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Sharon Stone blames US President George W Bush for the absence of a lesbian kissing scene in Catwoman - because of the current conservative climate in America.
And we should be concerned about Sharon Stone's opinion because...?
Basic Instinct star Stone, 46, was keen to enjoy an intimate moment with Oscar-winning co-star Halle Berry, but believes a puritanical streak running through the country put an end to any potential girl-on-girl action.
Why not just go to the Ramada Inn?
Stone says: "Halle's so beautiful and I wanted to kiss her. I said, 'How can you have us in the movie and not have us kiss? That's such a waste.' So kiss her already. If her gate swings that way. We know Sharon's gate is a revolving door.
"That's what you get for having George Bush as president." I ain't touching that one with a 50-foot tuning fork.
To quote the Cracker Barrel Philosopher: "Sounds more like that's what you get when you have more boobs than brains."
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/05/2004 8:04:39 PM ||
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Hey, my career's shit, okay! Someone has to be responsible! All I got left is lesbo softcore and crotch shots!
Posted by: S. Stone ||
08/05/2004 21:07 Comments ||
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hey Sharon! Shut and -er- -um- never mind......
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Sharon,Sharon,Sharon.Maybe Halle didn't want to kiss you.
Oh,and Sharon,why didn't Pres.Bush prevent Madonna from kissing Britney and Christina?
Posted by: Stephen ||
08/05/2004 22:45 Comments ||
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I think they should have gone ahead and sucked face; it is doubtful that GW and Barbara (or most of the rest of us) will rent this movie regardless.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
08/05/2004 22:49 Comments ||
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no beaver/pussy jokes now - too easy!
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CNN is reporting that Lance Armstrong may be stripped of his 6th Tour de France title. In a random check for banned substances, three were found in Armstrong's hotel room. The three substances banned under French rules that were found in his hotel room were as follows:
(1) Toothpaste
(2) Deodorant
(3) Soap
French officials also found several other items which they had never seen before and were not immediately able to identify, including testicles and a backbone.
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DOH! You totally had me going there for a second.
However the idea that the Fwenches would try to frame him isn't so far fetched at all. I'm actually suprised that they didn't go for it. But I guess they'll try that next time since trying to openly sabotage him this time was such a bust :)
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All the more reason that Lance should return for a seventh consecutive win and make France STFU for-fricking-ever, or at least until they produce an athlete of the same caliber (some centuries from now).
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Speaking of the Olympics. I've got a (slightly) funny story that shows what Europeans unquestioningly believe about our Olympic athletes. Some guy was complaining to me that the poor governments of the world had been forced to fully subsidize their athletes in order to keep up with the big bad rich US because we had been the first to do so just so that our athletes would have an unfair advantage. When I told him that our athletes are not subsidized by the government but have to rely instead on private sponsors and their own funds you could have cut the shocked silence that followed with a knife! His jaw literally dropped heh heh heh heh.
You know I wouldn't be surprised if many Europeans are convinced that the super rich US has developed some completely undetectable super-drug just so that athletes like Lance can humiliate the continentals.
I can just hear them muttering in their fevered dreams "Must.prove.it....must.expose.zee.Americans.."
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Except for our basketball players. Everyone knows they're all on dope... Oops, wrong type of dope. Nevermind.
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08/05/2004 19:34 Comments ||
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Late thread but I thought that you all might like to know what the scuttle butt is with many cat racers. 67 to 70% are doping. No facts, no evidence, no nothing, just speculation.
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It would be typical of the French. The great Belgian biker Mercyx (sp?) lost out on doing what Lance accomplished (outdoing it, really, since the Belgian did a full race schedule) because some cowardly French punk punched him in the liver.
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A Walt Disney World worker who portrayed the character Tigger was found not guilty Wednesday of touching the breast of a 13-year-old girl while posing for a photo at the Magic Kingdom. Jurors found 36-year-old Michael Chartrand not guilty of misdemeanor battery and lewd and lascivious molestation, a felony, after deliberating for less than one hour. He had faced 15 years in prison if convicted. Defense attorney Jeffrey Kaufman tried on the Tigger costume late Wednesday in an effort to show jurors how difficult it would be to know exactly where a person's hands are when posing for photos.
"If the paws don't fit, you must acquit!"
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08/05/2004 8:46:52 AM ||
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"An' then he fondled my bazooms with his paw, yer honor!"
"This paw?"
"That's an oven mitt!"
"This one?"
"That's a baseball glove!"
"This one?"
"Yeah! Dat's the one!"
Posted by: Fred ||
08/05/2004 9:09 Comments ||
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1. The US takes very seriously sexual abuse of children.
2. 15 years max. Judges and juries have a lot of leeway in sentencing. Most likely, for a first time offense, he would have gotten a few months in jail or probation (since this would have been a difficult case to prove) and his picture into the sex offender registry.
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08/05/2004 16:03 Comments ||
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Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- The Faculty of Life Science of Kim Il Sung University has developed a new kind of growth accelerant for animals. The newly developed accelerant is considered to be better than other kinds. It is made of raw materials abundant in the country and its production processes are comparatively simple, so its production cost is very low.
A tasty mix of sand, gravel and air...
Its acceleration rate is 10-15 percent higher than other kinds. It accelerates the growth of animals with a less amount of feed and helps raise their resistance to cold. It can be easily applied to all livestock. All the elements of the accelerant, with no poisonous effect, are completely dissolved and absorbed in animal body. It has already been applied to chicken, duck and other stock farms.
Only known side effects are a tendency for the animals to eat the farm hands.
Posted by: Steve ||
08/05/2004 12:53:24 PM ||
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They better get craking on feeding what is left of their farm animals. The NORKS are 1 million tons short of grub for their population this year.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
08/05/2004 15:44 Comments ||
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this is fantastic, on a par with the time a year or so ago when they said they'd created anti aging water - and wan't it just deionized water? i'm in stitches with laughter and my skull hurts where i'm laughing so much. excellent.
Posted by: Shep UK ||
08/05/2004 15:58 Comments ||
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does taunting them at there website work? surly large scale oranized jeering at them from the west will stir them up, hey like playing with a wasp nest.
Posted by: Shep UK ||
08/05/2004 16:00 Comments ||
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Ah, the mighty scientists of North Korea. Is there anything they can't invent?
Posted by: The Doctor ||
08/05/2004 17:49 Comments ||
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in a scientifically controlled experiment, animals fed this substance grew larger, faster than an equivalent group of animals, which were fed nothing.
After three weeks, the experiment was ended due to the smell and maggots produced by the control group.
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About the only thing I could think of that would radically increase the bulk of animals are steroids and other hormones.
Great. In five years the Nork army will look like those "girls" you might meet in a dive bar in Thailand.
Anonymoose, that's when we'll be in real trouble, since they can invade and we'll be too busy laughing at them to defend ourselves. Maybe Kimmie's gonna mix those steroids in with their orange juche?
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08/05/2004 18:39 Comments ||
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How do they define grow? I've heard that proper use of the rack can cause a person to grow several inches per application.
WARSAW - Russian prosecutors will not press criminal charges in connection with the 1940 Katyn massacre of 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia by the Soviet NKVD secret police in Russia's western Katyn forest, Polish PAP news agency reported Wednesday.
Tap.....nope
After 64 years, Russian justice officials regard the statute of limitations on the crime as having expired. Polish authorities, however, see the massacre as a crime against humanity and therefore not subject to any limits. Russian authorities agree to release records of the investigation, Professor Leon Kieres, the head of Poland's Institute for National Remembrance War (IPN) crimes authority, told PAP. Kieres and the IPN's chief war crimes prosecutor Witold Kulesza were in Moscow Wednesday for consultations with Russian military prosecutors investigating the Second World War Katyn crime. Poland may begin its own criminal probe into Katyn after Russian prosecutors end theirs later this year, Kieres said. Russian investigators have failed to specify how many Katyn suspects are still alive, he noted.
On Thursday the IPN officials are expected to meet with Russian presidential aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky to discuss efforts to petition Ukraine for the release of records detailing 1939-40 NKVD killings of ethnic Poles in territories now belonging to Ukraine. On orders of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, NKVD agents shot dead 22,000 Polish prisoners of war including officers, doctors, professors and clergymen in Katyn, western Russian, and Charkov, northeastern Ukraine. Under communism, Moscow blamed the Katyn crime on Nazi Germany.
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08/05/2004 12:16:46 PM ||
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who could be alive and competent to prosecute after 64 yrs?
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08/05/2004 13:20 Comments ||
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Well iffin' Vlad wants to be an ally, they need to step up to the plate, admit responsibility and pay some damages to the familes that were murdered. I doubt any of those responsible are alive, but it is a current trend in prosecuting in the US that the statutes of limitation in conspiracy doesn't run out as long as there is activity covering up the murders.
Alberto Lati, Athens correspondent for the Televisa channel, said reporter Eduardo Salazar and cameraman Russel Baquiero, accompanied by an interpreter, were wrapping up a report on the port when three soldiers arrived in a van. The soldiers "got out of their car and put handcuffs on them without allowing the interpreter to talk," Lati said "They said, 'We don't care if you're journalists and have accreditation'."
The three coastguards then led the journalists to a nearby public building and, according to Lati, started beating them and explicitly threatening their lives, laughing throughout the ordeal. One took Vaqueiro by his hair and hit his head against a desk, Lati said. "If you don't sit properly, I'll throw you out of the window," one of the coastguards allegedly told the men, according to the interpreter.
A high-ranking coastguard officer later apologised on camera for the incident and said the three soldiers involved would be detained. "We strongly regret the incident," said Michail Zaharatos, a spokesman for the Olympic Games organising committee ATHOC. "We have issued strict instructions that this incident is not repeated." Mr Zaharatos also confirmed that an investigation had been launched. "Should it recommend disciplinary action against the two members of the Hellenic Coastguard, it will be taken immediately."
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good to see journalists are not getting a freebie for once
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Maybe the Border Patrol should be recruiting in Greece. Aris, the pay is great.
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Yeah these guys went overboard but a message was sent out before the olympics that the Greeks won't be taking any crap. Its a good message to send out to the journalists, soccer hoolagans, and terrorists that will be swarming the place.
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Don't be too hard on the Coastguard, Mr. Zaharatos, We wouldn't want to upset the Mexicans into pulling they're grand forces (of one) out of Iraq, in protest!!
As for the rest of you, I'm not sure you would have felt as charitable if it had been American conservative reporters of your choice that'd been beaten up rather than Mexicans.
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Jarhead, I have to disagree. I've had good Gryos before but nothing, I repeat nothing, competes with the Carne Asada Burritos at Case De Bandini's in Old Towne San Diego.
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"American CONSERVATIVE reporters"
I'm glad you included that qualification, Aris, since we might well cheer if certain lefty talking heads go the shit kicked out of them, in Greece or anywhere else. Unfortunately, this is meaningless since you can arbitrarily qualify a hypothetical case to support practically any suggestion, in this case the suggestion of prejudice and a double-standard: "You wouldn't be so generous if they beat up your mother and stomped some fluffy bunnies instead of some scumbag reporters!"
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I've been treated worse by Federales in San Felipe in the early 80's (SAE Fraternity spring break trip)
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08/06/2004 0:29 Comments ||
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you go! They deserved it for not following the rules. they aren't special. Even if its a american, Mexican, or greek journalist. They get beat up!@
On this page you can download a 24 page PDF file by K.Rhoads, Ph.D. describing the propaganda tactics employed by M.Moore in Farensheit 9-11. I'm at page 14 at the moment and can only say that this makes some fascinating reading.
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I'm on page seven and already I'm disgusted beyond words. An excellent article, a beautiful find!
Posted by: The Doctor ||
08/05/2004 10:52 Comments ||
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Does anyone remember where that letter was from an officer in Iraq who was angry about troops seeing this movie and asking for something to combat the propaganda?
EFL - I think this may have run already so I only include what seems new and significant to me.
In response to the Kerry "Truth Squad" report, RNC Communications Director Jim Dyke said he doubted the Kerry forces would "release Senator Kerry's complete attendance record of Senate Intelligence Committee hearings." Earlier, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) called on Kerry and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.), "to publicly release their attendance records at the private, or classified hearing on the Intelligence Committee so the American people can really know the truth. "Where does the failure of oversight come from? Is it because they didn't bother to show up?" Cornyn asked. "I think the American people deserve to know and they deserve to know the truth now." Edwards, currently serves on the Intelligence Committee. There have been eight public hearings since he joined the panel and he has attended four, according to the Republican National Committee.
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they're public records - he's justing making the Kerry camp decide to release them or refuse to...win-win for the RNC
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/05/2004 23:55 Comments ||
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Frank, I agree that there is nothing with respect to national security to prevent the release of the attendence records at the "closed sessions," but it would be pretty partisan to release the attendence unilaterally. I tried to see whether the toll was listed on the hearing web site awhile back but came up empty.
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Actually, they didnt serve under Kerry on his boats. They do however consist of his entire command chain which is much more telling than any PFC (or navy equivalent) account would be. This has spin written all over it.
#5
sKeery is in deep doo-doo.
These guys have the goods on him.
But it was sKerry who made his Vietnam service the highlight of his platform and career, so he's fair game.
And if it's true that he was one of the prime instigators of the rest of our Vietnam vets being branded as "babykillers" and perpetrators of war crimes, then he should have to answer for that and prove either that his claims are completely fabricated or that these other men are making their stuff up!
Kerry needs to release all of his military and medical records.
Let the games begin and may the best man win...and it won't be Kerry!
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The closest I ever got to Vietnam during my service was Fort Monmouth, NJ; but I was in when Kerry pulled his horseshit "Winter Soldier Investigation" stunt and gave his congressional testimony, and I remember very well how his vicious lies affected those I served with who had been over in Vietnam.
I don't think Kerry will be getting very much of the veteran vote. He certainly doesn't deserve it.
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08/05/2004 17:38 Comments ||
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And the promised implosion begins in the Kerry camp...
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I just finished reading the free chapter âThe Purple Heart Hunterâ and I have to say that JF Kerry is in some real trouble with this book. The press can try to suppress it but he will get asked by some reporter. I was skeptical a little bit about the charges of falsifying records and such but they make a really good case against Senator Kerry. The fact that he spent zero time in the hospital and has three purple hearts should make EVERYONE wonder about them. The book also debunks the Bronze and Siler Star awards. The only thing for Kerry to do is to release his medical and military records and let everyone see.
At least Kerry is finally bringing to the American consciousness the role that the mob plays in the DNC. There is a reason, people that the Hollywood, Major Entertainers, Unions, Newspapers and Publishers are so pro-Democrat...they are all major enterprises of the mob.
Dems' connections to mobsters have been around since Kennedy and probably since Tammany (SP?) Hall.
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Of course NOW everyone will want to see the ad just to see what has the DNC's panties all in a knot....
Just be sure to spread the word that the people in the ad never claimed to have served 'under Kerry' but served with Kerry (on other swift boats) -- and it includes his chain of command.
Also guide them to the book Unfit for COMMAND which is #1 on Amazon and is due out soon (Aug 15th I think). Which is said to have the juicy bits on Kerry's Vietnam service.
I wasn't sure whether this sort of thing was a good idea or not; I'd rather have seen discussion of the issues, where I think Kerry is weak enough if you could back him into a corner where he couldn't be all things to all people, and pretend to be both the perfect antiwar candidate and the perfect candidate to prosecute the war.
I also didn't think the ad would have that much of an effect.
However, Kerry has responded in one of the only ways that could cause my opinion of him to dramatically sink.
It's the typical democratic party hypocracy: that veterans are heroes only if they expouse the Great Myth concerning Vietnam (and to a lesser extent any guerilla wars that have been fought since). The same Great Myth that eventually caused hundreds of thousands to be killed, and created roughly a million refugees.
Posted by: Phil Fraering ||
08/05/2004 18:30 Comments ||
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Many Germans long for 'the good old days' from 1933-1945.
Posted by: Mark Espinola ||
08/05/2004 18:32 Comments ||
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I wonder if they sent any such letters to stations in California. If they did, they opened themselves up to anti-SLAPP suits.
Hell, you can't get anymore SLAPP than trying to stop a political ad DURING CAMPAIGN SEASON.
IMHO, they just turned a potential negative for Bush into an automatic negative -- potentially very big -- for Kerry.
Posted by: Robert Crawford ||
08/05/2004 18:35 Comments ||
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Mark: that went over my head. Could you, uh, elaborate on that a bit?
Posted by: Dave D. ||
08/05/2004 18:35 Comments ||
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It's the Dim-O-Rats, Sgt. Mom.
Ain't nothing gentle about it. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/05/2004 18:41 Comments ||
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And yet, letters from those protesting MoveOn and other leftist organizations get no response . . . almost curious . . .
Posted by: The Doctor ||
08/05/2004 18:43 Comments ||
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B, you forgot the wedding of the Democrats to the big Unions. Unions 'contribute' union-paid workers to man phone banks, get the word out, etc... All of it 1) paid for by fees taken from the union workers (in the form of dues -- sometimes via extortion 'you-will-pay-if-you-want-to-work' ) and 2) unreported -- not even to the IRS.
I'm not against the 'old' unions who truely represented their workers. However today's unions no longer represent their workers -- only themselves and their leftist agenda.
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As the Instant Man notes, this letter isn't aimed at getting the stations to pull the ad. It's aimed at giving stations WHO ARE INCLINED NOT TO RUN THE AD a reason not to. "Oh, we can't run your ad, we're afraid we'd get sued, hee-hee-hee."
Posted by: Steve White ||
08/05/2004 19:13 Comments ||
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I blame Ashcroft. He's the one in charge of "stifling dissent", right?
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Instant man correctly surmises this is not a letter aimed at getting someone to pull an attack ad, it is giving them fair warning that they may have problems backing up their claims and that to knowingly air false and slanderous information about someone, even a public someone, may subject them to be successfully sued.
How some of the folks commenting on this site could read this letter and deduce from it that it somehow proves the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth claims... ummm... have a problem, they have faulty logic, if they indeed have applied any.
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That site doesn't debunk anything. It's not even a poor try; it ignores the claims and simply focuses on the assumed motives of the critics.
The letter from Kerry's law team doesn't prove anything, either. It's a bad attempt to intimidate people into restraining speech; a bald intimidation intended to silence dissent.
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08/05/2004 20:55 Comments ||
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godiva, the men coming forward to refute John's claims are taking big risks--being sued for libel and slander, etc.
They are putting up their own word, integrity, war service and reputations.
If Kerry is going to stick with his "service" in Vietnam and have his people claim he was a big "hero," then his band of brothers--whom he alleged committed war crimes-- have the right to tell the truth about what really happened and just how sKerry got those medals and got sent home after 4 months.
And then there's Kerry, who won't release his military & medical records even though he's demanded that President Bush produce his in minute detail!
Nor will his wife release her IRS records.
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There are so many questions about Kerry's service that I think they should be looked into. Kerry should have to release his complete records. And why shouldn't these guys be allowed to voice their opinion? We've had all these groups out there badmouthing Bush and no-one, including Kerry, is saying they shouldn't be doing it.
I just finished watching FoxNews for the evening. O'Reilly covered this somewhat but it was more from the aspect of whether it was ethical to release this ad. Nothing about whether there was any truth to the accusations. Dick Morris even said it was stupid and would hurt the President.
I disagree with Morris on this. Kerry has made his Vietnam months a strong point of his fitness to be CoC. So, if others have reasons from that time that show he isn't fit, it should be made know.
Hannity had some of the guys on his radio show today and asked some tough questions. The guys seemed sincere and in some instances angry, not only at Kerry but at people questioning their honesty.
I wonder if I'm imagining it, but I seemed to see a noticable change in Fox tonight. Everything seemed to tilt heavily to the left alot. Even Fred Barnes seemed a little subdued. They've been sent a letter by some congressmen to cease and desist being a puppet for the President. Have we lost out only television station that tried to present both sides? Or was it just me imagining this?
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08/05/2004 21:10 Comments ||
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AF Lady, it's not new for Fox to go out of its way to "present both sides" or seem to us as if they're leaning Left.
They're only considered being to the Right in comparison to the others (BBCNNBCBSABC).
We in the VRWC are pretty much dependent on Conservative Talk Radio and websites and blogs like this one to get our side of the issues out.
Thank God, a new Conservative talk radio station started here in Dallas a few months ago, so I'm listening to Hugh Hewitt while I type this!
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I listened to Hewitt for a long time until the station here that had him on turned hispanic. In fact, I was listening to his broadcast on 9/11. I still try to catch him on the internet when I can. He is really someone that I have found to present clear views on issues. I absolutely love when he has the "smart guys" on as hearing both sides of a legal issue is very enlightening.
I know Fox has always tried to present both sides, which is one reason I like them. I've been watching Fox for a long time also. Its just that tonight they seemed rather subdued on any criticism toward Kerry. Like I said, maybe it was my imagination.
I also listen to conservative radio here most often on the net at work. Thankfully that avenue is available.
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Even Fred Barnes seemed a little subdued.
I wonder if the Bush team sent out a memo reminding everyone not to interrupt someone when they are in the process of self-destructing.
Thursday August 05, 2004--A Rasmussen Reports survey shows that military veterans prefer George W. Bush over John Kerry by a 58% to 35% margin. Those with no military service favor Kerry by ten percentage points, 51% to 41%.
The potential grassroots impact of the war issue is highlighted by the fact that 48% of Americans say they know someone who is currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Among these voters, Bush currently has a ten-point advantage in the poll. Fifty-four percent (54%) of veterans know someone serving in these war zones. When it comes to perceptions of the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is likely that information from family and friends has a bigger impact than news coverage.
Overall, 47% of voters believe that Bush would make a better Commander-in-Chief than John Kerry. Forty-five percent (45%) take the opposite view and say Kerry would do a better job. This closely reflects the overall voter preference in the race for the White House (on the nights of this survey, Kerry attracted 48% of the total vote to 45% for Bush).
Veterans prefer Bush as Commander-in-Chief by a 60% to 33% margin. Fifty-four percent (54%) of veterans give the President good or excellent ratings for handling the situation in Iraq. Overall, just 43% of voters give the President such positive ratings on Iraq.
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08/05/2004 4:54:11 PM ||
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I'm going to register as a democrat and vote for Bush. That way I have a better chance my vote will be counted.
Posted by: B ||
08/05/2004 17:37 Comments ||
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I am surprised that Kerry gets that much. But I think that poll was taken before the book came out. Release your medical records John 'Boo Boo' Kerry.
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It says quite a bit that John O'Neill, of the Swift Boaters against John Kerry is a registered Democrat who intended to vote for Edwards. He has never made any statements against Kerry when requested by Kerry's previous opponents. I think that even vets who are Democratic Party members realize that this guy must be prevented from becoming Commander in Chief.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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If any other evidence is needed to prove once and for all that John Forbes Kerry is completely unfit to be Commander In Chief, I hereby declare this statement the nail in the proverbial coffin (emphasis added):
"I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history."
Yes, we'll scold the terrorist vigorously before sending them into the Time-Out Corner, where they'll think about the naughty things they've done! And they can stay there until they're sorry!
Posted by: The Doctor ||
08/05/2004 15:04 Comments ||
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Kerry seems to favor the 'grab your ankles' approach to the WoT.
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Um, could someone explain the distinction between proactive and preemptive in the case of war fighting? Sounds to me like A-brain stepped in it twice in one sentence.
(Since I'm a Massaholic for the last 30 years this is not a surprise of course)
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Jay Dyson is back at Sacred Cow Burgers with his fantatic parodies.
"Kerry's Anti-Terror Plan"
"Kerry's Anti-Terror Plan" I have long since grown sick and tired of John Kerry's worn-out mantra in which he insists that our attacking terrorists only causes their numbers to increase. Hell, if that isn't a defeatist attitude, I don't know what is.
Let's face it: the moronic blather that claims that taking out terrorists only makes more terrorists is nothing more than a thinly-veiled justification for a policy of appeasement and concession to the very monsters who planned and executed the 9/11 attacks on our nation.
Perhaps the Leftists supporting Kerry are happy to go along with such suicidal thinking. I for one am not. Here's Jay's take on Kerry's Anti-terroism Plan AKA Infinite Appeasement.
A cleaned-up new copy of an audio tape of John F Kennedy's assassination may prove whether killer Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The sound recording could strengthen or destroy conspiracy theories if it establishes - as some believe it will - how many shots were fired. US scientists have started making the first digital copy of the original tape - now too fragile to be played.
JFK was shot dead in his car in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963. The sound of the event was caught by the radio on a nearby police motorcycle, and captured on a plastic Dictaphone belt at police headquarters.
In 1979 the US Congress House Select Committee on Assassinations said four shots could be heard on the tape, and they appeared to come from two different locations. The committee concluded that Oswald, who was arrested for the murder but shot dead before he could be tried, probably did not act alone. However, the sound of shots cannot be distinguished as such by the ear and the committee's report has been described as "seriously flawed" by the US National Academy of Sciences.
The motorcycle is now thought to have been near the Trade centre where Kennedy was due to have lunch.
The sound recording had not been used by the original Warren Commission investigation, which concluded that Oswald was the lone gunman and fired three shots from the Texas Book Depository. Despite its apparently crucial role in the case, the Dictaphone belt has not been played or copied since 1990, because of fears over its deteriorating state. Now scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have begun digital scanning of the belt to make a modern copy.
Leslie Waffen, an archivist at the US National Archives, believes digital analysis could be used to remove such extraneous noise as static and distant voices to reveal how many of the sounds were gunshots. "This is big," said Mr Waffen. "That's why we called the experts in. They came up with a recommendation to do this."
The work may take a year or so, but some are impatient to hear the results. "People want to know," said Gary Mack, of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy was shot. "The Warren Commission said it was one guy. The House committee said it was Oswald and someone else. There hasn't been any resolution."
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Only thing I'd be worried about is the fact that Berkley is in possession of the tape, and we all know what they're like . . .
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Chainney was paid by Haliburton to make the hit because they knew JFK was getting ready to okay free photovoltaic cells for all black americans.
The suspicions of corruption in the failed candidacy of Sweden for the Olympic Games 2004, have come back to the limelight, as the IOC seems to plunge into another major corruption scandal after the games in Salt Lake City. A publication by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter reminds about an attempt to bribe the International Olympic Committee, once it had shown preference for the Athens' candidacy. Won't someone please think of the athletes! [/Mrs. Lovejoy]
Based on solid documentary and telephone-bugging evidence the newspaper said that, prior to Greece's win, Swedish candidacy organization committee gave USD 60,000 to a consultant, who then took the plane to the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. Only to buy watches and chocolate, mind you.
For six months the Swedish paid of a total of USD 175,000 to Hungarian agent - Gabor Komyathy - for a presumed payment of favours. According to the daily, Komyathy who had worked for the candidacies of Atlanta and Sydney was committed to distribute money, favours and gifts to other people or directly to IOC members who would give their vote for Stockholm. So, why is this Komyathy character still permitted any contact with the IOC committee members?
The Public Prosecutors' Office opened an investigation in 2000 to find out the addressee of the money that Olof Stenhammar, president of the candidacy committee, drew from its own bank account to give to a consultant. New evidence delivered by "Dagens Nyheter" showed that Swedish candidacy contacted with three other intermediary agents, with the Kenyan Charles Mukora, IOC member who resigned over a corruption case, and with high-positioned directors at the Olympic Federation of Asian Countries with similar intentions. A Royal Exchequer official, Christer van der Kwast, told the daily that "the case seems a criminal conspiracy". Does anyone else get the feeling that the IOC and United Crusade both read from the same playbook? What is it that prevents a clean sweep of all fiduciary officers after exposure of such misconduct? Sweden's peccadillo is merely the iceberg's tip in all of this. There are already allegations surfacing about the 2005 selection process for the 2012 games.
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You see, this is what you get when you engender a culture of probity and honesty: lousy bribers. The slovenly and the crooked have a natural advantage in the global community when it comes to duking it out for the plum international prizes. If the Swedish didn't already *have* the Nobel Prizes, they'd be pretty much SOL.
Swedes of corrupt intentions, you must be proactive. You cannot allow Sweden to fall behind in the vital global bribery industry. Your international reputation cannot survive a kickback gap!
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Incidentally, am I the only one who's regretting that the 2004 Olympics weren't in the efficient and no-nonsense hands of Scandinavian bureaucrats, rather than the highly erratic and palsied hands of modern Greeks?
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Didn't the IOC complain about the lack of prostitutes in Utah? I seem to recall some sort of problem they had along those lines.
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Speak for yourself, Katsaris--those Olympics were OK, Eric Rudolph notwithstanding.
Whereas Athens has already had several bombs go off as well as other *problems* and the Games haven't even started yet!
(The worse Olympics will always be Munich '72 and Berlin '36.)
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Aris, to be strictly honest, I couldn't give less of a damn about American sports swaggering. It's not something I take seriously. Security issues are another matter, of course, but the terribly sincere hand-wringing about the betrayal of Olympic ideals - please, give me a break. I think I care more about the suggestion that some ex-Soviet tyrant has bought his way to the presidency of the World Chess Federation.
Hell, I'm in favor of letting Turkmanbashi bribe his way into a 2012 Ashgabat if he can pull it off, provided he not screw over his own people in the fund-raising process too much.
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New York school children will soon be able to attend a Kabbala-based school thanks to singer and film star Madonna.
"Ooh! Ooh! Mom! I wanna go!"
The Kabbalist Grammar School For Children — The K School for short — will be located close to the film star's Manhattan apartment, The Sun newspaper reported. The papers have apparently been signed and the school will be opening its doors to the first class in December, catering to six-to-14-year-olds.
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Better get there quick, kids. Methinks the clock is ticking on her latest fad.
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Kabbalist Grammar School - they named it after the guy on Frasier?
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Mysticism is dangerous when studied before aquiring an adequate grounding in reality. Amongst the Jews it is forbidden to study Kabbalah until after one has married and had children.
That said, Madonna has always been a bit of an idiot, and no doubt those who enroll their offspring in her school would otherwise find another way to destroy their little darlings.
BBC /8-5-04
Bruce Springsteen is joining a group of musicians campaigning against President George W Bush in the US election race.
The rocker has announced fundraising concerts in nine critical states, alongside acts including Pearl Jam and the Dixie Chicks.
Calling themselves Vote for Change, the artists will play shows in 28 cities in October, ahead the November election.
Announcing the gigs, Springsteen said: "I feel this is one of the most critical elections in my lifetime."
"This wasn't one that a concerned citizen felt comfortable sitting out."
Chicks' 'shame'
Rockers John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne will join Springsteen on stage for up to six concerts a day during the tour.
Money from the tour will go to America Coming Together - an anti-Republican group, campaigning ahead of the presidential election.
US President George W Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry go to the polls on November 2.
Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, who last year told an audience in London she was ashamed to share her home state of Texas with Bush, said it was time for change.
"There's never been a political climate like this, which is so the polar opposite of me as a person and what I believe in," she said.
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Karl Rove: Mr. President, I have some bad news for you.
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Boy, I can't wait for them to promise to leave the US for France if Bush is reelected. Though I am still waiting for Alec Baldwin to keep his pledge. But I guess in Hollywood, promises are like wedding vows.
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I'm still waiting to see how much "the people" are going to be gouged for tickets to this Democratic infomercial.
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You know, I wasn't really sure how I was going to vote this time around. I guess I'll just take my cues from a group of dope-smoking has-beens who barely graduated from high school.
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For these guys it's really about getting the chicks they party-ed with when they were young. "John Kerry who?, oh..yeah..he rocks....but wasup with you kitty...
EFL
Police in eastern Nigeria discovered skulls and corpses of more than 50 people in shrines where a secretive cult was believed to have carried out traditional ritual killings, a police spokesman said Thursday. Two religious leaders and 28 others were arrested in connection with the Wednesday discovery of bleached skulls, fresh corpses and others partly mummified at 20 shrines in forests near the town of Okija, police spokesman Kolapo Shofoluwe told Associated Press. The group is believed to practice a ritual in which parties to a personal dispute — often over business deals — are made to drink a potion that they are told will kill only the guilty party.
You may be surprised to receive this letter from me since you do not
know me personally.
I am Marriam Zion, the daughter of CHIEF Mugge Zion one of the most
popular black farmer in Zimbabwe who was recently murdered in the land
dispute in my country.
I got your contact through network online hence decided to write
you.Before the death of my father,he had taken me to Cotonou BENIN to
deposit
the sum of USD$10.500 Million(ten million five hundred thousand ,united
states dollars),in one of the security company in cotonu, as he foresaw
the
looming danger in Zimbabwe this money was deposited in a box as African
Artifacts to avoid much dumorrage from security company.This amount was
meant for the purchase of new machines and chemicals for the Farms and
establishment of new farms in swaziland and Cotonou
BENIN. This land problem came when Zimbabwean President Mr.Robert
Mugabe introduced a new Land Act Reform wholly affecting the rich white
farmers and some few black farmers,and this resulted to the killing and
mob
I hope this hasn't already been posted - Plz delete if a dupe!
via IOL - EFL
By Alan Duggan - August 03 2004 at 11:54AM Zap! Here's a stunning solution to crime
Blam! A single shot rings out and the knife-wielding attacker stops in his tracks, clutching at his chest. Seconds later, he's sprawled on the ground, body twitching uncontrollably. A policeman strolls over and handcuffs him. "He'll live," he announces. In fact, the criminal isn't hurt at all. He's just been zapped by a ShockRound, the latest addition to a growing armoury of "non-lethal" weapons being developed for the law enforcement industry, the military, and border control and anti-terrorism initiatives. ShockRounds are specialised bullets - fully compatible with standard ammunition calibres - that discharge an electrical shock upon impact and disrupt the nervous system. They incapacitate a living target in an instant - reportedly without risk of injury or death. ...more...
Cool - solves the distance problem of previous devices.
That'll last until the first crook with a heart condition goes titzup. At that point the grieving significant other will sue the manufacturer out of business and we'll go back to shooting them.
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If it doesn't kill the anti-social animal or Islamist enemy, what's the point exactly?
To capture and send them to prison for a few years so they can be reabilitated? yeah right.
I'd like to stick to the 7 grams of lead solution to those problems thank you.
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all we need is a bunch of protesters in wet-suits for protection
Sounds good. Wetsuits cost money, so that helps the economy. Wetsuits should also keep them nice and warm so the nutcases will pass out in the late summer sun from heatstroke if they get too feisty. And wetsuits also enclose all but the face, so the police will have to use headshots if the situation warrants a response.
Sounds like a win-win situation to me!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
