Hat Tip Drudge Family: Heart Attack Victim Moved for Michael Jackson Maria Elena Ortiz, the ailing woman's daughter, said she was in the room when Jackson came in. She was also present when her mother was moved and objected. "Why does she have to be moved if he's coming in for a stomach flu?" Ortiz said. "I said, 'My mother just had a heart attack and I think it's more critical than a stomach flu.' They didn't say anything."
No one knows if moving Ruiz added to her trauma, but family members said they were told her heart was functioning at 30 percent and other organs were failing. But they say the chaos caused by Jackson's arrival distracted staff, and robbed them of precious time with their mother and grandmother as she died.
When Ruiz was moved to a smaller room, the family says equipment had to be crammed into the room. They also were limited to two visitors at a time. Once those visitors were in the room they could not leave and let other family members in because the hospital restricted movement in the hallways after Jackson arrived, the family says. "This was the last time we might be able to talk with our grandma. They took that from us," said Marcos Meraz, one of Ruiz's grandsons. The more I hear about stuff like this, the more I hope they nail old rubber nose...
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This, my friends, is why there is litigation. A lot of it is pretty stupid, but this (if true) is remarkable. In California, there is caselaw which would apply directly to this claim. I hope the hospital has paid up its insurance premiums.
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That hosital is going to dig deep into their malpractice insurance for this one. There is no doubt in my mind that that poor woman was moved because Jackson's people (and wallet) prodded the hospital administrators to take action to "accomodate" Wacko.
If this story is true and the woman was taken out of ICU into another area that was not equipped to treat her properly, the feces is going to hit the fan. Great scoop, ABC!
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Amazon seems afraid of something if it can't go to Alaska or Hawaii...
WINNIPEG - A lovestruck American who tried to walk from North Dakota to Winnipeg is recovering from severe frostbite in a Manitoba hospital. The Los Angeles man was on his way to meet his internet sweetheart, but didn't count on the Prairie winter.
"No one expects the Dread Prairie Winter!"
Charles Gonsoulin got lost after setting out from Pembina, N.D., last Saturday with the intent to sneak across the border to Winnipeg, more than 100 kilometres away.
He was going to walk over 100 clicks, across the frozen tundra of North Dakota, in February? Quick, call the Darwin Awards! He at least deserves a Honorable Mention
The 41-year-old self-employed mechanic has a robbery conviction that means he can't legally enter Canada. Gonsoulin said he planned to take a bus from Winnipeg to Quebec to be with a woman he met in a chat room for people suffering from depression.
Oh, now there's a great place to pick up chicks
An RCMP officer rescued him Wednesday after following his footprints in the snow at a golf course just outside the border town of Emerson, Man. "When I found him, he was babbling and incoherent," Cpl. Don McKenna of the Emerson RCMP told the Winnipeg Free Press.
Sounds like a pre-exsisting condition
"His hands were black and frozen solid. He didn't know who he was or where he was." Gonsoulin, who may lose some fingers, has been charged with entering the country illegally.
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When I saw the title I thought he had got frostbite... there.
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"How could you be from North Dakota and not know about the prairie winter?"
"The Los Angeles man was on his way to meet his internet sweetheart, but didn't count on the Prairie winter."
Does that answer your question?
HTH!
-AR
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Here, in Los Angeles, winter means 50 degrees. When I was a kid, my dad took outside one early morning just so I could experience the tempature being below 32. During this last storm, it was in the 50's. Today it'll be close to 70. Poor guy didn't stand a chance!
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I'm not sure on a person having a conviction and trying to enter Canada. What are the customs regulation's? I'm sure many enter with a "record"
Can anyone inform me?
Andrea Jackson
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he could claim political persecution and in in a jiffy, probably with a monthly stipend now, since he can't be a "mechanic" with no friggin fingers...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday embraced socialism as his ideology of choice in a political statement that sharpened his antagonism against the United States. Chavez, a firebrand nationalist who has governed the world's No. 5 oil exporter for six years, has persistently declined to define the precise ideology of his self-styled "revolution." But, addressing an international meeting on poverty in Caracas, he said Western-style capitalism was incapable of solving global economic and social problems. "So, if not capitalism, then what? I have no doubt, it's socialism," said Chavez, who also rebuffed U.S. criticism of his left-wing rule in Venezuela and denounced U.S. President George W. Bush as the "great destabilizer of the world."
Since coming to power, he has irritated Washington by developing alliances with China, Russia and Iran and flaunting a close personal friendship with Cuba's Communist President Fidel Castro, a longtime foe of the United States. Chavez's public support for socialism recalled Castro's defining announcement in the early 1960s that his 1959 Cuban Revolution was "socialist." Chavez said he had up to now avoided labeling his political program in Venezuela as "socialist." But he added his personal experience in power, which included surviving a brief coup in 2002, had convinced him that socialism was the answer. "But what kind?"
Chavez, who won a referendum in August ratifying his rule until early 2007, said previous experiences of socialism in the world -- an apparent reference to the former Soviet Union -- might not be the example to follow. "We have to invent the socialism of the 21st century," he added. Venezuela's 1999 constitution promoted by Chavez enshrines a multi-party political system and he has denied he is a communist. But he has intensified state intervention in the economy, encouraged the formation of cooperatives and is pursuing land reforms critics say threaten private property.
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Why would the U. S. care if Chavez adopts socialism when he's already displayed his ability to put his country's economy in the toilet? Sounds like a problem for his own people and an opportunity for the rest of Latin America to see that Cuba is not a result of the American embargo. Good luck Hugo. If you had any style you'd have bodyguards like Muammar.
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mmmmm ...Fembots
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Chavez go ahead and turn your country into a socialistic shit hole. Quit raging us about it. We don't give a flying leap. As long as you take our money for your oil things will be fine.
If you stop then we might give a a FF. So STFU
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except, like Fidel, they don't stay contained - they have to undermine neighbors
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Fred, he can try. I am not sure how Colombians, Equadorians and Bolivians will feel about it, but if he continues, there may be a nice regional war in the near future. Of course, I feel sorry for Venezuelans too--if he consolidates his power, as it looks that is his top priority, the socialism thingy is essentially him saying he would like to become a for-life-uber-ruler--they may be stuck in a shithole of a country for a decade or two.
A WOMAN forced her husband to have sex with a 13-year-old girl, threatening both with a spear, because of bad spirits, a Darwin court heard today. Savonne Scrubby, 33, has pleaded guilty to a charge of rape in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, saying she was the principal offender. With her plea, the prosecution dropped a charge of rape against the man.
I don't buy it. Threaten me with a spear and the spear is going to be the only thing around that's hard.
Defence lawyer Stewart O'Connell said Scrubby had pleaded guilty on the basis that she had enabled the offence. "Savonne Scrubby is not a rapist but believes she is solely responsible for the offence," Mr O'Connell said. The court heard her husband had obsessed about having sex with the girl for two years.
He sounds like a mental giant, too. First he obsesses on having sex with kiddies. Then he tells his wife about it.
In August 2003, Scrubby became overwhelmed from the pressure and ordered the man and the girl to have sex, threatening them with a spear and a knife, at a billabong in the Northern Territory outback, east of Katherine, the court heard. Prosecutor David Lewis said the man had told Scrubby several times throughout the day to ask the girl to have consensual sex with him.
"C'mon, honey! Ask the nice little girl to have sex with me!"
That evening, Scrubby became enraged at the man's interest in having sex with the girl. She armed herself with a 2m fishing spear, yelling that she wanted to kill them both, the court heard. "Scrubby became abusive and irrational, poked the spear into (the man) and threatened to spear both," he said. After the man had sex with the girl, Scrubby took the girl's clothing, hid it in the bush and disappeared. She walked 22km back to an outstation, arriving there early the next morning still carrying the spear and knife. The traditional Aboriginal woman believed a "mimi" (bad spirit) or witchcraft had intensified her feelings to a degree she had not felt before, Scrubby's lawyer, Mr O'Connell said. "After two years she finally gave in to (the man's) obsession to have sex with the girl, she just wanted it to be over," he said.
I guess they don't have divorce in those parts. Or even desertion.
It was agreed that Scrubby, a person of good character, accepted full responsibility for the girl's rape and was still on good terms with her. She was fully co-operative with police and freely admitted what she had done.
That's the first person of good character I've ever heard of who ordered her old man to have sex with an underage girl at spearpoint. But maybe I've just led a sheltered existence...
The prosecutor said it was not disputed that right from the start Scrubby forced both the man and the girl to have sex, "and a spear is a formidable weapon".
Formidable enough to make me feel all limp and lifeless.
This was a case of the older woman dominating a 13-year-old girl. "Ms Scrubby caused this to happen, albeit her emotional state, she put it in train," he said. The court should focus on what happened to the girl who was scared, crying and forced with weapons to have sex which she did not want to happen. Scrubby will be sentenced next week.
The word "sordid" seems so inadequate.
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It is always interesting to see how the court's are run in different countries. I DO NOT feel
as though the rape charge should have been "dropped" against the man. He was old enough to know what he was doing~~WRONG to the minor (victim) Please post the sentence for Scrubby when you see the judgement.
ANdrea Jackson
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Saturday Night Live 1975
I guess the outback has as much of a problem with these as the coastal folks do in Australia for that woman to have a 6-1/2' long spear handy...
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Ok, so He has been obsessing to his wife, Scrubby, since the child was 11 about having sex with -- i.e. raping -- her. All day long He bugged his wife to seduce the child for him. Why is He not culpable for the outcome?
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# 3 t wife---isnt that CRAZY- Makes me SICK.
What a court system see my response in # 1
Andrea Jackson
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# 2 Big Ed. Great font! I loved S.N.L.
crazy, simple humor. Have you ever watched In Living Color? (That is where Jennifer Lopez) got
her start as a "fly girl".
Andrea Jackson
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BRUSSELS, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The European Union is struggling with a dispute over languages that arose when German appeared to replace Italian and Spanish at some EU affairs. The European Commission, the EU's administrative arm, had decided efficiency demanded replacing the two Latin languages with the dominant Teutonic one, the International Herald Tribune said Friday.
Somehow, "efficiency" and "European Commission" don't really seem to belong in the same sentance
Spanish and Italian newspapers howled and Italian politicians vowed publicly to defend the nation's honor.
Pistols at dawn
Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the commission and a citizen of Portugal, responded with an emergency news conference Thursday attended by some 30 Spanish and Italian reporters to soothe tempers and reassure them that their languages were being taken seriously.
"He told us he was not going to discriminate against Italian or Spanish," said a journalist at the meeting. "He said the next time he goes to the press room, he is going to speak Italian." The problem has taken on such proportions that ambassadors from all 25 EU countries were set to discuss it Friday.
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Just switch to the language of Belgium. I think it's called "Belch".
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This is where we'll be if businesses and government agencies increasingly pander to different linguistic groups (I understand that California's utility companies are including more and more languages on their bills lately?)
Every bill translated into 192 languages, every person in court demanding courts provide them (free of course) with translators, every road sign in every spoken language in the country, every instruction manual for appliances in every language spoken on earth...don't open that Pandora's box, Europe. Most of you are multi-lingual. Find the most common language between you and stick to it.
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you joke about 192 languages - but you aren't far off. In the San Diego City Schools District, I think I heard at one time there were over 180 languages represented. That's what finally killed the bilingual industry. The Spanish speaking saw that the other children learned English faster, better and integrated more easily.
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A couple years back the Swiss, a confederation made up of French, Italian, German, and Latin based fourth language, directed the second language to be taught in all schools would be English. The government recognized that it had become the common language of business, science, medicine, transportation, etc. To be effective in the future world [vice the old one], its citizens needed to be functional in English, much to the agony of the French speakers.
The murder of a Turkish woman and the applauding of the crime by some students have left Berlin shaken and officials pushing for ethics class. But how deep does the concept of honor run among some immigrant communities? On a cold afternoon this week, Hatin SÌrÌcÌ gazed gravely from a large poster behind a bus stop lined with flowers, cards and candles. To the people who came to this bleak part of Berlin's Tempelhof district for Tuesday's solemn vigil -- called not by the city's Muslim community but a gay and lesbian organization -- the image of the young woman in a headscarf, a baby in her arms, was familiar from newspapers and television. A few notes at the memorial read, "Hope you get a better deal in your next life," and "Live a life on your own terms."
"It's a scandal," said Ali K, 33. "All Muslims in Berlin should take to the streets to protest." Yasemin, 22, said, "It's horrific. All Hatin was doing was leading her life the way she wanted." But it was a choice she paid for with her life. On Feb. 7, 23-year-old Hatin SÌrÌcÌ was gunned down at the aforementioned bus stop. She died on the spot. Shortly afterwards, three of her brothers -- who reportedly had long been threatening her -- were arrested. Investigators suspect it was a so-called "honor killing," given the fact that SÌrÌcÌ's ultra-conservative Turkish-Kurdish family strongly disapproved of her modern and "un-Islamic" life.
SÌrÌcÌ grew up in Berlin and was married off at 16 to a cousin in Istanbul. After a few years, she returned to the German capital with her young son, moved into a home for single mothers, completed school and began to train as an electrician. She stopped wearing a headscarf and was said to be outgoing and vivacious. Though not the first of its kind, the brazen shooting has sent shockwaves through Berlin, home to a large foreign community and which for years has fretted over steady ghetto-building in districts dominated by Turkish and Arab immigrants. While the incident has reopened debate on the integration of immigrants and the compatibility of Islamic values with Western ones, it's the reaction of a small group of Turkish students to the murder that has rattled the German capital.
Days after Hatin SÌrÌcÌ was killed, some male students of Turkish origin at a high school near the scene of the crime reportedly downplayed the act. During a class discussion on the murder, one said, "She (Hatin SÌrÌcÌ) only had herself to blame," while another remarked "She deserved what she got --the whore lived like a German." The school's director promptly dashed off a letter to parents and students, castigating the students and warning that the school didn't tolerate incitement against freedom. The comments have sparked outrage and left many asking if it was just a one-off or whether such thinking is in fact not entirely uncommon among sections of the Muslim community in the city.
According to some, it isn't. "There isn't a single school with a high foreign population where teachers haven't faced this kind of thing, where individual students sometimes regard murder as a just sentence," said Heinz Wagner, head of school and education policy at the VBE teachers trade union and a school director himself. Referring to the controversial remarks on SÌrÌcÌ's murder, he said, "The very fact that they decided to provoke with something like that tells you that they're getting their ideas from somewhere." At Berlin's Turkish-dominated neighborhood near Kottbusser Tor in the Kreuzberg district, 17-year-old Erkan, a high school student of Turkish origin, was divided about the issue. "I'm not saying you should murder, but Hatin's lifestyle just didn't fit the way traditional Muslims live," he said.
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The fruit does not fall far from the tree. These punks are just repeating what their father's are saying at home. Unfortunately their is no cure for this other than a terminal case of lead poisoning or worse.
Women will never find freedom under Islam. It's really the last hold out of misogyny in the world among so called educated people.
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the family was watching too many german "caviar party" porn flicks
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Well, there is not much hope for Islam, but on the bright side of the article, Fred has taken a dual exhaust gas temperature (EGT) gauge from a twin piston aircraft and has converted it to a combination dignity and honor meter. Heh heh.
BTW, Fred, we have the apathy meter on display at work. I have had to explain the concept of milligivashits to the curious.....
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AP, I made a Rantburg Metering Station using 3 pressure gauges. I took the faces off the meters and used press-on letters to make a Surprise Meter, Bullshit Meter, and WHine/Sympathy Meter. They actually work but it is on pressure. I'll send a picture to Fred.
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AP, can you send me a picture of the meter on display? Thx...
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Deacon Blues---If you have the time, send some good meter images to Seafarious. We were going to put them on coffee mugs for Rantburgers, but I have been so busy with projects, I don't have the time right now.
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Awesome, idea, AP! Where do i sign up for one (the coffee mugs)? I'd probably get one along with the newsmax.com coffee mug of Rumsfeld at a press conference...the bubble over his head says something like "No stupid questions until I've had my coffee!" Love it!
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Ooo... love the new meter. How about a cockpit page showing all the meters on a dashboard layout?
I would definitely be interested in a mug with either the TM surprise meter or a sympathy meter. Fred, you ought to see about a deal with one of your advertisers like Politically Incorrect.
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Seems like a modified artifical horizon might be useful for trends in the WOT and a moral compass is a must.
Link swiped from Fark, who was surprised France has a warcry.
France's national library has raised a "warcry" over plans by Google to put books from some of the world's great libraries on the Internet and wants to ensure the project does not lead a domination of American ideas.
Fred always reminds us that the winners always get to write the history books.
Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France's national library and is a noted historian, says Google's choice of works is likely to favour Anglo-Saxon ideas and the English language. He wants the European Union to balance this with its own programme and its own Internet search engines.
Complete with a shiny new Ministry and lots of pious Culture Vultures, no doubt. Perhaps they should hire the Quebecois for this role.
"It is not a question of despising Anglo-Saxon views ... It is just that in the simple act of making a choice, you impose a certain view of things," Jeanneney told Reuters in a telephone interview on Friday.
Fred also reminds us that when someone says, "it's not really about such-and-so, but about this other thing," then that someone is lying.
"I favour a multi-polar view of the world in the 21st century," he said. "I don't want the French Revolution retold just by books chosen by the United States. The picture presented may not be less good or less bad, but it will not be ours."
The winners always get to write the history books.
Jeanneney says he is not anti-American, and that he wants better relations between Europe and the United States. But like French President Jacques Chirac, he says he wants a multi-polar world in which U.S. views are not the only ones that are heard. His views are making waves among intellectuals in France, where many people are wary of the impact of American ways and ideas on the French language and culture. But he says he has heard nothing from politicians in Paris or Brussels, days before U.S. President George Bush visits the European Union's headquarters and NATO.
Dude. Your politicians may have time for this sort of handwringing, but our president doesn't. He's rather busy just now.
"On the eve of George Bush's arrival in Europe, the president of the National Library of France is sounding a warcry ... he is seeking a French and European crusade," Le Figaro newspaper said on Friday.
Go them one better and declare a book jihad, Froggy.
California-based Google Inc. said last December it would scan millions of books and periodicals into its popular search engine over the next few years. Its partners in the project are Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library. Google says the project will promote knowledge by making it more easily and more widely accessible. It aims to make money by attracting people to its Web site and to its advertisements. The impact this might have on attendance at world libraries is not yet clear. But Jeanneney expressed his concerns in an article published by Le Monde newspaper late last month. "Here we find a risk of crushing domination by America in defining the idea that future generations have of the world," he wrote, urging the EU to act fast.
The winners always get to write the history books.
He pushed his campaign forward this week by announcing the national library would make editions of 22 French periodicals and newspapers dating back to the 19th century available on the Internet.
That's an excellent start. Your next step should be to have some ideas worth archiving. The winners always get to write the history books.
One more comment. Most countries don't get it. Google is a private company, investing its own time and money into the project. This task was not ordered or supervised by the government. I imagine some of the funding is from the US taxpayer, but it would be part of a normal grant or appropriation request submitted by Google and approved by the relevant agencies.
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My google searches often throw up pages in German, less commonly Spanish or Russian, but I can't recall the last time I saw a French webpage. I suspect the problem here is too few people saying too little of interest in French.
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Anything they had to say has been translated to the new world language. The frogs are just worried that now the whole world will see that they lost and are now a third rate peasant culture. Tough. Frogistan's glory days are long gone and now it's just a glory hole.
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Oh, come on! The frogs gave us Voltaire, and Ampere, and resistance. Where would the internet be without V=IR?
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I wonder if the winners really do write the history books. Most histories of the Cold War seem to have been written by people who sided with the losers.
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He wants the European Union to balance this with its own programme and its own Internet search engines.
will they call it Froogle?
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Don't scan Dominique (who I am told is a man) De Villepin's books of poetry, just to piss em off
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"French warcry"....
You're kidding, right?
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Nope..."Je me rends."
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Maybe he doesn't understand that those Anglo-Saxon English books will still be available on line to any Frenchman with a computer and a modem. Oh..and you can translate the English to French in a mouse click - so they can actually read them too.
He'll need to reroute the entire Internet, if he wants to continue to impose only his "certain view of things".
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Screw this guy. He is whinning because Google wants to put on the Internet and for free, a thousand times more culture and science than hwt he could put (and knowing the minds of French apparatchiks he wanted to make pay for it). He is the typical loser tyrying to preserve his power and money byt draping in "exception culturelle". The way to preserve a culture is by producing things of value and if we look at what France has produced in XXth century we find: a not that bad composer (Ravel), an inmense writer (Marcel Proust but he died in 1924) and... c'est tout. No pilosophy (Sartre was a joke: a guy who was wrong on everything), no first rate movies, no painters, no sculptors, no nothing.
IMHO the Google initiative owuld be a good thing for humankind and if that ruffles feathers between cultural apparatchitks envoyez leur se faire cuire un oeuf.
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JFM, I'd give them credit for Durkheim (but he died early on also, 1917, Curie, Camus and some really fast, but unprofitable, trains too. It is amazing that all the big names are really holdovers for the 19th century. Not surprisingly, the Great War was even worse to them than the English or the Germans.
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Aris plese, I wasn't speaking about not that bad mlovies, not even about quite good movies (and by the way the director of the "Trois Couleurs" trilogy is a Pole), I was speaking about movies who are still being eagerly watched sicty years about their creation and who will still being watched in 2100. Where are the French "Citizen Kane", "My Darling Clementine", "Casablanca" (the only time I had tears while listening the Marseillaise) or "Gone with the Wind". Do you really think there will be many people watching "Amelie" in 2100?
And still, despite what some people say in this blog, a Jew in France had much better chances of surviving than in any other occupied country except Denmark
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Jean-Noel Jeanneney, who heads France's national library and is a noted historian, says Google's choice of works is likely to favour Anglo-Saxon ideas and the English language.
That sucks, doesn't it? I was soooo wanting to read Foucault & Derrida...
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No doubt this labels me an incorrigible lowbrow, but I loved "Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot." It is less than the specified 60 years old, though.
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"quirky, pretentious and boring" -- so very French.
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Google also has a Scholar site up that indexes scholarly articles in many journals.
Here's the rub: when the journal is a for-profit, or published by a few of the professional associations that require a fee for online access, then Google only shows the citation info. Scholars have to buy a subscription or occasionally can pay for just one such article.
I did a literature review on a technical topic last year that required access to 3 heavily-cited articles. I didn't have the leadtime to ask for them via my school's library so I personally paid to get copies from the European publisher -- at approxumately $35 per article.
This has been a huge issue for the last decade or so, but there is starting to be significant pressure about for-profit publishing of this magnitude. Universities cannot afford the large subscription costs to many of these journals.
Google's scholar site sometimes finds .pdfs here and there on the Web that are either final copies of pre-publication copies of the articles. These get read, but there's no guarantee it's the version that was cited in the rest of the scholarly literature. It's a mess out there right now!!
Now toss in free or inexpensive electronic access to all sorts of published books. These are a major threat to the publishers and they are scrambling to figure out a viable business plan in the age of easy broadband access to the Net.
BTW, when my technical books came out in the mid-late 90s, the publisher included the entire work in hyperlinked form on a CD. And yeah, some free copies ended up being posted online, but I did get royalties for e-copies from authorized sites as well.
The books are old now, but I suspect the trend has only accelerated.
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ugh. Several typos in that.
approximately
either final copies OR pre-publication copies ...
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One more comment. Most countries don't get it. Google is a private company, investing its own time and money into the project. This task was not ordered or supervised by the government. I imagine some of the funding is from the US taxpayer, but it would be part of a normal grant or appropriation request submitted by Google and approved by the relevant agencies.
As an aside, Bush was asked about the situation regarding the US media and criticism of him by a Russian reporter.....
Q (Through interpreter.) Alex Amishkov (ph), Interfax. To follow up on the issue of democratic institutions, President Bush recently stated that the press in Russia is not free. What is this lack of freedom all about? Your aides probably mentioned to you that our media, both electronic and our printed media, provide full coverage of the manifestations and protests in our country. Regional and national media often criticize the government institutions.
What about -- why don't you talk a lot about violation of the rights of journalists in the United States, about the fact that some journalists have been fired? Or do you prefer to discuss this in private with your American colleague?
PRESIDENT BUSH: I don't know what journalists you're referring to. Any of you all still have your jobs?
No, I -- look, I think it's important any viable democracy has got a free and active press. Obviously, if you're a member of the Russian press you feel like the press is free, and that's -- feel that way?
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PRESIDENT BUSH: Well, that's good. (Chuckles; laughter.) But I -- I talked to Vladimir about that, and he wanted to know about our press. Said a nice bunch of folks. And he wanted to know about, you know, as you mentioned, the subject of somebody getting fired. People do get fired in American press. They don't get fired by government, however, they get fired by their editors or they get fired by their producers or they get fired by the owners of a particular outlet or network. 1
But a free press is important, and it is an important part of any democracy. And if you're a member of the press corps and you feel comfortable with the press in Russia, I think that is a pretty interesting observation for those of us who don't live in Russia to listen to.
But no question, whether it be in America or anywhere else, the sign of a healthy and vibrant society is one in where there's an active press corps. Obviously, there has got to be constraints, I mean there's got to be truth; people have got to tell the truth. And if somebody violates the truth and those who own a particular newspaper or those who are in charge of a particular electronic station need to hold people to account.2 The press, the capacity of the press to hold people to account also depends on their willingness to self-examine at times when they're wrong. And that happens on occasion in America, and that's an important part of maintaining a proper relationship between government and press. I can assure you that the folks here are constantly trying to hold me to account for decisions I make and how I make decisions. I'm comfortable with that. It's part of the checks and balances of a democracy. And so I'm glad to hear your editorial comments, so to speak, on your comfort with the situation of the press corps in the Federation of Russia.
1 - But only after there is too much publicity to ignore. 2 - But the people fired will still sue. Collect your first unemployment check Marcia Mapes?
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We are entering a strange new time in human history. Never before has a civilization attempted to gain power over another by whining and begging. Not sure I favor it over the old tried-and-true methods, but good luck with that.
I have to confess you I never liked "Citizen Kane" but I needed a movie liked by what we, French, call constipated intellectuals and these intellectuals say it is one of the 10 geatest movies ever, well overrated IMHO but the goal was to give an example proving that America could produce intellectual-friendly movies.
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Eh, worrying about the "legs" of a movie is a chump's game. Does it entertain you, or doesn't it? /I thought Amelie was a lot of fun. But then, I thought the same of Wasabi, so, y'know, I'm easy.
And for the five billionth time, the winners don't write history, historians write history. Thucydides's Athens lost the Peloponnesian War . Josephus? A loser sucking up to the Romans. The Secret Histories of Procopius are read far more often than any of the official Byzantine histories and chronicles. The modern American view of the American Civil War is heavily influenced by the "Lost Cause" blowhards of the Southern Historical Society. The Western understanding of the Eastern Front is almost entirely drawn from the accounts of captured Wehrmacht officers like Guderian, von Mellenthin and von Manstein. History is written by the literate, those in a position to write histories, and those who influence them.
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So true, Mitch. We all know Henry the VIII, but he was hardly a worthy subject....other than his scandals.
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Good point, Mitch. Josephus certainly was a loser. But a very effective suck-up, became his conqueror's pet Jew by predicting his ascension to the throne, if I recall correctly. And, as he boasted in his writings, terribly literate and well educated, and from the best families, too. Could have been a Columbia U. grad student, based on his attitude. ;-)
Rock'n'roll entrepreneur Danny Goldberg on Thursday became the latest chief executive asked to take charge of fledgling liberal radio network, Air America, and make it profitable as well as political. Goldberg, 54, becomes the third CEO of Air America since it launched in March 2004, succeeding acting CEO Doug Kreeger who took the post left vacant by Mark Walsh last spring. Kreeger stepped down in December and is a board member and advisor.
Most of Air America's schedule is now broadcast (on a station with a pretty crappy signal) in DC, so they must be doing something.
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I was punishing myself today by listening to Air America on XM. Al Franken was doing "Iraq Day". He was replaying all his interviews with journalists returning from Iraq. They were all stating what a disaster Iraq was. One in particular said she spent all her time looking for construction cranes and couldn't find any, therefore all was lost. Well honey, have a look at the first picture my brother took in Iraq. Here are your cranes - in Baghdad, not too far from your hotel, no less. Are they big enough for you? Are there enough for you? Huh. You must have had a river view from your hotel room. 'Tis a pity, you missed the show.
OTTAWA - Steve's younger brother, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Canada must be consulted before the U.S. decides to fire on missiles that enter Canadian airspace, despite Ottawa's refusal to participate in America's missile defence program. "I don't think that anyone expected that there would be any other finger on a button than the Americans," Martin said Friday looking around for the rimshot he cued, a day after his decision not to join the program.
"But in terms of Canadian airspace, yes we would expect to be consulted pursuant to the instructions on form CA-630-824/2 rev.5/2/05. This is our airspace and we're not sharing. We're a sovereign nation. And you don't intrude on a sovereign nation's airspace without seeking permission even if they can't defend it themselves," Martin said.
Martin also rejected claims by U.S. ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci that Canada has given up its sovereignty by saying no to the missile plan. Cellucci had said the U.S. was surprised by Martin's decision, saying "we simply cannot understand why Canada would, in effect, give up its sovereignty, its seat at the table, to decide what to do about missiles that might be headed towards Canada."
"We did not give up sovereignty," Martin responded. "We affirmed sovereignty." snip
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"We did not give up sovereignty," Martin responded. "We affirmed sovereignty."
Actually, the only thing that determines sovereignty is the ability to defend your land. Affirmations of sovereignty never held back a single army. You wanna test whether you're sovereign?
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And if a missile comes at us, and we "intrude" to stop it, in order to defend ourselves (and them maybe), what are they going to do? Send a pack of marauding out-of-work striking NHL players to invade us?
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Western Civ. The best thing that ever happened to this planet, and all of these assholes want to surrender it to the barbarians and thus destroy it.
I really need to take some time and and read Carlyle and Hegel and come to grips with the master/slave dialectic. Beneath all of the Chomskyite/socialist/left rhetoric, I really sense people who are tired of being the masters of their own destinies; who are _begging_ someone, anyone to come along and take over their lives regardless of the consequences. "Liberal (in the original sense) democracy must be crushed. Give me instead Stalin, Hitler, Khalifa, anything but the onerous burden that freedom places on me to make up my own mind, choose my own career, find my own mate," they seem to be pleading.
Well to hell with them. They can be slaves to whatever guru or ideology they can find. Just don't try to take away my freedom.
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IIRC, the official airspace of any nation goes up 160,000 feet (30 miles). Most ballistic missles run at 60 miles up. So .... is this another case of a very minor player in world affairs trying to get a headline to make a name for himself? 'cause Canada or the US ain't got no say in what happens over their country in low earth orbit.
If we want to deploy a missile defense system it would be nice to put some interceptor launch sites in northern Canada. The basing issue is significant.
If we wanted to test interceptions vs over-the-pole shots even with interceptors launching from within the US the interceptions would be over northern Canada, so the airspace thing is significant.
Somebody big needs to sit down with the Canadians.
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So when will Mr. Martin announce that Canada must be consulted before someone fires a missile that enters Canadian airspace that is headed for the US.
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They could always shoot down our anti-missile missiles. Oh wait, I forgot.
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--I really sense people who are tired of being the masters of their own destinies; who are _begging_ someone, anyone to come along and take over their lives regardless of the consequences.--
(2005-02-25) -- Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today launched a tour of states that President George Bush won in November, with planned stops at what he called the "red-state trinity" -- churches, gun shops and Wal-Mart stores.
"The president has done a good job of throwing red meat to conservatives," said Mr. Dean during the first stop on his 'Blue Meat for Red States' tour. "I'm here to show that Democrats can speak this language too."
Mr. Dean first stopped at a gun shop, telling the proprietor, "I need to get me a shootin' iron."
Holding his purchase in the air, he said he was shocked that "an out-of-stater could walk into a gun shop and -- with no background check or waiting period -- buy the most powerful paintball weapon in the place."
He told a baptist church group that his favorite character in the Bible is "Bob the Tomato," but later revised his remarks to acknowledge that the Veggie Tales video series is "not usually included in the canon of Scripture."
The tour was delayed for about an hour in Topeka, KS, as Mr. Dean stood at a Wal-Mart "concierge desk" waiting for the arrival of his "personal shopper."
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Remember, this is the Teflon (tm) family. They are even better off than the Teflon Don, wh oeventually got something stuck on himself. It seems that she will be able to maintain deniability by saying she didn't understand all of the financial dealings, wasn't told about this & that, etc. Same game, different players as any other time that scandals have erupted in the Klinton political game.
But maybe this time will be different . . .
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As a convicted felon, Tonken wonât be voting anytime soon. However, he said will support Mrs. Clinton if she makes a bid for the White House in 2008.
Senate Democrats are preparing to once again filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees despite efforts by Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.) to extend an olive branch in hopes of reconciling differences. Liberal Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) dismissed Specter's gesture Thursday and all but declared war on the nominees Bush resubmitted to the Senate last week. Hoping to avoid the so-called "nuclear" option that would change the Senate's filibuster rule, Specter said he would tackle the nomination of William Myers III to the 9th Circuit appeals court next Tuesday. Myers, by Specter's calculation, is only two votes shy of the 60 needed to avoid a filibuster. He would have 58 votes if all Republicans and three supportive Democrats--Senators Joe Biden (Del.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Ken Salazar (Colo.)--vote for his confirmation. Needing only two other Democrats, Specter suggested Schumer could be a possible convert. "Senator Schumer has made the public comment that there ought to be balance on all of the circuits, and the 9th Circuit is a very liberal circuit," Specter told reporters. "I think William Myers would give some balance to the 9th Circuit, and that is going to be one of the arguments that I am going to make."
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This gun grabbing prick should not even be in the United States Senate. He along with Boxer and Feinstein are treason incarnate. All I can say is New Yorkers must be some stupid SOBs for electing him. God I despise him
This ultra liberal obstruction is a crime against our country.
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Nuclear war is so 80's. Schumer, enter the new millenium and declare Judicial Jihad.
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The Judiciary is their last redoubt. They'll fight to the end to retain power. Instead of seeing events in a long term pattern of ebb and flow, and therefore, a time to bend with the wind and await their turn, they're going to bury themselves. The scorched earth policy will only highten the left's aggitation to do something really stupid from which there is no return.
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I can't understand why they don't just make the decision TODAY? Why tease with this? Also it telegraphs our plan and allows the Dhimis to bring a court ruling into the mix. Make the change TODAY and end the speculation and postering from the left. Also it wil give the LLL all kinds of time to explain while a majority should not be allowed to rule.
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Unfortunately for the dems, at this point it is *time* to teach them that they are the minority party, and will probably stay the minority party. Such a lesson will be brutal, it will have to be, but it must rattle them down to the bones to convince them that they can no longer force the Republicans to do anything. In fact, they must be slapped down, before they can surrender enough arrogance to cooperate with the Republicans, and *bargain* for what they want. And this will finally be the turning point, in which democratic moderates come to the fore as the new party leadership.
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Anonymoose has a great point... A smackdown (or three) might, indeed, have the effect of allowing the Donk moderates to overthrow the loonies. Certainly worth a shot as nothing constructive will happen until there is a sea change.
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Also it telegraphs our plan and allows the Dhimis to bring a court ruling into the mix.
There won't be a court ruling. Article I of the Constitution allows each chamber of the Congress to make its own rules for procedure, and the filibuster is nothing more than a procedure created some time ago in the Senate. It can be changed anytime the Senate wants to change it.
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Are you referring to the *Living Constitution* Steve?
The United Nations is investigating a woman's allegations that three UN peacekeepers from Pakistan raped her on a banana plantation, a UN official said on Tuesday. The men claimed the woman was a prostitute.
The 23-year-old woman made the report to the police over the weekend, said Damian Onses-Cardona, a spokesman for the 7,400-member UN force.
However, he added, the men, whose names were not released, said they paid to have sex with the woman. The three Pakistanis were ordered to return from northern Gonaives, where the incident allegedly occurred, and were asked to stay in the capital of Port-au-Prince until the investigation was concluded this week, said Onses-Cardona, declining to give more details.
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Responding to a challenge from President Bush, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin said Thursday that his nation was irrevocably committed to democracy, but complained that his critics lacked a "full understanding of what is taking place" there.
Bush stood side by side with Putin at an often-tense news conference after their summit in this East European capital and said he had expressed his "concerns" to the Russian leader "in a constructive and friendly way." But he continued to press Putin in public. "Democracies have certain things in common. They have a rule of law and protection of minorities, a free press and a viable political opposition," Bush said.
Putin offered general assurances on democracy but made no specific pledges to alter his style of governance, which has been criticized by U.S. officials, lawmakers and others as increasingly authoritarian. Since becoming president in 2000, Putin has imposed more controls on the media, parliament and the legal system and ended direct election of regional governors.
"Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy. This is our final choice, and we have no way back," Putin said. But he cautioned that the adoption of democracy should not cause the "collapse of the state and the impoverishment of the people," adding, "Democracy is not anarchy."
Discussion of the state of Russia's democracy dominated the leaders' public remarks, overshadowing their agreements on upgrading security at Russia's nuclear plants, establishing a program to keep nuclear fuel from being diverted for use in atomic weapons, and enhancing controls to prevent extremists from acquiring shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles.
The two presidents also agreed that North Korea and Iran should not be permitted to possess nuclear weapons. They made no mention of U.S. displeasure with Russia for helping Iran construct nuclear power facilities.
The Bush-Putin summit occurred at the end of a four-day European trip for the U.S. leader that was billed as a chance for Washington to mend fences with Europe over the Iraq war. Bush kicked off the trip in Brussels with a call for "a new era of transatlantic unity" but bluntly warned Russia that it must "renew a commitment to democracy and the rule of law" if it is to join the European and transatlantic alliances.
Thursday's session was the 13th meeting between Bush and Putin, and it ran about 45 minutes longer than planned. In an unusual arrangement, they first met for more than an hour, accompanied only by interpreters. Then they continued for about 75 minutes, each joined by a squad of top aides.
Putin described the session as "a friendly one [that] has taken place in a very trustful atmosphere ⊠a dialogue of interested partners." Bush said they had had "very frank discussions about a variety of issues."
Earlier this week, a senior administration official who briefed reporters on Bush's meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Brussels described the word "frank" as diplomatic code that usually is "a euphemism for 'bad.' "
In their post-summit news conference, Bush and Putin emphasized their personal rapport, saying they feel free to speak candidly with each other and to disagree.
"Some of the ideas that I heard from my partner, I respect a lot," Putin said. "And I believe that some of his ideas could be taken into account in my work, and I will pay due attention to them, that's for sure. Some other ideas, I will not comment on. Thank you."
At that point, Putin winked at Bush, eliciting a soft chuckle from the U.S. leader.
Putin was particularly forceful in defending his move to eliminate elections for regional governors and replace them with presidential appointees approved by local legislatures. He compared the new Russian system to the American electoral college.
"I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that the leaders of the regions of the Russian Federation will not be appointed by the president. Their [names] will be presented, will be submitted to regional parliaments that are elected through secret ballot by all the citizens," he said. "This is, in essence, a system of the electoral college, which is used, on the national level, in the United States, and it is not considered undemocratic, is it?"
Putin did not mention that the new law gives the president enormous leverage and appears to ensure that he will have little difficulty getting his nominees accepted by local legislatures. Putin has previously sought to justify the new selection process by arguing that Russia must build a stronger state to fight terrorism.
Near the end of the session, one Russian journalist pointedly commented on Bush's complaints that Russia lacked a free press and asked Putin why he didn't "talk a lot about violations of the rights of journalists in the United States, about the fact that some journalists have been fired?"
The reporter may have been referring to a recent U.S. appeals court decision that may land reporters for Time magazine and the New York Times in prison for refusing to testify about conversations with government officials. The question may have also alluded to recent media scandals over sources and facts such as the one that is widely believed to have contributed to Dan Rather's decision to leave his job as CBS News anchorman.
"I don't know what journalists you are referring to," Bush said. Then he turned to the American reporters present and quipped, "Any of you still have your jobs?"
The U.S. president went on to express his support for freedom of the press, saying: "People do get fired in the American press. They don't get fired by government, however. They get fired by their editors or they get fired by their producers or they get fired by the owners of a particular outlet or network."
Putin defended his approach to the media, saying he was "not the minister of propaganda."
"What you mentioned about the comments in the media of the actions of the Russian government is testimony to the fact that we do have freedom of the press," he said.
Some Russian newspapers, radio stations and minor television stations are still independent, but all nationwide TV networks are now controlled directly or indirectly by the state. In major Russian media outlets, there is relatively little criticism of government policy on sensitive issues such as the war against separatists in the southern republic of Chechnya.
Bush did not discuss what penalties, if any, he would support if he believed Russia had failed to make good on its commitment to democracy. He did say that the U.S. had agreed to support accelerated negotiations to speed Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization. The two leaders also discussed increasing exports of Russian oil and natural gas to the United States.
Earlier in the day, Bush received a warm welcome in Bratislava's main square from thousands of Slovaks. He is the first U.S. president to visit this nation of 5.5 million people, which became a country when Czechoslovakia split in 1993.
In his address, Bush hailed the many peaceful democratic revolutions in the region, including last year's Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia, plus Czechoslovakia's own Velvet Revolution of 1989, which overthrew the communist government.
To that list Bush added the "Purple Revolution" — a reference to the ink-stained fingertips of Iraqis who voted last month in the nation's national assembly election.
Slovakia joined NATO and the European Union last year and has sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq, suffering some casualties.
"I've come here to thank you for your contributionsâŠ. The American people are proud to call you allies and friends and brothers in the cause of freedom," Bush told the well-bundled throng as a mixture of light snow and rain fell.
Bush also vowed to try to make it easier for Slovaks, as well as other Eastern Europeans, to obtain visas for travel to the U.S. "We want to deepen the ties of friendship between our people," he said.
Returning to his theme of spreading democracy, Bush cited his hopes for political change in two former republics of the Soviet Union.
"In 10 days, Moldova has the opportunity to place its democratic credentials beyond doubt as its people head to the polls," he said.
"And inevitably, the people of Belarus will someday proudly belong to the country of democracies. Eventually, the call of liberty comes to every mind and every soul. And one day, freedom's promise will reach every people and every nation."
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Iran's Police Chief rejected the news on the smuggling of Iranian girls to Persian Gulf littoral countries terming them as mere lies.
"Lies! All lies!"
According to IRNA, Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said: "If such a horrible thing had had happened, I couldn't sleep peacefully a single night. If a mature person leaves the country on her own and begins the life of a morally corrupt person abroad, one cannot claim that she has been smuggled."
The Iranian Police Chief asserted that the case is limited to a number of non-Iranian men who after marrying Iranian girls, mostly from poor families, have taken them to other countries, forcing them into prostitution. Last year, smuggling of Iranian girls and their sale in Dubai made headlines around the world. Since then Iranian officials have categorically rejected the news as baseless.
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The HIV infection rate has doubled among blacks in the United States over a decade while holding steady among whites - stark evidence of a widening racial gap in the epidemic, government scientists said Friday. Other troubling statistics indicate that almost half of all infected people in the United States who should be receiving HIV drugs are not getting them... Many people who are aware they are infected intentionally do not take the drugs, believing they will damage you more than the disease. Assisted by the naturally declining virulance of AIDS, they may be correct. Eventually, AIDS should become a geriatric disease, or one that you might carry your whole life without suffering ill effect. That is the normal course for such diseases.
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"Naturally Declining Virulance"... Ha! What a maroon!
What we are actually seeing is increased resistance to anti-viral drugs and quicker progression from infection to full blown AIDS. In some strains now... in as little as 3 months!
People who are having unprotected sex and are taking advice such as that above are proving that Darwinian selection still holds provenance over sapient species.
Caught Via Michelle Malkin- RTWT - including Churchill taking a swing at the reporter LOL! see the pics at the link
BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) An exclusive report by CBS4 News indicates embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill may have broken copyright law by making a mirror image of an artist's work and selling it as his own.
Placing Churchill's work beside that of renowned artist Thomas E. Mails and the two look like mirror images. But one is a copyrighted drawing. The other is an autographed print by Churchill. oops! Thought nobody would look, huh?
When CBS4 News reporter Raj Chohan tried to talk to Churchill about a possible copyright infringement, he received an angry response... Oops, Ward, I think Art theft/selling as your own, along with being a non-indian indian, along with taking a swing on-camera at a reporter just might make that tenure thingy and cushy job go away....
The following text is a transcription from CBS4's footage of the exchange between Chohan and Churchill on Thursday in the hallway outside his office.
"Get that camera out of my face," Churchill said.
"This is an artwork we've got called 'Winter Attack.' It looks like it was based on a Thomas Mails painting; it looks like you ripped it off. Can you tell us about that?" Chohan asked.
That prompted Churchill to take a swing at Chohan while he held a stack of papers in his hand.
The exchange continued:
Chohan: "Sir, that's assault, you can't do that. Can I ask you about this? It looks like you copied it."
Churchill: "I was just grabbed by the arm. And that (camera) gets out of my face."
Chohan: "Sir, we're allowed to take these pictures, this is a public space."
Churchill: "You're not allowed to grab be by the arm."
Chohan: "He didn't touch you sir, we've got it all on tape. Sir, this is called Winter Attack. It's a serigraph by you. It looks like it was copied from Thomas Mails artwork. Can we talk to you about that please?" Chris sez: I love these Churchill stories, there's always something new. The link has further info, Michelle has more examples, and LGF is on it too. What a sleazebag.
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CBS4 link has the video of Churchill taking the swing, and LGF has a link to an animated GIF showing the art pieces are identical (a la rather's memos...)
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What a total tool. I am loving watch this fraud self destruct. I am needing my popcorn.
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Back in Prentup's Boulder County home, the Churchill serigraph still hangs. One quarter Native American himself, Prentup said he loves the image; he's just not sure whose artwork it really is.
Just another white man cheating the Indians for personal gain. Curse you, Ward Churchill.
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Ward Churchill, the liberal chew toy that just keeps on giving. What will we do once he loses his squeak? Ah well, it's not like there aren't plenty of other leftist opportunists, just like him, that we need to worry about a shortage of amusement anytime soon.
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Ah well, it's not like there aren't plenty of other leftist opportunists, just like him, that we need to worry about a shortage of amusement anytime soon.
I don't know, 2b - this guy is so screwed up and is such a dirtbag that he's like 100 barking moonbats rolled into one. He is an exceptionally rare specimen. I've never seen one with quite so many skeletons in his closet. Maybe he's going for the record.
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You thought it'd be great drawing attention to yourself didn't you, Ward? Spout off about 9/11, Evil American Capitalist Pigs , the brave Jihadis. You'd be famous, everybody would love you. The Conscience of the American Left they'd say, right, buddy? Just think of all those speaker's fees rolling in!
Look at you now, Ward. Fake Indian, art thief, everybody and their brother with a microscope up your ass trying to nail you for anything they can get you on. Even most of your lefty friends think your some phony poseur looking to cash in. Didn't turn out like you thought it would, did it, Ward baby?
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I suggested Churchill audition on American Idol along time ago. Or the Apprentice, see what the DONALD could do for this man! (CHurchill likes to sell himself and blow his own horn).
ONLY a skunk smells his own hole!*
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I can't wait for the Ward Churchill action figure with GI Joe's Kung-fu Grip.
A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web. (Though it sounds like something you would find stuck in a drain like my back hair, the ugly neologism blog is a contraction of "web log.") Until recently, I had not spent much time thinking about anything other than lunch blogs or Blog People.
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I had heard of the activities of the latter and of the absurd idea of giving them press credentials (though, since the credentials were issued for political conventions, they were just absurd icing on absurd cakes) either Library Man doesn¡¯t know where to find a thesaurus...hint, try the reference section....or he just wanted to use the word to describe something other than his immediate family.
I was not truly aware of them until shortly after I published an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times ("Google and God's Mind," December 17, 2004). Then, thanks to kind friends with nothing but my welfare in mind, I rapidly learned more about the blog subcultures. Dammit, he's on to us!!
My piece had the temerity to question the usefulness of Google digitizing millions of books and making bits of them available via its notoriously inefficient search engine. The Google phenomenon is a wonderfully modern manifestation of the triumph of hope and boosterism over reality. Hailed as the ultimate example of information retrieval, Google is, in fact, the device that gives you thousands of "hits" (which may or may not be relevant) in no very useful order. Apparently Library Man didn't like what came up when he hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button
Digitized books
Those characteristics are ignored and excused by those who think that Google is the creation of "God's mind," because it gives the searcher its heaps of irrelevance in nanoseconds. Speed is of the essence to the Google boosters, just as it is to consumers of fast "food," but, as with fast food, rubbish is rubbish, no matter how speedily it is delivered.
In the eyes of bloggers, my sin lay in suggesting that I am not a walking joke Google is OK at giving access to random bits of information but would be terrible at giving access to the recorded knowledge that is the substance of scholarly books. I went further and came up with the unoriginal idea that the thing to do with a scholarly book is to read it, preferably not on a screen. It turns out that the Blog People (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do not share that belief.
How could I possibly be against access to the world's knowledge? Because the way they are accessing it hasn't been around for fifty years?
Of course, like most sane people, I am not against it and, after more than 40 years of working in libraries and never getting a date with ANY hot librarian chicks, am rather for it. I have spent a lot of my long professional life crying out for any attention at all working on aspects of the noble aim of Universal Bibliographic Control mechanism by which all the world's recorded knowledge would be known, and available, to the people of the world. My sin against bloggery is that I do not believe this particular project will give us anything that comes anywhere near access to the world's knowledge. "If it can't be perfect, why do it?"
Who are the Blog People?
It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of my advanced case of rectal cranial insertion what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. Hmm...I'm reading the Anglosphere Challenge... didn't know it was "easy reading."
It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.
At least two of the blog excerpts sent to me (each written under pseudonyms) come from self-proclaimed "conservatives," which I find odd because many of the others come from people who call me a Luddite and are, presumably, technology-obsessed progressives. The Luddite label is because my mild remarks have been portrayed as those of someone worried about the job security of librarians (I am not and I'm holding my breath until you take that back, you meanie!) rather than one who has a different point of view on the usefulness of this latest expression of Google hubris and vast expenditure of money involved.
I'm no Antidigitalist I play with myself all the time! If a fraction of the latter were devoted to buying books and providing librarians for the library-starved children of California, the effort would be of far more use to humanity and society. You just knew there was gonna be some "give me money!" pitch, didn't you?
Perhaps that latter thought will reinforce the opinion of the Blog Person who included "Michael Gorman is an idiot" in his reasoned critique, because no opinion that comes from someone who is "antidigital" (in the words of another Blog Person) could possibly be correct. For the record, though I may have associated with Antidigitalists, I am not and have never been a member of the Antidigitalist party and would be willing to testify to that under oath. I doubt even that would save me from being burned at the virtual stake, or, at best, being placed in a virtual pillory to be pelted with blogs its always been being placed in a pillory to be pelted with books by hot librarian chicks!. Ugh!
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the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar
I sense someone who couldn't get laid with $10,000, ten pounds of coke, and a tanker full of Jack Daniels.
I especially liked his "I'm not just worried about the jobs of librarians" line, since two sentences later he's whining that private money won't be going to pay for more librarians.
"Authority Control in the Context of Bibliographic Control in the Electronic Environment"
"How the English See the French, a Personal View"
"A profession that looks like America?"
Three of them are political; the only technical one relates to a system described by a Slashdot poster as (in essence) a massive card-catalog. Gorman's beef with Google's plan isn't just that the money isn't going to hire albino Asian transgendered librarians, but that it's taking away from his pet project.
Oh, and that Google would actually let you READ THE CONTENT of the material; his system would say, "Oh, you want to read this dozen books for that subject. None of them are in your local library, but if you wait four to six months, they might become available through interlibrary loan."
Yet another academic convinced that his "discipline" is the end-all and be-all of human progress. If he were any more full of himself, he'd explode.
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I also looked at some of his toilet papers. He seems to talk a lot in circles, and say very little. We are not encountering a man in search of ideas, more like it seems we are encountering ideas in search of a man. Yeech...
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I kinda feel sorry for the ol' dinosaur. His little world (arranged and cataloged by subject, author or title) has fallen apart since the Huns have invaded publishing.
Several United Nations peacekeepers have been killed during an armed ambush in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the country's UN mission. The attack happened on Friday morning in the north-eastern Ituri region, where 4,800 peacekeepers are deployed. A UN spokesman said the troops were ambushed by "unidentified armed elements" while they were on patrol. He said there were no further details on the exact number or nationality of the victims. However, a UN source quoted by Reuters news agency said at least eight had been killed. The UN force in Ituri includes peacekeepers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco and Nepal. Violence between rival militias resumed in the mineral-rich province in December, and aid workers say tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the fighting - many fleeing to neighbouring Uganda.
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This is what happens when the UN branches out into warfighting. Most of the UN's troops are no better-trained than their opposition. If they get sucked into some local conflict with any significant indigenous support, we're looking at Chechnya, only worse. Even if better-trained European troops were deployed, it would depend on how determined and organized the local opposition is. If it is anything like Iraq, I just can't see any UN force being able to stay deployed, in the face of opposition from the contributing countries that are suffering personnel losses.
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TomAnon: Could also be some pissed off family trying to get back the virtue of the daughter as well......
There are a lot of ethnic groups in the Congo as different as the French, the British and the Germans. They were all lumped together into a single country when Belgium granted its former possession independence, despite the fact that they were separate kingdoms before Belgium conquered them all. The local tradition of winner-takes-all governance has led to many of the ethnic groups that did not get to rule carrying out armed revolts against the government. The Congo really ought to be a dozen or so countries.
Inserting UN troops into the country is really getting in the way of a war of partition that would resolve some of territorial issues in a definitive manner. It's a lot like trying to hold the Austro-Hungarian empire together. Some things aren't meant to be.
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This is what happens when the UN branches out into warfighting.
No, this is what happens when the UN doesn't retreat fast enough. More French assistance required.
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Run! Back to your chocolate huts!
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The UN force in Ituri includes peacekeepers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Morocco and Nepal.
lets see - of that bunch, the Moroccans are probably the best - one of the better armies in the arab/muslim world and then the Nepalis (I presume Nepals own army is NOT trained to Gurka standards, but still) Bangladeshis are probably the bottom of the barrel, I would guess.
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didnt they already have that war of partition, which killed several million without actually resolving the situation?
That question can be applied to 90% of the countries in Africa.
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LH: didnt they already have that war of partition, which killed several million without actually resolving the situation?
Several million? That's probably just a guess from NGO's looking for handouts. The Chinese Civil War in the 1940's did not kill several million, and they were operating with a manpower base of hundreds of millions.
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LH: didnt they already have that war of partition, which killed several million without actually resolving the situation?
The Congolese also just got started - the war of Chinese unification after the demise of the Qing dynasty (1911) was resolved in 1949, almost four decades later. The Austro-Hungarian empire lasted hundreds of years before it finally fell apart - in the interval of which many rebellions and wars of secession were fought. There is nothing particularly long about the Congo conflict in the context of other wars of partition. What I am saying is that the Congo needs to be left alone to resolve its differences in the traditional way - by force of arms. Any outside intervention merely delays the final reckoning.
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What better place for Kyoto Treaty news that the irrational page?
My personal take is that Kyoto has had no economic effect because no one, not even it's biggest advocates and whiners, have actually done anything to implement it.
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What we need is a page "Square Root of a Negative 1"
Just call it "j".
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There's at least one exception I'm aware of: the UK. The UK is meeting its Kyoto targets and has still greatly outperformed the Eurozone economies which are stagnating despite not meeting their Kyoto obligations. I'd hesitate to draw a correlation between Kyoto and economic performance - I'd say Kyoto is more like an irrelevance (both environmentally and economically). It's economically crippling domestic politics which prevent growth.
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Page 0 is a bug -- I've reported it to Fred, and he'll track it down. I've seen it a couple times.
Make sure, if you want a post to appear on page 3, that you select the 'non-WoT' option.
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Bulldog, the UK's energy consumption has steadily increased since 1990. The UK achieved Kyoto compliance by almost eliminating coal consumption and greatly reducing heavy industry. Energy consumption will continue to increase while there is little room left in the two trends that reduced carbon emissions. The UK hasn't got a hope in hell of meeting its Kyoto targets by 2012 but will doubtless drive itself into recession trying.
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That doesn't prove Kyoto's not irrelevant. The Eurozone states haven't slumped through selflessly striving to implement Kyoto at the expense of their economies - far from it; they're just about ignoring the whole charade. They've slumped because they're commiting suicide socio-politically.
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The UK achieved Kyoto compliance by almost eliminating coal consumption and greatly reducing heavy industry.
The way you write that makes both moves sound i) recent developments (in fact both were in progress well before - decades before - Kyoto) and ii) deliberate (economic processes at work - like plate tectonics: slow, natural and unstoppable). Neither resulted from policies undertaken by the Government in response to Kyoto.
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Maria Elena Ortiz, the ailing woman's daughter, said she was in the room when Jackson came in. She was also present when her mother was moved and objected. "Why does she have to be moved if he's coming in for a stomach flu?" Ortiz said. "I said, 'My mother just had a heart attack and I think it's more critical than a stomach flu.' They didn't say anything."
WINNIPEG - A lovestruck American who tried to walk from North Dakota to Winnipeg is recovering from severe frostbite in a Manitoba hospital. The Los Angeles man was on his way to meet his internet sweetheart, but didn't count on the Prairie winter. 
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday embraced socialism as his ideology of choice in a political statement that sharpened his antagonism against the United States. Chavez, a firebrand nationalist who has governed the world's No. 5 oil exporter for six years, has persistently declined to define the precise ideology of his self-styled "revolution." But, addressing an international meeting on poverty in Caracas, he said Western-style capitalism was incapable of solving global economic and social problems. "So, if not capitalism, then what? I have no doubt, it's socialism," said Chavez, who also rebuffed U.S. criticism of his left-wing rule in Venezuela and denounced U.S. President George W. Bush as the "great destabilizer of the world."
The murder of a Turkish woman and the applauding of the crime by some students have left Berlin shaken and officials pushing for ethics class. But how deep does the concept of honor run among some immigrant communities? On a cold afternoon this week, Hatin SÌrÌcÌ gazed gravely from a large poster behind a bus stop lined with flowers, cards and candles. To the people who came to this bleak part of Berlin's Tempelhof district for Tuesday's solemn vigil -- called not by the city's Muslim community but a gay and lesbian organization -- the image of the young woman in a headscarf, a baby in her arms, was familiar from newspapers and television. A few notes at the memorial read, "Hope you get a better deal in your next life," and "Live a life on your own terms."
OTTAWA - 
Senate Democrats are preparing to once again filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees despite efforts by Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R.-Pa.) to extend an olive branch in hopes of reconciling differences. Liberal Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) dismissed Specter's gesture Thursday and all but declared war on the nominees Bush resubmitted to the Senate last week. Hoping to avoid the so-called "nuclear" option that would change the Senate's filibuster rule, Specter said he would tackle the nomination of William Myers III to the 9th Circuit appeals court next Tuesday. Myers, by Specter's calculation, is only two votes shy of the 60 needed to avoid a filibuster. He would have 58 votes if all Republicans and three supportive Democrats--Senators Joe Biden (Del.), Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Ken Salazar (Colo.)--vote for his confirmation. Needing only two other Democrats, Specter suggested Schumer could be a possible convert. "Senator Schumer has made the public comment that there ought to be balance on all of the circuits, and the 9th Circuit is a very liberal circuit," Specter told reporters. "I think William Myers would give some balance to the 9th Circuit, and that is going to be one of the arguments that I am going to make."
