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Whoa, great eyes. This is the kind of guy you see checking the garbage cans at the Taco Hell near Union Station and muttering to himself "Jew aliens! You won't take MY semen!"
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While Bush undergoes a routine colonoscopy Saturday, he will transfer presidential powers to Dick Cheney. Here's a list of President Cheney's promises to the American people for his first 100 minutes.
Minute 1: Nuke Baghdad (I think they meant Tehran)
Minute 15: Eliminate the Department of Homeland Security and replace it with Jack Bauer
Minute 36: Tea with Karl Rove
Minute 51: Nuke North Korea
Minute 65: By executive order, allot Wyoming 3 more senators and a baseball team
Minute 73: Send Joe and Valerie Wilson to Guantanamo
Minute 81: Change into Darth Vadar costume and conspire with the Prince of Darkness
Minute 90: Actually pardon Scooter Libby, because the last president wasnt cowboy enough to do it right the first time
Minute 93: Respectfully but resolutely assert importance of Halliburton
Minute 100: Hold press conference confirming the beliefs of Arianna Huffington and Kossacks nationwide that he is, in fact, evil
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Minute 5: Bitch-slap Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schlagel, and whichever other member of the House or Senate he can reach be fore he has to sign the order eliminating the DHS.
Minute 20: Order silo doors opened on all nuclear weapons silo's in North Dakota just to give the Russians something to really worry about.
Minute 55: Sign Executive Order eliminating barriers to drilling in ANWR, off any US coastline, and to the construction of any new US nuclear power generating facility anywhere.
Minute 60: Sign Executive Order eliminating Department of Education.
Minute 61: Nuke Tora Bora region of Afghanistan and NWRP area of Pakistan.
Minute: 62: Sign Executive Order ordering the immediate arrest and incarceration of any person or persons divulging national security secrets in any form particularly via the NY Times or any other method, retroactively to the start of the Bush Administration.
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To treat the condition, a valve known as a "shunt" had been inserted in his head to drain away the fluid when he was a six-month old baby. It was removed when he was 14.
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NOVA did a program about a girl with a similar condition some years ago. They installed the shunt in her still in the womb, but she had a similar displacement of brain tissue. When they filmed her, she was just graduating from high school, had a slight limp and a slight speech impediment, but otherwise didn't seem to be disabled.
Police have detained a television reporter for allegedly faking an investigative report on pork buns made with cardboard. The action comes as China is attempting to contain growing allegations that have hammered its reputation as a food and drug exporter.
Beijing Television apologized to viewers in an evening news broadcast for the fake bun report. "The reporter used deceptive means to get the footage on the air," said news anchor Wang Ye. "The Beijing Public Security Bureau has taken the criminal suspect, Zi, into custody and he will be beaten bloody severely dealt with according to the law." Xinhua News Agency said the suspect's full name was Zi Beijia.
Zi's footage appeared to show a makeshift kitchen where people made buns stuffed with 60 percent cardboard that had been softened in caustic soda and 40 percent fatty pork.
The police said Zi had told editors he wanted to investigate the quality of pork buns, and spent two weeks visiting stands but could not find anything to report. He filmed the fake report after coming under pressure to produce a story, Xinhua said.
Uh-huh, sure.
Beijing Television said Zi brought meat, flour, cardboard and other ingredients to a downtown Beijing district, and had four migrant workers make the buns while he filmed the process.
The station said it was "profoundly sorry" for the fake report and its "vile impact on society" and vowed to prevent inaccurate news coverage in future.
In a normal society, the response is to fire the guy and to make sure he never gets another job in the industry. In China they arrest you and beat you senseless.
The news report - along with a spate of real food scares involving toxic fish, tainted pork and egg yolks colored with a cancer-causing dye - have harmed China's reputation as an exporter and alarmed people at home.
In a late development Wednesday, confectioner Guan Sheng Yuan said it sent samples of its "White Rabbit" milk candy for testing after it was listed among mainland products banned in the Philippines because of contamination with formaldehyde. "Absolutely at no point during the manufacturing of White Rabbit milk candy are preservatives added," the company said, adding that rivals have made counterfeit versions.
It does, however, have enough LSD in it to make you think fondly of Grace Slick ...
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I am ok w/ cardboard. Just no dog "pork".
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Personally I would prefer Rat or Dog to alkali softened cardboard... I like my animal flesh authentic...
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The police said Zi had told editors he wanted to investigate the quality of pork buns, and spent two weeks visiting stands but could not find anything to report. He filmed the fake report after coming under pressure to produce a story, Xinhua said.
Hmmmmm. Kid shows potential. Maybe CBS could work a deal and get him out...
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No truth to the rumor that this poor schmuck is being sacrificed at the altar of 'Improving the World's perception of Us" due to sh!tty goods and food stuffs, and that the cardboard is actually pretty tasty, but we need to make the story go away.
(ANSA) - Rome, July 20 - Senior soccer stewards will be able to bear arms to keep the peace at Italy's stadiums if a government decree is approved by parliament. The bill, which is being examined by the House Constitutional Affairs and Culture Commission, is part of efforts to fight soccer violence after a police officer was killed in rioting at a top-flight game in February.
It rules that 'steward supervisors', who will be in charge of teams of up to 20 stewards, will be able to carry guns at grounds with a capacity of over 7,500. These coordinators must be aged 30-50, be "in good mental and physical health", have a high-school diploma and know at least one foreign language.
Nothing about marksmanship, however ...
According to new legislation, there should be one steward for every 150-250 fans at soccer matches. The government is trying to boost the role of stewards as part of its efforts to import the English model of defeating hooliganism, which has dogged Serie A in recent years.
Up to now, there have been fewer stewards at Italian grounds than in England and their role has been more limited. British stewards help fans find their seats and make sure they do not do anything they shouldn't during the game, like racially abuse players or hurl objects onto the pitch. This makes it possible to reduce the police presence at grounds, which in turn helps reduce potential tension between fans and security forces.
British police are only called on to handle major incidents inside stadiums.
It is hoped the greater use of stewards in Italy will help to restore order to parts of stadiums that have become no-go areas for the police.
Italy's hard-core ultra fans can often do as they please in the sections of the grounds they take up. Smoking cannabis, for example, is common at Serie A games. This is possible because Italian police only enter these areas as a last resort. They know the ultras would consider it an invasion of their territory and react violently.
The tragic death of police officer Filippo Raciti at the February 2 Catania-Palermo game, however, has convinced the authorities that the ultras must be brought to heel.
Palermo Chairman Maurizio Zamparini, however, does not like the idea of seeing gun-toting stewards at matches. "Stadiums aren't battle grounds. I'd follow the example of England, where the stewards have truncheons, not guns".
I am glad to see that the U.S. Government will finally take some responsibility for these folks. I remember hearing about this in the late 70's and 1980's. And the arguments supporting and disapproving the complaints of these Vets.
SAN FRANCISCO - An appeals court chastised the Department of Veterans Affairs on Thursday and ordered the agency to pay retroactive benefits to Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange and contracted a form of leukemia.
"The performance of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has contributed substantially to our sense of national shame," the opinion from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals read.
It was not immediately known how much the department would have to pay under the order or how many veterans would be affected.
VA spokesman Phil Budahn said late Thursday that officials were reviewing the ruling, and declined further comment.
The VA agreed in 2003 to extend benefits to Vietnam vets diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, known as CLL. U.S. troops had sprayed 20 million gallons of Agent Orange and other herbicides over parts of South Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1960s and '70s to clear dense jungle, and researchers later linked CLL to Agent Orange.
But the VA did not re-examine previous claims from veterans suffering from the ailment, nor did it pay them retroactive benefits, which was at the heart of the latest dispute.
Thursday's opinion was on a technical matter involving whether a lower court had properly interpreted a landmark agreement in 1991 on benefits, stemming from a class-action lawsuit originally filed in 1986.
The appeals court sided with veterans groups who said the veterans were entitled to retroactive benefits.
"We would hope that this litigation will now end, that our government will now respect the legal obligations it undertook in the consent decree some 16 years ago, that obstructionist bureaucratic opposition will now cease, and that our veterans will finally receive the benefits to which they are morally and legally entitled," Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote in the court's opinion.
Richard Spataro, a lawyer with the National Veterans Legal Services Program, said Thursday's ruling could finally halt years of legal battles if the VA does not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Spataro said if researchers link other disabilities to Agent Orange the decision will prevent the VA from denying retroactive benefits for those veterans, too.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The 357-72 vote demonstrated the enduring political strength of public broadcasting. The outcome was never in doubt, unlike a fight two years ago when Republicans tried but failed to slash public broadcasting subsidies.
The move to kill subsidies for the CPB, which make up about 15 percent of its budget, was launched by Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado.
The CPB couldn't tighten its belt by 15%?
"Taxpayers are being asked to pay more in taxes because Congress is not willing to make hard choices and balance our spending with our income," Lamborn said.
Congress created the corporation in 1967 to shield public broadcasting from political influence. The CPB distributes federal subsidies to PBS, National Public Radio and hundreds of public radio and television stations.
"It is providing a voice for America, a noncommercial, independent voice that is sadly lacking. It isn't available any place else in the million channels on our cable networks," said Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon.
The programming for children can be and is duplicated on a variety of cable channels. Ditto for Masterpiece Theater. And the music concerts are straight off DVD anyways.
The vote came as the House for a second day debated a huge spending bill funding job training, education and health programs. The underlying bill provides about $152 billion next year for earmarks programs whose budgets are set at lawmakers' discretion each year. Among the largest increases is $2.2 billion to finance an increase of $260 in the maximum Pell Grant for college students.
So that colleges can raise tuition by $260 per year.
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Don't mourn too much. In a lot of rural America, where PBS are just a micro stations, Pat Robertson's broadcast group has been capitalizing on a loophole in FCC regulations to buy out the PBS license and replace it with religious broadcasting.
They can show that not only is Robertson's group far more capable of supporting such stations, but also that they are far more popular than was the PBS station they replaced.
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they're more popular because the constituency in rural america would rather be told by pat robertson what to believe and how to think as they're so saturated with Rupert Murdochs Broadcasting that the independent "thinking" part of their tiny little brains dissolved along time ago, hey, just like all you rantburgers, just like you Fred.
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Hey, don't be bashing PBS. Without it, Bill Moyers would be just another bum sleeping on a steam grate somewhere, writing op-eds for your local 'alternative' newspaper.
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There was a time when Public Broadcasting served a useful niche but with today's profusion of media sources it has become obsolete.
For educational programming on cable alone we have a History Channel, Discovery Channel and a variety of other scientific and cultural networks. That does not even take into account the ever expanding number of sites on the internet for political analysis, news, entertainment etc.
The only function of PBS today is to act as one of the last refuges for the leftist viewpoint of aging liberal dinosaurs like NPR and the New York Times.
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Is that what passes for intelligent debate with you, #2 troll bk?
*Yawn*
On the trollery scale, I'd give that a -2. And I'm in a generous mood tonight.
Now run along, little troll, back to your koskiddie buddies and tell them what a pathetic idiot how brave and insightful you were, and leave this site for the adults. You're not even worth batting around.
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A teenager axed his mother to death in the Raiwind police precinct on Thursday morning on suspicion of illicit relations. Police said Rehana Bibi (36) was working at a kiln with her husband Abdul Hameed and son Abdul Majeed. Majeed (17) suspected his mother for having illicit relations with other labourers of the kiln. He questioned his mother over the issue and getting furious, attacked her with an axe. He fled the scene leaving her severely injured. People rushed her to a nearby clinic where doctors pronounced her dead. Police sent the body to the city mortuary for autopsy and started investigation after registered a case against the accused on the complaint of victims brother Ghulam Farid.
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Yeah, I kinda knew before I read it that the deadline wasn't gonna be, like, Boise, Idaho...
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Shame to Bibi for dragging her husband's name through the dirt. She should not be talking to men to whom she is not related. Congratulations to Majeed for protecting his family's honor! A good boy, and let's hope the courts will see that.
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.
(ANSA) - Rome, July 20 - Senior soccer stewards will be able to bear arms to keep the peace at Italy's stadiums if a government decree is approved by parliament. The bill, which is being examined by the House Constitutional Affairs and Culture Commission, is part of efforts to fight soccer violence after a police officer was killed in rioting at a top-flight game in February.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House on Wednesday evening overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's plan to eliminate the $420 million federal subsidy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
A teenager axed his mother to death in the Raiwind police precinct on Thursday morning on suspicion of illicit relations. Police said Rehana Bibi (36) was working at a kiln with her husband Abdul Hameed and son Abdul Majeed. Majeed (17) suspected his mother for having illicit relations with other labourers of the kiln. He questioned his mother over the issue and getting furious, attacked her with an axe. He fled the scene leaving her severely injured. People rushed her to a nearby clinic where doctors pronounced her dead. Police sent the body to the city mortuary for autopsy and started investigation after registered a case against the accused on the complaint of victims brother Ghulam Farid.
