CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday. Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.
Studies like this make me glad I'm not in this line of work.
Two-thirds of the 50 patients in the study did not receive the full dosage of the drug, which instead lodged in the fat tissue of their buttocks, researchers from The Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Dublin said in a presentation to the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. Besides patients receiving less than the correct drug dosage, medications that remain lodged in fat can cause infection or irritation, researchers Victoria Chan said.
"There is no question that obesity is the underlying cause. We have identified a new problem related, in part, to the increasing amount of fat in patients' buttocks," Chan said. "The amount of fat tissue overlying the muscles exceeds the length of the needles commonly used for these injections," she said.
"Nurse, the number 10 harpoon, please"
The 25 men and 25 women studied at the Irish hospital ranged in age from 21 to 87.
The buttocks are a good place for intramuscular injections because there are relatively few major blood vessels, nerves and bones that can be damaged by a needle. Plentiful smaller blood vessels found in muscle carry the drug to the rest of the body, while fat tissue contains relatively few blood vessels.
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"Nurse, the number 10 harpoon, please"
Dag-nabbit, Steve, you owe me a new keyboard! Hot tea thru the nose hurts!
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"Nurse, the number 10 harpoon, please"
Dag-nabbit, Steve, you owe me a new keyboard! Hot tea thru the nose hurts!
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Note to self: do not post while convulsing with laughter
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Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.
my baby's got 'mo back
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It should serve as some slight consolation that any extra metal diverted towards longer hypodermic needles is being saved on the much tinier scoops it requires to perform a lobotomy these days.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- Armed robbers made off with a lion cub and two Arabic-speaking parrots in a recent raid on Gaza's zoo, Palestinian police chief and newspapers said. Suod al-Shawwa, the zoo's chairman of the board, told Palestinian newspapers four masked gunmen used blankets to try to snatch a pair of lion cubs, but only managed to capture one.
"They wrapped the lion cub in a blanket and took him away," Shawwa said.
Soon to be fitted with a bomb belt and hailed as a "Lion Of Islam"
He said the Kalashnikov-toting gang first tied the zoo keeper up in a cafeteria and then made their way to the cages, where they also seized the parrots.
Palestinian police chief Ala Husni said forces were investigating the theft and believed the cub and parrots were being concealed in a Gaza hide-out. Shawwa promised a $1,000 reward to whoever managed to track the animals down. The small zoo opened last month in the crowded, poverty-stricken coastal strip and is also home to squirrels, monkeys, an ostrich, and some household pets.
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Armed robbers made off with a lion cub and two Arabic-speaking parrots in a recent raid...
"Sqwaak...sqwaaak...Arafat was a homo...sqwaak...sqwaak....Arafat died of AIDS...Sqwaak..."
DURBAN: A new type of condom with "sharp teeth" has been unveiled in South Africa that can help arrest rapists. The condom named Rapex "is made from latex and has several rows of sharp teeth that can only be removed from the male sex organ of a rapist by a doctor," Sonette Ehlers claimed while demonstrating the device.
Ehlers told South African national radio, SAFM, that the Rapex is a personal security device that women will use to protect them from rapists. She said women would have to insert and remove the Rapex with an applicator.
"The Rapex will help in the arrest of rapists." Ehlers said the Rapex has already gone on sale at several outlets in the country. Ehlers, 57, of Kimberley town in the Northern Cape province gave a demonstration of the condom at the start of two weeks of activism against violence against women and children. South Africa has one of the highest rape incidents in the world with more than 55,000 rapes reported annually.
Given the prevalence of AIDS there, this isn't a feminist thing - it's a survival tactic. Good for them.
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Ya just what the women need is some Aids infected guy bleeding all over a young girl. But then he will probably beat her to death for it anyway. They need to enforce a very painfull law to keep Rape from happening.
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What the hell is wrong with Africa why can they not control thier primal urges to the point were Aids is out of control and rape is off the freekin charts to the point were they have to hand out chastity belts on steroids with teeth. WTF whatever happended to self control
LOPBURI, Thailand - As a party, it was a disaster: almost all of the guests of honor were too frightened to make an appearance. Those that came ate and ran. But the monkeys arenât known for their good manners, to the delight of hundreds of tourists who converged Sunday in Lopburi for its 17th annual monkey banquet.
And Burmese monkeys would be better mannered?
The party is thrown by local hotelier Yongyuth Kitwatananuson, who is thankful for the business the monkeys bring his city, which is 112 kilometers (70 miles) north of Bangkok.
Lopburi's a nice little city. They do have a monkey problem, though...
The long-tailed macaques are regarded as disciples of Chao Pho Prakarn, a four-armed deity whose likeness is enshrined in the heart of the town. With such status, they are given free rein - often to the despair of human residents. They can be seen dropping peanut shells on street vendors from building ledges, relieving themselves off awnings onto curious onlookers, and making merry on the electrical wires they use as footpaths as they roam the city. A sign at a local park says, âBeware of monkeys snatching your purse.â
Didn't Indiana Jones have one of these?
Even on their special day, they behaved badly. Three monkeys swarmed five teenage girls carrying bags of fruit to the temple, causing them to run into a telephone booth screaming. When one of the monkeys clambered up the side of the booth, the girls screamed again and ran, leaving the monkeys to feast on the sidewalk.
Thai monkeys don't hate us, they find us amusing.
And it sounds like both the girls and the monkeys were having great fun...
Meanwhile, at least 1,000 human onlookers gathered to watch the monkeys eat three piles of fruits and vegetables beside the ancient temple where they live. But by the time bleachers were erected, a sound system put into place, and dances performed in the monkeysâ honor by vegetable-draped college students, Thai classical dancers and a troupe of ponies, there was hardly a macaque in sight. The crowds and noise scared them all off - except for one or two dozen brave ones who stuffed themselves, leaving a terrible mess behind.
"Hey, Jocko! Pass the fruit, will you?"
[Pooooooop!]
"No, I meant hand me some!"
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KUWAIT CITY â Kuwaitâs parliament speaker said in remarks published yesterday the state needed to legalise political parties in the future but the time was not yet right. âThe time is not suitable now for forming parties,â said House Speaker Jassem Al Kharafi during a visit to Qatar on Saturday in remarks carried by Kuwait newspapers yesterday.
They need to 'educate' the people first. Can't have them voting on their own. Next thing you know they might have .. democracy!
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The Saudi Labor Ministry announced new laws and regulations concerning foreign household labor. The new rules have been stated to offer better guarantees for financial and psychological rights of the workers. The laws will be implemented at the beginning of the next Islamic month, Zhu Al Qa'dah.
Does that mean you can't buy 'em just for sex anymore?
The new laws permit a family to hire a foreign maid only if the family has at least one child, or if the mother works or studies. They permit the hiring of a driver only if the wife or a child works or studies, or if the family has children who go to school daily. The families who want to hire another maid will either have more than one child, or the father more than one wife, or prove that any of the grandparents who reside in the same household need care. Those who want another driver will be obliged to prove that the existence of a second wife or more, than one working daughter. In all of the above cases, the family has to be financially able to afford the salary and the living expenses of household workers before employing helpers.
Cheeze. They gotta pay 'em, too?... No. Wait. It just sez they have to be able to afford to pay them...
The ministry also agreed to permit any Saudi who himself suffers or one of his dependents suffer from illnesses, old age, or disabilities, to hire a foreign worker in the household. However, he should present a medical report that proves the need for help, and should be able to afford financially the expenses for such assistance. The ministry also defined a minimum level of income for the hiring of foreign workers in the household. The father of a household that requires the assistance of a single helper should earn no less than 3500 Saudi Riyals per month. To hire a second worker, he should earn no less than 8000 Saudi Riyals and for a third worker, no less than 12,000 Saudi Riyals. For the assistance of four workers, the wage earner should earn at least 20,000 Saudi Riyals per month. For those who do not work for the government or in the private sector and does not have an official business record of a private business should first present a bank statement that shows the equivalent level of income for the four cases mentioned above.
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There will be at least as many exemptions and exceptions granted as will abide by it. The Saudis (who can afford it) are addicted, this is for PR purposes, most likely. Pretty soon they'll have the spiffiest windows in the Gulf.
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I wonder when OUR govt will get around to dealing with the problem of Phillipina house slaves in Saudi households here in Washington and other American cities.
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TEGUCIGALPA - Opposition Liberal Party candidate Manuel Zelaya declared victory on Sunday after an exit poll showed him with 50.6 percent of the vote in Honuduras presidential election. Zelaya beat Porfirio Lobo, of the governing National Party, who has garnered 44.3 percent of the vote, the poll found.
Polls officially closed in most of Honduras at 4:00 pm (2200 GMT), and early returns were expected at 9:00 pm (0300 GMT Monday). âThere were minor problems, such as a lack of indelible ink at some polling stations, but the rest went well,â Organization of American States spokesman Carlos Flores told AFP. Over 100 OAS observers were present.
Zelaya, who will replace President Ricardo Maduro, will take the helm of a small Central American country with 30 percent unemployment and 70 percent of the population of seven million living in poverty. Zelaya, 53, a civil engineer, rancher and former investment minister who has twice run successfully for the National Congress, advocates instituting life imprisonment for gang members and a free-market economy.
I like this guy. What's he doing in 2008?
He will inaugurate his four-year term on January 27.
Hondurasâ 3.9 million eligible voters also chose a vice president, 128 legislators and an equal number of alternates as well as mayors of 298 municipalities.
Zelaya comes from a family of ranchers in Olancho and was president of the Association of Wood Industries, the director of the Honduran Private Enterprise Council and managed a bank as well as other businesses. He served as minister of the Honduran Social Security Fund under president Carlos Flores, a difficult time for the ministry as Honduras was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
It fell to the ministry to rebuild roads, buildings, aqueducts and other public works, involving local communities in setting their priorities. Zelaya promised to revisit the idea and apply it to other tasks, such as crime, under his campaign slogan, âcitizen power.â However, his detractors in the National Party claimed he took the slogan from neighboring Nicaraguaâs Saninista president Daniel Ortega.
The Social Forum for Foreign Debt and Social Development of Honduras (FOSDEH) lamented that âwhat should have been addressed during the campaignâ wound up âbeing buriedâ. The gangs have become âthe countryâs principal problem, over poverty, misery, corruption, a weak economy, immigration, lack of jobs,â the Forum said in a statement.
"The people never vote the way we tell them to!" the Forum lamented in its statement.
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Beginning from today, Shanghai will screen international passengers for bird flu prevention. All passengers leaving or entering China will be asked to fill in a health declaration form, specifying whether they have had "close contact with birds, poultry, bird flu patients over the past week" and whether they have "such symptoms as fever, coughing and being short of breath." Gosh, you think that you could escape such monitoring by just lying on your declaration form. And it's a good thing that they decline to monitor domestic flights...it's only those filthy foreigners who spread disease into China from outside.
A passenger who has a temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius will be further examined. If someone has been to a bird flu-hit area or had contact with birds or poultry, then a treatment at a designated hospital is required. The health declaration and temperature monitoring measures were initiated in 2003 when the SARS epidemic hit China. Yeah, and that was really effective. Volunteer to miss your flight and be taken to a "hospital". They kept the SARS declaration forms around for much, much longer than the disease itself was around.
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing formally apologized to Russia on Saturday over the contamination of shared river water following a chemical plant blast in China, the two countries' main news agencies reported. Li, in a meeting with Russian Ambassador to China Sergei Razov, expressed his government's "regret over the possible harms to be done to the Russian people by the major environmental pollution accident," China's Xinhua News Agency reported.
LONDON, Nov 28 (AFP) - France tried to blame Britain's foreign intelligence agency MI6 for the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand, infuriating British officials, according to official documents published Monday. Calling for firm action to end the French government's "debilitating campaign of smear", one Foreign Office official wrote that stories in the French media implicating MI6 "probably resulted from efforts by the DGSE (the French intelligence service) to divert attention from themselves".
The revelations were published Monday by the Guardian newspaper, which obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act. French agents, on government orders, planted bombs on the Rainbow Warrior in July 1985 while the vessel was in a New Zealand harbor on its way to block a French nuclear test in the South Pacific. The attack killed one crew member and created a scandal in the French government, which denied the bombings for more than two months.
Soon after the bombing, French news media began to report the theory that British agents had sunk the Rainbow Warrior and framed French agents to discredit France. The Sunday Times told the British Foreign Office in late August 1985 that "French official sources were briefing freely 'anyone who would listen' about British involvement in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior". Malcolm Rifkind, then a junior foreign minister, instructed British diplomats in Paris to tell the French government to end the "campaign of misinformation". When the stories continued, the British complained to the French again, who denied the reports.
On September 4, 1985 a Foreign Office official wrote: "Despite all these protestations of innocence, the cumulative evidence from many quarters of French official briefing now seems irrefutable." He recommended stronger action to end "this debilitating campaign of smear".
Though British officials were angry at being implicated in the bombing, the British ambassador in Paris, Sir John Fretwell, warned that the scandal threatened to topple then French president François Mitterrand.
"The highest personalities in the land are fighting for political survival and even the fabric of the state is beginning to shake under the impact of repeated revelations, denunciations, attempts to acknowledge bits of truth while concealing others ... and the desperate attempts to find answers which will somehow satisfy public opinion while keeping the president above the melee," the ambassador wrote, according to the documents.
Mitterrand survived the scandal, but his defense minister and the head of the secret service were sacked, and two French secret service agents were jailed after pleading guilty to the attack.
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Bomb 'em again. And as you leave the scene, be sure to wave to those nice hippies as they receive their first and last bath.
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The critical point here is that France appears to have a habit of running intelligence operations against its supposed allies. Makes them all the more likely for the forged uranium documents, IMHO.
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Worried officials monitored Italy's swelling rivers as severe winter weather sweeping across Europe brought more heavy rain and snow on Sunday, and authorities in Austria warned of a "substantial" risk of avalanches. In central Italy, authorities were forced to close roads and evacuate dozens of families from homes near rivers. Local and state personnel in the coastal community of Fiumicino, just west of Rome, kept a close eye on the ever-rising Tiber and booked about 800 beds at area hotels, the ANSA news agency reported. "We're not in an emergency, but in a state of alert," Guido Bertolaso, head of the Civil Protection Department, told reporters.
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Worried officials monitored Italy's swelling rivers as severe winter weather sweeping across Europe brought more heavy rain and snow on Sunday, and authorities in Austria warned of a "substantial" risk of avalanches. In central Italy
The freezing winter, EU '05-'06.
mo blaming Bush..check
mo conferences...check
mo meetings...check
mo press thingys..check
mo money..check
mo whining..check
mo sniveling..check
mo snotting..check
mo blubbering..check
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Fiumicino,
After it winds its way through Rome, the famous Tiber river empties out into the Med at Fiumicino.
It has a fair share of fat floaters leasurely turning and bumping along downstream..sheep, cows, a few horses and the occational dog..We were tied up for repairs [civilian] and they would get stuck 'tween the bow & pier. The perfume was dreamy and it regularly woke the living out of a deep sleep..
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There is much more to this. EU states have believed their own Kyoto inspired but unrealistic energy projection, So they are facing a severe energy shortage if cold weather continues. The price of natural gas in the UK has risen by an eye-popping 400% in a month (thats right the price is 5 times what it was a month ago).
The UK economy is heavily dependant on natural gas and faces the real prospect of running out and needing to shut down large parts of industry.
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Worried officials monitored Italy's swelling rivers as severe winter weather sweeping across Europe brought more heavy rain and snow on Sunday, and authorities in Austria warned of a "substantial" risk of avalanches.
The headline should be Greek Police Fail to Catch Up with Fleeing Donkey Cart.
From correspondent in Patras, Greece
POLICE were involved in a bizarre chase with a gang of thieves who escaped from the scene of the crime on a cart pulled by a donkey. Three thieves, aged between 13 and 15, raced away from the local hospital with a stolen safe tied to their cart. Police chased the gang through the town's narrow, winding streets for more than an hour. They were unable to overhaul the donkey and cart until it turned into a dead-end street.
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I've been to Europe, while this seems to be taken as humor, the truth is that the ancient streets were built before the automobile was invented and were designed for foot traffic or only one donkey and )Narrow) cart wide, only very small cars can even get into these streets and there's no such thing as passing or two way traffic.
Cops had no choice but to follow.
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After a bit of thought, they could have gotten away by just dumping something too heavy for the cops to lift off the back of the cart.
A log, or a big concrete block would do it, the cops would have to back down the narrow alley, and go around.
Not too many years ago a bunch of bank robbers in a stolen car got away by pulling into an Apartment complex parking lot, stepping through a hedge and over a small culvert, and driving away in another car they had stashed (Parked) in the next apartment complex parking lot.
The cops had to go about three miles to get to the other apartment complex entrance, and the crooks were long gone.
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Don't see that in Foxes Breaking News L.A. chases.
From The Drudge Report
...ABC alone has at least two would-be shows set in post-apocalyptic America ("Resistance" and "Red & Blue") while Gavin Polone and Bruce Wagner are teaming for the comfy-sounding plague drama "Four Horsemen" at CBS (which also is developing "Jericho," about life in a small town after America is destroyed).
Says Fox exec VP Craig Erwich: "The creative community appears to be really inspired this year," he says. "It was an exciting time to be buying. I came away pretty encouraged about network TV." I can't tell if they're trying to follow up on the X-Files, recycle the stuff from late-night conspiracy talk radio into the mainstream (which they seem to try to do on a roughly 18 month or so cycle), or a little bit of both.
Anyone who wants to read reasonably well done books in this genre would do well with start with S. M. Stirling's 'Protector' series, or his earlier 'Island in the Sea of Time' series.
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I don't know how to paste images into comments.
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"resistance" was covered in Amerika back in the 80s. Appocalypse was covered in a hundred sci-fi movies since then. Everytime a Republican is in office the end of the world movies multiply. Nothing to see here, move along.
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I think it would be good to actually have a movie or two that showed honestly what (a) it would be like after a fundamentalist Islam takeover of the world or (b) A fundamentalist Islam takeover of Europe after the US return to Isolationism left them undefended and unwilling to defend themselves.
Hollywood is unlikely to make those films but they would be worthwhile additions to the public debate.
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This makes sense to the LLL fever swamp, because they believe they will be left in power after every one dies. If they are left standing (pun intended) then they can start and build a true utopia like they want. I think many of them are hoping for Americaâs demise simple so they can be that alternative or the lesser of two evils in their minds. They have to hope for this because they canât get back in power otherwise and thatâs all that counts for them.
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As far as I'm concerned, they'll never beat Niven & Pournelle's Lucifer's Hammer or Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon!
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I think it would be good to actually have a movie or two that showed honestly what (a) it would be like after a fundamentalist Islam takeover of the world or (b) A fundamentalist Islam takeover of Europe after the US return to Isolationism left them undefended and unwilling to defend themselves.
RJ - Good enough premise. Once it is demonstrated that Roe v. Wade would become moot in such a regime, the Left might actually get behind the concept of fighing Islamism.
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Once it is demonstrated that Roe v. Wade would become moot in such a regime, the Left might actually get behind the concept of fighing Islamism.
Doubt it. To the Left this wouldn't apply to the holy elite. Just as they dont feel that gun control, labor laws, etc... should apply to the elite now.
As in gun-control advocates who employ gun-toting bodyguards or a certain Senate minority (Democratic) 'leader' who owns non-union shops and non-union hotels yet insists what everyone else bow to the union gods....
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I would like to see a movie were a diseased culture & religion with millions of followers is in a mission from god to conquer the world and kill all who oppose them or will not convert. This is a subculture/movement clandesintly supported by some nations by none but few openly while they work to gain thier power base. In this movie the world is left dealing with the in-human tactics of the enemy all the while the atrocities grow in number and cost to innnocents. The world torn between those who want to defeat this movement and those who are trapped in indecision becuase their own diseased culture cant come to grips with the nessecary evil that must be undertaken at times to defeat this enemy. The internal struggles as the battle is engaged and one group willing to do whatever nessecary to win is held back and slowed by the other who cannot come to grips with the sacrifice of both blood and certian morals to rage the war instead stuck in insecurity to accomplish the struggle and the dream of somehow reaching a negotiated settlement but not knowing who or were to start with in that process. The world dealing with this internal struggle all the while the enemy movement grows in strength and ability looking for a nation state to use as its base to expand into world domination and the WMD's or any other means to force by intolleragle losses the surrender of those who disagree with thier world domination.
This would make a great movie deep plot twist ohhhhh wait a minute I didnt dream that its Todays Reality.
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Shit, the LLL doesn't want Poxyclipse, its boys living in rural America who want a chance to use all the fuckin guns ammo and skills we've been perfecting since granpa came back from WWII.
shit I don't know more than a few LLL who'd survive the first week without Starbucks and Sirius. While the good ole boys like us would be having a hell of a time, after we raided Wally World and began to establish micro-Americas. Then we'd block all the in roads from the city and be set!
Then it would just be maintain community, and shoot all others who come within 1000 yards. Survival for approachers would depend on how much tit we could see through our scopes at 1000 yards no doubt.
Liberals...mostly ain't into such things, they need their credit card machines at the drive throughs, and poxyclipses dont provide receipts!
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The Lefties regard themselves as "alternatives" -read "SUPERIORS/BETTERS" - to anyone and everyone, including and espec other "impure" or "mongrelized" or "defective" Lefties. THe fact that the curr Clinton-led Dems are deamnding that the Federal-level of Govt., and ONLY the Fed level, unilaterally expand to take care of milyuhns and zilyuhns of illegal immigrants and NOLA refugees and domestic agendas, while at the same time "cut-n-run". "Withdraw/Exit" from Iraq,....Etc. unreliable = incompetent = dishonorable = imperialist/warmongering = defective Socialist = defeated isolated America/Amerika should tell anyone AMERICA'S CREDIBITY AND SURVIVAL IS ABSOLUTELY BUT PC TERTIARY TO THE DEMS DESIRE FOR SELFISH AND UNCONDITIONAL POWER. Lefty and dialectic Policratic EQUALISM > AMERICA MUST ABSOLUTELY "LOSE" EVEN AS IT ABSOLUTELY "WINS".
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A former Green Party member who advocates an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq says he will challenge incumbent Hillary Rodham Clinton for the 2006 Democratic nomination for Senate.
"She's in favor of the war and in favor of continuing the occupation," Steven Greenfield, a professional saxophone player, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his New Paltz home. A senior adviser to Clinton, Howard Wolfson, declined to comment on Greenfield's declaration.
Too busy digging up dirt on him.
Clinton voted to give President Bush the power to go to war, and while she has been critical of his conduct of the effort she has stopped short of calling for a troop withdrawal.
That's our little war-monger Hillary
Greenfield, 44, who has a degree in economics, switched to the Democratic party just last month so he could challenge Clinton. He says he likely will need 15,000 petition signatures statewide to get on next September's ballot.
DU types on the looney left will turn out to support anyone who voted not to pull out
In 2002, as a Green Party candidate, Greenfield challenged Democratic U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey. Greenfield got fewer than 3,000 votes to Hinchey's more than 113,000.
He's got no chance to win, but he'll make Hillary have to publicly go on record.
Unfortunately no, she's going to ignore him, and he won't be able to force her to pay attention.
Among Republicans, Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro is facing several other candidates for the nomination to oppose Clinton.
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heh, heh. Smart man. He won't win, since the Cindy Sheehan crowd is so ity-bity tiny. But he will get lots of checks in the mail.
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My wife was reading about him yesterday - she said that he is so out there that even the Green party disowned him. Maybe he could join the LaRouche party.
CNN OPERATOR FIRED AFTER SUGGESTING 'X' OVER CHENEY WAS 'FREE SPEECH'
Bill Quick's been all over this...
A CNN switchboard operator was fired over the holiday -- after the operator claimed the 'X' placed over Vice President's Dick Cheney's face was "free speech!"
"We did it just to make a point. Tell them to stop lying, Bush and Cheney," the CNN operator said to a caller. "Bring our soldiers home." The caller initially phoned the network to complain about the all-news channel flashing an "X' over Cheney as he gave an address live from Washington. "Was it not freedom of speech? Yes or No?" the CNN operator explained. "If you don't like it, don't watch."
Laurie Goldberg, Senior Vice President for Public Relations with CNN, said in a release: "A Turner switchboard operator was fired today after we were alerted to a conversation the operator had with a caller in which the operator lost his temper and expressed his personal views -- behavior that was totally inappropriate. His comments did not reflect the views of CNN. We are reaching out to the caller and expressing our deep regret to her and apologizing that she did not get the courtesy entitled to her. "
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Using the left's own PC standards, that of an organization fostering an atmosphere of hate and loathing, I await the CNN strategy for sensitivity training classes for all its employees. NOT!
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"A Turner switchboard operator ???? was fired today after we were alerted to a conversation the operator had with a caller in which the operator lost his temper and expressed his personal views -- behavior that was totally inappropriate. His comments did not reflect the views of CNN.....which are? We are reaching out to the caller (with hush money) and expressing our deep regret to her and apologizing that she did not get the courtesypolitical-speak and backpeddling entitled to her. " eveloping... male switchboard operator,
surely must be a dying breed. Off with his head
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So what!!!! The operator was a minimum wage employee that is fired for defending CNN! He did not put the X on the screen, he just defended it. So what happened to the guys that actually did the deed? Who was it and what does CNN spin doctors say about him. Or is this ignorant operator going to be the fall guy for it all?
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Upon his departure Laurie Goldbergâs predecessor provided the new Senior Vice President for Public Relations with CNN with three envelopes. Admonishing Ms. Goldberg to open the envelopes in sequence when the preverbal dung hit the fan. In the first envelope is the instruction to âBlame everything on me.â The second envelope reads âReorganizeâ, The third envelope reportedly advises to âPrepare three envelopesâ.
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49, I agree the guy responsible for the X should be fired (he's probably been promoted) but the operator made the problem a thousand times worse by being the voice of an unapologetic, totally bias, news channel.
I expect all of the folks answerings CNNs phones will go through some kind of training after this, either that or they'll shut down the phones.
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Sounds like Mama CINDY has another reason to call in the Commie Airborne to save "Fascist-occupied" CNN via righteous National Socialist, anti-Unitarian Unitarian, anti-Stalinist Stalinist, anti-Perfection Perfectarian, Intra-Communist CPUSA NPE indignation.
TEHERAN â There are more than two million drug addicts in Iran, the Teheran Press yesterday quoted the Iranian police commander as saying. General Imaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam said that the number of drug addicts in Iran stood around 2.2 million but the consumption of hard drugs including heroin and morphine was gradually dropping.
Iran is a major transit route for smuggling drugs from Afghanistan and Pakistan to markets in the Gulf and Europe.
Drug abuse is supposed to be a big no-no in the Moose-Limb world. But if the citizens are in despair over the way they're treated by the Mad Mullahs⢠...
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Iran's population is about 68 million. 2.2 million works out to... what? ... about 3% of the population? I wonder how that compares to the rest of the world.
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If I had to live in Iran, I would be 2,200,001.
An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale has struck an island off Iran's southern coast, killing 10 people and damaging several villages. Iran's official news agency IRNA said the quake, with a magnitude of 5.9, shook southern Iran for 10 to 15 seconds at 1.53pm (1023 GMT) on Sunday. "Four villages, which have a total population of 6000, have been damaged," said the governor of Qeshm island, Heydar Alishbandi.
Tahereh Irankhah, a volunteer with the Red Crescent in Qeshm, said the main hospital on the island was struggling to keep up with the number of patients. "The number of people injured is very high, and people are in the corridors. We need tents and blankets," she said.
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Heh, heh, heh. Put the secret weapon back Igor.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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DURBAN: A new type of condom with "sharp teeth" has been unveiled in South Africa that can help arrest rapists. The condom named Rapex "is made from latex and has several rows of sharp teeth that can only be removed from the male sex organ of a rapist by a doctor," Sonette Ehlers claimed while demonstrating the device. 
The Saudi Labor Ministry announced new laws and regulations concerning foreign household labor. The new rules have been stated to offer better guarantees for financial and psychological rights of the workers. The laws will be implemented at the beginning of the next Islamic month, Zhu Al Qa'dah. 
Worried officials monitored Italy's swelling rivers as severe winter weather sweeping across Europe brought more heavy rain and snow on Sunday, and authorities in Austria warned of a "substantial" risk of avalanches. In central Italy, authorities were forced to close roads and evacuate dozens of families from homes near rivers. Local and state personnel in the coastal community of Fiumicino, just west of Rome, kept a close eye on the ever-rising Tiber and booked about 800 beds at area hotels, the ANSA news agency reported. "We're not in an emergency, but in a state of alert," Guido Bertolaso, head of the Civil Protection Department, told reporters.
A CNN switchboard operator was fired over the holiday -- after the operator claimed the 'X' placed over Vice President's Dick Cheney's face was "free speech!" 
An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale has struck an island off Iran's southern coast, killing 10 people and damaging several villages. Iran's official news agency IRNA said the quake, with a magnitude of 5.9, shook southern Iran for 10 to 15 seconds at 1.53pm (1023 GMT) on Sunday. "Four villages, which have a total population of 6000, have been damaged," said the governor of Qeshm island, Heydar Alishbandi.
