Teenager Reports Seeing Man's Face In Toilet
ALBANY, N.H. -- A man is facing charges after police said they pulled him from a tank under a women's toilet that was filled with human waste. Looks like Gary has lots of "issues".
Police said that Gary Moody, 45, was under a log cabin outhouse off the Kancamagas Highway in Albany."You can draw your own conclusions as to the conditions we encountered," said Capt. John Hebert, of the Carroll County Sheriff's Department. No thanks, Cap'n...
Police said that they got a call from the parents of a teenage girl who said that when she went to use the facilities, she saw Moody's face staring back at her from the hole. Help! I'm...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...trapped! Yeah, that's it!
Moody was hosed off before police cuffed him."It's a very filthy environment, and before we put anybody in contact with him, we had to decontaminate him," Hebert said. "We treated him as if he were hazardous material." As if?
Hikers using the outhouse on Tuesday said that the story was enough to make their stomachs turn."He just must be sick to put yourself in that muck. Disgusting," said Harriett Voysey, of New Jersey.Police said they don't know how long Moody was in the tank, but they said the door to it was locked, which means he must have gone in through the toilet. They said they don't know why he was there. EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!
Police charged Moody with criminal trespass, and they said he could face more charges. He is out on bail and due back in court next month. Out on bail? God knows where he'll turn up next. But I'll bet you can smell him coming.
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muck4doo
good to see you back. find the lost Dutchman?
early '60s spent several years in the hills, Central Az. Pinion Juniper country.
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no los duchman. justa lost muck4doo stranderd in sierra blanca texas. ima get well akwainted withem saje brushes tho. gotn also see sum anchent lizard peples stachoos.
NEWTON, Mass. -- A tractor-trailer truck carrying beer and hard alcohol overturned on a ramp to Route 128 Wednesday morning snagging traffic for hours. NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported that the truck rolled over shortly before 4 a.m. but none of the beer spilled out onto the roadway. When crews tried to right the truck, the roof came off dumping scores of boxes of beer, wine and vodka onto the side of the road.
"Yippee! Bars open!"
The ramp was closed for several hours as crews worked to right the truck and drink clean up the debris. "Alcohol is considered hazardous material," said McCarthy. A group of minimum security prisoners were brought in to help clean up the debris.
Genius, pure genius
No one was injured.
No word on how much of the cargo was "destroyed"
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Fourth of July weekend coming up. The Staties working the detail must've been ecstatic!
John Keitz weighs 625 pounds. He is so heavy his legs will not support his weight. The last time he stood on his feet was Aug. 1, 1998. That night he was making macaroni and cheese for his wife, Gina. He boiled and drained the noodles. Right after he cut in the Velveeta, he went down.
He has lain in bed in a Baltimore suburb for going on seven years. He is 39.
He lies on his front, because if he were to lie on his back, rolls of flesh would press on his windpipe and suffocate him. His head never touches sheet or pillow. At night, his left cheek nestles upon a soft white pile of shoulder and breast meat.
Lately he has been having a dream. He is on his feet again. He is in a kitchen. He is preparing a feast for 390 guests. For the first time in years he does not need help -- not with bathing, going to the bathroom, keeping a roof over his head. He cooks and cooks mountains of food. But he does not eat.
The dream gives him hope. So begins a great profile that alternates heartbreakingly depressing and heartwarmingly sweet. Go and read!
Has anybody heard coments fom Justice Soutter since the proposal to condemn and sieze his property in order to build a hotel,for the public good of course?I'm real curious as to what he has to say now.
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Drew Curtis over at FARK has already started a sign up list to attend a FARK party at the new Liberty Lost hotel in 2006 or 2007. The last count was 59 pledges to attend.
I wonder if the other four justices who never read the Constitution either are beginning to worry about the future of their abode? Could make for an interesting summer.
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A friend just sent me the link to the town of Weare's web page. It includes the names of the Board of Selectmen's names and expiration of office. A RBer
suggested yesterday that the five selectmen be replaced with pro-"Liberty Lost" candidates. Good idea,but may not be practical since two members terms expire in 2006, one in 2007, and the other two are scheduled to be in office until 2008.
I certainly would not want to be a board member because the Supreme Court ruling has all the makings for anarchy. Imagine if the majority of the board disallow Clement's application then their property may be next for eminent domain condemnation. If they rule in favor of the application, someone who agrees with the Kelo taking decision might seek revenge by seeking condemnation for a similar purpose. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
I'm considering becoming a FARKER just to help keep the pressure on Weare and Souter. BTW, Drew only needed 100 committments to the Farker Party at Liberty Lost Hotel, at latest count 250 Farkers have signed up.
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If they refuse to use the power of eminent domain, he can sue them in court to *force* them. If this is how it goes it will be interesting to see how they defend the *loss* of jobs and tax revenues in court -- and to the voters.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 29 (UPI) -- Domino Harvey, a wealthy British-born socialite, supermodel-turned-U.S. bounty hunter facing federal drug charges, was found dead in her Hollywood bathtub.
Once again proving, we can't make this stuff up
Harvey, 35, was pulled from the tub after police said a friend or relative called 911 to report a possible drowning.
The Los Angeles coroner was to perform toxicology tests Wednesday to see if drugs were involved. A spokesman for the coroner told The Times of London: "The hospital reported to us that they suspected a drug overdose."
Harvey was the daughter of Oscar-nominated actor Laurence Harvey. She became a Beverly Hills socialite and later launched a career as a supermodel in New York. She then startled everyone by becoming a professional bounty hunter.
Wasn't this the plot of a Pamela Anderson movie?
She was arrested last month on federal drug charges, which carried a possible life sentence.
That would mean a major coke bust, but enough about Pamela Anderson...
A movie about her life -- "Domino" -- has reportedly pushed back its U.S. release date from Aug. 19 to Nov. 4 to allow for updating, the report said. Keira Knightley stars in the wild action thriller "Domino," the latest project from director Tony Scott ("Man on Fire," "Beverly Hills Cop II," "True Romance"). A trademark Scott film, "Domino" presents an entertaining mix of gritty action, biting comedy and sharp visuals. The film tells the true story of Domino Harvey, daughter of legendary actor Laurence Harvey and a former Ford model who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills life to become a bounty hunter. Starring: Keira Knightley, Mena Suvari, Christopher Walken, Lucy Liu, Mickey Rourke, Macy Gray, Jacqueline Bisset, Edgar Ramirez, Mo'Nique, Shondrella Avery, Dabney Coleman, Delroy Lindo, Brian Austin Green
Oh, it gets better, she's (well, was) a lesbian bounty hunter! From Feb:
How bad can it be when Hollywood chooses Keira Knightley to portray you in a story inspired by your life? Well, model-turned-bounty-hunter Domino Harvey is unamused by the fact that in the movie, all of a sudden she's heterosexual. Harvey, a lesbian, "sees it as an insult that the producers are selling it as her life story, when they are completely overlooking what she regards as a pretty basic part of her life," a source says. "... She thinks it's ironic that so much of the publicity the film has attracted has been based on it's raunchy sex scenes."
"raunchy sex scenes"? Hello!
Raunchy lesbian sex and Christopher Walken in the same movie? Be still my beating heart!
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waugh! You scared me with that headline -- I thought you were referring to "Dog" on A&E. *whew!*
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Not something I would be interested in, but if Lucy Liu's in it I might as well buy my ticket now.
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That'll teach her to bitch about the story line.
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Sorry, Omise Sholuting9208, whoever you are. Your last comments blew the formatting on the whole page. I'll bet you tried to inert a large picture or group of links. I had to delete you and Troll dump was the only thing that worked.
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Troll dump? Grrrr-ATE!
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How lame is it that you can't find a picture of this chick. She was a supermodel and all but because of the movie any search brings up Kiera.
Seems every model is a supermodel these days. Now we have male models and supermodels.
With all due respect to the late Ms Harvey, she was no supermodel. Definitely hot in a heavily-armed lesbian kinda way (I've known a few, don't ask), but no supermodel.
Mike
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Do a typical high-fashion makeover on her, and she'd probably pass for a "supermodel." Monica Schnarr was a gawky teen until they put the makeup on her.
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Mucky,
Cut and paste it into another window.
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thanx eb. :)
thatn em soopermodel? ima seen beter lookin models advertisin menopawz prodects.
DUBAI - Dubai Customs has announced sponsorship for 'Sanabel Al Khaeer 2005' project which will continue till August 11, 2005. The project, organised at Al Sedeq Centre for the Holy Quran memorisation in Rashidiya, involves participation from children of all ages.
Ooooh! Mom! Take me there!
Get 'em by the time they're age 12 and they're yours for life ... in this case, a short, brutal, nasty life.
Dubai Customs' sponsorship for the project is in line with its commitment towards developing and improving religious indoctrination awareness in children. The memorising programmes for the Holy Quran held at the Al Sedeq Centre are among the aims of General Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister, to make the Holy Quran an integral part of the lives of the youth.
Personally, I'd rather have them in opium dens, or at least smoking heavy hash. It's better for them...
Shaikh Mohammad offers awards such as the International Holy Quran Award and the Local Holy Quran Award to encourage young people to participate actively in learning and reciting the Holy Quran.
I had to memorize the Gettysburg Address. In the same year, I had to learn all my math tables.
The 'Sanabel Al Khaeer' project includes several programmes centred on memorising the Holy Quran and understanding its meanings and rules. The project also encourages students to participate in the National Holy Quran Award that will also be held during the summer for National children.
First prize, a bomb vest and a trip to Ramallah. Second prize, a bomb vest and a trip to Fallujah. Third prize, ...
Maryam Al Shamsi, Coordinator of the Society and Government Relations, PCFC, said: "Dubai Customs' sponsorship for the Sanabel Al Khaeer project is in keeping with our resolve to develop cultural and religious knowledge in the children of PCFC personnel and the UAE society as a whole. Dubai Customs seeks to promote memorisation of Quran among children. The Sanabel Al Khaeer project ensures that children's leisure time is used constructively, and underlines PCFC's commitment to societal awareness and education." Al Sedeq Centre is one of the leading centres for recitation and memorisation of the Holy Quran in Dubai, and several of its students have won the Local Award for the Holy Quran since the award's inception five years ago.
No one's heard from them since they left Dubai for a 'humanitarian project' in Afghanistan ...
PCFC, one of the biggest government departments in Dubai and employing a large number of UAE nationals, is also actively participating in events for DSS 2005 this summer in addition to sponsoring the Sanabel Al Khaeer.
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Holy Quran Award..Ship, you handle it.
THE PIC, A reasonable looking chap, lets ask him if he knows the way to San Jose.
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Why do they do the sheets like Klansmen?
Is that some sort of perverted hero worship?
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Looks to me like they're holding the koran with the left hand (BTW is that a gang sign they're making?). I thought that was the unclean hand. Better alert the MSM, and let the seething commence!
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Shaikh Mohammad offers awards such as the International Holy Quran Award and the Local Holy Quran Award to encourage young people to participate actively in learning and reciting the Holy Quran.
And if that doesn't work, there's always the incentive of the acid bath...
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Why don't they just give each child a non-lethal shot to the head with a claw hammer? The social, mental, emotional and intellectual stunting effect would probably be exactly the same.
EFL: For a smart guy, this was pretty dumb... Kraft hands over Super Bowl ring
It could be an international incident of sorts, a misunderstanding of Super Bowl proportions. Or it could be a very, very generous gift. Whatever the case, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is out one championship ring, and President Vladimir Putin of Russia has scooped up some very flashy bling. At a meeting of American business executives and Putin on Saturday in Russia, according to Russian news reports, Kraft showed his 4.94-carat, diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring to the Russian president, who, after trying it on, put it in his pocket and left. Ooooooh! Thanks very muchsky! Das vidanya!
It was unclear yesterday whether Kraft intended to give Putin the ring. It was just two weeks ago that he presented this year's championship baubles to Patriots players at his Brookline manse. A Patriots spokesman said yesterday that Kraft was still traveling overseas and could not be reached for comment. My guess? His blood pressure's probably about 500/200 right about now..
This year's ring, billed as the heaviest in Super Bowl history, is studded with 124 diamonds, including a marquise for each of the three Vince Lombardi trophies depicted on its face. Under Kraft's ownership, the Patriots have won three of the last four Super Bowls. Each year's ring, which the team helps design, has been more glitzy than the last. The team would not disclose the value of Kraft's 2005 ring, saying only that it is ''a lot more" than $15,000. I've seen one. A pimp would be proud to call it his own.
The meeting at the Konstantinovsky Palace near Leningrad featured a virtual who's who of American business, including chief executives from IBM, Intel, Citigroup, and International Paper, according to a report in Kommersant, a leading Russian business newspaper. Kraft's business holdings beyond the Patriots include paper and packaging companies and venture capital investments. After talking privately for two hours about foreign investment, the group held a press conference, during which Kraft handed Putin the ring, the news report said. And after a few moments, the Russian president began to admire it, smiling as he modeled it on his hand.''It's a Super Bowl ring," Kraft declared. ''It's a very good ring." Putin then pocketed the trinket and bade goodbye to his guests, according to Kommersant's report. Oooooh! Shiny! Thank you veddy much!
Tokens given to the Russian president are normally kept in the Russian state treasury, but in this case, the Super Bowl ring was deposited in the Kremlin library, Kommersant reported.
Yevgeniy Khorishko, a spokesman at the Russian embassy in Washington, would not say yesterday whether there had been any request to retrieve the ring. GIMME BACK MY RING, YOU COMMIE BASTARD!!!
Getting the ring back would be exceptionally touchy, Carrington said. Still, he had some advice about how it might be done.''He should talk to someone who's close to the president to kind of explain that this is a very treasured thing," Carrington said. ''Then just sort of ask when he could expect it back." CALL BUSH! I WANT THEM NUKED!
The American ambassador visited the Romanian president. In the waiting room he talked with two of the ministers for five minutes.
When he entered he said to the Romanian president, "I really don't want to bother you but I talked with two of your ministers, and my gold watch disappeared."
So the president answered, "OK. I'll take care of it," left the room and came back two minutes later with the watch.
The ambassador said, "Thank you very much. I hope that I didn't cause any crisis between you and them."
"That's OK," said the president. "They did not notice."
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What was it Mel Brooks (playing Louie the Umpteenth) said in History of the World Part Whatever?
"It's good to be the king."
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Things are starting to get a might ugly in China since this is the 5th or 6th report of a riot/revolt I have seen. Begining of the end for the communists?
BEIJING (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese rioted in a dispute sparked by a lopsided roadside brawl, set fire to cars and wounded six police officers in an outburst likely to worry communist leaders in Beijing desperate to cling on to power.
The official Xinhua news agency, in a rare report on a local disturbance, blamed Sunday's riot in Chizhou in dirt-poor eastern Anhui province on a few criminals who led the "unwitting masses" astray. The violence was the latest in a series of protests which the Communist Party, in power since 1949, fears could spin out of control and become a channel for anger over corruption and a growing gap between rich and poor.
It started before 3 p.m. when a Toyota sedan grazed a middle school student crossing the street and the teen and the driver quarreled. A few men emerged from the car and set on the student, a local store manager surnamed Wu who saw the clash told Reuters by telephone. The men were taken to a police station and a crowd that had been watching the fight swarmed around the building, Wu said, demanding that the men be handed over to them as their numbers swelled by the minute.
Some among the growing mob focused their anger on the men's Toyota, smashing it, flipping it over and torching it, Wu said. "The fire fighters drove up, but when they saw what was going on, they fled," the store manager said.
Armed police tried to quell the disturbance but were driven back by a hail of rocks and lit firecrackers, he said. The local Chizhou Daily newspaper reported six policemen were injured by stones, news Web site www.sina.com.cn said. "The crowd also attacked reporters, one of whom was burned by a firecracker, and they grabbed cameras out of the hands of anyone taking pictures," Wu said.
Around 7.30 p.m., power to the police station was cut and "criminals" started throwing fireworks inside, the Chizhou Daily report said. The crowd, now numbering as many as 10,000, also flipped three parked police cars and set them ablaze.
The mob crashed through the windows of Wu's store, located just down the street from the police station, and began grabbing anything they could get their hands on. "We called the police immediately, but none came. Four hours later, the provincial police chief arrived with a large group of police, but by that time, my store was already stripped bare," Wu said. "It was raining hard that day. Otherwise, more stores might have been looted."
Hundreds of armed police in full riot gear managed to restore order in Chizhou around midnight on Sunday. The men from the Toyota were being held in detention and police had apprehended 10 "criminals" suspected of involvement in the riot, Xinhua said, adding an investigation of the incident was under way.
The riot closely echoed one that erupted in Chongqing in western China last October when a quarrel between residents, in which one man passed himself off as an official, enraged bystanders with the attempted abuse of privilege. Thousands took to the streets, burning police cars and looting government buildings.
Protests have become increasingly common in China, fueled by corruption and the widening wealth gap, but authorities are keen to quickly quash dissent and preserve stability.
There were more than 58,000 protests, many of them over land rights disputes, across the country in 2003, a Communist Party-backed magazine, Outlook, has reported.
This month, villagers in northern Hebei province protesting to keep their land were attacked by a group of armed hired toughs. Six farmers were killed and 48 injured in the ensuing battle.
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Its why my shorts are not tied up in knots when someone posts the 'Evil Chinese' are going to take over stuff. They're racing against time when the whole system implodes. Massive corruption fueled by capitalism drives local interests to separate their goals away from the central authority. [Without the time accelerating effect of capitalism] It is the traditional cycle of Chinese history - centralization, fragmentation, reunification. Capitalism is just gas thrown on the fire.
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This month, villagers in northern Hebei province protesting to keep their land were attacked by a group of armed hired toughs. Six farmers were killed and 48 injured in the ensuing battle.
Coming soon, to a redevelopment authority near you, courtesy of Ginsberg, Stevens, et al.
China said Monday it has a duty to restrict the activities of the outlawed Falungong spiritual group overseas if members disrupt its embassies. "Every government in the world has the obligation and responsibility to act according to international law and laws governing international relations to stop any individuals or organizations, be it the Falungong or other groups, from disrupting the normal work of China's diplomatic missions in Australia," said Shen Guofang, assistant minister of foreign affairs. "We hope relevant international standards could be abided by. And we will remain in close touch with relevant agencies in Australia."
Shen was speaking at a press conference at the end of the annual human rights dialogue between China and Australia. Members of the quasi-religious Falungong group regularly gather outside Chinese embassies and consulates overseas to protest against Beijing's crackdown on the group. China outlawed the group as an "evil cult" in 1999 and has since detained or imprisoned tens of thousands of members. The group says its members are tortured for refusing to give up their beliefs.
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FG may well be a cult, but they have the right to believe anything they like and peaceful (and respectfully) propagandize their views. Welcome to the marketplace of ideas.
I'll leave International Law as the last refuge of fools and scoundrels alone.
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Yeah, if you read too deeply into that international law, you'd probably find a clause that says the gitmo detainees can sue in federal court for damages and lost wages.
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I think that China had a duty to restrict the protests at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. I am sure that they abided by the "relevant international standards" that Shen Guofang speaks of in this article. Right?
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FG may well be a cult, but they have the right to believe anything they like and peaceful (and respectfully) propagandize their views.
That is a very Western and liberal ( in the classical sense of the word ) point of view. In far too many places, including the world's most populous state, the government issues your opinions to you.
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However, other Muslim parents had concerns about the school.
Dr Saad Al-Harran took his son out of Al-Madinah after just two weeks. He said the school had a "narrow interpretation" of the Islamic faith. Communication and management were very poor.
Another father said the problems were caused by divided cultures within the Islamic faith. There was distinct and growing animosity between "normal" Muslims and Wahabis (a puritanical sect) within the school, he said.
Mr Finn said the special character of the school had to be considered, but it was integrated into the New Zealand system "and needs to meet the education requirements".
wow. Common sense from NZ. Guess the Islamists misunderstood the whole tolerance thing to mean that western cultures would tolerate their hatred and degredation of women. This is one of the few articles that gives voice to those elusive moderate Muslims, proving that they are out there. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that a good majority of Muslims in western societies feel this way, it's just that they are afraid to speak up.
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Translation via Bable Fish, funnier that the original english:
A high-ranking German diplomat in the USA is to have released substantial irritations with insulting expressions over his host country. The Cologner "express" reported on Wednesday, a representative Consulate General in New York had down-appreciated the foreign policy of the USA and had equated the citizen legal situation in the USA with that of the North Korea. The Foreign Office examines the procedure according to own data.
Reason of the excitement is a report the "barrier Street journal" from 17 June, which was taken up now by Cologne sheets. After the representation of the Leitartiklers Bret Stephens it and its wife by the diplomat and its woman to a private Sonntagsbrunch were invited, since they are neighbours, that are both women itself and the children of both families of sand box friends.
In the report under the heading "the torture UHL" ("The German Chair") continues to be called it, the diplomat evaluated the stalinistischen Gulags as better than the disputed isolation prison Guantanamo for terrorism-suspicious fighters, because it gave in the Soviet Union at least "a kind to procedures". In addition the diplomat is to have explained Tony Blair obviously under allusion on diffamierende names for the British Prime Minister: "only humans, who find American foreign policy good, are pudel."
Stephens wrote: "after further bizarren remarks including a lecture on the unlawfulness of the Holocausts under Nazi right my wife said, their not probably was. We looked for our things together and went."
The diplomat denies according to "express" such expressions to have made. Consul General Uwe Karsten Heye explained, the discussion could not have been reconstructed, since it took place in a "completely private situation".
On American InterNet sides and Blogs the report led comments partly indignant by Stephens however to substantial eddy with up to questions whether such expressions of a diplomat were at all possible. The journalist wrote, he had been tried to abandon the name of its host but he will not do that. But it quoted Bert breaks: "the lap is fruitfully still, from this crept."
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"I will explain it to them - again! - in their own barbarian tongue."
-- Donovan's Reef
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Well, obviously, if we believe this, the diplomat has been found. And obviously the invitation did take place. He only denies having said all this.
You know, I still can't believe that a German diplomat would say such crap in private to a WSJ journalist. Maybe he tried to be funny (an attempt that usually fails).
My take is that he will be quietly removed.
And watching the Schroeder-Show today, I can only shake my head. First time I have no clue why a German chancellor would commit suicide like that and can't even get that right.
It reminds me of the last king of Saxony, who in 1918 (was) "resigned" in the November revolution. He went packing with the immortal words:
"Mach doch euren Dreck aleene"
("So just do your shit without me")
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You know, I still can't believe that a German diplomat would say such crap in private to a WSJ journalist. .com's right. There is widespread derangement on the Left as the MSM's filtering out of inconvenient facts breaks down and they are faced with reality.
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According to Admiral Sandy Woodward's book a chunk of the force sent to the Falklands was doing wargames when the crisis happened. I think it would be unreasonable to expect them to head back to England and unload any non-PC weapons before going to war.
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This is an old story, one of many cyclic anti-military stories that are trotted out periodically by professional fifth columnists. They apparently do this whenever they feel the need to further demonize the military on behalf of various revolutionary forces.
Other examples are the killing of German POWs by Brits and Americans at the end of World War 2; new witnesses to, or accounts of, massacres and atrocities in Vietnam, Korea, Malaysia, etc; revelations of nefarious peacetime plots by the military in the remote past; obsolete contingency plans that are treated as new and ominous revelations, amazingly dangerous secret weapons like the Pluto nuclear-POWERED cruise missile, ad nauseum.
There are many others.
Those who exploit the media-conformist public's notoriously short attention span probably have a comprehensive list.
Come to think of it, a disgruntled ex-soldier claimed right after the Falklands War that 200 or more Argentine prisoners had been killed in cold blood after the battle at Goose Green. The loathesome Mirror trumpeted this for days, even though there was no corroborating evidence whatsoever. The report was hotly denied not just by the British paras who were being libelled, but by former Argentine prisoners who had been right on the spot of the alleged massacre.
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Come to think of it, a disgruntled ex-soldier claimed right after the Falklands War that 200 or more Argentine prisoners had been killed in cold blood after the battle at Goose Green
All but the prisoners part is true.
The Paras attacked out of the night outnumbered by only 5 to 1, it was a massacre. The Argentines never had a chance. It was compltely unsporting.
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I like the story of the Gurkhas who arrived on the Falklands only to find the Argies they were pitted up against surrendering to their reputation rather than fight against Gurkhas.
A side note many of the Gurkas got homesick when they saw the windswept wasteland of an island.
Mass extinctions seem to occur on Earth roughly every 26 million years, leading some scientists to propose that they may be caused by rare collisions with comets or asteroids. A researcher in Poland thinks it may be possible that extraordinary predators are at fault instead. Adam Lipowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) constructed a numerical model of many species competing for both food and living space. The model also included a term that controls mutation rates, allowing new species to develop over time. The model shows that, much of time, the system is populated with "medium efficiency" predators whose numbers fluctuate only slightly as the prey population waxes and wanes. Inevitably, their stable community is disrupted when mutations lead to a super predator that quickly decimates the prey population, which in turn leads to its own demise. The few creatures that survive the predatory apocalypse gradually mutate to fill the existing ecological niches - and the cycle begins again.
The period of the cycle depends on mutation rates in the model. The lower the mutation rate, the longer the periods between super predators. For a sufficiently low mutation rate, the model can lead to cycles that correspond to our 26 million year mass extinctions. Previous models that do not show these sorts of cycles could be faulty, according to Lipowski, because they failed to account for the effects of limited living spaces shared by a large number of different species.
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IIRC the 'super predators' were very specialized creatures. Man on the other hand is a grand generalist adapting to many varied conditions from the artic to the tropics, from the desert to mountain tops. His diet consists of almost any other creature and an equally broad selection of vegetation. After the next big one, it'll be us the rats and cockroaches making it to the next epoch.
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I'm o.k. with us, the cockroaches and the rats. As long as there are no jihadis left.
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I am still waiting for the man is evil conclusions.
According to Earth First, the ideal human population of the earth is Zero. Hmmm do these people understand they are human??? WAIT maybe they are not.
Now I am really confused
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., the most outspoken member of Congress on the issue of illegal immigration, wants an investigation into why a study of aliens crossing the border was discontinued by the Bush administration after initial results indicated the president's proposed "temporary worker proposal" plan encourages illegals to enter the U.S.
Tancredo and watchdog legal group Judicial Watch released previously undisclosed documents relating to the Border Patrol's 2004 survey. The survey asked illegal aliens whether they had heard of a U.S. government amnesty plan for illegal aliens (61 percent had) and whether the amnesty plan influenced their decision to cross the border (45 percent answered that it did).
According to a statement from Tancredo, memos from the Border Patrol and the White House obtained by Judicial Watch suggest the survey was conducted for political reasons. The poll was initiated on the day Bush announced his immigration plan, which critics refer to as an amnesty plan, and it was supposed to run for six months.
Three weeks later, however, a memo apparently from a Border Patrol source (titled "Casa Blanca Additional Info") said the survey was producing only 38 percent "positive responses." The survey was stopped days later, Tancredo notes, and Department of Homeland Security spokespersons received a memo titled "White House Approved Talking Points" that instructed them "not [to] talk about amnesty" or about the president's proposal.
"Do not talk about amnesty, increase in apprehensions, or give comparisons of past immigration reform proposals. ⊠Do not provide statistics on apprehension spikes or past amnesty data," Border Patrol agents were told in the memo, according to Judicial Watch.
"This is a bombshell," Tancredo said. "The White House and DHS leadership must immediately address the survey and the way the information request was handled so that the American people know that their government isn't playing politics with national security data.
"I have said all along that the president's immigration plan is amnesty, regardless of what the president calls it. We now have proof that illegal aliens understand that it's amnesty as well, and that it is an enticement to cross the border."
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff today, Tancredo wrote:
"Given what we know already, there are many questions that must be answered about the survey, DHS and White House management and the effects of the proposed amnesty plans.
"It is crucial that the American people know that their government is not letting politics get in the way of national security."
Judicial Watch says it filed a Freedom of Information Act with the Department of Homeland Security in February 2004. When Homeland Security stonewalled, Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit in June 2004. In May and June 2005, Judicial Watch forced the release of approximately 1,000 documents, including the surveys.
Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Kristi Clemens told the Associated Press the Judicial Watch report "is based on inconclusive findings and information taken out of context."
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Its only an Achilles heel if there is someone to shoot. Fortunately for Bush the Transnational Progressives of the Democratic Party don't believe in a national identity and therefore can't work themselves up defending the sovereignty of the nation's border. Besides it will limit the voter turnout in Wisconsin and Washington state.
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Waiting for Hillary's comment on this in 3, 2, 1... Actually, I agree. With as much as I love the Prez's approach to the WoT, this is a HUGE Achille's heel! I just hope more Congressmen/Senators make an issue out of it. Not to see the Prez suffer in the polls, but to get the problem fixed! It directly affects our National Security, and, after 9/11, we can't afford to play around with it anymore.
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I don't see what the big deal about this is. If the White House conducts some sort of study that may end up being embarassing to a position they hold, they're not obligated to continue and publish it. I mean, it's not like anyone with some intelligence couldn't figure out in short order the likely consequences of an offer of something even remotely resembling amnesty.
Brazil has yet to decide whether it will export uranium to China, or build more nuclear reactors despite recent reports in the Brazilian and international media. Both decisions are to be resolved soon when Brazil releases a yearlong comprehensive report, the work of six ministries, which contains a revision of its nuclear program and plans for the future. That report, known as the Brazilian Nuclear Program, has been in the works since May 2004, after President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva's visit to China in 2004.
This time a report in Estado de Sao Paulo suggests Brazil made a commitment to a new and ambitious nuclear program, but according to a high official in Brazil's nuclear program, no final decisions have been reached on the proposed report, which has not yet been presented to, nor adopted by, Lula. Although one of the scenarios envisioned by the new plan calls for building as many as seven new reactors, that is just one of many scenarios envisioned by the report, according to Odair Goncalves, president of Brazil's Atomic Energy Commission. "The proposed plan is still being debated within the executive office of the president and within the affected ministries," he said, noting export of uranium is prohibited under Brazil's existing laws.
Brazil does face an imminent decision, however, on whether it will proceed with construction of its third nuclear reactor, Angra III. Jose Dirceu, Lula's Chief of Staff, who favored proceeding with the project, recently had to quit over a financial scandal and his replacement is against building Angra III. "Angra III can be resolved without approving the recommended new Brazilian nuclear program," Goncalves said. "However, if the Brazilian Nuclear Program is approved in the manner we have proposed, it certainly it will involve Angra III." He added the new Brazilian nuclear program is more wide-ranging than the decision on Angra III.
The Atomic Energy Commission, known as CNEN, controls all nuclear material in Brazil and helps shape nuclear policy. Last year's news reports that Brazil would export enriched uranium to China, along with an earlier incident involving the International Atomic Energy, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, has brought Brazil's nuclear program to the world's attention. Goncalves called those stories inaccurate and misleading. He told United Press International of the actual events:
"While we were in China during the president's state visit, the Chinese indicated they wanted very much to import Uranium from us...they didn't much care at that point whether it was enriched or not. They're going to need a lot of uranium; they're planning to build at least 10 nuclear reactors. In fact they said that they would even come down to Brazil to help us mine for the uranium. We said that was not permitted by the Brazilian constitution and that Brazil was not considering the export of uranium. Those are the facts. I know because I was there at the negotiating table."
What happened next was someone from the highest levels of the Brazilian government (though not the Science and Technology Minister, nor Brazil's President) told reporters "Brazil is closing lots of deals with the Chinese...we are going to export lots of minerals to China ...we are going to export iron ore, soy beans and Uranium."
When that got out, it made the front pages of most of the world's newspapers. "So, we had to go out of our way to say, 'no' we're not planning to do this, but all the attention that story generated led our president to ask for an inter-ministerial review of our nation's nuclear program and our plans for the future," Goncalves said. "The president himself wanted to know if we had a plan for the future (for our nuclear program). And so we embarked on this revision of Brazil's nuclear program. The China issue stimulated the revision, because it became evident in various branches of our government, that it was a big strategic and international issue." During a recent interview with UPI, Dirceu, who was Lula's chief of staff at the time, confirmed Brazil was not involved in the international commerce of uranium, but indicated "an eventual reconsideration of that position depends upon the results of the wide-sweeping study of the Brazilian nuclear program which is currently under way." Dirceu also said "a decision on Angra III will be taken by President Lula after an analysis is completed by the Council on National Energy Policy, which includes the participation of my ministry; the ministers of Mines & Energy, the Environment, Science & Technology, Planning, and Industry & Commerce, along with members of Brazil's scientific community."
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Remarkably, Brazil was one of the very first countries to sponsor nuclear weapons research. During the 1930s some of the earliest research on nuclear fission was conducted at the Univeristy of Sao Paulo under a grant from the Brazilian army. At the time, fission was still a theoretical concept and had not been achieved in reality. Later, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Brazilian government set up a small program of clandestine research and a much broader program of civilian nuclear research.
Brazilian interest in nuclear weapons has waxed and waned in the decades since, but no informed observer doubts that the Brazilian authorities could construct a workable nuclear explosive in a matter of weeks if they really wanted to. The IAEA control regime is the main deterrent, with Brazil adhering to all IAEA requirements, in public at least. There is a possibility of a clandestine nuclear program, of course, but no evidence for it. It is known that such programs have existed in the past ("Project Solimões" from 1977-88).
Claudia Rosett has bad news: Kofi wants a bunch more moola - yours. EFL
But if there is one item in all Mr. Annan's talk of reform that should provoke distinct horror, cold sweats, and mighty fears over the trajectory of the U.N., it is a small cipher embedded in Mr. Annan's tastefully printed and expensively bound proposal for U.N. reform, "In Larger Freedom," Annex item No. 5(d). That would be the proposal that developed countries contribute 0.7% of their gross domestic income to the cause of "official development assistance."
For the U.S. alone, where gross national income now totals about $11 trillion, that would add up to more than $82 billion per year--by itself more than 10 times what the U.N. has already failed miserably to manage well. And though Mr. Annan does not spell out exactly how such official aid would "officially" reach its intended beneficiaries, the clear implication is that it would go through the "official" U.N.--generating a great gush of cash, with no more need for the U.N. to worry about reform, or Mr. Annan and his successors even to strain themselves sending staffers to lobby Washington, or signing self-laudatory Op-eds.
Sound familiar? It should. It is unnervingly similar to the U.N. arrangement via Oil for Food in which Saddam paid 2.2% of his oil revenues to the U.N. to supervise the program. As long at the deal continued, the flow of funds to the U.N. was automatic. And because the money belonged by rights to the people of Iraq, but Mr. Annan did his U.N. deals not with them, but with Baghdad's tyrant, the effect was taxation without representation. The predictable result was a carnival of graft in which both Saddam and his biggest business partner, the U.N., hoodwinked the general world public and short-changed most of the 26 million Iraqis who were neither family members of U.N. top officials, nor cronies of Saddam.
Investigators are still trying to follow the money from that last U.N. grand scam. To think seriously for even a second about Mr. Annan's plan to levy a percentage tax, of any size whatsoever, on the GDP of the developed world, is a route not to help for the hungry, but to Orwell's "Animal Farm." The European Union seems so far to find this acceptable--perhaps because the continental elite know that once again, America would pay the lion's share of the biggest bonanza that global bureaucracy has ever seen. But the idea ought to inspire Americans, at least, to take those costly copies of Mr. Annan's reform report (round III) and, in the spirit of Boston, 1773, throw a Turtle Bay Tea Party.
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Annan's brain-fart brings to mind some immortal words:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation...
Can we declare our independence from the UN?
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WASHINGTON, June 28 (Bernama) -- Overseas Vietnamese, who fled the communist regime after the fall of Saigon in 1975 in boats or "the Boat People" as they were called, are pleading to the Malaysian government not to destroy the memorial they set up on Pulau Bidong in Terengganu to commemorate their comrades who perished in their quest for freedom.
Derrick Nguyen, 41, who arrived in Pulau Bidong in 1980 with just his shirt on his back, and now a Civil Litigation lawyer in Los Angeles, California, said, "the Vietnamese government pressured the Indonesian government to destroy the memorial set up in Pulau Galang, which they did, and now they are pressuring the Malaysian government to do the same with Bidong."
Malaysian Tourism Minister, Datuk Leo Michael Toyad, at a press conference to promote Malaysia in the US, said in Los Angeles that the Malaysian government were "good friends with the Vietnamese government" and "would look for a solution."
About 850,000 people died on their voyages in little boats while traversing the South China Sea in the 70's and 80's in search of refuge after South Vietnam capitulated to North Vietnam, which marked the end of Vietnam War in 1975.
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Two of my favorite people were Vietnam boat people. Starting with absolutely nothing, they now have a successful pizza parlor in the nation's capital, two sons at UVirginia, and a pair of chocolate labs named Fred and Ginger.
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My favorite BP is Charlie (really) owner (land and all, no leeesseee) Mini Mart and Washatria. Daughter is in Stanford, number one son is an aide to a FL state senator and owner of a fine pawn shop and nail emporium.
I remember when Bin Laden got pissed about American hookers insulting his johnson. That didn't turn out too good.
TEHRAN (AFP) - Perplexed by the vitriol of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's attacks on Iran, one lawmaker believes he has uncovered the secret of her enmity -- that she was spurned by an Iranian boyfriend at college. "The reason that the US secretary of state attacks Iran is because she had her heart broken by a young man from Qazvin while they were students," a confident Shokrollah Attarzadeh was quoted by the ISNA agency as saying. Yeah those fast guys from Qazvin. They'll do it every time...
Somewhat mysteriously, he added: "This is the result of an investigation by a woman MP, who cannot be named." She can say no more. Whoever she is.
Qazvin is an unremarkable city 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Tehran, hitherto not known for playing a major role Iran-US relations, which have been frozen for a quarter of a century. Gee, can't imagine why...
Attarzadeh did not offer any other details on the alleged affair or, for that matter, any interesting new proposal on how ties between the two arch-enemies could be warmed up. Hook 'em up again? Teary reunion?
Surprising as it may be, amorous explanations for diplomatic machinations are nothing new here. It was rumoured last year that German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer hardened his tone towards Iran after acquiring a girlfriend who supports the exiled opposition. The alleged leniency of International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohammad ElBaradei towards Iran's nuclear programme has also been explained by ... him having an Iranian wife. ...and Iran is, as we all know, the center of the universe.
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I am so hoping that Dick Cheney decides to let her have the last year or so of his Vice Presidency. That would ring the planet like a bell in so many positive ways...
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This "theory" is hilarious enough, but the guy crossed over to fiction when he mentioned the source is a female MP. Now, I know it's all crap! How, un-Islamic, you infidel mullah!
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you KNOW he drove a POS Trans AM
brige builders skared of the deadly gold phoenix brid! I laugh! I have several Fur Birds!
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The Iranian who made the remark did so because as a college student he was forced to listen to George Jones during his stay at an American university.
BEIRUT - Lebanon has eased rules denying Palestinian refugees living in the country since the creation of Israel the right to work in most jobs, Labour Minister Trad Hamadeh said on Tuesday. A decree issued by Hamadeh on Monday allows Palestinians born in Lebanon to work in a range of private-sector jobs previously restricted to Lebanese citizens.
The decree does not entirely lift restrictions that have been in place for over two decades, which ban Palestinians from working in professions such as medicine, law or engineering.
Though the Paleos have been able to find work in traditional occupations such as hard boyz, gunnies, and exploding meat.
âIsrael kicked the Palestinians out and they are in our country whether we like it or not,â Hamadeh told Reuters. âDenying them the right to work is against human rights.â
Letting Paleos explode is against human rights as well, but that hasn't caused you to do anything about it.
The move comes after tens of thousands of Syrian workers left Lebanon as Syria, under local and international pressure, ended its 29-year military presence in its neighbour in April.
Hamadeh, who is close to Lebanonâs anti-Israeli Hizbollah guerrilla group, did not say how many of the 390,000 Palestinian refugees registered in the countryâs 12 squalid camps would benefit from the new rules.
Successive Lebanese governments have denied the mainly Sunni Muslim refugees -- whose ancesters who lost their homes with the creation of Israel in 1948 -- employment and property rights, let alone citizenship, fearing they may settle permanently in the country and upset its delicate sectarian balance.
What's one more crazy group of gun-toting homies?
Palestinians have largely been restricted to jobs provided by UNRWA, the United Nations agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees. Many work in various jobs outside the camps but they often do so illegally.
Palestinian factions in Lebanon welcomed the decision, but called for more steps to improve their peopleâs living conditions, many of whom live in teeming camps where rubbish piles up in rutted lanes and sewage runs through the streets.
Thanks to the UNRWA.
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon face more difficulties than their counterparts in other Arab countries, where they have more rights to education and work. Palestinian factions in Lebanon say they do not want to settle in Lebanon, but demand they be given their rights in Lebanon until they can return to their homes in what is now Israel.
And their grandchildren will be claiming that great-great-great-great-grand-dad had a huge house on Market Street in Haifa, and they won't be satisfied until they get it back. And kill all the Joooos, of course.
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Israel didn't "kick the paleos out" - though they should have.
The surrounding Arab nations TOLD the Arabs living in the new Israel to leave, and then attacked Israel with the intent of killing all the Jews so the Arabs could have all the land.
Didn't work out quite as planned.
And you will notice that all those Arab countries WON'T TAKE THE "REFUGEES" THEY CREATED. Ever wonder what they know?
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LGF had a story last week about Paleos showing the keys to their old houses. Look closely at the pictures and you note that they are each holding the exact same key.
US television viewers handed Ronald Reagan the title of "Greatest American" ahead of legendary president and national savior Abraham Lincoln and civil rights trailblazer Martin Luther King Jr. Reagan, who died last year aged 93, headed a list of 25 contenders sorted by votes of three million viewers in a live finale to the Discovery Channel/AOL "Greatest American" campaign.
Supporters credit Reagan, dubbed 'The Great Communicator' who served as president from (1981-1989) with winning the Cold War and restoring American morale after a string of foreign policy reverses. Opponents however contend that Reagan's legacy has been boosted artificially by supporters since he left office.
Assassinated president Lincoln, who saved the American union from breaking up during the Civil War, came second, one place ahead of King. George Washington, the first US president was fourth. Statesman, inventor and philosopher Benjamin Franklin was fifth. Current US President George W. Bush was sixth, immediately ahead of predecessor Bill Clinton, who edged out the 'King' Elvis Presley, by one spot, despite being impeached over a sex scandal. Talk show diva Oprah Winfrey came ninth, and was top woman in the poll, results of which appeared heavily weighted towards recent American personalities.
Franklin W. Roosevelt, who as president safeguarded US civilization twice, once during a cataclysmic banking crisis and then in the battle against Nazism and imperial Japan, came tenth. Other noted US luminaries failed to creep into the top 10, including evangelist Billy Graham, scientist Albert Einstein and software mogul Bill Gates. Another current hero, cyclist Lance Armstrong, about to open his quest for a seventh consecutive Tour de France after beating cancer, came in 20th place - and was the top sporting star, one place ahead of boxing legend Muhammad Ali.
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Much as I love Ronnie, George Washington is--without a doubt--my number one American! If not for him, we wouldn't even be discussing who the greatest American is, because there would be no such creatures.
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Agreed, Dar! And I love Reagan as much, so put him in at #2.
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I like Reagan too, but over GW and Honest Abe? He's in mighty good company there but definitely #3 in a very strong field.
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Oprah Winfrey is the Greatest American Woman of All Time? Oh that's just what her ego needs to get even bigger...
In complete agreement with you, but just the entertainment value of getting to say "Ronald Reagan, Greatest American" and irk the moonbats is worth it.
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Dar,
If you think about it, President Reagan probably would have agreed with you. He was a very modest man when it came to his comparisons with history.
And God, I miss him so.
Mike
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"Did you know I have 3 Purple Hearts?" - John sKerry
EFL:The leader of Liberia's transitional government, Gyude Bryant, has promised to use the death penalty against anyone found guilty of sacrificial killings. During an address on state radio Mr Bryant said people were killing in the belief it would make them successful, rich, or the next president. A BBC correspondent in Liberia says the number of ritual murders are growing. Sacrifices have been reported in three of Liberia's counties - the latest involving beheading and organ removal.
"We'll find you, we'll arrest you, we'll prosecute you and let me say again to everybody, if the judge passes down a ruling to say you must die by hanging, I will hang you," Mr Bryant said. "I will sign the death warrant without batting my eye."
I think that's pretty clear. You could run for governer of Texas on that platform
Elections for the first president since Charles Taylor left the country are due in October, which, our correspondent says, is the likely reason for the increased number of ritual killings. Human parts such as genital organs are believed to offer supernatural powers, especially by aspiring politicians and so the number of alleged ritual killing rises in the run-up to elections.
It would add some spice to the New Hampshire primaries. I hear Hillary has several democrat's balls in a jar on her desk
"If you killed because you want to make a sacrifice to be president or senator, you fool yourself," Mr Bryant said. "Stop ritualistic killings, it will not pay you anything, it will not make you rich, it will not give you jobs." In January extra United Nations peacekeepers had to be sent to south-eastern Liberia following violent protests over alleged ritual killings.
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For a minute there I thought the headline read, "Liberal Ritual Killings Warning".
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"Stop ritualistic killings, it will not pay you anything, it will not make you rich, it will not give you jobs."
Listen to him, he is correct! You must put all of your loose change in a dishpan and swish it about, it is the only honest way to make money.
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A fault in an undersea cable has crippled many of Pakistan's internet and mobile phone links overseas. The fault occurred late on Monday and systems are still down. One internet official said it could take two weeks to repair. The fault has been traced to a point in the Arabian Sea 35km (21 miles) south of Karachi and technicians from Dubai are travelling to make repairs. Disruption could also occur in India, the United Arab Emirates, Djibouti and Oman, which are also linked by the cable, Pakistani telecommunications officials said. Shahid Ahmed, chief engineer of Pakistan Telecommunication (PTCL), which operates the link, said of the repair work: "This is a highly sophisticated operation and only specialised companies can undertake such a delicate task under the sea. "Pakistan has no such ability."
Gah! I'm having withdrawal symptoms! No turban fix from Daily Times... *gasp!*
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If you had an entire country at the end of a single communication line, and that country passed a huge about of it's hostile communications through that line, and those communications included clandestine content involving the strategy of and whereabout of the most wanted man in the world, would you tap in?
Gee!
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The fossilized skeleton of a small crocodile relative excavated last year at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona throws a wrench into theories of how and where the dinosaurs arose more than 210 million years ago at the end of the Triassic Period. The animal, one of many creatures from the Late Triassic known only from their teeth, was thought to be an ancestor of the plant-eating ornithischian dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and Triceratops, which roamed the world millions of years later in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
The fact that this presumed dinosaur, Revueltosaurus callenderi, is instead a crocodile ancestor does not merely disappoint rockhounds, who sell the abundant teeth as "dinosaur teeth," but it also throws into question the identity of other presumed dinosaur ancestors known only from teeth, which includes all Late Triassic ornithischians outside South America. "Because the teeth look like those we know from herbivorous ornithischians, people assigned them to the dinosaurs," said Randall Irmis, a graduate student in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley. "We think we've shown that you can't rely on the dentition to determine what is an early dinosaur, which casts doubt on all the ornithischians from the Triassic of North America."
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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DUBAI - Dubai Customs has announced sponsorship for 'Sanabel Al Khaeer 2005' project which will continue till August 11, 2005. The project, organised at Al Sedeq Centre for the Holy Quran memorisation in Rashidiya, involves participation from children of all ages.
China said Monday it has a duty to restrict the activities of the outlawed Falungong spiritual group overseas if members disrupt its embassies. "Every government in the world has the obligation and responsibility to act according to international law and laws governing international relations to stop any individuals or organizations, be it the Falungong or other groups, from disrupting the normal work of China's diplomatic missions in Australia," said Shen Guofang, assistant minister of foreign affairs. "We hope relevant international standards could be abided by. And we will remain in close touch with relevant agencies in Australia."
A fault in an undersea cable has crippled many of Pakistan's internet and mobile phone links overseas. The fault occurred late on Monday and systems are still down. One internet official said it could take two weeks to repair. The fault has been traced to a point in the Arabian Sea 35km (21 miles) south of Karachi and technicians from Dubai are travelling to make repairs. Disruption could also occur in India, the United Arab Emirates, Djibouti and Oman, which are also linked by the cable, Pakistani telecommunications officials said. Shahid Ahmed, chief engineer of Pakistan Telecommunication (PTCL), which operates the link, said of the repair work: "This is a highly sophisticated operation and only specialised companies can undertake such a delicate task under the sea. "Pakistan has no such ability." 
