Britney Spears is back in rehab. The singer is hoping three times is a charm. The emergency custody hearing that Kevin Federline wanted has been cancelled because of the new development. There will be no custody hearing today. Sources tell TMZ Federline is concerned for Spears' welfare and wants her to get the help she is now seeking. We're also told this will be Spears' last chance -- if she leaves rehab before getting full treatment, Federline will immediately go to court seeking orders allowing him unquestioned full custody of the children.
We're told Spears showed up at Federline's house to see the children last night and he wouldn't let her in. Sources say the kids are now in the custody of Federline, and have been since last week. TMZ has just confirmed Spears' inpatient rehab program is supposed to last between 30 and 45 days.
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LUCIANNE > BRITNEY? > NOT EVEN THE AMERICAN WAY CAN LAST FOREVER article. Send in the Marines - Amer is in trouble when women go from brunettes to fake bottle/salon blonde, to tattooed rapper hairless???
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Come on AMRYGUY , you posted here , that has to count for something , maybe like 0.0000000001% bearing on your life ! rounded up to the nearest % that makes it 1% of your life !
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Meth?
It fits. Increasingly bizarre behavior, almost impossible to quit, trailer park demographic. How are her teeth?
Sad. I never much cared for her, but she was a local girl who 'made it', good looking, put on an entertaining show. Unfortunately, like so many, she couldn't handle the spotlight and money.
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Yesterday's post by JUSTICE and the responses to it made the stories about Britney all worthwhile. I was LOL so hard my coworkers had to find out why. It caused a real uproar when they saw the pictures that went with it. It's too bad the poor girl has to suffer but the surrounding circus is pretty amusing.
Britney, Anna Nicole, Hizzoner da Mare, and the colossal squid are the background noise to the war on terror. We're engaged in a life and death struggle with Islamism. They want to kill us or convert us, and to annihilate our culture. Sometimes it looks like they're going to win, but the only way they will win is if we don't take them seriously. Britney and Anna Nicole and Company are symptoms that we're not.
Part of the war is the cultural conflict between September 10th and September 11th. Last night, with Fox News on the teevee, I can't recall hearing a word that didn't concern Anna Nicole. A few months ago Jon Benet rose from the grave, or at least from the graveyard of overworked stories. I keep expecting Gary Condit to make a comeback.
These stories let us have a bit of fun when we're not reading up on Pak holy men slaughtering lady ministers because they have a Legitimate Right™ to do so, or Iran refining uranium or exploding chlorine trucks in Iraq. But they're also the canaries in the coal mine. When a live Britney and a dead Anna Nicole become more important than Hamas' Saggers, we're in trouble.
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I reiterate, I am not Anna Nicole's kid's father.
Britney's two are actually mine, but would you wanna deal with that shit?
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I am convinced that AN Smith was actually some animatronic creation of the tabloid-industrial complex, created for the sole purpose of generating bizarre headlines. And she was also designed to emit some strange kind of force-field around her, that even post-mortem continues to make practically everyone around her turn into a blithering, publicity-hungry zombie.
I'm also beginning to wonder if Britney is Mark II of this program....
I never liked her much, but something about that is oddly attractive to me. She totally has to grow hair though. I'm not running my fingers through stubble.
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Ya Mike, but it was w/ an umbrella......She's lost it
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drudge has the brit vs. car w/ umbrella pix(sounds like Clue V. 2.0: "The psycho bitch with an umbrella in the garage..."); don't know how to get it to the burg, unless email to o'club..... standing by for instructions.
Britney said she shaved because of Lice. [helps if yourn head is aerodynamic]
the head shave..Frank tumbled first as to her actual motive for her bald head....she did it prophylatically to thwart any possible court ordered drug test in a future custody battle with K-Fed.
I wonder if she shaved any other parts besides her head?
Blubbering as he announced his ruling, a judge said Thursday he hopes Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, but he left the decision up to the guardian of her baby daughter. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin steered a surprise middle course in the dispute, which became more urgent by the day when the medical examiner warned that the centerfold's body was rapidly decomposing from her death two weeks ago. "Hurry up in there! She's almost rotted away!"
Smith's estranged mother wanted her buried in her native Texas, while Smith's boyfriend wanted her laid to rest in the Bahamas. The judge compromised and gave custody to attorney Richard Milstein, the guardian for Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. It wasn't immediately clear what Milstein would do, but the judge expressed his own preference: "I want her to be buried with her son in the Bahamas. I want them to be together."
The judge choked up frequently and wept as he explained his decision. Smith died Feb. 8 in a Florida hotel of unknown causes. The dispute over the burial was one of many surrounding Smith. Stern is listed as Dannielynn's father on the birth certificate, but Smith's ex- boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, said the girl was his.
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Take half each, but get her out of here! She should come apart easy, anyway.
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I could say something(s) to the Seidlin Court about the personages involved, but won't becuz of the lead times involved - ALL I'M GONNA SAY IS IMPO/IMHO SOMEONE COMMITED DE FACTO, WILFUL PERJURY ON NATIONAL TV.
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There must be fumes of decomposition in the courtroom because the Judge seems to be infected with it too. And it all boils down to robbing the corpse of money.
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In the Bahamas, under creep-lawyer's control and out of DNA testing jurisdiction (until HK gets to go after the half billion). Only an ex-taxi driver cum judge would render that type of weepy joke verdict.
Florida medical examiner took lots of fresh DNA samples when they did autopsy. I read somewhere yesterday the Bahamas courts had started looking into Dannielynn's status. I believe they are designed on the British style and don't think highly of being turned into a circus.
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So how was I? Was I good? Do I get my TV show now?
A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday. Fluffy! They caught Fluffy! How will we tell the kids?
The squid, weighing an estimated 990 lbs and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said. The fishermen were catching Patagonian toothfish, sold under the name Chilean sea bass, south of New Zealand "and the squid was eating a hooked toothfish when it was hauled from the deep," Anderton said. The fishing crew and a fisheries official on board their ship estimated the length and weight of the squid: Detailed, official measurements have not been made. The date when the colossus was caught also was not disclosed.
Colossal squid, known by the scientific name Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, are estimated to grow up to 46 feet long and have long been one of the most mysterious creatures of the deep ocean. If original estimates are correct, the squid would be 330 pounds heavier than the next biggest specimen ever found. "I can assure you that this is going to draw phenomenal interest. It is truly amazing," said Dr. Steve O'Shea, a squid expert at the Auckland University of Technology. If calamari rings were made from the squid they would be the size of tractor tires, he added.
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Not exactly SQUID-ZILLA, but just in time for HISTORY CHANNEL'S commentaries on Three Mile Island. * LUCIANNE > NUCLEAR POWER IS GREEN. In case you're still wondering. GOP-Right or GOP-Conservatives are the NEW LEFTIES = LEFTIST -ALTERNATISTS = ................ = ANTI-US TRAITOR/MAFIA-CRATS.
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What the hell you talking about, Joe??? THE TOPIC HERE IS SQUIDS====>>NOT SAILORS. WHY DO THEY HATE US?????!!!!! D******N IT!!!
/MAN, ima plumb tuckered....
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Tractor tire sized calamari... world hunger's over!
(Kidding, these critters seem to be rather intelligent as non-human animals go)
Joe, my babelfish does not work again. What you wrote was translated as gibberish. ;-)
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What you wrote was translated as gibberish.
I understand Joe perfectly. Which is beginning to scare the hell out of me.....
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I get Joe's ehrust, he thinks the history channel's going to use this giant squid in a scare-them-to death anti-radiation hit piece feturing three mile island and LOOK WHAT ALL THIS VILE RADIATION HAS SPAWNED, I think he's probably right.
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Thank's Redneck Jim, for the edification. I was off my meds for a while, but now Ima good.
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Joseph Edward Gallo Jr., who broke from his winemaking family to make cheese and then waged a high-profile spat with his famous brothers over use of the Gallo name, has died. He was 87. Gallo died Feb. 17 at his home in Livingston of a longtime illness, Donna Bradley, a spokeswoman for Joseph Farms, said Thursday. Joseph Gallo was born Sept. 11, 1919, in Antioch, the youngest brother in a family of winemakers. His two older brothers, Ernest and Julio Gallo, would later start E&J Gallo Winery.
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Cheers Joe! I've enjoyed ur wine for a few years. Rest in peace.
WASHINGTON (Feb. 22) - Chimpanzees have been seen using spears to hunt bush babies, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that demonstrates a whole new level of tool use and planning by our closest living relatives.
Perhaps even more intriguing, it was only the females who fashioned and used the wooden spears, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani of Iowa State University reported. Bertolani saw an adolescent female chimp use a spear to stab a bush baby as it slept in a tree hollow, pull it out and eat it.
Pruetz and Bertolani, now at Cambridge University in Britain, had been watching the Fongoli community of savanna-dwelling chimpanzees in southeastern Senegal.
The chimps apparently had to invent new ways to gather food because they live in an unusual area for their species, the researchers report in the journal Current Biology. "This is just an innovative way of having to make up for a pretty harsh environment," Pruetz said in a telephone interview. The chimps must come down from trees to gather food and rest in dry caves during the hot season. "It is similar to what we say about early hominids that lived maybe 6 million years ago and were basically the precursors to humans."
Chimpanzees are genetically the closest living relatives to human beings, sharing more than 98 percent of our DNA. Scientists believe the precursors to chimps and humans split off from a common ancestor about 7 million years ago.
Chimps are known to use tools to crack open nuts and fish for termites. Some birds use tools, as do other animals such as gorillas, orangutans and even naked mole rats. But the sophisticated use of a tool to hunt with had never been seen.
Pruetz thought it was a fluke when Bertolani saw the adolescent female hunt and kill the bush baby, a tiny nocturnal primate. But then she saw almost the same thing. "I saw the behavior over the course of 19 days almost daily," she said.
The chimps choose a branch, strip it of leaves and twigs, trim it down to a stable size and then chew the ends to a point. Then they use it to stab into holes where bush babies might be sleeping.
It is not a highly successful method of hunting. They only ever saw one chimpanzee succeed in getting a bush baby once. The apes mostly eat fruit, bark and legumes. Part of the problem is this group of chimps is shy of humans, and the females, who seem to do most of this type of hunting, are especially wary. "I am willing to bet the females do it even more than we have seen," she said.
Pruetz noted that male chimps never used the spears. She believes the males use their greater strength and size to grab food and kill prey more easily, so the females must come up with other methods. "That to me was just as intriguing if not even more so," Pruetz said.
The spear-hunting occurred when the group was foraging together, again unchimplike behavior that might produce more competition between males and females, she said.
Maybe females invented weapons for hunting, Pruetz said. "The observation that individuals hunting with tools include females and immature chimpanzees suggests that we should rethink traditional explanations for the evolution of such behavior in our own lineage," she concluded in her paper. "The multiple steps taken by Fongoli chimpanzees in making tools to dispatch mammalian prey involve the kind of foresight and intellectual complexity that most likely typified early human relatives."
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Chimps are known to use tools to crack open nuts and fish for termites. Some birds use tools, as do other animals such as gorillas, orangutans and even naked mole rats.
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These chimps have obviously had contact with hugo chavez alias BOBO. To take such dramatic leaps one needs an example, the kind BOBO of the venezuelan rain forest has made from general to all everything within the venezuelan economy. Me thinks that these chimps must have been in the same training class with bobo.
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Years ago, there was a New Yorker cartoon showing two jungle explorers watching a formation of gorillas, with clubs at right shoulder arms, marching in formation, as another gorilla shouted at them.
The caption was, "Well, do you still think I'm an alarmist?"
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chimps have higher hygiene requirements that don't square with Madrassah provisions. I doubt the Islamists can convince the chimps to lower their stds
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Police have with immediate effect banned the holding of rallies and public demonstrations in major cities in Zimbabwe by all political parties for three months, the official The Herald reported on Thursday. The blanket ban covers activities by all political organizations alike, whether opposition parties or the ruling Zanu- PF, the newspaper said.
The move follows the recent unleashing of violence by opposition MDC supporters resulting in clashes with the police and destruction of property worth millions of dollars in Harare city center and surrounding suburbs. Police chief spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena said political parties could still conduct rallies and public demonstrations in other areas within and around the city subject to approval by police authorities.
On Sunday, supporters of the Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC faction unleashed violence, barricaded roads and brought business to a standstill in Highfield ahead of the opposition party's rally, which failed to take place as they fought running battles with the police. Business ground to a halt at Machipisa Shopping Center with all the shops and flea markets being closed as a result of the skirmishes.
The clashes broke out in the morning and both the shopping center and the venue of the rally were deserted by noon. Police had to fire teargas to disperse the rowdy youths that had barricaded most roads in the suburb with boulders and rubbish bins. At least 29 vehicles were destroyed and one of them burnt to ashes on Sunday night after the MDC faction's supporters continued to unleash violence in Harare. Last Friday, four police officers were injured after violence-bent MDC supporters carrying out illegal demonstrations in Harare attacked them. Addressing foreign diplomats in Harare on Wednesday, Tsvangirai said they would not be "intimidated" and would proceed with the launch of their presidential campaign. "The position of the party is that presidential elections must be held as scheduled in 2008," said Tsvangirai.
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assuming the police haven't joined the protesters....Bob's getting worried. The army and police loyalty is in question, not a good thing for a dictator. I just hope Grace gets hers when Bob goes
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The tipping point has been passed, it's all downhill from here.
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..frank speaks wisdom, espcially the part aboyut ALL rallies being banned - wonder if Bob didn't find out about a Zanu-PF r'rally' that was going to march on the palace.
Mike
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Relief, Power and Energy Adviser Tapan Chowdhury yesterday said the government will file criminal cases against those found involved in plundering and misappropriating the relief goods. Briefing reporters at the energy ministry's conference room, he alleged that relief goods were plundered in the name of special allocations during the immediate past BNP-led alliance government. "No need to mention, definitely there was 'hariloot' (plundering) at the fag end of the last government and we are now investigating and also recovering those goods..." Tapan Chowdhury said.
He did not give any figure or quantity of relief goods misappropriated, but said the relief ministry has the figure. Most of the relief goods misappropriated were rice, wheat, CI sheets and biscuits. It is not important to the caretaker government as to when those were misappropriated - in last five years or 10 years, he said, adding that the joint forces, being ordered by the government, are now recovering those relief goods.
The adviser said the relief ministry has changed the process of relief distribution, as now the deputy commissioners (DCs) will directly receive relief goods from the ministry and distribute those among the destitute. Earlier, relief goods were not sent directly to the DCs, he added. He said it is quite unfortunate that Tk 100 was spent against per piece of CI sheet transportation and those were used for personal comfort and pleasure of some corrupt people instead of distributing among the destitute.
The power and energy adviser said the government is strongly considering enhancing fuel price, as there was no price adjustment with international market in last few years. "But as yet there is no decision by the government," he said urging the media not to dish out any speculative news on fuel price hike.
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The joint forces yesterday seized five luxury cars, five computers, and a plasma television from the residence of former BNP lawmaker Salahuddin Ahmed in Dhaka.
The same day in Jhenidah they seized relief materials from the house of Shahidul Islam Master, another ex-BNP lawmaker. Elsewhere in the country, the army-led strike force rounded up 1,582 people on various charges as part of the ongoing anti-crime drive in the 24 hours preceding 6:00am yesterday. During the raids, they recovered 13 firearms and five crackers. The joint forces seized five cars worth several crore taka, a 42-inch plasma TV and five computers from the Shyampur house of Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday evening. They found a Lincoln Navigator and a Toyota Corolla with the same registration number. Toyota HiLux, Pajero V6, and a Toyota HiAce van are the other three cars seized and later taken to the Shyampur Police Station. The raid lasted for nearly three hours, starting from 5:00pm.
Our Jhenidah correspondent reports: The joint forces recovered a huge quantity of relief materials from underground within the boundaries of Shahidul Islam's house at Maheshpur upazila yesterday evening. The goods seized include 275 saris, 30 lungis, 33 blankets, a good number of sports materials and 18 corrugated iron (CI) sheets of public relief stock. Maheshpur Upazila Nirbahi Officer Moniruzzaman was present during the raid on the house of the ex-lawmaker from Jhenidah-3.
Our Nilphamari correspondent reports: The joint forces recovered 70 CI sheets of the government relief fund from Jamaat-run al Amin madrasa and Al Ihshan Islami Library in Kishoreganj upazila Wednesday. Inscribed on each sheet were words: Government Relief Materials, Not for Sale. The forces detained upazila Jamaat Nayeb-e Ameer Abu Sayeed, and local Jamaat leaders Montu Mia and Al Hasan in this connection.
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they recovered 13 firearms and five crackers.
Got to be a translation error,
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Yup, most crackers own more than 13 guns.
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Right you are, I know NO "Crackers" with that few guns.
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I think some of our British correspondents can verify that "crackers" in this instance means some type of firework.
Now GEORGIA crackers are a totally different thing, and it'd take three RAB batallions to catch one and take his firearms...
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The government last night withdrew Special Security Force (SSF) deployed for the security of immediate past prime minister Khaleda Zia and the then leader of the opposition in parliament Sheikh Hasina. Both the leaders will continue to have police protection. Security arrangements for them might be strengthened further if needed but they will not get SSF protection, sources said.
The SSF members were withdrawn from Hasina's residence around 12 midnight while sources said the SSF guards in Khaleda's security contingent were packing up later in the night. Earlier, sources at BNP chief Khaleda's Hawa Bhaban office and Awami League (AL) President Hasina's residence Sudha Sadan however said at 9:00 last night they were yet to be informed about any decision about SSF withdrawal.
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Two men were arrested and charged with using fake religious organizations to get thousands of people permission to travel to Cuba, prosecutors said Thursday.
Victor Vazquez and David Margolis invented nonexistent religious organizations to apply for federal government licenses that allow U.S. residents to travel to Cuba, U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta said. Nearly all travel to Cuba from the U.S. is banned, except for certain religious, humanitarian and research reasons.
Prosecutors say the men then provided the licenses to travel agencies, which sold the use of them to more than 4,500 people for about $250 above the normal cost of tickets. The scheme began last April, prosecutors said.
Vazquez and Margolis each were charged with one count of conspiring to violate Cuba-related travel regulations. Vazquez was also charged with two counts of lying on applications to obtain religious travel licenses to Cuba. The maximum sentence for each charge is five years.
They made their first court appearances Wednesday in Fort Lauderdale. Margolis was released on a $1.25 million bond. Vazquez's pretrial detention hearing continues Friday.
Margolis' attorney Richard Rosenbaum said he plans to plead not guilty and defend the case vigorously if an indictment is handed down.
"Mr. Margolis has never been in trouble for anything in his entire life," Rosenbaum said.
A telephone message left for Vazquez's attorney, Robert Eckard, was not immediately returned.
"Today's criminal charges are a wake-up call to those who seek to violate the economic and trade sanctions against the Cuban regime," Acosta said at a news conference.
Acosta wouldn't say if his office had specific plans to bring charges against the travel agencies or the thousands of people who traveled using the licenses.
"We start here, but that doesn't mean we end here," Acosta said. Hopefully the next people prosecuted include Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Susan Sarandon, Oliver Stone, and Steven Spielberg.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that China's recent anti-satellite weapons test and a rapid military buildup were ``not consistent'' with its stated aim of a peaceful rise as a global power.
In a speech during a visit to Australia, Cheney praised China for playing an ``especially important'' role in six-nation negotiations that recently resulted in a deal with North Korea to eventually end its nuclear weapons programs. ``Other actions by the Chinese government send a different message,'' Cheney told the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue. ``Last month's anti-satellite test, China's continued fast-paced military buildup are less constructive and are not consistent with China's stated goal of a peaceful rise,'' he said.
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WAFF.com > Chinese Scholar disputes China's historical claims on Tibet; + WORLD POLITICS > Chinese seeks Burma Port to avoid [bypass USN /Region]] "Malaccas Dilemma".
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PENTAGON CHANNEL > USAF Press Briefing on Poland-Czech Missle Shield > World must remember than when NORTH KOREA did its missle tests, it did so without announcing or declaring what kinds of warheads, iff any, were on top of their missles. Twas a serious breach of International protocol and Nation-specific responsibility which only showed that a nuclearized North Korea can't = won't behave properly.
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Cheney for president! I'm gonna miss that crooked little sneer of his if he just fades back into private life. He speaks so quietly but he just shreds people like Nancy Pelosi and John Edwards. Then he says something like this about China. It's all low key and understated but it's right on and I can't think of anybody else in a leadership position who has the stones to say it.
Former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said on Wednesday that ultimatums or imposed solutions could not be the right way to solve the future status of Kosovo. Bolton is against an imposed solution to the Serbian province of Kosovo that would be unacceptible to the Serbian government because it is unlikely that such a resolution would ever be adopted by the Security Council.
Speaking for the Voice of America, he said that the future status of Kosovo should be acceptable to all sides. If one side insists on independence, it is evident that there would be no agreement, Bolton said, and added he believed that the Serbian government was prepared to offer a high level of independence to Kosovo Albanians and that he hoped that a negotiated solution would be reached. Bolton said that Serbia could not be divided without the agreement of its government and that this issue was not in the competence of other countries or the United Nations, because this was the new and democratic Serbia and not Milosevic's old Yugoslavia.
It would be unprecedented if the United Nations interfered in the affairs of a country in democratic development and adopted its own solution, he said and added that China and Russia, each for its own reasons which may not have anything to do with Serbia, would not want a precedent to be set in this way.
Bolton said that many at the United Nations believed that under UN Security Council Resolution 1244, the UN Security Council had the right to impose a new resolution if the solution was not acceptable to both sides. He said he believed that it would be very unwise if the UN Security Council tried to impose any solution - either Ahtisaari's plan or something else, because Russia or China, or both countries, would veto such efforts.
The UN Security Council should continue putting pressure aimed at continuing with the negotiations, refrain from imposing artificial deadlines and insist on goodwill approach to negotiations by both sides and finding of a solution, Bolton said.
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kinda an odd campaign, cause hes very DLCish, former chair, but he went far left (immediate withdrawl) on Iraq. I dont think theres really much constituency for that, nationally, yet.
So does this help Hillary, cause a DLC type dropped out? Or Obama cause an antiwar guy dropped out? Or Edwards, cause he can win Iowa, and Hillary and Obama cant count on Vilsack to take Iowa out of play (not like he was doing that anyway)
A stunned nation has only begun to grapple with questions such as: Tom Vilsack was running for president? And: Tom who?
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So he quit because of money? And only money? if we can figger out how to get Hillary and Obama to spend it out, perhaps we will be in better shape. maybe if we all write their campaigns and request various printed propaganda and then ditch it we can bleed them.......
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MEXICO CITY (AP) -- U.S. and Mexican officials will review reports of an intrusion on Mexican soil by workers erecting U.S. border fences between Douglas, Ariz., and the Mexican border city of Agua Prieta, U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza said. Garza, in a news statement released Thursday, stressed that the United States respects Mexican sovereignty and works to avoid intruding on its territory. Apparently, The Mexican Ambassador wasnt unavailable for comment.
Mexican legislators said they had photos and video showing U.S. workers and equipment crossing about 10 yards into Mexico on Monday. Garza said U.S. and Mexican officials would visit the site to ascertain what happened. "The U.S. is sensitive to Mexican concerns," the statement said, and "has the deepest respect for the integrity of the sovereignty of Mexican soil."
Most Mexicans consider the border fences an insult, ... (No doubt, because it calls into question their Respect of US sovereignty)
... and their anger was heightened by photographs of U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff welding a section of border fence on Tuesday at another site on the Arizona border, just after he had visited Mexico. Garza stressed that Chertoff had been photographed far from the site where the intrusion was said to have occurred, and that all of his activities occurred on the U.S. side of the border.
During an appearance on Wednesday before congressmen, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinosa was berated by some legislators over the issue, local media reported. "I ask you, is the Mexican government now complacent, negligent, apathetic, unaware or does it not watch over our nation's territory?" said congressman Samuel Aguilar during the hearing.
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Let us know when they're getting jobs, stealing identities, scamming the Mexican welfare system, and clogging up the emergency rooms.
Until then, adios...
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YJCMTSU: During an appearance on Wednesday before congressmen, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Patricia Espinosa was berated by some legislators over the issue, local media reported. "I ask you, is the Mexican government now complacent, negligent, apathetic, unaware or does it not watch over our nation's territory?" said congressman Samuel Aguilar during the hearing.
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"I ask you, is the Mexican government now complacent, negligent, apathetic, unaware or does it not watch over our nation's territory?" said congressman Samuel Aguilar during the hearing.
In reality, he's asking the right questions, but we're way beyond that.
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Reminds me of that notorious Cold War incident along the Korean DMZ - watched by 0,000's of armed US-South Korean troops, plus Reserves, Airpower, Tanks and Artillery, etc. a lone tree where NK soldiers had killed US personnel was cut down. * Regional + possible GLOBAL WAR o'er a tree. ITS THE ALAN ALDA IN ME.
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Hmmmm. Would you prefer we delivered your citizens back to you srapped to 500lb bombs dropped from a B-52? Or how about answering the shootings on our border with 175mm Long Toms? Maybe machine-gunning a flock of border violators as they start walking toward Demming or I-10? Or we could go all-out and nuke Mexico City, Tijuana, Nuevo Laredo, and several other border cities.
Respect the sovereignty of the United States, and there will be no need for a fence. Otherwise, STFU.
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The next issue of Time magazine, due on Friday, features several takes on the Iraq war and domestic politics. "Independent" Sen. Joe Liebeman receives a mini-profile titled "What Joe Wants," a key question since he is "the Senate's one-man tipping point." Republicans, the magazine says, are "courting him" and Lieberman "has been indulging in some fairly immodest political footsie."
Lieberman calls jumping to the Republican side, and tilting the Senate, "a remote possibility," which means there's at least a chance of that.
Lieberman calls jumping to the Republican side, and tilting the Senate, "a remote possibility," which means there's at least a chance of that. Time seems to push Lieberman in this direction, as the article concludes: "Lieberman's GOP flirtation has its risks--and a time limit....The longer he waits to capitalize on his moment, the greater the danger that he'll be tagged as one of those politicians for whom having power is more important than using it."
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin claims that his side still "counts on him as a friend" even though it is "a little painful and awkward." Last month, after Lieberman told Democratic chief Sen. Harry Reid that he had "stopped attending the weekly Democratic lunch because he didn't feel comfortable discussing Iraq there, Reid offered to hold those discussions at another time," Time's Massimo Calabresi reveals. "Lieberman has started attending again." But Lieberman also keeps in touch with Bush aide Stephen Hadley "every week or two."
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I don't care where he goes to lunch, as long as he stands up to the rest of the Democratic Losers.
Not losers because they're losers - which they are, but Losers, because they want to Lose The War.
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I hope that he stays in the Democratic Party. I feel a sence of ballance by at least having one Democratic Leader that I respect.
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From something written in January of this year:
Although the number of Democrats and Republicans is tied at 49, two Independent members, Joe Lieberman (CT) and Bernie Sanders (VT), caucus with the Democrats, shifting the Senate to Democratic control.
So, if Senator Lieberman shifts to caucussing with the Republicans, the Democrats lose their edge. I would think the Vice President's vote would then make the difference -- and the honourable Representative Pelosi's dreams of world domination would turn to dust and ashes. Just my guess, though, occasional observer.
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I've been watching Lieberman for some time, and, although, I never vote for a social liberal, I think I would vote for this guy. I think he is the best candidate for the protection of the U.S.
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I doubt that if Joe did jump ship it would make much difference. There are simply too many RINO's on the Republican side that already side with the Democrats too much of the time as it stands.
For many years, the national Republican Party has held a substantial overall fundraising advantages over the Democratic Party a situation that existed even in 2006, as big gains enabled the Democrats to take control of both the Senate and the House.
And the first campaign finance reports for the 2007-2008 election cycle in which the parties will be keeping in a wide-open race to succeed President Bush while again battling for congressional majorities suggest that the question again is not whether the GOP will have a money edge, but by how much. The reports, filed to the Federal Election Commission by Tuesdays deadline and analyzed by CQPolitics.com senior reporter Greg Giroux, showed that the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised $10.5 million in January, compared to $5.7 million for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The RNC reported $8 million in remaining cash reserves and no debts; the DNC had $6.5 million in cash and $4 million in debts.
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Hording resources won't win you seats either. This is why the Trunks are so often losers. Timing is everything. When you have your opponent in the corner, never let up. When he leaves you an opening, take it to lay a powerful blow.
Since the Donks have made the war central to the discussion, now is the time to hammer them with vivid commercials extolling the successes of our valiant men and women in the front. Tell them of the thousands upon thousands of AQ killed. Show the images of new schools and health centers. And indeed label the Donks as the party of defeat with images of the clouds of ground zero in the background. See the howls of yammering Wormtongues of their body as the commercials take hold and they sink like the Titanic. The shrillness of their screams will mean you're winning and they know it.
However, the Trunks suffer from Good O'boyism, just as bad as the Donks and are more interested in padding their bottom line and resume contact list than really winning.
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday observed that people had been exploited in the name of Islam for the last 25 years in Pakistan.
Only 25 years?
A two-judge bench consisting of justices Ijazul Hassan and Dost Mohammad Khan passed these remarks while hearing an intra-court appeal filed by the Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) against the verdict of the PHC company judge in favour of the Islamic Investment Bank (IIB) and its 4,000 affectees.
The bench said people had been looted in the name of Islamic Investment and Cooperative Society banks and that the SECP had not played its due role in exposing scams at the right time. Dozens of people who had been subjected to IIB scams said they had been deceived in the name of Islam, as the bank had Islamic in its name.
The bench expressed its disappointment over the SECPs role, which issued licences to ineligible companies that disappeared after looting innocent people. The bench, however, fixed March 14 for the final hearing, after the victims lawyer told the court that hundreds of families were being affected by the SECPs delaying tactics in the case.
On June 2006, PHC company judge Jehan Zeb Rahim dismissed the SECPs petition, seeking liquidation of the IIB and asked the federal government to pay Rs 2 billion to about 4,335 depositors who had invested in the bank.
The SECP challenged the company judges decision and filed a writ petition at the PHC Intra court for liquidation of the IIB. The SECP had issued a notification to the IIB, asking the bank to liquidate its business. Defending the liquidation notification in the first petition, the SECP said the IIBs liquidation notification was suitable and legal. The SECP in its latest report said the IIB was dead and that the entire system of accounts and file management was destroyed and dysfunctional due to huge embezzlement by bank officials.
In the scandal, retired government servants, widows and even vendors lost over Rs 2 billion that they had deposited in the bank to receive the benefits of Islamic banking as propagated time and again, said the victims. About 3,000 depositors, out of 4,335, belonged to the NWFP, and after the PHCs verdict they began visiting the IIBs Cantt branch on a daily basis to pressure the staff in to returning their money.
Pari, a female victim from the Qamber area in Swat, told Daily Times that she had sold her house for Rs 300,000 and deposited the money at the IIB to arrange for her daughters dowries. My daughters lives will be ruined if we are deprived of the money as none of my daughters fiancée are ready to marry them without the dowry, she added.
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Fatwa on dodgy guys in false beards and big suitcases in 10, 9, 8...
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Scratching head on this... I thought it was against the Quran to charge interest on a loan. So, how come there is something called, "Islamic Investment Bank"?
Wow. Great idea...
A UK-based charity plans to set up call centres in Gaza and the West Bank to boost the crippled Palestinian economy. Transformational Business Network (TBN) says it wants to establish the first centres by the end of this year. TNB hopes to create 900 jobs over five years offering IT support and other services across the Middle East. Hello. This is Mahmoud...Smith. You are calling from the Minnesota I see. How can I help you...INFIDEL!
The charity wanted to devise a scheme that would not be affected the frequent closures imposed on Palestinian areas by the Israeli military. And there's that minor mafia war thing they got going too. They better think about setting it up in, I dunno, India?
Nearly half the Palestinians in the occupied territories live on or below the poverty line, surviving on less than two dollars a day. The BBC, tugging at my heart strings...
TBN is currently raising the $1.1m from investors and international donors to finance the project's start-up and first year costs. Make sure you account for shakedown money in the budget. Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Achmed and Mahmouds Protection Agency, they'll all want a piece of the action.
Project manager Jerry Marshall says the next few months are "crucial" but he is optimistic about long term success."We have nearly everything in place, I see no reason why this shouldn't be successful," he says. Say, he is an optimist, isn't he...
"In Egypt, this industry has created almost 10,000 jobs in five years. We believe that private enterprise can do more to alleviate poverty than almost anything else in the long term." The project will initially be run by TBN - a network of businessmen trying to alleviate poverty in impoverished areas of the world - in close co-operation with Palestinian, Israeli and UK partners. There are plans to locate the West Bank operations in Jenin and Beit Jala, and all call centres will forge close links with Palestinian universities. Probably the ones they haven't burned down yet...
Initially, they will offer computer support, but the project hopes to branch out into hotel bookings and other administrative services Sure, you can have my credit card number. Anything else you need?
Malaysia's state censorship board has banned a documentary film about former Malaysian communists now living in southern Thailand, saying it was too sympathetic toward communism and critical of the government, the movie's director said Thursday.
Amir Muhammad, a prominent Malaysian filmmaker, said in a posting on his blog that he has until March 10 to appeal the board's decision to ban "Village People Radio Show," which was shown at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this month. The board last year banned Amir's previous film, "The Last Communist," saying it went against national interests in its historical account of an exiled communist insurgent who fought British-led troops to overthrow colonial rule.
"Village People Radio Show" is described as a portrait of village life in southern Thailand, where retired Muslim members of the Communist Party of Malaya now live. Are there dots to be connected here?
The censorship board listed seven reasons for the ban, saying the movie was unsuitable for public viewing because it portrayed the communist struggle as a noble cause and criticized the Malaysian government for unfairly treating former communists, Amir said. Board officials could not immediately be contacted for comment. Amir did not say whether he plans to appeal the ban.
About 10,000 people died during a brutal communist insurgency against British Commonwealth troops in the jungles of Malaysia then called Malaya from 1948 until the country's independence in 1957. In a 1989 peace deal, Malaysia said it would let former communist guerrillas return from hiding and "freely participate in political activities" under the constitution.
However, none have yet been allowed back. Malaysian officials have cited suspicion over a resumption of communist activities.
Well, if they were fighting the British in the 1948 - 1957 war they'd be getting kind of old now. Plus, they sound more commie than Jihadi. Still, they may be doing a little training on the side.
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I doubt there is a connection. The communists were almost exclusively ethnic Chinese inspired by Mao's China.
The graphic color photo, flashed on a large video-screen stationed next to the jury, tested the decorum of a federal courtroom. It showed a nude woman named Rona tethered to a tree trunk in the wilderness. From the witness stand, Rona answered questions about the bondage scene in graphic detail, casually complaining that she was bitten up by mosquitoes.
The testimony came during a trial in Brooklyn that has given jurors lessons on the lifestyle of a man dubbed an "S&M Svengali" by the tabloids, the inner-workings of a sadomasochism Web site and the federal government's crackdown on obscenity.
The jury began deliberating Thursday.
In recent years, federal authorities have stepped up prosecutions of purveyors of hardcore adult pornography to "protect citizens from unwanted exposure to obscene material," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said.
One pending case in Pittsburgh - involving videos of simulated rape and murder - was initially thrown out before being reinstated on appeal by the Department of Justice.
Under the Bush administration, at least 52 people or businesses have been convicted of violating federal obscenity statutes, and more than a dozen indictments are pending, federal officials said. By comparison, there were four such prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration, they said.
In the Brooklyn case, Rona and the prosecution's star witness, named Jodi, gave conflicting accounts of an alleged campaign of sadism by Glenn Marcus, 53, operator of a Web site devoted to BDSM - shorthand for bondage, domination and sadomasochism. A judge allowed both women to testify using only their first names.
Marcus included Jodi and other women in thousands of photos posted on his Web site - a practice that prompted the government to bring obscenity charges along with sex trafficking and a forced labor count.
The most serious charge - forced labor - by statute carries a potential life sentence, although such a punishment is unlikely under federal sentencing guidelines.
Jodi told the jury that after meeting Marcus over the Internet in 1998, she agreed to become one of his "slaves." Over two years, he systematically degraded her by shaving her head, branding the initial "G" on her buttocks and carving "Slave" on her stomach during liaisons in homes in Maryland, Washington, D.C., New York City and on Long Island.
When the 39-year-old Jodi failed to properly perform tasks for the defendant's Web site in 2001, he punished her by putting a ball in her mouth, closing it shut with surgical needles and hanging her on a wall, she said. Other times, he tied her down and mutilated her genitals with a smoldering cigarette as she screamed out in pain, she said.
"I felt like I was literally in hell," she said. "I felt like I was on fire and I couldn't put it out."
Rona, 51, a longtime friend called as a defense witness, said that while living with Marcus and Jodi, the accuser was a willing participant in their sex games. She called the defendant harmless.
"I love being around Glenn," she said, even as prosecutors displayed photos of her breasts punctured with dozens of pins. "He's a lot of fun."
Jodi testified she built up enough courage to leave Marcus in late 2001, but also conceded she continued to have contact with him, even going camping. She decided to go to the FBI when he refused to take her photos off the Internet.
By law, it didn't matter that the accuser wasn't always under lock and key, prosecutor Pam Chen said during closing arguments Thursday. "She was terrified. She was made captive by the fear."
Chen told the Brooklyn jury it must agree that Marcus' Web site was "patently offensive" to convict on the obscenity count, and argued the material was "so misogynist and so violent, it's offensive."
The defense has countered by arguing that Marcus and Jodi had a "contract" to engage in a master-slave relationship that, while potentially offensive to the general public, was consensual and even pleasurable to the participants.
"Cases like this test the very capacity of this society we live in for tolerance," defense lawyer Maurice Sercarz said in his closing argument.
Defense experts testified that the BDSM scene follows rules that purposely blur the line between pleasure and pain, but demand mutual consent. One said it draws from a "vast array of people," including judges; another said that Marcus' Web site had "serious scientific value" as a tool to study sexual behavior.
But Chen portrayed the defendant as a sadist who violated both the standards of a civilized society and of the S&M community.
"Glenn Marcus made his own rules," she said. "He thought he was God."
You always hurt the one you love
The one you shouldn't hurt at all
You always take the sweetest rose
And crush it till the petals fall
You always break the kindest heart
With a hasty word you can't recall
So If I broke your heart last night
It's because I love you most of all
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I don't care what humiliation, degradation, or indignity they do behind closed doors. I just wish this sh*t was behind passwords on the net, and not in pop-ups and so readily available and such...I had to explain to my kids that this is not what normal people do (love, commitment part of a mutual relationship involving sex and all that) and they pointed out that I had someone tied up in my closet, and I was kinda embarrassed..
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Really, 'moose? 'Cuz I used to do traffic control there in Phoenix, and that's the first I heard of it......
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Every theater-style seat in the White House briefing room, now closed for renovation, had a brass plaque inscribed with the name of a news organization. Only one, in the middle of the front row, had a name: HELEN THOMAS, it said. The unique assigned seat between the chairs for CBS News and ABC News was reserved for American journalism's batty old aunt in the attic the legendary United Press International correspondent who is now a columnist for Hearst Newspapers.
The press corps is scheduled to move from temporary facilities back into the spiffed-up, rewired briefing room in May or June. Thomas, who has been questioning presidents and press secretaries for 46 years, plans to be there. But her front-row seat wont be. Plans call for her to be moved to the second row to make room for a cable news channel a sign of Washingtons changing pecking order, and of the new ways that Americans get their news.
I hope it's Fox moving in to her old seat. That would be delicious.
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As far as I'm concerned, it won't be a real victory until she's returned to her REAL rightful place, squatting on a ledge at the National Cathedral. With the rest of the gargoyles.
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Explain to me why, with the internet for the WH to communicate directly with the people and no need to have their words corrupted spun by self-important third rate column fillers, do they need the briefing room? If you want contact with the press, then by all means have an office to coordinate one on one's with the President. If you want to get a story out, then invite one or two to a WH luncheon or dinner setting. If you really think you need to talk to a bunch, then do it outside in the rain or slush. You think some of the garbage behavior would alter?
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Mr Ricardo, that is cruel. Remember, she is someones daughter (ok, someone from the late Paleolithic), but a daughter nevertheless.
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Tony UK. Late Palaeolithic... Naw, she is the last surviving dinosaur, taken in and fostered by lemurs when the meteor struck the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous...
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I didnt think I had a monopoly on that seat, Thomas, 86, said in a telephone interview. Since my peers have decided that I dont belong there, Ill bow to their Ill drink the What did Socrates drink? Hemlock?
Ill drink it, she said. You have to submit to the will of the people, and apparently this is the will of my peers. Its OK with me. Ive had a good run in the front seat.
Don't make promises you have no intention of keeping, Helen. It just makes you a tease.
Besides, there are much more faster acting products on the market these days...
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She reminds me of the guy they found dead in his easy chair. He had been dead for a year and nobody knew it. I think they moved Helen because she has been dead for a long time--maybe most of her life.
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Why are we catering to the very people that misconstrue the words of the Administration? A vacant room and folding chairs would do quite nicely. Why spend the money on these liars?
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Britney Spears is back in rehab. The singer is hoping three times is a charm. The emergency custody hearing that Kevin Federline wanted has been cancelled because of the new development. There will be no custody hearing today. Sources tell TMZ Federline is concerned for Spears' welfare and wants her to get the help she is now seeking. We're also told this will be Spears' last chance -- if she leaves rehab before getting full treatment, Federline will immediately go to court seeking orders allowing him unquestioned full custody of the children.
Blubbering as he announced his ruling, a judge said Thursday he hopes Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, but he left the decision up to the guardian of her baby daughter. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin steered a surprise middle course in the dispute, which became more urgent by the day when the medical examiner warned that the centerfold's body was rapidly decomposing from her death two weeks ago. 
A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday. 
Joseph Edward Gallo Jr., who broke from his winemaking family to make cheese and then waged a high-profile spat with his famous brothers over use of the Gallo name, has died. He was 87. Gallo died Feb. 17 at his home in Livingston of a longtime illness, Donna Bradley, a spokeswoman for Joseph Farms, said Thursday. Joseph Gallo was born Sept. 11, 1919, in Antioch, the youngest brother in a family of winemakers. His two older brothers, Ernest and Julio Gallo, would later start E&J Gallo Winery.
WASHINGTON (Feb. 22) - Chimpanzees have been seen using spears to hunt bush babies, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that demonstrates a whole new level of tool use and planning by our closest living relatives. 
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that China's recent anti-satellite weapons test and a rapid military buildup were ``not consistent'' with its stated aim of a peaceful rise as a global power.
The next issue of Time magazine, due on Friday, features several takes on the Iraq war and domestic politics. "Independent" Sen. Joe Liebeman receives a mini-profile titled "What Joe Wants," a key question since he is "the Senate's one-man tipping point." Republicans, the magazine says, are "courting him" and Lieberman "has been indulging in some fairly immodest political footsie."
For many years, the national Republican Party has held a substantial overall fundraising advantages over the Democratic Party a situation that existed even in 2006, as big gains enabled the Democrats to take control of both the Senate and the House.
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday observed that people had been exploited in the name of Islam for the last 25 years in Pakistan. 
