regardless. That's his defense, folks -- wouldn't you like to go through life like that? I bet Mikey doesn't care.
"Michael Skakel is innocent, and we will fight his wrongful conviction and incarceration," she said.
... "until the money runs out."
Seeley also said she will argue in state court that Skakel had ineffective counsel at his 2002 trial.
'cause he got convicted.
"Yer honor, my client's previous counsel was a stalk of broccoli! Not only was he not sentient, he didn't even have a law degree!"
Prosecutor Susann Gill said the Connecticut Supreme Court's decision was well-reasoned, and she expressed skepticism that the U.S. Supreme Court would agree to hear the case. Statutes of limitations chiefly involve interpretations of state laws, rather than federal constitutional issues, added William Dunlap, a criminal law professor at Quinnipiac University. Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, also has a petition for a new trial pending in Superior Court in Stamford. That petition is based on a claim by Gitano "Tony" Bryant implicating two of his friends in Moxley's murder. Bryant is a cousin of basketball star Kobe Bryant. Here's hoping the scumball serves the max.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
State radio in Algeria is reporting that at least four people have been killed, including three children, and 67 people hurt when an earthquake measuring 5.8 hit the country's north-eastern region. The tremor on Monday evening (local time) is said to have triggered the collapse of about 30 buildings in and around the village of Laalam in the province of Bejaia, 300 kilometres east of the capital Algiers. The dead children were aged five, nine, and 13. It is the deadliest tremor to have struck the earthquake-prone North African country since a 2003 quake in Boumerdes killed 2,300 people, injured more than 10,000 and made at least 100,000 homeless. 
The government claims many illegal aliens deported from South Africa are not Zimbabwean citizens - but from other African countries. Zimbabwe is now taking steps to prevent fake Zimbabweans entering the country after deportation. The Zimbabwe High Commissioner to South Africa, Simon Khaya-Moyo has embarked on a vetting excercise to ascertain whether illegal immigrants awaiting deportation in Lindela Holding Centre were true Zimbabweans.
London's mayor has become embroiled in a new row after criticising two Jewish businessmen involved in building a key facility for the 2012 Olympics. Ken Livingstone attacked David and Simon Reuben for their role in an ongoing dispute about the Stratford City development in east London. He suggested the brothers "go back (to their own country) and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs".
An international audit concluded there are tens of thousands of dead voters listed on Venezuela's voter rolls, but the country's top electoral official said Tuesday that those errors are being fixed and do not amount to significant flaws.
Taiwan has started to dismantle statues of nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek to shed vestiges of an authoriatarian past. The decision to remove statues of the leader from military bases on the independent island, which is still claimed by China, has sparked an outcry of public anger, the Financial Times reports.
Hundreds of demonstrators in Belarus are holding a second night of protests against the election victory of President 
A Philippines volcano has spewed a column of ash nearly 1.5 kilometres high into the sky, raising fears of a major eruption. Officials say they are considering increasing the alert level after Mount Bulusan in the central Philippines belched ash an hour before midnight local time. The Philippine Institute of Seismology and Vulcanology (Phivolcs) says the ash is unlikely to cause any harm. But researcher Jojo Cordon says more earthquakes have been recorded in the area recently, a possible sign the volcano may be about to erupt more powerfully. He says the ash column may have been created by a reaction between water and hot materials, a "possible sign of rising magma". 
An attorney for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel said Tuesday she would appeal his murder conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Connecticut Supreme Court refused to reconsider the case. Skakel, 45, is serving a sentence of 20 years to life for his 2002 conviction in the 1975 beating death of his Greenwich neighbor, Martha Moxley, when the two were teenagers.
