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Now if only they'd chamber it for 6.8 mm SPC they would have a real winner for the troops.
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Man, now this is a his and hers gift if I ever saw one. A must have!!
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I was at an industry show a couple of weeks ago and say the XM-8 (live fire demo too). Very sweet weapon. HK is building a big factory in Columbus GA to build thousands of them for the Army.
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Aooww, that means you're throwning away the M16 family? That's the most recognizeable rifle ever, except for the AK... almost like if the US army changed its appearance overnight. Things won't be the same. And yes, I thought the .223/5,56 had shortcomings (long range performance, knock down power), and that the new magic bullet was the 6.8mm. IIRC, XM8 is actually a german rifle modeled after the G36, the current rifle of the spanish army (and partly the german). A foreign design?
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Mucky, see my post above. While the design is German (Hekler & Koch), the weapons will be built in GA. BTW, I also saw Barrett's 6.8mm at the show. Very nice and yes, there is interest in going that way. The USMC will stay with variants of the M-16 for the forseeable future, so it is not going away just yet.
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ima just get concern as i am hear colt and smith and wesson have finance problems. not shure how em ruger is doing.
I would like to know, is it allowed for a wife to suck her husbands private parts if he is wearing a flavoured condom? Jazakallah
One should maintain hayaa (modesty) while being intimate with oneâs spouse. In the enquired case, it is permissible as long as it does not constitute oral sex.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
"And don't let me catch you suckers — as it were — smiling when you're done!"
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No, she was a slut in the '80s. Then she was British. Now she's SuperMom, and when she gets bored with that she'll be an African guy named Louis, complete with accent. I've never seen anyone who was as comfortable with blatant affectation as Madonna.
A Portland woman has been banned from Deering Oaks park after being charged with spreading dog feces there as part of a vendetta against the parkâs weekly farmerâs market. Lora Leland, 53, of Sherman Street was caught in the middle of the night emptying 16 bags of dog feces in the road that winds through the center of the park, police said. She explained that she was angry at the Saturday morning farmerâs market because it interfered with her ability to ride her bicycle through the park, police said.
Cuz, it's her park, don't ya know
Now, Leland must appear in court on a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief and has been served a criminal trespass order barring her from the park for a year. She faces as much as a year in jail, though authorities say she is more likely to be fined. Leland could not be reached Tuesday for comment. Farmers greeted the news of her arrest with cheers after arriving to the mess every Saturday for the better part of three summers. "When the farmers came in to set up, they just had to clean up the whole road," said Officer Dan Knight, who along with Officer Karl Geib staked out the park Friday into Saturday in an effort to apprehend the culprit.
Operation Dog Poo
At 3:30 a.m. Saturday, the officers saw a woman walking a small dog down the middle of the parkâs interior road. The woman was reaching into a large plastic shopping bag, removing smaller bags that she would open and then dump the contents onto the roadway, Knight said. Confronted by the officers, Leland said she was angry at the farmerâs market, police said. "She told us that she doesnât like that they take up that whole road because she canât ride her bike there," Knight said. The woman said she would collect the small baggies with dog feces from trash cans around the park over the course of the preceding week and stockpile it from her own dog, then spread it to disrupt the market, police said. I picture her a Che-like blindfolded execution. Facing her is a large industrial fan, a shovel and the excrement of a corn-fed pachiderm of some sort.
Marie Davis, who works for Portlandâs Parks and Recreation Department, said the recurring feces was a nuisance that would have to be cleaned up before the market opened for business. "I know it was nasty and it was enough so it was pretty offensive," she said. Larry Bruns of Hanson Field Flower Farm , an organizer of the market, said the piles were there every Saturday for three years or more and each farmer was responsible for cleaning in front of their area. "Itâs kind of sad someone feels they have to do that," he said. "We donât really know what problems the woman had or why she was doing it." It would be fitting to appoint her as the park-wide scooper for a three year hitch.
Leland told the officers that she expected her ticket would be expensive, but became angry when they arrested her instead of simply issuing a summons and took her to the Cumberland County Jail. She was released on bail pending a court appearance. Police suspected Leland, Knight said. Some farm workers arrived early one weekend and confronted her, and she responded by brandishing pepper spray, he said. Brandishing pepper spray at farmers is not advised as they often have plenty of peppers to pelt you with.
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She collected and distributed dog dew for three years as a hobby, but had no effect towards her actual goal. Do you think that she was a former member of SDS?
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It would be fitting to appoint her as the park-wide scooper for a three year hitch.
Plus, make her clean the farmer's market area before and afterwards.
The signals coming out from Venezuela are very confusing indeed. Since this morning armed groups have been vandalising private property in downtown Caracas, burning vehicles and shooting randomly to the offices of the Mayor of Caracas. As I listen the live signal of Radio Nacional de Venezuela I am absolutely shocked by the callers-in to Professor Jose Angel Arenasâ programme, who are for the most part inciting listeners to resort to violence and to disrespect any CNE decisions. Furthermore the chiefs of the Commando Ayacucho, for what I could gather, are the subject of much hatred owing to the failure in beating the opposition in the recall drive. Jorge Rodriguez, director of the CNE, just announced that there is a clear indication that the opposition may have gathered the signatures needed to trigger the recall referendum.
Amazingly enough only three days ago the opposition had, unofficially, more than 100.000 signatures over the threshold; today CNEâs Rodriguez declares that there are 2.451.821 signatures, that is to say only 15.738 signatures more than the minimum required or 20% of the electorate. However hopeful the statements of Rodriguez are one must be extremely wary for the figure given is not final but preliminary. No one can assure that said number will indeed be definite. On a different note there is much speculation about Chavezâ national address to be broadcast today at 5PM. Some say he will announce his resignation and launch his campaign for a future presidential race; others held the version that he will accept the recall referendum even before the official results of the repair process are public. Minister of Information Jessy Chacon declared that President Chavez will talk about the recall of both opposition politicians and his own.
The political police continue raiding illegally houses of journalist and opposition leaders; Congressman Rafael Marin was viciously beaten today with an iron rod by members of the âTupamarosâ (militia supportive of Chavez purportedly commanded by Mayor Freddy Bernal); Mayor Caprilesâ appeal was stroke; and government funded news outlet Aporrea calls for actions to defend the revolution; in sum when everyone looks the recall way the regime keeps violating human rights and the rule of law with total impunity. Chavistas seem to be convinced that either way they will surpass this electoral obstacle and the opposition on the other hand is already celebrating. Interesting times are coming, definitely not for the faint hearted.
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resign? I doubt it. Fidel's his role model...
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5.... is that Atlantic time?
Chavez is going down.... maybe not in the next 2 weeks, but for sure in the next 6 months.
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Chavez going down could interrupt Venezuelian oil for a while. A Saudi interruption, coupled with Venezuelia could put the world oil supply in a pinch for a while. The US needs to put the problem squarely on the backs of the Dems, who will not allow us to drill domestically in the most promising places. Then we need to put the biggest-assed windmill farm smack dab in Nantucket (home of the limerick).
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Jimmy Carter leaves and chaos insues.
Whoodda thunk it?
LIMA, Peru (AP) - The Red Thingy Cross will visit the imprisoned founder of the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group, who is weak and bedridden because of a hunger strike, the guerrilla's lawyer said Thursday. Abimael Guzman and his former lover Elena Iparraguirre began refusing food on May 3 in a bid for amnesty for leftist insurgents.
Time to get the aroma machine working!
Lawyer Manuel Fajardo told The Associated Press that a Red Thingy Cross doctor was to visit them for the first time on Friday although they have been regularly attended to by prison doctors. Besides seeking a sweeping amnesty for imprisoned and wanted rebels, Guzman is also demanding that prison officials get rid of a partitioned cubicle he must use to speak with his lawyer, Fajardo said. The imprisoned leader has gone on several hunger strikes in recent years.
Gorsh, he's that serious, they oughta let him do what he's gotta do.
Guzman launched the Shining Path's armed campaign to overthrow the government in 1980 after a decade of planning. He and Iparraguirre have been held in separate cells in a high-security jail on a naval base since they were captured together in 1992.
I'd like to hear more, but I need to get a snack first.
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Abimael Guzman sure reminds me of Mahatma Ghandi.
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A 57-year-old woman says she was ejected from a terminal at the Dallas-Fort Worth International airport after showing military recruits an anti-war campaign poster. Carole Ward showed the recruits an 8 1/2-by-11 inch poster of a composite illustration of President Bush made up of the faces of soldiers who have died in Iraq. It bore the title "Faces of Death." Some people found the poster offensive and the woman became belligerent with an American Airlines gate agent, according to Tim Wagner, a spokesman for the airline. He also said Ward made some passengers feel uncomfortable while waiting to board her plane during a thunderstorm Tuesday night and presented a security threat. "Sheâs not only going around talking to these recruits, saying they shouldnât join the Army, they shouldnât fight in the war, sheâs also forcing the poster on them," Wagner told The Dallas Morning News in todayâs online edition.
Ward, who was returning home to Albuquerque, N.M., from a Libertarian convention in Atlanta, said she started a conversation with a few of several dozen recruits in the airport. She passed around the poster, that had messages to elect Libertarian Aaron Russo president and to stop a possible military draft. According to Wagner, some people thought the poster had pictures of soldiersâ bodies and said the material definitely could be "considered offensive." Although Wagner said the gate agent asked airport police to remove the woman from the secure side of the terminal, airport spokesman Ken Capps said that the officers only monitored the situation and Ward left on her own. She says she was forced to leave the hotel without her bag and spend the night in a hotel. LGF readers Shiplord Kirel (my humble self) and Bon-Ami have established that this is the same person as Carol Ward (no e), the proprietor of this truly disgusting Nazi propaganda site.
Both women live in New Mexico.
Both are Libertarians.
There are only five people in New Mexico named Carol or Carole Ward.
Airport Carol is 57 years old. In a 2001 article, Web-nazi Carol gave her age then as 54. Only one of the New Mexico Carol Wards has a birthday in 1947 or anywhere close to it. This is also the only one with an unlisted address (web-nazi Carol claims to receive death threats every day, which I donât doubt).
Airport Carol lives in Santa Fe. All 4 of the New Mexico Carol(e) Wards with available addresses are outside Santa Fe.
Web-nazi Carolâs middle-name is Ann.
Three of the New Mexico Carol(e) Wards have the initial "A". One of these is the 57 year old with no available address.
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You're right: she's a sick one.
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While I'm handing out hat-tips, LGF lizardoids Jauhara and SoCalJustice were also in on the bust.
BTW, if anyone thinks that "Web-nazi Carol" is an over-the-top designation for this creature, check out these gems from her website:
"On 9/11, I was sitting in a small boarding house in Durbuy, Belgium, staring at the TV, and saying to myself - 'Those fucking Jews -- Those disgusting Jews. THIS time they really did it.'"
"So -- Bless you Palestine. May God bless you and your struggle against the greatest evil the planet has ever known. And forgive me my casual condemnations when I've visited Muslim countries. Muslims are the light, the future, and the last hope for the world. We may not agree on much else - but we do agree on this --
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well, it's hard to deny that CW ate far too many magic mushrooms but I'm somewhat concerned that you went to so much trouble to track her down... and by posting those details on a public forum it's as if you are encouraging people to personally harass her, I might be wrong but isn't this slightly illegals
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Igster, please cite some statutes or precedents that make it illegal to transfer information that is already posted on the web.
As for inducing others to harrass her, couldn't the same be said for any kind of public criticism or exposure? The very fact that you would accuse me of a crime reflects the continuous undercurrent in lefty thinking that seeks to criminalize opposition speech.
There is no right to immunity from criticism nor to immunity from identification with one's own public utterances.
There is also no right to the forum of one's choice nor a right to be taken seriously.
That pretty well disposes of the whole lefty undergrad view of civil liberties right there.
How do hand-waving, trope-spouting freshmen mumia-cong like the company they're keeping?
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BTW, Iggie (or is it Your Majesty, the Emperor Napoleon?), please enlighten as to what sort of clairvoyance you employed to determine that my intent was to induce people to harrass the harridan?
In literal truth, that kind of presumption, that you are the arbiter of another person's thoughts and can hold others responsible for these determinations, is the definition of authoritarianism, if not a symptom of delusional psychopathology.
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, my purpose was to establish that the two Carols are the same person, thereby further exposing the neo-nazi presence in the anti-war movement.
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geez AC, chill out a little bit, you seem to think that the whole world is out to get you. EY and raptor at least had the common courtesy of not abusing me for trying to establish whether this was illegal or not. I did state that I wasn't sure as to this. As to being an arbiter on people thought, read your post again, you're doing it.
01:10pm: Vietnam Vets Speak Out
I thought people may be interested in seeing how other Vietnam vets have reacted to Fuckfaceâs testimony to Congress that American soldiers committed war crimes. Let them do the talking:
Way too long for Rantburg, but go visit Mr. DuToit's site. And be prepared.
EFL
Veteransâ evaluations of the war in Iraq are slightly more optimistic than those of the American public overall -- although even veterans question how well things are going for the U.S. in Iraq and whether the war is worth the costs, a CBS News poll finds. And as both presidential candidates vie for the veterans vote in 2004, right now President Bush holds a clear lead among those who have served. Veterans are also more likely than other voters to approve of how the president is handling both Iraq and the overall war on terror.
High Five for this AP writer!! Damn did I just write that?!?!? My goodness, Calvin keep this up!
By CALVIN WOODWARD
As John Kerry and Ralph Nader compete for votes in their common cause of beating President Bush, they risk coming across not just as agents of change, but as Glum and Glummer. The America that John Kerry sees is weighted by millions of job losses, millions of people without health insurance, a "wage recession" for those who do have work, schools begging for money, exploding gas prices and "poisoned" alliances worldwide.
Then thereâs the America that Ralph Nader sees. Itâs in really bad shape. He talks about foul air, impure food, 13 million hungry children, corporate domination, "mindless" SAT scores "controlling our definition of intelligence," kids who need love being put on antidepressants instead, corrupt political parties, a government that hasnât had a good idea in 30 years, and a president who acts like an "out-of-control, West Texas sheriff."
If this is morning in America, Americans may want to crawl back into bed. Opponents of an incumbent president need to tell people whatâs wrong, so they donât just re-elect him, but must do so in a way that does not sink their spirits, say students of political rhetoric. And Kerryâs indictment of Bush fills many of his speeches on the stump. But one of the Democratâs latest ads is a warm and fuzzy counterbalance, a family heavy portrait in which a soothing Kerry assures Americans: "Weâre a country of optimists, weâre the can-do people and we just need to believe in ourselves again."
To Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, thatâs a sign the campaign recognizes the danger of slipping into a prosecutorial mode that will just bum people out. "You have to be optimistic and hopeful," she says, "without being happy with the way things are going."
Ronald Reagan personified the upbeat, his vision of morning in America attractive even to many with a hard life. Bill Clinton, the "man from Hope," couched his criticisms of the first President Bushâs economic record with an infectious, can-do-better energy. "The message that gets out to the public in digested form canât be, âeverythingâs wrong,â" Jamieson said. "It has to be, âIâm optimistic about what change I can produce.â"
But thereâs a risk, too, in being too buoyant in a time of dispiriting developments in Iraq and on other fronts. Historians recall that Hubert Humphreyâs cheery reputation - he was known as the "happy warrior" - did not fit the dark times of 1968 when he ran for president. "Thereâs a difference between prudent optimism and ostrich optimism," said Stanley Renshon, a political psychologist at the City University of New York. He credits Bush with confidence in his own abilities, "not an optimism that buries its head."
Kerry has a quick smile when he uses it, and a quick wit anytime, but also sad eyes and a lantern jaw that underline the gravity of the situation on count after count against Bush. Even so, he unfailingly presents himself as a solution to the problem. Nader, with less to lose and more freedom to speak his famously cantankerous mind, attacks everything under the cancer-causing sun. Asked Thursday whether he thought conditions are worse in the country than when he ran in 2000, the independent presidential candidate said: "Itâs almost like time has stood still. Just add 9-11 and Iraq - itâs a society caught in a traffic jam."
He talked of the wreckage in a recent speech to Virginia university students. Nader said enough people die as a result of having no health insurance that itâs as if the country suffers six 9-11 terrorist attacks a year. He said pretty much everything worthwhile that the government is doing has been around for three decades or more, and even those old programs are shrinking from attrition. "Weâre lunching off the past."
"What is a corporation anyway?" he demanded. "It doesnât vote. It doesnât die in Iraq.... It dominates us. Itâs as if a robot emerges in our midst." Drug laws are "demonic," he went on. And of the kids who are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, "most of them need love, an arm around the shoulder, attention, some time. Instead, they get Ritalin, an easy fix."
Third World countries? "We suck the minerals out of them. We brain drain them." He asked the college students: "Are you being processed?" They sat quietly, some nodding in assent. "How we pamper ourselves," he said contemptuously several times. He ticked through more of his list of wrongs. "Does all this depress you?" he asked. Finally a note of hope: "We can still reassert the sovereignty of the people." Calvin Woodward has covered national affairs since 1986.
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These people really do live in an alternate universe. In the course of my work I meet with many military, retired military, and former military folks. The only ones who can even say Kerry's name without having to spit afterwards are veterans who are members of traditionally Democratic voting groups (African-Americans). Vietnam vets are particularly bitter about Kerry, placing him in the same category as Jane Fonda. The only place where Kerry will carry the veterans' vote is in France.
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Veteran's votes I don't know, but the media's, certainly. Kerry was the hot thing during the democratic convention (yes, we cover theses things... The USA doesn't care about France, but France is obsesssed with the USA), and it was noted that he was a french-loving guy, AND a relative of a french politician, Brice Lalonde (spent his summer with Kerry back in the olden days).
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Drudge has a link to an article stating that Kerry has had many active duty military coming up to him telling him they need a change of leadership. First foreign leaders...now the military!
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#2 dem convention?
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Slight mix up, I meant primaries, not too knowledgeable on US electoral mechanics.
Chief French quisling Jacques Chirac and fellow Saddamite weasel Gerhard Schroeder of Germany are in a dither that President Bush will defeat Sen. John Kerry in November. The Wall Street Journalâs James Taranto today noted several signs of the presidentâs strength. Among them: A Rasmussen poll shows that 54 percent of voters would consider voting for Bush, compared to 49 percent for Kerry. The Iowa Electronic Markets is trading futures on the election. "As of yesterdayâs close, a contract paying $1 in the event of a Republican victory was selling for 55.4 cents." A Democrat contract was cheap: 44.9 cents. Best of all ... "If the New York Times is to be believed, the Bush-loathing leaders of France and Germany seem to be banking on Bush: âOfficials in both countries say that their leaders have come to conclude that Senator John Kerryâs campaign to defeat Mr. Bush has not caught fire and that they may have to coexist with Mr. Bush for another four years,â the paper reported Monday from Paris." NYUK...NYUK....NYUK
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How do you say, delicieux? I am savoring them having to deal with reality for once.
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That 55.4 cents number is strikingly similar to a number reported in the Harris Poll on personal optimism. Year over year (April 2003 vs. 2004) the number of people who reported that their personal situation had improved over the last 5 years has jumped from 49% to 56%.
EFL - interesting Clinton item.
Bush has been an outspoken critics of leaks, saying they can be very damaging, but he has expressed doubts that the governmentâs investigation will pinpoint who was responsible. While Bush has said he welcomed the leak investigation, it has been an awkward development for a president who promised to bring integrity and leadership to the White House after years of Republican criticism and investigations of the Clinton administration. Even though he has a White House counsel, Bush is dependent on outside lawyers for private matters. A memo distributed to the staff last year reminded officials that the counselâs office works solely for the president in his official capacity and is not a private attorney for anyone. Democrats seized on the news to criticize the president. "It speaks for itself that the president initially claimed he wanted to get to the bottom of this, but now heâs suddenly retained a lawyer," said Jano Cabrera, spokesman for the Democratic National Committee. "Bush shouldnât drag the country through grand juries and legal maneuvering. President Bush should come forward with what he knows and come clean with the American people."
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"Bush shouldnât drag the country through grand juries and legal maneuvering. But it was O.K. when Clinton did it."
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Even though he has a White House counsel, Bush is dependent on outside lawyers for private matters. A memo distributed to the staff last year reminded officials that the counselâs office works solely for the president in his official capacity and is not a private attorney for anyone.
I believe that for quite a while the Clintons's were using WH Counsels for their personal legal issues.
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EFL - I took the BLS release rather than the news service stuff
Nonfarm payroll employment rose by 248,000 in May, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.6 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The May increase in payroll employment follows gains of 346,000 in April and 353,000 in March (as revised). Job growth in May again was widespread, as increases continued in construction, manufacturing, and several service-providing industries. this may get drowned out in the news given the meeting with the Pope and Tenetâs resignation but in the longer term its probably more important
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Likely headline: "May Job Growth Down 28% From April, Say Gov't Sources"
Gotta remember, the sky is ALWAYS falling when a Republican president is in office.
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At the end of January 2001, the start of George Bush's first term, there were 137,790,000 people employed in the United States. At the end of April 2004, there were 138,772.000 people employed, a gain of 982,000 people employed. From the depths of the Clinton recession to the end of April 2004 3,057,000 people have found jobs.
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I think that it becomes impossible to calculate the unemployment rate when it get below 5.6 or 5.5 based on the economic model they use. So 5.6 holding steady is probably the correct number.
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Chuck - I realize some people like the household survey more than the employer survey (the latter shows a net loss in jobs since Bush was sworn it) but most people think the employer survey is more accurate.
Politically, I think one impact of the continued job growth is that it makes a John Edwards vice presidential nomination less likely. Kerry already despises Edwards (at least I take that based on Kerry's body language during debates with Edwards) and since Edwards's only good lines are the 'two Americas' and "bad nafta" type stuff, I think his chances look worse and worse.
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no , no, no! this just cannot be true - ole teddy and skerry told me that the economy sucks and that the recovery is jobless - ya know that outsourcing thing... ala hienz
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Of course now Kerry is claiming that the jobs that are being created are not the high paying jobs. These guys are so tired and this line sooooo predictable. Saying it just makes him look stupid (er, more stupid).
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"The Prowler" at The American Spectator. EFL.
Perhaps even Sen. John Kerry is beginning to sense the total lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy. Kerry seemed alarmed by the complete absence of applause, or other audience interaction, he was receiving from a small crowd in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday. Kerry was there to accept the endorsement of a national union of emergency first responders, and to hold a "conversation" with local residents about his plans for protecting the nation from bio-terror attacks. On several occasions, Kerry paused, seemingly expecting applause for his lines. For example, at one point he said, "I will do what I think is best for the country," then waited for applause that only developed after one of his advance staffers began leading a weak round of applause. His lukewarm reception was so bad that Kerry lost his cool, telling his audience, "I know you donât want to be here anymore."
"G'wan! Get outta here! Go to the movies or something!"
"That line actually generated more real cheers," says a bemused Florida Democratic Party official. "If this is the kind of response our campaign is getting elsewhere, weâre dead. This was awful. He was awful." Reminds your humble narrator of Bill Clintonâs nominating speech for Mike "Tank Commander" Dukakis at the â88 Democratic convention. It was a long, droning, interminable mess. (Clinton is a good speechmaker today, but he was still learning the craft back then.) The #1 applause line: "In conclusion, . . . !"
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"That line actually generated more real cheers," says a bemused Florida Democratic Party official. "If this is the kind of response our campaign is getting elsewhere, weâre dead. This was awful. He was awful."
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Is this happening elsewhere? Is the national media carrying this guy this much?
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the greatest revenge for all the bush-hate and bush-bashing is that the Donks will have to listen to this idiot's droning condesencion til November
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..I'd like the Rantburgers of A Certain Age to remember back to the '84 elections, where the media was telling us home much everybody hated President Reagan, how bad the economy was, how assured Mondale was of victory...and how much it felt just the way it does now re the Democratic candidate's inability to fire anybody up.
Mike
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Can't for his acceptance speech at the convention -- when the dimocrats realize how *farked* they really are......
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Mike,
I can't remember any 'Mondale is a lock' coverage. I do remember, however, a Saturday night live skit taking place the night before the election where the Mondale HQ was celebrating and the candidate asked what the good news was. The campaign team said that the networks had agreed to use the same color for Lake Superior as for MN (thus about doubling the Mondale area on the election maps).
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I remember when the same thing happened to Dan Quayle.
(For those disinclined to click, I was at a speech Quayle gave. Since it wasn't a political speech, we didn't know we were supposed to applaud at the end of every sentence. Halfway through it suddenly dawned on one of our officers that this was expected. If you don't click, you'll miss my theory as to Kerry's diabolical campaign strategy.)
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If this is the kind of response our campaign is getting elsewhere, weâre dead. This was awful. He was awful."
Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggghhh!
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mhw: I have an old copy of Harper's from 1984, which I saved because there was a good article in it on the prospects of a Soviet invasion of West Germany. (I played a lot of 1:285-scale Micro-Armor tank battles back then.) It includes a Nicholas Von Hoffman essay on how Reagan's fanatic conservatism and cruel disregard for the poor had all but assured that Fritz Mondale would be our 41st president. So there was at least some punditry in that direction back then.
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how assured Mondale was of victory...
Then reality must of sunk in because the final state-by-state poll on ABC had: Reagan 525, Mondale 3 (DC of course) too-close-to-call 10 (Mondale's home state of MN which he ended up winning by 2500 votes.)
I remembered looking at that and was surprised myself.
"You have nothing to lose but your brains!"
by Erin Montgomery, The Weekly Standard. EFL.
OVER 2,000 MOONBATS PROGRESSIVES from across the country paid a $175 registration fee and flocked to the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington this week for the Take Back America conference, to do a bit of propagandizing of their own, and, of course, to rescue America from those pesky conservatives. [$129-329 per night, meals not included]
The conference--sponsored by the activist group Campaign for Americaâs Future--began Wednesday, June 2, and concludes this afternoon. Attendee Chris Maroul, of Houston, Texas, planned his summer vacation around the conference, and was one of the first in line at the registration table Wednesday morning. "I needed to use up my vacation time from work and went online to see what was going on in D.C.," he said. There, he stumbled upon the conference information. "It was meant to be," said Maroul, who wore an eye-catching T-shirt, which read, on the front: "The Few, The Loud, The Peaceloving Texas Liberal." And on the back: "In Houston, they refer to me dumbass as that ******* moonbat liberal."
None of the people who attended or spoke at the conference could top the comments of [billionaire moonbat George] Soros, but many came close. . . . In a conference session entitled "The Populism Moment," national radio commentator Jim Hightower [star of "Radio Free Moonbat"]
teamed up with nationally syndicated columnist Zsa Zsa Gabor Arianna Huffington, and Who-Dat?
Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) to tell us what we common people really need: John Kerry to be our next president. Naturally, it was an hour of unadulterated Bush-bashing. . . . After Hightower, the mediator made jokes about Dick Cheney having an "undisclosed heart attack" somewhere. Then it was time for Huffington to take the stage. In the middle of her glib remarks, a telling anecdote appeared. Last year, Huffington ate Christmas dinner with some Greek-American friends, during which she had an interesting conversation with their 11-year-old son, Constantine. Constantine, a Bush supporter, told Huffington that he could convince her to vote for Bush in the upcoming election, and that he could do so by asking her two simple questions: (1) Do you want to keep more or less of your money? and (2) Do you want to get serious about the war on terror? Needless to say, Constantine didnât change Huffingtonâs mind. "Zat iss because I haf no mind to change, dahling!"
She thought the clever lad was "asking the wrong questions." Itâs really sad when an 11-year old kid proves to be smarter than a whole room full of wealthy moonbats. No, itâs not sad, itâs funny. Hilarious, actually.
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when Arriana was running for governor in the recall, it was disclosed that she has very adept accountants, allowing her to bring in hundreds of thousands in income and pay virtually nothing in taxes. The boy's problem is that she is for the rest of us ("the little people") paying more taxes while she and her 'elite' friends continue to skate
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Frank that is consistent with the liberal mind. They want every else to pay taxes not them. BTW I think that Arrianna's tax bill was zero for the last couple of years and she never was close to being a real candidate.
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In Adriana's defense, much of her income is from writing. In years where she doesn't have a book published, her income drops and when her income drops, she doesn't pay much in the way of income taxes (she did have a big property tax bill though_.
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Soros scares the hell out of me. Think about the Dems being beholden to one man. That is so different than being on the hook to a corporation or an interest group. Those other entities are made up of lots of people who have to have some consent on a particular course of action. The consensus process usually means a watering down of the extreme nature of the particular position. A larger group also leaves open the possibility of a leaker should the proposed course of action be really nuts/illegal. Soros has none of these things holding him back. He is a freak and a real menace to the safety and security of this nation.
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What makes Soros worse is that he seems to follow no particular philosophy. Being in his position, Socialism would be anathema. It seems he has a hangup about the Bushes. With his fortune, that is what is so bad about him.
What can be done by us ordinary middle-class grunts to thwart him? Certainly our financial situations preclude any battle on that front.
Is there someone who has the nose to dig into his past, and find something that would so discredit him that only the slobbering Deaniacs would continue to follow him? It would have to be in the public record, and something directly tied to him. From the sound of it yesterday, Hannity is on the same page as we are, and he has the bully pulpit. Soros is from Hungary. They use his past of being under both Nazis and Communists to build his credibility. But that is a deflection. It doesn't stop him from being a nutcase. The fact of his personal campaign against Bush as an individual is tell-tale. What is the source of that? We aren't talking about ruminations elected hacks like "Lurch" Kerry, "Bagogas" Kennedy, "Cruella DeVil" Clinton, "Twilight Zone" Dean, or "Chauncey Gardner" Biden. We are talking about one man with a demented personal vendetta against GWB, and that is what has to be given the fresh air of knowledge, so it can be stopped.
Soros is a very self-centered, egomaniacal piece of work, but there's nothing in his biography to suggest that there's a major discrediting scandal lurking there. Even if there was, I don't like the idea of relying on scandal to defeat our ideological enemies. (Look how well it worked against Clinton, after all!) We have to meet him and beat him in the realm of ideas--where the poor devil is all but unarmed.
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Mike, I am not necessarily suggesting scandal. I am suggesting that his personae, his fixation on Bush is beyond political opposition, it is PERSONAL, and psycopathic! Exposing more of him to the public would likely bring that aspect to the light of day. With his fortune he can buy silence of death of anyone who would have anything truly scandalous that would hurt him.
But, if he opens his fat mouth, in the "right" venue, he could shoot himself down, and that would be the best possible venue to accomplish diminishing his value to the move-on-ists.
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There are lots of his positions that if they were well known would be anathema to the majority of voters in this country. He is a one world government guy, totally supports assisted suicide and the legalization of drugs. He has actively brought down one government (Georgia...the country not the state) and created the Asian melt down of the late '90's. Like I said, the guy is a freak. The comments he made yesterday are just nuts. The RNC needs to come out on this guy hard. He wants to personally affect change in our government. Most people will recoil at that possibility.
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remote man-If the RNC does not want to do this, is there a 501c3 organization that could counter his 501c3 baby, "MoveOn", and put this stuff out?
"Soros believes this, and is trying to buy the election"
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if this is true - then that is a very smart boy...
as for me i make more and pay less taxes than i did in the 90's...do we really want big govt and more taxes -- a big HELL NO!
Posted by: Dan ||
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soros was a student of karl popper--euro philosopher of and author "the open society" known in britain as written by one of its enemies--they are totally opposed to "natural rights" guys who follow leo strauss-- so this is an ideological war between the value neutral post-modernists versus the death of right and wrong idealists--plato haters vs platonists--its a deep thing
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06/04/2004 14:42 Comments ||
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"PROGRESSIVES" A term the radical leftists use to mask true intentions.
Posted by: Mark Espinola ||
06/04/2004 18:12 Comments ||
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Soros should be monitored closely since he and his commodity trading firm were deeply involved in the FOREX market, triggered the 1998-99 economic 'Asian Flu' by 'shorting' the Malaysian currency, crashing it. Many Asian economies were seriously harmed by Soros' manipulation.
Soros, as a Holocaust survivor, turned multi-billionaire, should be thoroughly ashamed of his current disciple actions in attempting to buy a presidential election in order to weaken the national security of the United States in a time of war against a fanatical enemy, equal to the Nazis, in their promotion of global conquest and mass enslavement.
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soros was a student of karl popper--euro philosopher of and author "the open society" known in britain as written by one of its enemies I don't want people to get the impression that Soros is somehow following a Popperian philosophy becuase he is not. For many people on the Right, myself included, Popper is our philosopher of choice. People should read his books. He is easily the most readable of the heavyweights.
As far as Soros is concerned, I consider him an example of how being seriously rich really messes up your world view. It is ironic that taking money away from dingbats like him, is the single argument in favor of socialism that I find compelling.
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between the value neutral post-modernists versus the death of right and wrong idealists--plato haters vs platonists--its a deep thing
I would arue Popper is the sucessor to Locke, Hume, and JSM. It is Utilitarianism updated. Do what works and what people find most beneficial, and yes there are no absolutes in knowledge or morals.
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an ideological war between the value neutral post-modernists versus the death of right and wrong idealists--plato haters vs platonists
Even if the anti-Platonists are ascendant, they would be damn fools after 9/11 to not see our action as simple self-preservation. This should be obvious to all except the most dogmatic PC amongst us, because those Islamofacist bastards showed us that their main goal in life is to kill us. Sometimes I wonder though. . .
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This really belongs in the "Home Front" section. It may look like a joke, but it isn't. Equipment like this could do a real job on an oil refinery, LPG facility, hospital, etc., and apparently local law enforcement did little about it for some time. The rampage went over for 1 1/4 hours before the dozer was stopped. SWAT teams were riding on top, having little effect for some time. Was stopping this dude an appropriate job for an Air National Guard helicopter with an armor-piercing missile, or would an RPG have been enough? The law enforcement response to the shootings at Columbine High School in a nearby county were never adequately investigated by Colorado state officials, and this likely won't be, either. This method of destruction needs to be considered as a domestic security issue.
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I looked up the AT-4 , and it looked impressive and workable on paper. Do any local law enforcement types have access to it or is it strictly a military weapon?
The Shin Bet security service ordered the Jerusalem Municipality to increase its security detail around Mayor Uri Lupoliansky after threats were received on his life for allowing todayâs Jerusalem Pride Parade in the capital. A leading ultra-Orthodox rabbi said that as a punishment, homosexuals would "in their next reincarnation, come back as rabbits and bunnies."
Jerusalemâs hosting of the annual Gay Parade has caused controversy in the city with members of the ultra-Orthodox community trying to stop the celebration, calling participants names and claiming that their actions are against Godâs laws. In the cityâs ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods. signs have been posted and pamphlets have been distributed, warning children to stay away from the "sinners" and not walk near the streets where the parade is to go through. A recent gay parade in the city was called an "abomination."
Jerusalem Police said hundreds of security forces would be stationed along the main streets in the city center, including the Ben-Yehuda Pedestrian Mall, King George Avenue and Keren Hayesod, to try and prevent provocations and confrontations. Kabbalah expert Rabbi David Batzri, who recently blew shofars at an IDF tank base to ward off the "evil eye," attacked the gay community in his weekly lecture, media sources reported. "There is no place in the Holy City for this kind of procession," he said, according to a ynet report. Batzri called for the establishment of hostels to care for youths who had fallen under the spell of "this group of obscenities," and said that homosexuals should be imprisoned.
The Jerusalem Open House, which is hosting a week of events based on the theme of love and tolerance, said the municipality was refusing to allow it to place its flags along the parade route. In October, Jerusalem was selected to host the 2005 InterPride international gay and lesbian parade, an event that could potentially bring hundreds of thousands of tourists to Israel. Lupoliansky said at the time that the issue of permits for such a parade was a police, and not a municipal, affair.
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Students celebrating their birthdays this fall at the Chandler School in Duxbury can expect their classmates to sing "Happy Birthday," but cupcakes are out of the question. Concerned that the children are eating too much junk food, the Chandler School Council and the Parent Teacher Association are forbidding parents from bringing sweets to their childâs classroom birthday party. "We love birthdays, but we decided to shift the focus onto the child and not the food," said principal Deborah Zetterberg, who is also cochairwoman of the school council. "What we proposed was to have a birthday package, as weâre calling it." The package includes a special birthday chair cover that will be placed on the back of the studentâs chair, Zetterberg said. The birthday boy or girl can also wear a sash. They get a special pencil and a sticker with the schoolâs mascot, the Happy Dragon, she said. Preschool and kindergarten students also get to wear a birthday crown, she said.
I think I preferred the original Puritans to the new ones. Cotton Mather had more of a sense of humor...
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DNA Computer Kills Cancer Cells
Researchers from the Weizmann Institute in RiyadhGaza Israel have constructed a molecular-size computer that is programmed to find signs of cancer cells, and when they are present, dispense DNA molecules designed to eradicate those cells. The researchersâ computer is a proof-of-concept that works only in a test tube, but the device is meant to eventually work in the human body. The computer is small enough that one trillion of them fit in a drop of water and consists of three modules made from strands of DNA: input, computation and output.
The input module strands contain stretches of bases that pair up with and so identify certain stretches of messenger RNA. The computation module processes a series of input modules to determine whether the balance of certain types of messenger RNA indicates the presence of cancer cells. The output module administers a drug in the form of another DNA strand when cancer cells are indicated. The researchersâ prototype includes a second DNA computer that is programmed to release a DNA strand that inhibits the first computerâs drug molecule if cancer cells are not present. Both DNA computers must register the presence of cancer cells for the cancer-fighting DNA strand to be administered. The molecular-scale computer could take 10 years to reach clinical trials, according to the researchers. Even though the materials are biologically compatible, the device will require major modifications to be made compatible with living systems, according to the researchers. The work appeared in the April 29, 2004 issue of Nature. This site will eventually put this article under paid subscription so I posted the whole thing...
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A logical extension to this would be a preventitive test frequently administered. Therefore no cancer cells would even get started let alone go undetected very long.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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Clearly the evil Jooooos have stolen Allan's creation!
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It's pretty obvious that if nature (and the dinosaurs) hadn't formed it under the sands they live on, and it can't be bought from infidels, it isn't gonna be in a Arab's hands. They have nothing but mindless obeisance to Allan and a lack of work ethic (see: Saudi), which smothers any creative juices they might have had in the 7th century
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Lemme guess, lemme guess! No don't tell me ... It's the one with both synagogues and mosques!
#7
The name of the country is the only one in the Near or Middle-East activly combating jihad every day of the week. Israel, America's ONLY real ally in the region.
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Could this be an offshoot of Zionist Death Ray technology? You know, like we got Velcro from the space program?
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.
