WASHINGTON, May 19th, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Federal officials have launched an investigation into allegations mad cow disease testing policies were violated in Texas. United Press International has learned the U.S. Department of Agricultureâs inspector general is looking into whether an agency supervisor in Texas ordered that a suspect cow not be tested for mad cow disease. "There was enough information that we decided we needed to independently investigate," said David Gray, special counsel to the Office of Inspector General.
USDA policy is that all cows with signs of a brain disorder should be tested for mad cow. However, this policy was breached April 27 by USDA inspectors at Lone Star Beef Processors in San Angelo, Texas, when an animal displaying such signs was not tested.
A Maxine Waters sighting?
The meatingplace.com, a Web site that covers the meat industry, reported earlier this month that unnamed government and industry sources, who claimed to have first-hand knowledge of the Texas incident, said a USDA employee in Austin, more than 200 miles from Lone Star Beef, overruled the agency inspectors at the plant and made the decision not to test the cow.
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A small bomb exploded on Tuesday at a bakery that was moonlighting as a brothel in southern Turkey but no one was hurt, police said. Authorities had closed the bakery a week ago for soliciting, but the shop re-opened after a local court ruling, a policewoman told Reuters. The shopâs windows were broken in the explosion but it suffered little other damage. "Itâs still just a theory, but it appears the blast is connected to the prostitution," another official said.
Prostitution is legal only in Muslim Turkeyâs many state-controlled brothels. Thousands of foreign nationals, mainly from former Soviet states, work in an illicit skin trade in cities and resort areas. But religious tradition in conservative parts of the country has led to outrage, even mass street demonstrations, against women suspected of prostitution. Letâs see. In Turkey you have to pay the government to screw you. Er... it puts new meaning to the term "hot cross buns". Theyâre raking in the dough, any way you look at it.
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When I was a young Ensign, all the talk was about going to the "Compound" to check out the whores. Rumor had it that the men would send their wives/daughters there to work off debt. I don't know if it was true but most of the chicks were skanks. The only hot ones were from Russia.
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B,
No buddy come on now, you know how much anti war and anti Abu Graib brothel I am. "If itâs your job to strip people naked, yell at them, scream at them, humiliate them, itâs not going to be too hard to move from that to another level." In one incident, two drunken interrogators took a female Iraqi prisoner from her cell in the middle of the night and stripped her naked to the waist. The interrogators had to be restrained by a prison guard, he said.
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Murat could be saving himself for the 72 virgins - some of which would hopefully be Russian. Do they have nipple clamps and love toys in Islamo-Paradise?
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Murat could be saving himself for the 72 virgins
Sorry dude, the paradise is right here on earth, don't need to die to be with 72 bunnies, ask Hugh Hefner. :)
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Good man.
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Nobody mention the phrase "bun in the oven", ok?
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Murat, the link to an article on Abu Graib only proves one thing. We punish those who "torture" others. Stay on topic article above and stop trying to divert attention away.
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Prostitution is legal only in Muslim Turkeyâs many state-controlled brothels.
There's gold in them thar TAX REVENUES.
Q: What do they put on the visas of the foreign "ladies" as reason for "visiting" Turkey?
(I think just saying "JOB OPPORTUNITY" might be suspicious)
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ex-lib, having been a worker's comp insurance adjuster once upon a time, and a firefighter and an EMT for many years, I have little patience for patent stupidity. Just as in the tragic death of Pluto at Disneyworld a few months ago, a moment or two of thought by any of the parties involved would have prevented this accident.
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He was 17? Isn't there some federal labor law prohibiting minors from operating certain machines, such as power saws and such?
I'm betting the company's going to be in big trouble with the feds and the state.
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There used to be a curse on child actors, now Mickey and Goofus Maximus are at risk. Thaw Walt's body an bury it before the bad mojo leads to more tragedy.
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Barbara: It depends on what state and what machines are involved. Farm machinery can and is operated by people under the age of 21 as well as quite a bit of construction machinery. In most states you do have to be at least 18 to operate poer equipment. The article doesn't actually say he was operating it, only that he was trying to see why it wasn't working. It is still a tragedy none the less. Btw, I e-mailed you a picture of some of my animals.
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Great shots, Deacon. Wish I knew how to post them so everybody could see your sweet cats.
I'm jealous. :-p
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Also - I think the guy was working for someone. The article talked about them spreading mulch for a company called TopMulch. Apparently he was from Guatemala. (My first question - legal? Second question - speak/read/ understand instructions in English? Just wondering.)
I'm betting TopMulch is in mucho trouble.
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A student who drank a chemical from his high school lab on a dare was recovering in a hospital, but not before a scare. The student drank the unidentified chemical on a bet at the school, said Nancy Smith, a UMC supervisor. "We need to find out what it was from the toxicologist," Assistant Principal Ray Lascano said. "All of those materials belonged to one of the chemistry labs." The student was found last Wednesday in a school hallway, bleeding from the nose and mouth. The unidentified student, a junior at Odessa High School, was upgraded Monday from critical to satisfactory condition at University Medical Center in Lubbock. Lascano, who talked with the youthâs mother Monday afternoon, said swelling in his throat had receded enough for him to talk. The student was moved from the Lubbock hospitalâs intensive-care unit to the pediatric unit, he said. Lascano said Ector County Independent School District officials were still investigating.
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Almost a Darwin Award recipient.
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The good news is someone that fat aint gonna last to long.
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I always enjoy saying to my LLL friends that I that I think Michael Moore is a good representative of the Dems these days. Now they've given me Jerry Springer.
Sadly, I think Kerry might win this one. It's not cool to support Bush and the left has the monopoly on making the wimpy feel scared to show their Bush support. I want to get a bumper sticker that says something like:
Bush 2004
Because cool people can't rule, they can only ridicule.
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I was born in 1973. I often ask my parents about the sixties as they lived through the Detroit riots and other crap going on at the time for their take on it. My (God bless her) outspoken mother claims that the flower children were just a bunch of lazy derelicts looking for a reason to get high and something to whine about. My dad got back from a stint in 'Nam in the early 60s before things got hot, he was even sent to Ole Miss when they had to enforce the integration ruling. His take was that aside from the civil rights movement for blacks the rest of the 60s culture was an overhyped sham. My folks are very blue-collar, I guess conservative-democrats would best describe them - fairly conservative socially and fiscally but pro-union. AC> I'll have to check out that book, thanx.
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AC - thanks!. I have so much to say about it, but I don't know where to start.
Thanks for the insight. The bottom line to me is that we, as a culture, have to somehow find a way to allow our youth to rebel and then make it OK for them to grow up.
To take the article one step further...as it was spot on....it shows that advertising capitalizes on the age of rebellion. The age of rebellion is the age of leaving the nest and thus is where advertising must be aimed. because it is where new consumers establish their brand loyalties.
I don't know...it would take too many words to make my point here, but to cut to the chase, I believe that if our society can not somehow refocus on the benefits of wisdom, rather than youth, Darwin will prove to us once again that nature is cruel.
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Jarhead: I agree with your folks. I grew up in the 50's and 60's near Selma, Alabama. The Civil Rights movement was genuine and need to happen. The rest of the garbage (flower power, free love, turn on, tune in , and drop out, etc.) was just that, garbage.
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Shipman: No, I live an work in East Tennessee. I lived three miles from where Viola Liuzo (sp?) was murdered and still have vivid memories of the Klan violence. Everyone was terrified of the Klan. I still and always will have no use whatsoever for the Klan. For those of you who don't know, LA is Lower Alabama.
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Check out Rachel Lucas' link again. It has been appropriately updated by Lagmonkey. A shot in Moore's big fat mouth on the range target scores a "10".
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Deacon, that's what I always thought to, other then abolishing jimmy crow the rest of it was what I call the big fake social consience to condone excess. If people want to copulate like rabbits, smoke keys of thai weed, and drop acid, I don't really care - but let's just call it as it is - irresponible stupid behavior. I think that's why I'm pretty prejudiced toward the hippie/deadhead pseudo-counter culture, it's a farce and false pretext to act like a douchebag. There have been times when I've been home on leave and have seen the retro-60s wannabe flowerlosers walking around and I always get that little aligator part of my id telling me to start choking them out, luckily I have the discipline to take a deep breath and just keep on walking.
BTW-This is the first time I've heard of Rachel Lucas, I am quickly becoming a fan of her ;)
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Some one gets it. But note the attempt to 'blame' America for this.
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But note the attempt to 'blame' America for this.
I did notice that the article said that Sheikh Sabah denied that there was pressure from Washington. What is interesting is that no details were provided on WHO asked about this.
The House of Commons has been suspended during Prime Ministerâs question time after what appeared to be purple powder was thrown at Tony Blair. Mr Blair was speaking at the Despatch Box during his weekly half-hour appearance in the chamber when what appeared to be something like a balloon filled with purple powder hit him on his back. Commons Speaker Michael Martin immediately interupted the proceedings, saying: "This House is now suspended." The incident comes just weeks after a £600,000 security screen was installed in the Commons.
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Just paint thrown by "Fathers for Justice" - campaigners against ludicrous UK child support laws. Nothing to see here - Move on... Bit worrying in terms of security tho'
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The Venezuelan situation mirrons the Abu Garaib controversy:
While all the talk and media hoo-ha continues centred on the implausible story of the unarmed Colombian paramilitaries who were meant to assassinate the president of a country, who in turn is protected by the Cuban G2, the families of privates Pedreañez and Bustamante continue mourning their sons with the aggravating factor of knowing that nobody will ever be convicted for such an atrocious action.
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Venezuelaâs opposition says a plan by President Hugo Chavez to give civilians military training as part of a new national defence strategy is aimed at creating pro-government militias to intimidate those pushing for a presidential recall vote. "The plan is aimed at organising and legalising pro-government militias at the service of the state," said Jose Farias, a congressman from the Solidarity opposition party, on Monday. "Heâs using this as a form of intimidation."
During a speech to his supporters on Sunday, Chavez, a leftist former paratrooper, said his "revolutionary" government would give military training to civilians to help guard against threats to national security in Venezuela, the worldâs No. 5 oil exporter Chavez claims government opponents are conspiring to overthrow his left-leaning government. He alleged that more than 100 alleged Colombian paramilitaries who were arrested near Caracas last week had been brought to Venezuela as part of a plot hatched by his political enemies involving his assassination. Chavez argues that his opponents, including Venezuelan exiles in the United States and neighbouring Colombia, were behind the purported paramilitary plot. "Itâs about the Venezuelan peopleâs massive incorporation in the comprehensive defence of the territory, everywhere. Each citizen should considered himself a soldier," Chavez said. Participants would "receive military training and become organised so that they can defend the fatherland," he said. Active military officers, reserve troops and retired soldiers would begin organising civilians for military training, Chavez said. He did not say whether training would be obligatory or voluntary. Chavez urged "patriotic" Venezuelans to participate in the developing defence strategy after warning that "imperialists" in the United States could attempt to invade Venezuela to take over its abundant oil reserves. Defence Minister Jorge Garcia Carnierno told the state-run Venpres news agency on Monday that "civilians, soldiers, businessmen and artists are (legally) committed to national defence" under Venezuelaâs Constitution.
Opposition leaders deny plotting to topple Chavez. Opposition leaders claim several shadowy pro-government groups, including alleged urban guerrilla movements, are already armed â illegally â and the government has failed to crack down on them. "These violent groups already exist, Chavez now aims to legalise them," Farias said.
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"The plan is aimed at organising and legalising pro-government militias at the service of the state"
Something he learned from his good friend Bob.
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Or from the Ortega gang. Remember their turbas divinas?
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You beat me to it! I have no idea what it means. Probably just Communist incompetetance.
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I'd love to see someone lay that photo over a map of Nork prison camps. I'd bet there's some really bad shit going on, and God willing it's bad shit for the Nork regime.
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Is there any particular reason why we should care about this development?
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now that is weird..if this is not doctored there are some serious fires going on....maybe all that talk of how nkor is mpregnable was just pychops a ploy..
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photo caption:
Heat signatures and some wisps of smoke from wildfires burning in Korean Peninsula are seen in the photo created by American commercial satellite, GFMC. While two forest fires and a normal fire have broken out in South Korea, it appears about 130 fires -- possibly forest fires -- are visible in the North.
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Didn't someone just provide a post about the NK scientists finishing up a chemical process that creates water? It looks like they have mastered condensation just in time. It would be tres hard to extinguish 130 forest fires by rolling around on the embers.
Does bark taste better cooked or raw?
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The NORKs just wanted Rummy to have a new picture to replace the night photo of the peninsula on his wall.
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I didn't think that there was any edible ground cover left in the Hermit Kingdom. First they ate the grass, then the tree bark, then anything that could be chewed...What could be left to burn?
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Assume for a moment that they are intentionally burning trees, and doing so in an almost panicked way, in some kind of war preparation, which seems to be a preoccupation of theirs.
Trees would generate a lot of smoke, if they were making some kind of military movement and were afraid of being observed. Fear of a nuclear-weapon induced firestorm?
I'm just not paranoid enough to figure it out, I guess.
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see? After reading the comments, I was correct on the Title: WTF???
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As any Californian will tell you, it takes lots of money and fuel to successfully fight forest fires, two things that are probably in rather short supply in the Land of the Morning Juche.
Government is cracking down on illegal Internet cafes and âundesirableâ media content, including foreign crime shows
MAY 19, 2004 WED
By Chua Chin Hon
BEIJING - Prompted by the growing moral ambiguity of Chinese youths and a recent spate of shocking crimes, the authorities here are waging a new campaign to âstrengthen the moral and ideological fibreâ of young Chinese. The authorities have issued a barrage of new directives aimed at clamping down media content deemed âundesirableâ and have cracked down heavily on illegal Internet cafes, often blamed for leading youths astray. Internet cafes = Source of truth
In a recent circular, Chinese broadcasters were told to shun television shows involving senseless violence or palace intrigues, as well as those which seek to propagate âWestern values and lifestyleâ. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television also banned the import of foreign crime shows âin principleâ. TV stations must broadcast more local programming, especially during prime time from 7pm to 10pm. TV hosts were told to clean up their âqueer clothes and colourful hairdosâ and not to mix foreign phrases with Mandarin in their speech or to speak like their Taiwanese or Hong Kong counterparts.
Aside from the new TV directives, the authorities have, since February, shut down at least 8,600 unlicensed Internet cafes frequented by juveniles. No Internet cafes must be set up within 200m of primary or high schools, the official Xinhua news agency reported early this month, following up on a steady stream of articles on the dangers of the Internet and online gaming addiction. âChina has 367 million youths aged below 18, and they are the hopes of the party, the country and the Chinese people,â President Hu Jintao said at a two-day meeting last week on the moral education campaign.
âNot only must we raise their scientific and cultural awareness, more must be done to improve their moral and ideological standards.â But no penalties have been spelt out for flouting the new regulations, and observers here see the flurry of measures as an anachronistic, if not futile, attempt at addressing the so-called âmoral vacuumâ among the young Chinese. Rampant piracy will ensure continued access to such âundesirableâ content, while the sweeping measures are unlikely to be enforced for long at the ground level, not to say they would be effective in the first place. "Rampant piracy" is a direct result of state sanctioned intellectual property theft. Chinaâs pigeons are merely coming home to roost.
Commentators have long debated the erosion of morality in Chinese society, but it was the recent spate of news about killers who apparently committed the crimes âfor funâ or with no apparent motive that put the issue into sharp focus for the public. Prominent killers included Huang Yong, who murdered 17 students within one year for no apparent reason, and Yang Xinhai, who murdered 67 people and raped two dozen women in three years. Trends captured in the media here have also reinforced perception on the erosion of traditional values and mores. The divorce rate is up, while one-night stands and cohabitation - once considered taboo - are deemed acceptable by many youths.
Western pop culture has been held up as the usual scapegoat, though observers see the moral education campaign as a wider battle for the âhearts and mindsâ of young Chinese who are increasingly resistant to the state propaganda machinery. Professor Yu Guoming, a noted media scholar here, said: âIâm not in favour of the government using such administrative measures to directly interfere with the workings of the media and culture. âCultural development needs tolerance and space. The leaders may have immaculate tastes in culture, but that doesnât mean that what ordinary people enjoy is undesirable.â Chinaâs "declining morals" are a top-down issue. Until Chinese leadership (read: The Politburo) demonstrates the capacity for transparent government and realistic accountability, they can have no reasonable expectation that their civilian population will feel so inclined.
The demand for Saengmyongsu, a medical drink developed by the Koryo Saengmyongsu Technical Centre of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is ever increasing among people. The drink (deoxidized water) is extensively used at hospitals and by many people to improve their health and treat diseases. There are some ten Saengmyongsu-serving shops in Pyongyang. The water eliminates oxygen toxicity accumulated in human body by hyperoxia. It prevents aging, maintains and increases the movement function in body and helps relieve physical fatigue. The Academy of Koryo Medical Science has conducted a clinical examination of 3,500 people who took Saengmyongsu for ten months.
"Here, have another glass of Saengmyongsu!"
"No thanks, I'm not thirsty."
"That wasn't a offer, it was a order. Drink!"
The result of the examination proved it very efficacious --50 percent in cancer treatment, 78.4 percent in diabetes, 75 percent in respiratory troubles, 77 percent in hypertrophy (0.5-1 kg decrease of weight on a monthly average), 82.4 percent in women's diseases, 73 percent in liver diseases, 92.6 percent in digestive troubles and 96 percent in skin diseases.
Not just water, magic water!
The centre (E-mail; hyk @ co. chesin. com) has also developed various models of "Koryo Saengmyongsu Producer". The producer won a state invention certificate in Juche 84 (1995) and the patent right on a new device in China in Juche 86 (1997). It can produce deoxidized water very efficacious in the treatment of burns, bruise, bedsore, inflammation, skin diseases, colitis, cystitis, diarrhea, bromatoxism, septic tonsillitis, laryngitis, eye disease, toothache and dermatophytosis and in sterilization of medical apparatuses, meat and vegetables.
My god, is there nothing it won't do? We're doomed!
The small-size producer for family use is very popular among people.
Now if they only had some bread to go with their magic water.
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And the secret is Kimmie stands over the vat of benificent liquid with right hand outstretched over the vat, his left hand holding Marx's "Das Capital", while he is reading special passages.
"Religion is the opiate of the masses", therefore I bless this holy water.
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"...deoxidized water... Some call it...hydrogen."
have a cig while you sip - you find the combo invigorating
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They had this stuff in an old episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show that showed on TVLand last night: "Take two of these [(walnuts)] and a glass of air."
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Actually water has oxygen dissolved in it. Much the way that you can dissolve salt in water. It's not the O in H2O they are taking out it's the dissolved O. Deoxygenated water will kill your goldfish by the way.
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My God, these people really are at the top of the technological ladder. But they'd better be wary of going too far, too fast. Have they thoroughly researched the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide?
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"Have they thoroughly researched the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide?"
Turkish Institution of Machine and Chemistry Industry (MKEK) Director General Mehmet Baspinar said that the institution started to produce bullets injuring people instead of killing them due to change in NATO's concept and to give those bullets to Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). Baspinar said, ''there used to be 7.62 mm rifles which were killing a person when they hit him. In 1990s, the public opinion discussed whether a weapon should wound or injure people. Then, some NATO member countries started to use 5.56 mm rifles which don't kill, but wound a person.'' Baspinar said, ''we have been producing 5.56 mm rifles for the last four years and giving them to the Gendarme Command and Land Forces Command.''
Errr, Mehmet, that part about 5.56mm rounds wounding people, not killing them? That was a bug, not a feature.
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IIRC, the 5.56mmx45 round (and the M-16) were bitterly condemned when first introduced on the grounds that the 5.56 round (due to the combination of high velocity, bullet mass, and rifling pitch) tends to tumble and fragment on impact with a human body, causing more injury than a comparable hit from a 7.62. Do I remember rightly?
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Mike-you are correct. The rifling of the original version of the M-16 had a low number of turns - which led to lower bullet stability and greater tendency to tumble. Also, the original propellant in the 5.56 round did not cause much fouling. The Army increased the rifling turns and changed the propellant, with the resultant problems in Viet Nam.
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Actually, Mike, that was the CONCEPT -- and it was totally contingent on propellant (bad propellant explains the initial M16 failures), 20" barrels, and finally high muzzle velocity (exceeding 2600fps). The modern-day M855 tungsten-carbide-penetrator FMJ doesn't perform to that standard in the M16, and in the M4 it's even worse, usually performing sub-2500fps when not under 2400fps ... without sufficient speed to tumble, it just exits cleanly. Apparently this is what the Turks are looking for ...
(In contrast, what the 7.62mm brings to the table is its bigger diameter meaning more mass and thus actual stopping power, in terms of general "energy dump" upon its target.)
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I'll keep my Springfield '03.
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I was told the 5.56 British standard SA-80 was supposed to injure w/o killing in order to tie down more of the enemy personnel, coping with live casualties. In the next breath, I was told that 'as the SA-80 likely won't kill or stop with the first shot, you may need to loose off two rounds at a target in quick succession.' Not everyone appreciated the irony.
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N.B.: I was taught that in the US Revolutionary War, some 200,000 rounds were used to achieve a single bullet enemy casualty. By Vietnam, this had increased to over 2,000,000 rounds per enemy casualty.
The current projected US production demand for 5.56 ammunition is being ratcheted up to 2 Billion rounds per month.
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Bulldog is right, one of the glories of the M-16 is that the shock of mangling it does to a person is horrific. It's a combination of making the other guy use up his logistics caring for his own wounded plus the psychological aspect of seeing one's buddy screaming his ass off becuase a round that him in the thigh just came out his left testicle.
Senator Ernest Hollings is defending statements he made in a newspaper opinion article he wrote that said President Bush went to war with Iraq to protect Israel and appease American Jews. Read it on the Senatorâs Site.
Hollings, a Democrat, refused to talk with The State newspaper in Columbia about the article on Tuesday, but his office released a letter the retiring senator sent a constituent as a statement. Hollings wrote that he could provide quotes from Jewish leaders in the United States and Israel to support his position. Hollings says characterizations of his comments as "anti-Jewish" are ridiculous.
Hollings column appeared in three South Carolina newspapers earlier this month. Abraham Foxman, president of the Anti-Defamation League, asked Hollings to retract his comments. Foghorn Leghorn has his talon in his mouth
Quick question: Will Inez Tenenbaum, the Democratic candidate to replace Hollings as the next senator from South Carolina, now condemn these remarks--or does she agree with them? I'll contact her press secretary and report back.
2. Sounds like old Foghorn, like his colleague Ted Kennedy, is getting his conspiracy theories from Lyndon LaRouche.
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Mike - Ted Kennedy is also known as -
Sen A. Filobuster Bagogas
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If the media doesn't run with this story, then many Jews won't know ... and many're with the Left crowd anyway, or care more about social issues ...
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I'm saying what's the big deal?
I'm a rooster and you're a blog.
Do ya hear me boy?
(blog's wound up a little to tight if you catch my drift)
Jeez, about as sharpe as a bowling ball.
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I think we are suffering fom a history replay:
McConnell publicly accused Kerry of abusing the subcommittee to damage Bush and to help the flagging presidential campaign of Kerry's longtime friend and ally Dukakis.
The politicization of the current 9/11 commission, and the attempts by Democratic partisans to prove that the current president, George W. Bush, failed to prevent the 9-11 terrorist attacks when he could have stopped them, seems to be a repeat of the Kerry subcommittee's modus operandi of 1987-88.
According to the Boston Globe, McConnell "said Kerry had given credibility to witnesses who were critical of President Reagan and Vice President George Bush but failed to summon others to testify who would rebut the criticisms. Also, McConnell said Kerry had purposely held the hearings during periods when the Senate was not in session in order to limit the number of committee members who might attend the hearings and test the truthfulness of the witnesses."
McConnell told the Globe, "I think the integrity of the Senate investigative process and the objectivity, fairness and balance of this particular effort have been compromised for political purposes."
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Daschle vowed in March to block all judicial nominees with a procedural blockade unless Bush promised to no longer use his constitutional power to temporarily seat judges while the Senate was on recess.
Never give up a constitutional power, George - especially at the behest of Tom Dasshole.
I'm not sure that he did. I think he plans on making any more recess appointments; I would expect that the judge issue will chambered and fired nearer to election day. The procedural blockade is different than the filibuster. I didnât realize that it was going on. The lengths we will go to to thwart the Constitution.
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Just because Clinton said doesn't mean it happened. In the alternate reality occupied by William Jefferson Clinton, truth is instant, created by each word spoken and changing with each additional word spoken in the endless Clintonian soliliquy.
Russkies turn out to be useful after all
By PETER LAVELLE, MOSCOW (UPI) May 18, 2004
With Russia expected to announce its decision on whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, advice being given to President Vladimir Putin suggests the Kremlin will confine the pact to the dustbin of history.
Sigh. Itâs "consign", Peter, not confine. I blame the editor:
Verb. From the Middle French "consigner", from Latin "consignare", from con- + signum (sign, mark, seal)
Posted by: Fred ||
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No! We must return to true Islam! The Light of Allah, Most Merciful, Oft-Forgiving, All-Powerful, Peace Be Bestowed by Him, must guide us in our never-ending quest to be true to the words of the Prophet, may peace and the blessings of Allah, Most Merciful, Oft-Forgiving, All-Powerful, Peace Be Bestowed by Him, be upon him! Kill the infidels! Repress the women! Show the world the true Islam! Destroy those who wish to reinterpret the Most Holy Qu'ran and pervert the great Religion of Peace and Allah, Most Merciful, Oft-Forgiving, All-Powerful, Peace Be Bestowed by Him and the Prophet, may peace and the blessings of Allah, Most Merciful, Oft-Forgiving, All-Powerful, Peace Be Bestowed by Him, be upon him! Is this apostate trying to twist Islam into a Western mode of thinking? Allah, Most Merciful, Oft-Forgiving, All-Powerful, Peace Be Bestowed by Him, would not permit this!
Posted by: Shiekh Mohammed Ibrahaim Abdullah Abdul Haji ibn al-Mohammed ||
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Hey, Sheikh - You forgot ban flying kites, playing chess, and listening to all music.
Mullah Omar wants to remind you.
That was me, Ed; since I'm always criticizing Islam I thought for just a moment I'd try to slip into their mindset. It's kind of fun to yell and add all those things, but it's not something I'd like to do for a living.
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... But sprinter Robina Muqimyar will make history in Athens this summer when she and a judo player become the first two Afghan women to compete in an Olympic Games. ... The Afghan Olympic Committee expects to send about 14 athletes to the Athens games, including Muqimyar and Friba Razayee, a judo competitor who qualified as a "wild card" competitor, a concession extended to athletes from poor nations who would not otherwise qualify. .... Anxious not to draw fire from conservatives, Muqimyar runs with a headscarf knotted under her chin and says she will wear long pants -- not the shorts commonly worn by sprinters -- at the Greece games. ....
Muqimyar trains at the stadium two or three times a week with a male sprinter, Massoud Azizi, and works out on other days at the compound of the international peacekeeping force. Azizi recently spent six months training in Iran, but Muqimyarâs family would not permit her to go overseas for that long a period. .... With a personal best of 15.6 seconds for the 100-meter sprint -- five seconds over the womenâs world record -- Muqimyar has no illusions about returning from Greece with a medal. But she hopes her appearance will encourage Afghan women to be bold. ...
"Itâs difficult for a woman to go off and do this. But we have to be brave, we have to stand up for our rights," said Mahbuba, Muqimyarâs mother, who watched her daughter train from the stands, her blue burka pushed back over her shoulders. Muqimyar said that working with men and her few trips abroad have changed her mentality. She has both male and female trainers and said Azizi has become "like a brother." She wants to drive her own car -- a rarity for women in Afghanistan -- and choose her own husband.
She dismissed those who disapprove of womenâs participation in sports as "the same people who ruined the country," referring to the Taliban. "They want to hold women back and stop them from doing things. I donât accept that," she said. "We will send a strong message to the world that I represent all Afghan girls."
Posted by: Mike Sylwester ||
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It must have been a gruesome sight: the elite of the Cannes film festival applauding someone even more self-regarding than themselves. Michael Moore, portly archpriest of the anti-Bush cult, premiered his film Fahrenheit 9/11 at the festival this week. The American documentary-maker sent three undercover film crews to Iraq; they returned with footage - included in the film - claiming to show US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners.
They were not really "workers", they were French actors.
This folie de grandeur might be forgivable if Mr Moore were funny. And, to be fair, some people think he is. In a recent live show in London, he suggested that, if the September 11 hijack victims had been black, as opposed to pampered whites, they would have fought back and overcome their attackers. His right-on audience lapped this up. Relatives of those who died might not have laughed so heartily. The simple truth about Michael Moore is that this self-righteous critic of corporate America is one of its most bloated beneficiaries. It is time someone made a film about him - and, we are pleased to report, someone is. Forget Fahrenheit 9/11: later this year, a young film-maker called Mike Wilson will unveil a documentary entitled Michael Moore Hates America, in which the self-proclaimed "slob in a baseball cap" will find his techniques turned on himself. Don't miss it.
Sounds like a winner.
Posted by: Steve ||
05/19/2004 1:49:00 PM ||
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Back when I was a 20-something slacker, I have to admit that I enjoyed Roger and Me, greatly.
I'll be looking forward to seeing Mikhail Moore get the treatment. Should be good viewing.
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"I'm here to support workers in France, the United States and all around the world," he declared.
To further Steve's point, they're not just actors; they were protesting cuts in theie welefare cheques that they receive when they're not working. Tim Blair thus notes that in that sense, they weren't really on strike.
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..later this year, a young film-maker called Mike Wilson will unveil a documentary entitled Michael Moore Hates America, in which the self-proclaimed "slob in a baseball cap" will find his techniques turned on himself. Don't miss it.
He also takes donations. Pitch in. (at the bottom right of the page).
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Moore finally came out of the closet at Cannes. I think it is more that he is repugnate to all people and just can get any nookie so he mistakes that for homosexuality.
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A4940-I don't give a rip about who he humps. What does that have to do with anything?
Remember there are also intellegent, reasoned gay commentators, for example; Al Rantel, and Tammy Bruce.
I think us straight folks have got to not use this sexuality thing to turn people against someone. Michael Moore is an EVIL JERK. Period. End of story.
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I just cant get mad at someone as easy to ridicule as Mr Moore is.
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BigEd's right: Tammy Bruce is hot, MM is not
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I can't understand people who will accept every word out of someone's mouth as gospel. Therefore I can't understand the "Addoration of the Bimbi" for Moore. He is a liar and an admitted one. I think bimbi is the plural of bimbo, isn't it?
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May 18, 2004: Several shipping containers of Spam (the pork kind, not the email variety) are headed for Iraq, and this might result in a major new media firestorm of bad publicity for coalition troops there. The Arab media has made indignation over all the infidel (non-believer, meaning non-Moslem) troops in Iraq a major news issue. All those infidels are seen as a blot on Arab, and Moslem, honor. Al Jazeera, and all the other major Arab news outlets, compete furiously for stories about outranges against Arab honor and customs. With that in mind, how did all this Spam get sent to a country where even touching pork is forbidden by Islamic law?
It seems that as the U.S. Army was looking for units to replace those that had spent a year in Iraq, it found a reserve engineer battalion (the 411th) in the Pacific that could replace the 389th Engineer battalion in Iraq. The units of the 411th Engineer battalion are from many American island territories in the Pacific. One of those islands is Guam, whose people consume more Spam per capita than any other people on the planet. Pork has always been a very popular dish in the Pacific, from the Chinese to the Polynesians (the people to live on most Pacific islands.) Spam was invented during World War II, as a way to turn various pork byproducts (Spam stands for Spiced Pork and Ham) into a canned meat product. Spam was shipped to the troops in large quantities. While it was never very popular in the United States, when people in the Pacific came across it, they quickly adopted it as a delicacy. When the Samoan GIs found out they were headed for Iraq, they filled up several shipping containers with Spam, so they would not be without their favorite food while they served in Iraq. Samoans also tend to be very large people, and not the kind of guys you want to get on the wrong side of. Should any Arabs try to get between the Samoans and their Spam, there could be trouble.
Trust me - thereâs nothing quite like a 400lb pissed off Samoan...
Following that fine tradition of high-brow British culture.
A hit unscripted series in the United Kingdom, "Wife Swap," is making its way to the United States. The title, which conjures up visions of a 1970s swingers party, is racier than the concept: Two married women switch places with one another for 10 days, living with the other's family and taking on the other woman's household duties.
All her "household duties"?
At the end of the 10 days, the families get together to discuss what they experienced with their lawyers. An ABC official tells the New York Post that the network is developing an American version of "Wife Swap." The stateside version will be called simply "The Swap."
(raises hand) Can I swap my wife for Cathrine Zeta Jones, please?
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Looks like I'll be avoiding "prime"-time network TV for ANOTHER 15 years.
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And I thought prime time couldn't get any stupider lower.
Wilson Fazal, a Pakistani Pentecostal priest at a church in Quetta who disappeared on Sunday, escaped from his abductors and reached Islamabad on Tuesday morning. Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) MNA Asia Nasir said Father Wilson had called and told her that he was well and safe. She said Father Wilson escaped when his abductors were about to take him to Peshawar. Quetta Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Pervez Bhatti said a police team has been sent to Islamabad to bring Father Wilson back to Quetta. He said the incident would be investigated. The DIG also said Father Wilsonâs driver had seen him (Wilson) in a Suzuki pick-up after he was kidnapped. People in Quetta were suspicious of Father Wilsonâs abduction and escape story, asking how it was possible that the abductors were using a Suzuki pick-up to kidnap the priest and take him to Peshawar.
I dunno. Thrifty Rent-a-Truck?
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Anyone remember a few weeks back the story of a "hostage", an Iraqi-American? Stunk from the beginning. Family claimed the Arab News stations notified the family of the "Kidnapping". His mother and brother went on TV crying hysterically, (albeit without any tears) and begged for his release? How about fraud charges for the family if this is found to be "Made Up". Aghast!!!
From MEMRI... The official website of President Yasser Arafat can be found at www.pnic.gov.ps/english/president/english.html.The site's content includes Arafat's official biography, a list detailing the "Human Aspect of Mr. President," Arafat's "Daily Chores," awards won, as well as an extensive photo gallery. The following are highlights:
General Information on Yasser Arafat
According to the website, Yasser Arafat's real name is Mohamed Yasser Abdul Raouf El-Qudwa El-Huseini. He was born on August 4, 1929, in Jerusalem and is married to Suha El-Taweel. He has one daughter, Zahwa. He can be reached via telephone at 972 - 8 â 2822366 and via fax at 972 - 8 â 2829451.
A Biography of the President
Under the section "Brief Biography on the President's Life," the website states: "In 1958, President Yasser Arafat departed the Arab Republic of Egypt to Kuwait to work as an engineer. H.E. [His Excellency] met several Palestinian figures such as martyr Abu Jihad and martyr Abu Eiad and discussed with them the establishment of the Palestine National Liberation Movement 'Fateh'. Later, H.E. went back to Palestine to meet a group of Palestinian activists and announce the launching of the Fateh movement on the 1st of Jan 1965. âŠ"
"H.E. led the platoons of the Liberation Movement at 'El-Karama Battle' in 1968 to a tremendous victory over the Israeli army assisted by the Arab Jordanian army. President Arafat was elected chairman of The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969 as the third chairman of the organization after: Ahmad El-Shuqairi and Yahya Hamoudeh. H.E. is still chairman of the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization.
"Aftermath, September 1970 events of Jordan, the President left to Beirut and stayed there till 1982. For three months of severe blockade of Lebanon by the Israeli army, the Palestinian militants showed high efficiency and capability of steadfastness and insistence to liberate Palestine. The President left Beirut and headed to Tunisia. The Palestinian uprising (Intifada) broke out in 1987 as a natural result of Israeli occupation pressures on the Palestinian territories. The President directed all the Palestinian people's capabilities to support the Intifada... And lots more!
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Anybody got the number of a Dominoes in Ramallah?
Posted by: Howard UK ||
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No explanation of the baby wipes or the red binder?
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""H.E. led the platoons of the Liberation Movement at 'El-Karama Battle' in 1968 to a tremendous victory over the Israeli army assisted by the Arab Jordanian army."
That would be the "Glorious Retreat from Jerusalem"? Or the "Ass Kicked Out of Samaria Advance in the Opposite Direction"?
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For three months of severe blockade of Lebanon by the Israeli army, the Palestinian militants showed high efficiency and capability of steadfastness and insistence to liberate Palestine
outsourcing bio writing to KCNA, hmmm?
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He can be reached via telephone at 972 - 8 â 2822366...
Ummmmm...yeah... do you have Prince Albert in a can?
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âFor three months of severe blockade of Lebanon by the Israeli army, the Palestinian militants showed high efficiency and capability of steadfastness and insistence to liberate Palestine.â Before the UN intervened and allowed them to flee to Tunisia. IMHO we should have let the Israelis destroy them when they were in Lebanon.
More than one kind of non sequitur is involved in this "scenario." And very obviously, the conclusion can exist quite apart from the premises. (There would have been sadistic dolts in the American occupation forces in Iraq, even if there had not been wavering lawyerly fools in the Tampa center that was monitoring Afghanistan.) One needs to stipulate, once again, that the filthy images from Abu Ghraib are not bad because they look bad, but bad because they are bad. Yet is it as obvious as it seems that only the supporters of the war have any questions to answer here?
I ask this because, in the news cycle that preceded the Iraq atrocities, the administration was being arraigned from dawn until dusk for the offense of failing to take timely measures against the Taliban and al-Qaida. I hardly need to recapitulate the indictment here. We had our chance to see it coming, and to see where it was coming from, and the administration comprehensively blew all these chances, from the first warnings of suicide-hijacking to the cosseting of Saudi visa applicants. I might add that I completely agree with all these condemnations and wrote about many of them (including the spiriting of the Bin Laden relatives out of the country during a "no-fly" period imposed upon the rest of us) at the time.
But there is no serious way of having this cake and scarfing it. I remember a debate I had with Michael Mooreâthe newly crowned king of the Cannes Film Festivalâat the more modest location of the Telluride Film Festival in 2002. Ridiculing the Bush administration's policy, he shouted that it had gone into Afghanistan to get Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar. "Mission NOT accomplished!" he added, to roars of easy applause. I asked myself then, and I repeat the question now: Would the antiwar camp have approved the measures necessary to ensure those goals? If they will the end, will they will the means? Would they taunt that lawyer in Tampa, as they taunt the supporters of regime change, with living a quiet life at home while others die in the field? Isn't the refusal to take out the leaders of al-Qaida a bit of a distraction from the struggle against al-Qaida?
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I asked myself then, and I repeat the question now: Would the antiwar camp have approved the measures necessary to ensure those goals? If they will the end, will they will the means?
Without slurring Michael Moore again, though he needs it, I answer : FAT CHANCE.
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I often hear anti-war robots spout about how we should have gone full bore into Afganistan and goten Binny. Whenever I hear that I ask, what if he wasn't in Afganistan any longer? What if he took off to Iran before 911. Would you then want to go full bore into Iran?
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I asked myself then, and I repeat the question now: Would the antiwar camp have approved the measures necessary to ensure those goals? If they will the end, will they will the means?
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There is another link at that same BBC site, about the Israeli doctor in the West Bank. Nice story. But under the picture titled, ""the absurdity of the situation", they pedal that "the absurdity" is this good-hearted, loving mom lost two terrorist sons.
But check out the face of the daughter behind her. She's looking at the Jewish Dr. and you can see the hate and suspicion in her eyes as she accepts his help.
That, to me, is what sums up the "absurdity" of their situation.
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Move the residents back 50km from the border. The only reason the tunnels work is that the entrances can be hidden in private dwellings. Will the EU bitch and moan? Sure, but they *like* seeing Israelis killed...
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