People have flocked to a small village on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital after a man claimed that his ten-year-old pet dog has defied nature and the ancient tradition of her species reviling cats and given birth to a kitten. Kerry was in Cambodia 35 years ago. Kerry had a dog. Kerry was in Cambodia. What did he do to that dog?
Owner Te Huot told Deutsche Presse-Agentur that his dog, called Knou, gave birth to a grey tabby kitten after he was visited by a forest monk who claimed that the dog had mated with a tiger. WHAT DID HE DO TO THAT DOG?
He said it was only the second time in the dog's life that she had given birth, and that the first time, five years earlier, she had produced normal canine puppies. Descendant of Kerry's dog?
However, he claimed that last Tuesday, Knou went into labour at his Chhbar Ampou village home and produced a single kitten. It says "Meruff"?
The phenomenon has brought crowds thronging to Te Huot's home to burn incense and give donations towards the dog and its tiny kitten, which Te Huot says is a sign from the gods. And a remnant of Kerry's visit and bringing in a mutant dog..
"This animal cries like a cat, and its face is like a cat, but its feet are bigger than a cat's and look more like a dog's feet," local media quoted Te Huot as saying. However, one visitor on Friday was less than impressed. If it quacks like a duck?
"It is a kitten," the man told DPA. "I only went to see what it looked like, but when the owner told me I had to pray to the dog, I left. I don't believe him that this kitten came from his dog." Animal husbandry experts also cast doubts on the ability of a dog to give birth to a cat, but sheer curiosity value still saw hundreds of Cambodians mobbing the bemused new canine mother in a rush to witness the alleged strange birth for themselves. My German Shepherd acted as a surrogate mother to a new kitten we got. She cleaned it, worried about it when it cried, etc. But a dog is a dog, and a cat is a cat. This no doubt will be in Weekly World News. But, the connection to Kerry's dog will be covered up by the media.
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Ship - the bandwidth is doing fine - I guess there are fewer people who care about the protest violence that I expected - so posting the vid link as a backup wasn't necessary. Sad.
I use CompuPic (not free) and it kicks ass. I've been using this same guy's stuff since waaay bad in the early DOS days - he just writes the best code.
On the free side, there's not much... here's the tucows page for graphics organizers and there's only one. There are a shitload of categories - many with tools that also organize images - the tucows Multimedai page - the list is bottom left.
BTW, Fluffy looks unhappy... we should tread softly...
Well, we caught hell yesterday. Pictures at the link. EFL
About 20 blocks of downtown Richmond were condemned after the remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston battered central Virginia with torrential rain Monday, causing heavy flooding that sent cars floating down streets and trapped people in buildings. Five deaths were confirmed in the region, Gov. Mark R. Warner said Tuesday. "It's a remarkable blessing that more people weren't hurt," Warner said at a news conference. "The devastation to a lot of the businesses in Shockoe Bottom is overwhelming."
A brick building of at least two stories collapsed in the historic, low-lying Shockoe Bottom area, and several dozen buildings had extensive water damage from floodwaters up to 10 feet, Mayor Rudolph McCollum said. Floodwaters overran about half of the historic neighborhood, including most of the restaurants in the nightclub district. Whole walls of buildings splintered, and bricks blew out of others. The city sheriff's office had to evacuate a juvenile detention center. More than 100 cars were waterlogged. Many had simply floated away _ some resting atop fire hydrants and other vehicles. City officials said the damage would easily be in the millions of dollars but said it was too early to provide an estimate. It was un-freaking-believeable! I spent 1-1/2 white-knuckled hours trying to get home yesterday evening, only to end up back at work, since every road home was flooded. I'm glad I've got an SUV; there were lots of regular cars flooded out all along the way. Later in the evening, I tried again by going west first (I live to the south of downtown, on the other side of the James River), then across one of the few bridges still open, then 6 ways 'round robin hood's barn to get within 1/2 mile of home, whereupon I found the main road to my house blocked by flood waters. I've lived here since 1978 and NEVER seen that road flood in that particular place. We had some serious water flowing last night! Had to backtrack and go way out of my way again to get to the one road to my house that wasn't under water at some point. (And I was damned grateful for that road - lots of people either couldn't get into or out of their neighborhoods, as the roads were cut off by flood waters in both directions.) This is truely a disaster for the area.
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Gee, Barbara, it sounds dreadful! Let us know if there's someplace accepting donations...
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Thanks, Seafarious. Lots of people have lost their homes, and even more their cars. The apartments that were flooded out around Falling Creek house lower income people, so I'm sure they had no insurance. Some of them had to be evacuated by fire truck and boat.
The LOCAL Red Cross is probably the best place to send a donation - earmark it for local hurricane relief and that's what it will be used for. (I have no use for the Int'l RC, but the local one helps local people after fires, floods, etc.)
Not only are a great many businesses in Shockoe Bottom affected, quite a few people live there too; the area has really grown in the last 10 years or so, as many people have moved into warehouses and other buildings refurbished as apartments downtown. This is going to be financially devastating for a lot of people, as well as for the city. A lot of the nightlife - and the resulting income - of the city was in the Bottom.
I'm profoundly grateful that I (1) park in an above-street lot, (2) park about 3 blocks west of the damaged area, (3) work in a building that wasn't affected, except for a brief power loss (an electrical substation in the Bottom is still under water), (4) I had the sense - and the ability - to go back to work when it was obvious all the roads were blocked, and (5) my house and car weren't damaged. I'm one of the lucky ones.
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One other note: I've got a job to go to today; lots of other people here don't, and won't for quite a while. (And many of them are those who can least afford to be out of work, even for a day.)
The horror stories pile up. One of our secretaries lost her car when she was almost home (but luckily she got out with her life). Another guy spent the night in our building, since he was parked in the area that flooded and had no way to get home anyway. A lady in one of the flooded apartment buildings met her refrigerator floating down the hallway. There have been several people drowned in their cars, and the Chesterfield County Fire Department rescued at least 40 people from flooded cars alone. The emergency services people all over Central Virginia have been doing a Herculean job.
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Glad you are safe Barb... for god's sake don't try to drive thru anying you wouldn't let you first grader walk thru.
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Thanks, Shipman. I'm careful about that. What amazes me is the people in regular (low-slung) cars who drive through what is obviously water up above their door bottoms. We have an area in south Richmond that is notorious for flooding whenever it rains hard - the city even put up posts with feet marked on them so you can see how high the water is - and every time it floods, fool after fool drives right into the water and gets flooded out.
BTW, I drove down around the edge of the damaged area in the Bottom (it's blocked off with plenty of cops to enforce it) after work today. It looks like a muddy war zone. They were still towing cars - the ones they could get to, anyway. It's going to be a long time before that area is useable again.
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Barbara---has the drinking water system been knocked out? The water in the mains could be polluted. Also I would imagine that the sewers in the Bottom are out of service, too.
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Most drinking water is OK. Some isolated areas lost their pumps because the electricity was out. The water, power, and gas are off in the damaged area.
In one of the surrounding counties (on the other side of Richmond from where I live), an entire water main was washed away. They're screwed for a while.
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I trained at the Medical Colleage on Broad Street, met my wife in Richmond, married her there. I do hope all you Rantburgers there are safe and sound.
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Thought I'd get that out of the way. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Entomologists say spiders are so prevalent that you're never more than three feet away from one, anywhere you go. That realization may cause some residents of Colorado Springs to be even more jittery. Tarantulas have been spotted in several neighborhoods in the south end of the city as mating season for the venomous spiders begins.
HOT SPIDER SEX! (that'll drive up the hit counter)
While tarantulas usually prefer more wide-open, arid conditions farther south of Colorado Springs where they can easily spot prey, the warm, dry weather in recent years may be pushing them farther north when they look for mates, said Jerry Prisk, plant and pest management technician at the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension. "Until a few years ago, I never heard of people seeing them, even on the south side of town," he said.
"If only Bush had signed Kyoto....."
Ginny Hall found one of the spiders, with its imposing fangs, on her front doorstep when returning home late one night last week. "She called me on my cell phone and said, 'Come out here and get this thing out of my way,'" said her husband, Patrick Hall.
Was that before or after she started screaming?
He removed the spider with a plastic container and took it to a different area, which Prisk said is a good idea.
Smashing it with a shovel would be my response.
Tarantula venom is not poisonous to humans and the spiders are slow to bite, he said. "It's one of those beneficial spiders that only eats live insects," Prisk said. "If we kill all the good guys, we're left with all the bad guys that are a nuisance and a pain."
You mean like, oh I don't know, GIANT VENOMOUS SPIDERS!!!
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In Carlsbad we have tons of spiders, blackwidows and other nasty guys. I've found that if you put them in a plastic container and move them somewhere else, they are still alive! Take no prisoners!
I smash the small ones with a tissue covered hand, I have a cricket bat for the larger ones, and a beretta 96 for the giant ones you see in sci-fi movies. I'm taking no chances.
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...The spiders issued a statement this morning apologizing for any inconvienence they may have caused.
"We are truly, truly sorry," the statement read. "We thought we were in Najaf."
Mike
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raptor : Don't forget the Brown Recluse Spider. Nasty critter!
The physical reaction to a brown recluse spider bite depends on the amount of venom injected and an individual's sensitivity to it. Some people are unaffected by a bite, whereas others experience immediate or delayed effects as the venom kills the tissues (necrosis) at the site of the bite. Many brown recluse bites cause just a little red mark that heals without event. The vast majority of brown recluse bites heal without severe scarring
An 18-year-old bride went missing inside the holy mosque in Makkah while she was with her husband circumambulating the holy Ka'aba, Al-Madinah newspaper reported. The incident happened last week. The couple were half way through the ritual when the husband discovered that she was lost in the crowd. The husband gave a description of his wife to police hoping that they would find her. More than 30 members of the girl's family are now camping in Makkah searching for the missing bride. The family has announced a reward for any information leading to the bride's whereabouts.
"Okay, bub. What's she look like?"
"'Bout that high... Dark eyes... Wearing a black gunny sack..."
"Any distinguishing marks?"
"Uhhh... Nothin' but a few bruises from where I thumped her..."
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Poor Ahmed was devastated. He had planned the entire trip down to the last detail...
The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon aired live on Qatar TV on August 27:
We must know that [wife] beating is a punishment in Islamic religious law. No one should deny this because this was permitted by the Creator of Man, and because when you purchase an electric appliance or a car you get instructions - a catalogue, explaining how to use it. The Creator of Man has sent down this book [the Koran] in order to show Man which ways he must choose.
We shouldn't be ashamed before the nations of the world who are still in their days of ignorance, to admit that these [beatings] are part of our religious law. We must remind the ignorant from among the Islamic Nation who followed the [West], that those [westerners] acknowledge the wondrous nature of this verse. There are three types of women with whom life is impossible without beatings.
In America six million women are beaten by their husbands every year. These are their own official statistics. 4000-6000 women die as a result of their husbands' beatings. London police, every year, answer 100,000 phone calls and complaints of attacks against wives. In France, their slogan is, "Beat the wife morning, noon and night, and don't ask her why — she knows the reason." But they use their media to blow this out of proportion. They blow what is happening in the Muslim countries out of proportion. They bring a woman from South-Eastern Asia with a swollen face and present her on TV, claiming this was done by a Muslim who attacked his wife. They forget that Islam is a religion that forbids beating the face even of beasts. It is forbidden to beat even a donkey on its face.
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In the interest of equality he really should have added:
There are three types of men with whom a woman cannot live unless she carries a rod on her shoulder. The first type is a boy who was brought up this way. His parents ask him to go to school and he doesnât â they beat him. "Eat" â "I donât want to" â they beat him. So he became accustomed to beatings, he was brought up that way. We pray Allah will help her husband later. She will only get along with him if she practices husband beating. The second type is a man who is condescending towards his wife and ignores her. With him, too, only a rod will help. The third type is a twisted man who will not obey his wife unless she oppresses him, beats him, uses force against him, and overpowers him with her voice.
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Many Moslem girls insist on attending school with scarves on their heads to demonstrate their solidarity with this religion.
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In the same vein as your pithy post, Mike...
This is called indoctrination, Mike.
No child is born with a desire to show solidarity with diddley-squat, except a nipple, nor a desire to wear some funky headgear - nor any sense of shame if missing said funky headgear.
Just for "clarity", picture in your mind Mike "Myers" as Austin "Powers" or as Dr "Evil" making the "double quotes" gesture with his "fingers" and then "read" this, plz:
These are "acquired" - and in the case of Islam, "taught".
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Title should be; "For some women, life is impossible unless they pack a rod".
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Wonder what the statistics are in Islamic countries for husbands whose throats are slit during the night? Harsh? You bet-and completely justifiable for muthahs who use God as an excuse for beating their wives.
yes it is most definitely taught or rather equated so obessesively and unrelentingly with piety that poor little girls really don't have a chance.
Its funny that on the one hand muslims claim that all women are just dying to cover up and that extreme modesty is natural to women while at the same time women are constantly hounded to develop a hyper-sensitivity to any sort of male attention to the point where I have seen Western women converts bragging about how they never used to mind being around men but have cultivated such extreme sensitivity at the urging/braisnwashing of their mentors etc. that they now feel naked without being fully covered. One who grew up in the west and must know better claimed once that if she was to pray outside of the locked womens balcony in her mosque that she knew that men would come off the street just to stare at her even in her burqa. She was of course praised for realizing the truth about men blah blah.
In this respect, it is much like a cult where a person especially a young person is simply worn down until they "see" the truth and neccesity of this article of clothing even with all the evidence to the contrary not to mention it also being contrary to common sense.
My favorite was a poem emailed to a little muslim girl that i knew that claimed that only if she wore a scarf would she be respected for the person she was and for her abilities not for her appearance. It neglected to mention why she should let what other people think of her to dictate her life, actions and dress.
I did what I could to point that out by the way. But with Mom and big sis already convinced that they should wear it, it was a lost cause. Its a shame that because she was such an independent and vivacious little thing, but the meme that piousness is measured by the degree that women hide themselves from the world and make themselves less and less noticable was already in place.
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peggy - It's heartbreaking to see the little kids in SA waiting for their schoolbuses. The boys and girls are there together and having a blast, giggling and squealing. I'd see them everyday heading off to work - the workday starts at 7:00 AM at Aramco. Then one of the girls disappears from the bus stop. Then another. When you've been there long enough you learn why. After that, when you see them, you want to kidnap them or something. Born to this shit. No choice. Captive for life. Indoctrinated. Beaten down figuratively and literally. A dog's life is better. Fastest growing religion my ass - only by the fact that the women are baby factories - certainly not by conversion. That's for the misfit males who like the power trip - or women who are masochistic or have a Daddy Complex. Half their brainpower basically discarded at birth on the random chance of gender. Insane comes to mind.
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peggy - regards your #7, it brings to mind a Firesign Theater comedy routine in which the contestant, a Mrs Presky, wins. A Don Pardo-like voice then presents her with her prize. She seem flustered and then says, "But it's a bag of shit!" And he say, "But it's really great shit, Mrs Presky!" Accurate parallel, methinks.
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I think the foreign leaders are becoming as alarmed about Kerryâs irrational and inconsistent behavior as we are. We wouldnât want to see a total nut-job get control in China.
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A5970: is it too far-fetched to think that one of the reasons behind this is to effect our economy and thereby the election?
Finally, a good explanation for the rise in oil prices. The headlined story makes a lot more sense than the idea that hedge funds are betting on oil. I don't think US elections are the prime focus. The prime focus is on preparing for an invasion of Taiwan. The first thing we'll do is blow their oil pipelines and blockade all of China's imports and exports. I don't think they'll be safe, though. I think we can bomb the places where they've stored the oil.
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I think the Chinese have found a great new way to recycle the dollars from the trade surplus. In the old days, it used to involve buying Treasury securities. These days, they're using it to pump up their strategic oil reserves, as well. Given commodity price rises in other areas, I wonder if they're also stockpiling raw materials in preparation for a war with Taiwan. Points to ponder.
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Itâs a smooth move, anyway you look at it. Itâs time for the US to get serious about decreasing our dependence on foreign oil. Our dependence on oil is funding the terror against us. We need to use our technology to put these guys out of business for once and for all.
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Energy independence is hard only on the political side. Over the last decade or so there have been many strides in making nuclear energy safe, low cost and even possibly waste free. The major hurdle is convincing the American people that depending on oil will prevent any possibility of energy indepence and that one way or another nuclear energy does not mean disaster.
A rich, spoiled, punk-a** college boy with more of Daddy's money than common sense An anti-war protester posing as a GOP volunteer at the Republican National Convention got within 10 feet of Vice President Dick Cheney last night as the college student shouted anti-Bush insults. How many "right wingers" did you see pulling this crap at the DNC??? Hmmm???
According to the Associated Press, Secret Service Agent Shannon Zeigler said Cheney "was never in any harm or danger" during the incident at Madison Square Garden. The snot-nosed, rich boy came within a couple of heartbeats from being a memory for his momma.
The 21-year-old Yale student, Thomas Frampton, reportedly was carrying a "Bush-Cheney '04" sign behind Cheney's box at about 9:30 p.m. After being told by security to keep moving the man turned toward Cheney and began shouting anti-war statements. According to AP, he then started to climb over a low wall separating Cheney's box from the walkway and got within 10 feet of the vice president before Secret Service agents tried to restrain him. Three or four agents * six, 9mm slugs a piece. He's lucky he's not dead. Can you imagine if somebody would have done that to sKerry?? Can you imagine what the NYTWaPo would have said??
Court papers say the suspect swung his elbow at agents as they took control of him and continued to shout at Cheney as he was dragged away and cuffed. Talk about restraint...sheesh.
A federal prosecutor says Frampton went through a GOP volunteer-training program and had convention passes and a volunteer shirt, which he was ordered to return. In other words...a liar and fraud.
According to the report, Frampton was released on $50,000 bail and told to stay 100 feet from Cheney and President Bush. Anybody want to bet he won't get within 1000' of POTUS?
AP quotes defense attorney Henry E. Mazurek as describing Frampton as a spoiled, rich kid from a NE prep school who has never had a job, and has done nothing of significance model citizen and Yale junior with a near-perfect grade-point average. The protester was scheduled to start the new school year tomorrow. Anybody wanna guess Yale will not do anything to him? I hope they charge him a felony, intent to commit bodily harm to a Federal official. Momma and daddy will be paying for little sonny-boy's indiscretion for a while.
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There went next semester's tuition money for bail. Heaven help the precious darling son if he had to get a job and work for it like the common folk.
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Court papers say the suspect swung his elbow at agents as they took control of him and continued to shout at Cheney as he was dragged away and cuffed.
In other words, a violent man lied in order to get close to the VP and -- if he had the chance -- the President. I don't think it would be hard to get a conviction in a sane state, but NY is an open question.
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A frightening thought: How many more like him but nuttier made it through the volunteer screening?
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The VP's security detachment should have laid a couple of licks on the little creep for good measure.
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whaddya wanna bet the secret service already google-bombed it? beat his ass
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I know this kid personally. he went to high school with a good friend of mine. he is not a momma's boy. In fact, he disagrees with them on most political issues. They are a largely political family.
Drudge So far just a blurb with no link:
Attack Attempt On MSNBC Chris Matthews... Live On Air... Street Set Outside Convention... Hooded protester jumps security line ... Police move in immediatly... Guard Tackled... Bush/Cheney supporters gathered near show set at Herald Square were pushed and spat on by protesters, fake blood thrown while Matthews remained on air... Developing...
There is also a long string at Free Republic, where one poster claims that a lefty outlet has attributed the attack to an Abu Ghraib protest. As often happens with Freeper links, I couldn't make heads or tails out of this one.
It seems possible to me that the real target was not the fifth columnist Matthews, but his guest, EPA Administrator and former N.J. Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
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exactly! Why would they attack Matthews? He's been in the oppo pocket (and ratings cellar) for a while....his numbers suck! Did he speak over the protester like he normally does Swiftvets and W backers? No? then it was a prefab attack for ratings
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Here's the video
The blackshirt in the hood definitely says "Abu Ghraib" at least twice.
Following all the commotion last night, Mullah Michael Moore will not be returning to Madison Square Garden for the Republican National Convention, E&P has learned because, like he signed, he is a loser. According to editors at USA Today, which is publishing his daily column this week, Moore told them that he was choosing not to return again. He is just plain scared someone will confront him...and he will not have his "Mike Tyson" entourage to protest him.
However, they said he would continue to write his daily column and they stressed that in no way did they second-guess their decision to have him write the commentary. Ugh, yeah...anything you say.
Last month, Ann Coulter, who had been hired by USA Today to write a column at the Democratic National Convention, quit after the editors requested many changes in her first submission. Which shows that USAToday is nothing more than the sock puppet of the left. They fear the challenge of ideas...unless they control the venue.
After entering the Garden Monday night with USA Today credentials, Moore was criticized by Sen. John McCain in his speech, setting off prolonged boos and taunts in the arena. He's lucky they didn't make him run a gauntlet.
"We had hoped we would be able to put Moore in place where he could actually listen to speeches and not disrupt anything," Ken Paulson, USA Today editor, told E&P today. "The idea was not to put him in the line of sight while giving him the opportunity to observe. Now Moore doesn't plan to return to the convention. I think he saw the down side of his attending. We will have the four days of his column and I hope people will take time to read what he wrote. Yea, Ken. Does that mean that USATODAY journalism is of the same caliber as F9/11? Hmmm?
"We never want to be the story. Let's see...you hire Mullah Moore for the RNC and you don't want to be the story. Sure, anything you say, chief.
Ann Coulter tired of our censorship editing suggestions and she quit her time," Paulson added. "We are just a newspaper trying to be balanced to the left day in and day out." Has anybody had enough of their BS??
Paulson said the paper, from the start, declined to request a floor pass for Moore, knowing that would likely set off tumult. In this corner we have the Mullah Michael Moore. In this corner, we have the 1st MEF. Marines. Lock and load.
Owen Ullmann, the paper's deputy editorial page editor, said "I was not surprised that he would attract attention but was surprised by the extent of the media frenzy. Regrettably the security people ushered him into an area that caused a media frenzy." Now, he added, "it's Moore's call on how he plans to cover it." mullah moore will cover this like covers other historical events. He will publish lies, half truths, and out of context statements to create a docudrama for his sheep on the left.
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As I said in an earlier thread, there's no need for Lumpy to attend the convention he can make up this kind of crap from his kitchen table. 1)Saves USA today expense money 2)Keeps him close to the refrigerator
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I can honestly say I have never read USA Today. The first time I saw it I was reminded of some POS tabloid. I knew that is was not going to be worth the time it would take to read. Nothing has changed.
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Now the RNC will have enough food left over to feed New York's homeless for a month.
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I am still waiting for Moore to sue McCain. Didnât Jabba threaten legal action against anyone who impugned his movie? Come on Jabba go through with the threat! Moore, like his liberal friends, never has shown a backbone when confronted with opposition. If he was anything approaching a man, he would go there every day and report (like he was paid to do). Instead he waddles away with some angry words and munching on remains of his security detail. I heard that the main reason he isnât returning is that he canât fit through the metal detectors!
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McCain never used the name of the filmmaker or the name of a movie. You (and the entire RNC) only assume he meant Michael Moore. That's not actionable.
Moore is not returning because he has a huge ego and it was illfed at the convention. At the Democrat convention he was a rockstar, at the Republican convention he was booed by everyone at once. That's gotta bug you even if he put on a brave front.
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And all this time I thought this useless tub 'o' goo at least had the courage of his convictions, however shtoopit they were... I honestly thought he fed off negativity like a child predator feeds off 'Nickelodeon.'
We have found his Achille's heel! Now we just need to find his ankle...
Outside a hotel in Times Square, delegates to the Republican National Convention were swarmed by protesters dressed in black and swearing at them. Blocks away, delegates engaged in shoving matches with protesters seeking to spoil their night at the theater. And outside "The Lion King" on 42nd Street, a delegate was punched by a protester who ran by. Although the organized protests yesterday and Sunday have been largely peaceful, there has been a starkly different tone to smaller incidents in Midtown and elsewhere: angry encounters and planned harassment of convention delegates as they go out on the town.
Sometimes the delegates answer back in toe-to-toe, finger-pointing shouting matches. Other times the police, who are guarding delegate gatherings, have dispersed protesters, who move on to other locations to taunt other delegates. The harassment of delegates came as organized protests continued to draw thousands of people. The Still We Rise march by advocates for social issues was peaceful, and a Poor People's March, a column several blocks long, proceeded from the United Nations to the Madison Square Garden yesterday after the police decided to let it go ahead without a permit. When marchers approached the Garden, a police detective was knocked off his scooter. He was then repeatedly kicked and punched in the head by at least one male demonstrator, the police said. (Bastards,,these terrorists need to be busted and charged with city and FEDERAL crimes!)
The detective, William Sample, was listed in serious condition at St. Vincent's Manhattan Hospital, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly both visited him, the police said. There was no immediate word of an arrest in the assault, but as of 9 p.m., the police said there had been 11 protest-related arrests. Good but it should be more and shall be later on during the week Continued on Page 49
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Silly me, I thought that after dark the "protesters" would be roosting in belfrys around the city. It's their way, normally.
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Some delegates seemed perplexed, even hurt, not because they did not expect protesters to be here, but because they did not expect them to get personal.
The people getting personal with their "disagreements" are enemies of freedom, yours and mine, and need to be countered accordingly. That means fighting back, instead of being hurt or perplexed. I sure as hell wouldn't take any of it.
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I'm still waiting for one of these "anarchists" to get all up in the wrong face and get shived for his trouble. If the convention was in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan it already would'a happened...
EFL
According to my source, NION plans to disrupt the convention by having a group of people as march leaders who have memorized a march route different from the one given provided to the police. The march is to begin at Union Square with a small stage and some speakers. They will march north on Broadway to as close as possible to Madison Square Gardens the site of the convention.
The marchers will proceed west towards the river, after which, The plan is to attempt to turn north again as soon as we can and then turn east again as soon as we are allowed. You can see how this pattern will soon result in a circle being formed around the Garden... They are telling the police that then they will turn north again on Broadway and move away from the Garden to some "spill out" location, such as a nearby park or pier... This moving away from the Garden will, of course, never happen. They plan to move south again and join up with the marchers still coming up Broadway. This will probably work, and the police will probably shut out the people from moving around in a circle only after they realize what is going on, leaving a group of protestors cut off from the pack... That will turn into a violent confrontation... This is a planned provocation that will surely end in violence. The route and method of police negotiation will make this an absolute certainty."
This concept - to stage a march and disrupt the convention - was developed at a national NION meeting at the offices of the Asian American Writer's Forum. This meeting was attended by — among others - Mary Lou Greenberg, a Director of NION and a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), with which NION is affiliated, Peter Laarman (a founder of NION), and Joe Urgo, who is an RCP representative. Urgo and Greenberg developed the idea for the march.
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Sounds like it's time to apply RICO to groups like NION, UFPJ, and the Asian American Writerâs Forum.
For a start.
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Somehow, I get the feeling that were some conservative groups to have tried this at the Democratic convention, they'd be labeled fascists, Nazis, and the like...
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Herd them right out onto one of those old, old, decrepit, susceptible to collapse piers. See how fast they beg the cops to pull them out of the Hudson when it caves in underneath them.
Michael Moore is so threatened by those warlike Republicans that he is hanging out at the GOP convention with a bevy of security guards. Editor & Publisher reported that "the biggest commotion at the Republican National Convention Monday night occurred just before 10 pm with the entrance of anti-Bush filmmaker Michael Moore, who was repeatedly halted by security attempting to reach his reserved press seat in section #340 near the side of the stage. Moore is writing a daily column this week for USA Today." Are Lumpy's goons unarmed? If not, where do they get their guns?
Self-defense for me, but not for thee. I resent that, I am only half as thick as Lumpy, if that much (6'2" 194), and proportionally more vulnerable to gunfire. He could have the courage of his convictions, leave the guns, and wear body armor instead. We could strip a couple of surplus M-113s for the material.
Moore's timing could not have been better. Soon after arriving, Sen. John McCain mentioned Moore in his speech as the "disingenuous filmmaker who would have us believe that Saddam's Iraq was an oasis of peace." After McCain's remarks, the audience booed — then began chanting, "Four more years!"
E&P reported that when Moore left soon after, he was "accompanied by heavy security. He told E&P on the way out that he was not fleeing: He had to speak to a Planned Parenthood gathering at a theater uptown." [No word yet if Moore has agreed to be the organization's poster child.] (That last sardonicism is the source's, not mine)
"What a hero!" LLLs will say.
"Did Saddam's opponents have the courage to crash a Baathist Convention?"
"Do Castro's critics invade the commie conferences?"
"NO! Michael is twice the man they are!"
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Moore, the over stuffed commie schlub at the GOP convention .....for what?
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He's the USA Today "reporter" for the RNC. A good reason alone for never paying for that rag. Here's what I presume is the first of his "stories" for them.
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I hope USA Today isn't paying the slob's expenses.
He could have concocted this crap at his kitchen table and without ever having to attend the convention. What's this bull about "enemy territory"? Just a straw man for lumpy to knock down.
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GK - right on. That is his stock-in-trade. We've had our Yellow Journalism period... I believe that someday Moore will go down in history as the poster-child of our Red Journalism period.
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USA Today is now lumped in with the New York Times -- trash.
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Good point about the gun hyprocracy.
Of course Mike Al-moor should be able to have lethal self defense and we, the poor, stupid, ugly, americans should go around unprotected. After all he is smarted then everyone else and we are only lowly uneducated peasants.
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I like the idea of attacking (verbally) lumpy but he gets off on this. The best thing to do would to pretend he was invisible. Make sure he got the SMALLEST table and even smaller chair. Make him a non-entity and that would drive him crazy. McCain just fed that slobs giant ego a huge slice of cake. On the good side MM canât have long to live, he is as big as a car!
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If they required registration(which they don't), then the following would be snapped up quickly:
Username: utisfishwrap
Password: mooresucks
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#11-Respectfully, I disagree. Mikey, underneath all the bluster and ego, is very vulnerable to social ostracization and public humiliation. He lives on kudos-he got the opposite last night.
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This photo was in our paper this morning. The caption says "Filmmaker Michael Moore gestures as Senator John McCain of Arizona addresses delegates at Madison Square Garden during the Republican National Convention in New York..."
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Couple of questions for USA today. First, what's the deal with him covering the convention and then having meetings during the big speeches? Couldn't he meet with Planned Parenthood before, or after? Second, did they read his first piece? I could be wrong but I think he wrote it over the weekend. It has no real details of the convention at all and I can't see how he could have avoided mentioning the way he was dragged into the proceedings.
Still, his piece wasn't bad. Wrong conclusions but his world view is so warped I'd be amazed if he ever came to the right conclusions.
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The gesture is big with the younger crowd-L for "loser".
I thought Moore was calling himself a liar. Oh well. OTOH, maybe Moore started something. Maybe all the LLL, self-proclaimed journalists and reporters could use this sort of gesturing from now on, instead of actually saying something worthwhile. The loons that they are...
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Notice that USA Today also hired Coulier for the Democratic convention -- refused to publish her articles. Yet Mike Al-Moron get a pass on his obvious pee-yellow 'journalism'?
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McCain was just being too diplomatic. If you want to get crude, he should have said that "MM's dad should have dumped that load in the sink." Now that would get the message across with shock value.
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A march against the Bush administration turned ugly Monday when a protester repeatedly stomped and punched a plainclothes detective and hundreds of officers in riot gear pushed demonstrators away from the site of the Republican convention, witnesses and police said. Implied equivalency anyone?
The detective, William Sample, was briefly knocked unconscious and was hospitalized with head injuries that were not life-threatening. His assailant escaped and was being sought by police. for a major tune-up. Video footage shows that Sample was knocked off a scooter and attacked by several blackshirts, refuting the AP/SF-gate version.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called it "a blatant, vicious attack."
... which it was...
The unrest occurred a day after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Manhattan for a march that ended up being largely peaceful despite fears of violent clashes with police. It was the largest convention-related protest in U.S. history. A public servant is almost killed by enemy sympathizers, just blocks from the WTC site, and the fifth column media 'tards can only manage terms like "unruly" and "unrest". Continued on Page 49
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Thx, AC - excellent in-line commentary - especially the rhyming bits, lol! The EcoFreak twits are the only ones who've truly been violent so far this summer - and mainly in the West. I'm sure that will change, in spades, soon enough.
Do you have a link to the video showing the melee in which Det Sample is attacked? The article, just as you said, paints a different picture.
This might be a good time to raid the police evidence locker and take samples from all the marijuana busts - and distribute on the sly to the marchers. I note, from photos, that there is a tiny slice of these cretins who wear balaclavas or some sort of face cover - they muct be the professionals. I wonder if Soros thinks he's getting his money's worth, so far? I also wonder if the NYPD guys have noticed any odd accents - say like Central - Eastern Europe / Western Asia...
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Many thanks, .com
Regrettably, I can't find the video on the web. Fox and MSNBC both ran it, but the latter will undoubtedly bury once commissars producers realize its significance. You might check Fox later.
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These ultra-Left Brownshirts with their illegal terrorist looking ski masks pre-planned these kind of violent attacks on the GOP delegates weeks ago. The legal term used to be termed conspiracy, in adition to a score of other federal & state & city crimes they should be charged with.
You know if they are bagged drugs will be one charge right off the bat.
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and filled with recent immigrants
Probably the "pro-Palestinian" contingent.
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and filled with recent immigrants
Probably the illegal immigrant contingent, given that NYC police refuse to arrest illegals.
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Raw - Oh baby - it's Louisville Slugger time. That really pisses me off. Fascists, indeed, though they're the Fascists, not the Protest Warriors, and obviously haven't a clue what they're talking about. I don't think I can laugh about this - it just pisses me off too much. Thx for the link, I think! I'll donate to Protest Warrior since I'm not there to carry a sign and get arrested for poking a couple of these assholes.
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The .WMV file (2.75MB) is available here for now, since I'm sure he's getting hammered. I'll take a bit of the local load off his site. Dunno how long I'll keep it up, I have bandwidth limits too, lol, but at least a few hours from the time of this post. Come 'n get it! It will make the courage of the Protest Warriors real enough for you. Obviously, this is different and more strident than the stuff we saw out in SF...
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AP termed the injuries "not life threatening". According to who? The report I heard today said "severe head injures". Time for the gloves to come off.
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Why did the police not open fire? "I saw terrorist attacking a fellow officer, so I dropped him."
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//*sarcasm on*// I donât see what all the fuss is. I mean, it was a pig, right? He got what was coming to him, and (with a job as a narc) should have expected it. We got a right to beat up pigs who mess with us peace protesters!//*sarcasm off*//
The detective, William Sample, remained in serious condition on Tuesday with serious facial trauma; his injuries were not deemed life threatening, police said. His assailant was being sought by police.
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See, the NYPD needs some crowd control flamethrowers. The stench of burning hippies would be awful but, the price has to be paid. On another note, this cop needs to sue these people, their groups and anyone tied to them for every cent they have. They should also be in jail for attempted murder.
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One thing is certain - you can bet that the rollcall brief for each subsequent shift of cops going out will include the hardcore details of this attack. I do not think the NYPD will be as accommodating anymore. They don't take kindly to having one of their own beaten. And they can tell which "protesters" are just cannon fodder and which are the instigators. Shit will fly from here on out.
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Behold, the true face of the Democratic Party. Filthy bastards, all of them, and not the slightest bit of difference between these animals and Terry McAuliffe-- or John Kerry.
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That would be wrong .com. Each day is a new beginning.
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In your dreams, Ship. Fuck with the cops, reap the baton - or worse. And, BTW, I'm definitely on the cops' side. These subtrolls are nothing but anarchists. Fug'em.
... Candidate Kerry, who after flailing about in the tides of Nantucket on Sunday quickly returned to his home, was on the phone for much of Monday attempting to shore up support and encourage surrogate attacks against his opponent on a day that showed support for him crumbling around the edges in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Ohio, all states that Kerry led in by as many as seven percentage points just two weeks ago.
"This has been just a brutal two weeks for him," says another Kerry adviser. "He had people telling him the Swift Boat ads weren't going to take because the media was going to ignore them. There are senior people around Kerry who were buying into all the press clippings that this was our campaign to lose. Well those people aren't going to be around after Labor Day. Heads have to roll over what has happened. Kerry has not been well served. And Kerry has not served the Democratic Party well, either. This has to be hugely disappointing."
The advisers pointed to further evidence that the campaign was losing focus last week. On Friday and Saturday, considered the last official days of campaigning before the Kerry campaign slowed down for the GOP convention week, Kerry had events in Washington state.
During what was supposed to be a public forum in Everett, Kerry spoke for almost an hour before the audience could participate.
"He lost the audience a half hour into the event," says a Democratic National Committee staffer who observed it. "It was miserable. Like the old Kerry we saw as a loser during the primary season."
A similar scene played out the next day in Tacoma, where it appeared Kerry was attempting to kill his audience. Literally. At least five attendees to the rally required medical attention during Kerry's 45-minute speech.
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At least five attendees to the rally required medical attention during Kerry's 45-minute speech.
Send him to speak to the "militants" in Iraq; we'd have the violence problem solved in no time. :-p
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The Donks are only now beginning to realize this?
Hell people here on Rantburg have known this 6 months.
Mary Beth keeps sending me mail, why I don't know. I thought I'd share.
Dear Steve,
We're closing in on one of the most important deadlines of this presidential election year. Tonight at midnight, the Democratic Party will reach its critical August fundraising deadline. Every dollar you contribute today will be matched by a group of dedicated Democrats. This program was only supposed to match $2 million in contributions -- but these supporters have upped their challenge, and now will match EVERY dollar that you contribute before midnight tonight. Make your contribution today and double your impact:
https://www.democrats.org/support/kerry.html
A year ago, nobody thought that you could beat George Bush's fundraising machine. Yet through your contributions, our campaign was able to outraise George Bush every month from March through July. Now you have a chance to make history again and help the Democratic Party out raise the Republican Party.
Never has it been more important that we stand by John Kerry, John Edwards, and other Democrats locked in tough must-win races. Your matched contributions will fund the most comprehensive field program in the history of modern politics and deliver the message that a stronger America begins at home. During this week, the Republican Party will try and put their spin on what amounts to a steady record of Missions Not Accomplished.
Drug companies count their billions while seniors count the number of pills they can afford. Halliburton counts its billions while our troops count the number of soldiers in their unit without body armor. The Saudis count their billions while we count the rising cost of gasoline. The friends of George Bush and Dick Cheney count their tax refunds while the average American counts the days until the next paycheck.
America can do better, and you can help. Please make a contribution today:
https://www.democrats.org/support/kerry.html
Sincerely,
Mary Beth Cahill
Campaign Manager
Kerry-Edwards 2004
You're right about one thing Mary Beth, America can do better than Johnny Kambodia.
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I thought he couldn't accept contributions after the Dem convention. Wasn't that the reason he proposed not accepting the nomination at the convention, but later?
Doesn't matter, of course. The rules never apply to the Dems.
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Drug companies count their billions while seniors count the number of pills they can afford. Halliburton counts its billions while our troops count the number of soldiers in their unit without body armor. The Saudis count their billions while we count the rising cost of gasoline. The friends of George Bush and Dick Cheney count their tax refunds while the average American counts the days until the next paycheck.
The genuinely scary thing is, most of the people she's appealing to really buy these lies. All the more reason to cast your vote for W and send Mary Beth into a tizzy.
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Halliburton counts its billions while our troops count the number of soldiers in their unit without body armor.
Body armor that Kerry voted against buying.
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Dear Mary Beth Cahill:
Bite me. I was a Democrat for 31 years. Now I'm not. You ought to ask yourself why. You also ought to ask yourself what the fuck you could possibly have been thinking when you nominated John F'ing Kerry-- of all people-- as your candidate for president, and told him to run as-- of all things-- a "war hero."
You people are out of your rabid-assed minds.
Sincerely,
Dave D.
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08/31/2004 22:00 Comments ||
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Dang, Dave D. Don't hold back. Tell her how you really feel! ;-)
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....while Mary Beth counts her last hours as the Kerry-Edwards campaign manager. Darn it. Reminds of something an 82d Airborne Colonel said, " don't kill that one, they may replace him with someone who can shoot straight."
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I think Bill and Hillary set this whole thing up so the entire left wing of the Democratic Party will crash and burn-- and then they and their DLC gang can pick up the pieces four years from now.
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Halliburton counts its billions while our troops count the number of soldiers in their unit without body armor. I wonder how many units of our military she has contacted. What count did she end up with?
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I think that this is a stupid stunt, and am glad that the National GOP was not behind it. I know the joke was aimed at Kerry, but it cheapens the Purple Hearts of everyone else.
Okay, I'll get down off my high horse now.
TGA wrote: "What's next? Kerry condoms with a Silver Star?"
I'll admit that nailing Terayzuh is "hard" duty, but that's a little harsh.
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I know the joke was aimed at Kerry, but it cheapens the Purple Hearts of everyone else.
Not necessarily. Those Vietnam vets whose decorations were not awarded for injuries of questionable caliber have nothing to be ashamed of.
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I know the joke was aimed at Kerry, but it cheapens the Purple Hearts of everyone else.
How? They didn't get theirs for a band-aid wound.
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B-a-r -- Wounded vets have nothing to be ashamed of, but putting the image of the Purple Heart on a band-aid cheapens the award. I would have no objection to a guy wearing 3 band-aids in strategic locations (i.e., where Kerry was wounded) and saying "Here's PH #1, here's PH #2, etc." That attack on Kerry would be more effective in my book.
RC -- I'm sure some others got PHs for band-aid wounds and others did not get them when they were well deserved.
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"It is almost surreal to learn the extent to which I was followed by the FBI," Kerry said in a written statement Monday.
Yes.... the FBI has a particularly nasty habit of following people who have met with foreign enemy agents and are active members of an anti-american (pro-communist) organization (VVAW).....
You can't make this up.... I dont think this was intended to mock Kerry's service -- just his insistance on reciving a purple heart for a minor superficial wound.
A GOP delegate handed out bandages with purple hearts on them Monday night at the Republican National Convention in a swipe at Democratic nominee John Kerry's war record, but national GOP officials have asked him to stop. The bandages were handed out by Morton Blackwell, a longtime GOP activist from Virginia, with the message: "It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it."
"It is inexcusable for a delegate to mock anyone who has ever put on a soldier's uniform," whined said Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe on his way to another bush-mocking party. "It is inexcusable to mock service and sacrifice." Blackwell, who gave out almost 250 of the bandages, said Vietnam veterans have every right to be angry about anti-war comments Kerry made after returning to this country. GOP Chairman Ed Gillespie spoke to Blackwell and they agreed that he would not distribute the bandages Tuesday night," said Republican spokesman Jim Dyke. "This was not a party activity, but he was acting as an individual."
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Ya let's see McAuliffe what did you do in the war?
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Letâs see here. Kerry mocks the Medal by asking for one (or three) that should not be awarded. Delegates Mock Kerry for his Band Aid quality wounds with Purple Heart Band Aids. So who is mocking whom? The DNC needs a thicker skin if they are going to make it over the next two months. As a Vet I am insulted by all the mock patriotism and caring for veterans on the part of the DNC. Reminds me of a liberal co-worker telling me how I should act during lent because I am Catholic. The band aids are mocking of Kerry and NOBODY else, to suggest otherwise is disingenuous.
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It's the classic slow death of a thousand little cuts.
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It's the classic slow death of a thousand little cuts.
With a Band-Aid and a dab of Neosporin for each one.
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I guess a little faux pas at the convention is to be expected. Does everybody know that at the 2000 Democratic Natyional Convention in NYC a group of delegates honored our country by spitting on Old Glory and the color guard from the New York State police?
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'Member how sKerry's people were talking about the 'shrapnel he carries in his leg'? Anyone RBer have any idea what they refer too? Is it non-metallic (i.e. a rice kernel)?
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TU, kind of eliminates the premise of Hogan's Heros.
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Take a look at the requirements for receiving a purples heart. You can find them at www.purpleheart.org. It refers to the laws regarding this award and explains, in quite simple terms, just what sorts of wounds qualify for the honor, and every one of Kerry's injuries qualifies.
So don't tell me that you're not insulting everyone who ever won a purple heart by wearing these GOP Band-Aids.
John Kerry bled for our country, which is more than you can say for Bush, Cheney or any number of other members of the current administration.
I like the old saw about how there are three varieties of falsehoods: lies, damned lies and statistics.
That needs to be amended. There are lies, damned lies, statistics and, the worst of all, Republican lies.
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Uh, news"king", according to 254 of Kerry's "band of brothers" who served by his side in Vietnam, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Kerry did not get injured from enemy fire in combat but rather suffered scratches from the misuse of his own weapon then wrote himself up for the Purple Hearts.
Not exactly "bleeding for one's country."
The Swift Veterans aren't connected with the GOP Bush campaign, they just stake their own reputations and good name on the fact that Kerry lied about his 4 months of service in Vietnam, that he got his medals fraudulently (including the Silver Star with a "V" which is NEVER given) and they strongly object to his portrayal of all of our soldiers as "war criminals" when he presented SWORN testimony to Congress in 1971.
BTW, President Bush's 6 years' of service to the National Guard beats out Kerry's 4-month stint in Vietnam by a long shot.
Both Bush and Kerry served their country.
And there's plenty of evidence that Kerry held secret meetings with the North Vietnamese in Paris while he was still a commissioned officer of the U.S. Navy.
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Hmm, 'jen,' that "served by his side" is a little problematic, I fear. How many of those 254 actually saw him while they were both in the field? The ones who actually did serve by his side seem to take his side in this brouhaha. Take a look at what William Rood, the ChiTrib editor who was one of the two other skippers serving with Kerry when he got the Silver Star, has to say about that particular issue. Then look at what the widow of the other skipper, Donald Droz, recalls that her husband (KIA six months after the Silver Star was given) told her while he was on leave in Pearl. They both thought highly of Kerry.
Then look at Kerry's actual dates of service. It isn't just a 4-month stint, as you say. He enlisted in Feb. 1966, reported for OCS in Aug. 1966, reported to the USS Gridley the next summer and was deployed to the Gulf of Tonkin and other coastal areas of Vietnam in Feb. 1968. While there he requested a transfer to the Swift Boats, and got his command in November of 1968.
Add up all the days that Bush had duty in the National Guard (I'll even give you those days when he was supposed to be attached to the Air Guard in Alabama), and Kerry still put on the uniform more often tha Bush did.
One more thing, please go to www.purpleheart.org and look up the requirements for granting a purple heart, like I suggested. You'll find that every one of Kerry's wounds qualified, even if we assume that one of them was the result of some misfire of his own weapon (self-inflicted wounds DO qualify when in the heat of battle)
For my own part, I'll go look up Kerry's testimony before Congress to see if he did indeed portray ALL of our soldiers as war criminals. If he did, he was wrong and I'll be glad to concede that point.
There are plenty of reasons to oppose Kerry on Nov. 2. His service to our country in Vietnam isn't one of them.
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Also, he commends the President's calmness under fire in the days following 9/11, says W's leadership was steady. This comes from someone who was Eyeball-to-eyeball with the situation. This is a plum, though not unexpected endorsement.
He will talk before the RNC before GWB speaks on Thurs.
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The ad I would like to see would summarize those false and fantastic claims admitted to by Kerry's campaign and then end with this: Kerry told the Boston Globe May 18,1996: "If you wind up being less than what you're pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you .... When you are the chief of them all, it has to weigh even more heavily."
Verbal Judo is a bitch.
I want to thank the President and the Republican Party for holding this event in my hometown, my father's hometown, my grandfather's and great grandfather's birthplace.
Just over 1,000 days ago, 2,605 of my neighbors were murdered at the World Trade Center -- men, women and children -- as they began their day on a brilliantly clear New York autumn morning, less than four miles from where I am now standing. We will never forgive. Never forget. Never excuse!
At the end of World War II, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander of the South Pacific, said: "It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice." The hope he expressed then remains relevant today.
We are again engaged in a war that will define the future of humankind. Responding to attacks on our soil, America has led a coalition of countries against extremists who want to destroy our way of life and our values.
This is a war we did not seek.
This is a war waged against us.
This is a war to which we had to respond.
History shows that we are not imperialists . . .
but we are fighters for freedom and democracy.
Even though I am a well-recognized liberal on many issues confronting our society today, I find it ironic that many human rights advocates and outspoken members of my own entertainment community are often on the front lines to protest repression, for which I applaud them but they are usually the first ones to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they catalogue repeatedly. Under the unwavering leadership of President Bush, the cause of freedom and democracy is being advanced by the courageous men and women serving in our Armed Services. The President is doing exactly the right thing. That is why we need this President at this time!
I am grateful for the chance to speak tonight to express my support for our Commander-in-Chief, for our brave troops, and for the vital cause which they have undertaken. General Dwight Eisenhower's statement of 60 years ago is true today . . . "United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory." Thank you.
No, thank you, Mr. Silver
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Nice to see this, but its to bad he is a "C" list guy. The only thing I can think of he was in was that crappy Jaime Lee Curtis movie from about 15 years ago. Was the name Blue Steel?.
The GOP needs to start wheeling out the "A" list, if there are any.
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JM: Nice to see this, but its to bad he is a "C" list guy.
Ron Silver is one of the few Hollywood celebs who can string two sentences together without a script. He has featured prominently in Democratic National Conventions of the past because of that ability. (Putting airheads like Tom Cruise or Robert Redford on the podium does the Democratic Party no favors).
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He has featured prominently in Democratic National Conventions of the past because of that ability.
That makes two former speakers at Donk conventions speaking at the RNC.
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He may have been âCâ list, but with half of the country sickened by the Holywood celeb culture, he just boosted his popularity and name recognition to the âBâ list.
The booing of the Kerry girls represents a watershed IMHO. It signals a clear end to the Demâs owning of the youth vote
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Ron Silver is a 9/11 Democrat, representing the Entertainment Industry wing. (You might remember him most recently from the Fox Series "Skin", as Angelo Dundee in "Ali", or as JerseyMike recalls, as Eugene Hunt in "Blue Steel".)
He's also the guy who back at Clinton's 1993 inauguration turned to a neighbor disgusted by a military flyover and said "Yeah, but now they're Our jets."
He's definitely a guy who realizes that we can argue about marginal tax rates and the like once the war is won.
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She's a knockout, which will draw the male vote, but she is a liability, too. She has marketed herself as being dumb as a brick-that is only fodder for the "Bush is stupid" crowd.
(2004-08-30) -- Democrat presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry today demanded an apology from First Lady Laura Bush for remarks that implied support for TV ads by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth which are critical of Mr. Kerry's 1971 'atrocity' testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"In a word, Laura Bush is opinionated," said Mr. Kerry. "And I don't think America wants a First Lady who shoots from the hip, speaks her mind and essentially tells the world to shove it."
Mr. Kerry, a Vietnam veteran and distinguished anti-war protestor who is also a U.S. Senator, said he was "emotionally devastated" by Mrs. Bush's comment and called on President George Bush to "stop hiding behind surrogates and right wing attack dogs."
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I'm relieved. For weeks now I've been looking at Rantburg topics thinking "must be ScrappleFace" only to find that reality is past satire. Glad to see some plain old satire. Until Kerry launches an attack on Laura Bush, that is.
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Just the opposite here. I thought it was real until I saw the Scrappleface tag. We are living in interesting times.
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This time, I was actually surprised when I saw it was from Scrappleface; as a news item, it would have been quite in line with reality.
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So, anyone heard any words from Teresa Heinz Kerry, or did they finally get the custom muzzle to fit right? I have not heard a word from her in weeks.
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Iran's moral crackdown has widened its focus from stylishly dressed women to curvaceous shop-window mannequins, a newspaper has reported. Morals police have banned shopkeepers from showing unveiled dummies and lingerie in their windows. And men were now forbidden to sell women's underwear, Sharq newspaper said on Tuesday.
"They can't be trusted, y'know..."
"Using unveiled mannequins that reveal their bodies' curves is banned," it quoted part of a new police manual as saying.
"None o' them plastic titties for us!"
Shops breaking the rules risk closure and losing their trading licences. Lawmakers are debating an Iranian dress code, advocated last month by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is a nut called for a national costume that avoided European models. "A national costume will be designed for men and women based on Islamic and national criteria," conservative deputy Fatemeh Alia was quoted as saying in the Siyasat-e Rouz daily.
Justice Bashir A Mujahid of the Lahore High Court granted interim bail to a woman named Nasim Akhtar who married of her own choice but was booked in a Hudood case. The court directed her to approach the trial court for confirmation of the bail. Nasim, through her counsel Faisal Malik, said her first husband had divorced her and she and her four children lived with her brothers Iqbal and Ramzan. The latter was a former Punjab Assembly member from Kalur Kot. She said her brothers mistreated her and she married Liaqat for the sake of her children's future. Nasim said her brothers disapproved of the marriage and lodged a Hudood case against her with Jandanwala police.
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Karachi City Nazim Naimatullah Khan has banned schoolchildren's participation in musical and dance programmes, according to a news channel on Tuesday. "We are Muslims and it is against Islamic culture that our children participate in musical and dance programs," Mr Khan told the TV channel. He said that he had directed all schools under the district government to ban their students from participating in such programmes. "Any violation of these orders will not be tolerated," he added.
"And don't let me catch any of you little brats smiling, either!"
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"Islamic Tightasses" for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS, Alex!
...I spent the concert with two English girls. They weren't so familiar with his music. But they were really impressed with the atmosphere of the concert. One of the girls told me: "The atmosphere here is so warm. This is so different than concerts in England. Everyone is so cold."
It is difficult to explain this feeling. I think it has to do with the middle-eastern, Sephardic culture, where everyone's troubles are your own (almost like the Cheers anthem
[I think she means the TV show theme song])
and most people share certain basic values...
....[this is from Aug 30]
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Cheers
Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson, etc, etc on the other side
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You know, the Olympics just aren't the same since the Cold War is over. I just can't generate any real interest in it. It was alot more fun when you were hoping that the American and Allies amatuer athletes would be the state supported Soviet profesionals.
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silentbrick: It was alot more fun when you were hoping that the American and Allies amatuer athletes would be the state supported Soviet profesionals.
Actually, the Chinese athletes are state-supported professionals. It should be interesting to see if they can replicate the Soviet sports machine.
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.
