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yahoo: an air force unit reached Yinchanggou, a scenic spot in the mountains north of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, finding landslides had swept away rustic small hotels.
"There are several hundred hotels, including farmer homestays, probably 800 in all. They are all rubble now," Cai Weisu, an official with an air force unit from the Chengdu Military Region, told Sichuan Television. Most of the dead are tourists, he said, but did not identify whether they were foreign or Chinese.
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#1: ALso, minor Quakes reported in USA ala MISSISSIPPI-ALABAMA region???
Must be exceedingly minor, absolutely no mention of any Quakes on the local news, nothing felt, and I'm about on the ala-Miss line(20 miles)
Unless it's something in the northwest corner, and we'd get news even then.
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The official death toll for Burma's cyclone disaster has jumped to almost 78,000 people, with nearly 56,000 missing, according to state TV.
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Burma and China are in a race for Natural Disaster of the Year title (let's hope no new competitors join). The Burmese government seems to be working harder for the win.
A new phase of Zimbabwe's long-running electoral saga opened late this week as the Harare government finally set June 27 as the date for a presidential run-off between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai amid continuing political violence in the country's rural areas mainly targeting Tsvangirai backers.
His formation of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change said it would take up the electoral gauntlet once more though objecting that a run-off should not have been necessary, as the MDC contends Tsvangirai won an outright first-round majority, and also arguing that the run-off should have been scheduled over a month earlier.
Opposition officials said that if a run-off had to be held, it should have been scheduled within the statutory deadline of 21 days from the announcement of official first-round results on May 2 by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission - that is, on May 23. The commission said Tsvangirai received 47.9% of the vote, Mr. Mugabe 43.2%.
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"Tough" meaning thugs with clubs, AKs and gas soaked tires.
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Italian police began a nationwide round-up of nearly 400 illegal immigrants from the Balkans and North Africa yesterday in the midst of a series of arson attacks on Roma gypsy camps in the suburbs of Naples.
The first step in a drive on crime promised by the new centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi targeted temporary encampments on the outskirts of cities from Naples to northern Italy. Some 118 people held in the operation were ordered to be expelled immediately for offences ranging from drug dealing and robbery to prostitution.
But in Naples local people have anticipated the new policy, taking the law into their own hands.
This weeks assaults on Roma shanty towns by scores of youths on scooters and motorbikes wielding iron bars and throwing Molotov cocktails were sparked off by the capture of a 17-year-old Roma girl who last weekend entered a flat in Ponticelli and tried to steal a 6-year-old girl. Chased by the mother and neighbours, she had to be rescued by police from being lynched.
The city erupted in fury, with local women leading the marches on the Roma camps to the chant of Fuori, fuori [Out, out]. Night after night young men allegedly acting on the orders of powerful local clans of the Camorra, the Naples Mafia have set the sites ablaze, blocking attempts by the fire brigade to put out the fires, with exploding gas canisters completing the destruction. The women jeered at the firemen, shouting, "You put these fires out, we start them again.
And so it begins. The tab on the Times story on my computer reads 'Xenophobia' outbreak as Italy..." I'd say the lamps were going out across EUrope, but I'm no longer certain they were ever lit.
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Can't say I'm surprised or, for that matter, bothered. Vigilantes arise when the government fails to act against lawlessness. The Muzz have thought violence was a weapon that only they could use. They need to learn the hard way that if you don't play nice in your neighbor's yard, he has the right to throw them out without asking anyone's permission. The Muzz already demand that for themselves, BTW. It's only the dhimmi Euros and Americans that they think shouldn't be allowed the reciprocal privilege.
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Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy has accused European states of killing hundreds of African migrants by deliberately sinking their boats to stop them reaching Europe.
Maybe they should stay in Senegal or Burkina Faso. Or Libya.
"This tragedy is unfolding. A war on the Mediterranean sea is being waged against Africans," Qadaffy told leaders of African trade unions he met in Tripoli late on Thursday.
The Libyan leader's remarks were carried by the Libyan state news agency Jana on Friday. It was the first time he had made such allegations and he did not name any country in particular. The European Union's executive Commission declined to comment.
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Timely indeed! Blue eyed Euro-devils at it again. More sermon notes for Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Michelle may wish to use this for her doctoral thesis or new book!
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"Libya is the main springboard for African migrantsillegal aliens attempting to sail tosneak into Italy -- the main sea route for illegal migrantsaliens to spread sneak into Europe. Migrant advocacy groupsIllegal alien enablers and fifth columnists estimate about 100,000 migrantsillegal aliens - criminals breaking Italian/European LAWS -cross toillegally sneak into Italy each year."
There - fixed.
Here's a novel idea, Quadaffy Duck - TRY KEEPING THEM IN AFRICA. Figure out why they consider Africa a hellhole (and Europe, therefore, not a hellhole) and make changes that will keep the illegals home.
Or admit that African "leaders" want Africans to leave, and don't care if they die at sea, but are glad to use the fact that people want to get out of Africa for their own sick political gain.
I'm just surprised he didn't blame the U.S. for it.
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I also suspect that a lot of those "migrants" wear eye patches and say "Yaaaaar!" a lot.
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Maybe they should stay in Senegal or Burkina Faso. Or Libya.
IIUC, lybia cracks down pretty hard on african migrants, when they're even just thinking about staying there. As a matter of fact, all of north africa is a no-go area for black africans, arabs or arabized locals don't take too kindly to them...
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy was airlifted to a Boston hospital Saturday morning after falling ill at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Ma. the Cape Cod Times reported. He was first rushed to Cape Cod Hospital, and after being in the emergency room for two hours he was transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital, according to the Times. It's unknown what the 76-year-old senator's medical condition is.
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Given his drinking and weight, it was only a matter of time.
I'm trying to find something nice to say, but cannot, other than God have mercy on him.
If he does die, I wonder who will step in, and if they hodl a runoff or is it an appointment? Romney ought to give it some thought if he truly wants to help the GOP.
Commenters: This is supposed to be the antithesis of Daily Kos and DU. Meaning we're everything they're not. It doesn't mean that we're the same thing at the opposite end of the political spectrum.
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If he does die, I wonder who will step in, and if they hodl a runoff or is it an appointment?
Good question. Likely an appointment, but I'm not sure. Possible they would just let him hold the office if he survives until a special election in November...
"It was a May 14, 1983 letter from the head of the KGB, Viktor Chebrikov, to the head of the USSR, the odious Yuri Andropov, with the highest level of classification.
Chebrikov relayed to Andropov an offer from Senator Ted Kennedy, presented by Kennedys old friend and law-school buddy, John Tunney, a former Democratic senator from California, to reach out to the Soviet leadership at the height of a very hot time in the Cold War...
...The thrust of the letter is that Reagan had to be stopped, meaning his alleged aggressive defense policies, which then ranged from the Pershing IIs to the MX to SDI, and even his re-election bid, needed to be stopped. It was Ronald Reagan who was the hindrance to peace."
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Old Spook - Deval Patrick would make the appointment, not Romney. Bet heavily on some moonbat getting the slot, or Barney Frank (who I think has seniority amongst our 10 congressmen).
Deval Patrick won't be the one to appoint a successor if it should come to that.
Back in 2004 when it looked like John Kerry had a shot at being elected, the Massachusetts legislature realized that if that happened, then Governor Romney would be the one to fill the post.
ASAP they passed a law to remove that power from the governor and force the vacancy to be filled with a special election.
I always thought that was unconstitutional, but it appears to be covered by the 17th amendment.
Don't worry, I 'm sure the voters of my state will find someone just as objectionable as Ted.
Posted by: Rich at May 17, 2008 02:51 PM
Always looking for a Torricelli/Lautenberg moment, aren't they, this time it could bite them in the ass. F*cking Donks' situational ethics are a national treasure, aren't they?
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Ah, come on guys, don't you want to see him alive long enough to feel The Terminator's Hillary's sharp knife nails dragging him from his seat as the "Conscience" of the Senate to take his place?
The scene from 'I Claudius' where Caligula helps Tiberius on his way, comes to mind. Theater, we want theater. :)
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Ted could possibly be the most tragic figure in American politics.
Lost two brothers to assassins, a dysfunctional mother and father, the near fatal plane crash running for political office....then Chappaquitique( How do you spell that)
A messy divorce, a drinking problem......
The Kennedys read more like Macbeth or King Lear than a dynasty.
I dispise the man and his politics but I will symapathize with him as a human who has gone from personal loss to personal loss his entire life.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain's family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, "and he has a hard time thinking beyond that," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.
"I think he's trapped in that," Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. "Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous."
Harkin said that "it's one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that's just how you're steeped, how you've learned, how you've grown up."
A McCain spokesman said Harkin's remarks were the way typical donks think. offensive and showed that Democrats are out of touch with Americans' values.
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note that Harkin is the same fool who took his admirable military service ferrying aircraft to Japan and the PI and made it out to be air combat over North Viet Nam. A Lying Liberal Loser
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It seems to me that all those years as a U.S. Senator would have broadened Candidate McCain's world view considerably. It's the same place where Senator Harkin works, so I don't see what he's fussing about.
Sen. Barack Obama pushed back Friday against President Bush's implicit criticism of his approach to foreign policy, condemning his administration for not capturing Osama bin Laden and blaming its Iraq war policy for strengthening and emboldening Iran. An animated Obama, cheered on by a crowd gathered on the floor of a livestock arena, said he would be delighted if the presidential race turned into a conversation about which party is better suited to guide the nation's foreign policy.
"If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I'm happy to have anytime, anyplace, and that is a debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for," the Democratic front-runner said.
After weeks of discussion about how to address rising gasoline prices and the nation's souring economy, the campaign resumed its focus on the Iraq war and the fragile state of the Middle East. Obama's speech triggered a day-long foreign policy exchange between him and McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's challenger for the Democratic nomination, was left largely on the sidelines.
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"Obama called it "disingenuous" to assert that he was not the clear target of the president's comments"
Get over yourself - the world does not revolve around YOU. Particularly President Bush's world.
Fool.
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Obama citing Nixon? The worst president until George Bush?
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Big mistake by Hussein. He's revealed how thin his skin is about this issue, and with very little provocation. He'd better watch out for the debate he wants so much. McCain has been training for it by spending all his time on the bus with reporters who are happy to beat him up. Hussein is surrounded by sycophants. He'll lose it when he gets frustrated that he can't get McCain to lose it. Then McCain will slip in a zinger and he'll explode. Game, set, match.
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McCain has been training for it by spending all his time on the bus with reporters who are happy to beat him up.
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The back of the bus is McCains base.
You mean beat up on BO?
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That this twink can even say such ridiculous things without inviting instant, uh, ridicule - is another reminder of what a debased and silly "public square" we have when it comes to foreign policy.
"Strengthened" Iran? Hmmm. Prior to 2003, they were throwing their weight around with impunity - not just in Lebanon and Gaza, but directly against us (Khobar Towers, etc.). Now?
Let's see.
US forces and intel agencies on two borders, with direct access to Iran via assets recruited from the literally millions of border-crossing pilgrims and others, as well as via illegals of US or other nationality. Check.
US forces in direct contact with Iranian forces and proxies, with the concomitant benefits that brings from captured operatives, intercepted materials and commo, and exposure to TTPs. Check.
US conventional force bases and observation positions on or near the border. Check.
Demonstration of US will and capacity by reaching in and snuffing out what had historically been the strongest and most aggressive of the Arab rejectionist states. Check.
Yep, son, that there's some list of failures. And of course this leaves aside the slaughter of Sunni jihadis that Iraq has seen - all of which contributes to the cause against Iran, which of course is logically banking heavily on all forms of anti-US and anti-western extremism to help them achieve their goals (shhh, don't let the morons in Langley hear, they'll get confused).
And WTF with "strengthened AQ leadership"? So strong they're changing their rationales and themes faster than a Hamas terrorist scrambling for the basement when he hears an Israeli chopper hovering nearby?
Of course, there IS that long list of successful major terror operations against the US homeland and interests abroad that AQ has pulled off since 2001. Wait ....
Oh, please, let Psycho, er, Maverick take up this child on his reckless challenge. The guy couldn't debate a smart Hill intern on foreign policy. He's a lightweight with bad instincts and very dubious analytical skills.
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#2 : Republican presidents, P2K. Dems only have shades of greatness...
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And who doesn't seem to function well under stress.
well, thank God that's not a requirement for the Presidency
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I don't see that all the fuss is about---of course the guy who says that Israel "is a constant sore", wants to meat the guy who says that Israel "is a stinking corpse".
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g - I dislike Obama as much as anybody, and I don't think he's a friend or dependable ally to Jews and Israel. I also hate his ties to Wright/Hamas. That said, I think that particular comment referred ONLY to Israel. I read it as saying the 'Israel/Paleo conflict' was a "constant sore". Just my 2 cents. YMMV
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crap.. I meant: "I DON'T think that particular comment referred ONLY to Israel."
Wow! That didn't change the meaning one bit, did it? What can I say? I'm also watching the NASCAR All-star race pre-race show. Can't handle that and typing my comment clearly? I'm a moron
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as far as the speech should be fairly interpreted? Yes. As far as what's in his heart? I have serious doubts, and should my life and liberty depend on it, as your's does? I'd be a pessimist. I don't think he'd say :"Israel is the sore". I can't say that about him believing it, based on what we've seen so far of his brief public vetting. 'What I know' is troubling.
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Did I clear that up at all?
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I'm just saying I think he's too slick to be that explicit.
He might, if tired or no teleprompter is available
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and should my life and liberty depend on it, as your's does? I'd be a pessimist.
You should be a pessimist on your own account. IMO, you Americans don't realise how much power the office of the POTUS has in the hands of somebody who doesn't share your basic worldview.
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really? and if the C-In-C declared all intelligence currently shared with Israel to be transferred to the DOS bureaucracy "love list", that wouldn't be an immediate consequence to Americans? What immediate check is there on that power? A congressional R.O.?
I think I understand fine, thank you
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Personal opinion? The man is an anti-Israel antisemite, because that's the fashionable view in the circles in which he travels, and he'll say whatever makes those around him accept him. He is savvy enough politically to realize, however, that the majority of American voters are not fashionable, and so will not say that in public -- unless he's stressed or tired, as has been noted.
Frank dear, I think Nimble Spemble's comment was directed at g(r)omgoru, not you.
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore, who this week unveiled plans for a follow-up to his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11," said on Friday the new film would cover topics so "toxic" he probably should not make it. Ooooohhhh....Don't tease me that way, Fat Boy!
But Moore, whose work ranges from an expose of American gun culture in "Bowling for Columbine" to a scathing critique of U.S. health care in "SiCKO," relishes controversy, so his unnamed new movie will likewise be risky, he told reporters at the Cannes film festival. "It's something I shouldn't make, something that is dangerous," he said. But Moore divulged few details of the film, which he only recently began and is tentatively set for release roughly a year from now by independent studio Overture Films and Paramount Vantage International.
The movie, he said, would not be a "sequel" to "Fahrenheit 9/11" but it will focus on policies of the Bush administration, examining how they have affected the lives of Americans and the reputation of the United States around the world. From a fair and balanced point of view.
With the United States in the throes of an economic slowdown and military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Moore wondered aloud if the country had become like the Roman Empire before its fall. "Are we at that point yet?" he asked.
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Moore wondered aloud if the country had become like the Roman Empire before its fall. "Are we at that point yet?" he asked.
Ah, No. One, you weren't around as an adult [not that you qualify for that even today] in the 70s fat boy when it was far worse than today. And Two, maybe the end of the Republic, but definitely not the Empire. That period [characterized by not giving a shit what others think about America]is yet in the future. The knives maybe being sharpened in our Senate, but I doubt the wielders understand where it will end. The record doesn't bode well for them and their faction.
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Procopius2K, Fat Mike doent realizethat he and his sort will nto be welcomed as saviors, but pilloiried as the causes once people do the math. They are the ones that will be run out of power and end up dancing at the end of a lynch mob rope.
NEW DELHI: China has more worrying news for us. Latest satellite pictures have identified a large area in central China with 58 launch pads for nuclear-capable ballistic missiles which apparently target north India and south Russia. (Watch)
Coming soon after the discovery of the sheer extent of China's underground nuclear submarine base at Hainan Island in South China Sea, it's yet another reality check for the Indian defence establishment.
TOI had highlighted earlier this month how Hainan had jolted the Indian establishment, with navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta expressing concern about the number of nuclear submarines and long-range missiles "in our neighbourhood".
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Since the 1980s, both the US and China have assumed that they will fight it out over the Pacific, eventually. However, India changes everything.
Perhaps George W. Bush's most lasting impact will be that he recognized India as a sleeping giant when the rest of Washington didn't. A giant who can match or eventually best most anything China can menace with. If the US and India are friends, China cannot defeat both of us.
And India is on China's border, not on the other side of the world. Which obviously has kept the Chinese military leadership up at night.
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And India will soon have more people. And India speaks our language. And however obstreperous, India is a multicultural democracy.
The U. S. was far from Britain's ally for its first 100 years. But thereafter, immersion in the larger world made evident to all the importance of our shared heritage. So too with India.
A week old.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top lieutenants on Monday are convening the first meeting of the U.N.s Task Force on the Global Food Crisis. Ban says it will study the root causes of the crisis, and propose solutions for coordinated global action at a summit of world leaders in June.
Ban might want to consider convincing the oil-rich nations of the Middle East to provide more than the near-invisible amount of money they currently give to the World Food Program (WFP), the U.N.s food-giving arm, which is charged with alleviating the food crisis.
WFP internal documents show that the major oil producing nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gives almost nothing to the food organization, even as skyrocketing oil prices and swollen oil revenues contribute to the very crisis that the U.N. claims could soon add 100 million more people to the worlds starving masses.
The overwhelming bulk of the burden in feeding the worlds starving poor remains with the United States and a small group of other predominately Western nations, a situation that the WFP has done little so far to change, even as it has asked for another $775 million in donations to ease the crisis.
Donor listings on WFPs website show that this year, as in every year since 1999, the U.S. is far and away the biggest aid provider to WFP. Since 2001, U.S. donations to the food agency have averaged more than $1.16 billion annually or more than five times as much as the next biggest donor, the European Commission.
This year, the U.S. had contributed $362.7 million to WFP just through May 4, according to the website. That figure does not include another $250 million above the planned yearly contribution that was promised by President George W. Bush in the wake of WFPs April warning that a silent tsunami of rising food costs would add dramatically to the world population living in hunger. Nor does it include another $770 million in food aid that President Bush has asked Congress to provide as soon as possible.
On the other hand, Saudi Arabia, with oil revenues last year of $164 billion, does not even appear on the website donor list for 2008.
And while Canada, Australia, Western Europe and Japan have hastened to pony up an additional $260 million in aid since WFPs latest appeal, the world organization told FOX News, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the international oil cartel, tossed in a grand total of $1.5 million in addition to the $50,000 it had previously donated.
The OPEC total amounts to roughly one minute and 10 seconds worth of the organizations estimated $674 billion in annual oil revenues in 2007 revenues that will be vastly exceeded in 2008 with the continuing spiral in world oil prices.
The only other major oil exporter who made the WFP list of 2008 donors was the United Arab Emirates, which kicked in $50,000. UAE oil revenues in 2007 were $63 billion.
By contrast, the poverty-stricken African republic of Burkina Faso is listed as donating more than $600,000, and Bangladesh, perennial home of many of the worlds hungriest people, is listed as donating nearly $5.8 million.
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The fatcats in Saudi aren't going to give anyone anything. We made em richer than God and the thanks we get is that when Bush asked them to increase the supply of oil and they said no. Bush should tell them to go pound sand in some rat hole the next time they need their fat a$$es saved. Let em make and maintain their own aircraft and weapons. Let em grow their own food. Hell they don't care if there own subjects have enough food. A royal screwing for the royal family.
The father of a Petaluma teenager appealed to school officials Tuesday night, asking them to permit his son to wear his Marine Corps uniform when he joins his classmates for next month's high school graduation ceremony.
While no vote was taken, board members indicated Tuesday night that they had no plans to overrule a recent decision by Petaluma High School Principal Mike Simpson that Kiernan must wear a cap and gown to receive his diploma in the June 11 graduation ceremony. Petaluma - maybe 50 miles north of Pelosiville.
School districts in Wisconsin and Illinois decided this year to allow students to wear military uniforms at graduation ceremonies. But a school district in Ogden, Utah, last year withheld the diplomas of two seniors after they pulled off their gowns to reveal Army National Guard uniforms.
The controversy in Petaluma drew a small crowd -- fewer than two dozen people. Seven spoke in favor of the student's desire to wear his dress blues, including an 8-year-old boy.
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according to their website, Brian Howard is Principal, no mention of a Mike Simpson. The principal's phone number, btw, is 707-778-4652. Be courteous
http://216.82.92.50/Administration.html
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I agree with the decision. The school's uniform for the occasion is the cap and gown. Everybody should wear it. Make one exception and you have to make 200.
Bowing to pressure from Congress, the Energy Department said Friday that it would temporarily suspend a program to fill the nations strategic oil stocks.
But the move, which some analysts and politicians had hoped would help break the rally in oil prices, failed to sway the market. Crude oil prices hit another record Friday. The decision on the oil stocks came the same day that Saudi Arabia announced a modest increase of 300,000 barrels a day in its oil production as President Bush visited the oil-rich kingdom.
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And the BISMARCK was famously criticized for FAILING TO TOP OFF WID OIL WHEN IT HAD THE CHANCE, a German command decision which is believed to had contributed, among other, to the ship's later destruction in battle at the hands of the Royal Navy.
" "NO MATTER THE COSTS TO ENGLAND/BRIT IN MEN, SHIPS, AND PLANES, YOU MUST SINK THE BISMARCK"!
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Bush wins again. The reserve is at 97%, and the contract is good until July. This means that for all intents and purposes, it will be so close to 100% that it won't matter.
Pelosi was as usual, a day late and a dollar short trying to prevent the filling of the reserve, when to her horror she realized that it would give the US the ability to fight Iran, or even fight Iran *back*, if it attacked us first.
She is so craven, that she would prefer that the US be injured, as long as it wouldn't fight back.
What is it with those people? They don't want a missile defense for fear that it will stop enemy missiles from hitting us, either.
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It was the rudder problem, but the same Swordfish strike caused an oil leak which cut down the number of refueling options.
/and then They Cutter Down!
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Want to effect the oil futures market - start drilling in ANWR, off both coasts and in the gulf off of Florida. Allow oil shale exploration in Colorado.
Oh wait, what am I thinking - all that would effect the endangered effing polar bear.
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.
Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy has accused European states of killing hundreds of African migrants by deliberately sinking their boats to stop them reaching Europe. 
Sen. Barack Obama pushed back Friday against President Bush's implicit criticism of his approach to foreign policy, condemning his administration for not capturing Osama bin Laden and blaming its Iraq war policy for strengthening and emboldening Iran. An animated Obama, cheered on by a crowd gathered on the floor of a livestock arena, said he would be delighted if the presidential race turned into a conversation about which party is better suited to guide the nation's foreign policy.
