Air America host Randi Rhodes called both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton "whores" in a recent appearance, seen below. Rhodes, who hosts a weekday radio show on Air America, said to the cheering crowd, "What a whore Geraldine Ferraro is! She's such a fucking whore!" She then proceeded to say, "Hillary is a big fucking whore, too" to a mixed audience reaction. "You know why she's a big fucking whore? Because her deal is always, 'Read the fine print, asshole!'"
Update: Rhodes has been now been suspended from the network. Air America released the following statement:
Air America has suspended on-air host Randi Rhodes for making inappropriate statements about prominent figures, including Senator Hillary Clinton, at a recent public appearance on behalf of Air America in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station.
"Air America encourages strong opinions about public affairs but does not condone such abusive, ad hominem language by our Hosts," said chair Charlie Kireker.
Well, thank goodness! I'm glad Air America won't stand for abusive, ad hominem language from its on-air personalities. So, then, if, say, for example, if Jeanne Garofolo or Al Franken were to utter something abusive and ad hominem about George W. Bush or the Pope or John McCain, they'd be out the door in a New York minute. Right? Hey! why is everyone laughing at me? Do i have toilet paper stuck to my shoe or something? . . .
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Two questions?
Is that the same station who robbed money from a program for poor Black children?
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Rob is a word the 'Others'(tm) use for Republicans. The Others just borrow, but never pay back though they believe they will 'Someday'(tm) thus making it acceptable. It's the same financial structure arrangement that works for Social Security.
As for their financial viability - the same accounting firm that used for work for subprime corporations is probably working the books there too.
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Is that the same station who robbed money from a program for poor Black children?
Yes.
How it is that they are still not bankrupted?
Maybe Air America found some cripple children they can steal from.
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Ooooh! She said fuck and whore! Oooooh! So cutting edge!
Trying to shoot your way out of a menial job, Randi? You'll probably make more doing the farm reports at 5AM on Sunday mornings in South Dakota.
NBC announced a 52-week primetime schedule at its early "in-front" presentation to advertisers Wednesday that included themed primetime hours.
Primetime, eh? When did they start doing that?
Starting next season, 8 p.m. will be "family hour," 9 p.m. is "blockbuster hour" and 10 p.m. is the "adult themes" hour, said network co-chair Ben Silverman.
Anybody but me remember when "adult entertaiment" consisted of cocktails at 5? With your clothes on?
The move steps away from network's previous pledge to only schedule unscripted shows in the 8 p.m. hour, while reserving 10 p.m. for more grown-up fare.
Obviously that worked well. They made out like bandits during the writers' strike, I'll betcha.
The schedule includes long-rumored additions such as a series remake of "Knight Rider" and a spin-off of "The Office," as well as new titles like the Christian Slater spy series "My Own Worst Enemy" and the King David retelling "Kings" starring "Deadwood" star Ian McShane.
A knockoff, a spinoff, and some schlock.
We gotta keep this for historical purposes. Our grandchildren may someday ask "What was NBC?"
The network's 2007-08 schedule: Monday
8 p.m. "Chuck" Ground?
9 p.m. "Heroes" Bet it's not about Iraq.
10 p.m. "My Own Worst Enemy" / "The Philanthropist" Return of "The Millionaire"? Tuesday
8 p.m. "Biggest Loser: Families" / "Biggest Loser: Couples" Game shows? Reality shows? People still watch that stuff?
9:30 p.m. "Kath and Kim" Mike & Ike? Nard & Pat? Cisco & Pancho?
10 p.m. "Law & Order: SVU" I think the Law'n'Order cow's got blisters on her udders. Wednesday
8 p.m. "Knight Rider" Son of My Mother the Car.
9 p.m. "Deal or No Deal" Another game show?
10 p.m. "Lipstick Jungle" / "Law & Order" "Moo! Owww! Easy on the udders!" Thursday
8 p.m. "My Name Is Earl" Mine's Fred. Betcha we never meet.
8:30 p.m. "30 Rock" No idea...
9 p.m. "The Office" Dilbert: The series?
9:30 p.m. "The Office" / SNL Election Specials / "The Office [spinoff]" I'm getting dizzy from the spinoffs.
10 p.m. "ER" (the final season) / "Celebrity Apprentice" "Hello. I'm Doctor Bob! And this is my apprentice!"
"Say! Ain't she Paris Hilton?"
"Yes. She is. She'll be removing your gall bladder this afternoon." Friday
8 p.m. "Robinson Crusoe" I guess it'll save them some money on casting.
9 p.m. "Deal or No Deal" / "Friday Night Lights" Oboy. More gameshows. Is Vanna still around?
10 p.m. "Life" Tomorrow night: The Universe.
The night after: And everything. Sunday
Fall: "Sunday Night Football" Probably somebody will watch it. Winter:
8 p.m. "Merlin" Ripping off Harry Potter, are they? Or Robin Hood? Robin Hood meets Harry Potter?
9 p.m. "Medium" Bet it's not well done. Ripoff of "I see dead people"? "Ghost"?
10 p.m. "Kings" Saul. David. Absolam. Jonathan. Jeroboam. Those guys. Lotsa opportunities to rewrite biblical history. Work in some oppression of the Philistines, maybe a few explosions. And no temple on the mount. Summer 2009:
Monday
8 p.m. "American Gladiators" Good, solid intellectual fare, by Gawd!
9 p.m. "America's Toughest Jobs" NBC teevee reviewer on there?
10 p.m. "Dateline NBC" "Hello. I'm Keith Olberman. And this is my celebrity apprentice..."
"Say! Ain't she..."
"Yes. It's Paris Hilton. She'll be producing news segments for us tonight." Tuesday
8 p.m. "Most Outrageous Moments" "Real people! Real embarrassed!"
9 p.m. "America's Got Talent" "That'd be the ones that couldn't make the cut on American Idol.
10 p.m. "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (Encores) Moooooooooooooo! Wednesday
8 p.m. "Shark Taggers" Phun with pherocious phish? Or Mike Hammer without the warmth and humanity?
9 p.m. "America's Got Talent" (Results Show) American Idull.
10 p.m. "Law & Order" (Encores) Want some milk? The cash cow's still giving. Thursday
8 p.m. "The Office" (Encores) Wally grows a ponytail. The pointy-haired boss wants a database. He thinks it should be mauve because that has the most RAM. Hilarity ensues.
8:30 p.m. "The Office" [Spinoff] (Encores) The pointy-haired boss grows a ponytail. Wally builds a mauve database. Hilarity ensues. Scott Adams sues.
9 p.m. "Last Comic Standing" The others fell asleep.
10 p.m. "The Listener" He was the last comic standing. Friday
8 p.m. "Chopping Block" Good idea. Kill the turkeys in public.
9 p.m. "Dateline NBC" "Hello. I'm Keith Olberman. And these are my apprentices..."
"Say! Ain't they...?" Sunday
7 p.m. "Dateline NBC" "That's right. Tonight's segments are produced by Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, and Nicole's baby.
8 p.m. "Monk" Still around after all those years. Wouldn't touch him, myself. He's probably infected with something.
9 p.m. "Nashville Star" "Hey, y'all! It's American Idull!"
10 p.m. "Kings" (Encores) Tonight: Uriah fights his final battle! Mrs. Uriah finds a surprising new husband!
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Jeepers, Fred. You done teed off on that one! All I can say is the NBC execs are going to need industrial quantities of cocaine and Bag Balm(tm) to get through that season.
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At least they arn't showing madonna tripe media exposure desperately seeking susan, like encore.
'son of my mother the car'
Hah! still nobody brave/desperate enough for A-team, a beauchamp group of benniton lookers running around speaking truth to power...get cloony for hannibal, decaprio for face, rosie for murdock, kanye for BA - drive around in a prius hybred helping out kids who try to cut power lines with a circular saw.
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they keep trying to ruin Sunday Night Football by having eternal douchebag Olbermannnn do the pregame lead in and halftime
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Oh, damn, what a vast unending expanse of desert wasteland... relieved only by "My Name is Earl" (which is pretty funny!) and maybe "Heroes" if it doesn't tank after a good first season.
Oh, well - as long as there is "Flip That House" and "Food Network Challenge"....
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...hey, I'M happy - 'Hell's Kitchen' fired up again this week on Fox! There is nothing on television that's quite as much fun as good food and Gordon Ramsey verbally demolishing a bunch of cocky chef wannabes. Not to mention we get new eps of 'House' and 'Bones' next week (Tho have to admit House is getting a bit repetitive).
Mike
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I miss "Steamboat" and "Tugboat Annie". I watch "Cash Cab" (Jepordy in a Cab) and "Dirty Jobs". And sports. For any other entertainment I go outside to watch the animals or watch whatever mis-adventure my Bugwit neighbor happens to get into.
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As if anyone with half a brain gave a flying about what MSM TV put out anymore.
The notice this week that Newsweak was having deep staff cuts was the most cheering thing I've heard for some time. Maybe, just maybe, when the lefty bastards who run the MSM get their financial throats squeezed to the choking point, the near-death experience will bring them to the realization that AMERICA DOESN'T LIKE THEIR LEFT-WING, AMERICA-HATING GARBAGE!
KHARTOUM - Sudan said on Wednesday it would issue arrest warrants for child trafficking against six French aid workers who were released after being pardoned by Chad for abducting 103 children.
Sudans minister for social affairs, Samia Ahmed Mohamed, told Reuters 18 of the children were Sudanese. NDjamena had still not agreed to return six from a holding camp in the east of Chad and she said she feared for their safety. A group of Sudanese lawyers will bring charges against the kidnappers for a crime they were not tried for -- child trafficking, she said.
The six from the Zoes Ark organisation were sentenced to eight years hard labour by a Chadian court last year and were allowed to serve their sentences in France.
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change pre-empted the official result on Wednesday by declaring itself the winner of joint presidential and legislative elections. In a press conference in the capital Harare, MDC secretary general Tendai Biti said that its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had not only won more votes than veteran President Robert Mugabe but also passed the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a potential run-off in three weeks' time.
Biti said Tsvangirai had won 50.3 percent and Mugabe had won 43.8 percent. "That means he (Tsvangirai) is above the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a run-off," Biti told reporters. "Put simply he has won this election ... Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is the next president of the Republic of Zimbabwe, without a run-off."
Biti said the party believed that the government was trying to massage the results and pointed to a front-page story in Wednesday's Herald newspaper that said there was now likely to be a run-off as neither man had a clear majority. "The state media has already begun to prepare the people for a run-off in 21 days ... If that is the position this party will contest the run-off," he added.
Biti also said that, based on its own calculations, the MDC had won a total of 110 seats, including 11 lawmakers who are part of a splinter faction. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party had won 96 out of the overall 210 seats, he added.
The party decided to release its own figures as the official electoral commission had so far failed to declare any results from the presidential election which took place on Saturday.
The commission has also yet to declare the final outcome of the parliamentary election which was held simultaneously.
The commission has been under growing pressure, including from foreign governments to declare the official results, with the opposition charging that the hold-up is designed to buy time for Mugabe to fix the outcome.
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The Zimbabwe Election Commission's latest results indicate that the MDC and its allies will have an historic, small, parliamentary majority. ZANU-PF has held the majority in parliament since independence from Britain in 1980.
But this news was pre-empted by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which in a media conference announced that its tally, which it says coincides with that of the independent Zimbabwe Election Support Network, shows that its presidential candidate Tsvangirai got 50.3 percent of the vote. So far there is no official tally of votes cast in the race for president.
If the MDC tally of the presidential race is correct, this would mean that Tsvangirai has won an outright victory over the 84-year-old incumbent, President Robert Mugabe.
MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti says this means there should be no need for a run-off in the presidential race which would have to take place in 21 days from when the result is officially announced. But he said Tsvangirai would be willing to contest a run-off, if the Commission insists one is required.
"A runoff in 21 days," said Biti. "That is what the law says. If that is the case, without prejudice to our position this party will contest the runoff, but we would have hoped for a situation that there will be a conceding of the result for a number of reasons, and the number of reasons being that it is unlikely that the people's will, will in any way be reversed in that run-off. If anything, there will actually be an embarrassing margin in favor of the opposition in the runoff. There is no question about that.
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Zimbabwe's election commission has confirmed that the opposition has won Saturday's parliamentary election. Of the 200 seats confirmed, the governing ZANU-PF of President Robert Mugabe won only 94. The opposition Movement for Democratic Change of Morgan Tsvangirai won 96, while a breakaway MDC faction has nine seats. The opposition claims it has also won the presidential election. However, the election commission has not released any results for the presidential vote.
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Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will not attend the signing of a peace treaty with the government in southern Sudan later this week. Mr Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, is reportedly too sick to attend. The rebel leader has been in hiding for years and never attended peace talks with the government. Mr Kony feared he would be arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The ICC wants to try him for war crimes. In two decades of fighting, the LRA earned a bloody reputation for its use of violence against the civilian population.
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Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands, which remain in British hands after a 1982 war, is ''inalienable'', President Cristina Kirchner says. ''The sovereign claim to the Malvinas Islands (Argentina's name for them) is inalienable,'' she said in a speech marking the 26th anniversary of Argentina's ill-fated invasion of the two islands 480km offshore. The April 2, 1982 invasion prompted the British prime minister at the time, Margaret Thatcher, to deploy naval forces to retake the Falklands.
Economy and political situation must be real bad for Crissie right now, she's getting ready for a war ...
Figures the MOD is overstretched right now and doesn't have Gordo's support anyway. Maybe intends to make a grab again?
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I have to wonder if the Brits would bother to fight to take them back at this point.
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I believe this may have something to do with it -
...the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands could soon be among the richest people in the world.
In the year in which the islands commemorate the 25th anniversary of Argentina's invasion, a handful of exploration firms believe they are on the verge of striking it big.
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And that is also the reason the UK would fight for the islands. The Establishment has no loyalty, no honor and no sense of duty but it knows where the cash comes from.
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Yeah, I'm thinking that even now, the British could take them. About a dozen corvettes and destroyers, and a couple subs. They'd get shredded.
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The Hell with the Brits
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Of course, regardless of the steadfastness of the government appartchiks in the anti-Jihard work, London could always ask kindly for the invocation of the NATO charter [even more so now with the demonstrated deployment of NATO assets to Afghanistan as a precedent] for aid. Someone needs to remind Ms. Kirchner that a US Carrier Taskforce is far more lethal and destructive than what the Brits sent the last time around.
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The Royal Navy is too weak to do anything like it did in 82.
The Ark Royal is available with only 2 harriers on it. The Illustrious is in the Indian Ocean with another 2 harriers. They only have 6 Type 45 ships and have reduced overall combatants by 54% since 87.
The Argies can give them a real run for their money this time around.
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I think the Brits could take the Falklands now but it would be bloodier. Exclusion zones would be out and Argentine Naval vessels in port or not would be sun, and military airbases would have their runways cratered.
However, oil or not, I don't think the British politicians have the will to retake the islands if the are taken and I think the Argentines are betting on that if they make a move.
What you might see is a transfer of ownership with the Brits leasing back the property. This would allow the Brits to remove the military presence and the cost thereof, as well as any future threat at the expense of some honor (which Labor rarely considers of value anyway). It allows the Argentines to truly claim the islands and get lease money as well as possible cut of the oil revenue.
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The government has destroyed both the agricultural and beef industries by taxation and redistribution policies. The farmers are on strike and Argentina will no longer be the breadbasket of South America. The famous and hearty beef industry has been cripled by rules and regulations that have made Uraguay the leading exporter of beef. This is all from an article listed in Instapudit which I am to ignorant to post.
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If the Argentinians upgraded to a squadron or two of SU-30s they would control the airspace over the Falklands and do what they want. The Brits couldn't take it back by themselves unless unless they underwent a massive rearmament, which I don't think they would. The spanner in this plan is the US, who now owe the British for their support since Sept. 2001. And I don't the Americans are in any mood to take any crap from down south.
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The best planes in the world need runways and I believe the British navy could take the runways and fuel and potentially many planes out with sub launched missiles making any air operations very difficult.
It gets down to political will. I don't know if the Brits have it in regards to the Falklands at this point.
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Runways are easy to repair. The only usable weapons the Brits have to counter are sub lanched Tomahawks. Finding the planes (even w/ US spy satellite support) and destroying them before they are moved is not easy.
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Runways are easy for a first world nation to repair. Third world nations are not as organized and potholes can linger for decades.
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I wouldn't want to run bombers through a fighter CAP. The Brits tried Tornadoes (not that they have the range, assuming the Brits lose the Falklands airfields) armed with JP-233s in the Gulf War I. They got their butts shot off and had to go high level. And back then the Brits did not have to worry about enemy fighters.
The reality is that, by themselves, Britain has few alternatives against Argentina determined to take the Falklands.
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If the British want to keep them, they'll keep them. No problem. I'd suspect there is now, and will be for the foreseeable future, a British Trafalgar-class nuclear attack sub someplace within a week's sailing time of the Falklands. Its torps and Tomahawks would put paid to any attack convoy the Argies could mount and the Argies can't manage a sufficiently strong airborne attack to take the islands
The real question is whether Gordo Brown has the balls to tell the Argies to sod off.
Ecuador's popular assembly on Tuesday approved a law to ban foreign military bases, a move that could dash hopes in Washington of renewing a lease that lets U.S. troops use a key anti-drug air base. The 130-member assembly passed the reform in the first package of rewrites to the constitution that once finished must be ratified by Ecuadoreans in a vote during the second half of this year. "Ecuador is a land of peace; foreign military bases or foreign installations with military purposes will not be allowed," read the amendment approved by the assembly controlled by President Rafael Correa's Alianza Pais party.
Correa, a leftist former economy minister, opposes U.S. military presence in his Andean nation and once vowed to cut off his arm before renewing the lease on the Manta base that runs out in 2009. Air surveillance missions from the Pacific coast base are responsible for more than half of all drug seizures in the world's top cocaine-producing region, U.S. officials have said.
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Does that include Venezuela? Or Cuba? Or FARK?
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Those aren't foreign, they fall under the great "Socialist International" category.
Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
Combined with other reforms announced in recent days, the measures suggest real changes are being driven by the new president, who vowed when he took over from his brother Fidel to remove some of the more irksome limitations on the daily lives of Cubans.
Analysts wondered how far the communist government is willing to go. "Cuban people can't survive on the salaries people are paying them. Average men and women have been screaming that at the top of their lungs for many years," said Felix Masud-Piloto, director of the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University. "Now after many years, the government is listening."
Many of the shoppers filling stores Tuesday lamented the fact that the goods are unaffordable on the government salaries they earn. But that didn't stop them from lining up to see electronic gadgets previously available only to foreigners and companies. "They should have done this a long time ago," one man said as he left a store with a red and silver electric motorbike that cost $814. The Chinese-made bikes can be charged with an electric cord and had been barred for general sale because officials feared a strain on the power grid.
On Monday, the Tourism Ministry announced that any Cuban with enough money can now stay in luxury hotels and rent cars, doing away with restrictions that made ordinary people feel like second-class citizens. And last week, Cuba said citizens will be able to get cell phones legally in their own names, a luxury long reserved for the lucky few.
The land initiative, however, potentially could put more food on the table of all Cubans and bring in hard currency from exports of tobacco, coffee and other products, providing the cash inflows needed to spur a new consumer economy.
Government television said 51 percent of arable land is underused or fallow, and officials are transferring some of it to individual farmers and associations representing small, private producers. According to official figures, cooperatives already control 35 percent of arable land and produce 60 percent of the island's agricultural output.
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And so it begins. I have said all along the way to crush Fidel was overflights of high-altitude bombers dropping copies of the Sears catalog and the weekly Walmart flyer.
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I say we just bomb them with dollars. If we completely pulled out all the stops on tourism and took one of the uninhabited keys and made it into a free trade zone, it would work wonders. People are naturally enterprising. Once people get a taste of making their own money, they will want the government to get out of their way so they can make more. Open up tourism, and enterprising Cubans will be providing tour guides, shoe shines, morning papers, food stands, just about anything the tourist wants. And there is no way for the government to control tips. Slip a $20 to a Cuban for a job well done, and pretty soon he has hundreds of extra dollars.
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On Monday, the Tourism Ministry announced that any Cuban with enough money can now stay in luxury hotels and rent cars, doing away with restrictions that made ordinary people feel like second-class citizens.
Does that mean they can also hire tourist-grade hookers?
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They can't survive on the money that they have, but they can bomb the stores and buy all this chinese made crap? That is in direct direct conflict with what it just said?
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The beginning of the end......It's been known for a long time that what brinds down dictators is when they relax a little bit and things improve.
Expectations soar and reality can't keep up. It's the delta between expectations and reality that breeds the revolution. When things have started to improve, the first dip can be the trigger.
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...and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
Just a thought, you might want to start with basic food stuff. Make lots of it and cheap. We've found that if you feed them enough, they're too fat to revolt, just sit around and bitch a lot.
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Does that mean they can also hire tourist-grade hookers?
I think the Thais have that one cornered, but there's always the point of travel time. Better add hops to that crop menu. Beer could be the deciding point.
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Momentum moves in one direction only. Cuba is in for a massive headache though. The minute they open up, all the rich Cubans in Miami want their farms and estates back. The US can help collapse the Commies there by allowing Cuban sugar into the US, but only via capitalism norms, no state sugar allowed.
The world waits...
WASHINGTON - Former President Carter wouldn't quite say it, but he left little doubt this week about who he'd like to see in the White House next year. Speaking to local reporters Wednesday on a trip to Nigeria, the former Democratic president noted that Barack Obama had won his home state of Georgia and his hometown of Plains. And as Plains goes, so goes the Hookworm Belt...
"My children and their spouses are pro-Obama. My grandchildren are also pro-Obama," he said at a press conference, according to the Nigerian newspaper This Day. "As a superdelegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for, but I leave you to make that guess." Thay all say he remahnds them o me. Except he's, ya know, cullid...
Carter's spokeswoman confirmed the comments. Woah! Stand back boys!! Gimmee some room!!!
Asked about Jimmy Carter indicating he would go for Obama, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said: "Both Senator Clinton and President Clinton have a great deal of respect for President Carter and have enjoyed their relationship with him over the years. And, obviously, he is free to make whatever decision he thinks is appropriate with regard to the presidential choice." ...just as Senator Clinton is free to crush his ancient skull between her massive powerful thighs.
Asked whether there was concern that Carter would be regarded as a "super-superdelegate" in the process, Wolfson said: "He is clearly a distinguished former leader of our party and is a superdelegate. And I'm sure that people will be interested in the choice that he makes. But no, nothing beyond that." Coming up next: Walter Mondale and Mike Dukakis announce their support for...somebody.
Carter was in Nigeria for a ceremony celebrating a reduction in Guinea worm disease in West Africa. And Ah'll be at a Seven Eleven in Modesto tomorrow to dedicate a new Slushy machine to the oppressed people of the Gaza strip. Hope ta see ya all thayah...
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Yesterday it was Obama lusting after Gore's guidance. Today it's endorsements from Carter, Fonda, Heinz(-Kerry)...
This decision is a slam dunk, no matter how liberal a RINO McCain is..
#2
A Perfect Storm of America destroying idiots and traitors have now formed around hurricane Obama. It is self powering (financing) and self referential. Our best strategy is to turn it's course east to the warmer and more welcoming waters of the EU. I say form an Air Bridge to Brussels immediately. Do it For The Children.
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Carter supporting Obama is like the Soviets supporting Cuba.
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Lest we fergit, WOT > WAR FOR PRO-US = ANTI-US OWG-NWO > among other thingys, can be sub-interpreted/ascribed as THE WORLD IS DOMIN OR CONTROLLED BY AMERICA = WORLD DESTROYED OR TAKES OVER AMERICA. Issues, causes, or controversies, etc which during the Cold War were mostly suborned or selectived, are now in the forefront and mainstream. * ANTI-US OWG-NWO > ANTI-WHITE/NORDIC EUROPEAN + ANTI-JUDEOXTIAN, ETC. Thusly, instead of traditional INDIVIDUALISM, MSM > CALLS FOR NEW "COMMUNALISM" + "COMMUNITARIANISM" + "NEW TOLERANCE/
TOLERATISM", etc.........CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLICANISM + FEDERALISM/SEPARATION OF POWERS > CONSTITIONAL GOVERNMENTISM + CENTRALISM, etc.
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention in August, avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.
Democratic leaders have begun complaining he has bungled the party's nominating process and alienated voters because of his failure to engineer a political compromise in the DNC's ill-advised decision to strip Florida and Michigan of all its delegates. But Mr. Dean, whose polls show the party's internecine warfare is hurting its chances in November, has been talking to party bigwigs about a deal and now says the delegations will be seated before the nominating roll of the states is called.
The conventional wisdom says the battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will go all the way to the convention. But Mr. Dean wants it over well before that, and possibly before the last of the 10 remaining primaries are completed in June. ...
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Umm, Howie? If you're planning on giving the nomination to Obamarama before the entertainment/fight is over convention even starts, better watch out for the Hilldabeest your back. Is your will made out?
Just sayin'....
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Which is why John McCain isn't committed to a VP, till the Donks show their hand. There are so many ways to leverage the Donks in this atmosphere. Does the name J C Watts ring a bell? Heh.
Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking.
This is a guy we FredHeads were pushing Thompson to grab as his VP candiddate.
Anotehr quote:
If you are explaining, you are losing.
And he has taken the GOP to task in the past for its poor approach to black voters.
He is only 50. Making him a solid balancer to McCain and a great potential president for 2 terms.
Watts: America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
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The Democrats are going to curse the day they handed this nitwit Dean the keys to DNC headquarters, if they haven't already.
I hope they lay the bulk of the blame for this debacle at his feet because that's where much of it belongs. Watching him on TV as he tries to talk his way out of this mess while desperately trying to shift focust to the Republicans has gone from comical, to tiresome, to downright embarrassing.
I can barely watch, anymore. Well, that's not entirely true. I can watch. It's just that I feel like I'm watching a train wreck and finding way too much joy and satisfaction in it. And that makes me feel all weird inside.
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I agree with everything 'Spook said about Mr. Watts. Plus, J.C.'s got one of the coolest names around:
In his book What Color Is a Conservative: My Life and My Politics, Watts explained that the J.C. doesn't stand for anything, but he would often tell people that it was "Julius Caesar" as a joke, although the Congressional Biographical Directory lists Watts' official name as "Julius Caesar Watts, Jr.".
Posted by: Mike ||
04/03/2008 13:56 Comments ||
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Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention in August, avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.
Howard, you should know about ugly and nasty fiascos. I think it's already ugly and nasty from what I can tell--but I don't mind an ugly and nasty fiasco in Denver in August. Please pass the popcorn. How about another brewsky to go with it?
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"As for Florida and Michigan, Mr. Dean is making it clear to party leaders that once the nomination race is all but over, there will be an agreement to seat both delegations under a proportional formula still to be worked out."
I think I got it. First the Super Delegates choose the nominee then the presumptive nominee himself gets to decide how to seat Florida and Michigan. Whoa clever one Howie. Itll be almost as if the votes in those two states counted. Sooo lets get this straight then. Under your plan Obama wins, the DNC picks up the convention liquor tab for the disenfranchised delegates, and then the rank and file Obama supporters get to write the checks to cover the Clintons campaign debt. Brilliant but do you think anyone will notice.
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The scenario Mr. Dean and party leaders fear most is a bitter political floor fight in Denver that will deeply divide the party and send a message to the country that if the Democrats can't govern themselves, how can they govern the country?
Tell me bout it howie...thank God you are not in control of the entire country. And yes, there is a reason to wait before declaring which nominee to support - some call it 'increasing stock value'. Hey, if you choose your nominee before the end of all the primaries, are you not doing to those remaining states - who played by the rules - what you are about to aquit those states which broke the rules; that is (what do they call it) condisinfranchisementadoodlebadstuff?
"We're going to go all the way behind the curtains! Then we're going to choose your nominee for you! Then we're going to go to do a real cheesy kumbayeah in Denver! Yeaarrrgh!"
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Hey, Dean and the Moveon people bought the Democratic party. It's theirs now, they'll do with it as they wish. And being blunt and rude and disqualifying people with no thought for the consequences is exactly what those Moveon people do. No horse-trading, we're going to scream our way to victory.
Perhaps eager to prove to Democrats that she can hit Republicans as hard as she's hit Barack Obama in recent weeks, Hillary has come out with a sequel to her "3 a.m." ad, entitled, "Ringing." Announcer: Its 3 am, and your children are safe and asleep. But theres a phone ringing in the White House and this time the crisis is economic...
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04/03/2008 00:00 ||
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I have to agree on this one - IMO Hillary's campaign $$$ could've been better spent, including on a more effective response ad.
- the more $$$ she spends;
- the more $$$ her network of glitterati suckups have to fork over
- the more these suckups will be ticked off when Hillary releases the income tax forms and the public learns that the former Prez has been raking in foreign cash by the truckload
- the more she drives up her own negatives
Howard Dean: Democrats will do everything in power to seat delegates
Rep. Robert Wexler says it's up to candidates to make a deal on Florida
Sen. Hillary Clinton promotes plan to keep jobs in U.S.
Sen. Barack Obama picks up endorsement from former Rep. Lee Hamilton
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04/03/2008 00:00 ||
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Translation:
Dean should be committed to seating Florida's delegates
Howard Dean: Democrats will do everything to stay in power to seat delegates
Rep. Robert Wexler says it's up to candidates to make a deal on Florida Let's make a deal (and where's my cut?)!
Sen. Hillary Clinton promotes plan to keep jobs in U.S. meddle with the economy, screw American workers, and start another trade war
Sen. Barack Obama picks up endorsement from former Rep. Lee Hamilton another loser
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
04/03/2008 0:23 Comments ||
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It should be interesting to see if the Huckster from Vermont can succeed with the Slap your back with one hand and pick your pocket with the other rules that he helped to perpetuate. Just finding a way to symbolically seat Florida and Michigans delegates is proving to be almost too challenging. Just wait till he finds himself horse-trading to get $20 million in campaign debts back into the Clintons bank account.
Now US researchers say they have developed highly efficient materials that can convert the radiation, not heat, from nuclear materials and reactions into electricity.
Tests ... [this will likely take years]
... of layered tiles of carbon nanotubes packed with gold and surrounded by lithium hydride are under way. Radioactive particles that slam into the gold push out a shower of high-energy electrons. They pass through carbon nanotubes and pass into the lithium hydride from where they move into electrodes, allowing current to flow. -a decent guess is that at least a half decade of physics and another half decade of engineering is needed to develop this - assuming it can be developed-- however, it sounds totally cool
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It's a closed electric circuit. Same as a generator when it pushes out electrons receives the same number of electrons via the returning wires or earth ground.
Nuclear fission releases neutrons. Gold that absorbs a neutron becomes radioactive. It must absorb a proton, then it turns into mercury.
The researchers are claiming up to 20X efficiency. The low end of thermoelectric generator is 3%. So 60% is a fantastic number, esp. compared to steam based nuclear power plants at 30-35% efficiency. I hope it is even partially doable.
Posted by: ed ||
04/03/2008 15:17 Comments ||
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Duh of course it's a circuit. I should have realized that.
Thanks Ed.
Now, what's a reasonable time frame for product delivery? ;^)
Could this be real in 10 years, or, is this still really theoretical?
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I'd say 20 years is optimistic. The power industry is slow to accept new products. And this innovation, if it even pans out, requires a new paradigm in how electricity is generated. There is a new field of reactor research and engineering, electric generation and control, and materials science to solve and get confidence in.
For instance, I can see this reactor using fuel pellets surrounded by the gold/nanotube electic generating system, surrounded by a graphite moderator and gas cooled. That in itself is a huge R&D effort and very dangerous if not done correctly.
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04/03/2008 16:03 Comments ||
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Ed, we are doing something along parallel lines. Ten years is reasonable for first fielding of pilots. There is a lot of work in this area, but there is no 'new science', just a different approach. No new engineering hurdles present themselves (so far).
Their approach seems cumbersome to me; I wonder if they have benchtop systems working yet. We don't, yet, but will in less than 18 months. What we have now is strictly developmental level, but what we have now already works, albeit inefficiently / not high output. However, the word 'efficientcy' takes on a whole new meaning when you are essentially scavenging what was previously released and are now putting it to good use.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
04/03/2008 16:20 Comments ||
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Looking at it a bit more, I believe this is a waste of time. 85% (170 of 200 Mega electron Volts) of the energy of nuclear fission is in the kinetic energy of the product atoms (Ba, Kr). The those products are trapped and will release their energy as heat. The mobile products, 3 neutrons and X-rays, Beta particles, neutrinos) only carry 15% of the fission energy. Stick to the thermal designs.
That said, I believe our leadership has failed miserably, to the point of treason, by not implementing a national program to build nuclear energy plants. After 6 years, we should be cranking out one new reactor a week for outselves and selling excess production to our allies. All at a cost less than Iraq and Afghanistan and a tiny fraction of the $400 billion we will spend this year on oil imports.
That energy could be used to electrify the transportation grid and convert a minority fraction of coal production to liquid fuels. With proper location, even the waste heat could be used to heat and cool entire cities or used for industrial and agricultural purposes. In 10 years, the US could be self sufficient of imported oil. The vision is so lacking it almost seems like our leadership wants to keep us dependent on those who wish to see us dead.
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remember former president Gerry Ford
his energy plan called for, as I recall, 50-100 new reactors
between the 3-mi island event, a movie, the Simpsons and generally rampant environmental sabotage of progress in this area, no President even had a chance to do anything
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Interesting. I wonder how hot these tiles can get and maintain efficiency.
The article isn't perfectly clear, but it sounds like they aren't relying on nuclear reactions in gold, but instead they try to capture the "knock-on" electrons that have crossed from the gold into the lithium hydride layer. When a fast charged particle moves through matter it will ionize some of the nearby atoms, and some of the electrons will be given enough kinetic energy to travel significant distances. See section 27.2.3. We already use the heat in a reactor--this might be a way to get a little DC from it as well. If the sandwich can stand the heat, of course.
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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.
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Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change pre-empted the official result on Wednesday by declaring itself the winner of joint presidential and legislative elections. In a press conference in the capital Harare, MDC secretary general Tendai Biti said that its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had not only won more votes than veteran President Robert Mugabe but also passed the 50 percent threshold needed to avoid a potential run-off in three weeks' time.
The Zimbabwe Election Commission's latest results indicate that the MDC and its allies will have an historic, small, parliamentary majority. ZANU-PF has held the majority in parliament since independence from Britain in 1980. 
Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony will not attend the signing of a peace treaty with the government in southern Sudan later this week. Mr Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, is reportedly too sick to attend. The rebel leader has been in hiding for years and never attended peace talks with the government. Mr Kony feared he would be arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The ICC wants to try him for war crimes. In two decades of fighting, the LRA earned a bloody reputation for its use of violence against the civilian population.
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention in August, avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.
