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Just great. Now I'm going to have to scrub my brain with steel wool to remove that image from memory. Just for that Mike...
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village the quiet village
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
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Do you know who to make a nazi cross with three matches?
You stick two up the backside and light them with the third!
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This is inevitable. In the years following the defeat of Napoleon, he was the ultimate evil for many people throughout Europe. He is the second most biographied person ever, after Jesus.
However, today, he is just seen as another royal from the days of the royals. In France he has been rehabilitated into a national hero.
The same thing will happen in Germany, and probably faster, because of the refusal to teach anything about Hitler or WWII. Once that generation has died off, objectivity will win out and very little that Hitler did will stand out as unique in the 20th Century, the century of industrial war.
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I couldn't disagree more. All the Brits are in bed, but I doubt they look upon him as a royal amongst royals.
Hitler will not see the same resuscitation in his reputation for two reasons.
It is in the interest of the left to keep Hitler at the top of the evil heap in order to hide what was done by their heroes, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pot, and the Kim boys.
In the event that the left loses control of the chattering classes, Hitler will still be execrable because he is the sole, let us hope, leader who turned the technology and culture of what had been a modern civilized industrial nation to the extermination of millions of humans only because of who their parents were. What Stalin did may have more zeros behind it, but that is its primary difference from the past in Russia. It stands as an example of what any developed country could become in the right circumstances.
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It is in the interest of the left to keep Hitler at the top of the evil heap in order to hide what was done by their heroes, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pot, and the Kim boys.
F&ck almighty, you're probably right, NS. What a revolting concept.
The world's greatest pub crawl turned into the world's biggest collective hangover in Maryborough yesterday as up to 3000 party-goers recovered from about 50,000 drinks. The Sunday pub crawl was the city's second tilt at the Guinness World Record after successfully winning the inaugural title for its marathon drinking effort last year.
But it was not just the hangovers that participants were reeling from yesterday. A swoop by the Queensland Licensing Commission fined eight of the 17 "crawl" pubs for allowing overflowing patrons to drink on the streets left a sour taste in many mouths. "This is an international event ... the beer festival in Germany would never have even begun with that sort of attitude," said one of organisers, Nancy Bates. "When you have a festival you expect some sort of leniency, not a deliberate attack ... they could have exercised some discretion."
World's Greatest Pub Crawl committee chairman and Maryborough councillor Anne Nioa said it had been a terrific event with an early count showing 2332 people had taken part. This was already well above the 1198 drinkers who secured the world record in last year's Queen's Birthday weekend attempt. "We sold about 3000 crawl cards and people still have 10 days to put them in for official counting," Cr Nioa said. "Everyone was really well behaved. There were some terrific costumes and it was a real carnival atmosphere ... although some people are probably a bit tired and emotional today."
Cr Nioa said the event attracted not just local people by the hundreds but also drinkers from interstate and even as far afield as Finland. Drinkers are required to visit 10 pubs in six hours and have at least one drink – alcoholic or not – to have their cards stamped to qualify. They began at noon with the firing of the heritage city's cannon and church bell ringing and finished up at 6pm. Cr Nioa said when all the cards were in they would be sent to the Guinness World Book of Records for verification. She said all 17 pubs in Maryborough, which cater for a population of 25,000, had taken part in the crawl.
So tiny that she fitted in her mother's hand, Ruby Angel Dunn is one of the smallest babies ever to be born in Britain.
Weighing less than a 1lb at birth, doctors warned her parents Kerry and Craig that she may not survive. And even if Ruby did pull through, the couple were told to prepare for their daughter developing sight or brain problems.
Four months on, the baby girl has defied the odds and astounded medics with her progress. Tests this week at Southmead Hospital in Bristol where she was born show that Ruby is in perfect health. . . .
Sweet. You go, er, baby girl!
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As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.
Really? You mising a city?
At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball of fire taking several seconds to travel across the sky. A few minutes later an impact could be heard and geophysics and seismology research foundation NORSAR registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m. at their station in Karasjok.
Farmer Peter Bruvold was out on his farm in Lyngseidet with a camera because his mare Virika was about to foal for the first time. "I saw a brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke," Bruvold told Aftenposten.no. He photographed the object and then continued to tend to his animals when he heard an enormous crash. "I heard the bang seven minutes later. It sounded like when you set off a solid charge of dynamite a kilometer (0.62 miles) away," Bruvold said.
Astronomers were excited by the news. "There were ground tremors, a house shook and a curtain was blown into the house," Norway's best known astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard told Aftenposten.no.
Unless that curtain was blown through the wall of the house, I'm thinking it was not quite Hiroshima grade
Røed Ødegaard said the meteorite was visible to an area of several hundred kilometers despite the brightness of the midnight sunlit summer sky. The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms. "This is simply exceptional. I cannot imagine that we have had such a powerful meteorite impact in Norway in modern times. If the meteorite was as large as it seems to have been, we can compare it to the Hiroshima bomb. Of course the meteorite is not radioactive, but in explosive force we may be able to compare it to the (atomic) bomb," Røed Ødegaard said.
You find a big smoking hole yet? Big mushroom cloud? No?
The astronomer believes the meteorite was a giant rock and probably the largest known to have struck Norway. "The record was the Alta meteorite that landed in 1904. That one was 90 kilos (198 lbs) but we think the meteorite that landed Wednesday was considerably larger," Røed Ødegaard said, and urged members of the public who saw the object or may have found remnants to contact the Institute of Astrophysics.
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06/13/2006 09:55 ||
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wow I love meteorites, wish there was a link to the photos that guy took
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Once when I was a kid I saw a meteorite that started out the size of Venus at its largest and broke into smaller chunks as it fell. I swear it was bright enough to cast a shadow. It had to have hit somewhere, but I could never figure out where (WAY before internet days).
It's still the most awesome natural phenomenon I've ever witnessed.
Did it just get a smidge colder????? Via Lucianne:
With his tax-laced budget plan shredded by fellow Democrats, Gov. Jon S. Corzine turned to Republicans for help Tuesday, only to be told he wouldn't get any as long as he sticks to his proposed sales tax increase. Republicans are outnumbered 22-18 in the Senate and 49-31 in the Assembly, but the governor might need their help because many Democrats are opposed to nearly $2 billion in tax increases....
To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor
Contact: Toby Chaudhuri or Noreen Nielsen, 202-955-xxxx, both of Campaign for America's Future My breath is baited...
News Advisory:
-- Thousands of Progressives to Gather Monday for 3-Day Conference to 'Take Back America' Swoon...
-- Organizers Announce Opening Day Media Events Schedule Kool Aid Kulinary Tips at 9:00...
The Campaign for America's Future today released details for the opening day of the organization's "Take Back America" conference. More than 2 thousand progressive leaders and activists will gather at the Washington Hilton on Monday for the first day of the annual event. How "progressive" are they? "Hang onto your wallet, it's going to be a bumpy ride!"
Campaign for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage and Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg will hold a morning news conference to release an election-year message guide and brief reporters about highlights of the gathering. Progressive leaders will also kick-off events to outline a bold "Agenda for the Common Good" during the conference's opening luncheon. Ah, the "Common Good" - yep, this is going to be expensive...
Actor and environmentalist Robert Redford, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), former Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Rep. Barbara Lee (news, bio, voting record) (D-Calif.), Rep. Bennie Thompson (news, bio, voting record) (D-Miss.), AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and many others will join Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey to begin outlining bold initiatives that make up a progressive agenda that promotes the "common good." Swoon II.
Agenda / Schedule at linky. There's even a session on "the progressive promise and conservative collapse"! Enjoy! Delousing available upon request - at additional cost, I'm sure.
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Where will the Prozac booth be?
With Z-man dead, Time backtracking on the Marine story, Rove in the clear, and Bush's poll numbers on the rise, Foolfest 2006 will not be a happy place.
A new radio ad that started Monday challenges U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., to support Democrat Ned Lamont if Lamont wins the Aug. 8 primary. In the ad, Lamont says he will support Lieberman in the general election if Lieberman wins the primary.
Lieberman has not ruled out running as an unaffiliated candidate in the November election.
"Joe, let's both go to the Democratic primary on Aug. 8 and let the people of Connecticut decide," Lamont says in the ad. "I'll pledge to back you 100 percent if you win. And for the good of the party, you'll pledge to support me 100 percent if I'm victorious. What do you say senator? May the best Democrat win."
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Hell, have the Republican party back him as an Indepednat - like Jumpin Jim Jefords is for the Dems. Major difference is Joe isnt jumping, he's being pushed by the Kos-led loon-lemming moonbat wing of the Dim party.
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Nah, just bring up that he's sponsored by the Kos Kiddies, and let the good people of Connecticut know what kind of comments get posted on there on a regular basis. Sure, the state has members of the "unreality" based community, but not enough to elect one of their own.
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"Joe Lieberman is George W. Bush's favorite Democrat. Joe Lieberman is a Zionist stooge who supported the illegal war for oil begun by Bush for his Halliburton and Enron cronies, and Bush's racist tax cuts and genocidal globalization. Worse yet, he's a religious fanatic. Joe Lieberman isn't a real Democrat, he's a traitor to everytyhing we stand for--but if he beats me in the primary, I'll back him 100%.
"I'm Ned Lamont, and I approve this message that Kos wrote for me. God knows I'm paying him enough for it, him and his tinfoil-hatted--say what? . . . the mic's still on? Well shut the damned thing--"
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If Lieberman were to run not as a Democrat the Republicans would be foolish not to offer him a Jeffords deal and pull their candidate.
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I hope Lamont wins the Primary so Lieberman can switch parties. It would be a great lesson to the Kos Kids if Joe says "I did not leave the Democratic Party. The Demorcratic Party left me."
Al
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If he loses, he can start the American branch of the KADIMA party.
A 21-year-old Malaysian Muslim woman has been fined 1,200 ringgits (USD 333) after she was caught by Islamic moral police in an Argentine soccer player's bedroom, a news report said today.
It said Farrah Aina Safian Sauri pleaded guilty to the charge of "khalwat," or "close proximity," which under Malaysia's Islamic law is described as a couple not married to each other being alone together in a private place.
The New Straits Times reported that Religious Affairs Department officials in the northeastern state of Kelantan raided the flat of Gustavo Alberto Romero on May 7 and found Farrah Aina in his bedroom. Romero is an imported soccer player, serving as a striker on Kelantan's state team.
Farrah Aina, a pharmacy student at the International Islamic University, admitted in a Shariah Court to visiting Romero's flat at least three times, the daily said. She pleaded for a lighter sentence, saying she is still studying.
"I have repented and I promise never to repeat" the offence, she was quoted as saying.
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An easy case for Malaysian Muslim women for boycotting sports in protest; but they'd probable get whipped for not going and supporting the national team, or fined for not paying Islamic entry fee taxes...get the point!!
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Speaking of soccer, all those whores they've imported into Germany for the World Cup are now busy demonstrating how well they can handle balls without using their hands.
A civil rights watchdog agency opened an investigation on Monday into a Philadelphia cheese steak restaurant that posted a sign saying "This is America - when ordering, speak English."
The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations complaint effectively opens a case against Geno's Steaks of South Philadelphia, said Rachel Lawton, acting executive director of the agency.
The Philadelphia controversy has fed a national debate over immigration in which the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would declare English the national language and politicians have raised objections to a Spanish version of the national anthem. The sign may violate the city's Fair Practices Ordinance, which bans businesses from discriminating on the basis of nationality or ethnicity, Lawton said.
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Sorry if there is no actual discrimination tuff titty. I would write a check for 300 and tell them were to stuff it. 300 bucks off your taxes for the "cost of doing business"
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So does this mean I have to do business in any world language that any potential client chooses? Do I have to start answering e-mail inquiries and requests for quotations that are in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, etc. I'm already pissed that my bank's ATM always asks "English or Spanish?" The "Free Checking" banner outside the bank does not have Spanish subtitles, and what about a Swahili-speaker that wants to withdraw $20? The whole thing is absurd.
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No law of any kind was broken. This was protected speech. There's also no evidence that they refused service to non-english speaking people. In fact, news reports and staff indicated that they would go out of their way to help non-english speakers to order the food they wanted. Te owner was trying to make a political statement, albeit rather coarsely. Just another example of 'freedom of speech' only applying to liberals.
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Yeah, now that you mention it, I've been to restaurants in Mexico where nobody working there spoke English, and I got fed too. Not exactly what I wanted, but close enough.
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In 1980, I was in Montreal for a math conference. The big story that summer was about a deli whose owners had just received a large fine because its Hebrew kosher sign was too large in comparison to its French sign. I wonder if things have gotten worse in the last 26 years.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A California judge on Monday overturned a voter-approved city law that banned handgun possession and firearm sales, siding with gun owners who said the city did not have the authority to prohibit the weapons. Judge James Warren sided with the National Rifle Association, which argued that a local government cannot ban weapons because the California Legislature allows their sale and possession.
The San Francisco County Board of Supervisors placed Measure H on the ballot amid frustration over the high number of gun-related homicides. The city recorded at least 94 murders last year, a 10-year high. The NRA sued in November, a day after 58 percent of voters approved the law banning gun and ammunition sales and handgun possession.
Matt Dorsey, a spokesman for City Attorney Dennis Herrera, said the city was considering whether to appeal after the court ``denied the right of voters to enact a reasonable, narrowly tailored restriction on handgun possession.''
However narrow, it runs afoul of the Second Amendment.
NRA attorney Chuck Michel was pleased that the judge ``recognized that law-abiding firearms owners who choose to own a gun to defend themselves or their families are part of the solution and not part of the problem.'' The ordinance targeted only city residents, meaning nonresidents in the city or even tourists were not banned from possessing or selling guns here.
A federal appeals court is considering a challenge to a similar handgun ban in the District of Columbia, where attorneys have argued that the law violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Interesting how the civil libertarians will stridently defend the Bill of Rights -- except the Second Amendment.
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"gun-related homicides"
Yep. Those evil guns are at it again. Funny, I can't get one to go out and commit a crime. Neither can this guy.
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P.S. - I spoke to my Taurus PT-145 last night. He said my Para-Ordnance P14 wanted to go out and do some killing last Thursday, but my Sig P380 Stainless (that pussy) talked him out of it.
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I have never understood the Liberal hatred of guns. Guns are the equalizer that allows a 80 pound woman to protect herself from a 300 pound thug. Mace, a knife, a bat just will not do it if that 300 pound guy wants to rape or kill.
Why remove the one thing that can make everyone equal and give the advantage to thugs and monsters?
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Why remove the one thing that can make everyone equal and give the advantage to thugs and monsters?
1) Harder to enforce State control over people who can shoot back
2) The ghettos that LLL policies have created out of major inner city neighborhoods need to be controlled by force. The LLLs are afraid of the monsters they've created/encouraged there and want to restrict their armament.
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I had a colt govt in 38 super with a slide and trigger job (adjustable), reblued to look like the deep Colt Python bluing.... That pussy wouldnt' even get out of it's box without kid gloves.... I couldnt' imagine it even going into a liquor store, much less holding one up.
And as a plaque at my one of my favorite firearms stores read:
God made man, Samuel Colt made them equal.
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1) Harder to enforce State control over people who can shoot back
That's a feature, not a bug.
The ghettos that LLL policies have created out of major inner city neighborhoods need to be controlled by force. The LLLs are afraid of the monsters they've created/encouraged there and want to restrict their armament.
They ought to consider the alternative of changing the LLL policies. If they can't, they shall reap what they sow. And it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of fellow travellers.
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Looks like this NRA member forgot to put the closing tag on her comment to make it clear. State control is indeed a desired feature of gun control in the minds of the Left.
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``denied the right of voters to enact a reasonable, narrowly tailored restriction on handgun possession homosexual "marriage".''
There, now see there's a denial of the rights of voters that the LLL can get behind. I've heard that one argued over & over....Good to see a judge actually overturn an "approved" proposal on the basis of the Constitution and/or State law for once. But, if you can get 10% to file suit to overturn something that even Oregon ruled against by 60-something percent of voters, then hey, let's back that un-Constitutional overturn of an "approved" Amendment, eh?
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Correction: Well now my Sig is pissed. Not only did I call it a pussy, but I mistyped it's name. It is of course a P230, not a P380.
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#4: "I have never understood the Liberal hatred of guns. Guns are the equalizer that allows a 80 pound woman to protect herself from a 300 pound thug."
There's your answer right there. What would the libs do without victims?
Their whole "ideology" is based on "caring," but they don't really care, they only want to say they care so they can feel good about themselves.
With the libs, it's all about them.
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Correction: Well now my Sig is pissed. Not only did I call it a pussy, but I mistyped it's name. It is of course a P230, not a P380.
My P229 sentences you to an hour with your Sig at the range this weekend. You DO take it out regularly, right?????
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.
The world's greatest pub crawl turned into the world's biggest collective hangover in Maryborough yesterday as up to 3000 party-goers recovered from about 50,000 drinks. The Sunday pub crawl was the city's second tilt at the Guinness World Record after successfully winning the inaugural title for its marathon drinking effort last year.
