Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was briefly hospitalized early today after falling ill at a restaurant in Aspen, where he was dining with former President Clinton and others, police said. Aspen police Sgt. Bill Linn, who said he spoke with Powell while he was in the hospital under observation, said the four-star general told him it appeared to be a combination of altitude sickness and something he ate. He is conscious and in very good spirits, Linn said shortly before Powell was released from Aspen Valley Hospital at 1:45 a.m. Linn said Powell asked him to speak with reporters. He asked me to pass along that this is not a cardiac event and that he thinks hell be fine, Linn said.
A nursing supervisor at the hospital, where former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay was rushed to and pronounced dead early Wednesday, refused to comment. Powell, 69, was in Aspen for the Aspen Ideas Festival, a conference in its second year that invites some of the worlds leading thinkers.
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falling ill at a restaurant in Aspen, where he was dining with former President Clinton
Let the kooks begin!
I figure it was bad Oysters Rockefeller or old Steak TriLateral, or poisoned Federal Reserve Cookies.
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Something he ate? WTF? Did Bill treat him to a Big Mac meal (biggie sized) or what?
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That General Powell was with President Clinton is no surprise. Actually, aside from don't ask don't tell, the general is closer to the Clintonoids than the Bushitlers.
If people should be judged by those he surrounds himself with, the general and his trusty aid Larry Wilkinson, should not be given a role of any consequence.
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Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that foreign governments should refrain from meddling in Nicaragua's presidential election amid local concern that outsiders were trying to influence the November vote. The 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner was heading a delegation from the democracy-promoting Carter Center, based at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, to observe preparations for the election. ''The Carter Center vigorously opposes any intervention in the Nicaraguan electoral process,'' Carter told a news conference at the end of his visit.
Carter added that ``almost all the Nicaraguans whom we spoke to expressed their concern about foreign governments endorsing, vetoing or financing specific candidates.'' He did not elaborate. U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Paul Trivelli has said Daniel Ortega, the candidate of the Sandinista party, represents antidemocratic tendencies. U.S. officials have suggested his election could cost the poor Central American country international aid and trade possibilities.
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Shut up. Just shut up and go away.
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Please Carter, just have a heart attack and go away. You are a real embarassment.
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Do us a favor Jimmah. Since you like to kiss thugs, murderer's and dictator's asses so much, please move to any one of a number of countries where your cow-towing is appreciated. Hey, you could be Castro or Chavez' personal bitch. I hear they like 'sutthun boas'. And we'd never have to hear pro-communist shit spewing from your mouth again.
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U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Paul Trivelli has said Daniel Ortega, the candidate of the Sandinista party, represents antidemocratic tendencies. U.S. officials have suggested his election could cost the poor Central American country international aid and trade possibilities.
Was this article EFL or is this all Jimmuh's "got on us"? If so, the dear US Ambassador was just stating his opinion and outlining the POTENTIAL effects of electing Ortega....JEEZ...more "Free speech for me, but not for thee," eh, Jimmuh? I'm gonna go ahead and quote Natalie Maines..."I'm ashamed that this ex-President is from my home state of Georgia!" There, I feel better now.
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Don't know anything about the issue - I just know that Carter is *ALWAYS* wrong.
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Yeah, he's one of my leading contrarian indicators. This means we should install our own puppet government, because we are about to be accused of it anyway! :-)
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Felipe Calderon said Friday that as Mexico's new president he will work closely with Washington to build infrastructure and jobs in some of his country's poorest regions to stop the stream of illegal migration to the U.S. "Walls and troops won't solve the problem of migration," Calderon said. "Migration can only be stopped with opportunities of employment, and that's why I will push for a trilateral policy with the United States and Canada to generate jobs."
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Walls and troops will certainly help, but Mexico has the biggest job - creating jobs at home. Start with the breakup of the forty families
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How about public executions of coyotes, drug smugglers, and corrupt police officers/officials? That would be a good start.
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Mac, if they executed all the corrupt police and officials, there wouldn't be any police or officials.
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Spemble, not now. In 2-3 generations, it would be possible.
I was always puzzled about US gummint policy regarding Mexican migrants (illegal or not) and the only possible conclusion was that the policy is deliberate and is a part of a long term plan, with anexation of one form or another as the goal.
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Mexico's inexplicable inability to harass its oil, and an Middle East's inevitable oil embargo (i.e., action against Iran, etc), could make the annexation occur more rapidly.
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If we were to annex Mexico, the new southern border would be easily defensible
At least 16 people have been killed in clashes between armed gangs in the capital of Haiti, a United Nations official says. UN peacekeepers found the bodies of 16 people in the southern Port-au-Prince quarter of Martissant. The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Haitian national police force sent teams to the area in an attempt to control the situation. "The people who died were civilians, not gang members," said Pierre Esperance, a local human rights activist whose National Coalition for Haitian Rights has monitored gang activity in the area.
The battle began on Thursday evening and continued into Friday, according to Haitian police force spokesman Mario Andresol. "The police force is aware of the developments and taking measures to control the situation," Andresol said.
Established in 2004 and under Brazilian command, the UN team includes about 7,500 military troops and 2,000 international police. MINUSTAH was sent to stabilise the Caribbean nation after the former president Jean Bertrand Aristide fled a popular uprising in 2004. In May a new government was sworn in promising to reduce the violence.
That's worked well, hasn't it?
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Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has resigned as Poland's prime minister after increased tensions with leaders of his Law and Justice party. The party said Marcinkiewicz, a moderate, would be replaced by its top leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of President Lech Kaczynski.
"The political council of Law and Justice has been informed of the resignation of Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and unanimously recommended Jaroslaw Kaczynski for new prime minister," a party spokesman said on Friday. Party sources have said Marcinkiewicz has become increasingly at odds with the powerful Kaczynskis over appointments to various state posts. They said Marcinkiewicz's meeting with opposition leader Donald Tusk this week and earlier appointment of his aide as new finance minister were the last straw for the party leadership.
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This would be hilarious of course, and it probably is, but since they're giving the socialists, ex-commies and old-Europeans heartburn every day, it can't be all bad.
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JOHNSTON, Iowa -- In a quiet, methodical style reflecting his Midwestern roots, Sen. Evan Bayh is laying the foundation for a presidential campaign and prompting some Democrats to talk about a candidate with a realistic shot. "The chatter that you hear is that he's a good guy and nice and he has that honest, Midwestern feel to him, kind of like Harry Truman," said veteran Democratic strategist Dane Strother. "That's all appealing."
In his fifth trip to Iowa in the last year, the centrist Indiana Democrat opened a three-day swing Thursday with a fundraiser in downtown Des Moines for legislative candidates. He mingled easily with about 50 party activists for more than an hour and made a point of chatting with everyone in the room. "He's a Midwesterner and that will help him in Iowa," said state Senate Democratic leader Michael Gronstal. "It's up to him to sell himself, and so far he's been fairly impressive."
As he makes his way around the state, which launches the primary process with caucuses, Bayh sets aside ample time for private meetings with top Democrats, introductory sessions in which he often trades stories about campaigning for his father, former Sen. Birch Bayh. The elder Bayh served from 1963-81 and spent time in Iowa in his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976. The son finds that the campaign war stories are an effective way of building ties, particularly with older Democrats who remember his dad.
While New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton looms as the front-runner for 2008, other Democrats are fighting to distinguish themselves from the pack. Bayh has the distinction of having won statewide election five times in one of the most Republican states in the nation, serving as secretary of state, governor and senator. "I don't think you can get elected five times in a state that hasn't gone Democratic since 1964 without learning how to campaign," said Anita Dunn, a Democratic media consultant who has signed on with Bayh.
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The president of Pakistan has amended an Islamic law that will allow hundreds of women facing charges for adultery and other minor crimes to be freed on bail. The much-awaited amendment by General Pervez Musharraf would free 1,300 women facing various charges until their trial. Announcing it on Friday, Sumaira Malik, the minister for women's affairs said: "President Musharraf has taken a bold decision to protect the rights of women and save them from the misuse of Islamic laws."
The president has sought to reform Islamic laws on blasphemy and women's rights in the past but backed off because of strong opposition in deeply conservative Pakistan. Friday's amendment is the president's first to the Hudood Ordinance, legislation based on the Koran and Islamic tradition. Under the ordinance, women can be sentenced to death by stoning if found guilty of having sex outside of marriage. Drinking is punishable with 80 lashes, theft with the amputation of the right hand. However, such punishments have not been carried out in Pakistan as courts from the Islamic and ordinary legal systems overturn each others' decisions in unresolved jurisdictional battles.
Malik did not distribute copies of the amendment, which she described as "a great step by the government", and only said Musharraf had signed it. Human rights groups say the Hudood Ordinance makes rape prosecutions almost impossible because under the laws, the victim must produce four male Muslim witnesses in court to prove the charge.
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ISLAMABAD President Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday decreed formation of the Council of Common Interest (CCI) under article 153 of the constitution.
This is 'inside cricket' even for Pakistan.
The prime minister will be the chairman of the council, a constitutional panel designed to protest the interests of provinces and settle disputes between the provinces and between the federal government and provincial units. In case of any stalemate the Constitution provides a joint session for the two houses of the Parliament the Senate and the National Asswembly to resolve it.
The Supreme Court has taken serious notice of continued absence of the council. It cited this absence as one of the reasons in annulling the privatisation of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and directed its establishment within six weeks.
According to a cabinet division notification Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will chair the council and chief ministers of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and NWFP, Inter-provincial Co-ordination Minister Salim Saifullah, Federal Ministers for Narcotics Control Ghous Bux Mahar and Federal Minister for States & Frontier Affairs Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind will be other members of the council.
The CCI takes all decisions unanimously. However, in case of disagreement by federal or a provincial government over a decision the matter would be discussed in a joint session of the parliament. The parliaments decision on the matter will be final and unchallengeable.
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As a one-time Psych major, I found the professors more in need of brain scramble than most any other group.
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Not a 'professor' exactly. She was denied tenure at Univ. Oregon, ended up as an ajunct Instructor at UA.
A trivial detail, except that usually 'Instructors' are grad students, professionals w/o a PhD or brand new PhDs. She got hers in the early 90s. Says a lot ...
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A lot of people involved in Psychology are a bit off. I understand many of them got into psychology in the first place to better understand their own issues.
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now she's a threat to Oregon students....hope they're forewarned
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Some of those Wildcats are seriously unhinged.
(Bias alert....I'm a Sun Devil. But if anyone would know how nuts they are, it would be an alumna from ASU. They were crazy, I tells ya! Not us Sun Devils. We were just a bunch of oversexed, partying drunks. I think they were the best 5 1/2 years of my life, don't remember much about them.... ;) )
The Vaad Halacha of the Rabbinical Council of America, in its first decision in recent years, has issued a detailed responsum to explain why the use of tobacco is prohibited by Jewish Law.
The Vaad Halachah (or Halacha Committee) of The Rabbinical Council of America has issued a unanimous opinion affirming that, in spite of its widespread practice even within many rabbinic and yeshiva circles, the smoking of tobacco products is prohibited by Jewish law. For some observers of Jewish life, this decision might be casually dismissed as a statement of the obvious, or in any case, as long overdue.
But from a different perspective, this ruling illustrates the highly significant fact that accepted practice and illustrious precedent notwithstanding, Jewish law is fully able to incorporate new realities, recognize new and reliable scientific findings, and embrace the need to change heretofore acceptable behavior.
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At least those Orthodox Jews who respect the decisons of that particular rabbinic council. This press release ignores the opinions of the Conservative councils, the Reform council, the Lubavicher Hassidic council, the other Hassidic groups, the official, government-sponsored council in Israel which does not respect anything decided by anyone else, the Ultra-orthodox in Israel, who think all the rest of us aren't really Jews anyway...
No worries -- there will be Jews earning death by lung cancer for a good long time to come.
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The RCAs Vaad Halacha, chaired for many years by illustrious leaders of the RCA, most especially the late and revered Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, was recently reconstituted under the chairmanship of Rabbi Asher Bush.
Good gawd, is there nowhere the Bushes' don't have a representative? (/channeling LLL Moonbat)
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RD - I was a Redman and Levi Garrett guy in college. Tried it again after quitting for 5 yrs and thought I was gonna pass out on the softball field....no more for me... :-)
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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At least 16 people have been killed in clashes between armed gangs in the capital of Haiti, a United Nations official says. UN peacekeepers found the bodies of 16 people in the southern Port-au-Prince quarter of Martissant. The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Haitian national police force sent teams to the area in an attempt to control the situation. "The people who died were civilians, not gang members," said Pierre Esperance, a local human rights activist whose National Coalition for Haitian Rights has monitored gang activity in the area.
JOHNSTON, Iowa -- In a quiet, methodical style reflecting his Midwestern roots, Sen. 
The president of Pakistan has amended an Islamic law that will allow hundreds of women facing charges for adultery and other minor crimes to be freed on bail. The much-awaited amendment by General Pervez Musharraf would free 1,300 women facing various charges until their trial. Announcing it on Friday, Sumaira Malik, the minister for women's affairs said: "President Musharraf has taken a bold decision to protect the rights of women and save them from the misuse of Islamic laws."
ISLAMABAD President Gen. Pervez Musharraf yesterday decreed formation of the Council of Common Interest (CCI) under article 153 of the constitution.
