He's the "Jack La Lanne" of Summertree. Every day starts with 200 situps in the workout room of the clubhouse. Then Donald Taggart lifts weights and does his cardio. Residents liken him to La Lanne, the aging fitness icon whose photo hangs in the room. Taggart, 78 and still buff, likes to get physical.
It got really physical Tuesday.
It was about 7:30 a.m. when Taggart arrived at the workout room in sweats. A Pasco Sheriff's Office report describes the reception he got:
"How come you're so cold?" asked Benjamin Nodar, 64. "I thought you were in the Army!"
Taggart was, for 26 years. "I was in Korea in 1950," he told Nodar. "I was up on the Yalu River when the Chinese came across, probably when you were in grade school, and I got frostbite on my hands and feet. A little bit of cold bothers me."
Nodar, according to Taggart, wasn't impressed: "You military people, always crying the blues."
More words were exchanged. The report said Taggart called Nodar a wimp for not serving his country. Nodar, according to a witness, told Taggart he should have died in the Army.
Nodar got in his face, Taggart said. Then, witnesses say, the 215-pound Nodar lunged at a man 14 years older and about 45 pounds lighter than him.
It was on.
Nodar grabbed Taggart. Taggart kneed Nodar.
The retirees fell through the doorway of the men's bathroom and tumbled onto the floor, still fighting.
"I said 'You big sucker, I ain't gonna let you get on top of me,' " Taggart said. "So I got on top, and I stayed there."
Taggart said he rolled Nodar onto his back and pinned his wrists to his sides. "I just overpowered him," Taggart said.
Deputies were called. They arrived 10 minutes later.
Nodar told deputies Taggart gave him a hard time about not being in the military, kicked him, tripped him and sat on him. Both were bleeding.
Nodar was arrested on a charge of battery on a person over the age of 65 - but not accused of getting the better of one.
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There was no mug shot in that case, indicating that GWB was probably not booked. Depending on the co-operation of the suspect and the marginality of the evidence, many DUIs don't get beyond the investigation stage.
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I don't know who this is better for: the democrats because it allows them to dig up the old "Bush is a drunk" canard that gave them significant traction in the 2000 election; or the Republicans because it shows that Democrats are wacky nut jobs.
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I suspect this guy was trying to provoke a police over-reaction so he could sue, or at least get a lot publicity to the effect that our anti-terrorism programs are really fascist repression of free speech.
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Local media spin (in the week before an election!) was very negative towards connolly; that his actions "redefined STUPID". At first, I did not even recognize who was on TV, only the name seemed familiar. It seems the years have not treated TC kindly. He was all puffy faced and rambling; a real-life caricature of a raving moonbat. The press wants nothing to do with him. And to think, at one time he ran for Governor of Maine. (Think of a more intense version of Gore on a smaller stage)
A man found dead on an Oakland street early Saturday morning from a gunshot wound may have accidentally shot himself a short time earlier while robbing a Pinole liquor store, according to investigators. Police officers found the body of Sharffeequa Williams, 24, about 1:15 a.m. in the 1600 block of 12th Street after he apparently bled to death from a wound to his femoral artery.
Those bleed like stink.
During the hold-up of Appian Liquors, Williams initially placed the handgun on the counter so he could grab cash from the register, Oakland police detective Sgt. Phil Green said.
Not especially safe, either, if the clerk is quick with his hands.
But as Williams placed the gun back into his waistband, he squeezed the trigger and shot himself, Green said.
Guess he never educated himself on the location of the safety.
The shooting was caught on security footage, the sergeant said.
I can only hope it shows up on YouTube.
A second suspect also took part in the robbery ...
... apparently not well versed in first aid ...
... and both men fled from the store in a dark-colored American vehicle similar to a Ford Crown Victoria, Pinole police said.
"What kind of car was it?"
"An American car, looked like a Crown Vic."
So what was it?"
"A Crown Vic."
Police recovered a handgun the men dropped at the scene when they fled, Pinole police Officer Ken Lindberg said.
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The car involved should have quite a quantity of blood in it. Pinhole - er ... "Pinole" is an easy 20 minutes away from JokelandOaktown Oakland even during the "midnight" rush hour.
Geez, Sue would've been less of a burden. Prolly what distracted him, leading to the fatal mistake. If only he'd had enough counseling, a free legal advisor so he could change his name to something more normal, like Snoop Froggy Blog or Puff Baddy or Ice Me, he wouldn't have been drive to a life of crime - and killed himself in abject shame.
Saves a lot on hassle when it comes to moving the body.
AMSTERDAM (Rooters) - A Dutch woman, who had meticulously planned her own funeral after the death of her husband last year, died next to the grave in Amsterdam where she wanted to be buried, a newspaper reported.
The 65-year-old widow probably died of a heart attack while she was visiting the family grave where her name, but no date, was already inscribed, De Telegraaf daily reported Wednesday.
The woman was carrying a bag with her containing her will when she died and had already organized details of her funeral including the music she wanted played, the paper said.
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Actually, this is a pretty good way to die, right after your spouse. Rough on the kids, though, to have a second parent go so quickly after the first.
2News has learned that a Dayton judge ruled on a multi-million dollar reward for men who were left frowning by Smiling Bob. Chances are you've seen the Enzyte commercial featuring the character Smiling Bob.
Full o' confidence he is. I have to confess, however, that I'd be about as willing to be 'Bob' in the ads as I would be to walk down the aisle in a fashion show wearing a black lace bro.
Lawsuits were filed in Dayton, Los Angeles, and Barber, Alabama against the company that sold the herbal supplement known as Enzyte. But without admitting liability, Cincinnati-based Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals put forth a settlement offer.
"You mean our stuff doesn't work? Bob sez otherwise!"
"The court approved the creation of a settlement fund of $4.7 million and they'll be a claims process and a notice sent out. And individuals who were affected will have an opportunity to make a claim," Attorney Jeff Goldenberg told 2News.
Works out to a limp two dollars per claimant after the stiff take for the lawyers.
More than 1.5 million men said the all-herbal natural male enhancement supplement known as Enzyte did not work for them. But they said they could not get their money back from Berkeley Nutraceuticals.
Apparently they had a flaccid response.
Goldenberg said this settlement will get them a refund, and also dismiss federal fraud charges against Berkeley. "When you think you've been harmed by a company, regardless of how small the damage, there is mechanisms in the legal process to assist you and others whether its ten others or five million other people."
Attorneys for the class members said the ten people who originally brought forth the complaint will receive more money for their trouble in addition to their share of the $4.7 million settlement.
Since they helped firm up the suit.
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If the word "nutraceutical" doesn't set off all of your deep diving klaxons, nothing will.
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Hard luck for those guys. Looks like they got stiffed.
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Ironically, Viagra and derivatives have turned out to be one of the most important drugs of the 20th Century, for odd reasons:
First of all, because it works, it killed off the huge market in endangered species used as aphrodisiacs, saving dozens of species.
Second, it is believed to work on all mammals, including endangered species, which meant that breeding more of them in captivity became a lot easier.
Third, it is now being used for all sorts of medical conditions, to include pediatric cardiac therapy for a fairly common and serious heart problem suffered by many infants.
It turns out to be one of the better vasodilators and new uses are still being discovered for it.
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Third, it is now being used for all sorts of medical conditions, to include pediatric cardiac therapy for a fairly common and serious heart problem suffered by many infants.
Oh, for the love of God. How can you understand long term effects? Just what we need, an entire generation with Permanent Adolescent Raccoon Syndrome [PARS]. Torte lawyers standing by now.
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Viagra is a life-saver for people with primary pulmonary hypertension. That disease usually kills within a year, and often requires lung transplants or heart-lung transplants, which aren't exactly common.
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"More than 1.5 million men said the all-herbal natural male enhancement supplement known as Enzyte did not work for them."
Perhaps they should try grinding the supplement into a fine powder and mix it into lubricating topical-gell followed by a repetitive vigorous application to the afflicted areas of concern.
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Viagra also helps people with asthma to breathe better. The 4-hour woody is a bone-us.
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I heard the the stuff really works if you look at your Johnson in one of those fun house mirrors. If this shit really worked they woudn't need to run commercials, every guy AROUND THE WORLD would be buying it by the case.
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Any time someone starts that "all-natural" crap with me about any supposed medication or treatment, I like to remind them that syphillis and gangrene are all-natural and organic as well. If the natural ingredient formulas had worked, Viagra would NOT have been invented. Like the stupids that are against antibiotics for bacterial infections -- if those herbs and teas had really worked, why were infections a death sentence 100 years ago?
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The incredible improvement in terms of quality of life notwithstanding, 'moose's first point stands alone in its importance.
First of all, because it works, it killed off the huge market in endangered species used as aphrodisiacs, saving dozens of species.
While traffic in endangered animal parts still exists, there is little reason for it to continue. More importantly, we need to make all such poaching an instant death sentence. Game wardens should have shoot-on-sight orders for enforcement within game reserves.
As an example, a researcher was conducting experiments on frogs which required a minor surgical procedure. After operating and suturing back up the frogs they would be tossed back into their tanks. Their, slimy, muddy, detritus filled tanks. It slowly dawned upon those involved that the frogs were not succumbing to infections at anywhere near the rate that would have been expected. Why was this?
It turns out that in order to combat the incredibly bacertia-filled world that frogs inhabit, their skin secretes a powerful anti-bacterial agent that protects them. Current research is being directed at adapting this agent for use against drug resistant strains that pose immense health risks in modern hospitals.
The final point being: We never know when a certain species of animal, tree, insect or whatever will suddenly turn out to be the secret to fighting AIDS, cancer or who knows what unforseen plague. Nature has spent billions of years perfecting the survival mechanisms of its denizens. Each and every one of them represents a potential solution to a host of human survival problems. All of which dissappear forever if that species goes extinct. Viagra will help save the tiger, rhinocerous and many other animals from extinction. This one single contribution is worthy of a nobel prize.
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"When you think you've been harmed by a company, regardless of how small the damage...
Only a lawyer would settle after that slur....
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lol, Frank...can always depend on you to take it straight to the gutter, lol!
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Contrariwise, one of the -good- arguments for organic meat farming is that it -reduces- antibiotic resistance to disease, since organic farmers aren't supposed to use the stuff.
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His wife's probably very happy, with a sappy grin on her face.
RIYADH - A US-made F-15 fighter plane crashed on Wednesday during a training session in an eastern region of Saudi Arabia but the pilot survived, the defence ministry said. The fighter jet fell in a training zone some 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the King Abdul Aziz airbase, a ministry official said, as quoted by the SPA state news agency.
The pilot survived the crash, which occurred in the desert, the unnamed official said. A committee has been formed to establish the cause of the crash.
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It wouldn't be the first time, skidmark. Back in the 70's a Saudi F5 pilot forgot how to do something while in the air(put the landing gear down?) so he ejected and destroyed his aircraft. He tried to claim that, as the sky belonged to allen, it wasn't his fault. The King no-likey that story; and the pilot was executed.
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A true, slightly OT story re: ejection seats: while stationed @ Pax river doing work with a ME country's F-18, part of the contract required we R7R the seat for a new one. Seemed one of our test Pilots was a (shudder) woman and no self respecting camel jockey would or could use a seat that had been warmed by the uncovered meat. New seat pan or cushions was not satisfactory, had to be a full up zero time, right from McDonnell Douglas seat.
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Aww - people like this don't want attention, they don't need attention. I know that if I was put in a position like this, I certainly wouldn't want to get a thousand calls from the media celebrating my "heroism". Just do what's needed and get the hell out of dodge.
A court in the Turkish city of Istanbul has acquitted a 92-year-old academic of charges of insulting Muslim women and inciting religious hatred.
She linked the wearing of headscarves with ancient Sumerian sexual rites.
Archaeologist Muazzez Ilmiye Cig was prosecuted over a book in which she linked the wearing of headscarves with ancient Sumerian sexual rites.
The judge ruled at the first hearing of her trial that her actions did not constitute a crime. Dr Cig's publisher was also cleared in a trial lasting less than half an hour. The archaeologist was applauded by supporters as she left the courtroom.
This trial is the latest in a series of prosecutions of Turkish intellectuals, including 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and novelist Elif Shafak.
Charges were brought against her by a Turkish lawyer who took offence at her 2005 book "My Reactions as a Citizen". In the book Dr Cig said that headscarves were first worn more than 5,000 years ago by Sumerian priestesses who initiated young men into sex.
Charges were brought against her by a Turkish lawyer who took offence at her 2005 book "My Reactions as a Citizen". In the book Dr Cig said that headscarves were first worn more than 5,000 years ago by Sumerian priestesses who initiated young men into sex.
Dr Cig is an expert in the ancient Sumerian civilisation which emerged in Mesopotamia in the third millennia BC. The issue of headscarves has polarised Turkey in recent years. Although predominantly Muslim, Turkey is a secular state and headscarves are banned in government offices and universities. The ruling Justice and Development Party, which has roots in political Islam, has unsuccessfully tried to lift the headscarf ban.
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The more things change...
"Sumerian priestesses who initiated young men into sex"...the more they remain the same.
Mayor Richard Daley, whose son is a soldier, said Wednesday that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was wrong for telling students they will "get stuck in Iraq" if they don't make the most of their educational opportunities.
The remark was "uncalled for," Daley said. If Kerry's comment was meant as a joke, it was "a sad joke."
Asked if he took it personally because his son, Patrick, is in the Army, Daley said, "I think everybody should take it personally. It doesn't matter if you have a son or daughter in the military."
Patrick Daley, a member of the 82d Airborne Division, enlisted in 2004.
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One thing's for sure,John Kerry will never be found guilty of having a sense of humor.
I voted early this morning in my suburb just outside of Chicago, and thought I'd pass along some observations. Given the controversy about voting this year it was indeed interesting to see how my village handled early voting.
I live in Cook County, and early voting for my precinct was done at the village hall. When I arrived I waited in a short line for a minute, and while I did so I filled out the 'early voting' registration form. There were six voting machines (more on that in a moment) and a half-dozen election judges supervising the vote. When I got to the table one judge asked for my drivers license.
Drivers license? You mean an honest-to-goodness photo ID?
Yep. Early voting in Illinois requires a photo ID. The registration form listed the acceptable forms of ID. Of the half-dozen people in line, not one complained or said that they didn't have a photo ID. Everyone produced a drivers license save one woman who presented her (American) passport.
After presenting my license, the judge turned to a computer screen and punched in my license number. My photo and signature appeared on screen, and she carefully compared my license, my signature on the registration form, her screen and my face. I was then cleared to vote, and after a short wait went to an open voting machine. Another judge handed me a plastic card to insert in the machine and informed me that if I needed help she would be there to walk me through the process.
The machine was a 'Sequoia' brand touch screen. The screen was bright, the instructions clear, and when you touched a box for a candidate a large green checkmark appeared, so it was easy to see what you just did. I went through about a dozen screeens pointing at candidates. At the end there was, as I expected, a chance to review my vote on the screen. I had deliberately left one office open, and sure enough my deficiency was shown in red on the screen. I went back and corrected that without a problem.
Then something happened that was a pleasant surprise. Observant person that I am, I had totally ignored a small, separate device with a window to my right in the booth. When I finished with the last review screen, my vote was presented again on the main screen AND on a paper roll on the device to the right. That was behind glass so you couldn't touch it, but you had the opportunity to see that, on screen and on paper, your vote was as you wanted it. I then checkmarked the 'cast ballot' button on the main screen and the paper roll whirred away into a storage box. While I don't know this for sure, I rather suspect that the paper roll serves as a permanent audit for that particular voting machine.
The entire process took 20 minutes. Presenting a photo ID was no problem at all. The touch screen worked flawlessly. The paper trail is visible.
How did I vote? Heh, how do you think?
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Straight Commie ticket? I too, a forced to use the evil Diebold machines to vote. WOOO the torture of touching a screen and CONFIRMING my selections after I am done.
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If some are challenged by technology in the voting booth, I sure as hell recommend staying away from ATM's... or slot machines for that matter.
As far as presenting photo ID, if it is such an imposition, better stay away from Costco too.
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What are the deceased voters in Cook County going to show for ID? Death Certificate maybe? Also, are union workers able to bring an "aide" with them?
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Good to hear this.
Here in Colorado, one of the items listed that says will do to register for an absentee ballot is a copy of a current utility bill.
Hell I had to show my driver's license a few months ago just to buy sudafed, because of all the crystal methamphetamine labs cropping up everywhere.
I worry about many folks voting that shouldn't be. Illegals come to mind here too.
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to compare the validity of a driver's license or military ID, to a utility bill as being just as good is ridiculous. Also in some cases they just need to know the number, not show the license. Check it out:
http://www.co.larimer.co.us/elections/votreg.htm
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When we lose utility companies to the lefties, then we're in deep shit.
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Voted early. First time in my life, straight R ticket including the state and local races.
Now get out there and help get the local Anti-Pelosi voters to the polls.
Call your local republican campaign HQ and volunteer to man a phone bank or hand out pamphlets. If D turn out at Midyear rate and R tuen out at Presidential rates, Congress will hold off becoming a plyaground for Pelosi, Murtha, Conyers and other rats like that.
Garage deal approved despite Tillman's objections Four years ago, Chicago became the nation's first major city to issue a "moral and ethical challenge" to companies with which it does business: Come clean about past ties to slavery or get off the governmental gravy train.
Now, that law is about to be put to the test with a lucrative deal hanging in the balance: Mayor Daley's $563 million plan to privatize the Millennium and Grant Park garages.
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I think a lot of this nonsense could be solved right now by some witty individual creating a DNA database. Then take the few known documented slave ancestors and determine their DNA.
This means that if you submit a DNA test, you might qualify for whatever percent of your DNA is attributable to that proven slave ancestor.
Of course, by now, with very few exceptions, the most any African-American could prove to be of slave ancestry would be about 1/15th of their DNA. For the vast majority, they couldn't prove *any* of their genetic ancestors were slaves.
So this means that the MOST they could get out of any class-action "reparations" lawsuit would be 1/15th of an individual settlement amount. So, for example, if the individual "reparations" were determined to be $10,000 per litigant, after attorneys fees, the most they could get would be $666.67
That would be the maximum amount. However, the typical individual class action payment is usually less than $1,000. This would mean that the greatest amount of reparations would realistically be around $66.67 per individual.
And, of course, the DNA database of all African-Americans who participated in the class action lawsuit would have to be administered by the US government.
In turn, this would prove to be a treasure-trove of DNA evidence in outstanding and future criminal investigations, as DNA obtained as part of civil court actions is available for such criminal inquiries.
It could result in the arrest and imprisonment of thousands of African-Americans. And thus the circle would be complete.
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This selling of the parking places and roads and everything is NOT COOL!
I give Dorthy (the hat lady) Tillman kudos for finding an imaginative way to attempt halting that crook Daley.
BTW Daley's wife is in the LANDSCAPING BIZ and will likely be a prime contractor for all those parks just like see was for the $1bill plus overrun called Millennium Park/Garages.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to inflict a crushing defeat on Democratic challenger Phil Angelides, according to a new poll released on Wednesday, ahead of next week's elections.
The Republican action-hero-turned-politician has opened up a 16-point lead over Angelides ahead of the November 7 ballot...
The Republican action-hero-turned-politician has opened up a 16-point lead over Angelides ahead of the November 7 ballot and now appears to be coasting to an emphatic victory as Election Day looms. A Field Poll released Wednesday gave Schwarzenegger a 49 percent to 33 percent margin over Angelides, a remarkable turnaround for the Austrian-born incumbent, who trailed his opponent one year ago. Analysts say Schwarzenegger has taken control of the race in Democrat-dominated California by shifting to the centre and wooing voters by distancing himself from the unpopular administration of President George W Bush.
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HT to Denny at GrouchyOldCripple in Atlanta, one of the most humorous un-PC sites on the web. Denny, who's in a wheelchair, calls Cleland "Stumpy" lol. Denny's unrelenting on this Dem hack
Former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) on Tuesday voiced his support for Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who became embroiled in controversy after comments he made Monday appeared to imply that American troops in Iraq are uneducated.
"John Kerry is a patriot who has fought tooth and nail for veterans ever since he came home from Vietnam," Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, said in a statement. "He has stood with his brothers in arms unlike this [Bush] Administration which exploits our troops to make a political point and divide America."
During a campaign rally for California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides Monday, Kerry said, "Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Conservatives criticized Kerry for implying that U.S. soldiers join the military because they're stupid and can't succeed elsewhere.
Calling his critics "right wing nut-jobs," Kerry said in a news conference Tuesday that his comment was a "botched joke" intended to make fun of the president.
Cleland said anyone who thought Kerry's comment was insulting the troops has "a partisan political agenda and that's the bottom line." he would know...
"John Kerry should apologize to no one for his criticism of the President and his broken policy in Iraq," he added. "George Bush is the one who owes our troops an apology."
Echoing Kerry's reaction Tuesday, Cleland said criticism of the "botched joke" is "textbook Republican campaign tactics."
Numerous Republicans on Tuesday called for Kerry to apologize for the comment from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), who also served in Vietnam, to President Bush himself.
"The members of the United States military are plenty smart, and they are plenty brave," Bush said during a campaign appearance in Georgia Tuesday evening. "And the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology."
High-profile Democrats, including members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have remained silent on the matter.
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That's cuz Maxi Pads has his nose up Skerry's rectum
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"John Kerry is a patriot who has fought tooth and nail for veterans ever since he came home from Vietnam,"
...OK, so he was fight for North Vietnamese veterans. So what? They were vets, right?!
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High-profile Democrats, including members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have remained silent on the matter.
So we see where they stand on the issue. Only The Savior Of The Country™, Ms. Hillary, spoke up calling for Kerry to apologize.
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...IIRC, wasn't Cleland hurt during an explosive accident during a party?
Mike
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So was Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis, up to a point. Sort of went down hill quickly after certain events transpired. Personally, I think that was when Kerry, while still a commissioned reserve naval officer, met with representatives of the North Vietnamese government during the war.
How about using the same standard of inappropriate joke that the Donk's had for Secretary of the Interior Watt during Reagan's administration? Oh, thats right, fundamental tenet of the Socialist left, one set of rules for me and another set of rules for thee.
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I think you are referring to an Ann Coulter article. Beer drinking and one of his buddies dropped a grenade. Cleland picked it up w/o realizing the pin was out.
Cleland admitted it was a noncombat situation, though I don't know if he mentioned alcohol was involved. Irregardless, Cleland did receive a Silver Star for actions before the grenade mishap.
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A man who uses the sympathy garnered from his horrible war injuries as a pure political tool is nothing more an a whore.
Real heroes would never do this.
Yes, I said it. Max Cleland is a political whore. Clear enough?
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Agreed, geek, and it is clear enough. Of course, I guess that's the problem with us Neanderthals (and Neanderthal-ettes) here at the 'burg, we're just TOO honest and not nuanced enough. As a lifelong resident of Georgia (except for a brief stint at Auburn for college), let me quote the Dixie Twits and be the first to say, "I'm completely embarrassed that this politician, Max Cleland (and Jimmuh Carter), is from my home state."
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BA:
Bagged a broken horned 6 pointer in Area CC2 at Benning on Sunday. How's your hunting?
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"Cleland said anyone who thought Kerry's comment was insulting the troops has a partisan political agenda and that's the bottom line."
How fucking arrogant of a statement is that? How many people that actually voted for that stiff were insulted by the insinuation of his comments as delivered? How many of those same people, even after his tortured explanation, believe that war is no joking matter and is beneath the dignity of a US Senator? How many think crass remarks about the intellect of a sitting war-time President shouldnt be considered legitimate criticism of foreign policy? One Senator does not make up a political party but the response from Kerrys apologists is emblematic of the party that has no real viable alternatives and therefore continues to choose politics over principle.
I guess I'm an anomoly. Grew up outside of Atlanta (and went to Auburn), but I don't hunt. Do love deer meat, though! Mummmm, mummmm!
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War Eagle, BA. I was at Auburn in the 70's.
I lost my best childhood and teen frien in Vietnam on March 19, 1969. Lance Corporal Clyde Northington (my cousin) was in Co. A 9th Marines when they walked into an ambush in the Aw Shit Valley. He exposed himself to enemy fire to rescue and treat wounded buddies then led an attack on a machine gun position that was eliminated. He was killed a short time later by a mortar round. He EARNED his Silver Star. I have no use for people like Kerry and Cleland.
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Agreed, Deacon. My uncle/godfather was a young sgt in the light infantry regiment deployed thinly, with no artillery backup, to stop the elite German Nordwind attackers at Bastogne.
They took over 42% casualties in a matter of weeks.
And during that time he was awarded a Silver Star, multiple Bronze Stars, multiple Purple Hearts. Came home with permanent nerve damage from the bitter cold - they didn't have even hot meals for the first weeks, temperatures never got above freezing. Came home with the memories of having 3 squads shot up around him, of taking out several pillboxes, wounded, as his buddies died in the attempts.
Kerry's 'decorations'? I am loathe to set the precedent of ever disparaging military decorations, lest those who honorably earned them be in any way impacted. But in his case .....
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War Eagle to you too, Deacon, and my condolences on your loss. I graduated in 1996, so I'm more of a newbie than most here in the 'burg. 9/11 (and carpooling with a couple of muslims I still wonder about) changed everything for me. I was really too young to remember 'nam, and barely remember Tehran 1979, which is where this all started in my book. I have no military experience whatsoever, but truly appreciate and honor those who do and whom are serving as we type.
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Thanks, BA. I wish I could talk to Kerry for 5 minutes I probobly wouldn't understand what he said but maybe I'd get my .02 in.
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Lieberman Seems to Hug Big Lead in Connecticut; Ned Speaks in Past Tense; Lefties Blame Wolfson; Brazile: Bloggers 'Give You Wind But Not Sail'
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I think he's gonna lose becasue Cindy Sheehan didn't provide enough support.
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Sounds like the reality-based community hasn't figured out that a millionaire opportunist plays well with champagne "progressives" in the primaries but carries no water with Reagan Democratics who have to work for a living.
Set the surprise-meter to zero that Jon Carry is a Lamont/Mentos fan.
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Marge Dougan, a guest and member of MoveOn.org, the liberal online organization, said that she blamed the consultants who joined the Lamont campaign after the primary for the loss of intensity
If Ms. Dougan is referring to consultants such as the Director of communications for John Kerrys 2004 Presidential campaign and the Manager for Al Gores 2000 Presidential campaign, I think she might be onto something. (What an insightful bunch over there at MoveOn.org) That and maybe the fact that Lamont is a poser might have something to do with it as well.
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Of course, nobody will look inward and question Lamont's message content. Oh, NOOOOOOOOOOOO, we be true believers.
The sign of a great leader is one that can step outside of oneself (mentally, of course) and look at other people's views of the situation. There is nobody in the LLL that is capable of doing that. That is why they have no great leaders.
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Of course, nobody will look inward and question Lamont's message content. Oh, NOOOOOOOOOOOO, we be true believers.
The sign of a great leader is one that can step outside of oneself (mentally, of course) and look at other people's views of the situation. There is nobody in the LLL that is capable of doing that. That is why they have no great leaders.
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There is one silver lining in this cloud. At least it's sucking the bank accounts of the LLL millionaires and billionaires dry every time some fubar candidate like Lamont runs. I love it when Soros & the other idiots get NO return on their investments!! ;)
BANGALORE: Indias technology hub of Bangalore changed its name to its vernacular original Bengalooru on Wednesday in what is seen as a bid to appease locals upset at the influx of outsiders.
QUETTA: Six prisoners escaped from a Baloch jail on Wednesday when armed men, disguised as visitors, smuggled weapons into the prison and opened-fire on policemen, killing two, officials said. The jailbreak occurred in the remote town of Turbat, approximately 600 kilometres southwest of Quetta, police said. The attackers in the garb of visitors managed to take weapons inside the prison then fired at police guards and six prisoners managed to escape during the shoot-out, local police official Mohammad Afzal told AFP. Two policemen were killed and four others were wounded in the firing, he said.
Azfal said that more than a dozen attackers had arrived at the jail in two vehicles. One group went inside the prison to launch the breakout, while those remaining outside gave them covering fire afterwards. Another police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a notorious drug trafficker, Ghulam Rasool, as well as Mohammad Yasin, Tabish, Mohammad Baksh and Wazir, were among those prisoners who had escaped. Some of the prisoners, he said, had been incarcerated on murder charges.
The shoot-out took place in the visitors room when the armed men began firing indiscriminately at jail officials, killing two on the spot and injuring four others, said prison officials.
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Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, a former Neturei Karta member who now heads the Zaka emergency rescue and recovery organization, has filed a suit with the Supreme Court against the parade. ...
As others before him, Meshi-Zahav cites the ban on Jews entering the Temple Mount most of the year because of a fear of Arab violence.
Simple answer to this problem: Redirect the parade to the Temple Mount. This is sitcom gold, people.
Some might argue the life of a mortgage broker is a living hell. For Mike Grace, of Birmingham, Mich., it's not too far from the truth. By day, he studies to be a loan officer. By night, he is High Magus Noxaura, the founder of the Reformed Church of Satan. Reformed? Do I want to know how "reformed?"
But this is a kinder, gentler Satanist, the Metro Times of Detroit reports. The church doesn't worship Beelzebub, it believes in taking responsibility for your own actions and being your own god. "I don't care how much fun killing people is," Grace joked to the paper, "that sort of thing is just not acceptable."
Sadly, Grace fell from grace grace? himself a few days after speaking with the weekly newspaper. He was fired from his promising brokerage position. "You cannot be a religious leader without your faith being tested," he told the paper. Conflict of interest: the company wanted the fools' souls for itself.
Then again, I haven't heard of many Satanists crashing airplanes into buildings or blowing children. In fact, those who do claim to be fighting The Great Satan. Maybe this is worth a look.
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... it believes in taking responsibility for your own actions and being your own god.
There's my issue with real satanists. The Black Mass stuff and other accoutrements are shtick for PR purposes and to get a rise out of excitable Christians and media. Genuine crimes done for "satanic" reasons are almost always committed by dabblers and wannabes - the kind of people that buy copies of The Necronomicon and actually try the spells.
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Someone made great use of a sermon given by the late Anton LaVey, leader of the California Church of Satan. They mixed his sermon with The Flight of the Valkyries, by Wagner, and burned it to cassette tape.
Then they put the tape in a Teddy Ruxpin as a party novelty.
He said the effect was amazing. Especially after everybody had had a lot to drink.
They were utterly hypnotized by the Wagnerian LaVey teddy bear spewing off about Satan.
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the kind of people that buy copies of The Necronomicon and actually try the spells.
I'm reading Crytonomicon*, does that count?
*A DAMN GOOD BOOK ABOUT CRYPTOGRAPHY PAST AND PRESENT INCLUDING ALL SORTS OF HISTORICALLY BASED WORLD WAR FICTION WRITTEN WITH A DECIDEDLY BENT-AXLE SENSE OF HUMOR.
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.
A man found dead on an Oakland street early Saturday morning from a gunshot wound may have accidentally shot himself a short time earlier while robbing a Pinole liquor store, according to investigators. Police officers found the body of Sharffeequa Williams, 24, about 1:15 a.m. in the 1600 block of 12th Street after he apparently bled to death from a wound to his femoral artery.
RIYADH - A US-made F-15 fighter plane crashed on Wednesday during a training session in an eastern region of Saudi Arabia but the pilot survived, the defence ministry said. The fighter jet fell in a training zone some 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the King Abdul Aziz airbase, a ministry official said, as quoted by the SPA state news agency.
A court in the Turkish city of Istanbul has acquitted a 92-year-old academic of charges of insulting Muslim women and inciting religious hatred. 
Four years ago, Chicago became the nation's first major city to issue a "moral and ethical challenge" to companies with which it does business: Come clean about past ties to slavery or get off the governmental gravy train. 
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to inflict a crushing defeat on Democratic challenger Phil Angelides, according to a new poll released on Wednesday, ahead of next week's elections.
QUETTA: Six prisoners escaped from a Baloch jail on Wednesday when armed men, disguised as visitors, smuggled weapons into the prison and opened-fire on policemen, killing two, officials said. The jailbreak occurred in the remote town of Turbat, approximately 600 kilometres southwest of Quetta, police said. The attackers in the garb of visitors managed to take weapons inside the prison then fired at police guards and six prisoners managed to escape during the shoot-out, local police official Mohammad Afzal told AFP. Two policemen were killed and four others were wounded in the firing, he said.
