First it was everything from dish soap to toothbrushes that promised protection against bacteria. Now the maker of Kleenex plans a tissue that kills viruses.
Kimberly-Clark says its newest product will be on US store shelves in time for the winter cold and flu season.
The Texas-based consumer goods giant has been working on an anti-viral tissue for several years, and company officials believe they are on to a winner in Kleenex anti-viral. Their optimism is rooted in the huge success of anti-bacterial products.
âThe consumers immediately understand the benefits. Itâs very intuitive,â said Steve Erb, who manages the Kleenex brand.
The tissue serves no direct benefit to the person using it to blow his nose â and who already has a cold or the flu. Kimberly-Clark, it might seem, is counting on consumersâ altruism â their desire to spare others from getting sick.
âWeâre not curing the common cold or the flu,â Erb said. âWeâre hoping to reduce the amount of the virus that gets spread. Coughs and sneezes contain plenty of yucky stuff.â
Kimberly-Clark hopes the tissue will build on the success of anti-bacterial products, which range from soaps and laundry detergents to hand gels and toys used in daycare centres.
The success of anti-bacterial products has raised some controversy, however. The American Medical Association expressed concern that their widespread use could help spawn strains of resistant bacteria.
An AMA trustee, Dr Ron Davis, said he had the same concern about the anti-viral Kleenex.
âAll of the hypothetical benefits have to be balanced against possible harm to public health, which may be the increasing resistance of microorganisms to medications,â said Davis, who added that he wanted to see more details about the tissueâs effectiveness at killing viruses.
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I'd sure like to get my hands on this newest version of Doom, but I hear that it'll only run on machines that have PCI Express compatible graphics cards, which means I'd have to buy or build yet another computer... :(
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It restores my faith in humanity to know that a scumbag unemployed dancer can latch onto a hot lip-synch mega multi millionare singer/dancer/actor. Next stops, the 7-11 for some MadDog, and then the crack dealer.
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I see Britney's using Anna Nicole Smith's "Roller Coaster Career Guide". Yee-hah! Stand back and watch the fun!
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I'd hit it ....still
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some of these posts tell FAR more about the poster than they do about Britney...
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Dcreeper. Give us a call in about 5 years, when she's out of rehab again, finishing up marriage number three or four, pushing 250, and working the Holiday Inn with Murph and the Magictones. And I'll probably be richer then she is.
DOHA, Qatar - The popular Arab news channel Al-Jazeera, which the United States has accused of bias, has issued a code of ethics, vowing to "uphold journalistic values" Bwahahahahah! I fell off my chair, Brian
and to be sensitive to the victims of the wars and disasters it covers.
The code, issued in a statement at the end of a two-day international media forum that concluded Tuesday, said the station will "strive to reach and deliver the truth, respect our audience."
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This is pure speculation on my part, but I imagine that the US has been quietly talking to Qatar for a while. I also think that al J has been pretty cozy with Iraqi terrorists, and said terrorists have been killing and maiming hundreds of Iraqis, so you have some guilt by association. Al J is always there for a story, so even the most jaded can connect the dots if they are close enought together. My 2 cents.
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Somehow, I am detecting the faint but heartfelt squeal of someone whose nuts are in a vice, and someone else is squeezing, gently: either our "diplomatic" communications--- perhaps we have found something terribly incriminating about Al-J staffers in Iraq. Or it could very well be the noted loss of credibility amongst the target audience--- all those pissed off shaheeds returning from Iraq without finding the glorious jihad against the West, and all those ordinary Iraqis comparing their reality with what Al-J puts on the air. Whatever and whoever, it works for me. (But I am enjoying the faint, painful squeals!)
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Arab media took a similar huge hit in 1967 whilst reporting on going Arab victories till day six then immediately on day 8 start bitching about the loss of the Sinai and the Golan. The audience was eating it all up until the last second and was brain burned by the "revoltin turin of events".
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The popular Arab news channel Al-Jazeera, which the United States has accused of bias,..
Out of curiosity, what would be the point of accusing Al Jazeera of bias? Any American with a lick of common sense knows what Al Jazeera is all about, and any American that would be stupid enough to buy into what they peddle deserves to be horsewhipped. But if it's the Arab world that U.S. officials are worried about being unduly influenced by biased reporting, well, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over them. All that we need to do is stay the course, and let the results speak for themselves.
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Hey! Let's not bring horses into it. I love my horses and don't whip them. I have a better idea. Put these people in an electric chair and put it on trickle charge.
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Not one of the top ten wine brands sold in British supermarkets and off-licences is French, a survey showed yesterday. The growing market is dominated by New World brands, with the Australians taking six of the 10 places. Their domination of the premier league is challenged only by the Americans, who take two of the top places and are enjoying the fastest growth in the £3.6 billion take-home market, which is expanding by six per cent a year. [Snipped: griping about New World success being all down to branding and advertising]
Top Ten Brands: 1 Hardys (Aus), 2 Blossom Hill (US), 3 Jacobâs Creek (Aus), 4 E&J Gallo (US), 5 Stowells (various), 6 Kumala (S Africa), 7 Lindemans (Aus), 8 Banrock Station (Aus), 9 Rosemount (Aus), 10 Wolf Blass (Aus).
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Anyone know where I get a Ca'Rugate Soave Classico 2003 in the UK?
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The platoon of paratroopers was surrounded by an angry mob of protesters who appeared intent on murder. One soldier had his face smashed in as he went to rescue a private being dragged into the crowd, other colleagues took hits from bricks, bottles and bats and one group of rioters ransacked an armoured Land Rover that had been forced open with a crowbar. At this point the Paras felt their lives were under such threat that they considered opening fire at point-blank range with their rifles. This was not Basra, Kabul or Kosovo; it was Belfast where British troops are still deployed in greater numbers than Iraq because, as shown by a riot that raged into the early hours of yesterday, Northern Irelandâs peace will always be one step from violence while the politicians dither on finding a lasting agreement. In the meantime the Army will continue to be on hand to take the brunt in its longest and most bloody peace-keeping mission in Britainâs backyard.
In the unexpected July 12 sunshine, standing in Palace Barracks, a short drive outside Belfast, two years of relative quiet during the Orange Orderâs marching season appeared likely to continue. But tensions had heightened after a decision by the Government-appointed Parades Commission to ban drunken loyalist marchers returning along a contentious route in Ardoyne with the Orange parade and bands. The ban was to be enforced by the Army and police. Their mission was to keep the loyalists and nationalist protesters apart, while not becoming targets themselves. "Our problem is that the people up there know that we are coming and they can be prepared," said Lt Col John Whitwam, commanding officer of 2Bn the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
We set off in the COâs Tavern armoured vehicle, powered by a hefty Chevrolet engine, going by a circuitous route into north Belfast, an area that claimed a third of the 3,600 victims of the Troubles. "Now here are some boys who are going to throw stones at us," said the CO as a group of eight- or nine-year-olds, standing next to IRA graffiti, pick up some rocks to hurl. A youngster jumps up and bends back the wing-mirror as we slow over a traffic hump. The next two hours are spent deploying 800 soldiers, a similar number of police, a vast convoy of armoured vehicles and 23 four-ton Bedford trucks with 15ft high screens specially attached to the side to keep the sides out of sight of each other. The massive security operation along a 150 yard stretch is there to prevent trouble for three or four minutes of marching.
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âNorthern Irelandâs peace will always be one step from violenceâ
As long as those guys keep up their "marching season", it'll always be this way.
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Wednesday July 14th, 2004
France is to hold a referendum on the proposed EU constitution, the countryâs president, Jacques Chirac, announced today.
Mr Chirac used Bastille Day to announce that voters would be given the chance to accept or reject the constitution in the second half of 2005. "The French people are concerned directly and will therefore be consulted directly, and so there will be a referendum," he said in a television interview.
European leaders agreed on a draft constitution at a summit last month and gave member states until the end of 2006 to ratify the document, either by parliamentary vote or referendum.
Countries besides France to have said they will hold referendums are the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Luxembourg, Spain, the Czech Republic and Denmark; others will hold parliamentary votes, while others still remain undecided.
A referendum poses far less of a danger to Mr Chirac than it does to the British prime minister, Tony Blair, who has also promised the public a vote on the constitution: opinion polls have shown the French public to be generally in favour of the EU constitution; in the UK attitudes are far more mixed. In last monthâs European parliamentary elections, the anti-EU party Ukip went from holding two seats to 12.
Observers expect Mr Blair to wait as long as possible before putting the controversial document to a vote, perhaps pushing a referendum well into 2006. If any of the other 24 member states reject the constitution, Mr Blair will be spared the trouble of a referendum in the UK, as the constitution requires unanimous approval.
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This was brought up yesterday. Looks like itâs the next big EU issue for Britain...
Robert Kilroy-Silk, MEP, has called on the Prime Minister to use his veto to stop the European Commission slashing Britainâs contributions rebate. Mr Kilroy-Silk urged Tony Blair to stop "our money from being spent in eastern Europe". In a letter to the Prime Minister the newly-elected UKIP MEP for the East Midlands echoed Margaret Thatcherâs mantra that "we want our money back" from Brussels. We âgot it backâ. Now we want to keep it. But all this is really rather strange terminology seeing as its our money to begin with...
The Commissionâs financial proposals seek to curb the rebate, which saves the Treasury more than £2 billion a year on the nationâs contributions towards running the EU. Again, strange terminology. Itâs not really going âtowards running the EUâ, itâs going towards subsidies and expenditure elsewhere in the EU. Actually ârunningâ the EU, in terms of administration, even with the best efforts of the continental fat cats, doesnât have much to do with it.
The rebate was hard-won by Mrs Thatcher in 1984, after grudging acceptance of her argument that Britain was the biggest net contributor to the Brussels kitty despite being nowhere near the top of the European wealth league table. Britain is the only nation to qualify for a special adjustment - the rebate - because heavily distorted agriculture payments benefit countries such as France far more than they benefit the Britain. Because French farmers are inefficient, British taxpayers should subsidise them, and help maintain their
âcultural exceptionalismâ, or whatever bullshit they call it.
Twenty years on, with the share of agriculture spending coming down, pressure is on for the unique rebate to be taken away and redistributed to poorer nations among the 25 member states. Ahh, redistribution. RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!
The idea is outlined in EU financing plans for 2007-2013, due to be tabled by Michaele Schreyer, EU budget Commissioner. Mr Kilroy-Silk, the former TV presenter and ex-Labour MP, said he was insisting Mr Blair wields the veto he has in EU decisions on financial arrangements. Keep up the good work, O Man of Orange
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Mr Kilroy-Silk urged Tony Blair to stop "our money from being spent in eastern Europe".
Well, that's not very friendly of you, considering that you can now dump your products onto eastern European territory to your hearts content.
Aris, remember when I said that the eastern Europeans will be (net) paying into the European coffers???
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Well, that's not very friendly of you, considering that you can now dump your products onto eastern European territory to your hearts content.
That's EXACTLY the argument I used to Bulldog yesterday, when I said "in return poorer nations open their economies". Not that he understood it. :-)
remember when I said that the eastern Europeans will be (net) paying into the European coffers???
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...you can now dump your products onto eastern European territory to your hearts content.
And vice versa.
So why doesn't East Europe send truckloads of cash to the UK? Sounds absurd, but so's the notion that the UK has some sort of obligation to unilaterally redistribute its wealth to other countries.
Do you think East Europe has nothing to export? If not, how on earth could they afford all the UK's products dumped on them? Bear in mind we're not only debating subsidys to East Europe (and, to be honest, I don't have a problem with investing in the former Communist new members, provided it's done responsibly and according to the principles of free trade - i.e. infrastructues, modernising equipment, NOT subsidys). What's more objectionable is the way much of the UK's net contribution to EU coffers goes to prop up inefficient west european farmers - and that's yet to change.
That's what the EU was supposed to be about...
As LH says - no it wasn't. It wasn't sold to the man on the street as some sort of proto-communist wealth redistribution scheme there to punish successful, efficient and dynamic economies the the UK's for the benefit of weaker ones. My God, do you really think the British people would have voted for that?!
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Probably not from the POV of everyone in Europe either. And that's the problem. Neither France nor Germany is expected to be liberal with the amount of money going east, in the precarious economic conditions of today. Mind you, France & Germany are probably glued much more strongly to the eastern European economy than the UK. It is in their best interests to see a wealthier eastern region (for now, anyways).
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Do you think East Europe has nothing to export?
Comparatively speaking, not much. Seen any Polish kielbasas on your store shelves recently?? :) Though granted, this will change quite rapidly.
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Yep, it'll change quite rapidly. With an open market countries with relatively cheap labour like, say Poland, should find a good deal of new inward investment from richer member states. I believe some German companies are not only investing Eastwards, but transferring eastwards. Investment through commercial interest, rather than taxing Peter to pay Paul, and that's the best way, the only way, IMO, for sustained economic progress.
Thanks to TGA for the tip.
Just days after claiming to be the victim of an attack that stunned France, a young mother confessed to making up the story, authorities said Tuesday. The woman claimed to have been robbed Friday by a knife-wielding gang that mistook her for a Jew and scrawled swastikas on her body. But police, finding no clues and no witnesses, brought the woman in for questioning Tuesday, police officials said on condition of anonymity. No details were immediately available to explain her motives for claiming to have been attacked. Whereâs Rev. Sharpton when you need him?
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Attention is what she wanted, attention is what she got!
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I refuse to give anything like a tip of the hat to Mike---why, out of all the stories posted here about attacks on Jews around the world, does he feel it behooved him to debunk this one?
Even given that this one woman's story wasn't true, it still doesn't explain or make comprehensible the countless attacks on Jews and their property in France since the Intifada began.
And now, the Mooslims have used the Liberal French system for their own ends, making Jews look like 'liars' and Mooslims look like victims who are falsely accused of attacking infidels when we all know that they do!
Say what you will about the 'prescience' of Sylwester, but French Jews are leaving France for Israel in record numbers.
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Sorry Jen, ok? I knew I should have kept my mouth shut. I try so hard too.
I don't get down with anti-jewish smoke though either. Makes me boil. Just Mike called it pretty clearly.
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Muslim Serb, huh?
While there may be Jews in the media, they are self-hating Jews who don't believe in themselves or their God and who don't practice their religion.
Instead they put the "Jewish-controlled" Liberal Left media at the service of the Islamofacists.
For now, Communist-leaning Liberals and jihadi Muslims have made common cause in the WOT.
Go figure.
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Jen, huh? while agreeing that serb is a moron, just listen to yourself, you're just as paranoid and delirious
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Well I admit I was clowned by this story. So I was wrong about it. I am not wrong about anti-semitism in France however. It's the reason I was able to believe it.
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Jen, take a deep breath, ok? It would be a terrible thing if you burst a blood vessel -- I'd really miss you. As for Serb, s/he is more likely to be Christian Orthodox than Muslim... they aren't known to be philosemitic either.
Serb is right that this woman did get more attention because she claimed to be the victim of an anti-Jewish attack, but fails to realize that there are not very many Jews in the French media, which trumpeted the story because the putative victim is *not* Jewish. Had she been, the world would never have known about the affair.
I've come to believe that to Europeans, anything less than State-organized attacks on Jews -- a la the Nazis -- does not count as antisemitism, but is merely an expression of individual opinion. That, I think, is why they become so angry when we accuse them of it. Not that they are right, mind you, but it seems to be a Continent-wide delusion.
Any thoughts on this from our foreign correspondents?
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I am genuinely glad that the reported attack didn't happen, because if it had it would mark a new low there.
OTOH, I'm confused about the two people whom BBC and IHT both reported as having come forward to the police in support of this woman's story. Did that not happen? Did it happen and they were lying? Was she menaced but not directly attacked, and exagerated?
The 2 reported witnesses gave the story some credence for me. If they never existed or if they told another story, that's a different matter IMO.
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Jarhead, I don't think that "credit" for "being right" about *this* anti-Semitic attack enters into it.
(How did he know?)
There have been an ungodly (literally!) amount of attacks on Jews and their property in France and throughout the West in the last 4 years.
And trailing wife, I will keep ranting until the attacks stop!
(60 years, the world said "Never again." after the Holocaust and now it's happening all over again and the IslamoNazis and their enablers still want the extermination of the Jewish race!)
Now, because of this woman, anyone else who tries to report being the victim of a hate crime against them as a Jew won't be believed and will be discounted accordingly.
Mike should tell the Jews in France he's sorry that Life is going to get even shittier for them there.
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Mike was right. And for Christ's sake, get off the freakin' soapbox already, Jen. You've made your normally thoughtful point already but if you want to sound like a shrill hag, well, have at it. You'll be ranting forever and a day. Posting ad nauseum on a freakin' message board will not get it to stop, unless you're more vain than even I have come to believe you are.
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Jen> (How did he know?)
Mike had explained "how he knew", but you were unwilling to listen. And ofcourse now you are turning it to conspiracy theory. He must have been in on it, right?
Whatever.
As for what will happen in France because of this event, I think that most French people know that this single incident doesn't indicate a trend. Antisemetism and antisemetic attacks had been correctly and officially denounced in France, *BEFORE* this occurred.
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And yet, the attacks continue and French Jews are emigrating to Israel in record numbers...
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Here's the story from the Washington Times, which reports that French authorities haven't reached a conclusion about whether the lady's story is true or false and the de facto problem of a huge rise in anti-Semitic attacks there: Hate 'victim" admits she lied
In a morning radio interview, government spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said that whether the woman's account proved true or not had little bearing on France's need to stem hate crimes.
    The Interior Ministry released figures last week showing that hate crimes had spiked in the first half of the year. There were 510 anti-Jewish acts or threats in the first six months of 2004 â nearly as many as in all of last year, 593.
So that's one attack discounted out of 600 and counting for calendar 2004.
Everyone still ready to relax?
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Nobody's "relaxing" and nobody ever said we should be "relaxing". And Mike never disputed the fact that antisemetic attacks existed, he only disputed one quite specific attack.
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It seems that we collectively agree on the following:
1. There are anti-semitic attacks in France and the situation is serious.
2. The one under discussion was a hoax or the lady lied. That does not affect #1.
Let's stop ruminating over it like my son's sheep eating grass and save Fred's bandwidth. End of Story.
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Mike was right. And for Christ's sake, get off the freakin' soapbox already, Jen. You've made your normally thoughtful point already but if you want to sound like a shrill hag, well, have at it.
Thank you, Raj. I couldn't have said it better myself. Jarhead, class act, man.
Nobody's "relaxing" and nobody ever said we should be "relaxing". And Mike never disputed the fact that antisemetic attacks existed, he only disputed one quite specific attack.
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Jen, you mentioned that the Jews are leaving France for Israel in record numbers twice. Why is that a bad thing? Its Frances loss and Israel's gain. Net win for the good guys.
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Personally I wonder if France will face its problems and have a civil war, or if they'll just flood into Quebec when Shira law becomes the law of the land.
I didn't say stop ranting, just take it down a notch.
And I do know a bit about the Holocaust; I edited the book my mother wrote about her own experiences over there -- copies can be found at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and at Yad Vashem. Mama is currently working on the nomination paperwork to get the people who hid her, and separately her parents, designated as Righteous Gentiles.
Jarhead -- How's the reading going? I've got another one for your list: Judaism: An Introduction for Christians, by James Limburg. I just started reading it, but it looks pretty good so far...originally written in German as a series for pamphlets for Lutheran church discussion groups, and naturally coming from a different angle than Dimont.
I didn't say stop ranting, just take it down a notch.
And I do know a bit about the Holocaust; I edited the book my mother wrote about her own experiences over there -- copies can be found at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and at Yad Vashem. Mama is currently working on the nomination paperwork to get the people who hid her, and separately her parents, designated as Righteous Gentiles.
Jarhead -- How's the reading going? I've got another one for your list: Judaism: An Introduction for Christians, by James Limburg. I just started reading it, but it looks pretty good so far...originally written in German as a series for pamphlets for Lutheran church discussion groups, and naturally coming from a different angle than Dimont.
I didn't say stop ranting, just take it down a notch.
And I do know a bit about the Holocaust; I edited the book my mother wrote about her own experiences over there -- copies can be found at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and at Yad Vashem. Mama is currently working on the nomination paperwork to get the people who hid her, and separately her parents, designated as Righteous Gentiles.
Jarhead -- How's the reading going? I've got another one for your list: Judaism: An Introduction for Christians, by James Limburg. I just started reading it, but it looks pretty good so far...originally written in German as a series for pamphlets for Lutheran church discussion groups, and naturally coming from a different angle than Dimont.
I didn't say stop ranting, just take it down a notch.
And I do know a bit about the Holocaust; I edited the book my mother wrote about her own experiences over there -- copies can be found at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and at Yad Vashem. Mama is currently working on the nomination paperwork to get the people who hid her, and separately her parents, designated as Righteous Gentiles.
Jarhead -- How's the reading going? I've got another one for your list: Judaism: An Introduction for Christians, by James Limburg. I just started reading it, but it looks pretty good so far...originally written in German as a series for pamphlets for Lutheran church discussion groups, and naturally coming from a different angle than Dimont.
The arrest of three officials of an aid ship from which 37 Africans disembarked onto the Sicilian coast provoked an outcry Tuesday, with aid groups and the Vatican saying the arrests violated humanitarian principles.
"Legume! Round up all the usual media and NGO suspects!"
"Inspector, are they under arrest?"
"No, you ee-diot, there's a press conference!"
The ship run by the German aid agency Cap Anamur had been stranded at sea since June 20. On Monday, after weeks of debate over who should accept the Africans, the ship won permission to dock in Sicily. Italian authorities immediately arrested the ship's captain, its first mate, and the head of the aid agency. Prosecutors say they aided illegal immigration. Police said some of the Africans had claimed they were from Sudan's troubled Darfur region, which the United Nations has described as having the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. But the ANSA news agency said authorities had determined that 30 of the men were from Ghana, six from Nigeria and one from Niger. Officials could not be reached late Tuesday to confirm the report.
Oops! Learn to read a map, folks.
The Rev. Guido Sarducci Cosimo Spadavecchia, a priest who spent three days on the ship and spoke to the Africans in Arabic and English, earlier insisted they were Sudanese - or at least from a conflict zone. He cited their psychological distress and "the emotions they showed: crying, shouting, and threatening to jump into the sea."
That would be enough to convince the average left-leaning Euro.
"When they came to the center, they were shown a map to indicate where they came from and they put a finger on a place that wasn't Sudan," he explained. But he argued that this was due to the their lack of education. ... Their hope is just that they can find some freedom here, educate themselves, and then perhaps bring all 300 members of their extended family to Italy at government expense return," he said.
In Germany officials expressed dismay at the arrest. A spokeswoman of the Foreign Minister in Berlin said an official was sent to Sicily "to provide consular support for those involved." "Humanitarian actions must not be criminalized," said a joint statement from Germany's federal Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul and Harald Schartau, the economics minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, where the Cap Anamur organization is based.
"It is their feelings that are most important!"
The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said Tuesday that "carrying out the duty of rescuing people, whatever their nationality, always takes priority." "Political reasoning ... can come later," it said.
Assuming that there is any.
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Listen, I am a left leaning progressive/liberal, but this doesn't mean that we are all soft in the head.
In fact some of us are quite solution oriented. I do have a solution to this situation, and an elegant one that should satisfy everyone.
The Rev. Cosimo Spadavecchia should be stripped of his Italian Citizenship, shipped to Nigeria where he will then be issued the appropriate documents from his new State. Then, one Nigerian may take the Reverend's place in Italy. This could be acomplished 30 times and presto(!), the problem is resloved.
This is not a difficult case. The people are ecomomic migrants and if they wish to scream and shout and jump off the ship...that is their right...as was their right to foolishly board the ship in the first place.
Additionally, if they are legitimate refugees from war, then send them back to their country to fight for freedom there.
There is no problem in this story if you look at it in the right way.
The US administration is negotiating with Poland and the Czech Republic over its controversial missile defence programme, with a view to positioning the biggest missile defence site outside the US in central Europe. Polish government officials confirmed to the Guardian that talks have been going on with Washington for eight months and made clear that Poland was keen to take part in the project, which is supposed to shield the US and its allies from long-range ballistic missile attacks.
Senior officials in Prague also confirmed that talks were under way over the establishment of American advanced radar stations in the Czech Republic as part of the missile shield project. "We're very interested in becoming a concrete part of the arrangement," said Boguslaw Majewski, the Polish foreign ministry spokesman. "We have been debating this with the Americans since the end of last year." Other sources in Warsaw said Pentagon officers have been scouting the mountain territory of southern Poland, pinpointing suitable sites for two or three radar stations connected to the so-called Son of Star Wars programme. As well as radar sites, the Poles say they want to host a missile interceptor site, a large reinforced underground silo from where long-range missiles would be launched to intercept and destroy incoming rockets.
"U can't touch this, Vlad!"
Under Bush administration plans, two missile interceptor sites are being built in the US - one in California, the other in Alaska. Such a site in Poland would be the first outside America and the only one in Europe. "An interceptor site would be more attractive. It wouldn't be a hard sell in Poland," said Janusz Onyszkiewicz, a former Polish defence minister.
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Does this include a built-in bullseye over France?
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Fire!
Wait! That one's headed for Lyons!
Okay, secure from battle stations.
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hmmm - if the western border is protected and the eastern and over-the-pole trajectories are as well... PRC and Kimmy can stuff themselves?
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First glance-great idea. Investment in a country that helped us out and that can serve as a counterweight to France in Europe. Poland is full of intelligent, quality-oriented people who definitely understand the dangers of authoritarianism.
Second thought-the US will have a challenge on its hands keeping this site secure. In the 1990s, I got a good look at the bribery and palm-greasing that takes place in the eastern European sector everyday. Proceed caarefuully and think this through...
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Maybe it's to embody in print what Moore's film embodies in celluloid: the desire to have things all ways at once, to do so while wearing a self-conferred badge of intellectual sophisticationâand above all, to get away with the scam while winning the moral high ground.
Gov. James E. McGreevey's top contributor was charged on Tuesday in a bizarre scheme to enlist prostitutes in an effort to silence potential witnesses in a federal investigation of possible illegal campaign contributions.
We're discussing New Jersey here. How is this unusual?
In a criminal complaint that reads like a plot line from an Elmore Leonard novel, Charles Kushner, a New Jersey landowner and businessman with close ties to many religious and political figures, was charged with hiring prostitutes to entice his brother-in-law and his accountant into sexually compromising situations.
'Hi! I'm a hooker! Yer brother-in-law sent me to haul yer ashes!"
"What's with the camera and the tape recorder?"
The complaint says that the accountant did not take the bait, but that the brother-in-law did.
"Hey! Kinkyyyy! I'll set up the camera while you get nekkid!"
The result, prosecutors said, was a sexual encounter between the brother-in-law and a high-priced New York call girl in a Bridgewater motel room last December that was recorded by a hidden camera. The complaint, which mentions no name except Mr. Kushner's, says that he and his co-conspirators mailed the incriminating tape to a relative with whom he was feuding and who was cooperating with investigators. Based on the allegations in a separate civil suit, that family member is believed to be Mr. Kushner's sister, Esther Schulder. Her husband, William E. Schulder, did not return calls seeking confirmation that he was involved.
"Honey, it's the Noo Yawk Times. They wanna know if that's you on that tape with the Jolly Green Giant cream corn!"
Robert Yontef, the accountant, could not be reached either.
"I'm an accountant. I don't do that sort of thing."
The mailing, according to the complaint, was an attempt to "retaliate" against the potential witnesses and block any further cooperation.
In Noo Joisey? That's never happened before, has it?
The complaint against Mr. Kushner, the chief executive of the Kushner Companies of Florham Park, is likely to add to the political troubles of Governor McGreevey, who has been plagued throughout his two and a half years in office with questions about his associates. The governor, a Democrat, is still reeling from the fallout from a federal indictment last week involving another campaign contributor and a top fund-raiser, and has been plagued by a long list of scandals involving people close to him.
The word you're looking for is "seedy."
This week there is growing pressure for his commerce secretary, William J. Watley, to step down after a state criminal investigation into possible improprieties by a top aide. Mr. McGreevey has had a close relationship with Mr. Kushner, who has been the largest contributor to his campaigns over the years, purchasing him for donating $1.5 million for his 1997 and 2001 campaigns, the first one unsuccessful, for governor. After the announcement of Mr. Kushner's arrest, Mr. McGreevey's director of communications, Kathleen Ellis, took the gas pipe released a statement saying: "We are saddened to hear of the allegations. It would be inappropriate however to comment further on matters unrelated to this office."
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I found this pertinent:
"whose campaign demanded to know on Wednesday whether President Bush read a key Iraq intelligence assessment, did not read the document himself before voting to give Bush the authority to go to war, aides acknowledged"
hmmm... is the one 'p' in "Fucking Hypocrite"?
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Sounds like the typical suspects and a judge that had his mind made up before the trial.
Message to the anti-gun zealots, I don't need your permission to defend myself. I ignore your stinking anti self defense gun laws because you have already put me outside the laws protection. So bite me.
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Lol! So you're armed... and recognize the need... GOOOOOD!
Boy have you got Cheneywrong! Shit, he'd prolly spot you a can of gun oil should you run out. C'mon, Mucky - get to know the man, you're waaay out there is Leftie Black Helicopter Field!
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I'm glad we have a descent right to carry law here in Tennessee. Maybe the Minnesota Supreme Court will overturn the ruling. I am also armed, Muck. I will be fighting Yankees this weekend.
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.com i am have plenty gun oil. itn solvent i am always run out of.
that is look like lotsa fun deacon! i am hope you have a good weekend there! :)
By David R. Guarino, Boston Herald. EFL; hat tip: the new "Redstate" political group blog.
Sen. John F. Kerry upset some families of 9/11 victims yesterday when he arrived - late - to a private memorial dedication in a sirened motorcade and glad-handed as though he were on the campaign trail. The "fashionably late" entrance to a solemn event ("Iâm here! Notice me! Notice me!") seems to be a Kerry trademark.
The senator, in Boston for the day, hopped in his motorcade at the Four Seasons, drove around the Boston Public Garden and arrived at the memorial with his sizable entourage in tow. Press were kept away but several family members, speaking privately, said they were miffed that Kerry arrived after most other pols - such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Rep. Martin T. Meehan, and Attorney General Tom Reilly - had all left. "Iâm the center of attention here, damnit!"
And Kerry stayed much longer than the other leaders, shaking hands, posing for photos before he left with just as much commotion. "Remember--vote Kerry. Well, Iâm off to board my Gulfstream for the trip to my private retreat in Hyannis, so back to your hovels you grieving pesants."
"I bet he couldnât even name anybody on that wall," said the wife of one 9/11 victim, who spoke on the condition her name not be used. Others said they were disturbed that the Kerry campaign allowed television crews to film over the Public Garden fence - capturing video of Kerry with grieving family members in the midst of his presidential campaign. Classypeople, these Kerrys--realclassypeople, I tells ya!
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Just wait until he features it in a 'I feel your pain!' style comercial......
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So this would be the "I was against using 9-11 as a campaign photo-op before I was for it" moment?
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Well, I'm just glad that he understood the solemnity of the occasion and took the feelings of the victims families into acoount. The Donk mantra that Bush should be thoroughly bashed if he, in any way, politicizes 9/11 guided Kerry's approach. Well done, John.
Democratic National Convention officials are expected to announce today that former Gov. Howard Dean has been asked to speak on the first night of the convention, sources said Monday night. Dean and several other former presidential candidates are scheduled to speak on July 26, the opening night of the convention at the FleetCenter in Boston. It has already been announced that former Presidents Carter and Clinton will be speaking that evening.
Will there be any air left in the room after Bill finishes?
Dean's spokeswoman Laura Gross said they are deferring to convention officials for any announcement. A spokeswoman for the convention did not return several phone calls. Convention officials are scheduled to announce the times at which the speeches are to take place. The major broadcast networks have all said they will only televise about an hour of convention during each of the four nights, probably from 10 to 11 p.m. The cable news channels are expected to air longer segments of the convention and C-SPAN plans to air gavel-to-gavel coverage. Middlebury College political scientist Eric Davis said Dean's speech will give the party a chance to show that its diverse factions are strongly united behind the candidacy of presumptive nominee John Kerry.
Also, the Deaniac's would riot if Howard wasn't given time to spew.
"Since the convention is more of a voter mobilization device rather than a nominating body, if Dean can rouse the audience there and on television about the importance of supporting Kerry, he will be doing his job," Davis said.
Watch them stick him in a spot when the major networks aren't covering it.
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His speech will be entitled, "I Have a Scream."
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think he'll roll up the sleeves and loosen up the collar?
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAARGH, Part Deux
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"We're going to the Oval Office
"And we're going to the UN
"And we're going into the brains of every person on the planet
"YEAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!"
For the first time, a US Presidential candidate has launched a campaign in Spain in an effort to win the votes of the 200,000 Americans who live here. We talked to the Spaniard leading John F. Kerry's campaign a long way from Washington.
Juan Verde was born in the Canary Islands, thousands of kilometres from the White House. But this 34-year-old high-flier is leading the first campaign ever launched in Spain specifically to attract the votes of expat Americans living here. Verde, who read politics and international science at Boston University and then got a Masters in public administration at Harvard. He was political and economic advisor to the mayor of Boston, then a consultant on overseas trade at the White House during the Clinton administration. Verde was elected as a Democratic delegate in Massachusetts in 1997 and has worked on campaigns for Edward and Joe Kennedy, Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
Ok, he's a hard core Donk flunky from my ex-state of Mass.
There are thought to be up to 200,000 Americans living and working in Spain. They are made up of a wide variety of people, from the servicemen and women stationed at the main US base at La Rota, business people, professionals, diplomats, or simply retirees. The Kerry campaign believes it can win the votes of between 35,000-50,000 American expats. It is part of a worldwide campaign targeted at some 4 million Americans living oversees whose votes could be crucial when America goes to the polls in November. The idea to launch country-specific campaigns came from Kerry's sister Diana, who is heading an international Democrat campaign.
It goes on to interview Juan. Interesting look at a campaign that is flying below press radar, wonder if US election rules apply? If Kerry is so desperate for these overseas votes, will the donks allow the overseas military to vote this time?
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Wow. This guy should've stayed here in Mass. With those credentials, he could've become "Super Hack".
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Good point about the overseas military vote. In 2000, I voted absentee for Florida while stationed in Germany... and my vote was thrown out. (yes I voted for Bush). It was thrown out because of a notary issue. We didnt have a notary available, so I used my company commander as a witness.
So there you have it. A vote for Bush that was thrown out.
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Usually I try to keep comments short on rantburg, but since this story highlights so well who Kerry relates to best, and since this is such an important election, I thought I would attach this missive I sent a Kerry-loving friend:
There are many reasons why I could support Kerry-gay rights, legal abortion, and resistance to outsourcing perhaps being the most important. There is one big reason I will never vote for Kerry: he will harm America and the world by doing whatever it takes to satisfy international public opinion, which is never sated, and which today is all about punishing the powerful (America). He willingly embraces that particular kind of neurotic guilt complex common to liberal America, and the international community just laps it up. It's not healthy, we certainly don't deserve it, and I, like others, don't respond well to demands for America to change while most of the rest of the world is carrying a prodigious Jacob Marley's chain of its own and gets off scot free. We are still the best thing this world has going.
Had Kerry been president after 9/11, Saddam would have stayed in power and would have tortured and murdered thousands more Iraqis. And food-for-oil corruption would have been swept under the rug so as not to upset French deals with Saddam. Kerry will be the water boy for every lethal, misguided notion the Europeans have. Europe needs to wake up-there is such a thing as evil; if we followed Mr. Chirac's philosophy of "war is never justified", they'd be breeding little Aryans in France today and there wouldn't be a Jew alive. Europe's cushy existence makes them forget that for every form of life on earth, you have to fight for survival, against death.
Kerry insists he could have gotten the French, Germans and Russians, among others, to be helpful and behave more like allies vis-a-vis Iraq's provocation. But guaranteeing the future actions of questionable allies is boastful and reckless and does not take into account their antagonism towards America. Unless he realizes that many Americans, like myself, are sick of the pocket-pinching, scapegoating, and cowering of the Europeans and international community in general, he is going to lose votes. He lost mine.
Plameâs Lame Game What Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife forgot to tell us about the yellow-cake scandal.
By Christopher Hitchens
Two recent reports allow us to revisit one of the great non-stories, and one of the great missed stories, of the Iraq war argument. The non-story is the alleged martyrdom of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilson, supposed by many to have suffered cruel exposure for their commitment to the truth. The missed story is the increasing evidence that Niger, in West Africa, was indeed the locus of an illegal trade in uranium ore for rogue states including Iraq. (snip)
-- Always fun to see a liberal icon go down....
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The MSM's useful idiot. He served his purpose, now he gets flushed.....so long sucker.
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I coulda been somebody! I coulda been a contender!
Instead he get's a one way shot to Palookaville.
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By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ and JOHN FILES - Published: July 14, 2004
The Democratic National Committee released on Tuesday its lineup of the big-name politicians speaking at the convention this month, and it included every major Democratic star except one. There were Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, near the top of the list. Al Gore was there, too, and so was Edward M. Kennedy. Even the wife of the Iowa governor made the cut. But Hillary Rodham Clinton, the junior senator from New York and one of the most prominent names in the party, was nowhere to be found. That caught the attention of many Democrats, who wondered why the party had not invited one of its best fund-raising draws, a former first lady who packs a room like few others in her party. It is not exactly clear why Mrs. Clinton was not on the list. But Democrats familiar with the situation said the answer was simple: she did not ask to speak, while other officials did. ...more...
So itâs official... for now, heh.
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Even the wife of the Iowa governor made the cut.
But not the Governor himself. Not that I blame them, since Vilsack can put me to sleep in 5 minutes flat.
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I like this part: It is intended to highlight what Mr. Kerry's advisers want to be one of the main issues of his campaign: that Mr. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, has the background to lead the nation in perilous times.
In that context, Mr. Kerry will be introduced by Max Cleland, a former United States senator from Georgia who lost two legs and an arm during the Vietnam War. In addition, Mr. Kerry will be joined by some of the men on the Swift boat that Mr. Kerry commanded in Vietnam.
Fox News can do split screens showing the Vietnam Veterns against Kerry demonstrating outside.
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If you want to betray Iraq and Afghanistan and set the stage for another Pol Pot style genocide, then Kerry's your man. He has the experience.
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Why no Hillary?
1. She's the most reviled Democrat in the country and not trusted by most Dem insiders outside of the Clinton circle.
2. She's an awful public speaker who has honed that precious liberal trifecta of rhetoric: Boring, sneering and condescending.
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No Hillary because she doesn't want to offer any assistance to Kerry. To speak, in her mind, would be to help. She won't want to wait (potentially) 8 more years for her own run.
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I dunno. I'm willing to bet that Hillary not speaking at the convention is more a function of Kerry not wanting her ugly mug in front of a camera than Hillary not wanting to speak.
After all, Dukakis' flameout in 1988 didn't hurt Bill Clinton and he gave one of the worst speeches of modern times at the Dem convention.
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What's funny to me is that they are talking about introducing John Kerry to the American people. Are they sure they really want to do that? Every time people get to see Kerry and his post-Nam activities and his voting records, the people decide that they really, REALLY don't like the guy.
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By Rowan Scarborough - June 14, 2004
The Pentagon is accusing Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of distorting the intelligence work of its No. 3 civilian official, and calling on the Democrat to prove his charges or retract them. It is unusual for the Pentagon to formally take on a sitting senator. In this case, the challenge came in a letter to Mr. Rockefeller on Friday from Powell A. Moore, the assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs. "On behalf of the department, I request that, if you have any evidence supporting the serious charge you floated during your press conference, you provide it to the department," Mr. Moore wrote to Mr. Rockefeller of West Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Senate SelectCommittee on Intelligence,who has emerged as one of the Senateâs fiercest critics of President Bush. "If there is not evidence, then a retraction and apology would be appropriate," said the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times. ...more...
So Senator Partisanshit has had his bluff called. Good. Put up or STFU.
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Give Rockhead much grief.
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Rockefeller is the sleaziest, oiliest looking guy in Congress (and that's saying a lot). Bush, Rummy, et al., should attack him in W. Va.
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...and calling on the Democrat to prove his charges or retract them.
"I'll take 'Highly Freakin' Unlikely' for $1,000, Alex..."
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Just a hosting service I use for pix 'n such. I quit doing my own blog thingy a coupla years ago. You prolly have more browsing links than I do! Or are ya looking for pix? I might, someday, do a pix & video only blog, like me hero Terpsboy, but he's got hundreds of folks mailing him goodies. I'm all alone. *sniff sniff*
US financial markets found little to cheer about overnight after retails sales fell in June, oil climbed past $US40 barrel and more bombings were reported in Iraq. All the key indices finished lower with the Dow finishing down 39, the S&P 500 off 4, the Nasdaq 17 and the 100 index 13. The outlook for technology stocks turned bleak after analysts gave the thumbs-down to Intelâs latest quarterly report and the stock fell 10.5 per cent. And the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index didnât help after slumping 4.5 per cent to its lowest close since September 30. The benchmark is 17 per cent behind this year after climbing 76 per cent last year. All semiconductor stocks retreated today.
The most serious concern was the oil price, which surged past the $40 barrel barrier on the New York August contract to settle $1.53 higher at $40.97 barrel. The US Energy Information Administration disclosed crude oil stocks fell by 2.1 million barrels to 302.9 million in the week ended July 9. Gasoline stocks were off 200,000 barrels to 205.9 million while heating oil stocks rose by 1.4 million to 44.5 million. Keep the tank full at these âcheaperâ prices)
There was also uncertainty of continuity of supplies from Middle East OPEC members in the light of more bombings in Iraq. The governor of the northern city of Mosul was killed in a grenade attack while a bombing of a compound housing the Iraqi Government, and the US and UK embassies, reportedly killed 10 people and injured 40. On the US domestic front, retail sales fell 1.1 per cent in June, the biggest slide in 17 months, according to the Commerce Department. Analysts were caught out after predicting a fall of 0.8 per cent. However, one redeeming feature was an upward revision on the previous month to 1.4 per cent, although the latest core rate was down. The sales slide was triggered by a fall in spending on autos and demand for goods in department stores. Investors and economists believe markets can live with retail sales but they need good results from tonightâs PPI or wholesale inflation and the CPI, retail inflation, due Friday. The US dollar edged up against the yen and sterling, but eased on the euro.
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Sounds like the start of the end of the world
When the Dow hits 666 I advise all to short like hell.
But go long on hell itself.
Yes hell will be hot when the Dow hits 666,
Hat tip to Emperor Darth Misha
We are having a problem with the first shipping company that we used. The problem comes in the form of deposits that we were required to put down on the 3 containers that we shipped. For each container, we placed a $10,000 deposit to guarantee its return. This deposit was placed with the shipping company in the US, Atlas Line.
This is where the problem comes in. The containers arrived and the shipping company in Kuwait responsible for the containers safety never received their deposits. We were still able to ship the contents of the first container on to Baghdad, but the 2nd and 3rd have been held in Kuwait because of this. We have tried working with the shipping company in the US but to no avail. They are currently holding $30,000 of Operation Giveâs money and we need resolution. We have bank records showing our deposits and their acceptance and cashing of the checks. We have also contacted Bank of America, the bank we use, and they have traced the checks and confirm that they were deposited by the US shipping company, Atlas Line. More here.
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Huh? Trying to understand this makes my head hurt. Can anyone provide a summary that makes sense to not-so-smart-people like me?
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The problem is simplisme, IMHO. It's called doing "business" with Arabs. The Kuwaiti "businessman" could not fucking care less if these container shipments contain life-saving medicine or teddy bears. Money is all that matters and every leverage point and every possible scam will be applied to maximize the profit$. Period. Having been reamed myself by similar experiences in Saudi, I empathize with the Chief. Too late, bro. Note that K-Y is a petroleum product, so it should be relatively inexpensive over there. You'll need it.
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A deposit on a shipping container? I've never heard of such a thing, and we do containers from China to America all the time. $10k for a metal box? Someone got scammed. Shipping containers do not cost more than a new car.
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By Jerry Markon (WaPo Staff) - Wednesday, July 14, 2004
The former Army scientist identified by authorities as a "person of interest" in the 2001 anthrax attacks sued the New York Times Co. and columnist Nicholas D. Kristof yesterday, claiming the paper defamed him in a series of columns that identified him as the likely culprit. The lawsuit, filed by Steven J. Hatfill in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, said Kristof identified him as the anthrax killer to "light a fire" under investigators in their probe of the anthrax-spore mailings, which killed five people and sickened 17. He accused Kristof of hurling "false and defamatory" allegations and the Times of engaging in "substandard and unethical journalism." ...more...
Finally, payback for Hatfill. The shoddy and opportunistic handling of the story, simply put, completely ruined his life. On deck: the FBI.
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My brother worked with Hatfill for several months in the very same office room at the National Institute of Health. He said Hatfill was an unusual, attention-seeking but likeable character who constantly made provocative remarks. My brother said he wouldn't be astonished to learn definitely that Hatfill spread the anthrax to advance his own career.
I recall reading somewhere that several, scattered people who personally knew Hatfill told the FBI they ought to investigate him in relation to the anthrax attacks. (My brother didn't report him, but he was questioned by the FBI about him.) Hatfill's own behavior attracted the attention that prompted the investigation.
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Mr. Hatfill is not a Muslim (nor is my brother).
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"substandard and unethical journalism" won't get him a cup of coffee. Absent malicious intent, the paper and Kristof can claim they were mistaken, apologize (if they haven't already) and be on their merry way.
So, given the length of time the FBI (hell, every agency in the US Gov't with an ax to grind in this matter) has had to investigate and make a case - of any kind or credibility - either Stephen Hatfill is the smartest motherfucker in America, nay - on the planet Earth, or some people are incredibly full of shit.
Sorry for stating such an obvious conclusion, but no one else said it, so...
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By Daniel Howden - Wednesday 14.07.2004, CET 07:48
Athens Olympic organisers have called on Greeks to snap up unsold tickets to avoid greeting the world with empty stadiums when the worldâs biggest sporting event comes home in a monthâs time. With foreigners staying away and millions of seats unsold, Athens chief Games organiser Gianna Angelopoulos appealed to locals to pick up the slack and put on a good show in front of the worldâs cameras. ...more...
Bad juju in EuroLand. Big bad Merkans staying home. But thatâs okay, right? They say they donât want us - so fine, weâll stay away. No bitchinâ allowed.
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Pretty funny. What idiot thought that having the olympics in the terroists 90210 would be cool?
The french will be tapped out after July. The Germans will come, to drink, the booze they bring. The blokes will come to riot, costing more than they spend. The Nords wont come any closer than the nude beaches and they'll spend big there. The Spaniards will come and dance (and sleep) in the streets but wont spend any cash. The Russians will come and steal cars. The Polish wont come as nobody asked them, plus they have no cash. The Canadieans will come after the games are over to take advantage of their pesos. The Mexicans never come they immigrate, so no cash no go. South Americans don't count, period! The Chinese are labor bound and wont be attending, plus their cash is in the state banks earning interest. The Japannese are way to smart to mess with the intangibles.
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With foreigners staying away and millions of seats unsold, Athens chief Games organiser Gianna Angelopoulos appealed to locals to pick up the slack and put on a good show in front of the worldâs cameras.
If they want to put on a good show, turn loose a whole bunch of soccer hooligans in the stands.
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I hope it's a good show. The Greeks have pulled their fingers out of their collective ass in the last few weeks, and as I understand it, just about everything should be up and running in time for the start of the games. It would be tragic (no pun intended) if Athens 2004 were spoiled by the Islamists, whether by an actual atrocity or simply by the threat of it.
GHALANAI: Residents of some villages, who insist that they are part of Mohmand Agency, have sent back teams from district Charsadda who came to administer anti-polio drops. Abdul Jalil Khan, a leader of the Mohmand Resistance Movement, told Daily Times on Wednesday that all areas from Utman Khel to Mitchani were part of Mohmand Agency and teams sent by the district Charsadda administration to these villages to administer the anti-polio vaccine could not be accepted. He said had the agencyâs health department and the political administration sent the teams to their areas, the tribesmen would have had no objection. Mr Khan said the WHO had been informed of the problem and that 30,000 children might remain deprived of the vaccine.
No skin off my fore. Just keep your brats away from the other kids while you squabble over who's in charge of your little Islamic paradise.
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LAHORE: Maulvi Muhammad Altaf, a Quran teacher accused of raping a five-year-old boy in a mosque, was granted bail after the victimâs family agreed not to pursue the case and withdrew its witnesses.
"Da maulvi sez youse guys don't wanna press no charges!"
"Why wouldn't we press charges? He buggered our five-year-old!"
"Cuz da maulvi's a real holy guy, see? An' we got guns."
The family was known to have signed an agreement on stamp paper with the accused some time ago stating that neither side would prosecute the other, and that the family had nominated Maulvi Altaf on suspicion but now âforgivenâ him.
"We forgive you! We forgive you! Don't burn our house down!"
The agreement was signed after the family came under pressure from Nasir Colony, Green Town, residents, religious groups and the son of a top government figure. The sessions court granted Maulvi Altaf bail after two witnesses from the victimâs family withdrew their statements. However, police told Daily Times that they would send the challan to the court. âAccording to the challan, there is only one suspect in the case, Maulvi Altaf,â a police official said. âWe will send the challan because the family, according to the agreement, did not deny that the child was sexually abused. They only forgave or excluded the maulvi from the case.â Muhammad Aslam, the victimâs grandfather, lodged a first information report against Maulvi Altaf, 26, under Section 12/7 of the Hudood Ordinances accusing him of raping his grandson. According to the FIR, the boy, Talha, went to the Lajneh Mosque to study on the afternoon of June 6 but did not return home at his usual time. His mother went to the mosque to fetch him and found him lying in on the steps. He was bleeding and unconscious. Talha, from a family of rickshaw drivers, also made a statement identifying Maulvi Altaf as his attacker in front of police.
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The Peshawar Tajir Ittehad (PTI), a conglomerate of four trader organisations of the city and cantonment bazaars, has refused to accept the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) governmentâs demand that they shut down their business during prayer timings. The decision was taking at a meeting chaired by Sharafat Ali Mubarak, president of the Muttahida Tajiran, attended by Haji Halim Jan, president of the Action Committee Tajiran, Haji Afzal, president of the Anjuman-e-Tajiran, Shaukat Hamdard, president of the PTI cantonment, and other representatives of trader organisations on Tuesday night. Mr Mubarak told Daily Times that the economic condition of the province was already in shambles and the governmentâs decision to close down shops during prayers timings was unacceptable to traders. âWe are Muslims and offer prayers five times a day regularly but shutting down shops will be impossible for us,â he said. Mr Mubarak said that closing and opening shops would take at least 30 to 45 minutes and there was a short interval between various prayers, which could not be followed. He said the government should talk to traders before taking any such decisions so that it did not face embarrassment when it came to implementing them.
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Shill for the looney-left Comedian Whoopi Goldberg will no longer appear in ads for diet aid maker Slim-Fast following her lewd riff on President Bushâs name at a fund-raiser last week, the company said on Wednesday. Did someone say accountability for oneâs action?
Florida-based Slim-Fast said it was "disappointed" pissed off in Goldbergâs remarks at last Thursdayâs $7.5 million anti-American star-studded fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York. "Ads featuring the idiot who caused the deluge of e-mails and irate phone calls Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air," Slim-Fast General Manager Terry Olson said in a statement, adding that the company regrets that Goldbergâs remarks offended some customers. Money talks. Liars walk.
Republicans have expressed outrage over the fund-raiser for presumptive Democratic nomineethe very French looking John Fân. Kerry and his vice presidential running mate, the very young looking, but has great hair John Edwards, in which entertainers lined up to crap all over and ridicule skewer the president. The New York Post said of Goldbergâs appearance at the event: "Waving a bottle of wine, she fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bushâs name in a riff about female genitalia." Yeah, Whoopi-cushion, thatâs just the kind of spokesman we want.
A spokesperson for Goldberg declined immediate comment. Uh...hello? Yes, this is Whoopieâs agent. No we have no comment regarding a display of lunacy and vulgarity only a 2-bit whore in Tijuana could appreciate. Thank you. Have a nice day! click.
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Slim-Fast was unaware Whoopi Goldberg was/is an outspoken advocate of Democratic Party and has routinely bashed Pres.Bush and other Republicans?Suuuuure.Sleep w/fleas,expect to get bit.
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the Drudge headline shows Whoopi doing an ad saying: "I'm a Big Loser"....so at least there won't be any false advertising claims :-)~
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I used to actually like her, too. She's a good actress - when she's reading someone else's lines. When she writes her own lines, however....
I'll still watch Ghost when it comes on TV, if I have nothing better to do, but from now on I'll go out of my way to not watch anything she's in.
What a waste of talent.
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A top scientist is warning that there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than for 55m years - enough to melt all the ice on the planet and submerge cities like London and New York. Sir David King, the governmentâs chief scientific adviser, believes the most recent science bore out the worst predictions, reports The Guardian. Records show that at the peak of the ice age 12,000 years ago, the sea was 150 metres below its current level.
(These records were extracted from Cold Storage Inc., a ârealâ old accounting firm :)
Sir David says: "Ice melting is a relatively slow process but is speeding up.
(I hope he means this coming winter as well.)
"When the Greenland ice cap goes, the sea level will rise six to seven metres. When Antarctica melts it will be another 110 metres." (This sounds like it could happen next Tuesday at 10am :)
"I am sure that climate change is the biggest problem that civilisation has had to face in 5,000 years." (Besides Kerry & Edwards)
Sir David was speaking at the launch of a scientific expedition to Cape Farewell in the Arctic, which aims to raise awareness of climate change in students. He said that the realisation of the scale of the crisis was what prompted him to say in January that climate change was a bigger threat than global terrorism. Maybe al-Qaida will simply freeze to death and or problems shall be over. This schlub has been out in the snow too long
The Ski industry should boost earnings through the roof on this report!
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And first atomic explosions were supposed to have burned up the Earth's atmosphere, killing all of its inhabitants. No, wait - wasn't that almost 60 years ago? I get - we're the walking dead!
From the article: Records show that at the peak of the ice age 12,000 years ago, the sea was 150 metres below its current level.
This is why it was known as the ice age. As the earth warmed up, the sea level rose. This guy is basically implying that human-generated carbon dioxide was the reason for the receding of the ice age. But it wasn't* - global warming from the ice age onwards involved forces we do not yet comprehend. And if another ice age occurs, we probably won't completely understand how it came about.
* I bet the guy can't explain why the ice age occurred, when for millions of years, the earth was warm and swampy - far warmer than it is today.
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This is the same Sir David King who, at a recent scientific meeting in Moscow on the Kyoto protocol presented to his Russian hosts a list of people he did not want to have speak at the conference and a new agenda that he wanted to have replace the agreed upon agenda. This was because many people at the conference were going to question the scaremongering "science" that Sir David promotes.
"British climate experts expected the meeting, organized by RAS, to be a forum to discuss global warming and the Kyoto treaty with RAS members. On the eve of their departure for Moscow, however, the U.K. group learned about the addition of several well-known "skeptics" in the climate change debate. The list included Stockholm University's Nils-Axel Mörner, who has cast doubts on claims of rising sea levels, British climate maverick Piers Corbyn, and the Pasteur Institute's Paul Reiter, who disputes predictions that infectious diseases will explode as temperatures rise."
To me, this is extraordinary - a group of scientists who didn't want to talk to other scientists because those others were "skeptics." What's next - excommunication for Gospel of Kyoto non-believers? A fatwa against people who question global warming?
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It seems to Me I remeber Greenland was named so by the Vikings because it was GREEN. No Ice cap. Does that mean the ocean was higher then than now?
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Sir Nigel Tufnel's academic partner?
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DB - From InfoPlease:
The earliest Palaeo-Eskimo cultures had already arrived in Greenland from Canada by c.2,500 B.C. The Thule Eskimo culture first arrived in N Greenland c.A.D. 900 and in the following 1,000 years spread to both W and E Greenland. From Iceland, Greenland was discovered and S Greenland colonized (c.985) by Eric the Red, a Norseman, who named it Greenland in order to make it seem attractive to potential settlers. It was in sailing to Greenland (c.1000) that Leif Ericsson, the son of Eric the Red, probably reached North America. Greenland became a bishopric c.1110, and ruins of churches of that period remain. By the 12th cent. the population numbered some 10,000.
Greenland became self-governing, with its own Althing, but failed to achieve political stability. In 1261 the colony came under Norwegian rule, but in the 14th and 15th cent. it was neglected, and the colonists either died out or assimilated with the Eskimos. The British explorers Martin Frobisher and John Davis rediscovered Greenland in the 16th cent. but found no trace of Norsemen. Other explorers looking for the Northwest Passage subsequently charted much of the coast.
Modern colonization was begun (1721) by the Norwegian missionary Hans Egede. Danish trading posts were established shortly afterward, and colonization was furthered by deporting undesirable subjects to Greenland. Soon, the native Greenlanders began to suffer from European diseases; tuberculosis remained a problem into the 1960s. In 1814, with the Treaty of Kiel, Denmark retained Greenland and other Atlantic possessions when Norway was ceded to Sweden, which, for strategic reasons, was interested in control of the Scandinavian peninsula but not in overseas commitments of the outlying Norwegian possessions...
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"which aims to raise awareness of climate change in students"...Yep, those kids sure are heating up these days. And they have a rather stormy disposition. Must be that rap music they're all listening to.
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Over past 5,000 years climate change has already severely affected humanity,with some civilizations being destroyed.However,not all civilization was ruined,just those societies that were not flexible,not adaptive,that inhabited marginal niches.
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Stephen:
Oh.... so you are saying the Arabs are doomed?
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Maybe Sir David has watched too much Sci-Fi and lost out on producing his version of The Day After Tomorrow... I believe it more likely that an astroid impact will do us in.
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That is why I live at the 1500 foot level up a valley north of Anchorage, Alaska. Global warming happens and I will just have to move my plane. If we have another ice age, then I am in deep doo-doo, as the glacier may be barrelling by again, like it did some 100k years ago or so.
BTW, .com, thanks for the greenland history post to Rantburgers. I named my son Leif after Leif Ericsson, since he is a boy of the North, and he has a sense of direction, to boot!
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Thanks, .com. I stand corrected. I guess the Vikings weren't above a little deception when it came to colonizing land. I live in the mountains of East Tennessee so I'm not worried.
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Woo Hoo! My inland San Diego casa will be beachfront property!
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Let's face facts, that ICE AGE report was the script for the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'
(I saw it, great graphic effects, but if the Left thinks they shall win over converts...............forget about it.
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Finally, someone mentioned the latest Junk Science Classic, The Day After Tomorrow! Sheesh, I waited and waited, lol!
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Is he wearing snow shoes walking over those mid-Manhattan high-rises?
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What I'd read said Greenland was somewhat warmer--not nearly enough to melt the ice cap in the interior, but enough to make the coastline more habitable. Colonies lasted a while, then died out as the temperature dropped and food got harder to come by. My memory is fuzzy, but I think the reference was National Geographic.
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I have an alternative link for the "heavier reading" item in #14 - the PDF file. The HTML didn't include the graphics... apologies.
From "Red State"--an interesting new political blog:
For many years Dollywood has been privileged to offer free admission to individuals who had a total and permanent vision or hearing loss, and/or who have a medical or physical condition which made them permanently dependent on a wheelchair. However, due to recent civil litigation filed against Dollywood regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we have been advised that legally our disability policy must be changed.
Effective January 01, 2004, we will not be able to offer free or discounted admission to anyone based on their disability or level of disability. From a legal standpoint, our staff is not qualified to make decisions on who should or should not be given free admission to the park based on their level of disability. For those reasons we regret to inform you that individuals who have been admitted under our previous disability policy will no longer be allowed to enter free of charge.
The actual link to the article at the Dollywood site apparently has been taken down since. Regardless, itâs another example of good intentions by a private enterprise being dashed by government B.S. Ronald Reagan, where are you?! Come back to us!
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Then they should get rid of all those handicapped parking spaces too. At least where I live - they are always empty. That irritates me allot!
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Classic result of trying to legislate common sense. Sigh. Another example...
NOT Scrappleface...EFL
Jesse Jackson says NASCAR should feature more African-American drivers because "negroes can drive cars fast." Jackson made the remarks on Tuesday, the day of the sports luncheon at the 33rd Annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago, while waiting to introduce Sen. John F. Kerry."One thing I know, negroes can drive cars fast," Jackson said to laughter. "I mean, we go through red lights, even [drive] at night with our lights off. We can drive cars fast," he asserted from the podium. If a white cop said that, what do you think would happen?
NASCARâs sponsorship of the sports luncheon at this weekâs conference is contrary to previous reports indicating that NASCAR had ended its financial support of Jackson and his organizations in 2003 because of negative public pressure.By 2003, NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) had reportedly given a total of $250,000 to the Rainbow/PUSH sports division, generating criticism from conservative groups and racing fans, who saw the money as appeasement. Anybody this guy wonât shake down?
George Pyne, NASCARâs vice president of marketing, told the crowd at Tuesdayâs sports luncheon, "I would like to thank Reverend Jackson and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition for being positive catalysts for change. It is an honor to be here today." Pyne left no doubt that NASCAR was currently supporting Jackson. "To the extent that Rainbow/PUSH is committed to making NASCAR more diverse, we support them," Pyne said in an interview with CNSNews.com following the luncheon."I would point out that there are a number of Fortune 500 companies that support Rainbow/PUSH and every other major sport America supports, or a number of major sports entities, support Rainbow PUSH," Pyne said."We certainly would think that we would want to be in step with the other sports and corporations in America, and itâs consistent with how we approach the business," he added. Like they had a choice. Wonder if Jesse even looked up while he was counting the money? Continued on Page 49
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I'm a NASCAR fan and I hope they disassociate themselves from this Race-pimp
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Thass right .com....but me thinks NASCAR is a different animal than the Jesster's used to playin' with. I'm hopin' he gets bit real good.
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This is almost worthy of its own post. But why fuss with a good discussion. Spike Lee Rips NASCAR.
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"I just imagine hearing some country-and-Western song over a loudspeaker at NASCAR: 'Hang them n-- up high! Hang them n-- up high!' I'm not going to no NASCAR," Lee vows in the August issue of Playboy.
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RM - Here's hoping that the real power behind NASCAR is some tobacco-chewing hardboy who'll tell Jesse to go fuck himself, rather than a Saville Row suitjob who'll kiss his ass.
DF - Spike is Julian-Bond-in-waiting. When Julian kicks the bucket, Spike will be ready. He's got the patter and jive down, so he's a prime-time hate-divisionist politician just building his racial portfolio.
Yeah, they donât have enough problems in the West Bank...
A "Peeping Tom" who photographed a woman in the changing room of a Bethlehem area clothes shop sparked a night of rioting between Palestinian Muslims and Christians, witnesses say. At the height of the hours-long riot, hundreds of Muslims and Christians fought each other with metal rods and stones in the streets of the West Bank town of Beit Sahour, adjacent to Bethlehem, revered as the birthplace of Jesus."It was like a war," said Nahle, a resident on Wednesday. The first explosion of violence between Christians and Muslims in the area for years began when a Muslim man sneaked a camera into a changing room and snapped several pictures of a woman dressing, residents said. FILTHY INFIDEL TEMPTRESS!!! How dare she corrupt this noble Muslim man!
The man, from a nearby Muslim town, raced to a taxi with the shopowner in pursuit. But he was forced to flee to a mosque when dozens of Beit Sahour residents arrived and began smashing the taxi, which they later torched. When in doubt... head for the mosque. Does make them easy to find though.
By then, Christians and Muslims involved in the dispute had called in reinforcements, witnesses said.The Muslims demanded police free the man, who was badly beaten during the melee, residents said. But the suspect was arrested and taken to a local jail. Yeah, sounds like another Zionist Conspiracy to me...
"Then the clashes really started," said Nahle. "They were fighting with sticks and stones, and extra police had to come from Ramallah and Bethlehem to stop it," he said.Police tried to quell the fighting by firing volleys in the air with automatic rifles, but violence only died down when the Bethlehem district governor imposed a curfew on the predominantly Christian town. Yeah, calm those Christians down. Theyâre crazy bastards you know...
Two people were taken to hospital with moderate injuries and scores more suffered cuts and bruises, medics said. Streets were littered with stones on Wednesday morning and shops opened slowly as residents crept cautiously from their homes. Inter-religious tension has been brewing for some time in the Bethlehem area, where Christians number only around 20 percent of the population despite making up a majority of the population less than a century ago. The exodus of more affluent Christians has grown since a Palestinian uprising began in September 2000. What was that about cause and effect?
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The Muslims demanded police free the man
where was the outrage regarding the behavior of this man? what about the whole muslim "modesty" thing for women?
I think this woman ought to fear an "honor killing" sometime soon.
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Amazing. Islamologic 101: No Muslim is ever guilty?
Funny, I would figure that the key would be a demand that he must face Shari'a Law, yet I don't see anything of the sort. Under Shari'a, if she's a babe (and who knows what an Imam's "babe criteris" might be), she would prolly have to submit to being examined by a bunch of Imams who would compare her anatomy with the photograph. And to document the case, they'd prolly have to take tons more pictures. Each Imam would prolly need a complete set. Then they'd end up on the Internet and, of course, Al Jizz would hafta show 'em. Prolly do an hour-long documentary on her.
All in all, it sounds like street riots were the best answer. Good snap judgement, there, Islam.
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Tonight at 11:00, the Crusades revisited. Why Muslims are lucky Crusaders were French.
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Well you know this just couldn't have happend. He is a Muslim. Muslim would never do anything like this. It is a Zionist plot! Muslims are perfect and never cause trouble or problems. They would never break the law then hide in a mosque. It was a jew dressed like a muslim who also had plastic surgery so people would think he was a certian muslim.
"But the suspect was arrested and taken to a local jail." Then beaten some more because he couldn't pay the bribe.
Baseball fans can sue if they're hit by foul balls in the concession areas of New Jersey's minor league parks. An appeals court said a Newark man who was hit in the face while buying a beer at Newark's Riverfront Stadium can sue the Newark Bears and the owners of the food service company. The panel ruled that spectators assume some risk of foul balls flying into the stands. However, the judges said fans in concession areas have greater protection because they can "let down their guard." An attorney for the food service company may appeal the ruling.
So much for baseball in New Jersey! Wonder if they're going to close down the hockey rinks next? Followed by the tennis courts?
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Good to see our lawyerly friends are on top of this sort of thing. I think a price hike is due. Spread the pain around.
From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Turkmenistan on 11 July halted broadcasts of Russiaâs Mayak radio station -- the last Russian news outlet to reach the Central Asian country. For all practical purposes, Turkmenistanâs President Saparmurat Niyazov has now cut off his citizens from the outside world. Turkmen without access to a satellite dish or shortwave radio are now living in a total information vacuum. ....
At issue are not only the estimated 300,000 ethnic Russians living in Turkmenistan -- many of whom listened to Mayak -- but the fact that most of the countryâs 5 million citizens are now cut off from all outside sources of information, with the exception of a minority who own satellite dishes or shortwave radio sets. In 1998, the Turkmen authorities pulled the plug on Russian television broadcasts provided by ORT television, and in 2002, all foreign newspaper and magazine subscriptions were halted. Mayak provided Turkmen with their last source of easily accessible outside news. .... Those [Mayak radio] frequencies -- at least in Turkmenistan -- are filled this week with government-sponsored bulletins of good news about a record grain harvest, bulging state coffers, and President Niyazovâs latest project -- building an ice palace in the desert outside the capital, Ashgabat.
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From the Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society
... two girls have been killed in the name of honour after visiting their grandparents without permission in Sindh Province of Pakistan. .... Ms Tahmeena (17) and Ms Aabida (18), who are cousins, were shot to death after having been accused of having "loose morals" for having visited their grandparents without permission. The decision to kill the girls was taken in a tribal jirga, convened amongst the perpetrators and led by Mr. Abdul Rasheed, the tribal chief and a powerful landlord in the village.
Abdul Rasheed reportedly told the tribe men to go through the village and that he would arrive with the girls. The three men could not find any public transportation and thus did not arrive at the village until after midnight. Upon their arrival, the eight perpetrators also arrived by car with the victims. The perpetrators told the girls to get out of the car and allegedly told the relatives to kill the girls because they had "loose morals," having visited their grandparents without first getting family permission. Fazaluddin, Hidayatullah, and Dad Mohammad reportedly begged them not to kill the girls. Nevertheless, the perpetrators shot the girls and then took the bodies in order to cover up their crime. The perpetrators reportedly threatened the witnesses with death if they were to complain to the police.
Seems like the Institute has made great progress ...
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Oh, yeah. Another fine example of islam's finest.
Brave, MuslimP "men" killing girls to preserve the honor of the men.
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Man, if they were in America, they probably would've gotten grounded. We're the savages with grounding and panties on heads, and all. Come on, it's just their "culture." (Sarcasm)
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I doubt this was just plain disobedience. They were almost certainly guilty of something far worse to merit this 'end'. I wonder if they'd been caught smoking?
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Is 'honour' killing specifically mentioned in the Koran?
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Thanks mhw. Fromw the link I get the impression that the Koran does not specifically advocate honour killings, but that Sharia Law does.
"...While the Koran is full of guidelines on how to control women's sexuality, and Islamic Law; Sharia, rules harsh punishments including lashing and stoning to death for women's voluntary sexual activities, this denial is nothing but an apology for Islamic misogynism..."
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Reason #9843 to arm the women of these regions to the hilt. Wonder how far "honor" will get then?
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not without an attitude wake up, Barb - we'd just be supplying arms to their oppressors. Need an intervention first, to use the current fad phrase. I call it a reality-slap upside the head
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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