(Soon Tokyo & Yokohama will be hit with a massive earthquake(s) causing economic panic, not only in Japan)
TOKYO (AFP) 9-6-04 - Two strong earthquakes jolted western and central Japan within hours of each other, setting off tsunami waves and causing some panic, the meteorological agency said.
More than 20 people were injured but there was no major damage from the pair of quakes which alerted seismic officials after striking within just five hours of each other in western Japan and off the coast of the central Tokai region. The tremors caused some panic, however, with hundreds of residents fleeing buildings after they hit Japan's west at 7:07 pm (1007 GMT) and central region at 11:57 pm, measuring a revised 6.9 and 7.4 on the Richter scale, respectively.
The meteorological agency warned of waves of up to one metre for coastal areas in western and central Japan, with some reaching Wakayama prefecture, prompting some municipal governments to order residents to evacuate. Post-quake tsunami waves measuring up to one metre (3.3 feet) were observed in western and central Japan regions while television footage showed waves about the same height flowing against the stream at the mouth of a river in Owase City of Mie prefecture, western Japan.
Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) said tsunami waves capsized five fishing boats in Tenmaura Port of Mie prefecture while broken water pipes swamped roads in Osaka. But the waves caused no major damage so far and the agency lifted all its warnings at 2:40 am.
The meteorological agency's earthquakes division said it was analysing the mechanism of the two quakes to see if they were related. "We believe it is important to watch how this will develop as we are faced with the situation we have never experienced before," said division head Masahiro Yamamoto, referring to the two large quakes happening within a short time frame in the areas.
Don't these people watch their own movies? It's all in there!
He said it was important to analyse data comprehensively in order to judge the tremors signal for a "Big One" which Japan fears will strike the Tokai region some time in the future.
Yes! Godzilla comes!
The size of Sunday's second earthquake, whose epicentre was in the Pacific Ocean off the Tokai region, was larger than the Kobe quake which measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and killed more than 6,000 people in January 1995.
The most frequently forecast scenario for another major earthquake in Japan is that one could devastate the Tokai region from around Mount Fuji in the east to Mie prefecture in the west.
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"(Soon Tokyo & Yokohama will be hit with a massive earthquake(s) causing economic panic, not only in Japan)"
Mark, crystal balls have a notoriety for unreliability.
If you said sooner or later, you would hit it right on the bullseye.
By Jimmy Chuang - Monday, Sep 06, 2004 STATE SECRETS: At least two suspected spies have been caught after faxing classified documents to a Taiwanese businessman based in Guangzhou, China
Two suspected spies were arrested late Saturday evening on suspicion of stealing secret information about Taiwan's Mirage 2000-5 fighter aircraft and selling it to China, the military announced yesterday.
Special agents from the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau (MJIB) and military police transferred the two alleged spies to the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office in Kaohsiung, while another suspect is in military custody for questioning.
The bureau issued a press release late on Saturday regarding its cooperation with the Ministry of National Defense's (MND) Political Warfare Department in the spy case, and announced the arrest of two primary suspects: former air force sergeant first class Chen Jiunn-hung ('Ã?r?O) and Ho Ping (Ëaâ¢Âœ), a Taiwanese businessman based in Guangzhou, China.
As of press time yesterday, the interrogations of Chen and Ho were continuing, and prosecutors have not yet filed any requests to detain them or allow them to be released on bail. ...more...
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Couldn't they have bought the info more cheaply from the French?
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The Taiwanese counterpart to sKerry has been found out.
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With apologies to whomever it was here at Rantburg that originally came up with this idea:
Isn't this whole Taiwan - China thang a lot like the Israeli - Arab conflict?
Here we have this tiny little island with 1/50th the population of mainland China that, nonetheless, gets the politburo into a frothy full-cream lather at every turn.
A functional superpower government and economy (keyword: functional) would merely look the other way and ignore the presence of such a non-threat. Instead, we are treated to the most insane psycho-babble since Baghdad Bob over a diminutive off-shore nation that somehow manages to be the 18th economy in the world by way of democracy and free market capitalism.
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CL, the Taiwanese may have done some mods (I have no 1st, 2nd or 3rd hand info on that).
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The situation in Taiwan seems to me to be a schitzophrenic condition of the Chicoms. On one hand, elements in the Chinese govt want to modernize and move past the Maoist model. Trade and investment by Taiwan is heavily into the PRC. Heck, in decades Taiwan will be so intertwined with the PRC economically that they will be in essence absorbed into the PRC. All the Chicoms need is patience.
On the other hand, the People's Liberation Army guys are rattling their swords and threatening invasion. If that happened, the PRC could lose everything, and they would destroy Golden Goose Taiwan, to boot. That's the way I see it.
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The other Golden Goose, you mean? I read somewhere that the economic value of the Hong Kong Golden Goose has fallen by over 25% in productivity and the value of the industries and business based there since the takeover. Slow strangulation by morons who would hold it so tight as to crush it. Picture the idiot child given a new puppy for companionship... weekly.
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.com---it seems that the ChiComs could not leave well enough alone with Hong Kong, too. They cannot have it both ways. They could win the battles and still lose the war, so to speak.
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I have a friend who has finally emigrated to Singapore - a very Sr Banking professional with 40 yrs experience in HK banks - and they were loathe to let him go. There is a serious brain-drain of the best-experienced, and thus best compensated - something the ChiComms don't "get" quite yet. At the last minute they tried to buy him off with a massive house, servants, limo, etc - and he said that he told them he could have all of that, easily, without any strings or spies or overloads (his word - I wonder how that translates in Mandarin, heh) - so no thanks. He was worried that they would renege on letting him go, but he already had his passport in hand and had booked a flight to Macao and onward "in secret" - which means a bribe of some size. He left almost everything there in place, so they were caught flat-footed. I know him through an odd set of circumstances which culminated in my providing him with email boxes that they had no way to trace or connect to him since just before the takeover. Not much, but he appreciated it and I felt great doing it. I want to see them implode - and be hung from the lampposts.
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.com---your friend did the right thing. You can always build another fortune, but you can't always get your ass back. My roomate in college had grandparents that were wealthy Jewish industrialists in Germany. They saw the handwriting on the wall, so they got everything prepared and went on a holiday to England in the 30s. Even the servants did not know. Left everything behind. I imagine that they had some Swiss accounts, but did not move all the money. Got out while the getting was good.
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I'm worried about HK. One of my very best research techs ever was born there, has family still there in the shipping biz. She went to Canadian and American boarding schools, got her undergrad degree right here at U of C, and wrote a first-author paper from my lab. She's now in med school in Australia and doing great. I'd like to see her become an American citizen, but she's very concerned about leaving HK behind completely while her family is there.
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The world community needs to clearly understand that Hong Kong is the canary in the mineshaft. What happens there is what to expect from any other foreign entities being brought into communist China's withering embrace. China's politburo has never been able to abandon the "looting" mentality handed down to them from the Maoist era. Hong Kong is a perfect demonstration of it and we do not need to test this theory all over again with Taiwan.
A Muslim leader was due to appear in court today, charged with the rape of a Scunthorpe woman. Ahmed Niaz (48) was arrested in London on Friday afternoon. Following his arrest, Niaz, who was the former leader of the Scunthorpe Pakistan Islamic Mosque on Parkinson Avenue, was transported to Scunthorpe police station for questioning over the weekend. He has been charged with rape, indecent assault and failing to answer police bail and was due to appear at North Lincolnshire Magistrates' Court this morning.
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None but Allan can judge me.. First cries of 'persecution' from major UK Muslim voice in 5.. 4.. 3..
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Scunthorpe? Who named that town?
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It's a name you don't play with, Frank.
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Minor league footie team, right?
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It's pronounced scun-thorpe for anyone who's not sure. Jokes along the lines of the man who put the 'c***' into Scunthorpe will be tolerated, however.
Funny how this story's not made the Beeb, innit? I don't think such allegations about an Anglican or Catholic man of the cloth would be ignored in this way...
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Scunthorpe, Scunthorpe - sounds a lot meaner than East Wigglesby, no?
*places forehead against monitor*
I'm getting images of Pirates and Brigands and Rough-Trade Scoundrels... An involuntary "Arrrggghhh!" escapes... Okay, Oh yeah... From a PR standpoint, I think we can work with this...
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Steak and kidney / meat /meat and potato/ chicken and mushroom. I think their cornish pasties (lamb) were good too. (meat = British for mechanically reclaimed beef.)
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how're the clams?
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Very good with mussels.
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Didn't go for a meat kebab then, Howard? Beef sandwich?
(Eating all those pies - I'm surprised you saw any of the footie. Who ate all the pies? ;) )
via Al Guardian - EFL
Ben Aris - Monday September 6, 2004
The German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suffered a setback yesterday as voters in a regional election punished the government for pushing through controversial welfare reforms that have sparked weeks of street protests. The conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) state premier, Peter MÃŒller, was re-elected by a landslide in the small state of Saarland on the French border.
The closely watched poll was the first in a series of regional elections in which Germans are expected to make clear their discontent with the government. Mr Schröder has failed to make good on election promises to cut high unemployment, and even the mild economic recovery expected this year seems to be faltering. Complete official results showed that the Christian Democrats won more than 47.5% of the votes, a gain of two percentage points on the last election in 1999. Mr Schröder's Social Democrats polled 30.8%, a loss of 14 percentage points. The Greens and Free Democrats both just crossed the 5% barrier for seats in the state parliament, but the far-right National Democratic party, which came from nowhere to gain 4% of votes, failed to win a seat. ...more...
I'll happily leave the analysis of who's on first, second, third, to the pros... I'll only offer that it couldn't happen to a more deserving prick.
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I am interested in what TGA has to say on this subject. Is this just a conservative enclave or is this a sign of things to come? I heard the unemployment was pretty bad in Europe. Not to rub theor noses but the Unemployment rate is at 5.4% last month in the U.S. I learned in economics that the statistical model becomes inaccurate around this level (too low to measure properly). Mudt be the conservatives fault!
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Social democrats have been losing every election for some time now. Still, its a set up because whomever replaces Schroeder will have to do the dirty work required to fix the economy and will thus piss off lots and lots of people.
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Anybody know how much of an affect Bush's troop withdrawal had on the election?
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Just following the general trend. The Saarland used to be a SPD stronghold ten years ago.
People just can't bring themselves to like the new rules for receiving unemployment benefits. The new rules say that you only get 12 months of regular unemployment benefit (based on your last income), after that it turns into basic welfare (and you can add a bit of money by taking on charity jobs that pay 1-2 ⬠an hour.
There is a certain unfairness involved with this law. People who have paid mandatory unemployment insurance for 30 years get the same (after 12 months) than people who have only be in employment for 3 years.
The whole system doesn't work anymore. The radical fringe parties are taking advantage of the situation.
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TGA, welcome to the real world. I recently applied for help on being made redundant, albeit after 7 months work in the UK, where I have lived for 20 years: nothing. On two occasions at the Exchange there were people who could not speak English, and when asked, they said, "Yes", they had received money, and wanted some more. 'king great! And btw, my father-in-law is paying tax on his pension that he paid tax on when he was working!
As they say, go figure.
Mechanical Diggers? Why do they...well, you know.
A mechanical digger was smashed into a Catholic bar in a flashpoint district of Belfast on Friday in an attack local politicians blamed on Protestants. The church is running bars now?
Windows were smashed and some structural damage done, police said, but no one was injured. A fire started but was quickly put out. The attack, in the Ardoyne area in the north of the city, took place shortly before 1 a.m. (midnight GMT). 1AM? Think...ummmmmmmmmm...alcohol might've played a factor here?
"A number of people were inside the bar at the time but they managed to get out," a police spokeswoman said. "A large crowd had gathered outside but police restored calm with the assistance of local community representatives." C'mon, boyos. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here. Move it along, nothing to see here...
The incident happened at one of north Belfast's so-called interface areas, where mutually hostile Catholic and Protestant communities live close to each other. Well, that'll cut down on those block parties.
Former Belfast lord mayor Martin Morgan, of the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party, blamed Protestant "loyalists" for the attack, which he described as "reckless with intent to murder.I have no doubt that the loyalist hooligans responsible for this attack set out to heighten tensions in the area between the two communities, and I am calling on people in my community to remain calm in the face of this aggression," he added. Or maybe somebody got trashed and decided to try and play mechanical digger driver? Think that might be a possibility, your lordship?
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"Maureen, sweetheart, I'd never lie to ya, lass, it was THIS BIG and it was coming straight at us!"
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"Bigger than Ma's rear even? Is that even possible Pa?"
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Hmmm, and yet Bono continues to travel the world nattering on about world peace. Hey Bono! Think globally, act locally!
Ombudsman: Is That What He Really Said?
By Michael Getler - Sunday, September 5, 2004
"Cheney Calls Kerry Unfit," read the big, front-page headline over a story in Thursday's Post about attacks on the Democratic challenger at the Republican convention in speeches by Vice President Cheney and Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia.
"Unfit" is a powerful, personally damning word; it has become even more explosive in the past several weeks because it is in the title of a best-selling book, "Unfit For Command" by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi. The book is the cornerstone of a nationwide effort by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to challenge Sen. John F. Kerry's war record.
The problem is that Cheney never used the word "unfit." Yet the headline can be seen as reinforcing the Swift boat challengers' attack. The headline writer no doubt drew inspiration from the first paragraph of the story by reporter John F. Harris, who wrote that Cheney "reached back decades" into Kerry's life, "arguing in taunting language that the Democratic presidential nominee has demonstrated through his public statements and votes that he is unfit to be commander in chief in an age of terrorism."
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Maybe they wrote the article before the speech. That's what Harpers does. Pre-drafting is much healthier for journaists psychologically. So of them truly fear writer's block and this new innovation really can improve their quality of life.
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BUSH 'TOOK COCAINE AT CAMP DAVID'
George W. Bush snorted cocaine at Camp David, a new book claims. His wife Laura also allegedly tried cannabis in her youth. Author Kitty Kelley says in her biography The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, that the US President first used coke at university in the mid-1960s. She quotes his former sister-in-law Sharon Bush who claims: "Bush did coke at Camp David when his father was President, and not just once either." Funny, I always figured him for Pepsi drinker
Other acquaintances allege that as a 26-year-old National Guard, Bush "liked to sneak out back for a joint or into the bathroom for a line of cocaine". Bush has admitted being an alcoholic but, asked during the 1999 election if he did drugs, he said: "I've told the American people that years ago I made some mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes and should I be fortunate enough to become president I will bring dignity and honour to the office." Later an aide clarified his remarks saying Bush hadn't taken illegal drugs in the past 25 years.
Kelley says that the Bush family covered up scandals because of their wealth and influence. She claims George W. started drinking at school and continued at Yale university to overcome shyness. Former student Torbery George says in the book: "Poor Georgie. He couldn't relate to women unless he was loaded." Another says: "He went out of his way to act crude. It's amazing someone you held in such low esteem later became president." His supporters have slammed the allegations as outrageous. The White House said: "This book appears to be filled with the same trash discredited years ago." Roger that.
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Is Kitty Kelley Mikey Moore's mother? Or do they just share the same trash bin for their writing material?
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The DUI thing worked well for the Dem's in the last election. I am pretty sure that most Americans will resist a redefinition of GW and Laura by this Kitty Kelley.
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REMEMBER -
Source of this stuff : Ex-wife of brother Neil. She is also demanding a DNA test of the 3-year old son of Neil's new wife. This demand has caused her to be sued by the ex-husband of Neil's new wife for defamation.
Of course saying Laura Bush was a pothead. . . .
Yeah, really makes sense to me.
As GHW Bush said, "Sharon needs to get a job, and get on with her life. . ."
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Anyone can make a mistake. Neil married a fucking looney toon. Now she's Ex and pissed. No sweat. 5 large and she won't bother anyone, anywhere, anymore.
Democrat John Kerry, on a Labor Day tour of Midwestern states where polls show the presidential race virtually tied, told voters he would try to pull out troops in Iraq within four years. "We want those troops home, and my goal would be to try to get them home in my first term," Kerry said, speaking to a fellow Vietnam War veteran in the audience of his campaign event.
The jihadis say thank you, and will now wait for five years.
Faulting Bush on almost every aspect of his move toward war, Kerry said the United States is carrying the burden in casualties and cost. He called the president's coalition "the phoniest thing I ever heard."
Thus ensuring that the Brits, Aussies, Salvadorans, etc., won't have anything to do with him.
"This president rushed to war without a plan to win the peace, and he's cost all of you $200 billion that could have gone to schools, could have gone to buy a pony health care, could have gone to prescription drugs, could have gone to our Social Security," he said. "It's the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.
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We'll be lucky to have a non-aggression pact with Andorra if Mr. Nuance doesn't STFU. What a diplomat.
And I see that today's flip (or it could be a flop, I get them mixed up) is anti-war. Maybe he should fly to Baghadad for a little private diplomacy with Sadr.
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He seems to be lenghtening out the drawdown of our forces. I seem to remeber that he wanted a significant number of our forces removed almost before he took office. If we are fighting a War on Terror, isn't it advisable to have our forces delpoyed where the terrorists are? Unless he plans to pull them us out and station us in Lebanon, I don't see how we could get any closer to the terrorists. Iraq even borders Saudi Arabia. His message seems to be: bring the war on terror home so that our troops will be able to see their families while we engage the bad guys in the hallways of our own schools.
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Prime-time Republicans are hard to take Damn right! They should be resettled in the East!
BY HUGH PEARSON Hugh Pearson is currently working on a biography of James Weldon Johnson and is a publisher of the Web site, NYAge.Net.
September 2, 2004
As I watched Tuesday night's network coverage of the unrelenting political propaganda hour known as the Republican National Convention, the first thought that came to mind was of old newsreels of those self-congratulatory Nazi rallies held in Germany during the reign of Adolf Hitler. A political convention propagandizing for the party that holds it? Oh, the horror!
That's okay. First thing that came to mind when I was watching the Dem convention was Gilligan's Island. Only without Gilligan. And the Professor. And Maryanne. And the Skipper. And... ummm... the Tina Louise character. I forget her name...
For many people, I'm sure, such a comparison sounds extreme. You wish. To me, it just sounds like more proof that the media left is out of ideas.
Sounds kinda overworked, I'd say...
Yet, just as the Nazis were obsessed with endless displays of swastikas, the Republicans are obsessed with the red, white and blue (for that matter, the Democrats are, too). So, are the Dems also Nazis?
Or do political parties tend to flaunt their symbols when they're having conventions and rallies and things? I notice there was no mention of the red flags flying over Red Square for about 75 May Days...
In the same manner that the German people were told that Nazi leadership was faultless, the Republicans are telling the American public that no one knows what's best for the world except the current leadership in the White House. "They did not really say that but, I, the infallible clairvoyant authority will interpret and clarify their words for you peasants."
It's always been my understanding that when you become a politician you spend half your time pointing with pride, the other half viewing with alarm, all the while kissing babies and shaking hands with people you'll never see again...
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Hitler launched a preemptive war? I guess the Poles were ready to invade first... Maybe when compared to Stalin, but the Nazi's had been knee deep in war against (Czechs, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, France and bombing England and perhaps Greece and Yugoslavia before it was the Russians turn so premptive doesn't really work in any case.
This guy needs to look up premptive, it means you want to prempt something, not just going first.
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Nice job AC. I particularly liked his reference to the creative use of light, like Speer at Nuremburg, in the candlelight ceremony in memory of 9/11.
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Where is all this equivocation coming from? If I remember correctly, didn't Hitler want a master race and intended on cleansing the earth of all those not Aryan? I don't think that was a war on terror intent on making the world safer. Seems like I read something like that growing up. I could be wrong, of course. Oh wait, my bad. That's right: The Holocaust never happened. The Jews made the whole thing up. The concentration camps were staged. What was I thinking? Of course, the republicans are Nazis. It's so clear!
(Please read as all sarcasm. I'm losing patience for these reporters. I'd love to know what kind of education and experience they've encountered in their lives to give them these ridiculous and arrogant views.)
When I saw the head line, I thought they'd found a way to pull a Torch. The question in my mind was which one? EFL JOHN Kerry has accepted the help of seriously ill former US president Bill Clinton to put his campaign for the White House back on track, after disastrous polling results showing George W.Bush has established a double-figure lead over his opponent. Mr Clinton, who went under the surgeon's knife last night Australian time, for a quadruple heart bypass, told Senator Kerry on Saturday night to forget about his Vietnam War record and focus on domestic issues. According to The New York Times, the pair had a 90-minute telephone conversation that for Senator Kerry involved "more listening than talking". The Boston challenger has also taken on several key Clinton advisers to help direct the remainder of his campaign. Among the most recent arrivals are 1992 Clinton campaign pollster Stanley Greenberg and a former chief of staff to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Howard Wolfson.
Heh, heh, heh, guess she doesn't trust Kerry to destroy himself.
The focus between now and November 2 would be "very simple", senior Clinton White House aide Joel Johnson said. "It's 'Bush has taken us in the wrong direction. If you want more of the same for the next four years, vote for President Bush. If you want a new direction, John Kerry and John Edwards'. It's not complicated. Failed policies, jobs and the economy, healthcare." The 90-minute conversation came after Senator Kerry called Mr Clinton in hospital on Friday to wish him well, when the former president was admitted to hospital suffering chest pains. Mr Clinton reportedly expressed his concern at the way the Kerry campaign was heading, and suggested a Saturday night conference call. Senator Kerry is understood to have been receptive to the advice offered by Mr Clinton, 58, who before his sudden illness had expected to be playing an active campaigning role for the Democrats.
Gives Bill a easy out, doesn't it.
However, Democrat and Republican strategists, in apparent agreement for once, argued yesterday that the race would return to the deadlock that had characterised it all year after Mr Bush's "bounce" from last week's Republican convention wore off. "The thing about a bounce is it goes up, then it comes down," Ms Cahill said.
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"...the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth had already raised awkward questions about his reputation, even though most of their claims have since been disproved..."
Did I miss something? When did anyone disprove the Swifties' claims? That sure looked like Kerry sitting there calling our troops war criminals.
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I remember an article about Ted Sampley and he would love nothing better than crush Kerry. He Exposed a lot of the Vietnam Vet Against the War as not Vietnam Vets and in some cases not even Veteran. His PERSONAL investigation lead to the dissolvement of that group. I am interested how this plays out in the press. I suspect they will find that (OH MY GOSH) a Republican donated money to this effort. And probably said Republican once was at an airport a mere three hours after Karl Rove left on a commercial flight. O'Neil is a nice compared to Sampley and I hope the ads are personal and graphic.
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I mean, he's been chomping at the bit to do a news conference to answer all these smears and false accusations, but the media wouldn't cooperate. He kept calling press conferences, but nobody showed up....yeah, that's the ticket
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He kept calling press conferences, but nobody showed up
Frank G - Are you referring to that old saying, "If a tree fell in a forest, and no one was there, would it still make a noise?"
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If a tree fell in the forest and the NY Times and WAPO didn't report it, would it still have made a noise?
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Some blogger would hear it and post his or her site, therefore the noise would be made and heard.
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I think that Kerry is actually getting off light when the focus is that far in the past. I am hoping that they get to the part where he declared a one man mission to stop Contra aid. Reagan looms large lately. - actually, one man mission is an exageration as her had help from an Iowan.
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Isn't it a fundamental axiom in politics that the frontrunner has no incentive to debate? It seems to me if Kerry starts to close the points gap, the willingness to have a debate starts to shift over to Bush, not Kerry.
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Classic Bush. Let 'em wallow in the issue and waste their time and media spotlight for as long as possible, then proceed as planned (whatever that is in this case).
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I'm really enjoying watching the Republicans congratulate Kerry on his honorable service in Vietnam. That means they think the Swifties have done so much damage that any reference to Kerry's Vietnam service actually helps Bush. I saw Giuliani on a talk show yesterday and he could hardly get the words out with a straight face.
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I wonder who handles the debates, some Bipartisan commission, IIRC. We need some independent types to ask some real good questions, like "What is your policy on illegal aliens in this country?" and "How would you protect our northern and southern borders to prevent infiltration of terrorist cells?" etc etc, instead of all the softball bs questions.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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OS is correct again. What is interesting is that this is coming form Joe Lockhart. Is this the first thing he has done since joining the Kerry campaign? Shows how weak he thinks their program is if this is the first issue he wants to push.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis ||
09/06/2004 11:54 Comments ||
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Can you say Anhauser Bush Brewing?
They are the main sponser and that's why St. Louis is the normal venue.
Early this year on C-SPAN there was a huge rant on the problem with Nader, Keyes, and most 3rd parties. Quite interesting. A very rigged game.
Look in the C-Span archives or order the video tape.
#10
I think the race is still up in the air at this point. We really don't know. I never trusted Newsweek and Time polls when they showed Kerry in the lead, but now that they show Bush in the lead, I still don't trust them. I think these pollsters aren't simply dishonest - they're also incompetent. Just a thought.
There have to be non leftists on the panel even if all the "moderators" are leftists. If a "moderator"gets out of line he can be "realligned" by the other panelists.
Certainly the Kerry camp would have a stroke over a Hannity on the panel, they would be forced to suck it in and agree to a Hume or a Snow because of the demeanor. As much as we may like Sean, he's an ascerbic little Rascal, and if he started to ask the same questions that a Hume or Snow would ask, we may get shouting matches. Wheras those questions in the hands of Hume or Snow could be asked in a similarway that Bernie Shaw was able to make Dukaka look foolish in 1988.
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"Debates? I don't need to show you any stinkin' debates!"
________borgmuchacho sez: all the debates will prove is that Kerry and Edwards have better mouths than a $1,000.00 whore...
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Zhang Fei - agreed. Polls before the last two days of the campaign are meaningless. Most of the undecided voters, and many of the purported decided voters as well, will make up their minds during the last 48 hours.
Which means it's going to be a referendum on the proposition, Is the US at war with radical islam?
This election will not be close. The voters will swing one way or the other on the central question. Rove understands this perfectly; I can't imagine that anyone in the Dems' camp aside from Dick Morris grasps this. Advantage: the incumbent.
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RE: Polls...If Bush still has a double digit lead in two weeks then Kerry is in trouble. I saw some of his ranting today and he has moved back into the domestic issues. Nice stand but security remains THE main issue for voters and Kerry doesn't exactly put your mind at ease.
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It's a wonder that the MSM doesn't understand how much damage that the picture of Kerry as he reports for duty continues to do to Kerry's campaign.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
09/06/2004 21:56 Comments ||
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Thx, Mark - That's a serious series of bitch slaps. He will run from these or attempt to have proxies smear them, as he can't possibly refute these real men. As for his post-Vietnam activities, he'll run from that period like his ass is on fire. In fact, it is. The Dhimmidonks are headed for a total meltdown. 8 weeks to go.
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#1. Capân, I think youâre seeing âwhatâs nextâ. Phase I established that Kerry entered Viet Nam, camera in hand, to further his political ambitions by seizing glory for himself and to get the hell out of there as quickly as possible.
Now that the Navy is looking into those deeds, the SBVT can move to the next phase: Kerryâs war protest activities. Where he sold out the men and women in the armed forces. Those who had returned from combat, those still in combat, and worst of all those being tortured in Vietnamese prison camps.
My guess is that the third and final phase, if it gets that far, will high light a direct connection with the North Vietnamese.
âCareful who you step on your way up. You may meet them on your way back down.â
What saddens me most about Kerry's use of the Vietnam era in this campaign is it's affects on many of our veterans. Many of whom,no doubt, had finally come to terms with this experience and put it behind them only to have someone with insatiable political ambitions to resurrect those ghosts. /rant ended
The work of a brilliant amateur, it looks something like a grain harvester, but it quieter and has a stronger lift than a helicopter of the same weight. It has vertical take off and horizontal flight capabilities. And the Pentagon is strongly interested.
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09/06/2004 10:16:21 AM ||
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International Harvester enters the UAV field. Ahem. It appears to work - but I am quite suspicious - all vids show it in-flight, descending, landing. No takeoffs. Smells funny. Blade rotation in direction of travel - implies it should have problems with limited forward speed as experienced by rotary craft... Weirdness!
The idea is to get the air moving faster over the top of the wing than the bottom, thereby providing lift (judging from the diagrams). Takeoffs and landings shouldn't be a problem, but you're right about the forward speed. Is there sufficient thrust to get the thing moving reasonably fast? Interesting.
Posted by: Rafael ||
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If we can equip all those John Deere tractors and combines with flight capability and Hellfire missiles the terrorists are really screwed. "Run, Mahmoud, it's a Green Monster of Death!" Merely dropping a gimme cap could cause panic.
Posted by: Matt ||
09/06/2004 11:12 Comments ||
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Matt - The Gimme Cap visual is a treasure! Lol!
#5
Holy smoke! It's a side-wheeler vessel. All kidding aside, I like this weird stuff. Thinking outside the box brings great ideas and designs. Look at the B-2, starting from Jack Northrop's flying wing. One idea inspires another.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
09/06/2004 11:25 Comments ||
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LOL. My first reaction was that Anonymoose has been visiting the photoshoppers over at FARK.
I'm forwarding this to my son-in-law who is an aeronautical engineer.
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But the blades are only open at the top - and given how the wing shape relies upon this configuration, I suspect aerobatics are out... at least sustained inverted flight might be out of the question... This is a brain-bender!
AP / GK - we should pitch in and order up model kits and youze guyz could test it in all flight regimes.
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#1 - .com,
I went to their web site and found a number of videos showing various models taking off and landing. None were very elegant, but not horrible. A model of this would be interesting.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
09/06/2004 12:15 Comments ||
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.com---had the same idea. Would like to make one this winter and try it out.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
09/06/2004 12:49 Comments ||
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Looks to me like a squirrel cage blower with a PhD. The big question is; How many hamsters and where do they put them all?
#12
Anybody notice that many people were wearing "short shorts" in the pictures? Are these still in vogue somewhere in the world, or do these pictures date from the mid-80s?
#13
Yep, it's the real deal, designed at Auburn University, it can plow, fly, land, and transport your bass boat to Florida. In short it's everything you want in a flying combine. Loans are easily avilable at your farmer bank for morons
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