It's small, flat and a useful piece of punctuation. The hyphen, according to the latest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, is becoming extinct, a victim of the text message and the email.
The sixth edition of the dictionary has knocked the hyphens out of 16,000 words, many of them two-word compound nouns. Fig-leaf is now fig leaf, pot-belly is now pot belly, pigeon-hole has finally achieved one-word status and leap-frog is now leapfrog. The reason, says Angus Stevenson, editor of the dictionary, is that we no longer have time to reach over to the hyphen key.
I won't tolerate it, you know. The world needs hyphens. Some-day we'll want them back. I've rented a large storage-container to hold them until the world comes to its senses. It's in Dahomey, if you want to drop by and visit them.
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The reason...is that we no longer have time to reach over to the hyphen key.
That gets my vote for for stupid-of-the-day. I thought hyphens were dying 'cause Strunk & White said not to use 'em.
I've rented a large storage-container to hold them until the world comes to its senses. It's in Dahomey, if you want to drop by and visit them.
Fred, You'll either make a fortune when come back , or a killing!
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Noones gonna like thisn
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Fred, I have a modest stash of my own - for emergency use of course - so if you want a backup site let me know. I could fit a small container on the back 40 here.
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PS: does the place in Dahomey let them out for regular exercise? They end up looking like ) if they don't get to run on in a sentence once in a while ....
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First they came for the hyphens
and I did not speak out
because I do not like my steaks well done.
Then they came for the exclamation points
and I did not speak out
because only in my heart did I shout, Damn them all.
Then they came for the asterisks
and I did not speak out
because I use HTML
Then they came for the @ sign
And the Internet was destroyed
Sept. 21, 2007 Get out your Martian spelunking gear: NASA has found what appear to be seven cave entrances on Mars.
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft relayed images of the dark, nearly perfectly circular features ranging in diameter from 328 to 820 feet. BIG rabbits on Mars!
At first the dark spheres puzzled scientists, but Odyssey's infrared camera then checked the daytime and nighttime temperatures of the circles and suggested they were, in fact, openings to subsurface spaces.
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"That's no ordinary rabbit ... 'tis the most foul cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! That rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide. It's a killer! It's got huge ... very sharp ... it can jump a...look at the bones!"
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Rabbits can be dangerous. Let's make peace with this rabbit.
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...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu... [At this point, the friar is urged by Brother Maynard to "skip a bit, brother"]... And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen.
Arthur then holds up the Holy Hand Grenade Of Antioch and cries out "ONE! TWO! FIVE!" Sir Galahad corrects him, shouting "Three, Sir!" Arthur then yells "THREE!" and hurls the grenade at the killer rabbit. The Grenade soars through the air, accompanied by a short bit of choral music, then bounces once and explodes. The killer rabbit presumably dies in the explosion, for the Knights subsequently enter the cave which it has been guarding.
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You know, Pitch Black deserved a better sequel than it got, even if they did have militant gnostics in it.
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yep...Chronicles had a bigger budget than it needed, and less storyline than it deserved
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by teh way - saw 3:10 To Yuma today. Excellent. I'll admit to liking Crowe and Bale a lot before it, but it ranks up with Unforgiven and Open Range as my favorite recent westerns. Both stars do great work....catch it on big screen if you can
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It's on my list after "Stardust." Damn travelling and luggage seminars keep getting in the way.
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Speaking of incredible movies, go out and get yourself a 1964 copy of Orson Welle's "The Trial". Based on the book by Franz Kafka, it is an agony of unspoken innuendoes, ambiguous assertions and equivocal pronunciations. One can only imagine how very similar communist kangaroo courts were to the film's legal system. The sets are incredibly surreal and the intentionally pointless plot is infuriating in how it purposefully torments any rational mind viewing it. Just yesterday I watched it for the first time and it is dumbfounding. Tony Perkins turns in an Oscar-worthy performance and this film should be mandatory viewing in all high school history classes.
The Libyan media published an article titled 'Bangladesh 'Should Merge With India' Posted: 2007/09/07 From: Mathaba net. This news item is motivated with an ulterior sinister design and violation of decency and decorum of international practices and gross interference into the internal affairs of Bangladesh.. It's a piety that we don't get any comment from Bangladesh Care Taker Government. Are they in daytime snapping?
The news item says: A member of the International Scientific Committee of the World Centre for Studies and Researches on The Green Book says that there is a call for Bangladesh to merge with India in order to save it. He said that Bangladesh faces no future, as it will disappear under the sea, something that the author of The Green Book, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi has confirmed on a number of occasions. He said Bangladesh's best bet is to submit a proposal to India to say that it is willing to become a state in an Indian Union, and thus to cease to exist as an independent country.
By becoming additional eastern states within India, local democracy will continue, and thus the effect on the people is positive. Moreover, the resources of India's central government would be required to defend its territory and care for its citizens and they can relocate to any other part of the country in the case of flooding. He pointed out that Bangladesh has no need for an armed force of its own but should instead say to India we are ready to submit to you, come and occupy us and integrate us within India. This would put an end to accusations against Bangladesh regarding terrorism, and allow India to take full responsibility for its new state.
Historically, he said, the entire region has one culture and one destiny. It was British colonialism, which ripped the region apart into several failed states the borders of which produced tensions. Bangladesh has one chance for survival and that is immediate and unconditional offering of itself for full integration into India, he said.
All politicians of Bangladesh, can submit themselves for election to the new local state after an interim period of transition to India's democracy, or immediately be removed should India wish upon reunification. The armed forces, police and other institutions can be integrated or maintain their existence during a transition phase, or the new states of Bangladesh can have certain autonomy functions at the state level.
The precedent for integration is not new, with Hong Kong, East and West Germany being but two recent examples which lessons can be learnt from that it is entirely possible for a larger state to easily absorb a smaller one with more benefits than disadvantages, he said" ## ends (Source: www.newsnow.co.uk search 'Bangladesh' dated 8 Sept.07)
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He said that Bangladesh faces no future, as it will disappear under the sea, something that the author of The Green Book, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi has confirmed on a number of occasions. He said Bangladesh's best bet is to submit a proposal to India to say that it is willing to become a state in an Indian Union, and thus to cease to exist as an independent country.
Gadaffi must smoke some pretty strong stuff inside his tent if he thinks India will accept a merger
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Why the hell does Qyadaffyduck think India would even want Bangla?
Do the Indians look that stupid?
Here's an idea, Muammar Mummy - why not have Bangla become a state in Libya?
After all, y'all share the same religion and all, and our Alaska & Hawaii prove that a state doesn't have to be physically part of the larger country.
Bangla can apply for statehood in Libya, and Poland can apply for statehood in the U.S. - a win-win for us!
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When China reroutes Brahmaputra river northward won't there be too little water for the delta that contains Bangladesh to be sustained leaving it to eventually disappear at a faster rate then Louisiana loses the Mississippi delta?
Britain is preparing territorial claims on tens of thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean floor around the Falklands, Ascension Island and Rockall in the hope of annexing potentially lucrative gas, mineral and oil fields, the Guardian has learned. The UK claims, to be lodged at the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, exploit a novel legal approach that is transforming the international politics of underwater prospecting.
Boy howdy the Argentinians are going to be unhappy.
Britain is accelerating its process of submitting applications to the UN - which is fraught with diplomatic sensitivities, not least with Argentina - before an international deadline for registering interests.
Relying on detailed geological and geophysical surveys by scientists and hydrographers, any state can delineate a new "continental shelf outer limit" that can extend up to 350 miles from its shoreline. Data has been collected for most of Britain's submissions and Chris Carleton, head of the law of the sea division at the UK Hydrographic Office and an international expert on the process, said preliminary talks on Rockall are being held in Reykjavik, Iceland, next week.
Mr Carleton believes the Falklands claim has the most potential for acrimonious political fallout. Britain and Argentina fought over the islands 25 years ago, and the value of the oil under the sea in the region is understood to be immense: seismic tests suggest there could be up to 60m barrels under the ocean floor.
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The Empire Re-Declared.
All Treaties Null and Void.
Queen Sez Come Home at Once or Be Scolded.
Fleet Street lifts veil on Joseph Mendiola Class SuperSubs, steals Guam from US. BettyCrockerCrats head for tall grass, now unmasked. End times now. May cause funding problems for local skool districkt.
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Use a few random capitalizations, Tom, and it'll look just like a Joe screed.
I'm worried about you.
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Ahh, but JosephM's posts bear careful reading -- ofttimes there's a great deal of real information and useful perspective there. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at some of his dinner parties. ;-)
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He must do, Classical Liberal, or meet people for lunch, because he clearly knows people who know things. There's depth behind the things he shares here -- some of it's conspiracy theory, but he reads widely on the web, and has the background to understand it. Most of what I know I learned here, because Rantburgers are so generous in explaining, but still my vocabulary is broader than my understanding on many subjects. JosephM's posts don't have that feel. Or so it seems to me.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged Brazil on Thursday to accelerate trade and energy integration with his country to help counterbalance US interests in the region. The leader of the oil-rich Caribbean nation criticised Brazil for dragging its feet on his proposal to build a $20 billion pipeline from Venezuela to Argentina that would supply much of South America with gas. We are very surprised there are people here that oppose (the pipeline), Chavez said in the northern Brazil city of Manaus before a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Venezuela has 80 percent of South Americas proven gas reserves, let the Brazilians know that, he said.
The two left-wing leaders favour South American integration as a counterbalance to the trade interests of rich countries but Lula has repeatedly distanced himself from Chavezs anti-market and nationalist policies. Chavez also urged Brazils Congress to approve Venezuelas entry into the South American trade bloc Mercosur, which is made up of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Make it a 50 billion buck pipeline and have the secondary send pure sweetness and light. Lawz, what a moroon, VA banks went to 120% overnight loans on Huggies idea that the central banks oughta loan money to the pooor.
Evern 'ugo got concerned. Dropped that quickly. LOL!
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(Itar-Tass) - Two servicemen were killed and two were wounded in central Nazran on Thursday, when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a UAZ cross-country vehicle, a source in the republic's Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass. The servicemen from an operations group stationed in Karabakh came under fire at 13:40, Moscow time, "According to preliminary information, the criminals fled in a silver VAZ-2110," the source said. A group of investigators has arrived at the scene of shooting. Police have launched a search for the attackers.
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I got curious:
VAZ is a Lada
The UAZ cross country can be a lot of things (google search) link to various UAZ thingys
(Itar-Tass) -- Former head of the Chechen Achkhoi-Martan district administration Shamil Burayev has been charged with complicity in the murder of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, lawyer Pyotr Kozakov told Itar-Tass. The Investigation Committee of the Russian Prosecutor Generals Office has charged Burayev with the murder complicity, he said.
In the opinion of the investigators, Burayev received information about Politkovskayas place of residence from Federal Security Service Lt. Col. Pavel Ryaguzov and passed it to the prospective killers the Makhmudov brothers. The lawyer thinks that the accusation is notional, and Burayev pleads not guilty.
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lawyer Pyotr Kozakov
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Shamil Burayev
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Round up the usual suspects...
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See, USA in IRAQ are not the only ones who've troubles with Muslim self-rule.
"The drop-side failures result from both the hardware and crib design, which allow consumers to unintentionally install the drop-side upside down," the safety commission said. "This, in turn, can weaken the hardware and cause the drop-side to detach from the crib. When the drop-side detaches, it creates a gap in which infants can become entrapped."
Two separate infant deaths involving a 9-month-old and a 6-month-old occurred when cribs with older-style hardware had the drop-side installed upside down, the agency said.
Mattel apologized for both.
The CPSC said it was also investigating a third death that had newer-style hardware. The agency has received reports of seven infant entrapments involving the recalled products. "CPSC is also aware of two incidents that occurred when the drop-side was correctly installed with older style hardware, though the upside down installation greatly increases the risk of failure," the agency said.
Although the cribs were made in China, the safety agency downplayed that aspect of the massive recall. "This recall isn't a China-made problem. It's more about hardware and crib design and less about it being assembled in China," a CPSC spokeswoman said.
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Brace yourselves; the Chicoms don't take recalls lying down without repercussions and revenge! I feel so sorry for the grain, spinach and tobacco growers in America; get ready to 'assume the position'.
The Dutch government rejected mounting calls for a referendum on Europe's new reform treaty last night, two years after Dutch voters killed off the European constitution in a referendum that stunned the EU. After a cabinet meeting yesterday of the coalition of Christian and Social Democrats, the Christian Democrat prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, announced that a second referendum was not needed on the grounds that the new treaty was not a constitution and that Dutch concerns had been assuaged in the treaty negotiations this year.
But Mr Balkenende's determination to avoid another referendum after the fiasco he faced two years ago could still fall foul of the parliament in The Hague, where three small parties are demanding a popular vote on the treaty that is supposed to be agreed by the 27 EU governments next month.
A decision to stage a referendum in the Netherlands would complicate Gordon Brown's attempts to avoid a national vote on the treaty. Downing Street has been put on the defensive by demands for a referendum from the trade unions, a Tory campaign, calls from the rightwing press and the danger of a Labour backbench revolt.
Despite yesterday's decision in The Hague, the Dutch coalition is split. Whereas the prime minister is fiercely opposed, his centre-left partner fought an election last year pledging a referendum. Senior Dutch Labour figures support a vote. Jan Pronk, expected to be made Labour chairman next week, is backing a plebiscite, as is the party's caucus leader in parliament, Jacques Tichelaar.
Of the three parties demanding the referendum in parliament, two are solidly pro-EU and one is strongly Eurosceptic. If Labour voted with them as well as the pro-referendum conservative PVV, they would muster a majority and rout Mr Balkenende.
Last week a government advisory body, the council of state, told the cabinet that a referendum was not needed since the new treaty, unlike its ill-fated predecessor, was not a constitution. Mr Balkenende said he would be steered by the council's advice.
But the scenario of 2005 could still be repeated. The Dutch voted by almost two to one to kill off the constitution and spared prime minister Tony Blair the need to hold a referendum in Britain. Mr Balkenende opposed a referendum on that occasion too, but lost in parliament.
The reform treaty was drafted this year under German leadership in response to the crisis triggered by the Dutch and French no votes two years ago. An EU summit next month in Portugal is meant to endorse the treaty, which then has to be ratified.
Like Mr Brown, Mr Balkenende hopes to restrict the ratification process to parliament. If the Dutch leader is forced to call a referendum, the pressure will mount on Mr Brown to follow suit and there will probably be demands for a public vote elsewhere in the EU - in Denmark, for example. That could spell a death sentence for the treaty, even if the Dutch government is confident it could win a referendum if necessary.
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An 88-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard who concealed his role in the Holocaust has been stripped of his US citizenship and barred from the United States, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Romanian-born Martin Hartmann joined the Nazi SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at the Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin in July 1943 and served with the Nazis until World War II ended in May 1945. He withheld his Nazi past when he immigrated to the US in 1955 and when he later applied for US citizenship, according to a complaint in federal court in Washington. Both times, revealing his service with the Nazis would have disqualified him.
In a recent settlement with US authorities, Hartmann acknowledged that he served as an armed SS guard of civilian prisoners and aided in Nazi persecution, the Justice Department said in a statement. He left the United States for Germany before an August 31 deadline for his departure set by US authorities, the department said.
"Martin Hartmann and other members of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion were indispensable accomplices in the brutal crimes committed in the Nazi concentration camp system," said Eli Rosenbaum, head of the department's Office of Special Investigations, which tracks down Nazi perpetrators.
After paying taxes for over 50 years, Hartmann is "staying with family in Berlin" where he met is wife Ellen in an air raid bunker when she was a 17-year-old girl working at the Red Cross. She will be joining him in Berlin soon, where they will both enjoy relief from the Arizona heat, the IRS, state and local taxes, and the continued flood of non-tax paying immigrants across our southern border.
A disgraced Democratic fundraiser, Norman Hsu, has been charged with concocting a $60 million "Ponzi" fraud scheme and related federal campaign finance crimes, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
File this under "Most of us could be rich, but we're too honest. Even the crooks among us."
Beginning in 2003, Hsu was the managing director of two short-term financing companies that lured investors by promising high rates of return, the prosecution's complaint said. Hsu then allegedly used his investors' money to operate a pyramid scheme in which he would pay back the companies' newer shareholders with money obtained from older ones. Hsu also would ask his investors to donate money to various political campaigns in their own names and then reimburse them, a violation of the Federal Elections Campaign Act, the complaint said. "This case is about self-promotion and greed," the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael Garcia, said at a news conference. "In committing acts of campaign finance fraud, he corrupted a system in which transparency is paramount in order to purchase a place on the celebrity campaign circuit."
I don't think the Justice Department can investigate this guy properly. I think we ought to have Patrick Fitzgerald as a special prosecutor. After all, it worked for Lewis Libby.
Hsu is charged with one count each of wire and mail fraud, and one count of violating the Federal Election Campaign Act. If convicted, Hsu faces up to 45 years in prison for the fraud charges, a $250,000 maximum fine for the campaign finance charge, and as much as twice the gross gain or loss from the financial fraud charges.
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.....and the caption reads; "I am Norman Hsu, I am Chinese. I am my own man. No one tells me what to say.... and by the way, who is Vince Foster anyway?"
Extremist elements continued pressuring Ahmedis in August and the maximum number of cases against the minority community were reported from Rahim Yar Khan, claimed a report issued by the Ahmedia Jamaat on Friday.
The report claimed that nine cases were reported in Rahim Yar Khan, one in Nawabshah, two in Rabwa and one in Jehlum. Two Ahmedis were ostracised in a bicycle market in Rahim Yar Khan because of a Tablighi Jamaat campaign against them, the report alleged.
In another incident in the same district, clerics of Sehjah village spread rumours about Ahmedis forcibly taking Muslims to Rabwa and brainwashing them with their dogma, it added. The clerics also demanded dismantling Ahmedi mosques in the area, the report claimed, adding that the situation in the village had become tense.
Extremists in the district also told Ahmedis to remove the name Muhammad from their names or be punished.
Extremists in the district also told Ahmedis to remove the name Muhammad from their names or be punished, the report alleged. Clerics also passed an edict to punish Muslims for maintaining contact with Ahmedis, the report claimed.
In another incident in Rahim Yar Khan, hooligans published the picture of the founder of the Ahmedia Jamaat along with abuses on the back of the print, the report claimed said. People openly hold conferences in the area abusing Ahmedis, it alleged. If a police officer decided a case in favour of an Ahmedi, he or she was considered an Ahmedi, the report alleged. Ahmedis in Rahim Yar Khan have decreased the number of community and religious programmes. They have also decreased the number of mosques, it added.
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a report issued by the Ahmedia Jamaat on Friday.
The Ahmedia Jamaat was in the forefront of the movement for partition, they too were unwilling to live in peace with people who were not Muslim.
Well, they got their "Land of the Pure", free of impure Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, and Buddhists.
Now they are not pure enough to live in the land of the pure.
Tough luck...
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A conference on Pakistan was told here that Pakistani political parties have failed to show internal democracy, which has discouraged the emergence of new leadership.
The conference, organised by the University of Californias Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, featured a free exchange of views on Pakistan from a number of South Asia experts and some others with a serious interest in the region.
Dan Markey of the Council in Foreign Policy said that Pakistani political parties are frozen in time and have learnt little from experience. They have no specific agendas or platforms, he said. Referring to Pakistan Peoples Party chairwoman Benazir Bhutto, he said she has appeared to be less concerned with Pakistan than herself. He said one of the most significant developments in Pakistan is the rise of the independent media with a 24-hour news and comment cycle.
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Raja Zafarul Haq, the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) Joint Action Committee convener, announced en bloc resignations from the assemblies on September 29 and nationwide demonstrations from September 30 to protest President General Pervez Musharrafs re-election, after an emergency APDM meeting on Friday.
I believe the APDM is son of the ARD (Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy), which was pretty much the MMA with the PML-N and occasionally pieces of the PPP.
Haq said legislators would hand in resignations to their respective speakers on September 26. He said the APDM would launch protests against the recent changes in the presidential election rules. The APDM also denounced threats of martial law and emergency in case the Supreme Court blocked the presidents re-election. The APDM held protests throughout the country on Friday against their issues with the government and Nawaz Sharifs deportation, which were low in attendance and all but fizzled out.
Apparently the voters aren't as fired up as the big turbans are.
Islamabad was the strongest venue, where around 1,000 protesters showed up and demonstrated outside the Supreme Court, Reuters reported. Around 400 protesters showed up and demonstrated in Multan, and several were arrested in Karachi, where around 300 people demonstrated. There were small protests in Peshawar as well.
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Leaders of Jordans influential Muslim Brotherhood movement have received assurances from Prime Minister Marouf Bakheet that the Nov. 20 parliamentary elections will be held in a fair atmosphere, the groups chief Salem Falahat said yesterday. However, he told Arab News that the Brotherhood and its political arm, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), have not yet decided to take part in the general elections.
We received assurances from the prime minister that the polling process would be held in a fair manner in compliance with King Abdallah desire, Falahat said. On Wednesday, Falahat took part in the surprise meeting with Bakheet, which was the first encounter between the two sides since July 31 when the Muslim Brotherhood movement and the IAF accused the government of rigging the municipal elections.
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A US government department has been forced to eat humble pie for apparently advising its 67,000 employees to buy Japanese or South Korean cars. The climbdown by the US Department of Health and Human Services demonstrated the clout still wielded by Detroits embattled carmakers in spite of their recent failure to block the passage of tighter fuel economy rules in the Senate.
The advice that staff seeking to cut back on fuel costs would be better off buying a Toyota, Honda or Nissan than a Chevrolet, Ford or Dodge came in a departmental newsletter devoted to energy efficiency behind the wheel. Apart from an explanation of the technicalities of hybrid petrol-electric cars, the newsletter included a list of the top 12 green cars compiled by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. All 12 are Japanese and South Korean models. They include the top-selling Toyota Prius hybrid, the small Toyota Yaris, Honda Fit and Hyundai Accent, and hybrid versions of the Honda Civic, Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima.
Detroit complained vehemently not least because General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler have been strenuously attempting to prove their green credentials in recent months. Ford builds a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility vehicle while GM has promised to put its Chevy Volt electric car into production by 2010 and more diesel vehicles are soon set to come out of Detroit.
The health department newsletter displayed a simplistic approach that showed a prejudice against American vehicles, said Jason Vines, Chrysler spokesman. I dont think youd ever see anything like this out of the Japanese government, that you should maybe consider a Chrysler 300C.
Repeating a line that the carmakers have used to oppose tougher fuel-economy standards, Mr Vines said fuel economy is not the only defining factor. There are things like safety and utility and so forth.
Michigans 15 House of Representatives members complained to Mike Leavitt, the Health and Human Services Secretary. On Thursday the department backed down, stating that it deeply regretted that our newsletter offended anyone, especially those Americans working in the automobile industry and the millions of people who make American automobile manufacturers successful.
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
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Cave Entrances Found on Mars 
Venezuelan President 
A disgraced Democratic fundraiser, 
Extremist elements continued pressuring Ahmedis in August and the maximum number of cases against the minority community were reported from Rahim Yar Khan, claimed a report issued by the Ahmedia Jamaat on Friday.
