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Oh, I forgot to mention in my roundup of barking moonbat fascist retards from earlier in the weekend... there are those who maintain that you can fly a thin-skinned aluminum airplane into a limestone-and-concrete building at hundreds of miles an hour and expect there to be an intact fuselage lying somewhere around the building.
I don't know if they're really that stupid or if they just think the rest of us are really that stupid.
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"It was the Jews! The Zionist jews flew a fighter with a missles into US airspace and attacked the pentagon. It's all part of the plot to take over the world! Jews! Jews! Jews! Muwwhahahaha!"
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Tell you what - lets get this guy come visit the Pentagon with me - or some places in North Carolina around JSOC & USSOC. I got a few guys he needs to talk with - guys who knew people that died there, and saw the damage first hand. I'd like to have him explain this bilge to them.
The Federal Communications Commission is set to impose a record $550,000 (310,000 pounds) indecency fine against CBS-owned stations for their broadcast of singer Janet Jackson's breast-bearing incident during January's Super Bowl, the Washington Post reports. Imagine the cost for two boobs
The newspaper report, which cited unnamed FCC sources, said on Saturday the agency was expected to vote unanimously for the fine, which would be the largest levied against a television broadcaster. The amount represents a $27,500 fine for each of the 20 television stations owned by CBS, which in turn is owned by Viacom Inc, the paper said. The decision could be released as early as next week, the paper said. Excluded from the fines are CBS's more than 200 affiliate stations, which also aired the half-time show during the National Football League championship game. Although the vote was expected to be unanimous, some commissioners are expected to say the fines are not severe enough, the newspaper said. It said the exclusion for affiliate stations was one source of disagreement among the five-member FCC, citing unnamed sources familiar with the agency's deliberations. A spokesman for the FCC would not comment on the pending ruling, the paper said.
"We would be extremely disappointed," CBS said in a statement issued to the newspaper. "While we regret that the incident occurred, and have apologised to our viewers, we continue to believe that nothing in the Super Bowl broadcast violated indecency laws."
Sadly, we don't have any laws about taste. But I think that's what they're being fined for lacking...
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Must mean that crotch grabbing and single sex open mouth lip locking 'singers' are acceptable during major media events like the Super Bowl and glamore award programs. Don't recall any fines for similar brain malfunctions.
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This fine is just stupid. Without a freeze-frame blowup (as Drudge did) there was very little if anything to see. If there wasn't a big media stink over it most people wouldn't have noticed.
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correction: if it hadn't happened during the halftime show of the friggin Super Bowl nobody would've noticed or cared
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09/05/2004 10:13 Comments ||
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I kinda miss the marching bands and pom-pom girlies...
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09/05/2004 10:32 Comments ||
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The Federal Communications Commission is set to impose a record $550,000 (310,000 pounds) indecency fine against CBS-owned stations for their broadcast of singer Janet Jacksonâs breast-bearing incident during Januaryâs Super Bowl
CBS could probably beat this on appeal, but if they don't $500,000 is chump chainge for CBS: It's Dan Rathers booze/hookers budget for the year.
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If Janet had flashed her whole boob,
CBS would be fined off the tube,
but CBS is okay,
as the stunt fades away,
'cause Rather's the boob on their tube.
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Thanks Hon! Thanks Karl! It worked! MommaT didn't have a chance.
Around 1,000 ultra-nationalist Turks protested outside the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Church here Sunday, Turkish media reported, accusing it of interfering in Turkey's political affairs. The protesters, called out by the youth movement of the Party for Nationalist Action (MHP), hurled stones at riot police before being subdued by tear gas and truncheons. Pictures showed the protesters burning an effigy of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, head of the northern Greek Orthodox church, and hanging him from a tree. The Istanbul patriarchate, the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Church is the last vestige of the medieval Byzantine empire which modern Greeks still revere. The patriarchate has been pressuring Ankara for years to reopen a century-old seminary on the island of Heybeliada (Halki in Greek) off Istanbul, which was closed in 1971 during Greek-Turk tensions over Cyprus. The European Union, critical of Turkey for failing to ensure the religious freedoms of non-Muslim minorities, is closely watching how Ankara is handling the requests for the reopening of the school. The United States also supports the school's reopening. A spokesman for the protesters said that Turkey had given in to the European Union and the United States over the patriarchate. The Turkish government, keen to increase its prospects for joining the EU, has made it clear in the last year that it is considering reopening the religious school.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged women's groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which Turkey aspires to join.
"It's an old European tradition, dammit!"
In an interview published on Saturday in the Sabah newspaper, Erdogan said the plans were aimed at buttressing the family, and that Turkey must not always blindly imitate Europe. "The family is a sacred institution for us. The stronger the family, the stronger the country. If the family is weakened, that country is doomed to destruction," said Erdogan, a pious Muslim whose party has roots in political Islam.
"If we can't stone an occasional adultress, why, our society will just fall apart!"
He vowed that any new law would respect privacy and would be applied only if either the wife or the husband lodged a formal complaint. No third party would be able to invoke the law. Turkish newspapers and women's groups have criticised the plan, saying it pushes Turkey away from European norms and closer to the Islamic model of states such as Saudi Arabia, where adulterers are put to death.
Actually, that's usually adultresses.
On Saturday Turkish media quoted EU enlargement spokesman Jean-Christophe Filori in Brussels as saying the plan "could make Turkey look backward and stoopid harm Turkey's image" and cast a shadow over its EU bid. The European Commission is due to publish a progress report in October on Turkey's reforms that will form the basis of a decision in December by the 25 EU member states on whether to open long-delayed entry talks. "The West is not perfect," Erdogan said. "If we took it as a model of perfection in everything, we would have to deny ourselves and would perish." Turkish media have interpreted the plans as a nod by Erdogan's (AKP) towards its conservative and often religious electorate.
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"The family is a sacred institution for us..."
Of course-and adultery is the way to demonstrate your good faith with that, right?
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The EU was starting to take a look at Turkey's bulging file application again for the EU, with the promise of maybe getting in in a decade (more like stringing the Turks along). Now the Turks made this unattainable goal the possibility pretty remote.
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Yup, Alaska Paul, this oughta scoot 'em straight into the old EU.
EFL
In 2003, Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie scored big with an exhibition of East German art, attracting 220,000 visitors. So when an exhibition of 200 pieces from New York's Museum of Modern Art opened in February this year, half a million visitors was thought to be the required minimum, 700,000 a "sensation." This week, attendance figures had reached one million. When MoMA-Berlin closes its doors Sept. 19, the total will probably have reached 1.2 million. To accommodate crowds still to come, the museum has again extended visiting hours. Still, the wait is lengthy. The Berlin Tagesspiegel calculated that until early August, people had spent 446 years waiting in line. The paper pegs the individual record at nine hours. The fans bring rubber mats, thermos bottles and sleeping bags; some show up as early as 3 a.m. The paper notes that nobody has given birth in line, nor has anybody died. But once every day, an ambulance shows up...
Might there be a moral to this tale of "two" exhibits, with one stirring the fascination of the Great Unwashed, and the other, as seen by the commenting class, disclosing yet another proof of American perfidy? The moral may well be a tale of two Europes. Those who flock to MoMA-Berlin with sleeping bag and thermos in hand are mesmerized by all things American, whether highbrow or low. The other Europe, as represented by the critics cited here, resents America precisely because it is so seductive. It is hard enough to live with a giant that spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined and unleashes its might on places like Afghanistan and Iraq. It grates even more to see this Gulliver Unbound dominate European culture from McDonald's to MoMA. The fear and loathing of America will outlive President George W. Bush. Guess which Europe this clown lives in. Josef Joffe is publisher and editor of the German weekly Die Zeit.
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It is hard enough to live with a giant that spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined and unleashes its might on places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
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"unleashes its might on places like Afghanistan and Iraq..."
Well, no, if we had unleashed even one of our missile submarines both those places would be radioactive holes in the ground instead of infant democracies.
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I say! Perfidy! Do tell, you pompous windbag, you!
Hat tip to Hindrocket @ Power Line
Interview with Steve Malzberg of NewsMax.com
Sen. John Kerry's campaign biographer Douglas Brinkley said Sunday that if an ongoing Navy investigation into Kerry's military decorations turns up evidence of "purposeful" deception, it could spell doom for the top Democrat's White House bid.
Praising reporter Thomas Lipscomb, who broke news of the Navy investigation on Friday, Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, "Journalists are going to have to see whether there's a discrepancy on [the citations posted to Kerry's] Web site - whether there's something wrong that's said there or not. If so,....Kerry would have to fix it immediately - and it does raise some questions as to why that would happen. Is it sloppiness, is it purposeful intent, is there an easy explanation for it?" Brinkley, "Tour of Duty" author,wondered. Doug don't hold your breath waiting for the partisan media to look for something wrong with their candidate.
He said that while questions raised by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about Kerry's war record have been very damaging, "so far they haven't been lethal." But Brinkley predicted that a discrepancy with Kerry's medals could seriously escalate his political problems.
Asked if inconsistencies uncovered by the Navy probe could be the "death knell" for Kerry's campaign, Brinkley told Malzberg, "It could." In the next breath he hastened to add, however: "Right now it's unclear. So we have to just wait to see what all this adds up to." (Sidles off to stage right.)
The presidential historian called on Kerry to authorize the release of his full military file, saying, "Clearly some of these military records should be made available to the press."
Problem is that only some of the records have been made available. Carefully selected to put Kerry in the best possible light.
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The fact that his "official biographer" is open to the idea that something is amiss means something must have reach a pretty high level. He knows more than he is saying. I think this might be a smoking gun that'll put a vice on the Dems.
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Brinkley has been "in" on the game from the beginning. I'm sure that he's as unhappy as he can be that anyone who has access to the data, full access like HE has had for along long time now, is going to look into Skeery's records - especially if a neutral party which can't be coerced.
Brinkley's reputation is shit if this turns out badly for Skeery - he's had the whole show, all of Skeery's records, in his lap for over 2 years (???) in order to do the jerk-off faux love-in biography of Sentor Traitor.
I'd bet he'd love to strangle the SBVT men, Lipscomb, half a dozen Pub strategists, and the entire Pentagon records dept right about now - or disappear into a cave. If Skeery falls, Brinkley falls.
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It's a bit dated, but here's a little background on our esteemed historian.
http://slate.msn.com/id/32362/
He sounds like a beautiful people groupie who thought his ship (or swift boat) came in when he latched onto Kerry. Looks like your ship is taking on water, bub. And lots of it.
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. . .Democrats claim Bush's bounce in polls will fade. Madame Zorba and her crystal ball down on Westminster Blvd, in Garden Grove had a secret meeting with Carville.
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They vowed a nonstop, two-month offensive to make up for any lost ground as Kerry made personnel changes at the top of his campaign for the final sprint to Election Day.
Jeez, hope that don't fuck up his windsurfing schedule.
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There are more SBVT torpedoes ahead. Kerry's Service Record, posted on his web site show his status as active in Naval Reserve. During which time, he had three unauthorized meetings with the Viet Cong leadership in Paris, conducted antiwar activities, and testified in Congress.
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09/05/2004 20:17 Comments ||
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Damn you, people! Haven't you heard! Bill Clinton's in the hospital! He may need heart surgery! This planet has ceased to spin until THAT situation has been resolved, as far as we're concerned!
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All of these charges are comiing so fast an furious that Kerry may be forced to withdraw. The closer that happens before the election, the more "interesting" it becomes. That is because of the fact that each state prints ballots with the candidates names on individual schedules. The later the withdrawal, the more the confusion because more ballots cannot be changed. I can just see the DNC using some of Kerry's allottable campaign $ to try to explain the electoral college, and why their folks have to vote for "Kerry" even though he isn't running anymore.
It reminds me of the Sheriff election here in Los Angeles County CA in 2000 where the incumbent died two days before the election, and the county board of supervisors actually encouraged a vote for a dead man, because they felt they could choose a better replacement than the challenger.
Lee Baca was elected anyway, and is supporting President Bush, by the way. . .
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The document at the website does show a relese to "Inactive Duty" and "into the Naval Reserve"
If he was truly inactive in the Navy equivalent to the "Individual Ready Reserve", its plausible that Kerry may not have had any drill requirements.
I want to see more info before I made a decision on this. Hard evidence. Kerry should sign his SF180 and simply end all this crap.
However it does raise issues about his actions protesting, and visiting Paris while still holding a Reserve Naval Officer's comission. That oath to "Uphold and Defend" doesnt go away.
There is no question in my mind Kerry is a line-crosser. The question is what is the government going to do about it?
BidEd:
Were Kerry to drop out before November, he spares his party the embarassment of a super-landslide in November. The downside for the left is the election is Bush's. Bush can't claim a mandate, the left will argue, and we will have more of the same from the left as in the last four years.
And as someone pointed out yesterday: this ain't New Jersey. You can't just quit and expect a replacement to come in in the spur of the moment.
I can see how Kerry would want to quit early if the heat from his past gets too great. And I can see a court-induced attempt by the left to supplant Kerry's candidacy with some other candidate; but the left still has to blow this one by the supremes. I doubt they will go for it.
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If Kerry gets into deep doo-doo and withdraws (remote chance, IMHO) the replacement at the last minute will make the dems look like total asses and Bush can run on his record and on the fact that the Dems cannot get their manure together to even run a viable candidate. I think that Kerry will run this mule until it drops. Remember that this is his obsessive life's ambition. And I do not think that he will lose gracefully, like Nixon did when he was beaten by JFKennedy.
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If Kerry were to drop, the Donks would have to meet the ballot requirements in each of the 50 states for a replacement candidate. The Federal govt and the Supreme Court would not be involved (at least initially), because getting on the ballot is a state affair, not a federal one. For some states, the Toricelli option would be easy -- Kerry officially drops, and the state Dems select the new candidate (whoever the national party tells them to list). In other states it would be more difficult.
But always remember: being on the ballot is a matter for the states, not the feds, to decide.
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09/05/2004 22:29 Comments ||
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I saw this notion on another site and thought it worth a speculation or two. The two years in question could be clarified if Kerry would release all his records. He won't because...
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I'm pretty sure a court martial would have been BIG news back in the day. Remember, Kerry was a big cheese in the anti-American, er, anti-War movement, and if the military had tried to hold him accountable for his crimes, he would have run to the press ASAP.
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09/05/2004 22:40 Comments ||
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Two kinds of Courts Martial, Summary and General.
If offered a Summary Courts Martial for a lesser charge, much like a plea bargain, versus a General Courts Martial when the Mil Prosecutor wasn't totally certain of his case, or just the case load, that could account for the lack of publicity / common knowledge.
I personally know of a guy who was charged with a crime regarding [*deleted*] - and they offered him a Summary and it was sealed. He was given a General Discharge, however - that's pretty common in the plea deals. Kerry got an Honorable - his DD-214 is out there.
I dunno, just thinking out loud and recalling the tenure of the times.
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Someone would have come forward with that info by now (about a courts martial). Same thing if Bush had been punished. Too many clerks, lawyers, admin people to keep something like this quiet. BTW it's my understanding that officer can't have a summary courts martial. They have to go to a general or a special courts martial. Summary is just for elisted folks.
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It is my understanding (I was not in the military so I cannot testify to this) Kerry was moved to 'Inactive' but not standby. This is from 'Unfit for Command':
3 Jan 1970 - Released from Active Duty, transferred to Naval Reserve (inactive)
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Not exactly true,CS. Remember the LTC who scared the shit out of Iraqi policeman for complicity in a planned ambush of the Col's men? He received a fine, of I believe, one month's pay by summary judgement from his Commanding General. Here's the relative authority under the UCMJ: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm#SUBCHAPTER%20III.%20NON-JUDICIAL%20PUNISHMENT
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The ONLY thing Kerry can do now to save his campaign:
1) Sign the SF180, release the records.
2) Admit he made mistakes as a youth, and apologize for them.
3) Stop going after Bush and the Guard.
4) Retune the campaign: "We are looking to the Future" (with an unspoken "forget about the past") - the press will help here with the "New Tone" liberal conflatulent praise.
5) Actually put forth specific policies that could win people over from Bush's policies domestically - and completely ignore the current economic activity (the press will help him a lot here).
6) Be who he is: the Peace candidate - couch it in terms along the lines: to hell with the rest of the world, lets take care of America - let the Europeans deal with the crap they've allowed to fester by not helping us. Promise trade protection for "manufacturing and American jobs".
The "anybody but Bush" crowd will not go over to Bush, Nader will be irrelevant due to the "Peace" angle, and Buchannonites will be attracted from Bush to the Isolationist/protectionist stance
The current path has him impaling himself on the Vietnam stuff - which draws attention more and more to the War on Terror - which helps Bush a ton. It also encourages peopel to look back - which is something you do NOT want to do if you are Kerry with that voting record behind you.
He has to break away, get out on the lifeboat or he will be going down with the ship before he gets ashore.
I doubt it would win the election for him - but its the only way out that I see for him.
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I think she was nauseated by listening to JF'nK rehearse his speeches.....I know I am..
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09/05/2004 22:06 Comments ||
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Drudge is reporting that Clinton called Kerry from his hospital bed and told him to quit talking about Vietnam. Fat change. Like stopping the rain from falling.
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Hell, this is only a VERY partial list. I see nothing in here about the "Bush lied about WMD" nonsense, or the "Bush ignored the August 6th, 2001 memo" crap, or the "Bush wanted to ignore Afghanistan after 9/11 and invade Iraq instead" bullshit, or the Democrats' incessant wailing about "the worst economy since the Great Depression," or about Senator Tom Dasshole and his always being "saddened, deeply saddened" about something or other Bush did since he took office.
Screw these idiots. I don't know which I detest more these days: Muslims, or Democrats.
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I thought of it as ammo. Add to the dump - which ever one you prefer.
Severaly truncated...
The Konclusion The report from the Senate Intelligence Committee didn't help Kerry either. Whatever one thinks of the report in its entirety, its specific findings helped Bush politically by pouring cold water on the Bush-lied myth. It exposed Joe Wilson as a fraud, found that Iraq had actually increased its anti-U.S. terror planning in 2002, and provided a detailed account of how the intelligence community had reached its consensus that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Kerry's own history on Iraq also complicates his making the case that Bush lied. It's tempting, but we won't return here to the list of hawkish Kerry statements on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. What we can say is this: From 1996 through the Iraq war last year, John Kerry regularly advocated the use of force, unilaterally if necessary, to remove the Iraqi dictator. He did so before the Bush administration even began to make its case for war. He was such a strong advocate of regime change throughout the late 1990s that Paul Wolfowitz once singled Kerry out by name as a Democrat who understood the Iraqi threat. Those days of consistency disappeared, however, with the election of George W. Bush.
And Kerry's speech last Friday was only the latest example. The content of the speech was reminiscent of Al Gore's recent vein-popping rants, although Kerry wasn't as wild-eyed in his delivery. "The truth is, when it comes to Iraq, it's not that I would have done one thing differently," he said. "I would've done almost everything differently."
Everything, that is, other than change his vote. John Kerry says he was misled into an unnecessary war. He also says he'd vote for it all over again.
Somewhere Karl Rove is smiling.
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John Kerry says he was misled into an unnecessary war. He also says heâd vote for it all over again.
Two possible bumper stickers;
- Vote for Kerry He's Easily Fooled
- Kerry: Fool him once, shame on you; fool him twice -- yeah that's OK too.
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"According to a self-styled group of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, many of whom served in Vietnam during the same period..."
Of course the eye witnesses in Unfit for Command deserve no less than to be called "self-styled". What a bunch of BS. The truth is hard to admit. I read Klein In Time calling the Vets "scurillous". WTF...The press is in denial phase. Their hero "with a chestful of medals..(Susan Estrich on Fox earlier this year)", is going down for the count to ignomy. A footnote in time. A man who sold out his ideals for political office by trashing his fellow Vets.
Good bye Hanoi John.
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TRENTON -- Hundreds of New Jersey Transit commuters and international air travelers were exposed to the Trenton man who was killed by a deadly African fever a week ago.
The rarely seen in the U.S. African virus known as Lassa fever is spread through sneezes, spittle and other bodily fluids -- not casual contact -- but the man spent long periods of time confined in self-contained airplane cabins and transit railcars.
State health officials revealed yesterday that the 38-year-old man from Boudinot Street in the western section of the city, known only as Joe, may have infected people on two international flights and an NJ Transit commuter train as he traveled from his native Africa to his Trenton home.
According to state health officials, the man traveled to Liberia and Sierra Leone on business over the past five months. After he became ill from the infection, he decided to return home to Trenton. The man departed Freetown, Sierra Leone, at 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 23, 2004 onboard Astraeus Airlines flight 72 -- a Boeing 737 with as many as 150 people onboard.
Flight 72 arrived three hours and 10 minutes later at London's Gatwick Airport at about 7:45 a.m., local time. Gatwick Airport is the busiest single runway airport in the world, and the sixth-busiest international airport in the world, serving more than 30 million passengers each year.
August is the busiest travel period at the airport. Last year, 134,527 passengers passed through the airport; 80,079 passengers through the South Terminal and 54,178 through the North Terminal, on Aug. 16, according to statistics on the Gatwick Airport website.
The man had a four-hour and 45-minute layover inside Gatwick Airport, where he had to make his way from the South Terminal to the North Terminal to meet his connecting flight.
The man boarded Continental Airlines Flight 29, which departed Gatwick Airport about 12:30 p.m. on Aug. 24 and arrived in Newark, at 3:20 p.m. on the same afternoon.
After collecting his baggage, the man boarded a New Jersey Transit train bound for Trenton sometime between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Aug. 24. After he arrived in Trenton, he traveled straight to his home on Boudinot Street, where his condition deteriorated to the point that he was taken to the emergency room at Capital Health System's Mercer Campus around 10:30 that evening.
"The majority of Lassa fever cases are asymptomatic," explained state health commissioner Dr. Clifton Lacy yesterday in a teleconference with reporters and health officials. "There appears that there are only a few people who are at higher risk for infection."
The Centers for Disease Control is focusing on several groups of people who could have been at risk from exposure to the dead man.
- Those who traveled on the airplanes with the infected man.
- The man's immediate family. He left behind a wife and six children ranging in age from an infant to 18 years old.
- Transit employees or passengers on the NJ Transit train from Newark to Trenton.
- Healthcare professionals at Capital Health System's Mercer Campus.
State health officials will monitor the family and others for fever until Sept. 18.
The CDC was working cooperatively with Continental Airlines yesterday to get a manifest of travelers on the plane from London and to contact the individual travelers most at risk.
"There is no evidence of secondary cases," Lacy said. "But those at high-risk -- including the family -- will be monitored for the 21-day period."
The man's family in Trenton and healthcare professionals could be feeling the effects of the deadly disease as early as this morning. The incubation period for symptoms is usually about 10 days, but can vary between seven to 21 days.
The man died last Saturday.
By Sept. 18, the last of any possibly infected individuals may be determined to be free of the disease -- barring any breakout from an already infected individual.
Lassa fever infects as many as 300,000 people in Liberia each year, and about 5,000 die from the disease there. Lacy says only 1 percent of those infected die from the disease.
The last case of Lassa fever seen in the U.S. was in 1989, and the last reported case in New Jersey was in 1984.
A court in Mashhad on Thursday sentenced two young sisters to lashes, suspended jail terms and fine for not adhering to proper Islamic dress code. Vice squads had arrested the two as a part of a nationwide enforcement campaign. The arrests, jailing and lashes has had a reverse effect, and women no longer care what the government might do, Mashhad-based journalist Ahmad-Reza Shiri tells Radio Farda's broadcaster Farin Asemi. The police have turned their focus on unmarried couples, he adds.
From Compass Direct
In a surprise judicial decision, the Supreme Islamic Court of Jordan has accepted Christian widow Siham Qandah's last possible appeal to disqualify the court-approved Muslim guardian fighting to take custody of her two minor children. Qandah's lawyer was informed on August 20 that the Supreme Islamic Court had accepted his final appeal of a sharia court decision awarding custody of the widow's daughter Rawan, 16, and son Fadi, 14, to Abdullah al-Muhtadi. Although al-Muhtadi is the children's maternal uncle, he has been estranged from the family since his conversion to Islam as a teenager.
The ruling came two months after Amman's Al-Abdali Sharia Court rejected Qandah's lawsuit to cancel Al-Muhtadi's legal guardianship. Despite evidence that the guardian had withdrawn nearly 12,000 Jordanian dinars ($17,650) from the children's U.N.-allocated trust funds, the presiding judge refused to investigate alleged misuse of the children's funds. Reportedly, the new Supreme Court decision has ordered the lower Islamic court handling the case to investigate the guardian's use of these large sums of money, designated for purchasing a refrigerator and paying lawyers' fees for the guardian's four-year court custody battle. ....
Al-Muhtadi was named legal guardian of Qandah's children at her own request in 1995, after an Islamic court produced a so-called "conversion" certificate for her late husband. According to the document, her Christian husband had secretly converted to Islam three years before he died, while serving in the U.N. Peacekeeping Forces in Kosovo. Under Islamic law enforced in Jordan, the father's alleged conversion automatically changed the legal identity of his children to Muslim, so their financial affairs could no longer be handled by their Christian mother. But Al-Muhtadi began to appropriate some of the children's monthly orphan benefits, and then in 1998 he filed a case to take custody of them away from his Christian sister, so that he could raise them as Muslims.
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Islam the religion of peace and justice. My ass.
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The report from the Senate Intelligence Committee didn't help Kerry either. Whatever one thinks of the report in its entirety, its specific findings helped Bush politically by pouring cold water on the Bush-lied myth. It exposed Joe Wilson as a fraud, found that Iraq had actually increased its anti-U.S. terror planning in 2002, and provided a detailed account of how the intelligence community had reached its consensus that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
