and drugs - HT to AOSHQ. 7 paragraph story, but no party ID necessary, huh?
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09/18/2008 07:15 ||
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The denizens of the MSM are just blindly following precedent: Pravda didnÂ’t have to mention StalinÂ’s party affiliation every time they wrote about him, after all.
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Interesting to note that the Dems were going to throw him under the bus anyway.
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As I understand it, Boyd's a blue dog and not one of Nancy's pets. Still, there is nothing in this story to hang on him. I hope his constituents vote on his merits and demerits and not his wayward son's. Sonny charged $15,000 to bring 5 people in. A motive may be the meth found in his pickup truck. We will see, as time goes by.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
09/18/2008 12:28 Comments ||
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The service probably included filling out voter registration cards for our new guests as well.
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He's a Comb-Over BlueDawg. His district includes Leon County (hai!) and 2 old black belt counties. He has to walk a delicate balance between TLH and Madison.
So... he's good on guns and peanut subsidies and votes for Nancy. Also sucks down a fair amount of farm dough his own self.
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Yep, they've shifted in the last 5 years to the left talking points memos on 'science'. Should'a seen their issue on the End of Oil[tm]. They acknowledged in the piece that there had been End of Oil[tm] panics before but this TIME[tm] it's different, it's really really true. Sad to watch another old school pub descend into the dinosaur pool [pun intended].
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I remember in the last election they came out about this time and went into the tank for the democrats. I've always loved the National Geographic and I was so sad to realize they were no longer a reliable source of info.
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They lost me in the months after Sept 11 when I read their article on Islam and it talked about the vile crusades but forgot to mention how Islam somehow found itself fighting in France and at the gates of Constantinople and washing up in Indonesia in the century or two prior. Yeah they were just praying and playing chess when the big-bad Europeans picked a fight with them.
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Evidence is slowly accumulating that we may be going into an extended sunspot nadar. That means significantly lower temps for awhile, a few years to a few decades. The politicans can just manufactor some new talking points and lie their way out of the global warming craze., but what will the scientists do? It wont be so easy for them to reverse an academic position that was not securely based in science and may prove to be false, precisely because of their failure to follow good science methodology. Retire quietly is my suggestion.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
09/18/2008 12:47 Comments ||
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Global warming may be our only chance against the sunspot draught. Everybody, to your SUV's. It's for the EARTH!
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Arctic Ice in "Death Spiral," Is Near Record Low
Except the record low occurred 29 years ago. Was the planet warmer in 1979 than now? Maybe. I remember it being plenty hotter when I was younger... but then I spent the mid to late 80s in air conditioning, so what does my "recollection" matter?
Posted by: Grenter, Protector of the Geats ||
09/18/2008 16:52 Comments ||
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Respectfully disagree with Remoteman. Please see the May 2008 issue on China and the article on soil conservation in the Sept. issue.
A coalition of Nigerian human rights groups has mobilized 86 lawyers to defend the country's most married man, currently detained for unlawful marriages and inciting contempt of Islamic religious laws, an activist said Wednesday.
Masaba came to the limelight two months ago when he admitted in the media to having 86 wives and 170 children, insisting that his marriages did not contravene Islam which allows a man to get married to up to four wives.
"The coalition of 27 human rights groups in the north has mobilized 86 lawyers to defend Bello Masaba against the charges brought against him and the threat of banishment," Shehu Sani, a human rights activist and playwright, told AFP in a telephone interview. "It is our determination to protect his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution and international law," Sani added.
Sani is the director of Civil Rights Congress, a rights group based in the northern city of Kaduna and a member of the coalition. He said the identities of the defense lawyers would not be disclosed for fear of blackmail and intimidation, adding that the coalition "will go to any length to defend Masaba whom we believe is a political prisoner and prisoner of conscience".
Masaba, 84, was whisked away from his home town Bidda by police and arraigned before an Upper Sharia court in the state capital Minna "for incendiary contempt of religious laws and contracting unlawful marriage to 86 wives", a court clerk told AFP.
The news about Masaba attracted sharp criticism and indignation from all over the north, particularly from Islamic clerics, with the Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI), the Nigerian Muslim umbrella body slamming a death sentence on him. Two weeks ago, Masama agreed to divorce 82 of the wives and keep four, the maximum Islam allows, following a two-day ultimatum issued to him by the influential traditional chief of Bidda to either choose four among the 86 wives or leave the town.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/18/2008 00:00 ||
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Iff he wasn't before, he's definitely a Goner now!
A Briton who sparked a bomb alert on an Emirates flight from Manchester to Dubai in July while he was drunk was sentenced to four months in prison in the Gulf emirate on Wednesday. Mark Winterbottom, 37, will be deported after serving his sentence and has also been fined 1,000 dirhams.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/18/2008 00:00 ||
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Well at least we know know the REAL reson why he watned to be the supreme leader. Wanna bet what percentage of that was truly willing, what percentae was following orders or looking to advance thier career, and what percentage was forced?
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Fidel is 82 years old. I figure his studliness may have gotten off to a slow start and his sexual activities have probably slowed the last 10 years or so. So, let's give him 60 years of prime, to be generous. That comes out to 583 and 1/3 per year. Not quite 2 new women per day. No wonder he had to conquer a nation, he needed a big population of women to draw from. I wonder how many of them would describe the sex as good for them, too? Of course you'll need to wait until he croaks to get honest responses from many of them.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
09/18/2008 4:14 Comments ||
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Fidel as a superstud? sure - just like the guy who was boasting in the bar last weekend. LOL
Read the biography of Mao published a few years back. He had lots of STDs, but never received treatment, either because his doctors wouldn't tell him, or because he refused treatment. His poor partners, though....
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
09/18/2008 20:29 Comments ||
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He stopped being funny around 1980. Or maybe I just grew up.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
09/18/2008 15:25 Comments ||
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He quit being funny when he stopped ridiculing everyone and went after only the Republicans.
When he got really partisan, he lost his sense of humor.
Have you noticed that the really strident lefties have no sense of humor?
Posted by: James Carville ||
09/18/2008 15:37 Comments ||
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They also tend to be far more unhappy with life as well. Thus their - misery love company approach to politics and why socialism appeals to them. Instead of celebrating how far we've come, they'd rather dwell upon the failure to achieve perfection [as though the human species can attain perfection].
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What I find funny is how many of them would seem to be happy in the world of Brazil, assuming they were the beurocrats in charge and their enemies in the torture room.
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