Dealer: He's (Dodson) more toxic than you realize. I can tell you cause I asked him. How much of this f----g file did you release?
Agent: Mmmhm
Dealer: He said basically the underlying case file. I said okay, who'd you release it to? F----g Patrick Leahy! Ok? Wasn't just Grassley it was Leahy alright? Leahy as we both know has adjourned this inquiry right now okay with no plans to reconvene it. So your people were successful on that end.
Putting a basketball game on an aircraft carrier sounds like a cool event, something unique to punctuate the start of the college basketball season.
But this is much more than a gimmick on 11-11-11 -- much more than merely a game to showcase top-ranked North Carolina and perennial contender Michigan State.
Understand that this event would not have happened without the full cooperation of the United States Navy. The USS Carl Vinson was chosen as the host carrier, less than seven months removed from being the final resting place of the most sought-after war criminal since World War II, Osama Bin Laden, whose body was dumped into the sea off the deck of the Vinson.
"It's an incredible undertaking," said Rear Admiral Denny Moynihan, who has been the Navy's point person on the project. "Nobody has ever done this before. We're working through the logistical and legality of how we can do it as best we can."
"If the Carl Vinson is needed between now and Veterans Day, then we'll have to find another place to play the game," Moynihan said. "We needed to make sure there was no operational impact to play the game. We can't release future operations, but it will be involved in deployment after the game."
Whalen said his agreement is to be on the ship by Nov. 1 and off by Nov. 14 or 15. The plan is for a mini-stadium to be built on the deck with lights, scoreboard and more. If weather is a major issue, then the game would be moved to the hanger below. Tipoff time is set for 4:15 p.m. PST.
The commitment is for a total of 7,000 people to witness the game: 3,000 active sailors; 500 from other branches like the Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard; veterans and retirees; those involved with the Wounded Warrior project, the San Diego Sports Commission, sponsors, Morale Entertainment and ESPN, which is televising the game. North Carolina and Michigan State are allowed 750 fans each.
Moynihan said the morale boost to the sailors will be significant. Toss in famous programs like UNC and Michigan State, famous coaches like Roy Williams and Tom Izzo, and the fact this game will be on Veterans Day on a memorable 11-11-11 date. It all adds up to what should be a truly special week off the California coast.
"This will be a huge boost for morale and we're hopeful that the two teams will be able to interact with everyone on the ship," Moynihan said. "There will be a lot of hard work put in to get the ship ready and hopefully they can rub elbows with people like Coach Izzo and Coach Williams. We're hoping that people will get a chance to learn about what an aircraft carrier does for the nation while also watching a basketball game.
"This game is a celebration of service for all veterans. This is a great opportunity for the Navy to expose people to what an aircraft carrier does and can do."
"We're honoring our veterans that night," Moynihan said. "This is a unique opportunity to be the first college basketball game of the season, on a Friday night on Veterans Day."
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It's all about the veterans: "This game is a celebration of service for all veterans. This is a great opportunity for the Navy to expose people to what an aircraft carrier does and can do."
"We're honoring our veterans that night," Moynihan said. "This is a unique opportunity to be the first college basketball game of the season, on a Friday night on Veterans Day."
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Not to be a sad sack, but wouldn't this be a really tempting target? I would want a flying air cover, since Mexico is so close to S.D.; if the bad guys filled a 172 w/ explosives, they would in and done before a ground based CAP got airborne.
A really cool idea, hope they are looking at the dark side.
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USN, Ret. I have no idea which carriers would be in SD on this day.... but this Rear Admiral does.... fitting, somehow, that it is the USS Carl Vinson, the last home of Mr. Bin Laden... got to drive some crazy -- The Vinson must now be some kind of "Holy Place."
I do remember, through the years, that for "special events" there is always extra security.
And I don't know, I'm not military, but between the Navy and the Marines, I"m willing to bet, that volunteer sign up list for overflight, is full, with plenty of backup!
[Emirates 24/7] A 77-year-old Ukrainian man won a jar full of sour cream for coming first in a dumpling eating contest and then promptly died, local media reported on Wednesday.
Ivan Mendel ate 10 dumplings in half a minute to win first place and a one-litre jar of sour cream in the contest held in the town of Tokmak in the southeastern Zaporizhya region on September 18, Fakty I Kommentarii newspaper said.
Shortly afterwards, Mendel became unwell and died, according to local news websites.
Dumplings, called "vareniki" in the former Soviet republic, are a staple of Ukrainian cuisine and are often stuffed with a range of fillings from mushrooms to cherries.
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So...........did his heirs inherit the 1 litre jar of sour cream?
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Vareniki will do that to you. Wolfing down 10 in a half a minute is pushing the envelope juuuuuust a bit. Always helps to have friends around yelling encouragement.
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There was an old man of Ukrania
Who got swept up in the dumpling mania
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He said to a friend:
"I think I made Fred's Rantburgia."
with their new spokesduo Joe Biden and Michelle Obama
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It's my understanding that all those NGO's bringing in food from the outside (rather than buying local if available) at cut rate prices has trashed the local farm economy's of many regions over the years. Not just in Africa. Long a known problem....
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Historic and culturally important landmarks are being destroyed to make way for luxury hotels and malls... Mecca, once a place where the Prophet Mohamed insisted all Muslims would be equal, has become a playground for the rich...Few are willing to discuss their fears openly because of the risks associated with criticising official policy in the authoritarian kingdom. And, with the exceptions of Turkey and Iran, fellow Muslim nations have largely held their tongues for fear of of a diplomatic fallout and restrictions on their citizens' pilgrimage visas. Western archaeologists are silent out of fear that the few sites they are allowed access to will be closed to them.
But a number of prominent Saudi archaeologists and historians are speaking up in the belief that the opportunity to save Saudi Arabia's remaining historical sites is closing fast. why you may ask
In the eyes of Wahabis, historical sites and shrines encourage "shirq" -- the sin of idolatry or polytheism -- and should be destroyed.
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Saudi King Abdullah has given the kingdom's women the right to vote for first time in nationwide local elections, due in 2015.
What we in the West don't appreciate is that the '2015' is on the Islamic calendar, not the Christian one...
The king said in an annual speech on Sunday before his advisory assembly, or Shura Council, that Saudi women will be able to run and cast ballots in the 2015 municipal elections. Abdullah says women will also be appointed to "join the all-male" Shura Council.
Saudi Arabia held its first-ever municipal elections in 2005.
The kingdom will hold its next municipal elections on Thursday, but women are not able to vote or run at this time.
Women rights activists have long fought to gain the right to vote in the kingdom that applies a strict version of Sunni Islam and bans women from driving or travelling without the consent of a male guardian.
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They have the right to vote for the Soddy king as often as they like.
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I like to hearken back to the 19th Amendment, which was pushed through by Republican majorities in both houses of congress, though it had been twice defeated in the previous Democrat congress.
The Woodrow Wilson supported it, the Democrats in congress fought it both with killer amendments and filibustering. In the senate, more Democrats voted "no" or abstained than those that voted "yes." 70 Democrats in the House voted against it, so it passed by just one vote.
So, let's see. Republicans gave women the right to vote, against Democrat opposition, but are "anti-woman"; and Republicans ended slavery and pushed through the Civil Rights Act, despite desperate Democrat opposition, but are "racist".
[Bangla Daily Star] No torture marks have been found on the body of MU Ahmed, a pro-BNP lawyer at the Supreme Court, says the post-mortem report.
Myocardial infarction led to the lawyer's death, the report says. MU Ahmed died in a city hospital on August 26 after suffering a massive heart attack in police custody.
If blood circulation gets blocked in a portion of the heart, its tissues are damaged and causes myocardial infarction, said Dr Mizanul Haque, former chief of forensic medicine department of Dhaka Medical College.
Physicians say injuries from mild electric shock and beating cannot be traced in a body 17 to 18 days after the incident.
Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of police (DB), said a medical board at the DMC conducted histopathology, viscera and forensic tests on Ahmed's body and found that his kidney, lung and heart were infected.
He said the three-member board submitted the report to the police on Thursday.
Police tossed in the clink Ahmed from his Segunbagicha residence on August 11 on charges of assaulting law enforcers and obstructing them from discharging duties on the SC premises on August 2 and 4.
Ahmed's family members alleged that he suffered a massive heart attack due to torture and electric shock in police custody.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Contrary to police claims, The Daily Star found that pro-BNP lawyer MU Ahmed was tortured in police custody and he was in detention for at least three hours on August 11, during which he suffered a massive heart attack that led to his death on August 26.
Talking to Ahmed's family members, witnesses, police and other sources, The Daily Star came to know that MU Ahmed was picked up at his home between 2:30am and 3:30am on August 11.
The plain-clothed coppers started physically assaulting Ahmed when he was tossed in the clink at his Segunbagicha home. This continued as he was pushed into a police vehicle. Witnesses saw coppers slap and kick Ahmed. Before that the law enforcers also beat up two security guards of Ahmed's residence.
Ahmed had the heart attack in an intimidating and fearful environment created by the law enforcers.
He was then taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a microbus at 6:25 in the morning. Doctors there diagnosed him with a massive heart attack and asked the police to take him to the National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases (NICVD) in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. At this point, instead of moving Ahmed in an ambulance, the police used the same microbus to take him to the NICVD.
Police say that they used the microbus since they could not get an ambulance.
The Detective Brach (DB) of Police, in a press briefing had claimed that Ahmed was kept only for 30 to 40 minutes at its office before they took him to DMCH and that they did not assault him in jug.
Police tossed in the clink Ahmed at his Segunbagicha residence on August 11 in connection with assaulting police and obstructing them in discharging their duties on the Supreme Court premises on August 2 and 4.
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British taxpayers risk being caught up in a £1.75trillion deal aimed at saving the euro by allowing Greece to default on its massive debts.
German and French officials have come up with a three-pronged deal which aims to end the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis before it spirals completely out of control.
The three-pronged deal would set up a massive fund to create a "firewall" around the most indebted eurozone countries, allow for an "orderly" Greek default on at least some of its liabilities, and bail out European banks most at risk from debt.
The likely deal came ahead of a major new setback for the British economy - with BAe Systems, Britain's biggest manufacturer, poised to cut 3,000 jobs.
The eurozone deal, being brokered by the G20 group of nations, would seek to "ring fence" the crisis around Greece, Portugal and Ireland - preventing it from spreading to major EU economies such as Italy and Spain.
It would involve the bailing out those European banks - mostly French - most at risk from their massive lendings to tottering economies.
Greece, crucially, would be able to default on at least some of its more than £300billion debts but remain inside the eurozone. The Greek government's private creditors would bear most of the increased costs.
At this stage, a new bail-out programme would be devised for Greece - with cash coming at least in part from the International Monetary Fund, in which Britain holds a 4.5 per cent stake.
This could mean British taxpayers paying out more than the £1billion they are already slated to have to contribute under the terms of the first Greek bailout fund.
Britain is not a member of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) - which was set up last year to "preserve financial stability of Europe's monetary union" by providing temporary financial assistance to eurozone countries in difficulty.
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So what this basically means is that countries don't need to curtail their expentatures (to unions or anyone else) because they will always be bailed out no matter what.
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ARe we going to pour another two trillion dollars down the PIIGS socialist rathole and then turn around and say capitalism doesn't work when we're past broke?
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Britain is not a member of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) - which was set up last year to "preserve financial stability of Europe's monetary union" by providing temporary financial assistance to eurozone countries in difficulty.
Why then should British taxpayers be forced to donate to this good-money-after-bad scheme?
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I think we're getting ahead of ourselves in saying Belgium doesn't have a government. What they don't have is the elective portion of the national government.
But by now, that's not most of a European government.
[Emirates 24/7] A Turkish court ordered a general, an admiral and two colonels held in jug for an alleged coup plot which has already seen dozens of top officers placed in durance vile, Anatolia news agency said on Saturday.
It said the four serving officers are suspected of involvement in the plot dubbed Operation Sledgehammer against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
More than 200 active or reserve officers of all three services, including some 10 percent of the country's generals and admirals, are being prosecuted for the plot which the defendants say is a fiction to discredit the once-powerful military.
That war against Israel is going to be more of a romp than usual, at the rate PM Erdogan is depopulating his senior officer corps. Wouldn't it be fun if the Jews were the next owners of the Hagia Sophia?
The Orthodox Christians would like dibs on the mosaic icons, please.
No doubt Israel would handle it as they do in Israel proper, turning ownership and management over to the local authorities of the appropriate faith.
I realize it's been a while, but may we put the name 'Byzantium' back on the map?
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), a liberal offshoot of a banned Islamist movement, says the plan was hatched shortly after it took power in 2002.
Prosecutors say the plotters planned to bomb mosques and down a Turkish jet over the Aegean and blame it on Greece, hoping to discredit the government and garner public support for a coup.
The alleged plot leader, retired general Cetin Dogan, has said that papers from a seminar on a contingency plan based on a scenario of tensions between Turkey and Greece, coupled with domestic unrest, had been doctored to look like a coup plan.
NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... member Turkey's entire top military command resigned at the end of July in protest over the government's treatment of placed in durance vile officers.
Since 1960, the military, which views itself as the defender of secularism in the country, has ousted four Turkish governments, including that of Erdogan's mentor Necmettin Erbakan in 1997.
Efforts to clip the military's wings began as Turkey opened discussions to join the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and tried to reduce the military's role to bring it in line with its European equivalents.
The move initially won public support but criticism has been growing recently on the motives for the investigation and the fact that no successful prosecutions have been brought.
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I'd really like to see Yippy Mussolini'd
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One source yesterday said 350 some are being prosecuted. The interesting thing is we have predators set for delivery in June of 2012. Then the Turks themselves have developed their own predators that disrupt electronics in this technology. Then they may only lease our units.
The police made scores of arrests on Saturday as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in the financial district as part of a lengthy protest, marched north to Union Square. As darkness fell, large numbers of officers were deployed on streets near the encampment in Zuccotti Park, at Broadway and Liberty Street, where hundreds more people had gathered.
Time to clear the park...
Paul J. Browne, the Police Departments chief spokesman, said in a statement, There were approximately 80 arrests, mainly for disorderly conduct by individuals who blocked vehicular and pedestrian traffic, but also for resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and, in one instance, for assault on a police officer.
Protest organizers estimated that about 85 people were arrested and that about five were struck with pepper spray. Among those was Chelsea Elliott, 25, who said that she was sprayed after shouting Why are you doing that? as an officer arrested a protester at East 12th Street.
I was on the ground sobbing and couldnt breathe, she said.
The continuing protests, against a financial system that participants say favors the rich and powerful over ordinary citizens, started last Saturday and were coordinated by a New York group called the General Assembly.
Ah yes, protesters spawned by comfortable middle-class and upper-class families sleeping in and trashing a private park, protesting a world order that has made their very comfortable lives possible. They depend on their parents for money and otherwise live pointless lives. They're just like the fools in Madison, Wisconsin. What an inspiration.
Many of those taking part have slept in Zuccotti Park, which is private, using it as a base. In the early afternoon hundreds of people left the park and moved north toward Union Square. Witnesses said that for much of the route, protesters spilled from sidewalks onto streets and added that the police used long orange nets at Fifth Avenue and 14th Street in an apparent attempt to block the march from proceeding.
Many marchers, however, detoured and entered Union Square before eventually turning south again. Video showed a confusing scene as protesters went south on University Place, where motor vehicles run north.
At 12th Street the orange nets again were used, this time to box in protesters between University Place and Fifth Avenue. About 3 p.m., more than two dozen people sat, handcuffed, on the sidewalk.
Many demonstrators made their way back down to Zuccotti Park, where they were joined by new arrivals. Right now we are more determined than ever that what we are doing is necessary and correct, said Patrick Bruner, a spokesman for the protesters.
New rules posted in the park on Saturday seemed aimed at the protesters. In addition to bicycle riding, camping gear and sleeping bags were now also banned.
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a shame the nightsticks stayed holstered. A good "wood shampoo" can change minds
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AlanC, while I acknowledge you are correct in principle, the fact is our 'financial' system IS political/fascist. These morons are protesting for even more of that, I suppose, but the fact is that the current pseudo-economic system is broken.
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It's pretty sad, actually. They used to be able to whistle up a mob of tens of thousands for any and all issues, and now they can only get a few hundred out in the fresh air and sunshine.
And what will they do for living arrangements next time, now the private park is barred to such as they.
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The irony of the situation is that these misled well intentioned useful idiots should be protesting at 0bama rallys, in front of Fannie and Freddie as well as at the homes of Bawney Fwank, Nasty Pelosi, Chris Dudd, and the race baiters that started this sub prime mess, like Jesse Jackson and Al Dullton.
But no, they would rather drink the koolaid and protest in front of the very financial institutions that were burnt trying to protect themselves from the politics being imposed on them by these politicians.
Are there crooks on Wall Street?
You bet.
Just like in any other industry or group.
But they are the exception rather than the rule. And this hogwash that 99% of the wealth is controlled by 1% of the people, just doesn't pass the smell test.
And neither do most of these protesters.
Hickory shampoo indeed.
You go looking for a confrontation in NYC, there's a good chance you'll find it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bangla Daily Star] No torture marks have been found on the body of MU Ahmed, a pro-BNP lawyer at the Supreme Court, says the post-mortem report.
[Bangla Daily Star] Contrary to police claims, The Daily Star found that pro-BNP lawyer MU Ahmed was tortured in police custody and he was in detention for at least three hours on August 11, during which he suffered a massive heart attack that led to his death on August 26.
[Emirates 24/7] A Turkish court ordered a general, an admiral and two colonels held 
The police made scores of arrests on Saturday as hundreds of people, many of whom had been encamped in the financial district as part of a lengthy protest, marched north to Union Square. As darkness fell, large numbers of officers were deployed on streets near the encampment in Zuccotti Park, at Broadway and Liberty Street, where hundreds more people had gathered.
