They are the ONLY team to come back in baseball from a 3-0 in a 7 game series. And in the process they pinned the Choke monkey on the back of their hated rivals, the NY Yankees!
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, widely considered one of the most liberal and activist in the country, said it saw no reason why animals should not be allowed to sue but said they had not yet been granted that right.
Oh give the 9th some time. They're probably working right now on rectifying that sad situation.
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Dr. Doolittle, Esq. - Atty to the animal kingdom: "He talks for those who can't...except to him"
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Oh, I don't know, Mucky. San Francisco and neighboring Berkeley are legitimate fronts in the WoT, and the 9th Circus is a major force in legitimizing fifth column activity, so I think it belongs here. Fred may well decide otherwise, however.
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Don't worry we got Marineland covered like a red, wet blanket, even that bastard Shamu is with us. F*k the minimum wage! We want a piece of the action!
Parisian club hurts Sioux pride
The Sioux tribe of North America is demanding that the famous Parisian nightclub The Crazy Horse change its name out of respect for a former chief.
Oh, boy! More Tales of the Easily Offended™!
Harvey White Woman, a descendant of Crazy Horse, told the club that "my family are offended whenever there is a show of disrespect to our culture". The letter was delivered to the club by Alfred Red Cloud, 53, on behalf of the Oglala Sioux from South Dakota. Mr White Woman said the letter was prompted by the discovery that stage shows at the Crazy Horse featured pseudo-Indian feathered headdresses - on mostly naked dancers. ...more...
Native PC crosses giant pond.
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If you're an Indian who answers to the name "Mr. White Woman" I think changing the name of a nightclub should be your second priority.
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LOL--Maybe that's why they were one of the fiercest tribes on the Great Plains--they had the most lawyers! Nothing sends a chill down my spine like the phrase "Lakota Litigators".
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Overwrought PC multiculturalists vs. the French.
Who do I root for?
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Hmm, IIRC there's a fairly good strip club in San Francisco called the 'Crazy Horse Theater'. I guess the Sioux haven't heard of it.
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Chief White Woman wantum trade headdress with Crazy Horse dancer.
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Harvey White Woman, a descendant of Crazy Horse, told the club that "my family are offended whenever there is a show of disrespect to our culture".
I think I understand where the hair-trigger sensitivity is coming from.
Most Union officer vets were Republicans (Party of Lincoln) although G.A. Custer was enough of a political opportunist (like another decorated war vet we know) that I'm sure he would've accepted the Dem nomination had it been offered.
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They weren't all republicans. George McClelland ran against Lincoln on the Democratic party ticket. Got his ass whipped there, too. Just like the seven days.
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Hardees is an American fast food chain - they've got pretty good burgers and roast beef sandwiches.
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This is EXACTLY the kind of western values that the mullahs are trying to stomp out. Put this kind of stuff on Arab television and, first thing you know, some guy will be late for call to prayer.
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And no sick comments about "In âN Out" please...
I guess you don't want to hear about "Jack In The Box" then either.
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Must be one rats ass, shitty burger if this is how they gotta plug it.
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"Must be one rats ass, shitty burger if this is how they gotta plug it."
Hardee's burgers were pretty good, I've eaten them since the sixties. However, when CKE Restaurants (Owners of the Carl's Jr. chain) purchased the Hardee's operation, they dumped the Hardee's menu in favor of the Carl's Jr. menu.
An outstanding Marketing decision as the CJ menu is vastly superior. The burgers are in fact much better than anything you will get at any of the other fast food establishments, with the notable exception of Whataburger or Sonic.
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Hardees also owns Carl's Jr. part of Karcher enterprises
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In Saudi Arabia, it's still Hardee's name on the signs. They have a mixture of original Hardee's stuff (funny - no pork cutlet sandwich, though...) and Carl's. The outlet on the Corniche in Al Khobar was my fav drive-thru. Always spent about 50SR - approx $13... food is expensive there cuz almost everything is imported, of course.
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Too bad the LLL isn't required to watch these shows. Most still long for the day that the Soviet Union was king of the Hill.
Actually, I think that they really want a dictatorship; that way, they can make people do things without having to win messy elections and trying "persuade" people to do "the right thing."
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It would be well to remember that Russia is a schizophrenic nation, only half European in character. The other half, the other face, is purely Asiatic. This was remarked on by Kipling, who praised Russians as Asiatics, but looked on them with distrust when they put on European airs. And while the European in Russians might disdain the Stalinist slaughter, the Asiatic understands the greater purpose. And it truly *isn't* a flawed philosophy, it is just a different one. If a villager insults the Emperor, it is *expected* that his entire village will be razed in punishment. To do otherwise is unnatural and odd.
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THe Human Rights idiots have it backwards. Russia's problem is less that its military's brutal than that it's ineffective: badly organized, badly led, poorly trained, underpaid, completely demoralized. Only when Russia's military is reformed and reorganized will it stop the bloodshed in Chechnya, in the fastest way possible: by winning the war.
And the Beeb cited the HRW report, jules. You wanted the full 88 pages? Since I've just started reading it myself, here's just one example:
The story of one conscript illustrates the stresses associated with stodnevka particularly vividly. On May 27, 2002, Dmitrii Samsonov wrote to his parents and grandmother that the stodnevka was starting on June 19. He asked them all to send him supplies. For example, he wrote to his mother: âMama, this is what I need for the next four months: every week a transfer of forty to fifty rubles, and a small package with Prima [cigarettes] and filter cigarettes⦠Mama, donât forget to send this immediately. Immediately!â
The letter was delivered late and his parents received it only the day before the start of the stodnevka. A few days later, a second letter arrived in which Samsonov expressed his desperation:
Today the stodnevka is starting and I havenât received anything from you, nor from mama or grandma⦠I donât know what to do. Itâs 2:00 p.m. now. It will be lights-out in eight hours. I think that I will not survive this night. Or actually, I will survive but it will cost me a lot. I wrote to you, begged youâjust in case, I also wrote to grandmaâso you would [send me money] quickly but nobody responded. You just donât understand how important it was for me. I needed 200 rubles for the stodnevka, a pack of Yava Zolotoi [a cigarette brand name] and four cigarettes per day by June 19. That was itâ¦
As a post scriptum to the letter, Samsonov wrote: âI love you very much and miss you but I donât know how Iâm going to survive now.â In a letter dated July 13, 2002, Samsonov wrote that he was in a military hospital with a broken wrist. He wrote: âIâm not going to explain how that happened. It would take too long. I just wanted to inform you that I survived the beginning of the stodnevka.â In the letter, he repeated his requests for money and cigarettes.
On July 24, 2002, his parents received a telegram saying that their son had died the day before. Later, they were told that he had slit his veins.
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Yes, the hazing is horrific, and yes, dozens of recruits each year are killed or kill themselves to avoid it.
But the big story here is that Russia no longer has a state capable of preserving its integrity-- I mean, doing the most basic things a state must do, like paying pensions, preserving the borders, paying teachers' salaries and keeping hospitals open, and raising and supporting an even minimally competent military.
Russia is Pakistan North. Only high oil prices prop up the rotten structure. Had Russia an even halfway competent military, the Chechen insurrection would have been put down many years ago.
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Aris, I was looking for some backup of their claims, not an unreasonable expectation to to make of the Beeb, a news organization. Noenetheless, Aris, and lex, thanks for the info.
A broken wrist, then a suicide. It makes you wonder exactly what happens in dedovshchina. His horror and fear are clear, but exactly what is going on there is not.
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Hazing has a long history in the Russian/Red/Soviet Army. I heard parts of the story today on a BBC broadcast and it was to me a real yawner. Nothing new here.
Lex, I have a theory about ground forces.
A country spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to train a unit in weapons and tactics in military behavior; these men/women are then deployed into a combat environment.
The moment those soldiers are ordered to attack defenseless targets, as a matter of direct orders, you may as well shoot those soldiers as well for whatever combat efficiency they may have developed in the course of their training, it is gone for good, gone forever, never to come back. It is like opening a bottle of beer and letting it set out.
Now, you take surviving cadre from those units and you move them up in the ranks and what you have is a ruined military, incompetent and unable to perform a simple combat mission without heavy losses to themselves and to defenseless targets.
This is the point the Russian Army is at now. Demoralized and weak. Fortunately their expriment with a contract muilitary has shown some positive results. At the moment the experimental unit, the Russian 106th Airborne Division, now deployed in Chechnya is providing a template for the rest of the army. Chances are it may not end the hazing, but it could definately give the Russian Army the edge it needs to finally end the Chechen war with a win.
The Beeb/HRW report is agenda pushing at its worst. Aris drooling all over it is proof enough of that for me.
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The Beeb/HRW report is agenda pushing at its worst.
It seems to me to be agenda pushing at its best. HRW's agenda of caring about human rights is hardly a secret -- though certainly a nuisance for some people.
Aris drooling all over it is proof enough of that for me.
Yeah, you've shown already you have a very personal and *interesting* definition of "proof".
After months of observing and analyzing the pre-election campaign, Georgia is still waiting to see who the next de facto president of separatist Abkhazia will be. Since the October 3 election, denounced as illegitimate both by the Georgian government and international organizations, the two leading candidates have wrestled over the results and tension in the region has visibly increased. Today Georgia faces uncertainty not only regarding the two candidates Khadjimba and Baghapshi, but also Moscow, where government officials are recalculating their strategy in an election they had strongly tilted in favor of the current loser Khadjimba.
Back to the old drawing board!
Both Georgian and Russian media outlets acknowledge that situation did not transpire as Moscow had planned. Official Moscow tapped Khadjimba to win, sending influential Russian figures to campaign for the former prime minister. Even President Vladimir Putin supported him with a photo op and talk of support . But Moscow underscored Khadjimba's pro-Moscow line to such an extent that they in fact disenchanted zealous pro-independence Abkhaz voters who instead voted for Sergei Baghapshi.
The previously unknown diary of 18-year-old Helga Deen - who was murdered along with her family by the Nazis at the Sobibor death camp in 1943 - has been loaned to the Tilburg Regional Archive.
In her diary, Helga describes her experiences, feelings and surroundings at the Dutch Vught concentration camp in the month before she and her family were transported to Sobibor.
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Former South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has asked Florida voters to consider which presidential candidate could "return your country to be a beacon of freedom and peace."
Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, released an open letter Wednesday to the residents of Florida.
He urged Florida voters "to consider your vote not in terms of whether the individual is a Democrat or a Republican but whether he can lead your nation with wisdom and return your country to be a beacon of freedom and peace for the world." Except for the Clinton and Carter years, the US has always returned to being a beacon of freedom and peace.
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It's really hard to say anything without coming off like a racist but I can try. The "Reverend" is typical of the many "reverends" that were the cause of my leaving the United Methodist Church. Being a "Reverend" and a NPPW still doesn't give him a right to meddle in our election. If the good "Reverend" wants to worry about election I suggest he worry about the upcoming one in Zimbabwe next door to his country South Africa.
BTW I have the right to include "Reverend" in fron of my name. That and a dollar twentyfive will get you a cup of regular coffee. The Reverend should stick to what he knows which is being an Anglican priest and STFU.
ABC news anchor Peter Jennings said he's getting an earful on media coverage. Jennings is on a swing through battleground states, is he stumping for Kerry?
including Iowa and Missouri, where polls show the race could go either to President George W. Bush or Sen. John Kerry. "I think one of the best reasons to go on the road is just to listen," Jennings told KETV NewsWatch 7's Rob McCartney during a stop in Kansas City, Mo., Monday. Jennings said the media is now under the hot lights. "I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective," Jennings said. Jennings said that everyone -- even journalists -- have points of view through which they filter their perception of the news. It could be race, sex or income. But, he said, reporters are ideally trained to be as objective as possible. "And when we don't think we can be fully objective, to be fair," the anchorman said. You get an 'F' on both Peter....
Does the public think network news is fair? There are a number of opinion polls that show news consumers feel that the media does have a slant. Jennings maintains those polls may be driven by groups with an agenda. Agenda: Get reliable truthful news.
"There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives,'" Jennings said. The problematic response, Jennings said, is the way people tailor the way they consume news. No Peter. The problem is that your monopoly on the 'NEWS' is over. People can do their own research now. People can comment and discuss the news with others (some of which are very knowledgable - there are several here on Rantburg I respect). People can see that the MSM is giving the terrorists a free pass by calling them 'militants' or 'resistance fighters' instead of terrorists (i.e. someone who deliberately targets and kills innocent civilians) deliberately slanting the news (not mentioning the rapes or murdered children in Russa). People are realizing that the MSM is deliberately lying with the goal of directing public opinion (see CBS) - and has been for some time. The only 'tailoring' is to assign a 'credibility index' to news sources such as yours (zero).
I don't have a link as yet but Terraazza, on Fox News, said "I don't know Laura Bush but I seriously doubt she has ever held a real job". Teaching, I guess, is not a real job.
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..said "I donât know Laura Bush but I seriosly doubt she has ever held a real job".
This, coming from someone who married into her ketchup fortune.
Hat Tip M Drudge... Heinz Kerry Separates Self From Mrs. Bush Don't you just love AP spin... Teresa Heinz Kerry says she doesn't know if first lady Laura Bush has ever had "a real job" and suggests their different experiences help make them different people. Laura Bush taught in public schools in Texas from 1968 to 1977, the year she married George W. Bush. In an interview published Wednesday in USA Today, the newspaper asked the wife of Democratic candidate John Kerry if she would be different from Laura Bush as a first lady. "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good," Heinz Kerry said. "But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience and her validation comes from important things, but different things." Of course my job was to marry a soup and ketchup baron, and guess what? I did! Then I married an ambitious narcissistic ambitious bozo who might actually become US President, then I will be Queen of the World
Heinz Kerry said she sees her age as a benefit — she is 66 and Bush 57. "I'm older, and my validation of what I do is a little bit bigger — because I'm older, and I've had different experiences. And it's not a criticism of her. It's just, you know, what life is about," she said. Shove it, Scumbag!
Karen Hughes, an adviser to President Bush, criticized Heinz Kerry's remarks as "indicative of an unfortunate mind-set that seeks to divide women based on who works at home and who works outside the home." And, those who have so many homes, they don't have a real home...
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I look at pictures of the woman (a lady she most definitely is not) and I have to wonder how much she pays her hairdresser and beautician. Even in photos that don't catch her in mid yawn, she looks like she's gone overlong between visits to the nearest $10 walk-in Klip'n'Kurl. I mean, JFK always looks so immaculate -- but then maybe if you've bought and paid for it, you don't have to try as hard.
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;-) HT to Drudge
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Well, we know Her Heinzness never held a real. College, UN shill, then she got her Mrs. and quit working.....
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Real job....
Preview is My Friend
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OOPS! Looks like someone told her she really stepped in it - she's issued an apology:
Teresa Heinz Kerry released the following statement today:
"I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a school teacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. As someone who has been both a full time mom and full time in workforce, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are. I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as First Lady, and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past."
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The only word she wrote in that press release was "I".
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"Forgot" my ass. She didn't know in the first place. The response sounds like a press release at a trial. Please, oh please, Kerry, Edwards, and Ketchup Lady, keep talking. You're doing yourselves more damage daily.
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Her Majesty probably received a hasty call from the NEA:
"Er, we know that Lara was a Repug and therefore a subversive influence in the education system and a class enemy, but we can't very well deny that she had the job, and it is a REAL JOB!"
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I can hardly wait for my Wife and Daughter (both teachers) to get home from work and let them know. SNORK
It won't matter much they are both die hard Republicans. But It does show what the elitists actually think, teachers are dumb (their unions support democrats.)
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Just think: if this woman's hockey-puck husband wins the election, we'll have to endure four YEARS of her crazy bullshit.
[SHUDDER]
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I appreciate and honor Mrs. Bush's service to the country as First Lady, and am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past."
It would be real nice if Mrs. H-K waited until she was sober before saying anything...
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OK Where's the evidence she's sober? Where's the evidence she's sane? None, eh? No links? Thought so. Idjit.
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No. Neither of us have evidence either way. But the 'she's drunk' proposition was made first. i simply asked for proof. I am asking for proof she was drunk, i have made no claims and therefore have nothing to prove.
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No. I'm saying you should prove me wrong before calling me an Idjit.. As i have not made any accusations it is up to you to prove yours; i am simply asking you to prove the validity of your statement that Ms Heinz was drunk.
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You called yourself an Idjit, I didn't. I just don't call you American as I suspect you're from somewhere else. And when did I ever say she was drunk? Why are you putting words in my mouth?
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No. 8 white raisins soaked in gin per day. Her Heinzness says so.
You see, thats fair enough. I'll happily accept that.
And when did I ever say she was drunk? Why are you putting words in my mouth?
Never directly. However i asked
It would be real nice if Mrs. H-K waited until she was sober before saying anything... What is that statement based on?
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The coherence and sobriety of Heinz' comment.
I would be interested to know what point you were making with that statement if you were not implying she was drunk?
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Hi Mikey AI! Long time, no hear! Where's your evidence I asked for on 5/12/2003? Still waiting! Will be back at 2400 to check. Thanks in advance, idiot
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Take it easy on the raisins, Mucky.
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I'm not mucky or mickey or anyone else. Have only been posting on this board since i found it during a google search for "clark county" + guardian + ohio. Still, if you wish to dodge the difficult questions in this way Mrs Davis so be it.
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Not so fast, Idjit. Mucky is muck4doo. He said he was getting drunk (#35) and I told him to go easy on the raisins cause I don't want him picked up for DUI. And if you want to know how your letter to Clark County Ohio is going, check here.
And don't dodge the point of #38. We're keeping track.
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And if you want to know how your letter to Clark County Ohio is going, check here.
I have not written a letter to Clark County. An exercise in pointlessness. I also don't have a subscription to that obscure Springfield publication.
I'm not the one saying she's sober, you are.
Ah! now where did i say that? As i said again and again i was simply asking you to prove she was drunk. But, if you say you were not saying she was drunk then neither of us is questioning her sobriety or lack of it. Therefore she is innocent until proven guilty.
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Of course you don't have a subscription to News-Sun. Nobody in Springfield is an idjit that I know if, that's why I gave you the link.
You don't say she's sober? She must be sober or drunk. Then you must think she was drunk.
qed.
Say good night Gracie.
Good night Gracie.
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You don't say she's sober? She must be sober or drunk. Then you must think she was drunk. qed. Say good night Gracie. Good night Gracie.
By your logic you MUST be saying she's drunk. Therefore you are A) making a claim you are unable to substantiate and B) lying when you say when did I ever say she was drunk?.
Its dangerous to use childish arguments Mrs Davis because they can be so easily turned against you.
O i agree. I just like people to justify their statements with facts. If you are going to rubbish somebodies speech on the grounds they were drunk i want you to provide proof, otherwise its just so much heresay. But well said AC.
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Tell me, idiot, what are the Guardianista media-conformists going to do if Kerry wins and doesn't run up the white flag in Iraq and Afghanistan or abandon Israel to Eurabian terrorists or turn Bush over to the Hate-America Cult's kangaroo court?
Will Charlotte Raven finally join the vagina-bombers and try to sneak a MOAB onto one of our planes?
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But I'm still a pedantic anal asshat. Demanding proof from others that I'm too lazy to research myself, justifying it as a moral/ethical checkup on everyone but myself, and sucking up to new my overlords at Kofi Annan's beautiful edifice to multicultural participation in one-world patriarchy. You simpletons should bow now before I ask you to prove me wrong - with evidence. I'll be back at 10PM EST to check . Thanks in advance for your legwork to stop my trolling
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I believe Mrs. Davis was using sarcasm. Good God but you liberals are humorless old bluenoses. And no I'm not going to provide proof that you are liberal, old or a blue nose. So sue me.
"Sober" has two meanings, both appropriate to this discussion, but only one involves chemically altered mental state. Whatever Ms. Heinz-Kerry may be, she is certainly not a sober, or serious, person. On the other hand, she is an impulsive, elitist, obnoxious, overbearing little pissant of a woman, whose parents clearly didn't spank her enough when she was a child.
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Mrs Heinz is a intemperate, fat head (look at the pictures of her), elitist and clueless. Her insult of Mrs Bush was an insult against all teachers everywhere. My Wife the teacher was not amused. Her attempt to retract her insult was rightfully rejected on behalf of all those "little people" who teach and don't believe in your messed up socialist agendas.
Like the old song says, "Return to sender/Address unknown/No such number/No-one's home"
Thousands of cards mailed by county election boards to newly registered voters in Hamilton County and throughout the state are being returned because the people can't be found. John Williams, director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections, said the situation indicates that there might not be as many new voters as some expect in a state deemed crucial in the presidential election.
Ohio Republican Party Chairman Robert Bennett on Tuesday said it's a result of statewide registration fraud conducted by independent groups that support Democratic candidates. "By most accounts, their work can only be considered sloppy, haphazard and, in some cases, downright illegal," Bennett said, noting that the state party plans to take out full-page ads in Ohio newspapers encouraging citizens to stop voter fraud. snip
Bennett cited instances in 10 counties where potentially fraudulent voter registration forms were submitted. He said many were submitted by groups he terms "auxiliaries of the Democratic Party": the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and America Coming Together. The groups paid people to register voters. Some registrations were filled out for dead people, some contained fake addresses, and others named fiction characters such as Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins.
Jess Goode, spokesman for ACT in Ohio, has denied wrongdoing by his group. He said the Republican Party is scared of the number of new Democratic voters headed to the polls in two weeks. An estimated 7.9 million people have registered in Ohio, up from 7.1 million at the beginning of the year. Williams is currently investigating fraud by someone working for ACORN who he said submitted voter registrations for about 35 people who don't exist. Newly registered voters in Hamilton County are mailed a card telling them where to vote and what political districts they live in. But thousands of those cards were returned because the people, or the addresses listed on voter registration forms, couldn't be found. "There is quite a number," Williams said, noting that not every returned card is a suspected case of fraud. "People do actually move.''
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Has anyone made preparations against the PRI (Dems) working with the media to set up a nasty election day rouse.
The PRI knows which precincts in Cleveland where fraud is highest. A few grams of well placed crack saw to that before they were caught. So the GOP attorneys and challengers know of these as well, because the cross-spying efforts are at least reasonably efficient. So, the PRI using their contacts with al-Jazzera West (CBS) or al-Arabia West (CNN) have a well placed camera crew, placed down the block. The PRI legal team (ACLU) has placed a couple of angry violent ambulance-chasers in a polling place, keeping their cool until the time is right. Also, a couple of prime selected AFL-CIO goons, are also nearby, and at the ready. Then, several voters come in, Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Garfield Katz, and try to vote. The "HI" sign is given to the TV crews, and the lawyers start to bicker. Upon arrival of the TV crews teh AFL-CIO goons start into action, pummeling the GOP lawyers, while being egged on by the PRI lawyers. When the camera starts rolling the PRI lawyers suddenly become calm, and explain to the sycophant reporter that these evil Republicans were suppressing the vote, and Ms. Poppins was fulfilling her constitutional right. Ms. Poppins will be elderly (probably a costume), and a minority, of course, and the al-Jazzera, and al-Arabia networks will have it shown nationwide for the noontime news.
Dan Rather, reporting in the evening will belie his "even-handed" BS, by breathing heavily at the sight of the video...
The Progress for America Voter Fund,
http://www.pfavoterfund.org/
an independent, conservative advocacy group, today releases a TV commercial it calls "Ashley's Story." The organization says it will spend $14 million to run the 60-second commercial between now and Nov. 2. This is a nuclear weapon among political ads. It doesn't even mention Kerry.
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This sounds great, but I wonder why we haven't seen any testimonials from Afghans or Iraqis who are alive today because of Bush.
The article speculates that Kerry may respond with some equally heart-warming anecdote about Kerry. Good luck finding one. "And then he said to me, 'Little girl, just who do you think you're talking to?'"
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Sen. John Kerry has a simple strategy if the presidential race is in doubt on Nov. 3, the day after the election: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes.
Unlike the former vice president, who lost a recount fight and the 2000 election, Kerry will be quick to declare victory on election night and begin defending it. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidencyâŠ
Found via the Kerry Spot, which adds, "Notice nowhere in this story is there any suggestion that Kerry's plan would be affected by actual election results."
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Bingo. This will, indeed, be the game - should've seen it coming weeks ago. You can bank on this.
Picture the possibilities!
Incumbent President in squeaker...
Administration in place...
Election outcome tied up in courts...
Jan 20th, both Bush and Skeery show up for Oath of Office...
Dhimmidick appointees show up for "work"...
#2
Calling Florida election results (I think is was Afghan Dan Rather)early for Bush in 2000, resulted in the heavily Republican panhandle (one hour behind) not going to the polls (stupid, but they thought Bush had the state). This is often glossed over when Dimlight O'Crats point out that Bush only carried FL by 500+ votes. The number would have been much higher without the Rather flub.
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Skeery's campaign has announced (just heard on Fox) they have $6.8M for post-election legal fee fund, at present. Also, even if the election is NOT close, they will challenge - whatever that means. And another goodie: The Fed Election Comm says there will be NO limits on the legal fund donations, soft money will be OK, so we can expect Big Bux from the usual Socialist Fascist Sources.
#4
well...when it gets right down to brass tacks...the military supports GW by, something like, 75%. So, if the courts can't decide...then guess who wins? If you want to start a war, you might want to have something beside crazed un-armed pacificsts on your side.
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.com -- I fear you may be right. I've suspected Kerry may see himself -- even after a clear loss -- as the head of a "shadow presidency".
This idea -- of Kerry declaring himself the winner and taking the fight to the courts -- is exactly what vodkapundit was talking about in his famous rant. It strikes at the very legitimacy of the system by saying you're not going to follow the rules if they don't break your way.
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maybe Teresa can buy Elba and establish him as King there
Posted by: Frank G ||
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RC - Such has been demonstrated in the same-sex marriages and similar. If they don't like it - they just ignore it.
And I forgot to Thank You for this post - it really will be a watershed event in American history - of the wrong sort, but extremely important nonetheless. If Skeery "wins" - and with all the voter fraud afoot it appears he has an excellent chance of pulling it off, I will NOT contribute one thin dime to his disasterous term. That, as far as I am concerned, will be that. You guys will prolly need a decade to "recover" - and that ignores the inevitable disasters that will occur, from Iran to domestic terror hits.
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.com, if the election is in doubt come the first week of January, things will get settled in a hurry.
The House will meet and vote (if necessary) to elect a President, per the Constitution. If GWB plausibly has ? 269 EV, he's the President. Kerry would have to have serious claims to 270+ EV to be elected, and those EV would have to be pretty clean looking. If the 2000 Election had ended up in the House (e.g., Florida never sent its Electors to vote, so no one had 270 EV), there's no question GWB would have been the winner.
The Senate then will meet, elect the Vice-President (Cheney in this scenario), and start to confirm the appointees of the elected President. The Dim appointees won't get the chance to show up for work.
Of course, if sKerry really does win, there won't be a problem, as GWB and crew have enough class to respect the rules and clean out their desks.
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10/20/2004 13:36 Comments ||
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I have had the same fears for a while now - that at some point we are going to get a losing Presidential candidate who REFUSES to lose - who is so sure of their Righteousness that they will say something along the lines of, "The People didn't know what they are doing." And remember my prediction from a couple weeks ago - that in the last part of October, some 'voter rights' group or groups we've never heard of will announce "proof" of a massive vote fraud plan on the part of the GOP, and the Donks will demand the election be postponed - or worse, handed to Kerry.
Mike
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Over on Democratic Underground last night (and I should NEVER EVER EVER go there; it's bad for my blood pressure), they were speculating that the flu vaccine shortage (and the school plans found in Iraq) were Repug ploys to keep people from voting. Gah. Did I mention I should NEVER EVER EVER go there?
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Creath Crort, I don't know any military men or women who are going to do anything close to what you say. They may not like the C-in-C (ie. Clinton), but they aren't going to do a palace coup.
For those who don't know, if we have a bona-fide or "apparent" 269 to 269 EV tie, then it goes to the House. Each state delegation gets one vote. The Pubs would win, in that case, if party lines are observed. There is no identified solution, AFAIK, for a 25-25 tie there.
But that's not the scenario that I believe will occur.
"Kerry would have to have serious claims to 270+ EV to be elected, and those EV would have to be pretty clean looking."
If there are states in dispute, as is currently planned by the Dhimmidick strategists (no matter what the vote results are, btw) and neither candidate has 270 without counting one or more of the disputed state's EVs, then it doesn't go to the House - it goes to the courts. This is a no-brainer for the LLL's - just dispute enough swing states, which they have already announced they will do.
Anything can happen, then, given the massive voter registration fraud, silly system hernias, such as the Colorado EV / popular vote gambit, the Ohio court ruling which says any voter in OH can vote anywhere - and officials are req'd to be able to validate - or are forced to accept the vote if unable to link all systems to validate, wild-eyed efforts to disenfranchise military votes, unverifiable overseas absentee ballots, not to mention the most obvious avenue for fraud: No valid official picture-ID required to vote.
Maybe you'll be right - there'll be enough votes to overwhelm the Loonies. Maybe we'll see a John Howard type of silent majority motivated to vote. Maybe it will be sufficient to overwhelm the assholes - eventually. I doubt it, utterly, but I've been wrong many times. I see this election ending up in the courts because all challenges must be handled by rule of law. No matter how silly or absurd, it will end up in the courts because they have decreed they will challenge in numerous states - more than enough of which are in doubt that they actually have a chance of changing some results.
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More than - enough to make this conservative Democrat gag.
Bush has my vote and my support. I've had enough.
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Relax, folks. This election will not be close.
As in the Calif governor's race, and the FL governor's race, and several other state races, the polls have no connection to how millions of centrists and swing voters will actually vote on Nov 2. There are at least a million national security Democrats who find Kerry horrifying but are not willing (or able) to come out openly for Bush. In the privacy of the voting booth, these closet Bush supporters will make their presence felt. But not before Nov 2-- the wrath of colleagues, neighbors, friends, even family is too great for them to come out openly.
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One caveat: Rove needs to quit worrying about the fundamentalist vote and go after every Lieberman and DNC Democrat he can find between Philadelphia and Detroit. At least 100,000 votes there, enough to tip one or more of PA, OH and MI.
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How about this scenario: The LLL talking heads on ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN declare Kerry the winner, he claims victory, but then the final tallies throw the election to Bush. Can you imagine the howl from the left? It would be litigation after litigation for the next few months.
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I have talked to more than a few democrats here that are not goin to vote at all. They don't like Kerry, don't like Bush, and despise Nader. I say don't ever vote for a candidate you will not later support. It's better in my view to not vote at all.
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Sure, declare victory early. Just one more thing to flip/flop about. "I won before I lost."
I can almost hear the Acceptance of Defeat speech: "The People have spoken. The bastards!"
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Why wait - declare victory today and have done with it. Why let a pesky thing like an election decide the important issue of John Kerry becoming President. Voters are such a ... nuisance.
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Lessee...
There was the Papal Court in Avignon during the Middle Ages. Rome and Avignon spent a lot of time excommunicating each other, as I recall.
And a few years ago Lackawanna, NY had three mayors, 'cause the job was just too lucrative. The old guy stayed in, the new guy moved in, and I still have no idea where the third guy came from. ;-)
Pre-emption and unilateralism are the two most frequently used terms against President George W. Bush's foreign policy in the current presidential election campaign. Sen. John Kerry, the Democrat Party's presidential nominee, accuses Bush of breaking with an established tradition of American foreign policy. Kerry says the US should use force only after it is attacked, and then, only in conjunction with allies, and endorsement by the United Nations. Unilateralism and pre-emption, Kerry asserts, are alien to American traditions. But are they?
Both the kind of foreign policy that Kerry offers and the one practiced by Bush after Sept.11 , 2001 have deep roots in American history. When the United States emerged as an independent nation in the 18th century, virtually the entire world was dominated by European colonial powers. The chief concern of early American leaders was to steer clear of European rivalries, and avoid trouble in their own backyard.
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"In 1812 , however, the British attacked the United States, showing, not for the first time in history, that when a major war is fought somewhere it is bound to drag in other nations."
Well, no they didn't. The US declared war after many outrages which included supplying the natives for years in the Northwest Territories the weapons and materials to conduct what would be considered today as terrorist raids in the Ohio Valley. The Battle of the Thames [Canada] during the war would break the natives and end for all intents and purposes further serious attacks in the eastern portion of the Territories.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said his sex life suffered after he praised President George W. Bush at the Republican convention, infuriating his Democratic wife.
"Don't touch me, you... you... you Republican!
"I'll be back!"
The movie star politician told an audience in Monterey, California, that his wife and Kennedy family heiress Maria Shriver was not amused at his electrifying speech in support of Bush's White House bid and cold-shouldered him after the convention. "Well, there was no sex for 14 days," the "Terminator" star quipped when asked by former Democrat White House chief of staff, Leon Pannetta, what Shriver thought of Schwarzenegger's backing for Bush. While she has taken on the role of first lady to California's Republican governor, Shriver is an arch-Democrat and the niece of slain US president John F. Kennedy and of his brother, Senator Robert Kennedy. Schwarzenegger, a moderate Republican, said that he is not likely to hit the campaign trail for Bush, but said he was considering making one appearance in the battleground state of Ohio. The governor, who took office almost a year ago, has been cagey about publicly committing himself to campaigning for Bush with whom he has little in common apart from their party affiliation. A Fiscal conservative, Mr Schwarzenegger is a social liberal, supporting abortion rights, stem cell research, gun control and even gay marriage, issues to which Bush is heavily opposed.
Americans go to the polls in less than two weeks, on November 2, to elect a president with Bush facing Democrat John Kerry, who shares most of Schwarzenegger's stances on social issues. A jocular Schwarzenegger said that he had no interest in watching the presidential debates between Bush and Kerry. He quipped that if he wanted to hear a great discussion between an intelligent liberal and a Republican, "I'd just take my wife out to dinner."
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Sometimes life is a bitch. Sometimes your wife is.
Critics and friends of military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday urged the country's new prime minister to make good on government promises to move toward democracy, a day after the junta shuffled a more moderate leader out of power.
Well, that sounds hopeful. I guess. They'll be a beacon of democracy in no time flat at this rate.
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Newsweek's Evan Thomas, who in July acknowledged that the media "want Kerry to win" and "that's going to be worth maybe 15 points" for the Kerry-Edwards ticket, on Sunday reaffirmed his belief that most reporters "absolutely" want Kerry to win, but on CNN's Reliable Sources he argued that his 15 point estimation was a "stupid thing to say." When host Howard Kurtz wondered if it is worth five points, Thomas acceded, "maybe."
The July 12 CyberAlert reported: Recognition of the obvious. The media "wants Kerry to win" and so "they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic" and "there's going to be this glow about" them, Evan Thomas, the Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, admitted on Inside Washington over the weekend. He should know. His magazine this week sports a smiling Kerry and Edwards on its cover with the yearning headline, "The Sunshine Boys?" Inside, an article carrying Thomas' byline contrasted how "Dick Cheney projects the bleakness of a Wyoming winter, while John Edwards always appears to be strolling in the Carolina sunshine." The cover story touted how Kerry and Edwards "became a buddy-buddy act, hugging and whispering like Starsky and Hutch after consuming the evidence."
The full Thomas quote on the July 10 Inside Washington, a weekend discussion show taped at and run by the Gannett-owned CBS affiliate in Washington, DC, WUSA-TV, and carried by many PBS stations across the country:
"There's one other base here: the media. Let's talk a little media bias here. The media, I think, wants Kerry to win. And I think they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards -- I'm talking about the establishment media, not Fox, but -- they're going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic and all, there's going to be this glow about them that some, is going to be worth, collectively, the two of them, that's going to be worth maybe 15 points."
Fast forward to the October 17 Reliable Sources on CNN where Thomas appeared, in the program produced live at 11:30am EDT Sunday from CNN's top floor set with the Capitol dome in background, with Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank and conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.
Host Howard Kurtz asked Thomas: "Well, it is a tight race. But do you believe that most reporters want John Kerry to win?"
Evan Thomas: "Yeah. Absolutely."
Kurtz: "Do you think they're deliberately tilting their coverage to help John Kerry and John Edwards?"
Thomas: "Not really."
Kurtz: "Subconsciously tilting their coverage?"
Thomas: "Maybe."
Kurtz: "Maybe?"
Thomas: "Maybe."
Kurtz: "Including in Newsweek?"
Thomas, nodding: "Yeah."
Kurtz reminded him: "You've said on the program Inside Washington that because of the portrayal of Kerry and Edwards as 'young and dynamic and optimistic,' that that's worth maybe 15 points. So that would suggest-"
Thomas: "Stupid thing to say. It was completely wrong. But I do think that, I do think that the mainstream press, I'm not talking about the blogs and Rush and all that, but the mainstream press favors Kerry. I don't think it's worth 15 points. That was just a stupid thing to say."
Kurtz: "Is it worth 5 points?"
Thomas: "Maybe, maybe."
Milbank insisted that reporters like him would prefer a Kerry presidency only because they favor spending time in Nantucket over Crawford.
Another bias flashback: More evidence of journalistic support for Kerry over Bush. From the August 2 CyberAlert:
By a one-party state-like overwhelming margin, political reporters who are covering the presidential campaign think John Kerry would make the better President, New York Times reporter John Tierney discovered in overseeing an informal survey of 153 journalists at a press party during the Democratic convention last week in Boston. "When asked who would be a better President," Tierney relayed in his Sunday news section "Political Points" column of tidbits from the campaign trail, "the journalists from outside the Beltway picked Mr. Kerry 3 to 1, and the ones from Washington favored him 12 to 1." For details: www.mrc.org
For a look at how Tierney, appearing on FNC's O'Reilly Factor, maintained that "most reporters are driven not by ideology," see the August 4 CyberAlert which features a picture of Tierney: www.mrc.org
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Well may I comment that I think you guys in the MSM are doing a shit job of reporting the news and frankly I don't beleive anything you tell me. You a bunch of reakin Morons who would do better in a petting zoo with the chimpanzees mimcking someone. What a pathetic bunch a ass wiping, syncophatic, unconstructive, defeatist punk mother fuckers you all are.
Posted by: Bill Nelson ||
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Don't hold back, Bill - tell us what you really think. :-D
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Naw, we need some /seething/! Personally I feel like the MSM are a bunch of traitors that need to be prime examples of how being a traitor earns you death. We need a law that if a reporter is found to have lied or 'mis-stated' the truth, they spend 5 years as Leroy's cellmate in a Federal prison and if do so about a federal election, then it should be considered an act of treason and they get executed. Yes...I hate reporters.
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This election is entirely about the institutional media trying to hang on to their fading authority and power.
Their reign of terror began with the 1960 election, when the visual power of television superceded all rational considerations and put Hollywood's choice, JFK, in the White House.
This process has gone on for decades, until many millions apparently accept media pronouncements at face value. Last night, I briefly watched the deranged liar Bill Maher pontificating about "what thinking people believe" and "how thinking people" see things. The only support for this was Maher's word alone, his authority as a celebrity.
It was almost comical that these mindless pronouncements were being made in the name of "thinking people" as though anyone with an ounce of reasoning power would accept a media personality's word for anything.
#6
What AC said. It used to be that a NY Times reporter was a major cultural figure with a prestigious and influential position in society. In fact, most of Pinch's reporters are just people who write stuff. They do not write better than many bloggers-- in fact, that write worse than a Lileks, a Steyn or a Wretchard-- and certainly have less insight and worse judgment than the best bloggers. The only thing that distinguishes them is the thoroughness of their reporting and the quality of their sources. But even that's not clear anymore.
The NYT used to be the paper of record. Now it's just a lifestyle guide for a certain bicoastal and college town demographic.
#7
Maher's a clown. The next phase in the blogosphere's continuing assault on the crumbling MSM stronghold is for bloggers to webcast their own streaming video and audio productions.
Screw these jokers on the networks and cable. I want to hear Steyn, and Lileks, and Iraqis, and military experts like Ralph Peters, and genuinely wise and insightful people like Tom Wretchard.
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Well, as the election nears the MSM is pulling out all the stops in its pro-Kerry push. Yahoo's news site is leading with "US Warplanes kill family of six in Fallujah" (by Yasser Faisal) with the requisite picture of a blanket-wrapped bundle identified as a child being pulled from tne rubble. Right under that photo is another, from AP, of a son sobbing into a US flag over the death of his father, an Army staff sgt.
I wonder just how far they will go? We have a couple more weeks to find out, I guess.
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Lex, the New York Times is the newspaper of record that overlooked the Holocaust story. They've been biased for a loooong time. The prestige comes from the big words they use, and the number of subordinate clauses in their sentences.
Federal health officials said Tuesday that 2.6 million additional doses of flu vaccine will be available in January, far fewer than the 48 million lost to contamination at a British manufacturing plant. The shipment also arrives after the date the government recommends for vulnerable Americans to have had their shots. ... People should be vaccinated in October or November, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ... [Tommy Thompson, secretary of Health and Human Services] said there was enough antiviral medicine available to treat 40 million people — shortening illness in people sick with the flu and preventing illness in healthy people. Between vaccines and antiviral drugs, enough medicine will be available to treat 100 million people this flu season, he said. more details on suppliers for additional vaccine
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Hat tip Dhimmi Watch Followup on the Muslim convert who wanted to play basketball in a burka thingie. She is now deprogrammed. Andrea Armstrong, the college basketball player whose desire to compete covered in Muslim clothing caused a national controversy, says she has returned to the Christian faith in which she was raised.
"Sorry. Changed my mind. Ignore what I just said, okay?"
In a letter to the editor of The Oregonian e-mailed Oct. 6, Armstrong wrote that loneliness and distance from her family led to her conversion to Islam. Armstrong, who attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, is from Lakeside, about 90 miles southwest of Eugene on the Oregon coast. "I know that my actions caused great controversy over the past few weeks," Armstrong wrote. "I had no idea that a decision that I thought I was making for myself would reach out so far beyond myself and affect so many."
"I had no idea I'd look quite that stoopid!"
Armstrong did not respond to interview requests. The letter is Armstrong's first public comment since a Sept. 15 statement that she was leaving the team. Armstrong converted to Islam in June, according to a Sept. 11 story in the St. Petersburg Times. She began wearing a head scarf, long pants and long-sleeved shirts in keeping with the religion's traditions.
Now they'll have to kill her, 'cuz she's an apostate...
Armstrong and USF basketball coach Jose Fernandez agreed that she would not wear traditional Muslim clothing in games, according to the Times. Yet when Armstrong, 22, returned to school in August, she told the coach she wanted to adhere to her faith, according to the Times. She showed up for team photos Aug. 30 fully covered. What happened next is in dispute.
"No, no! That ain't the way it happened!"
"Shuddup! It did so!"
Fernandez told The Oracle newspaper of USF that Armstrong quit the team that day to pursue her faith.
"I ain't got time for basketball! I gotta bang my head on the floor five times a day!"
Armstrong told the Times that Fernandez said wearing long clothing would make her teammates uncomfortable and that Islam oppressed women. She also said Fernandez called her parents and told them she had joined a "cult." Armstrong told the Times that she left over the dispute about her clothing.
"If I can't have sequins, I'm leaving!"
"Well, fine then! Leave and be damned!"
Fernandez declined the Times' request to comment and did not return a message from The Oregonian.
"Your call is very important to me. At the tone, please leave your name and number and the date and time of your call and I'll get back to you. Eventually."
School officials said they would seek a waiver from NCAA guidelines to accommodate her dress, and Armstrong quickly returned to the team.
"See? See? We're caving! That's the way you can tell we're an institute of higher education!"
Yet on Sept. 15, four days after news broke of the alleged dispute about her clothing, Armstrong issued a statement saying she had quit the team because she did not want the issue "to cause further distraction."
"I'm so frightened! Oh, hold me Ahmed!"
"Back off, y'brazen hussy!"
Bedier said that Armstrong received hate-filled e-mails denouncing Islam, and that one man waved a newspaper story while following her in a car as she drove home on a scooter.
... her burka waving in the wind...
Contacted Oct. 7, Bedier said he had seen no indication that Armstrong was reconsidering her conversion to Islam. "Her only hesitation was whether she was going to play or not," said Bedier, who said he had last spoken to Armstrong two weeks earlier. After being given a copy of Armstrong's letter to the editor, Bedier did not respond to requests for comment.
"Wotta waste of time! Oh, well! She must be killed..."
South Florida officials said they would allow Armstrong to keep her basketball scholarship even after she left the team. But Armstrong withdrew from school Sept. 23, according to the registrar's office.
"I'm outta here!"
Armstrong played for North Bend High School and accepted a basketball scholarship to Kansas State, where she played for two seasons. Seeking more playing time, she transferred to South Florida in 2002 and played her only season there in 2003-04, when she was co-captain and averaged 3.4 points per game. This season would have been Armstrong's last year of eligibility.
Now it's her first year as a laughingstock...
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....I believe the technical term for Miss Armstrong's situation is, "She's a nut."
Mike
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I believe that you should have said 'attention hoor'.
Changing religions is a significant thing, not to be done lightly. She appears to have done it lightly, with little consideration for its effect on her lifestyle.
It would make sense for Islam in America to proselytize high-profile people to attempt to make the religion more acceptable in the US. I wonder . . .
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I believe the correct term is "She's young." Let her have her privacy back so she can finish growing up, though 22 is getting long in the tooth.
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What is it with USF? Home of Sami al-Arian. It would be a hoot to watch her play in a burka. And what team is really looking for someone who only averages 3.4 points/game?
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"I had no idea that a decision that I thought I was making for myself would reach out so far beyond myself and affect so many."
Yeah, and I'll bet that she's the type that would recklessly cross three lanes of traffic just so that she won't miss a turn.
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I agree with the old Russian Czar that determined that his nation would be Eastern Orthodox Christian rather than Islam because Islam forbids booze!
They hate the Jews, they hate the booze, they hate a woman's right to choose, they're gonna lose!
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I used to carry a universal remote control in the glove box of my car. If I was at a bar, and I didn't like the programming on the TV, I'd go out to my car, get the remote, find the code for the TV, and change the freaking channel. Usually nobody noticed, and one or two times I got applause.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Harvey White Woman, a descendant of Crazy Horse, told the club that "my family are offended whenever there is a show of disrespect to our culture". The letter was delivered to the club by Alfred Red Cloud, 53, on behalf of the Oglala Sioux from South Dakota. Mr White Woman said the letter was prompted by the discovery that stage shows at the Crazy Horse featured pseudo-Indian feathered headdresses - on mostly naked dancers. 
ABC news anchor Peter Jennings said he's getting an earful on media coverage. Jennings is on a swing through battleground states, 
Teresa Heinz Kerry says she doesn't know if first lady Laura Bush has ever had "a real job" and suggests their different experiences help make them different people. Laura Bush taught in public schools in Texas from 1968 to 1977, the year she married George W. Bush. In an interview published Wednesday in USA Today, the newspaper asked the wife of Democratic candidate John Kerry if she would be different from Laura Bush as a first lady. "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good," Heinz Kerry said. "But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience and her validation comes from important things, but different things." 
Pre-emption and unilateralism are the two most frequently used terms against President George W. Bush's foreign policy in the current presidential election campaign. Sen. John Kerry, the Democrat Party's presidential nominee, accuses Bush of breaking with an established tradition of American foreign policy. Kerry says the US should use force only after it is attacked, and then, only in conjunction with allies, and endorsement by the United Nations. Unilateralism and pre-emption, Kerry asserts, are alien to American traditions. But are they?
Newsweek's Evan Thomas, who in July acknowledged that the media "want Kerry to win" and "that's going to be worth maybe 15 points" for the Kerry-Edwards ticket, on Sunday reaffirmed his belief that most reporters "absolutely" want Kerry to win, but on CNN's Reliable Sources he argued that his 15 point estimation was a "stupid thing to say." When host Howard Kurtz wondered if it is worth five points, Thomas acceded, "maybe." 
