Public sex comes with its fair share of complications, hence the thrill. You might be seen. You might mistake a patch of poison ivy for a harmless shrub. Or, if you're like one particularly amorous couple in Olympia, your night of alfresco lovemaking might result in a trip to jail and a painful shocking sensation.
On Monday night, a Thurston County deputy was called to a home after neighbors complained of loud music. When he arrived, the cop found a man and woman naked in the front yard, zoinking in the zoysia. When the deputy approached the woman screamed and ran. Which is the proper response when an officer of the law interrupts you mid-coitus.
The man, however, was less impressed. Still naked, he started yelling at the cop who'd interrupted Romance Time. The man advanced on the cop. But lacking any weapons, or pockets to hide them in, he was easily overtaken with two shots from a Taser and put under arrest for third-degree assault.
Thus bringing to an end the most complicated, painful and costly role-playing session in the history of fantasy sex.
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Hence the oft posted warning -
Do not attempt this at home. Done by professionals on a closed course.
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Awwww, Frank - that's so sweet, worrying about the shrubbery.... ;-p
Whatta mensch.
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I my neighbor was knocking off a little on his front lawn I would simply close the curtains. If I had to go outside for some reason, I might say "hi" but I wouldn't call the cops.
A Mohave County judge on Wednesday dismissed all Arizona charges against polygamist leader Warren Jeffs after a prosecutor said continuing with the charges would be "impractical."
Judge Steven Conn granted Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith's motion to dismiss the four charges of being an accomplice to sexual conduct with a minor. The charges stemmed from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. They were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled on the same set of facts
Smith said the two alleged victims in the cases no longer want to proceed with prosecution in Arizona.
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Ages 15-22? Some of their parents paid to have them 'treated' at the 'prison?' I've been to schools where the inmates fantasized acting the same way to get out & go home.
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Researchers have identified dozens of genes that inrease the risk of an individual getting autism, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
Genetic data were collected from 1,000 people with autism spectrum disorder and 1,300 from individuals without ASD. Researchers found those with autism had more genetic insertions and deletions--called copy number variants or CNV--in their genome than those who did not have the disorder. Some of the variants seemed to be inherited while others appeared to be new, meaning they were found only in the affected children, but not their parents.
"Identifying these copy number variants in young children at risk of autism will help us to implement earlier treatment," said Louise Gallagher, Trinity College, Dublin and a study co-author. "Currently autism diagnosis is entirely behavioral and lengthy. Some children are not getting a diagnosis until as late as 5 years old. With earlier detection these children could get earlier intervention which may limit the severity of the condition particularly their co-morbid difficulties." Researchers believe these discoveries could lead to the development of new therapies.
"Piece by piece, we are discovering genetic mutations that can cause autism. These findings will provide answers for families about what contributed to their autism," said Andy Shih Ph.D, Autism Speaks vice president for scientific affairs. "Furthermore, as we have learned from examples involving other genetic risk factors of autism (e.g., Fragile X, Rett, TSC), these genetic findings help us understand the underlying biology of autism, which can lead to the development of novel treatments."
Autism Speaks, the country's largest autism advocacy organization, invested $9 million in the study. "The exciting thing about the findings of this study is that they point to specific biochemical pathways and targets for drug discovery and these findings bring hope to many families who struggle with autism every day," said Geraldine Dawson, chief scientist at Autism Speaks and a study co-author. "What is critical now is to translate these basic biological findings into clinical tools for early detection and treatment. We are now developing behavioral interventions for infants and toddlers who are at risk for autism so these findings will allow early detection that can provide children with interventions as early as possible."
Steve Scherer, one of the researchers in the study says the results will lead to a paradigm shift when it comes to our understanding of the root causes of autism. "Our research findings point to the fact that the genetic variations that we discovered are actually rare in frequency meaning most individuals with autism are probably genetically unique each having their own genetic form of autism. Now that we know there are numerous genes involved in autism, another very very important finding of the study is we are actually able to tie these genes together in the same biological pathways or networks and they seem to be involved in how the brain functions. Knowing these autism genes are linked we can begin to develop rationally derived therapies to target the common pathways involved for the very first time."
The Autism Genome Project is currently analyzing another 1,500 families. Organizers want to start the next generation sequencing of the whole genome--searching for new mutations to try to finish the puzzle that is autism.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/data.html) an estimated one in 110 children in the U.S. have autism spectrum disorders. Boys are four to five times more likely to be diagnosed as girls. The causes may vary and include biologic, genetic and environmental factors, there is no known cure.
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"Our research findings point to the fact that the genetic variations that we discovered are actually rare in frequency meaning most individuals with autism are probably genetically unique each having their own genetic form of autism.
All this study appears to have found is that people diagnosed with autism have a higher level of a certain type of genetic defect.
I'll suggest that there will be a similar correlation with intelligence, height, income and other general characteristics.
IMO autism is primarily a behavioural problem and as such doesn't have an underlying genetic/biochemical cause.
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Autism seems to be an umbrella cause that was formerly known as (G)ARC,Fill in your Geographic location Association for Retarded Children. Sort of like the March of Dimes, which was originally the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, they changed their name to broaden their market, polio having been conquered and retardation being something that happened to others.
That is why we are bombarded by ads telling how 1 in 100 children is born with autism. It's an ordinary disease that can strike anyone, even your children. And in order to reach these numbers, Autism Spectrum Disorder has been expanded to cover all sorts of behavior that are not simply classic retardation, but behaviors generally thought to be under the control or the responsibility of the individual.
The same way when polio was conquered the March of Dimes decided not to disband, but to redirect their fund raising machine to address the biggest area of medical problems least likely to be solved with the greatest market appeal, Birth Defects, so the ARCs have redefined their market as any mental problem related to any child. And so people conclude that autism is not genetic, but behavioural because Autism Speaks has cast its net so broadly.
There's a lot of people of all ages with lots of mental problems deriving from lots of causes. To lump them so many together under the term Autism is a marketing gimmick, not descriptive nomenclature. Autism is of a piece with Gaia worshiping Environmentalism, Righteous Cause marketing run amuck.
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All human behavior has a genetic, physiologic and biochemical basis. Certainly there are also many behaviors under the control/responsibility of the individual. Determining what lies outside an individual's control has often been difficult, and the ability to describe/model human mental processes in a useful way has only just started. So, define just how one of Albert Einstein's thought experiments differs from an hallucination of his schizophrenic son Eduard. How does telling a lie differ from telling something you are innocently wrong in believing?
There are also social & economic motivations behind autism advocacy organizations. Think of all the grants, research fellowships, special teacher certifications and budgetary demands on school systems that will result.
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Autism is increasing. Ask anyone in the Special Ed department of any school. The major indicator of this is that the cases of extreme autism have gone through the roof. Those cannot be mis-diagnosed.
It has nothing to do with parenting. Something is wrong with the brains of these children. There are things that you take for granted that these kids just can't do. Speech, social rules, coordination, all the things that are associated with nerds. Either sections of the are missing, or communication pathways that should look like a superhighway end up looking like a straw, or processing in that section is diminished. This phenomenon is clearly visible on some of the real-time brain-scans. Diagnosing autism is no longer an art. It is a science, but no science is needed to recognize autism. These effects are recognizable beginning after about 18 months of life.
Things like speech for example. What kind of parenting style or chosen behavior could possibly interfere with the development of speech? I know you could point at extreme examples, but those are one-in-a-million. The incidence of autism has grown from 1/10,000 to 1/100. That's a 100-fold increase, one of which is my son. Boys get hit about 3x worse than girls, and the ratio has remained consistent. My daughter is perfectly normal and she has been raised under the same parents and parenting style. It's an inherited genetic trait because the parents tend to have autistic traits, only they are more subtle. Something in the environment or social behavior that affects these genes is causing them to run amok.
If you believe that autism is a result of parenting or chosen behavior, forget about it. You are heading down the wrong path. You'd benefit from a bit of exposure to parents of kids, and kids, affected by the disorder.
If you think autism is a gimmick, that's not the case either. I can imagine how it may seem to be the case to those who do not understand the spectral nature of autism, or dismissive of the idea that scientific understanding of autism and therefore response has developed. You must add to your perspective the concept that just because some guy 60 years ago proposed a tentative definition of something doesn't mean that the definition is required to remain immutable. It was just a first-pass guess. Scientists have it down pretty well today, and still have a ways to go. Autism today includes the extreme cases (as originally studied) as well as ADHD, ADD, PDD, PDD-NOS and Aspergers. And they are right to include every one of them. You might also include nerds and people who have other parts of their brain that are not able to fully contribute to processing for whatever reason, and you would be right to do so, but at some point you have to draw the line. The line drawn for autism has morphed to include those who have learning problems that respond to certain families of training or teaching techniques, and that is perfectly reasonable. If parents see that their kids respond well to the techniques used to treat known autistics, they are going to want to have their kids put in that class. The kids who do not respond well to these techniques, like those with retardation, are going to have to be categorized differently. Superimposed on this natural expansion through understanding is the problem that the incidence of autism is truly increasing. Don't let that confuse you into thinking it is a gimmick. All of these kids show many of the same behavioral patterns, such as perseverence on a repeated task, parallel vs. joint play, lack of understanding or even perception of social rules, problems with receptive and/or expressive language, attention span, and a few other well-recognized traits that are all common in a spectral-sort-of-way.
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This contradicts the extensive studies conducted by Dr. Jenny McCarthy and Dr. Deirdre Imus
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Some people are built different. There is no denying that. Period.
It should be mentioned that there is a difference between the medical definition of and the sociatal catch-phrase. It could be that with the increasing specialization of human behavior that such created beings take more noticed time out of what we are tought, naturally, is a person'a role. I also wonder how many people throughout history have accomplished amazing feats who, if sitting on a patio sharing iced tea with would be difficult to hold a normal conversation with. As AH9418 states, some people push the envelope and can surf on their own, others need more encouragement. Those blessed by good parenting can make it, and some need more assistance than others, and there are the jackasses opportunists who would leach off of others to further themselves.
If I had to make a pop culture reference, think Star Treck TNG where LaForge's visor techonology saves an entire planet where if he had been born there he would have been aborted before birth. Now, there is the concept. Expand, that visor technology wasn't just created, the parable is that Laforge represents the sum total of all parents throughout human history who cared for those who needed a bit more attention and made everyone better for it.
It is still important to note that there is an assault on science at this point where the traditional idea is hijacked for political purposes and I would rather roll the dice if you will with my future children possibly needed more attention than the one I have than have a embryonic test telling me whats what. Be prepared, yes; told by law my child will be coddled or else, no. My kids will be better than a diagnosis even if the diagnosis does point us in the right direction.
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Autism Risk Rises With Age Of Father
i.e. Father's accumulated genetic damage. Children of fathers who were 15 to 29 years of age had a risk of about six in 10,000 of developing autism. Children of fathers in their thirties had a risk of nine in 10,000. Children of fathers in their forties had a risk of 32 in 10,000, and children of fathers who were older than 50 had a risk of 52 in 10,000.
Similarly Down's Syndrome rises w/ age of mother. Both sexes are having children later.
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Gorb is right on according to my experience. My nephew, a friend's child, and working with several autistic kids in the classroom shows it presents as a behavioral problem but it is not under their conscious control, for whatever reason. It is so very embarassing to have a child act-out in public or hurtful to have them bullied and shunned by their peers when many do not understand the disorder. Good parenting that seeks out helpful strategies helps everyone deal with them, but bad parenting is not the cause. The question I have is what is causing the genetic mutations that are obviously increasing? Ingestion of drugs, legal or otherwise, environmental toxins, nutritional deficiencies? It also seems to be transmitted by the Y chromosome or at least recessive for the females as it is gender dominant. Is it increasing mostly in the US, the West, or are the statistics true worldwide? I'm glad they are actually putting $$$ to good use when so much has been wasted lately on boondoggles.
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Google "autistic brain scan" to see the images for yourselves. And "Temple Grandin", aka Professor Grandin, PhD (four of them, the last time I looked), who writes about nearly being institutionalized in the '50s for retardation, and what it's like to grow up as one kind of high functioning autistic. Her mother intuitively understood how to help her become functional, and fought husband, doctors, and society to make it happen.
I have a daughter with high functioning Asperger's Syndrome, so high functioning that we didn't realize there was a problem until she was fourteen. We didn't get a diagnosis until her senior year of high school, partly because the treatment for the interim diagnosis of ADHD appeared to help, partly because only the fourth therapist who worked with her had the knowledge to recognize Asperger's. Fortunately, many of the things that are recommended to ameliorate the functional difficulties of Asperger's were things we had already been doing to offset the challenges of changing countries/cultures/languages. Perhaps otherwise she might have been diagnosed earlier.
Despite all that, my borderline genius, National Merit scholar child needed serious help to graduate from high school, despite having no trouble mastering the material, and will likely take more than four years to finish college.
Had it not been for the fortuitous change of therapists (the previous one took a job out of state), she never would have been diagnosed at all, even in these enlightened times. Instead, she would have been at best a high school drop-out, and most likely dead by her own hand. Everyone would have talked about "all that wasted potential." She has been writing and illustrating exquisite stories since the age of three, always had a close circle of friends, dresses much more stylishly than I, adored her teachers, and except for a brief period in elementary school, was never bullied. Unlike the stereotype, she looks neither nerdy nor uncoordinated, she doesn't flap her ears or spin in circles, she doesn't speak out or move around inappropriately in class. She never would have been classed as mentally retarded in the old days, just a lazy under-achiever, although she works harder for her achievements than anyone I've ever seen.
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Y'all might be interesting in Not My Boy, by football quarterback Rodney Peete. He has four children, the first two twins -- a boy and a girl. The boy showed symptoms of autism at the age of two, his sister and younger brothers are normal.
What's causing an increase in the disorder? I suspect a good piece of that is likely an artifact of diagnosis, and working with the children instead of immediately institutionalizing them for retardation. Also, it is a spectrum, and more nerds who don't make the cut-off are marrying and having children, as well as the later marriage thingy (thanks, ed!). Also, life is more demanding on all levels nowadays; back in the day a boy who didn't have the skills could get a job wielding a shovel, a girl who didn't have the skills could become a housemaid, and no one would know or care that a genius had been lost to humanity, or that with some training they could have functioned at a much higher level.
I have two autistic kids. One of which is borderline but appeared much worse when he was about 2-3.
My other son is turning 4 and is still not talking much. However he can turn on the computer, logon, access his favorite website and play games - all on his own.
My wife works with them every single day. Parenting helps - it takes a lot of effort and time.
Autism Spectrum Disorder can range from the slightly 'delayed' to the serious banging-his-head-against-the-wall-for-hours - it covers a wide area (that's where the 'spectrum' comes from). This is what was explained to me by the Doctor when my second son was diagnosed. Sometimes I think it may be over-diagnosed. On the other hand I wonder if perhaps it simply wasn't 'seen'.
Is it because its occurring more - or only because its being detected more often?
I don't think its 'retardation' but inability to express or tolerate. It isn't the CPU/Mainboard that's failing but the IO Channel :).
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ADD/ADHD is considered to be on the spectrum now? Since when?
I know that sometimes people on the spectrum originally start out with a ADD/ADHD diagnosis that doesn't quite fit, but this is news to lil' ol' hyperactive me.
(I always thought there were other "markers", if you will, for ADD/ADHD. It is linked to a family tendency to get eczema and asthma/allergies, but I had never heard of a correlation with autism.)
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ADD/ADHD is not considered on the spectrum, Cornsilk Blondie. However, it apparently is a common misdiagnosis in high-functioning cases, and a significant additional problem for many others, along with anxiety, depression, and OCD or OC behavior.
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ADD/ADHD being in the spectrum is still being talked about, but it will end up being there. The medications, symptoms, and teaching techniques have too much overlap not to. They are on the light end of the spectrum. Also, there is resistance due to political correctness and denial by therapists and parents. Give them time.
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TW-
What did your new therapist do (aside from a correct diagnosis)? Your daughter sounds a lot like my son (although he's only 8). He's been a struggle to care for since he was born and I expect it to continue.
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Probably gonna get flamed for this, but....in my role as unofficial spokesgirl for everyone with ADD/ADHD, I hope it doesn't end up on the spectrum.
There may be some overlap in certain areas, since we are after all talking about ways that not-so-normal brains process information. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but the spectrum disorders all have in common a difficulty in relating emotionally and in use of language. That's not really a problem with ADD/ADHD'ers. What we share is (sometimes) obsessive focus on some minutiae and (sometimes) constant movement.
IMNSHO, it's kind of like mumps and measles are both viral infections but they are not the same beast, if ya get where I'm coming from.
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I agree that ADD/ADHD should not be included with autism unless it's found that, like depression and anxiety, they are different expressions of the same problem.
What did your new therapist do (aside from a correct diagnosis)?
Spot, if you could email me, we can continue this privately. But mostly techniques to manage/preempt anxiety, and finding ways to discover and explain the rules of things. Little things like joining a group in conversation, bigger things like when it's ok to skip a class. (If hospitalized or dead; anything less you tough it out and go to class anyway.)
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cases of extreme autism have gone through the roof.
In which case there cannot be a genetic (hereditary) cause. Although, a large increase in the frequency of chromosomal damage is a possibility, but there is no evidence for this that I am aware of.
TW, part (and perhaps most of) the problem is the medical professions adherence to the single cause disease paradigm. This results in searches for the sole or primary cause where probably none exists. Schizophrenia is a good example. I have been hearing every 5 years for the last 50 years that the biochemical cause has been found and each time its a new cause.
IMO autism and schizophrenia result from genetic tendencies combined with innapropriate or dysfunctional learned behaviours. Behaviours that work for the person with autism/schizophrenia, at least temporarily, but not for everyone else.
I'd add that parents of autitistic children have a strong need for a genetic/biochemical cause, because the alternative is that they have taught their child to be autistic. Which unfortunately is probably true is many/most cases.
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How can you teach your child to be Autistic?
Unless you are treating them in a seriously abnormal fashion. Kids are pretty tough and resilient for the most part.
I agree that some mental symtoms may be learned. I remember hearing about a person who grew up in a institution (because he was placed there 'temporarily') and 'learned' from the other patients to act a certain way. Eventually it was found out that he could function normally - it ended with him starting to get retrained.
But I can't believe that all those parents are 'teaching' their kids to be autistic - particularly the serious banging-head-against-the-wall ones.
It may be environmental. Or it may be just better (or worse as in diagnosing delayed children with it) diagnosis.
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In which case there cannot be a genetic (hereditary) cause. Although, a large increase in the frequency of chromosomal damage is a possibility, but there is no evidence for this that I am aware of.
These kids have genes that make them susceptible to autism. Either through damage or decreased selectional pressure or sensitivity to something in the environment.
TW, part (and perhaps most of) the problem is the medical professions adherence to the single cause disease paradigm. This results in searches for the sole or primary cause where probably none exists. Schizophrenia is a good example. I have been hearing every 5 years for the last 50 years that the biochemical cause has been found and each time its a new cause.
In this case the medical community is highly aware that there are several causes, and they know it's going to be a bi+ch to solve.
IMO autism and schizophrenia result from genetic tendencies combined with innapropriate or dysfunctional learned behaviours. Behaviours that work for the person with autism/schizophrenia, at least temporarily, but not for everyone else.
Something like that.
I'd add that parents of autitistic children have a strong need for a genetic/biochemical cause, because the alternative is that they have taught their child to be autistic. Which unfortunately is probably true is many/most cases.
I don't think "taught" is the right word. Perhaps "allowed" is closer. I think any aware parent knows that if they allow some odd behavior to continue that it will become ingrained. Our son tried the hand flapping thing. He tried toe-walking. He's tried lots of stuff. We stopped it immediately because these behaviors build upon themselves until the kid is completely out of control. We were fortunate enough that we found ways to cancel these behaviors, but we did have to invest a lot of work into it. For some kids, these behaviors are impossible to stop, for others their parents don't try to stop them for whatever reason. I have to admit that a lot of parents simply resign themselves to their kids being autistic and don't really try all that hard because it isn't convenient.
Society also plays a big part here. People are walled off from each other. Schools stick all these kids together and the behaviors that the teachers are not able to cancel just end up reinforcing each other across all the kids in the classroom. It's medieval, but it's all that many school systems can envision. Putting these kids in with regular kids ("developmentally typical" is the PC phrase) actually helps diminish these behaviors, and gets the regular kids to thinking about society in a deeper way when they see what these other kids have to deal with.
The Obama administration expects offshore oil rig workers who lose wages as a result of the administration's moratorium on deepwater oil and gas exploration to be reimbursed by BP, a White House spokeswoman said Monday.
The costs could be significant.
The Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association estimates that each of the 25 operating Gulf rigs affected by the moratorium, and another five that had planned to begin operations before the end of the year, normally would employ between 800 and 1,400 workers. The average wages per worker is $1,804 a week.
That could mean lost income of between $150 million to $300 million a month, the association said.
There was no comment from BP on whether it would agree to pay claims for lost wages from oil rigs shut down by the moratorium, which was declared after the British oil giant's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20 and began leaking millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The company has been accepting claims from fishers and others who have lost income because of the leak.
White House spokeswoman Moira Mack said the administration expects BP and any other responsible parties, presumably the two other companies connected to the Deepwater Horizon -- Halliburton and Transocean -- to cover the wages of workers who lose their jobs because of the moratorium.
"To the extent there is any delay in BP and other responsible parties paying such compensation, employed individuals who are laid off should file with their state for regular unemployment insurance benefits and other applicable benefits," Mack said.
Mack said the administration is seeking legislation that would make oil rig workers, whose employment isn't always steady enough to qualify for unemployment, eligible for the benefits. She said the administration would seek reimbursement from BP for any government funds allocated for unemployment benefits for these workers.
To file a claim with BP, people can go to www.bp.com/claims or call BP's helpline at 800.440.0858. Those who have already pursued the BP claims process and are not satisfied with BP's resolution, can call the Coast Guard at 800.280.7118. It has the authority to mediate disputes between BP and claimants.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said whether BP will be obligated to pay for lost wages of rig workers could be in legal dispute because the moratorium, although a direct result of the BP rig accident, came about as a result of a government decision. She said she would prefer the administration say that it has "ordered" BP to pay for lost wages, rather than expect the reimbursements.
Landrieu said the best thing the administration can do is shorten the length of the moratorium, and give the industry a "date certain" when operations can resume so companies aren't tempted to move rigs from the Gulf to the coasts of Brazil and Africa.
Other members of Louisiana's congressional delegation, including Republican Sen. David Vitter, called on the administration to quickly inspect all the affected rigs, and allow back into service any operations without safety issues.
During a visit to Louisiana on Friday, President Barack Obama defended his moratorium, but said that if a White House commission, and his Interior Department, find ways to safeguard deepwater oil and gas operations sooner than six months, he would be willing to end the moratorium sooner.
Mack said the six-month moratorium was "instituted to ensure the safety of deepwater drilling."
"The president believes we must ensure that the BP deepwater spill is never repeated," Mack said. "This will allow for the new safety equipment and procedures announced in (Interior) Secretary (Ken) Salazar's May 27 report to be implemented and for the independent commission to review the cause of the spill and analyze the rules and regulations governing offshore drilling."
Some congressional members, including Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said it probably will take longer than six months, to get necessary safeguards in place.
Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, who attended a hearing Monday in which the wives of some of the men who lost their jobs in the BP accident, said he's glad the president has acknowledged the serious economic damage from the drilling moratorium.
But he said "it is an insult to the thousands of Louisiana workers who will lose their jobs as a result of his misdirected order that he will offer them an unemployment check as a consolation for taking away their jobs."
Soon after the spill, Obama announced that he was making small business loans available to businesses that have been impacted by the spill, as well as seeking legislation that would liberalize eligibility by affected workers for unemployment insurance.
Landrieu said that the SBA loans, while helpful to some, probably aren't a viable option to many because so many went heavily into debt after losses incurred during Hurricane Katrina, nearly five years ago.
"Unemployment benefits and SBA loans are a good start and I support both because they will help Louisiana workers," Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, said. But Melancon said the "most important action the president could take to help people in south Louisiana would be to end the moratorium on offshore drilling so our people can get back to work as quickly as possible." Melancon previously said that he understood the administration's decision to temporarily halt deepwater drilling, but said Friday that he he asked the president to end it as quickly as possible
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The lead article in the UK Telegraph today was how Obama was hurting UK pensions by his actions against BP and that was before this particular idiocy.
I doubt BP will pay the workers wages. It would be a terrible prescident - private companies having to pay directly for the costs of government actions.
BP is probably close to the point where they say 'to hell with the PR' and fight these costs being imposed on them in the courts.
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4 out of 5 Brits wanted Obama (over McCain) to be president and many tried all they could to influence the American election. So when Obama disses the Brits, my Give-a-Shits already done got flushed.
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Good time to buy some BP stock. A year from now you'll have doubled your money.
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By the way...who is the democrat from North Dakota who when interviewed today and asked about how the shale is North Dakota was doing, answered, "Oh well it produces a lot of money! I mean, err, oil."
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"President Barack Obama expects BP to foot bill for wages lost because of drilling moratorium"
Why don't we start by your first using all that BP money they gave YOU, Bambi, during your campaign, to "foot the bill."
Proof Bambi's a crooked politician - he won't stay bought. >:-(
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"President Barack Obama expects BP to foot bill for wages lost because of drilling moratorium"
Just a minute here asshole, BP did NOT declare a moratorium, YOU DID.
Let's see the correct person gets sued, and that person is President Obama himself.
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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende resigned Wednesday as leader of the Christian Democratic Alliance after exit polls from the country's national elections projected that his party would lose 20 of its 41 parliamentary seats.
Balkenende, who also gave up his seat in parliament, will remain in office as prime minister until a new coalition government is formed, said Xander van der Wulp, political editor for CNN affiliate NOS.
That process could take months because no clear winner was projected in Wednesday's elections.
The exit polls showed the center-right Liberal Party and center-left Labor Party tying with 31 seats each, while the far-right, anti-Islam Freedom Party of controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders more than doubled its seats, going from nine to 23 -- far ahead of analyst expectations.
With its strong showing at the polls, there was speculation that the Freedom Party could play a role in a forthcoming coalition government.
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They have to; the narrators are concerned about the number of fringe voters who agree with Wilder's Freedom Party on a number of issues but in the end voted for somebody else. In the shadow, unmentioned, is that sharia law would be even futher right of the Freedom Party according to the same appraisal and dialogue of this scribbler, if one were to give this person the benifit of impartiality.
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Remember, Mr. Wilders had no economic policy. So those Dutch who were concerned about the current euro problems would have voted Liberal. Several months ago the vote projections had Wilder's party taking about 37 seats, as I recall, and the Liberals at 10-20 or so... although I may have the numbers wrong. But at any rate, Wilders was speaking aloud about his lifetime ambition to be prime minister.
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"Mr. Wilders had no economic policy. . . . Wilders was speaking aloud about his lifetime ambition to be prime minister."
Then he'd better get an economic policy, tw. Toot sweet.
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Then he'd better get an economic policy, tw. Toot sweet.
Agreed, Barbara. The issue is that, except for the question of the Sharia invasion, Mr. Wilder is pretty much party line socialist. And because his was always a fringe party, that didn't matter. This will be a learning experience for him and his comrades.
A Belgian high school on Tuesday sacked a Muslim maths teacher after she insisted she would continue to wear headscarf while taking classes. At the start of the academic year authorities at the school in Charleroi, told the Turkish-born teacher to remove her headscarf, which she had been wearing during class for two and a half years. The teacher refused and took her case to court. In the first instance the Charleroi tribunal backed the school board, citing the religious "neutrality" of the schools. However in March the appeals court ruled that the school in question came under the jurisdiction of Charleroi, which had not issued rules on the banning of religious insignia. The teacher therefore returned to school but the municipality soon afterwards introduced its own ban on the wearing of "all religious or philosophical symbols".
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Assimilation is hard, especially when you don't even try.
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The Lahore High Court, while hearing a petition on Wednesday, directed the federal government to allocate funds for importing 'lie-detecting machines'. The court said that such devices could be helpful to the courts and investigation agencies, since current methods of investigation -- such as forensic science methods and chemical examination -- had become obsolete. The court directed the federal government to prepare a feasibility report and allocate special funds for the purchase of modern devices like lie detectors in order to introduce modern technology to the resolution of cases. Advocate Javed Iqbal Jeffrey had moved the petition. He had sought for the permanent disqualification of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, the return to the country of foreign assets owned by Pakistani politicians, and for the installation of lie detectors to expose dishonest politicians.
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Next: Electric truncheons. Good for 120 beats/min.
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just to clarify, not all Hispanics are Illegals
It just goes to show how the badly liberals have distorted the definitions of and blurred the lines between:
1) Legitimate immigrants and illegal aliens;
2) Hispanics and illegal aliens;
3) Legitimate immigrants and hispanic immigrants and worldwide immigrants;
4) . . . and so on and so on and so on.
Even lumping several separate categories under the one term "hispanic" tends to push these groups together to form a more powerful political group than if they were separate.
Very Orwellian in terms of messing with the definition of words has an effect on how people think and rationalize.
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Not all Illegals are Hispanic either. The AZ law doesn't target any specific ethinc group. It just happens that the vast majority of illegals happen to be Hispanic in AZ.
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"Hispanics Flee Arizona." Really? So legal citizens who happens to have brown hair and the last name Guerrero are running in terror? That sounds damn unlikely.
How will other states react when one state balances its budget, reduces crime and lowers poverty via the single act of enforcing existing immigration laws? Kind of hard to explain to constituents why it couldn't be done in their home state as well.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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