Hey, it worked for Imus...
NEW YORK - Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against the network, former corporate parent Viacom Inc., and three of his former bosses. And all he did was insult some chick basketball players. Since I slandered a president, I should get much more...
Rather's complaint stems from "CBS' intentional mishandling" of the aftermath of a discredited story about President George W. Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard. So CBS intentionally mishandled your discredited story that you intentionally mishandled? Baliff! Whack his peepee!
I'd love to be involved in the discovery process ...
The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, also names CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, and Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News. Who to root for in this one...
Rather is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages. Okay, Kenneth...how much to settle up?
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I hope the countersue. It would be interesting to see who has done the most harm to whose reputation.
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Over at The Daily Gut, they headlined this with
THEY SHOULD GIVE HIM 70 MILLION PHOTOCOPIES OF A DOLLAR BILL... IT'S NOT LIKE HE COULD TELL THE DIFFERENCE
The "Protecting Children From Indecent Programming Act" has been introduced into the House of Representatives, the latest legislation aimed at fighting indecency. The bill would require the FCC to take action against a broadcaster for any single offending word or image.
The act is co-sponsored by Reps. Chip Pickering (R-MS), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Mike McIntyre (D-NC) and Joseph Pitts (R-PA). A similar bill with the same name was introduced to the Senate by Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) back in July.
"As the father of five sons, I have a vested interest in what broadcasters present over the public airwaves. We do not want our children to grow up with the mindset that certain behavior and language is ok," Pickering said in a statement. "I speak for our families in Mississippi, as well as across the country - we deserve a peace of mind when watching television with our family and expect a level of decency in our programming."
"There is no reason to allow broadcast networks a free pass as long as not too much profanity makes it on the airwaves. We passed legislation to keep profanity from the airwaves because parents do not want their children to see any profane images or hear any indecent language. Families should have a reasonable expectation to believe television broadcast over public airwaves will not contain indecent material, not even once," added Pitts.
"Families have had it with inappropriate scenes and language that shock and confuse their children. This legislation gives them the tools they need to help maintain the home environment families want and deserve," said Matheson.
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When did it become mandatory for people to own and watch a television? I don't like what's on I turn it off or change the channel.
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Remember when it was just three channels and you actually had to GET UP to turn the channel. It was HELL!
Change it back tomorrow and half the people on welfare in this country would say, "Screw it. If I'm going to expend this much effort, I might as well go get a friggin job..."
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I once saw a couple with two small children, in a rural Wal-Mart that was horrified that people would discuss rubber nipples in front of a rubber nipple display. At first we had no idea why they were putting their hands over their children's ears and hissing at us. They were quite upset.
They probably didn't even have a TV, or a radio. And the only written matter in the house was a bible. A sanitized version with none of the naughty bits and no sinful pictures.
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How many Netters have, had, or are complaining about Posts being deleted = altered, in entirety or else only on some topics = issues but not for others [SKYNET, MATRIX, etc],ala INFORMATION-PERCEPTIONS CONTROL, DISINFORMATION and MISINFORMATION, PYWAR, etc..................@???
Its one thing for Govts to ask their citizens to give up their rights in the name of WAR AND NATIONAL SURVIVAL/EMERGENCY - what do the people get back once the War or Crisis[Crises] is OVER AND WON???
Bangladeshi authorities have ordered the arrest of a cartoonist after drawings that Muslims said insulted their religion were published in a national newspaper, the government said Tuesday. The Home Ministry statement said Arifur Rahman's sketches - titled "Name" - that came out Monday in a weekly supplement of the Prothom Alo - "hurt the religious sentiments of the people." The ministry, in a statement, added that it had ordered Rahman's arrest.
Unconfirmed media reports said police detectives had picked up Arifur Rahman from his house in the capital, Dhaka. Police would not confirm the arrest, or say what charges he faced.
This article starring:
Arifur Rahman
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Poor cartoonist. He may become suddenly several inches shorter. Sad that he did not see it coming and stuck around.
Hard to believe this much sense could come from these wackos. But they haven't run into the corn lobby in the U. S. yet.
At its Pary conference in Liverpool, The Green Party of England and Wales delivered near unanimous support for a halt in the use of large scale biofuels. The vote to support the call for an EU Moratorium on large scale biofuel monocultures (known as agrofuels) is now enshrined in Green Party policy along with a host of other precautionary elements aimed at preventing runaway global warming through accelerated deforestation. The moratorium, launched by a nucleus of NGOs, has now been signed by nearly 200 environmental and humanitarian organisations across the globe.
The strength of the vote reflects a growing concern by the general public in the last six months that agrofuels are causing significantly more harm than good. On top of the destruction of ecosystems, agrofuels are precipitating a human rights problem of epic proportions as agrofuel speculators are seizing arable land as well as evicting indigenous peoples from their forest homes. Food prices are escalating, putting basic staples outside of the reach of families living close to the bread line - even in European countries, as evidenced by Italy's 'pasta strike' this week and rising UK bread prices.
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Hard to believe this much sense could come from these wackos.
Not sense. Remember, the green agenda is more about forcing the unwashed masses to live like 16th century serfs of the plantations of their elect, green masters. The biofuels issue was only a club to beat up "big oil" with. It was never intended to be implemented.
reflects a growing concern by the general public in the last six months that agrofuels are causing significantly more harm than good
See Den Beste for the ultimate takedown of the alternative energy scam. He expresses it better than I ever could. With the relevant equations, yet!
As many have noted before, the whole green movement is simply a holdout for the marxist survivors of the cold war. Think of it as one of those bypassed japaneese island fortresses. These loosers know the war is over, and their side lost. But if they admit it, it will destroy them psychologicaly and politicaly.
Then they will have to get real jobs, and working at Qizno's, Starbux, etc. leaves much to be desired. Heh.
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I wasn't overly impressed with DenBeste's takedown of alternate fuels as it relates to biofuels. But it does seem that the greens are oppossed to nuclear and windfarms and now biofuels. It seems that if a solution is 100% perfect it's the devil.
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Flipping channels I watch a few seconds of an Animal Channel show. One dippy lady came on with a bat in her hand. I had the sound turned off but her title was flashed on the screen: Director of Bat Protection
At that point I turned on the sound.. Seemed that her job with (I assume) some NGO was to save individual bats and work for saving their genome too.
I mean, like..... How many thousands $ for a disabled bat that lives a year or 2?
Talk about misguided and strange jobs with no real world value.....
This is the sort of stuff people used to do on their own and shut up about! Not have a paid job with a fancy title like Bat Savior!
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Actually, biofuels was the Greenies solution, cos it sounds, well soooo Green, but energy like pretty much all human problems is a scale problem (which DenBester explains very well). What sort of works for a few hippies in the woods, doesn't work for 7 bilion, and the trying causes massive ecological and other problems.
The Greens are realizing they have created a massive real problem in trying to solve a small and probably imaginary problem.
Every day solar cycle is delayed makes the next colder (so many think).
A factoid for you. A decade around 1600 when the Little Ice Age started, temperatures fell about 100 times faster than they have risen in the twentieth century.
Warsaw has clashed with other EU member states by vetoing the creation of a European Day against the Death Penalty. At a heated meeting of EU ministers on Tuesday, Poland said it wants to promote the "right to life" instead -- and highlight issues such as abortion and euthanasia.
Poland is once again on a collision course with other European Union member states, this time by by vetoing plans to create a European anti-death penalty day. At a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers on Tuesday, Poland was the only country to refuse to agree to make Oct. 10 a "European Day against the Death Penalty."
Once again Warsaw was not willing to play ball with its European partners, insisting the EU "approach the subject in a broader way and debate the protection of life" -- including issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Poland is a staunchly Roman Catholic country and is one of only three EU countries, together with Ireland and Malta, that prohibits abortion on demand.
At Tuesday's meeting Poland's deputy justice minister, Andrzej Duda, suggested the EU should celebrate a "right to life day" instead of marking its opposition to the death penalty. He then shocked his colleagues by reading out loud the number of abortions in Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Glorious!
Afterwards, Danish Justice Minister Lene Espersen said that the Polish performance was an expression of "moral decay," Italy's Justice Minister Clememete Mastela called the Polish stance "arrogant," while Britain's Justice Minister Jack Straw insisted Poland should not push the issue of abortion at the EU level. "I just don't think it's appropriate for partisan politics," he told reporters. Germany's Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries agreed: "Everybody else said that's not an issue."
The ruling Kaczynski twins -- Lech, the president, and Jaroslaw, the prime minister -- have said that they personally favor the death penalty but do not plan to reinstate it. Their Law and Justice Party is currently in the throes of an election campaign (more...) and is running on a pro-family platform. "More Poles" Sounds like a winner :)
The clash with Poland could undermine the EU's diplomatic efforts at the United Nations to introduce a global moratorium on the death penalty. Many nations, including the United States, Russia and China, continue to impose death sentences. There are quite a few other countries that impose death sentences - like, say, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and ... Why don't they get a mention?
In the light of Poland's intransigence, Portugal, current holder of the EU presidency, decided not to submit the issue to a vote on Tuesday, but Portuguese Justice Minister Alberto Costa insisted this "does not mean that Europe is not committed to the abolition of the death penalty in the world." "We are going to work in order to issue a strong message that will dignify the continent of Europe," he told reporters, saying that Portugal would instead hold a high-level international conference in Lisbon on Oct. 9. There's nothing like an EU Council memo when it comes to "dignifying" Euroops.
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Slogans and bans aren't the answer. What if those opposed to the death penalty and abortion assume personal liability for the lives they want spared, I mean total financial and custodial care for the entire lifespan or until an independent adult capable of self-support? Whether from infancy(adoption of fetus on) or life imprisonment that includes dental and health care now picked up by taxpayers, these killers can't be turned loose and kids don't raise themselves. Someone has to be responsible for parenting all these unborn kids, many with born w/ AIDS or addicted,requiring a high level of care the mothers can't provide when the fathers aren't around. Spouting slogans and using issues as pivotal political points is unnecessarily divisive. Have we lost all common sense?
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What if those opposed to the death penalty and abortion assume personal liability for the lives they want spared, I mean total financial and custodial care for the entire lifespan or until an independent adult capable of self-support?
And all this time I thought parents should be responsible for their children. Now they have to share their kids with other people?
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In my mind, the issue of the death penalty is simply one about limiting the power of the state; not trusting the state enough to let it do something as irrevocable as killing a human being in cold blood when they could lock him up for life instead.
The issues of euthanasia and abortion are similar. The state shouldn't have the right to prevent a patient from dying if they really want to.
And though abortion is as always a trickier subject, treating a week-old embryo like a human baby is as ridiculous as is *not* treating a nine-month old fetus as a human baby.
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But I agree about the liability for crimes perpetrated by reincident criminals: yesterday Spanish minister of justice (as an aside a guy whose sectarianism and total contempt for the law is only seen in diactatorships) told about the decision to liberate a multiple non-reformed raper that 'his place was in the street'. No questions be it about the law or the judge who allowed this.
Let's have a few miniters, judges and anti-death penalty activists being shot by one of the future victims of the people they release on the population. I am sure this will bring a change of attitude.
Europe has the death penalty. But not for criminals, just for little girls.
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The Poles, like other Eastern Europeans, had plenty of experience under a regime in which 'voluntary' abortion became 'state encouraged abortion'. To them this is also about limiting state power.
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but Portuguese Justice Minister Alberto Costa insisted this "does not mean that Europe is not committed to the abolition of the death penalty in the world."
Actually, Mr. Prime Minister Costa, it does too mean that Europe is not committed to the abolition of the death penalty. To be precise, it means that Europe is committed to supporting the right of nation states to legally proscribe and enforce the death penalty, should their citizens or the legally elected representatives thereof so choose. Sorry.
Slogans and bans aren't the answer. What if those opposed to the death penalty and abortion assume personal liability for the lives they want spared, I mean total financial and custodial care for the entire lifespan or until an independent adult capable of self-support? Whether from infancy(adoption of fetus on) or life imprisonment that includes dental and health care now picked up by taxpayers, these killers can't be turned loose and kids don't raise themselves. Someone has to be responsible for parenting all these unborn kids, many with born w/ AIDS or addicted,requiring a high level of care the mothers can't provide when the fathers aren't around. Spouting slogans and using issues as pivotal political points is unnecessarily divisive. Have we lost all common sense?
In short, you're saying, if people value life so much, they should pay the god damned extorsion/blackmail money?
Porugal is the cotry where whatever what the criminal has done or the probability he will kill again he will be released after twenty years. And they will refuse extradition unless the othzer country promises not to sentence him for life.
Even if the criminal is Jacques Dutroux, Charles Manson or Jack the Ripper. And to hell with victims. That is the country who is lecturing the Poles.
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I must admit I've really been impressed with the Polish, they've been pretty stand up guys, in the same league as Australia and others. I'm glad to see them standing up to the rest of Europe. Kinda strange, Britian, who used to have a spine, doesn't and Poland, who supposedly didn't, definately has one.
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You know Nimble....I can't think of ANYTHING more that would panic the elites of Europe than for us to admit some country, such as Poland, to statehood. Mostly because there's alot of people in Europe that would just LOVE to be US citizens, but have trouble getting into the US through the immigration system. I'll wager if Poland did apply for statehood, the amount of EU cits moving to Poland would take a huge jump.
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I agree wid #3 in part. Poland wants strong trade relations wid Germany and Russia - it has already fogiven Russia for KATYN, etc. even though Russia has not formally acknowledged its role in the unilater mass killing of Polish officers. And like Russia, Poland, etc has an interest in the revitalization of local SLAVIC CULTURE-SOCIETY.
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Danielle, before Lyndon Johnson unleashed his War on Poverty in 1964, parents were responsible for raising their children. Couples, married and not-yet married, were much more careful in their sexual activity because carelessness resulted in pregnancy and concomitant consequences. The birth control pill and abortion on demand eliminated the need for caution. Welfare eliminated the need for fathers. Things have been spiraling out of control ever since. The world did not become a better place.
The northern city of Bologna on Tuesday scrapped plans to build a new mosque amid complaints from residents and Roman Catholic clergy, news reports said. The city said the mosque will still be built, but only after consultation with local residents, the reports said.
The city had set aside a parcel of land in the outskirts of town for the mosque. Now, the city is asking residents, the Islamic community and neighborhood associations to come forward with proposals by Oct. 18 on how to proceed with construction, the ANSA and Apcom news agencies reported.
The right-wing, anti-immigrant Northern League party had spearheaded a campaign against the mosque and claimed victory Tuesday after the city, headed by center-left mayor Sergio Cofferati, annulled its original decision and set in place the new consultations.
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Two thirds of the Flemish community from the northern Dutch-speaking region of Belgium think the country will sooner or later split, a poll by Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws showed on Tuesday. The paper also said almost every second Flemish person, or 46.1 percent, want Belgium to split, indicating separatists in the region are gathering momentum amid a political impasse.
Belgians held an election 100 days ago but still have no government, with Dutch and French speakers wrangling over how much control the federal government should have. The outright winner of the popular vote, Yves Leterme, head of the Dutch-speaking Flemish Christian Democrat party, gave up his role of forming a new government because of the impasse. Another member of his party, Herman Van Rompuy, has been appointed by the King of Belgium to explore with other political leaders how a coalition agreement could be reached. According to the survey, Leterme, widely thought by Francophones and political observers to hold Flemish rather than Belgian interests at heart, still has the trust of the people in his region with 60.4 percent saying he should be prime minister.
Leterme irked Francophones because of his policy bid to devolve more power to the regions. Flanders, economically strong, complains it has to subsidise the French-speaking region Wallonia. The Flemish people who are in favour of reforming the state want to make Wallonia, a region which is poorer and has higher unemployment, more accountable and keep more money in the wealthy Dutch-speaking region.
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It got to 10 million euros before it was pulled.
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If the Flems truly want to secede, the best bet would be to try and get some of the French on their side by promising a split like the Czechs and Slovaks did. Peaceful and with smiles all around.
The Flems might even subsidize a Walloon Francophile group to proclaim how nice the South will be without Flems.
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While the Flemish make up the majority, with 60 per cent, political power must shared equally with the Walloons. This means that if half the country's 40 per cent of French speakers, only a fifth of the total population, want to block a government coalition they can.
Welcome to Canada. The only home of working people supporting the French on welfare scams, graft and civil service jobs which exclude the majority. I blame the English. In both cases we won the war and in both cases we handed the peace over to the enemy.
One MUST be bilingual to obtain one of those wonderful Federal Civil Service jobs with a fully indexed pension that the tax paying suckers have to shell out for.
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If the Flems truly want to secede, the best bet would be to try and get some of the French on their side by promising a split like the Czechs and Slovaks did.
The French get a lot of welfare from the Flemish side.
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The French get a lot of welfare from the Flemish side.
In my experience, that's because the Walloons, having been accustomed to being the gentry and landed nobility, will either be management of, or supported by, the Flemish peasantry. The charming real estate agent who found the rental house we so enjoyed was from Walloon. She spent much of our time together relating tales from the very expensive renovation of the family chateau, built in the 14th or 15th century. She was very excited about finally getting a modern kitchen carved out of one of the upper rooms -- the original kitchen having finally been given up as an unfixable relic.
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If what I've read is true (and I have no first hand experience), the upper class Francophones dominate Brussels, where they have pretty much walled Flemmings out of power.
But Wallonia proper the level of education and income is lower than among Flemmings and the degree of welfare dependency much higher.
The Spanish government said Tuesday it would launch an advertising campaign in Senegal designed to encourage would-be immigrants to stay put and not make the hazardous trip to Spain. "We want to send out a clear message: Clandestine immigration only puts your own life at risk. It's pointless and should be rejected by Spaniards and Senegalese alike," immigration secretary Consuelo Rumi said.
The advertising spots in newspapers and on radio and television will tell would-be immigrants seeking to reach Spain: "Don't take a risk for nothing. You are part of Africa's future."
Yeah, Mauritania needs you. Oh, you're from Mauritania ...
Senegalese singer Youssou N'dour is backing the campaign to dissuade youngsters from risking all on a dangerous 1,000-kilometre (660 miles) trip to Spain's Canary Islands. Thousands have made it to the islands in recent years, but an unknown number have perished en route and this year the Spanish government has been repatriating many of those who did reach shore.
The million-euro (1.3 million dollars) advertising campaign features excerpts of the stories of three Senegalese whose relatives were lost at sea: a sick mother, an elderly father and a young footballer who all lost relatives or friends. The Spanish government is to appraise the effect of the six-week campaign before deciding whether to extend it to other African countries.
More than 80 percent of those making it to Spanish soil transit Senegal, while last year, more than 31,200 immigrants made it to the Canaries, swamping local authorities on the archipelago. Stepped-up maritime security patrols have brought the arrivals' figure down to 6,700 since last January.
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The longer we maintain a sentimental policy toward this sort of thing the longer it will persist. Sink a few rafts and post the results on YouTube. Result.
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New signs being printed:
"Go away!"
"Get Lost!"
"Take a Hike!"
"Hit the Bricks!"
"Drop Dead!"
"Beat it - this means YOU!"
"Out to Lunch - Back in 5 Yrs."
"Closed for Renovations"
and
"Tried Portugal?"
Poland has blocked plans to hold a European day against the death penalty, the EU's Portuguese presidency says. It says Warsaw rejected the idea at a meeting of ministers in Brussels, arguing that any such event should also condemn abortion and euthanasia.
The EU, where the capital punishment is outlawed, had planned to mark the anti-death penalty day on 10 October. Poland's conservative government has in the past called for a re-opening of the debate on capital punishment.
The European Commission said a conference scheduled to launch the EU day against the death penalty would still go ahead on 9 October. But with Poland digging in its heels, delegates may find the debate is livelier than they had expected, the BBC's Alix Kroeger in Brussels says.
Warsaw argued that any such event should also condemn abortion and euthanasia.
"Unfortunately, it was not possible to find a consensus among all the 27 [EU] member states," Portuguese Justice Minister Alberto Costa told reporters after the Brussels meeting of EU justice and interior ministers. EU officials also confirmed that Warsaw alone objected to the move.
Polish Deputy Justice Minister Andrzej Duda said that the EU "should approach the subject in a broader way and debate the protection of life". "The death penalty is only one element of the debate; there are more - for example, abortion and euthanasia," he said.
This is the latest in a series of political clashes between Brussels and Warsaw, on everything from homosexuality to environmental protection, our correspondent says. She says that Poland's junior coalition partner, the ultra-conservative League of Polish Families, wants to bring back the death penalty for paedophiles. Polish President Lech Kaczynski last year called on EU member states to reintroduce the death penalty.
Poland, along with Ireland and Malta, are the only members where abortion is illegal. Poland's Roman Catholic clergy and politicians have described the practice of euthanasia in countries such as the Netherlands as a "culture of death".
The latest row comes as Poland prepares for early general elections on 21 October.
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So, the EU's position is: if you are conceived at an inconvenient time, or if you are old and sick, it is ok to kill you. However, if you kill dozens of people, or rape little children, you must be protected and can't be killed.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson called Tuesday on Democrats seeking the 2008 nomination for president to give S.C. voters something to vote for when they go to the polls in January. On a statewide tour to register new voters, Jackson said South Carolina will determine who has momentum in the primary when it votes Jan. 29.
Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for acting like hes white in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to six black juveniles arrest on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La.
Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for acting like hes white in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to six black juveniles arrest on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La. Jackson, who also lives in Illinois, endorsed Obama in March, according to The Associated Press. If I were a candidate, Id be all over Jena, Jackson said after an hour-long speech at Columbias historically black Benedict College.
"... like stink on... ummm... never mind."
Jena is a defining moment, just like Selma was a defining moment, said the iconic civil rights figure, who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1965 Selma civil rights movement and was with King at his 1968 assassination.
Jesse's been riding the bus to Selma for forty years now...
Later, Jackson said he did not recall making the acting like hes white comment about Obama, stressing he only wanted to point out the candidates had not seized on an opportunity to highlight the disproportionate criminal punishments black youths too often face.
The reason Jena sticks out is because it's out of today's mainstream. Everybody, black and white, sees it as an evil. Those of us who aren't on the bus to Selma see it as an aberration.
Jackson also said Obama, who consistently has placed second in state and national polls behind New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, must be bolder in his political positions if he is to erase Clintons lead.
Obamas South Carolina campaign pointed to a statement it released last week in which Obama called on the local Louisiana district attorney to drop the excessive charges brought in the case. When nooses are being hung in high schools in the 21st century, its a tragedy, the Obama statement said. It shows that we still have a lot of work to do as a nation to heal our racial tensions.
To me, it shows that Jena, La., still has a lot of work to do. Either those people are crazy or the facts don't resemble what's been reported.
Thousands from across the country are expected to converge on the small town of Jena today to protest the Jena 6 arrests. Jackson told the 500 to 600 students in his audience at Benedict that criminal injustice, instead of a rope, is the pressing civil rights issue of their day, but that voting remained their strongest ally. Your fight is not about ropes, its about hope, Jackson said,
"For rhymes I've gotta grope
To keep off the slippery slope!
So don't be a dope!"
blasting the flood of guns and violence he said permeates many black communities. Civil rights, he said, has become the counterculture of the day rather than the prevailing culture. You cant call on the Justice Department anymore; its not there.
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When nooses are being hung in high schools in the 21st century, its a tragedy,
Yeah, it is "Reverend".
But if the rope company came up with a few bucks for an alleged clergyman, I'll bet this would all...go away.
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I must be hard to be a person of color. I mean you wouldn't want to stereotype people but if you don't act within these preconcieved definitions of blackness than you're not entirely black.
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Jackson said, blasting the flood of guns and violence he said permeates many black communities.
If he really did, is that a first? Although he does rather sound like an old fogey whinging about how young people were so much politer in the old days.
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Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for acting like hes white
Priceless. Much like the Muslim world's endless bloodshed over not being "Islamic enough" so will this world's black population worry itself to death over not being "black enough".
Obama's response: "Nigga, please..."
Waaaay too funny, mojo, and even more appropriate. Le bingo.
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This is more about Jesse Jackson desperately trying to get in the limelight when he is no longer relevant than it is about Obama. By the way, I believe I heard that Obama's response was crafted by his media advisor, Jesse Jackson Jr.
Around 84 lawmakers of the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) are expected to resign from the NWFP Assembly on the day President General Pervez Musharrafs presidential nomination papers are accepted by the Election Commission (EC).
The 124-member house will reduce to 24 after the resignations of all APDM members and 5 independent members.
The APDM decided on Sept 16 to quit the assemblies.
More resignations if Musharraf-PPPP talks fail: The number of resignations can go up to 95 if the Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) fails to strike a deal with Musharraf and joins the APDM move against him.
The NWFP Assembly has 124 members. The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) has 69 members, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party-Sherpaos (PPP-S) 13, the PPP-Ps 11, the Pakistan Muslim League-Qs 10, the Awami National Partys (ANP) 10, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawazs (PML-N) 5, five independent members and 1 member of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf. The 124-member house will reduce to 24 after the resignations of all APDM members and 5 independent members.
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"What do we have for them to take home with them, Johnny?"
President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday endorsed a statement of the state counsel in the Supreme Court (SC) that he would resign as army chief upon his re-election for a second term in office, during a meeting with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Daily Times learnt.
Aziz assured the president that the ruling coalition would back his re-election for the sake of sustainability and continuity of the democratic process.
The meeting took place at the presidents camp office in Rawalpindi. Sources said Aziz congratulated him on this endorsement and said that it showed his commitment to democracy and the national interest. Aziz assured the president that the ruling coalition would back his re-election for the sake of sustainability and continuity of the democratic process.
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"My younger brother, Ahmad "Crazy Larry" Musharraf will be taking over as head of the Armed Forces..."
The Tourism Ministrys official website may be adversely affecting its efforts to boost tourism in Pakistan as it offers outdated information to those accessing it.
Many sections of the website have not been updated for the last many years. The website has yet to remove the name of former Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) managing director Salman Javed who was dismissed from service recently for corruption and misuse of power. The website does state the recent appointment of GG Jamal as the Minister of Tourism but has no picture or profile of his, unlike the official websites of other ministries that display brief details of ministers backgrounds.
Currently, there are no press releases or news items in the media section. Similarly, circulars, notices and advertisements issued by the ministry are not available on the website. The Adventure in Pakistan, Historical Places in Pakistan and Provincial Tourism in Pakistan links were last updated on March 28, 2006. Similarly, information was last posted in the visa policy section on June 17, 2006 and in the Department of Tourist Services section, Islamabad on May 12, 2004.
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Par for the course for lots of government websites. Some company gets the contract to develop the website, after hundreds of changes it's finally done, it gets launched, and after three months the government department loses interest. After all, the senior executives don't use computers, and the "get a website" task can be deleted from the to-do list. The employees quickly forget that they ever had a website, except for one guy who can't get anyone to cooperate with him.
Nepals Maoist former rebels quit the interim government on Tuesday and vowed to disrupt preparations for historic elections in November unless the Himalayan nations monarchy was abolished immediately.
The move is a major setback to last years peace deal in which the rebels ended a decade-old insurgency and agreed on elections for a special assembly to decide the fate of the monarchy. We will not accept the code of conduct announced by the election commission and we will disrupt all ongoing election plans, Maoist deputy leader Baburam Bhattarai told a rally in Kathmandu.
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DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 13, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Cree, Inc. (NasdaqGS:CREE - News), a leader in LED lighting components, today announced it has achieved R&D results of 129 lumens per watt for a cool-white LED [cool-white is about as good as the sucky pre-T2 fluorescent bulbs)]and 99 lumens per watt for a warm-white LED [compared to 10-25 lumens/watt for incandescent]. These are the best results reported for packaged, high-power LEDs...
The results have been verified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
[- full disclosure: my family owns a good bit of stock in this company; rumors of a GE purchase of CREE bounce around every so often; unfortunately CREE's progress in technology isn't matched by their performance in sales - the past 3 or so quarters have been less than expected]
CREE has purchased a manufacturing company (COTCO in Hong Kong). Speculation is that they are reconfiguring for production of retail products but it is speculation at this point.
CREE Stock is up 7% as of a few minutes ago. Maybe a bunch of brokers on Wall Street read Rantburg.
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problem for CREE has been production volume. THeir process apparently has had yeild issues in the past, meaning its hard to make those 100-lum/w LEDs in any quantity with quality (i.e. you run a batch of 1000, and you only get 17 successful LEDs out of it).
Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar fired tear gas on Tuesday to break up a protest of around 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilian demonstrators in the northwestern city of Sittwe, a witness said.
Three or four monks were arrested as the crowd scattered and were hit and slapped, the witness told Reuters. The march, one of several in response to a call for a nationwide religious boycott of the ruling military, started with 500 Buddhist monks but grew quickly as ordinary men and women - some of them Muslims - joined in. There were no further details immediately available. In Yangon, authorities closed the famed Shwedagon Pagoda, the Southeast Asian nations holiest shrine, minutes before hundreds of monks arrived for the launch of a campaign to refuse to accept alms from anyone connected to the regime. We could not hold the formal ceremony to impose the religious boycott because we could not enter the Shwedagon compound, a 25-year-old monk told Reuters.
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - A church that is sheltering an illegal immigrant from Mexico and her U.S.-born infant son will be billed nearly $40,000 for the city police presence during a weekend protest, officials said. Mayor Paul Miller, who called United Church of Christ congregants irresponsible for "harboring an illegal immigrant," told the City Council Monday that he was ready to issue the $39,306 invoice right away. Here's an idea Mr. Mayor. Have the Feds come down and arrest her.
The church's decision to shelter the woman provoked the Sunday protest, which required a police presence, officials said.
"This City Council has the obligation to protect all citizens in the community against any potential violence as a result of these ill-conceived actions," Miller said. A message left early Wednesday with the United Church of Christ was not immediately returned. They're probably in shock.
This...isn't the way it supposed to be. We're a...Sanctuary! This is...mean spirited!
An anti-illegal immigration group organized the protest and said it hoped to make a citizen's arrest of the woman, who has identified herself only as Liliana. The rally drew over a hundred activists on both sides of the illegal immigration debate. Between four and 15 officers were present during the three-hour rally, with two sheriff's tactical response teams on standby, police Chief Mike Lewis said.
The woman has been living in the church's former parsonage as part of the New Sanctuary Movement, which arranges church accommodations for illegal immigrants in the U.S. So that makes it, what, a friggin embassy? Have ICE walk in there and walk her out in cuffs.
City officials said they previously advised United Church of Christ Rev. June Goudey against taking in Liliana, who had earlier been sheltered at a church in Long Beach."This city is not going to be known as sanctuary city," Miller said. C'mon now ,Mr. Mayor. Reverend June knows what's best. For you and everyone else...
Three years after the federal government stopped subsidizing it, the leafy crop is gaining new popularity among U.S. farmers. Cheaper U.S. tobacco has become competitive as an export, and China, Russia and Mexico, where cigarette sales continue to grow, are eager to buy. Since 2005, U.S. tobacco acreage has risen 20 percent. Fields are now filled with it in places like southern Illinois, which hasn't grown any substantial amounts since the end of World War I.
For decades, Martin Ray Barbre, who farms the lush rolling hills here, was not eligible for federal price supports to grow tobacco under a program dating back to the Depression, making it economically infeasible for him to do so. The same was true for many farmers in 33 other states. Now the tarry plant is the most profitable crop Barbre grows on his 4,200-acre spread.
"If somebody told me seven or eight years ago that I'd be growing tobacco today, I'd say they were crazy," said the gruff 52-year-old farmer, plucking a yellowing leaf from one of his plants and taking a deep smell of the raw, woody aroma.
As laborers from Mexico and Honduras used axes to chop down 6-foot plants and hang them on wooden planks to dry in the sun, Barbre explained the attraction of the crop. Even factoring in higher labor and other costs, he's netting up to $1,800 an acre from his 150 acres of tobacco, compared with $250 an acre from his corn. He credits tobacco with boosting his annual income about 35 percent since he started planting the crop three years ago.
Although corn is flirting with near-record prices at around $4 a bushel, "there's no way corn can get high enough" to compete with tobacco, says Barbre, shaking his head. "There's just too much money in tobacco."
Barbre's profitable tobacco business adds a wrinkle to the debate over the farm bill Congress is preparing to take up. Many farmers say that without the system of subsidies for commodities like corn, cotton and soybeans, they'd be at risk of going under. But critics say the system fosters inefficiency, distorts international trade and supports mainly the wealthiest farmers. Now these critics can point to tobacco as evidence that subsidies are unnecessary.
With tobacco, "we are finding that farming can be done without subsidies," says David Orden, a Virginia Tech professor and agricultural economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute.
For more than 60 years, subsidies were as integral to tobacco farming as rich soil and a damp climate. In 1938, Congress passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, a New Deal-era law crafted to support the thousands of small farmers of all sorts who had been financially devastated by the Depression.
The law guaranteed tobacco farmers in many states a minimum price for their crops. It allotted quotas to farms that produced tobacco at the time the law was enacted, which dictated how many acres they could plant. Tobacco buyers were penalized for buying from growers without quotas. Growers who didn't own a quota had to buy or rent one from those who did. The system propped up prices and limited production to narrow areas and to plots of land rarely larger than 10 acres.
The system was junked in 2004 through a $9.6 billion buyout of tobacco growers and farmers who owned quotas, with tobacco companies funding the payments. Thousands of tobacco farmers, many reaching retirement age, collected their checks and stopped growing the crop. Some farmers planted strawberries or tried to raise catfish in their farm ponds.
In 2005, tobacco acreage dropped 27 percent from the year earlier, to 297,000 acres. With the government no longer supporting prices, those dropped too, to $1.64 per pound, from $1.98, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. Cigarette makers worried that they wouldn't have enough supply.
But predictions from some quarters that tobacco farming was headed for extinction in the U.S. proved incorrect. Today, farmers can grow as much tobacco as they want, wherever they want. Economies of scale have kicked in.
Arnold O'Reilly, for one, figured it made sense to grow even more. Before the buyout, he says, the tobacco he grew on his Hardinsburg, Ky., farm was selling for about $1.98 a pound, but he paid up to 80 cents per pound to rent a quota, knocking down his effective price to as low as $1.18. These days, he says, his tobacco fetches about $1.60 a pound, and there's no quota payment.
"Before the buyout I couldn't expand," he says. As a result, "we weren't competitive on the world market." Today he is growing 120 acres, double the 60 acres he grew just before the buyout. He has invested more than $300,000 in new farming equipment, barns and land. "I'm unlimited in my opportunities," says O'Reilly, 42. "I have nobody that can hold me back now."
Will Snell, a tobacco economist at the University of Kentucky's Department of Agricultural Economics, says it's not uncommon now for tobacco farms to exceed 150 acres. Tobacco production, he says, has shifted to places with large tracts of land where the leaf can be grown more efficiently.
Nationwide, the tobacco crop has been rebounding. Today there are 355,000 acres under cultivation -- still down from the 408,000 acres in 2004, but on the rise. Some farmers reinvested their buyout cash in their tobacco operations. In big tobacco-producing states such as Kentucky, and in smaller ones like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, many tobacco farmers are enjoying renewed prosperity. Tobacco production in Pennsylvania has more than doubled since 2004. In Illinois, production has gone from practically none to at least 1,000 acres.
Tobacco companies are recruiting new farmers and offering financial assistance to farmers who invest in new curing barns, drying racks, greenhouses and machinery. "U.S. tobacco is really the backbone of our blends," says Henry Long, a vice president at Philip Morris USA, a unit of Altria Group Inc. "Our job is to ensure we have a stable supply of U.S. tobacco to meet current and future needs..."
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As laborers from Mexico and Honduras used axes to chop down 6-foot plants and hang them on wooden planks to dry in the sun, Barbre explained the attraction of the crop. Even factoring in higher labor and other costs....
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nice job, Pinch! That worked out well for ya didn't it? Now I can still avoid reading MoDo, Friedman, Idiot Herbert, Enron Krugman, et al, for free...
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TimesSelect: the firewall that protected the world from Maureen Dowd.
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I had wondered what happened to Maureen Dowd. I think that poor, old woman is in need of a good man.
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Just one more example that in a market system, price is set by what consumers are willing to pay. From the response here, Maureen would be better off selling something besides her columns. Any idea how many subscribers they actually had?
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I think you mean "She looks good after a bottle or two of burgundy."
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Who cares? I shocked a telephone solicitor who was offering a move-in offer of three months home delivery of the NYT by telling him I wouldn't read it if he paid me. When he asked why, I said that they "just make stuff up" and that what they print usually has no bearing on reality. The NYT, once a great paper, is now just a partisan broadsheet.
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.
Bangladeshi authorities have ordered the arrest of a cartoonist after drawings that Muslims said insulted their religion were published in a national newspaper, the government said Tuesday. The Home Ministry statement said 
Two thirds of the Flemish community from the northern Dutch-speaking region of Belgium think the country will sooner or later split, a poll by Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws showed on Tuesday. The paper also said almost every second Flemish person, or 46.1 percent, want Belgium to split, indicating separatists in the region are gathering momentum amid a political impasse. 
The Spanish government said Tuesday it would launch an advertising campaign in Senegal designed to encourage would-be immigrants to stay put and not make the hazardous trip to Spain. "We want to send out a clear message: Clandestine immigration only puts your own life at risk. It's pointless and should be rejected by Spaniards and Senegalese alike," immigration secretary Consuelo Rumi said. 
The Rev. Jesse Jackson called Tuesday on Democrats seeking the 2008 nomination for president to give S.C. voters something to vote for when they go to the polls in January. On a statewide tour to register new voters, Jackson said South Carolina will determine who has momentum in the primary when it votes Jan. 29.
President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday endorsed a statement of the state counsel in the Supreme Court (SC) that he would resign as army chief upon his re-election for a second term in office, during a meeting with 
The Tourism Ministrys official website may be adversely affecting its efforts to boost tourism in Pakistan as it offers outdated information to those accessing it.
Nepals Maoist former rebels quit the interim government on Tuesday and vowed to disrupt preparations for historic elections in November unless the Himalayan nations monarchy was abolished immediately. 
