LONDON (April 4) - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
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A columnist in Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper today accused a senior British diplomat in Harare of directing an anti-government "terror and propaganda campaign," and warned she could end up dead. An opinion column signed by David Samuriwo charged that Gillian Dare, an embassy political and media officer, had a large fund to pay Zimbabwean journalists, academics and opposition politicians to attack President Robert Mugabe. Samuriwo, a fierce critic of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposition, is a regular contributor to the Herald. Last month he accused the US embassy of funding a "violent campaign" by the MDC.
"Gillian Dare, the purse holder and financier of the violence being perpetrated by the MDC, should be aware that by throwing away all diplomatic etiquette into the dustbin and putting on her combat gear, she has become a prime target for deportation," Tuesday's column said. Samuriwo said Dare had been labelled a spy by some sections of the media, and "could one day be caught in cross-fire as she plays night nurse to arrested MDC hooligans."
"It will be a pity for her family to welcome her at Heathrow airport in a body bag, just like some of her colleagues from Iraq and Afghanistan," he added.
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Two more cases have been filed against former minister Aminul Haque in connection with land grabbing, and felling of government-owned trees in Rajshahi. Golam Mostafa, a homeopath of Ramnagar, lodged the land-grabbing case yesterday against him and nine others with Godagari Police Station in Rajshahi saying the accused illegally occupied a piece of land he owns, measuring 13-decimals, at Dayingpara on April 13 last year. The plaintiff said the accused grabbed the land and forced him to sign an agreement, which gave the land away to Godagari Banik Samity President Ashraful Haq. "Just sign the paper to donate the land!"
"But I don't wanna donate my land! It's all I got!"
"Mahmoud, hit him again!"
Other accused people in the case include the ex-minister's maternal uncle and Godagari municipality BNP president Rafik Uddin, secretary and municipality Chairman Anwarul Islam, Tarikul Islam, Mofazzal, Tofazzal, Ahmed, Tarikul, Nazrul and Eltaz.
Meanwhile, Harunur Rashid, a farmer of Chanduria, lodged another case with Tanore Police Station in Rajshahi on Monday night accusing Aminul and four other BNP men of felling and stealing government-owned trees on both sides of Ajaripur-Ekhtarpur road between March and June 2005. "You stole trees?"
"They weren't nailed down. We thought they were available for the taking!"
The plaintiff claimed the accused later misappropriated the money after selling the trees, which were worth around Tk 1.30 lakh. "The money wasn't nailed down, either."
Others accused in the case include: a close aide to Aminul Rajshahi district BNP general secretary Shis Mohammad and Chanduria union council chairman Mofiz Uddin. Police arrested the other two accused in the case--Keramat and Abdul Karim -at Deotala early yesterday. Earlier, two cases were filed against Aminul Haque in Bagmara for aiding militants of banned Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
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Closer to home, last year a retied judge in Seattle, whose house was on a hill that had a killer view blocked by trees was charged with illegal cutting after 'his gardener mistakenly cut them down.' his fine was somewher in the neighborhood of 600K, ( replanting costs deducted) IIRC.
A day after President Viktor Yushchenko ordered Parliament to disband, his rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, continued to defy the order on Tuesday, as Ukraine lumbered toward another political crisis.
Barely two years after the street protests known as the Orange Revolution resolved a standoff over a rigged election, the president and Parliament each claimed authority Tuesday to manage elections and control government. The divisions between the two men, one a pro-Western reformer, the other favoring closer ties with Russia, reflect a wider schism in Ukrainian society, a nation of 47 million people geopolitically balanced between Russia and the West. Also at play are natural gas and oil export routes important for European energy security. Ukraine's currency was stable Tuesday but investors sold off government bonds, a sign that they think the crisis is deepening.
Yanukovich said he would try to convince Yushchenko to rescind the order disbanding Parliament. "We shall do everything to convince the president of Ukraine to recall his decree," Yanukovich told a crowd outside Parliament in remarks carried on Russian state television. "If he does not do it, I think in this case not only parliamentary but also presidential elections will be inevitable."
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WASHINGTON -- White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported.
Rove was on the campus to talk to the College Republicans, but when he got outside more than a dozen students began throwing things at him and at his car, an American University spokesperson said. The students then got on the ground and laid down in front of his car as a protest. The students said security officials picked them up and carried them away so Rove could leave.
Police said they have dealt with a lot of protests on campus and this one was handled peacefully. No one was arrested. Assault and vandalism are legal for snot-nose quislings? What happened to the 14th Amendment? If they had done this to a visiting terrorist like Ahmedinejad or Rosie O'Donnell, the whole weight of the fifth column media would be on it for days.
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I would agree that Rove and his bodyguards are entitled to self defense. Preferably with bean bags flechettes from shotguns.
Minor correction there.
Although, I saw the "Future Weapons" episode with the ADS system. That coulda come in handy.
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I am in full support of non-lethal force with idiots like these. Consider it a sort of training class for them. After they get whapped up side the head with a baton or tazered they will be a little reluctant to lay about in protest. I know very few people whom will purposely get tazed or hit with a baton a second time. Those bean bag guns and wooden dowls are also a good non-lethal method to teach idiots.
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Had I been the driver, the temptation would have been almost unbearable...
OH my Gawd I'm so very very sorry.. I just don't know how it happened!
My foot must have slipped off the brake pedal and on to the accelerator pedal.
Oh Lord his head looks so misshapen, I hope he recovers..do you think he's alright?
I have sum Kleenex...
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MONTREAL (CUP) - Concordia president Claude Lajeunesse was booed as he took the stage to give Al Gore an honorary doctorate from the university on March 22.
The brainchild of Concordia Student Union president Khaleed Juma, the doctorate was presented while the crowd, present to listen to speeches from Gore and David Suzuki, filed out the exits after the question and answer period with Gore was cancelled. cancelled? Is this his class at Columbia?
The talk took place in the cadre of Less Talk, More Action: A Youth Action Summit on Climate Change, organized by Youth Action Montreal members and Concordia University students Peter Schiefke and Mohamed Shuriye. Gore and Suzuki's message was clear: The world is in imminent danger if we continue our current habits and don't change towards a more eco-friendly society. "Manbearpig's gonna gitchya"
The former U.S. vice-president's speech was effectively his Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth with updated statistics, and presented by an angrier, fist-shaking Gore. "Excelsior!"
His presentation was halted at least twice as opponents to his agenda began to shout out.
They called him a liar and a villain, and screamed, "What about your swimming pools?" in regards to recent allegations that the monthly electricity bill of Gore's estate rivalled a year's bill for the average American home. This led Gore to joke, "I don't even know if you guys are left- or right-wing". LOL - nice response, Prince Albert...
Suzuki also made a 45-minute speech on the topic du jour. The speech was punctuated by numerous bouts of applause from a rather enthusiastic audience.
He espoused that the media should play a more central role in the way it informs the public, saying, "Over half of all Nobel Prize winners are telling us we could have as little as 10 years to avoid a catastrophe and this is pronounced by our media as 'not newsworthy'. WHICH Nobel Prize winners? Science? I don't think so! In-line references to South Park's episode with Al Gore, which shows how low-brow I am ...heh
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We just got a 1/2 inch of snow and sleet today - I wonder if the Goracle was in town.
Bush and Rove strike back!
President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination. "ha ha"
/nelson muntz
Democrats had denounced Fox for his 2004 donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group's TV ads, which claimed that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as a major factor in the Massachusetts Democrat losing the election. along with other lies, flip-flops, dissembling, half-truths, repulsive speaking habits, his wife, .....
Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation, Bush withdrew the nomination last month. On Wednesday, with Congress out of town for a spring break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation. shouldn't have fled town on vacation, a-holes
This means Fox can remain ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress, effectively through the end of the Bush presidency.
Fox, a 77-year-old St. Louis businessman, gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat group. He is national chairman of the Jewish Republican Coalition and was dubbed a "ranger" by Bush's 2004 campaign for raising at least $200,000. He is founder and chairman of the Clayton, Mo.-based Harbour Group, which specializes in the takeover of manufacturing companies.
Fox has donated millions of dollars to Republican candidates and causes since the 1990s.
In answer to questions about the Swift Boat donation, Fox has said he gives when asked, insisting he did not know how his money would be spent or exactly what message the group was pushing.
In his first six years in office, Bush made 167 recess appointments, 101 of which were to full-time positions, according to a January 2007 report by the Congressional Research Service. In his eight years in office, President Clinton made 139 recess appointments, 95 of where were to full-time positions. Kerry badgered him during his hearings, yet has never publicly produced his military records as promised, years ago. Kerry's a phony, and the majority saw through him. Now they can't complain about the recess appt. because they left without funding our troops
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The Field poll was conducted March 20-31. For the Democratic candidates, 417 voters who say they are likely to vote in the Democratic primary in California were asked their preference to win the Democratic nomination. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 points.
OF INTEREST: When Al Gore is added to the field, Clinton gets 31 percent, Gore gets 25 percent, Obama gets 21 percent and Edwards gets 8 percent. Clinton gets the strongest support among Hispanics, older voters, those with less education and those in Los Angeles County. Obama does well among young voters. Edwards did better among voters in Northern California than Southern California.
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Looks like the Obama boom is already over, I thought it would be good for another couple of months.
I have been surprised that PETA hasn't ruled in on this yet..??
KENDRAPADA: The "holy altar" of Panchubaraha temple at Satabhaya village in Kendrapada's Rajnagar block turned into a virtual pool of blood as around 250 animals were sacrificed on the occasion of Chatya Purnima on Monday.
Hundreds of devotees came from nearby villages to watch the "sacred spectacle" of "slaughter", a custom being observed here for years.
The animals, which included goats, lambs and a buffalo, were lined up near the sacrificial pole before the mighty stroke of Babaji Dalei's sword did it all, one after another. But the man was unperturbed. "It's a divine duty which was passed on to me after my father died 20 years ago," he said.
"It's been a family tradition for generations. In the past, devotees would offer buffaloes. But now, not many can afford the big animal and settle for goats and lambs," said Dalei.
Cries of the dying animals drowned in the din of the thronging believers. Some scrambled to touch the flowing blood of the freshly-sacrificed and smear their forehead with it. It's an act, which they believe, will bring good luck. And by the time, the ``sacrifice'' was over, it was time to trudge back home, carrying a carcass or two on a bamboo pole.
Many of the devotees came by crossing the Bausagard river on ``unsteady'' boats. So for boatman Sankar Kandi, who "ferried some 2,000 people" on Monday, it was quite a busy but rewarding day. ``I earned about Rs 2,000 and that's pretty decent,'' he said.
Despite protests by animal lovers and social activists, Dhani Sauti, a priest at the temple, was unmoved. "It's an old tradition. From time immemorial, devotees have been sacrificing animals in the temple on Chatya Purnima and Saptami during Dussehra. No one has the right to meddle with people's faith," he said.
"Why doesn't the administration take steps when hundreds of goats, chickens and other animals are butchered in public places day in and day out? Instead of stopping animal sacrifice in temples, the administration should end cow slaughter,'' the priest added
Former president Muhammad Rafique Tarar on Thursday claimed that he was still the legal president of the country. I am still the president of Pakistan and will remain so until the assemblies elect a new president as prescribed in the Constitution, he told reporters outside the Supreme Court, where he had come to express solidarity with the suspended chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. Tarar was removed by President General Pervez Musharraf on June 20, 2001. He said that a president was elected for five years and assemblies elected a new president under the Constitution after the expiry of his term in office. He said that he kept himself away from political parties in order to maintain the sanctity of his office and had only participated in the protests against the suspension of the CJP as a common citizen.
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Lawyers protesting in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday beat up pro-government lawyers chanting slogans in favour of President Gen Pervez Musharraf. Lawyers in black coats gathered at the SC building in the morning ahead of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Chaudhrys arrival for a hearing of the presidential reference against him in the Supreme Judicial Council. One group of men wearing black coats shouted slogans in favour of Gen Musharraf, raising the ire of the lawyers who had turned up to support the CJP. They set upon the pro-government lawyers, including Jehangir Joji and Fayyazur Rehman, with punches and kicks and tore their clothes.The lawyers claimed that intelligence agents dressed as advocates had been sent to disrupt the demonstration. The pro-government lawyers at least one of whom turned out to be a Punjab Assembly official - admitted that a parliamentarian from Gujrat had sent them to the SC to voice support for Gen Musharraf. No police case was lodged, ASI Shahid Mahmood said.
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NEW YORKS mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, loves popcorn and merlot, but not always at the same time. He watches his weight carefully, but more often than not a hamburger will do for lunch, with maybe a little cream cheese on a cracker for a snack.
The mayors a charmer at the dinner parties he gives at his Upper East Side town house, but pot pies, fried chicken and ice cream sundaes are more likely to be on the menu than foie gras and miso-soaked sea bass.
In other words, from a culinary point of view, he has sweater-vest taste on a billionaires budget. But from a policy perspective, Mr. Bloomberg has taken on more food issues, and provoked more controversy, than any New York mayor before him. As a result, he has the potential to change the way more New Yorkers eat whether in the haughtiest dining rooms or the poorest home kitchens than all the citys food activists and restaurant critics combined.
A lot of what hes doing is likely to be happening nationally over time, said Tim Zagat, the co-founder of the guides that bear his name. The governments involvement in what were eating is going to be increasingly visible as a way to make people healthier.
...Its easy to see a dawning awareness in City Hall that government can help people eat better. But its not as easy to find a singular grand vision, or even much of a pattern, behind the intersection of food and city government.
More rampant nannyism at link...
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Meanwhile, the NYC Dept of Public Health gives clean bills of health to rat-infested restaurants.
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The governments involvement in what were eating is going to be increasingly visible as a way to make people healthier.
They'll have take my steak and egg breakfast from me at gunpoint. Just like you cannot legislate morality, you cannot regulate people's eating habits. Any attempts to do so are among the very worst sort of government intrusion into the private lives of American citizens. Screw these effete "it's-for-your-own-good" poseurs and the hairless Chihuahuas they rode in on.
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 day after President Viktor Yushchenko ordered Parliament to disband, his rival, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, continued to defy the order on Tuesday, as Ukraine lumbered toward another political crisis.
WASHINGTON -- White House Advisor Karl Rove was the target of a protest on the American University campus Tuesday night, NBC 4 reported.
