A wheelchair-bound Los Angeles woman, who has repeatedly filed lawsuits over access for the disabled, got up and ran after police arrested her for fraud, authorities said on Thursday.
Thereby proving their case, I'd say...
Laura Lee Medley, 35, had sued in at least four California cities over injuries she claimed she sustained while trying to navigate her wheelchair before she was suspected of fraud. Medley, who claimed to be paralyzed from a drunk driving accident, was tracked to Las Vegas where police there took her into custody and then, when she complained of medical issues, to a local hospital, Long Beach prosecutor Belinda Mayes said. "She gets to the hospital and while she's waiting for an examination, she gets up from the chair and runs," Mayes said. "Somebody remarked, 'That's where the great miracle occurred.'"
"Praise the Lord! I'm cured! I'm outta here!"
Medley sprinted through the hospital corridors but was quickly apprehended by police and booked pending extradition to San Bernardino, southern California, where she is facing charges of filing false documents, attempted grand theft and insurance fraud. Medley has sued the cities of Long Beach and South Pasadena and counties of San Bernardino and Riverside over various injuries she claimed she sustained in her wheelchair. She was also being sought on arrest warrants by the states of Oregon and Washington, Mayes said.
First they'll have to catch her, though...
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A girl is to become Britain's youngest mother after becoming pregnant at 11. The girl smokes 20 cigarettes a day despite being eight months' pregnant. She conceived aged 11 when she lost her virginity to a boy of 15 on a drunken night out with friends.
She sounds like a nice girl, from a good, solid home, doesn't she?
The 15-year-old has since been charged with rape by police, and is due to appear again at Edinburgh sheriff court on July 10.
"But, yer honor! You can't charge me! I'm just a kid!"
"Shuddup. She's more of a kid!"
"But she's a slut!"
"She's a juvenile slut!"
"Well, I'm a juvenile, too!"
"Bailiff! Hit him!"
Her 34-year-old mother, who gave birth to her youngest child eight months ago, said she was 'proud' of her daughter.
As well she should be. She's obviously raised a child with accomplishments well beyond her age, a veritable prodigy. I'm sure all the other ladies in the neighborhood wish their girls were as accomplished.
She will be 12 years and 8 months when she has the child next month. Jenny Teague, Britain's youngest mother until now, was a month older when she gave birth in 1997.
I'm sure her Mom was proud as punch, too...
The youngster, who lives near Edinburgh, says looking after her younger brothers has prepared her for motherhood. But the girl admits she "panics and cries" when babies are unwell and does not feel able to bathe them.
Then she's not prepared, is she?
The mother-to-be, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had unprotected sex with the teenage boy, who also cannot be identified, while drunk last August.
Oh. Well. That explains it, then.
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Its situations like this that probably explains why there are so many high funciton idiots running around.
Just smart enough to breed. Not smart enough to find something more useful to do with 20 free minutes.
The truly sad part is that here in my zip code I can think of at least 9 familys(???) within 1 mile of my house that are just as bad as the bunch in the story.
I wonder if these idiots are adherents of the Religion of Peace (tm).....
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I wonder if these idiots are adherents of the Religion of Peace (tm)
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Iff I am reading the Brit photo caption correctly, isn't the preggie 11-year old too big or too tall as compared to "mom"!? Iff the caption is correct, D**** what are tweeny Brit girls eating over there???
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Hey folks, it's unfortunate that this happened to her, but give the young lady some credit for choosing life. I'm sure the NARAL folks are pestering her to abort. I wish her well.
Gasoline gushing from a ruptured pipeline exploded Friday as villagers scavenged for fuel, setting off an inferno that killed up to 200 and left charred bodies scattered around the site in this oil-rich country of mostly poor people.
That's kinda Africa all over, isn't it?
Grim-faced rescue workers swung corpses into a mass grave as dozens of other scorched bodies awaited collection. It appeared some victims tried to flee the unfolding disaster only to be overtaken by flames spreading across the fuel slick.
Some of them tried to beat it? The rest of 'em just stood there, waiting to go roasty-toasty?
The stark outlines of white skeletons lay against a beach charred black by fire. Other bodies floated alongside dozens of plastic jerrycans in the nearby waters of the coastal mangrove swamp. The jerrycans, which had contained pilfered gas, were twisted by the heat of the explosion.
We were wondering what happened to those cans...
More than 1,000 people in Nigeria, Africa's oil giant, have died in recent years when fuel they were pilfering from pipelines caught fire - and officials said it would likely happen again.
"Mbogo! Careful with that stogey! We're pilfering gasoline here!"
"Because this thing has happened many times before, we thought it would be a deterrent, but apparently it wasn't enough deterrent for these people who died," said Lagos State Health Commissioner Tola Kasali, surveying the scene near Ilado, about 30 miles east of the main city of Lagos.
Look on the bright side: It wasn't the high IQ segment of the population that was culled.
"Anywhere you have a pipeline in this country, you have this problem because people are greedy and they want quick money," Kasali said.
And if they don't take it from the pipeline it goes flowing on by without stopping.
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That's why celluar phones are so appropriate in the third world. NO COPPER WIRE TO STEAL!
In the 3rd and 4th world you use microwaves to base stations. The base stations are behind electrified razor wire with backup generators.
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I saw the "Leak" on TV, looks suspiciously like an one inch drilled hole, squirting gasoline about 15 feet in a more or less solid stream.
Where it hit the ground there was a fire, but not while streaming through the air
Self inflicted injuries.
Now around 200 idiots less to drill holes in pipelines.
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Some reports have confirmed the hole was drilled.
No accident ... theft
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Look on the bright side: It wasn't the high IQ segment of the population that was culled.
True but it did remove some of the more entrepenurial sorts too.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni will be sworn in today at Kololo for his third term being Museveni's fourth swearing-in since he took over 20 years ago. Today's swearing-in is historic as Museveni takes oath under a multi-party election that took place on February 23. Mr. Museveni won with 58%, while his main challenger and president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye, secured 37%.
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AUSTRALIA'S biggest military task force since the 1999 East Timor crisis, including warships, armoured vehicles, helicopters and 450 troops, will be ready to sail to Dili by late next week. In a sign of the escalating crisis, HMAS Kanimbla, steaming back to Sydney yesterday from an exercise in the Pacific, was ordered to turn around and head for Darwin.
East Timor Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta last night said his country did not need foreign peacekeepers "because there is no war in East Timor".
But the navy's three largest ships, HMAS Kanimbla, HMAS Manoora and HMAS Tobruk, will load Darwin-based armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and hundreds of troops ahead of an expected United Nations request for military assistance. The peacekeeping task force will include more than 1000 personnel equipped to enforce law and order and evacuate civilians from the capital Dili. It will include 450 infantry from the 1st and 2nd battalions of the Townsville-based 3rd Brigade and APCs from the Darwin-based 1st Brigade.
According to sources, the Government expects a UN request at any time.
Dr Ramos-Horta said while troops were not needed, additional international police advisers would be helpful in the tiny nation, which is due to hold general elections next year. "We need an international police to create stability," he said.
At 2pm yesterday, Manoora and Tobruk were rapidly deployed from Garden Island. Either Kanimbla or Manoora will stop at Townsville to pick up the 450 troops. The APCs will be driven on to Tobruk and soldiers, other vehicles, equipment and medical supplies will be carried on the other ships.
Might as well give the sailing time and tide, you've told us everything else.
The UN mission in East Timor was due to end next Friday but has been extended by a month following riots, sparked by the sacking of 600 soldiers. The troubles left five dead, hundreds injured and thousands fled Dili.
Prime Minister John Howard said the deployment was a sensible measure, but no request had been received from East Timor. "The Australian Defence Force have got to head somewhere, they can't just sort of remain becalmed like the ancient mariner," he said.
Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said the Government was closely monitoring the situation and would consider any request from the UN. It is understood Australian soldiers have been sent to East Timor to assess the situation ahead of the task force. Troops from the Special Air Service Regiment conducted extensive operations across East Timor following the pro-Indonesian militia rampage in late 1999.
Three orphan girls were kidnapped from various places in Okara district. In the first incident, Iqbal, Mukhtar and Farooq allegedly entered a house in Chak No 54/2L and kidnapped two orphan sisters, Mumtaz Bibi and Razia Bibi, at gunpoint. The second incident took place at Bonga Saleha village near Depalpur where Tahir and Nasrullah allegedly kidnapped Zakia, daughter of late Faqir Hussain, at gunpoint. Police have registered cases.
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Sindh authorities on Friday ordered a brobe into a tribal council's ruling that a 13-year-old girl marry after convicting her and a 10-year-old boy of adultery. The judgement was passed down earlier this week by an "illegal" jirga in Aliabad village in Sindh, officials said. Provincial Home Minister Rauf Siddiqui said: "I have ordered an inquiry into the report and legal action will be taken against those responsible."
The council had directed Sarah Abro's father to marry her off to another boy within six months, officials said. It also slapped a Rs 150,000 fine on the boy, Qurban Shah, and exiled him from the village for six months. The boy's father, a dairy shop owner, told journalists that his son had never had sex with the girl, adding that her father had maligned Qurban due to a family feud. "These reports are horrifying and action will be taken against those holding such illegal jirgas," said Siddiqui, adding. "Some influential people are behind the incident and the family members of the boy and the girl are not traceable at present," a police official in Larkana said.
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PIMF. There should be they're. [*hangs head, goes to corner, affixes dunce cap*]
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Adultery? So which one of them was married? This story kinda shines a new light on the old question: "Do infants have as much fun in their infancy as adults do in their adultery?".
(Thanks for the graphic, Fred)
The Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced Tuesday that its JT-60 tokamak had extended its plasma duration time to 28.6 seconds, smashing the world record of 16.5 seconds it achieved in 2004, an achievement that bodes well for the future of fusion energy.
As part of an international project, Japan, European countries and the United States are expected to construct the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) in France by 2015. The goal is a plasma fusion reaction of more than 400 seconds, which would create 10 times more energy than that used to heat atoms in the experiment.
Because the latest JT-60 test nearly doubled the former record, it is thought likely the ITER will meet its target as it has the same basic structure as the JT-60.
Plasma duration time is a fusion energy realization indicator.
The JAEA used new parts in the JT-60, having improved its capability to hold the plasma in its powerful toroidal magnetic field.
Plasma is an ionized gas composed of free-floating ions, electrons and neutral particles.
While substances change state from solid to liquid to gas as temperatures rise, at very high temperatures atoms are transformed into plasma, composed of ions and electrons. A plasma is considered a state of matter distinct from solid, liquid or gas.
One gram of deuterium (also known as heavy hydrogen) and tritium in a plasma state leads to nuclear fusion, and is expected to produce as much energy as eight tons of petroleum.
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an achievement that bodes well for the future of fusion energy.
In my grandchildren's liftimes (maybe). It's a great technical achievement, but otherwise just more energy independence wishful thinking.
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So it will cost nearly nothing to make seemingly endless amounts of electricity? What do you want to bet your power bill won't do anything but go up anyway.
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Fusion is a black hole for government research funds and has been since the 1950s. And by 2015, the ITER in France will be located in a Muslim country anyway. And if you think deuterium and tritium are free, try buying a bottle.
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Tritium costs about $100,000 per gram to produce!
From: http://www.fusion.ucla.edu/ITER-TBM/ITER-TBM2/Tritium%20Supply%20Considerations.ppt
"Conclusions:
* Tritium available for fusion development will likely begin to diminish rapidly during the next 35 years
* Fusion should be developed expeditiously to take advantage of this unique opportunity
* Development of D-T fusion must be carefully planned world-wide taking into account available tritium"
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Yeah, right now there are two choices for this. Nuclear and Ion. Ion is only realistic for the outer planets and beyond, due to the long thrust cycle. Ion is actually better the father you go, so it is great for an Alpha / Beta Centauri run.
Just look at Cassini to understand the odds of getting another nuclear powered probe off the ground. There was actually international attempts to stop the launch. Next time will be worse too.
In the end though, we HAVE to get off the planet for the survival of our species. This is a must, and the sooner we do it, even with just a moon base, the better. Large Ion drives may be our best bet for this in near future.
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Why do we HAVE to get off the planet for the survival of our species???
Because, somewhere out there, is a big rock with Earth's name on it. Need a self-contained base on another world to provide breeding stock to repopulate the planet.
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Why do we HAVE to get off the planet for the survival of our species?
Because we could get clumped with an asteroid or solar flare or suffer a new Ice Age .
If there's no one out there (?) then hey, that's a lot of real estate and potential resources.
This would spur technology here too.
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...There was a similar concept some years back called Tacit Rainbow, which never went into service because of an asinine argument between the USAF and Army over who would own it. Basically it was a cruise missile with an anti-radar seeker head in it that would be launched and then cruise in circles for IIRC up to about 6 HOURS...and as soon as some Soviet SAM radar operator lit up, the seeker fixed his position and then blew it away. The UK's superb ALARM also has a loiter mode, but it's measured in seconds.
Mike
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The thing to know about NetFires, the R&D program that is behind this LAM, is that it anticipates swarms of small missiles who are able to coordinate with one another and prioritize targets. If, for instance, a missile assigned a high-priority target is shot down or malfunctions, the swarm will assign the target to another missile instead. Gonna make a lot of the existing anti-missile defenses a lot less effective.
Indonesia's Vice President Yusuf Kalla on Thursday ordered authorities to begin evacuating some 17,000 people from around the slopes of rumbling Mount Merapi which has been spewing more lava and smoke.
Red-hot lava which had blazed a trail only 200 metres (yards) down Merapi's slopes by Wednesday had reached 1,500 metres down the southern slope, the office monitoring the volcano said in its daily report.
"I ask that immediate safety steps are taken, beginning by taking at least 50 percent of the total population from the danger zone down," he was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency.
The vice president, who toured the volcano's slopes and met with ministers and local leaders there holding preparatory talks ahead of an anticipated eruption, said that about 34,000 people were in the current danger zone.
"In Magelang, around 15,000 people should be evacuated in one or two days, while (the evacuation) is already progressing in Sleman," Kalla said, referring to the two districts the zone covers.
Kalla, who also heads the National Disaster Agency's coordination board, said that an eruption of Merapi was only a matter of time but gave no forecast and the alert status remained one level below that requiring mandatory evacuation.
The volcanology office in Yogyakarta, 30 kilometres (18.5 miles) south of Merapi, said that besides the increased lava flow, Merapi was still shooting clouds of smoke 600 meters (yards) into the air.
A new lava dome has been rapidly forming at the peak of Mount Merapi. Scientists have said that its collapse will send lava as well as deadly heatclouds speeding down its slopes rather than a massive explosion.
Merapi's most deadly eruption occurred in 1930, when 1,369 people were killed.
Indonesia sits on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" noted for its volcanic and seismic activity. The country has more than 100 active volcanoes.
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Somebody in the CIA should be planting that story in the Indo media. But instead they're planting stories in the American media. Which side are they on?
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I have this fantasy that Merapi is a VEI6 and devastates large areas of Java, just while Ahmadinejad is making one of his dumb speeches. Javanese control of Indonesia collapses and the Balinese rise up. D8 leaders try to flee and get caught by Balinese mobs and they make an example of Ahmadinejad by hanging him from a lamppost. The rest they let go.
Sadly, my guess is that the mullahs will tell them that it's punishment for not being Islamic enough.
Mike
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#2 NS: "Somebody in the CIA should be planting that story in the Indo media. But instead they're planting stories in the American media. Which side are they on?"
That's a rhetorical question, right?
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My bad. It was early here. I hadn't had my tea.
When an F-16 lights up its afterburners, it consumes nearly 28 gallons of fuel per minute. No wonder, then, that of all the fuel the United States government uses each year, the Air Force accounts for more than half. The Air Force may not be in any danger of suffering inconveniences from scarce or expensive fuel, but it has begun looking for a way to power its jets on something besides conventional fuel.
In a series of tests first on engines mounted on blocks and then with B-52's in flight the Air Force will try to prove that the American military can fly its aircraft by blending traditional crude oil-based jet fuel with a synthetic liquid made first from natural gas, and, eventually, from coal, which is plentiful and cheaper.
While the military has been a leader in adopting some technologies light but strong metals, radar-evading stealth designs and fire-retardant flight suits, for example any effort to hit a miles-per-gallon fuel efficiency rating has taken a back seat when the mission is to haul bombs farther and faster or push 70-ton tanks across a desert to topple an adversary. (The Abrams tank, for example, gets less than a mile per gallon under certain combat conditions.)
"Energy is a national security issue," said Michael A. Aimone, the Air Force assistant deputy chief of staff for logistics.
The United States is unlikely ever to become fully independent of foreign oil, he said, but the intent of the Air Force project is "to develop enough independence to have assured domestic supplies for aviation purposes."
By late this summer, on the hard lake beds of the Mojave Desert, where the Air Force tests its most secret and high-performance aircraft, a lumbering B-52 is scheduled to take off in an experiment in which two of the giant bomber's engines will burn jet fuel produced not from crude oil but from natural gas. The plane's six other engines will burn traditional jet fuel just in case.
The Air Force consumed 3.2 billion gallons of aviation fuel in fiscal year 2005, which was 52.5 percent of all fossil fuel used by the government, Pentagon statistics show. The total Air Force bill for jet fuel last year topped $4.7 billion.
Although the share of national energy consumption by the federal government and military is just 1.7 percent, every increase of $10 per barrel of oil drives up Air Force fuel costs by $600 million per year.
Mr. Aimone said that if the synthetic blend worked, plans call for increasing its use in Air Force planes to 100 million gallons in the next two years.
Air Force and industry officials say that oil prices above $40 to $45 per barrel make a blend with synthetic fuels a cost-effective alternative to oil-based jet fuel.
Fuel costs have doubled since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and crude oil prices since Hurricane Katrina have remained above $60 a barrel.
The Air Force effort falls under a directive from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to explore alternative fuel sources. Under the plan, the Air Force has been authorized to buy 100,000 gallons of synthetic fuel.
Ground experiments are scheduled to begin in coming weeks at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, followed by test flights at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Although the Air Force is leading the project, it is working with the Automotive Tank Command of the Army, in Detroit, and the Naval Fuels Laboratory, at Patuxent River, Md.
The research and tests on synthetic fuel would ultimately produce a common fuel for the entire military, Air Force officials said.
The initial contract for unconventional fuel for the tests will be signed with Syntroleum Corporation of Tulsa, Okla., which has provided synthetic fuel for testing by the Departments of Energy, Transportation and Defense since 1998.
John B. Holmes Jr., Syntroleum's president and chief executive officer, said his firm will sell the Air Force its synthetic fuel for testing "at our cost, and we may be losing a little bit."
Neither Mr. Holmes nor the Air Force would provide cost estimates for the experimental fuel deal in advance of signing a final contract, expected in coming days.
Air Force officials have acknowledged, however, that the cost per gallon of the test fuel will be expensive.
Syntroleum can produce 42 gallons of synthetic fuel from 10,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The raw materials cost about $70.
If the military moves ahead with using the synthetic fuels, the Syntroleum technology could be used by factories elsewhere to produce the same 42 gallons of fuel from just $10 worth of coal, Mr. Holmes said.
"The United States is essentially the Saudi Arabia of coal," Mr. Holmes said. "It can be mined relatively inexpensively. We really believe that one of the things we can do to help our country's energy needs is to use the abundance of coal reserves."
Mr. Aimone said the large plants needed to produce nonconventional fuels did not exist and would have to be designed and built by the industry.
But he added: "We believe there are economic incentives as we invest in this, and invest with the industry at large, because there are vast coal reserves in this country. The economic pressures of rising oil prices can be moderated by the price of coal."
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Unless we get some sane legislation that takes away OPEC's power to crash US's synfuels industry, the military will have to drive synfuels plant construction with long term fuel contracts. Like it did with microelectronics and so many other industries, the military will have to lead the country.
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#2 - dream on. #3 - your suggestion sounds pretty good. It's ridiculous for our Air Force to depend on the enemies we fight for the fuel to fight them with.
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Sasol kept South Africa's white government running for years with a gas-from-coal extraction system. The technology is there; we just have to decide to use it.
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Check out the following link for a mature project for turning coal into methanol. The quoated delivered price is approx. (1997$) $.50/gallon methanol.
At these prices that would be about $2.25/gallon gasoline equivalent considering taxes and profits, the lower energy content of methanol and increased transportation difficulties (methanol can't be shipped by pipeline). The above is an estimate by myself and your milage may vary.
The plants that would enable the US to do this are VERY expensive capital investments. To protect them from a ruinious fall in oil prices a tax should be levied on all oil imported to the US.
Apparently it's old news week at the broadcast networks. After hyping the year-old revelation about the NSA's telephone record program, CBS has invited the Dixie Chicks, the formerly popular country music group whose penchant for spouting liberal platitudes alienated their fan base, to talk about death threats they received in 2003.
Ostensibly, the purpose of the Chicks' appearance on "60 Minutes" this Sunday is to promote a new album, but the lead of CBS's online promotional piece about the interview focuses entirely on three-year-old threats.There's apparently an effort to "make news" here most likely, but it's so feeble as to be laughable.
Any person who cuts even a slightly bigger-than-average public profile has received death threats. Doing a story on them is of questionable value; doing one on threats received in 2003 can only be attributed to the fact that the Dixie Chicks are liberal. Much-reviled conservative women like Linda Tripp or Katherine Harris both received many death threats but were never granted interviews with "60 Minutes" to talk about their experiences in a sympathetic manner.
I found this section of the story amusing in its contradictory nature:
A recent single the band released, called "Not Ready to Make Nice," speaks to the band's state of mind three years after what they call the "the London incident."
In the 60 Minutes segment, the band refuses to apologize to country music fans who were angered by Maines' remarks or to "make nice" to the radio stations that refused to play their music. When asked by Kroft why the band just doesn't try to make country music fans happy, Maines tells him that's not the way the Dixie Chicks work. "We don't make decisions based on that. We don't go, 'OK, our fans are in the red states, so I'm going play a red, white and blue guitar and put on my I Love Bush T-shirt,'" she says. "We're not like that because we're not politicians. We're musicians," Maines tells Kroft.
In other words, the Dixie Chicks aren't apologizing for making political remarks because they're not political. Makes a lot of sense to me.
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After the bullS^&t London stunt I cut my wife's copies of the DC and threw them away. No longer allowed in my house. Eventually they will fade away like the folks in Supermax, all but forgotten.
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A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.
Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.
"Any type of hatred toward groups of people, especially for political gain, is completely unacceptable in the Alabama Democratic Party," said Turnham.
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."
"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."
Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group's Internet site. "It's time to stop pushing down the white man. We've been discriminated against too long," Darby said in the interview.
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Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts certainly do.
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Keep in mind that David Duke started as a Democrat. When he tried to run as a Republican, the party endorsed his opponent and blocked his access to party funds.
It'll be interesting to see what the Donks do about Darby. If you change "white" to "black" in his comments, they're otherwise indistinguishable from many of their candidates...
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Southern Democrats were always about racism and maintaining slavlery. Not sure how it came about that the Repubs got the rap for it. Great PR campaign by someone who got the lie repeated often enough that it's taken as gospel.
The Da Vinci Code, set to open in theatres next week, is a betrayal of Islam and should be boycotted, a Calgary Muslim leader says. Sayed Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, said the film and bestselling novel it's based on mocks his religion by questioning one of Islam's most important prophets: Jesus Christ. "Dan Brown used the real Jesus to propagate his fabricated re-search," he said."This kind of movie is not frequent but if we don't stand up to these movies, they'll become more frequent."
The movie, which opens May 19, suggests Jesus had a child with Mary Magdalene and the ancient bloodline still exists, a secret fiercely protected by a sect of the Catholic church. Soharwardy said because the film taints the notion of Jesus -- the most oft-mentioned prophet in the Qur'an -- as pure and sinless, it could convince people the story is real.
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Nice try, Sayed, but I don't think it's going to have the same riot-factor as the cartoons. I just don't see the muzzies getting all that stirred up about Jesus. Now, if you were to get your stinky little hands on some "out-takes" that display Mohammed in a humiliating manner, you might have something. See what you can doctor up.
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I'm not boycotting it, but I'm not going to bother seeing it.
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It appears the muzzies don't know "Christ" is not a name, but a title.
I just read the book ($4.29 at Costco) and the story is exciting, but then, I've also read most of the Bible and could see the glaring errors (i.e., the book of Philip in "Aramaic" and found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, c'mon, the Dead Sea Scrolls are pre-Christian). Brown just wove a tale from his imagination.
Anyway, the book was good and now I'm going to see the movie just to spite the complainers.
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Well, it's "fiction" that likes to have its cake and eat it too.
Everyone's supposed to talk about what a daring piece of work it is, but as soon as someone brings up a bunch of contradictory facts, people like you start talking about how it's supposed to be fiction...
The book's basically a way of spreading the same sort of pseudohistorical junk as _Holy Blood, Holy Grail_ did, but without actually having to defend its theses and being open to counterargument thanks to the "fiction" label.
Posted by: Phil ||
05/13/2006 12:02 Comments ||
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So here's the difference.
Some Christians find The Da Vinci Code to be wholly disrespectful to their religion. Their response: make their anger/disgust/fill-in-emotion-here known, and avoid seeing the movie.
When Muslims don't like their religion treated disrespectfully, they call for murder.
I have a feeling they feel this makes them holier than thou or something...or it makes their religion better.
It doesn't. It simply makes them barbarians. Nothing more.
#9
the book was an entertaining piece of fiction. The movie will probably be the same. So was Mission Impossible 3. Get over yourselves...you have better things to worry about, don't you? I rarely take my religious instruction from Hollywood
Posted by: Frank G ||
05/13/2006 13:00 Comments ||
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While I agree with Frank, I wondered if the Muslims would do this.
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Phil, you are correct that this book might be taken to heart by those who did not read the paragraph above the "Library of Congress...." page. "This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, etc.......are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously"
BTW, whose "people like you". Sounds critical. And mojo, the answer is yes, everything not controlled by Islam is fiction:)
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Xenophon, there's a long history of people using fictional works to expound on a particular point of view. I believe _TDVC_ to be one such work. To immediately respond to accusations of innacuracy by hiding behind a "it's only fiction" statement, to me, seems dishonest to me.
Posted by: Phil ||
05/13/2006 16:23 Comments ||
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I'm disappointed in Opie - going to the dark side of producing films that will upset and offend MILLIONS. We allow that him that privilige, just like we allow Fred Phelps, flag burners and the Dixie Chunks denigrating promotions. Maybe next Opie will do a film showing the benefits of having slaves or beating women into submission.
I don't care if people watch DVC - but agree with Phil's comment above. If anything - it might make some take a closer look at what Christianity is all about. It's tough to kill a good idea. And as I always sy, no such thing as negative publicity.
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