By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, Boston Herald This is not a ScrappleFace parody. I repeat, this is not a ScrappleFace parody. EFL.
Word on the Beltway is that Sen. Ted Kennedyâs Portuguese water pooch Splash (Has he no shame?)
is about to make a Splash on the kiddie-lit front. Kennedy is in talks with publishers to write a childrenâs book that gives a dogâs-eye view of Washington based on the adventures of his loyal canine companion. Working title: "A Bridge Too Far."
"A friend suggested he do the book and the senator thought it would be a really great way to educate kids about how our government works, specifically the Senate, if they looked at it through the eyes of Splash," [Kennedy spokesguy David] Smith said. The book is in its early stages and although Kennedy has spoken to a publisher, itâs not a done deal. So do stay tuned. Woof. Publication tentatively scheduled for the 35th anniversary of Chappaquiddick.
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Splash is a Chappaquiddick Retriever that travels with Kennedy whenever he drives a car. It has been trained to pull young girls and drunk slobs out of any water obstacles that might be encountered.
GENEVA (AP) - A U.N. panel overseeing compensation for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait approved an additional $380 million in claims, officials said Friday. Most of that money is to go to Kuwait for individuals and companies, said Joe Sills, spokesman for the U.N. Compensation Commission.
The claims approved by the 15-member panel this week bring to $48.6 billion the total payments authorized for individuals, corporations and governments that suffered losses in the invasion. The commission also agreed to set up a procedure to process late claims by up to 38,000 "bedouns," stateless or undocumented Arabs whose name comes from the Arabic word for "without," Sills said.
The Kuwaiti government said such people were never given an effective opportunity to file their claims before the original deadline of December 1995. Sills said the government will have until Dec. 31 to collect and submit bedoun claims to the commission. They will be handled under a special, fast-track process that will give each approved claimant $2,500. Only bedouns who were aged 18 or over on Aug. 2, 1990 - the day that Iraq invaded Kuwait - will be eligible.
The commission hopes to complete the bulk of its work by the end of this year. Payments are running well behind the approvals, however, because of the slow pace of funds coming in from Iraq. So far $18.4 billion has been released for payments, leaving more than $30 billion in approved claims yet to be paid. The panel is currently paying out $200 million every three months. Individuals get priority. It is expected to take decades to pay all the claims, with big oil companies having to wait until the end.
Money to pay the claims comes from Iraqi oil sales. Last May, the U.N. Security Council decided the funds used to pay for the reparations would be 5 percent of Iraqi oil sales. Sills said that under the U.N. resolution, the new Iraqi administration is obliged to continue paying 5 percent of its oil revenues into the fund unless it agrees otherwise with the Security Council. "I have every expectation that they will do it, because it is binding on them," he said.
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Thus spoke Joe Sills, UN Commissioner:
"I have every expectation that they will do it, because it is binding on them,"
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"You want more? Extra bad pain, huh? Nightmares? Oh, I hate those. Sure, okay, I mean it's not like it's our money or anything - you got it, dood. Hey Bevan, bump the skim rate to 6%. No, better make that 6.5 - I, er, think we'll have to do some, uh, compliance checking - yeah, lots of compliance checking and, um, stuff."
- The UN, a.k.a. The Screw World Order
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...we go without a license, which means we're going illegally as an act of civil disobiedence against the laws we don't agree with that our government is implementing against cuba, says Program Coordinator Briana Harris.
Apparently Ms. Harris wasn't chosen for her verbal aptitude.
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"While Contreras is off having a good time with his family, nobody knows about it in Pinar," said a student. "We don't get that kind of information."
This is the China we came to know and love. Spittle score 9.5, missing references to brother Kim and Juche. Posting w/o comments since I canât top it.
Manufactured lies to feed the Anti-China US Congress JUDGE and JURY Updated: 2004-07-02 09:10
These persons who are employed by the USA Think Tanks in particular the regular forum writer located in the Washington Think Tank, better called the Anti-China Washington Think Tank.
These people sent into China to cause unrest by the USA dis-information and propaganda forces are better known as Think Tanks.
The USA Congress is anti-China and therefore the USA Government and agencies have people paid to create LIES and even if needed to create a new TRUTH to feed the frenzy of the anti-China USA Congress.
The Chinese who assist in these efforts are Hanjian.
The USA sends these agents to dis-inform into China, maybe even in the guise of educators, it is an evil type of web of manufactured LIES that has been in use by the USA for 70 years and by the western forces to harm and or insult or even attempt to destroy China for 400 years.
These writers for the slander of China, spread out into the various media around the World and into the China media sources and even into this Forum and other forums.
Their job is to harm China, to create LIES about China, to mis-inform to dis-inform and to feed the USA public with a vision of China far from the truth and very far from the facts.
More important, the job of these writers from the USA Think Tanks, in particular the Washington Think Tank writer who writes on a regular basis in the CD Forum with manufactured and created Lies, his main job is to feed the frenzy of anti-China in the anti-China USA Congress.
For 70 years the USA Government Agencies have created these types of lies to feed the frenzy of people who feel the need to hate and require evidence to feed that hate, these Think Tanks and again this one in Washington that writes in this forum on a regular basis, continues 400 years of manufactured evidence against China and the Chinese people to create a situation and to manufacture insult for the pure end of harm to the Chinese and China.
The Chinese who assist in these efforts are Hanjian.
It is a business in the USA, the dis-information business, we saw it in Iraq, in Africa, in Iran, in Afghanistan, in North Korea, In Vietnam and now we see it in full flight, from the Washington Think Tank, being written in this CD forum.
The USA Congress thinks of big bad China, but they have no reason, so the USA agencies create these Think Tanks and these operatives to create the image of a big bad China, to spoil the rise and advance of China, to dis-credit the great things China has done.
It is their business to create LIES to even try and create facts or even a truth with the effort of their many with one intent, to harm and hurt and insult China as she grows and advances.
The USA Congress need to hate China, wants to hate China and these Think Tanks and their writers create, manufacture and paint the dirt and filth that the USA Congress needs.
This extends to the China territory that must be returned, this extends to the Japanes apology that must be given.
All these creations of manufactured slander for the harm of China.
The Chinese who assist in these efforts are Hanjian.
It is no surprise that the slander and lies of these USA think tank writers has increased as China prepares for more advanced peace negotiations for the return of her renegade Island.
China with the CCP at the helm has done so much and created a more advanced China a China better for all Chinese.
But these operatives of the USA agencies will stop at nothing to create and to manufacture the means by which to make the American people at least doubt China and at most hate China.
They are manufacturers of not just LIES but of HATE against a nice people, a generous people and a kind people, the Chinese do not deserve these lies and slander created for an anti-China USA Congress.
The Chinese who assist in these efforts are Hanjian.
Treachery is a terrible offence in China, to betray ones own Chinese is a wicked and evil crime, frowned upon by all Chinese not just the Government, Beijing and the CCP.
It is a crime of the lowest order, these USA Washington Think Tank writers who not only manufacture these lies but make an active effort to search for Hanjian to support these Lies that can and maybe will harm China and her advance, but most of all will create a situation for the recovery of her renegade Island and here is the real reason for the manufacture of the lies.
Rule by the majority, not rule by the small or limited vested interest, for China is a huge population and must be ruled by the majority, to do less would be criminal in itself.
These USA Think Tank writers and these subversives who are assisted by Hanjian to destroy China at most and to harm her much in the very least, must be forced to the surface and punished.
China has done so well under all her leaders, she has advanced and advanced and China is the envy of the western imperial forces and her running dogs.
Yes, western imperial forces and their running dogs.
These " running dogs " of the western forces for the slavery of all the human race who do not obey the demands of the west, include these Washington Think Tanks and other USA Think Tanks that are paid with Gold won from the blood of dead Iraqis to devote to a cause of the creation of lies for the slavery of all Chinese.
Never!
The Chinese who assist in these efforts are Hanjian.
These LIE creators, these running dogs that manufacture LIES, who every day distort FACTS and TRUTH to make it how they need it to be to feed a frenzy of anti-China USA Congress and to feed the public of the USA with the reasons to look down on China at least and to hate her at most and in the end, the destruction and slavery of all Chinese as the main target, the main aim and the main agenda.
You need only look at the way these western foreign running dogs of war, gather together to support the view of each other that is anti-China, anti- Chinese, and designed for the slavery of the Chinese under the rule of the white western imperial forces.
Yes, that is what I said, under the rule of white western imperial forces.
It was true in 1863, it was true in 1936 and 1937 it was true in 1949 and it was true in 1954, it was true in 1989 and it is true now in 2004.
These lie creators stood by and did nothing in 1937 as Chinese were murdered and tortured and raped and they will stand by and do nothing this time as they are the manufacturers of the false image the image of lies created to limit China and to harm and to in the end, make China the slave of the west and all the Chinese people forever lost.
Some of what they say:
" We love the Chinese, just change your Government and your Society and disband your army and rockets while you are at it. "
" We love the Chinese, forget the Island, it is not yours "
" We love the Chinese forget the Japanese Torture "
What is the translation, the translation is, forget that you are Chinese, be our slaves and obey us while we destroy what is left of China.
Never!
The Chinese who assist in these efforts are Hanjian.
You can not love, just one section or part or area or people in China, you must love all of China and all her people, for she must be the one China.
You can not love the Chinese and hate her Government who has done so much for her and her population.
You can not love the Chinese and deny her territory and her apology for crimes against her people.
You must love a whole and complete China.
Only Patriots are fit for Government in China and only Patriots have the decency to feel for and to work for their fellow Chinese as a whole as a majority.
The writers of lies and distorters of facts in the USA think tanks have no morals, they have loyalty only to distortions and to the creation of lies to support the distortions to feed the American public with dis-information about China and to feed the frenzy of hate that is the USA anti-China Congress.
Treachery is a crime in the USA, a criminal act, with a punishment to fit the terrible crime.
Treachery is a crime in China, a criminal act, with a punishment to fit the terrible crime.
The USA is a manufacturer of treachery in other places.
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I'd give it a 9.5 simply based on the use of the term "running dogs".
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan's defense minister said Friday he hopes the United States will speed up the delivery of a proposed multibillion dollar weapons package to boost the island's defenses against rival China. Taiwan's Cabinet last month proposed spending $18 billion to buy anti-missile systems, planes and submarines from the United States, with the payment and delivery spread out over 15 years. Minister Lee Jye told media executives Friday that China's growing military strength spurred him to ask Washington to speed up the delivery, though he didn't specify a timetable.
China has deployed about 500 ballistic missiles against Taiwan. The island has said the U.S. anti-missile systems can help dissuade China from using the missiles, while the submarines and planes could help counter an invasion across the 100-mile-wide Taiwan Strait.
However, Taiwan's government faces a tough battle to have the special budget for the arms deal approved by the legislature. Lawmakers from most parties have balked at the price tag, especially the $12.3 billion for eight diesel-electric submarines.
Ships and subs are pricey, no doubt.
Some lawmakers have suggested Washington was trying to exploit its position as the only nation that risks China's ire by selling advanced weapons to the island.
Supply and demand, baby, and we got the best stuff.
However, the defense minister said Friday the price was still up for discussion with the United States, and he strongly rebuffed suggestions that potential payments to middlemen were the cause for the cost of the package. "This is a government-to-government deal, I guarantee there will be no problem with so-called commissions outside of my family," Lee said. There is no indication when the legislature will vote on the arms package, though lawmakers are discussing the possibility of holding a special session to discuss the issue.
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"eight diesel-electric submarines."
Since when did we start making diesel electric subs again?
You'd think we'd go with the electical drive and the fuel cell for the source like the Germans.
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Sell them some of our Los Angeles attack subs that we are decommissioning. They need not cost $1.5 billion a piece.
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Not a bad idea, Ed, but that would require us to have a whole bunch of "civilian advisors" in Taiwan for a long time to help them operate and maintain them. Sure wouldn't want the PRC to get the wrong idea or nuttin' ...
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The subs are Russian. We're gonna buy them, then resell them to Taiwan. It was going to be German subs, but they balked at the deal. Pooty-Poot doesn't seem to be as sensitive to Chinese displeasure.
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Russian, eh? That means probably the Kilo class subs These have to be the 877 "Export" Kilos like the Chinese and Iranians are buying... or are they some older Russian 636's?
Put US electronics in them and use US passive sonar. As for the weaponry, they should, if possible, rework these boats and set them up them for Mk48 ADCAP torpedoes and tube launched Harpoon ASM. IIRC the Russians use 21 inch/533 mm tubes, all they may need to do is rework the triggering, storage and loading rails.
Do all that and you'd have a pretty good little D-E boat for littoral and coastal shelf use, one that would give even US SSN boats a tough time (in a defensive role).
Certainly more than enough to litter the bottom of the Straits of Taiwan with Communist Chinese transport and combat ships.
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But most importantly, will they get good old-fashioned periscopes? The Virginia class is doing away with the optical scopes. Nothing but cameras and TV. I wonder what's on channel 4? Holy smokes, it's a destroyer.
Passive sonar is great if you have acoustic advantage (A boat on battery/fuel cell does. Nukes? Dunno.) and until the first shot is fired. Then your cover is blown and you better be good at melees with active sonar and fast/automated reloads fired from stand-off distance (Does torpedo stand-off ability even exist? It did not in my day. Perhaps passive approaches with the abilty to call in air assets for the kill is the key. Taiwanese airstrips are nearby.) Also The Taiwain Straits are fairly narrow (80 miles) and shallow (about 220 feet). Sonar performance is odd in shallow water. In addition to direct path sound propogation, you get "surface ducts" which can give long distance contacts. You can end up with so many contacts, you can't figure out what to shoot. Training is the key. There are so many variables, the amateurs/unlucky will quickly die.
The problem with air dependent propulsion is you have to make noise with diesels. Anybody have any data on the range of the new German fuel cell boats? If they can make it a week between refuels and pour on speed when needed, they are dangerous in their home waters.
Starting up conventional electric boat production at a facility in the US?
Sounds like we want to test our quieting technology (Seawolf) with electric drive (the new darling of the Navy) and the newer capacity batteries and "silent" fuel cell technology that has come along only in the past 2-3 years.
Smaller, less manning, easier to maintain, essentially the same weaponry as a 688 ...
Sounds like what the Navy wants as part of its littoral navy, along with the coastal warfare ships. That way they can keep the nucs in the long patrol out in the deep blue where they operate best (and are at less risk), and put the cheaper boats in the grey water only as needed.
Having Taiwan pay for the first few is a great way for our guys to perfect what we need to produce some for our own.
China is expanding its censorship controls to cover text messages sent using mobile phones. New regulations have been issued to allow mobile phone service providers to police and filter messages for pornographic or fraudulent content. But analysts fear the real targets are political dissidents. Chinaâs authorities are gradually tightening control over the spread of electronic information, particularly on the internet. In your dreams, f%&kwits, in your dreams.
A Paris-based group, Reporters Without Borders, says the Chinese authorities are increasingly using new technology to control information. It says one Chinese company marketing a system to monitor mobile phone text messages has announced it is watching for "false political rumours" and "reactionary remarks". Venus Info Tech Ltd said in a press release that its surveillance system worked by filtering algorithms based on key words and combinations of key words. Certain key words could trigger an automatic alert to the police.
Text threat
Text messaging has already threatened Beijingâs control over information. Last year, the authorities tried to hide the outbreak of the respiratory disease Sars. But millions of text messages were sent, alerting people to the virus and exposing the government cover-up. Gotcha, ya rat b@stards!
So far, the new regulations are only being used by one of the countryâs two mobile phone operators, China Mobile Corporation. But it controls 65% of the mobile phone market, so these new rules will almost certainly become the industry standard. Last year, Chinese people sent more than 220bn text messages, more than half of all messages sent in the world, according to Chinaâs Xinhua news agency. Censoring 220 billion text message sounds a lot like roping smoke.
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god knows how many shortened acronyms they can come up with in texting chinese.... good luck, thought police, you'll need it.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (Reuters) -- The Dutch government backs plans for "seals of quality" for well-run brothels and standard contracts for prostitutes, as well as more support for those who want to leave the worldâs oldest profession, it said Friday. The Dutch cabinet said it supported the initiative from the prostitution industry to further improve supervision four years after the Netherlands lifted a ban on brothels to improve regulation of the business and fight trafficking in women. "The sector has said it wants to develop a seal of quality to improve its image," the cabinet said in a statement. "This seal could be given to prostitution firms, which ... comply with criteria in areas such as safety, health and integrity." The Netherlands has some of the worldâs most liberal rules on prostitution, defined as a legal profession since 1988. There are some 2,000 brothels operating openly in the countryâs infamous "Red Light" districts and about 30,000 prostitutes.
The center-right government urged local authorities which are responsible for regulating brothels in their regions to work with the industry to develop such policies. It said abuses had declined since the ban was lifted on brothels but called on the police to do more to inform the victims of trafficking about the possibility of temporary or permanent residence in the Netherlands. Many prostitutes in the Netherlands are illegal immigrants, some of whom are working against their will. The cabinet also backed programs to help prostitutes leave the profession and said it would introduce a central register for license holders in the escort business and a code of conduct for the media so only licensees could advertise their services. So, where will this so-called "seal" be placed? Will it have the equivalent of a "USDA PRIME" sort of nomenclature in blue ink? Or is it just going to be the barking kind with flippers for their more broadminded customers?
I wonder what the test is like to get a hooker license?
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Forget the tests, who's gonna be the Quality Control Inspectors? I need to update my resume...
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I wonder what the test is like to get a hooker license?
Let's just say that passing grades are still handed out even to those who "blow" it. It looks like sucking up to the teacher will never go out of style.
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Step right up! We got the finest Dutch Prime Piece of Ass in the country! Certified by the Board of Pimps and Ho's! Come on in and see our 5-Star Bitches!
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All right, Frank G, you asked for it.
Q: What do a plumber and a walarus have in common?
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I know I'm late to the party but are the girls going to have those paper protective strips like the facilities used to in hotels that say "Sanitized for your protection"?
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I remember when the Mustang Ranch was taken over by the IRS. Letterman suggested that they sell a T-Shirt: I got screwed by the Federal government.
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Uncut - Iâm too pissed off. Note: this will tend to upset patriotic folks. Others wonât be interested.
In each of the 4 years that I have been a member of the state Assembly, we have had many "celebrations" on the Assembly floor. These "celebrations" are orchestrated by the Democrats who control the House and often involve singing and dancing. Every one of my 4 years have seen substantial celebrations of Cinco de Mayo (Commemorates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla), St. Patrickâs Day (for the patron Saint of Ireland) and Chinese New Yearâs Day, among others. But never once have we celebrated Americaâs Independence Day, the 4th of July.
So, this year, Republican Assemblyman Jay LaSuer of San Diego arranged for Vietnam war hero Admiral Jeremiah Denton to come to California to be a part of a 4th of July ceremony. As you may know, Admiral Denton was a Navy pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 8 years in a Vietnamese prison. In 1966 while in prison, he was interviewed by North Vietnamese television in Hanoi after torture to get him to "respond properly." During this interview, he blinked his eyes in Morse code to spell out the word "torture." He was asked about his support for the war in Vietnam to which he replied "I donât know what is happening now in Vietnam, because the only news sources I have are Vietnamese. But whatever the position of my government is, I believe in it, I support it, and I will support it as long as I live." Four of his 8 years in prison were spent in solitary confinement. He later wrote the book When Hell was in Session, chronicling his experience in Vietnam.
When he stepped off the plane after being released from prison in 1973, he said "We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country in difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief for this day. God bless America." He was later elected to the U.S. Senate from his home state of Alabama, becoming the first retired Admiral ever elected to that body. I could go on and on about his accomplishments.
Suffice it to say, Jeremiah Denton is unquestionably an American hero.
The Democratic leadership refused to allow him on the Assembly floor and there will be no 4th of July celebration. A memo from the Democratic speakerâs office said "problems have arisen both with regards to the spirit, content and participation of various individuals with regard to the ceremony." Apparently, they said that he did not believe in the "separation of church and state" and they didnât like the policies he supported as a United States Senator and therefore they would not allow him to be on the Assembly floor or to speak.
I have heard it said that religious conviction of whatever kind is an important factor in surviving POW status, being a hostage or being interred in a concentration camp. My father once told me that a particular stained glass portrait, the fourth of in this column of pictures was important to some USNA POWâs during VN. I am glad not to have discovered itâs significance first hand.
Upon hearing about this, Governor Schwarzenegger offered his meeting room last Monday for a ceremony with Admiral Denton. The room was overflowing with people. Only one elected Democrat was in attendance. A number of veterans of the last 4 wars were present. Admiral Denton gave a very moving speech about the 4th of July and about the undeniable commitment of our founding fathersâ to their faith in God. He talked about how the war on terrorism may be the most difficult war we have yet fought. And he went on to say that he fears that partisan attacks on our mission and our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan sound too familiar to what he experienced in Vietnam. Following his speech, The Governor came out to personally spend time with him. Then this American hero, whose debt from us all can never be repaid, flew home to Alabama.
The Assembly did meet on that day. And we did have a ceremony that lasted nearly 20 minutes. That ceremony was to celebrate the career of a reporter from the L.A. Times on the occasion of his retirement. Democrats universally praised him as being "balanced." He was allowed to speak for about 10 minutes. Admiral Denton was no longer in the building.
Four years of Cinco De Mayo and not one recognition of the 4th of July. An L.A. Times reporter praised, and the very person whose sacrifice allows him to express his opinion is banned. It is perverse. It is wrong. And it is disrespectful to all the men and women in uniform who have stared death in the face and to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the American people.
Admiral Jeremiah Denton is a hero not because he was a politician, but like all the other men and women of the Armed Forces, because he defended the ideals set forth with Americaâs independence.
Democrats are always railing about intolerance and discrimination. But yet in practice, it is they who engage in regular state-sanctioned discrimination and who are intolerant of the presentation of other views. Maybe they are worried that people will listen.
As a final offering, I give you a poem that Admiral Denton read to us this week, through eyes clouded with tears:
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
Amen. God bless America.
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LaSuer is my Assemblyman - And I'm f*&king Proud of it! Santee and East San Diego Rocks!
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Savage is so right...liberalism is a mental disease.
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Indeed, Denton is the real deal. For those Trolljans always yammering about walking the walk - here's what you are apologizing for: asshats who don't know what heroism is - even when a prime example is standing in front of them.
Echoing a statement from the article is my #1 pet peeve: The troll will almost always begin by claiming you are doing some dastardly thing, such as ad hominem attacks, when you haven't yet said diddley squat - and the charge itself is part of an ad hominem attack (or whatever was being claimed). Pre-Emption is what I call it. There's nothing in the logic book that fits. Truly disingenuous and gutless behavior... much like the CA Dems actions regards Denton. A reckoning is coming for this behavior. Prolly A/C's predicted violence. Ironically, the "peaceniks" will be the ones to turn violent first - and yep, will immediately start screaming about violence - Pre-Emption.
EFL - I love it when they eat their own
MONTPELIER, Vt. - Message from a group of Howard Dean supporters to John Kerry: Pick the one-time presidential candidate as your running mate or face a floor fight at the Democratic National Convention.
The National Draft Dean for VP Committee has not contacted either Dean or Kerry about its efforts, but it expects to approach the former Vermont governor before Democrats gather in Boston for the convention July 26.
"Howard Dean shifts the dynamics of the race," said Michael Meurer, co-chairman of the draft committee, who argued that Dean on the ticket would stop progressives from voting for independent candidate Ralph Nader.
Dean has shown up on few, if any, lists of serious contenders for the vice presidential nomination. Members of the draft committee say they believe their efforts to persuade Kerry through petitions to choose Dean will prove futile.
So they came up with the idea of forcing a vote at the convention. "Weâre gearing up for and weâre resigned to a floor fight," Meurer said.
At least 300 delegates have to sign a petition to put such a question before the convention; organizers claim theyâve already got 350 firm commitments from delegates to sign on and indications of support from another 150. They declined to release their list of names.
For the effort to be viable, organizers believe they need 600 to 750 delegates and are hoping for as many as 1,000, Meurer said. "Weâve got three weeks till the convention. I think we can come up with the numbers," he said. Karl Rove should help...Yeeeeaaarrggghhh!
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So how's they ACTUALLY plan to get those delegates, hmm? /=|
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Message from a group of Howard Dean supporters to John Kerry: Pick the one-time presidential candidate as your running mate or face a floor fight at the Democratic National Convention.
Classy. Very classy. Perfect example of why the Democraps are truly thinking in the best interests of America.
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I wish they wouldn't. If the Dems keep promising this type of entertainment, I might actually have to watch their convention, and I really don't have the time.
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Hereâs how he explained (in NR recently) why the entertainment industry tilts Democrat: "If youâve spent all day lying on the telephone and screwing your client out of his money and yelling at your assistant for bringing you the wrong kind of water and paying your Guatemalan maid sub-minimum wages, then maybe you, too, might need a little John Kerry in your life to make you feel good about yourself."
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Enjoyable read. Almost enough to make me want to listen to NPR again.
Independent candidate Ralph Nader (search), denied a spot on the Arizona ballot, on Friday accused the Democrats and presidential candidate John Kerry (search) of engaging in political "dirty tricks." Just hours before the developments in Arizona, Nader complained that the Democratic Party has "stepped up its obstruction tendencies" in challenging his ballot access. The consumer advocate said he had called the Kerry campaign three times Thursday, asking to chat with the candidate. "We have to get a clarification if theyâre going to engage in dirty tricks," Nader told reporters at a news conference to criticize multinational corporations. ... Judge Mark Armstrong then issued an order that Nader be kept off the state ballot. Typical Dems - cannot win the ballot box, so they use the courts to overrule as many as 22,000 registered voters who want to see Nader on the ballot. Read the article - the doublespeak coming from the national Dems and Kerry campaign is incredible!
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07/03/2004 12:47:02 AM ||
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So What? The Dems in New Mexico try this practically every election year. The term Democrat has degenerated into the same context as in "People's Democratic Republic". One Party, Once Choice.
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Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday said terrorists struck American targets throughout Bill Clintonâs presidency "with little cost or consequence," but that the Bush administrationâs invasion of Iraq has made the United States and the world safer. The vice president lashed Mr. Clinton for his administrationâs weak responses to terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 1993, an Air Force compound in Saudi Arabia, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole in the waters off Yemen.
"Repeatedly, [terrorists] had struck America with little cost or consequence," the vice president told 600 supporters at the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. "In none of these cases did the United States respond very forcefully." "Under President Bushâs leadership, we answered that challenge with decisive and relentless action. We did not fire million-dollar cruise missiles into empty tents, or drop bombs from 30,000 feet on abandoned obstacle courses. Instead, America launched a broad and sustained war on terrorist networks around the globe."
Responding to Mr. Cheneyâs speech, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerryâs campaign spokesman, Phil Singer, said, "Clearly, the American people are making up their minds about the presidentâs handling of the war on terrorism and the Bush administration is running scared. "In the nine months before September 11, Bush did not hold a single Cabinet meeting on terrorism." Personally, I not such a big fan of staff meetings, but I guess Kerry plans to fight terrorism with meetings. Doesnât the UN do that too?
"Our enemies took lessons from this experience. They concluded that our country was soft. They grew to believe that if they hit us hard enough, if they inflicted sufficient casualties, the United States could be forced to retreat and withdraw," he said, referring to Mr. Clintonâs decision to pull U.S. troops out of Somalia in 1993 just weeks after rebels shot down several Black Hawk helicopters. During the Clinton presidency, Mr. Cheney said terrorists began planning the September 11 attacks and moved freely in "terrorist states" that included Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
"All of these dangers were gathering in January of 2001. In short, this was the situation when President Bush and I came to office. President Bush set out not merely to send a message or take symbolic action, but to destroy those who had attacked our people. The president also made a necessary shift in the strategic doctrine of our country. He declared that any person or regime that harbors or supports terrorists is equally guilty of terrorist crimes and will be held to account."
The Bush administration has strengthened the military, increased "our military and intelligence investments" and raised salaries for Americaâs troops, Mr. Cheney said. "America is safer, and the world is more secure, because Iraq and Afghanistan are now partners in the struggle against terror, instead of sanctuaries for terrorist networks." I think Hillary and Leahy made a mistake by making Cheney mad. The VP is intelligent, has excellent speaking skills and nothing but time between now and Nov 2nd.
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07/03/2004 2:18:03 AM ||
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I think Bush/Cheney are doing the old football hi-lo.
Israelâs foreign minister yesterday told the Bush administration that his nation will not abide by a World Court ruling on the legality of its West Bank barrier and pressed for U.S. support to block any U.N. action against the Jewish state.
    "We believe that Israel can deal with this issue by itself," Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said in the White House driveway after a meeting with U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. "We canât accept any external involvement from the International Court of Justice.
The White House also objects to intervention on the matter from the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court. In a January filing with the World Court, the Bush administration said the top U.N. court does not have jurisdiction to mediate the dispute.
    More than two dozen countries, including France, which protested the U.S.-led war in Iraq, oppose intervention by the court. Even France. Looks like nobody loves the court except the Belgians.
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ROFLMAO! So the Israelis and thre U.S. don't give a flying &%#$^% about the world court. So far all I have seen is LLL brought to ?higher? level. Good for Sharon! Next time they speak up show them pictures of the Mom and Daughters executed by the paleo pigs.
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So the Israelis and thre U.S. don't give a flying &%#$^% about the world court
I wouldn't say that Israel is 100% confident about the US not giving a flying leap about the World Court, or else there would be no need for Israel to do the following:
and pressed for U.S. support to block any U.N. action against the Jewish state.
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I have to admit: I wish I had thought of this first - but, alas, t'would not be true. I can't remember where I picked it up, but I do recall that it brought tears to my eyes cuz it was maybe the day after I first saw the pix at your link. I'm not that fast!
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Hey, Jarhead - ever seen the Fark contest image at my link? My all-time Fark Photoshop favorite, heh... Some of my bros laughed so hard they cried! I bet you know a few guys who'll get a kick out of it!
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holy f*ck, .com, that was awesome! LMAO! I'm sending that link on to some of my buds back home in Detroit, they will piss their pants. I especially liked the hoopties, hos, & bling-bling side scroll.
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Hey, he worked hard on it! Best Fark Photoshop entry I've ever seen, Lol!
I liked "Stupid ho's shoot back, get played"... hell it was awesome top to bottom. Only reason I ever go to Fark is to check out the photoshopping, heh...
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07/03/2004 12:15 ||
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I'm surprised it took so long to blame the Jooooos for Abu-Gharib... they must be slipping.
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07/03/2004 13:32 Comments ||
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General Karpinski should resign her commission. She is not interested in national security. She has an agenda and an interest and it doesn't cooincide with the USA's.
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I saw an AP entertainment "reporter" on Tony Snow earlier today, and they talked a bit about Spider-man, etc. Snow then asked her about F-9/11 and how it was doing in it's second week, and she stated that she "didn't know", but "it shatterred the all-time record for a documentary by a large margin and blah bla..." Snow cut her off before she could get to the part about how much she'd like to suck Moore's dick.
Well, here we have an internet link available to any who might be interested showing DAILY estimates of what various films are making, and this woman, an AP reporter, who is QUICK to slobber all over BS-9/11 and the money it's making, suddenly has no idea whatsoever on the money it's making a week later. Truly an LLL Idiotarian. I hope Fox didn't pay her for her inane little "analysis".
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I wonder if the US should emulate the Netherlands, but set up certification for media whores...
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All pain and suffering suits should be capped to match the maximum level of the Servicemans Group Life Insurance [SGLI]. Want higher payouts? Then raise the SGLI. We have indeed already set the value of a human life.
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Good observation Don.
One thing to add- the Dems are goign to howl. If there is one group they are in the pocket of, its the trial loawyers, more than any other, including the unions.
The trial lawyers fund large amounts of Dem activities, and the Dems do whatever the Trial Lawyers tell them to do, wich usually means obstructing, delaying and interfering with any and all legitimate tort reform efforts.
1) Losing LAW FIRM pays all legal fees of both sides - only exception is that if law firm is doing it "pro-bono" then they dont pay if they lose.
2) All statutory and actual damages are to be determined by the jury, but all PUNITIVE damages to be awarded by the judge (NOT the jury) and reviewed automatically by a 3 judge apellate panel.
3) Allow #1 to be overridden if and only if the plaintiff accepts the statutory upper bounds of damages as the maximum (actual damages are still allowed any amount as proven).
Do this and all of a sudden medical care comes WAY down due to a huge drp in malpractice insurances - and so does retail biz and manufacturing: lower insurance premiums!
And the drop in premiums would be even larger than most thing simply because it becomes much easier to quantify potential losses.
But it'll never happen, because the Trial Lawyers will never let it get that far:
Rule 1 puts them on the hotseat - they have to come clean and say that the real reason for their huge judgements and settlements is for their own personal enrichment, not that of the client. For if it were truly the client, then they would be doing it Pro Bono.
Supporters of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe used axes, clubs and stones to attack a meeting of opposition politicians Friday, injuring several people, opposition party officials said. Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change, took shelter in his armor-protected car and was not injured, they said. The violence erupted in Mvurwi, about 60 miles north of Harare, the capital, as about 400 opposition leaders and supporters discussed preparations for parliamentary elections next March. Witnesses said about 200 ruling party ZANU-PF militants attacked the meeting. "It is an exaggeration to say it was an assassination attempt against him (Tsvangirai), but he could certainly have been killed," said opposition lawmaker David Coltart, who spoke with Tsvangirai shortly afterward. It wasn't immediately clear how many people were injured or what their conditions were. No comment was available from police.
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I wish he had had a "boom stick" handy.
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Surely the last line should read, "No police were available to comment".
OT, BTW, Super, did you discover what to do about the Transvestite soldiers, (from a fews days back)? http://www.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record=5093
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