Just the headline alone makes me feel tired, for some reason...
Michelle Duggar just delivered her 16th child, and she's already thinking about doing it again.
"Hey, y'all! Look what happens when we do this!"
Johannah Faith Duggar was born at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces. The baby's father, Jim Bob Duggar, a former state representative, said Wednesday that mother and child were doing well.
That's gotta be an alias. Nobody's named Jim Bob anymore...
He said Johannah's birth was especially exciting because it was the first time in eight years the family has had a girl. Jim Bob Duggar, 40, said he and Michelle, 39, want more children. These folks could get top dollar to repopulate some of those fading EU countries, methinks. A decade here, a decade there, voilà ! She's 39 and had 16 children. Sorta brings new meaning to the phrases "baby factory" 'barefoot and pregnant", etc.
"We both just love children and we consider each a blessing from the Lord. I have asked Michelle if she wants more and she said yes, if the Lord wants to give us some she will accept them," he said.
I like ice cream, but usually a cone at a time is more than enough...
The Discovery Health Channel filmed Johannah's birth and plans to air a show about the family of 18 next May. The Learning Channel is doing another show about the family's construction project, a 7,000-square foot house that should be finished before Christmas. The home, which the family has been building for two years, will have nine bathrooms, dormitory-style bedrooms for the girls and boys, a commercial kitchen, four washing machines and four dryers.
Jim Bob's wallet apparently has some heft to it...
Jim Bob Duggar, who sells real estate, previously lost his bid for the U.S. Senate. He said he expects to run for the state Senate next year but isn't ready to make a formal announcement.
In a few years he'll have his own voting bloc...
Michelle Duggar had her first child at age 21, four years after the couple married. Waited 3+ yrs, huh? Hell, they could easily have 18 by now if they hadn't dawdled at the starting line...
Their children include two sets of twins, and each child has a name beginning with the letter "J": Joshua, 17; John David, 15; Janna, 15; Jill, 14; Jessa, 12; Jinger, 11; Joseph, 10; Josiah, 9; Joy-Anna, 8; Jeremiah, 6; Jedidiah, 6; Jason, 5; James, 4; Justin, 2; and Jackson Levi, 1. Words fail... but I'm guessing they don't waste too much time talking, anyway.
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Hey at least they take care of their kids, are not on public assistance, and home school the kids. Many could learn lessons from this family. I have four kids and I could not imagine having another. God bless [blessed] them.
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Only thing that bothers me is the cutesy business of all the names starting with J. Can you imagine how many times Jinger will have to explain his name? Like the Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue." My mother thought it would be cute to name her children with rhyming nicknames. Fortunately I was the eldest and fared better than my five brothers. She gave up when faced with the potential name choices for my youngest brother. Parents should have mercy when naming defenseless infants instead of inflicting names like Moon Unit Zappa on them.
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Reminds me of a joke I heard in Arkansas about 50 years ago. Preacher walks into the hospital to visit a woman in similar circumstances as Mrs. Duggar and meets her husband on the way out.
Preacher says,"I hear your misses just gave birth again and I wanted to see her one time when she wasn't pregnant."
Husband repiles, "sorry you're 15 minutes too late."
BEIJING -- And you thought your leftovers were old. A 4,000-year-old bowl of noodles has been discovered at an archaeological site in western China -- possible proof for the argument that China invented pasta before Italy.
"These are definitely the earliest noodles ever found," said Lu Houyuan, a researcher with the Institute of Geology in Beijing who studied the ingredients of the pristinely preserved pasta.
The discovery of the delicate yellow noodles in Minhe County in China's western province of Qinghai is reported in this week's edition of Nature magazine.
"Chinese people say Marco Polo brought noodles from China back to Italy and Italians say they had noodles before that," Lu said. "All this has been based on documentary material, on personal accounts and menus. But we've been unable to find any actual material -- until now."
The fist-size clump of noodles was found inside an overturned bowl under three meters (10 feet) of sediment from a flood that researchers suspect wiped out the Qijia Culture of the Late Neolithic era.
When researchers lifted up the bowl, they discovered the 50-centimeter-long (20-inch-long) noodles sitting atop an inverted cone of clay that had sealed the bowl, it said.
Ummm, pass the soy sauce please!
The noodles were made from a dough of two local varieties of millet -- broomcorn and foxtail millet -- rather than the more common wheat or rice. The dough was pulled into long strands before being boiled.
Rice noodles are popular in southern China while northerners rely mostly on wheat to make their noodles, dumplings and bread.
The excavation site area is located is now populated mainly by China's Muslim ethnic Hui minority. The region's poorer farmers reportedly still eat millet noodles, said contributing researcher Ye Maoling, though he has yet to try them for himself.
Lu and Ye say they plan to eventually try making millet noodles like those found at the Lajia archaeological site themselves.
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It is well known that it was Marco Polo who brought pasta from China to Italy. Now, what the italians invented was good pasta.
Norwegian motorists hit about 3,000 four-legged creatures per year and the 'king of the forest' is the most damaging victim. Moose, Why do they hate us?
Each autumn moose stories proliferate in the Norwegian media as the hunting season begins and the animals make a variety of headlines. A typical case is the Adresseavisen report of motorist Mona Austvik, who suddenly found her car smashed and a moose calf sprawled across her windshield. "I have always been on the watch for moose since there are so many in the area we live, but I never dreamed that it would happen as quickly as it did," Austvik told Adresseavisen.
Even though the sudden accident 'only' involved a calf, her car suffered NOK 50,000 (USD 7,665) in damage, and the collision resulted in the animal being put down.
Norway's insurers pay out about NOK 100 million (USD 15.3 million) a year for animal-car collisions, most of them involving game - moose and roe deer. "Such collisions often occur without driver negligence," If Insurance information chief Emma Vennesland told Adresseavisen.
Vennesland said that hitting a moose often causes both serious damage and injury. If policy demands car-wildlife accidents being reported to both police and wildlife authorities, also to ensure that the animals meet a humane end. Wax 'im Bjorn
Local wildlife authorities said that such accidents were arguably the leading traffic safety problem in South TrÞndelag County.
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Four out of five who die after colliding with game in Sweden have hit a moose. The moose appears suddenly and unexpectedly, the driver has little chance to swerve or even break. The long legs of the moose catch the bumper and knock the heavy animal over the bonnet and into the windscreen. What happens next depends mainly on the make of the car and the impact speed. The driver chooses the speed but there is no consumer guidance that gives advice on the âmoose safetyâ of a car model.
The typical moose accident where someone dies or is seriously injured occurs at a public road with the speed limit 90 km/h. The driver is more often than in other accidents sober but has little or no time to react. Primarily the head, neck, chest and arms get injured, both by the moose and intruding parts from the roof and windscreen. A cloud of shattered glass both from the windscreen and side-windows hits the car occupants. Since the moose often penetrates well into the coupe and in addition crushes the roof and windshield towards the occupants, seat belt and airbag make only a marginal improvement, if any. The important factors for the outcome of the accident are the strength and design of the front of the vehicle above the bonnet.
To be able to evaluate the âmoose safetyâ of different car models, VTI has developed a full scale moose dummy. The dummy is made of rubber and has, in contradiction to its precursors, legs that give the dummy a realistic movement during the crash. A number of crash tests have been made to evaluate the qualities of the dummy. It is concluded in the report that the dummy not only behaves as expected but also is very sturdy and withstands repeated impacts at high speed. The results are reproducible under equivalent conditions, which is a very important aspect in all types of crash testing.
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The same physics, large bulbous body atop long spindly legs, make the wild camel the same scourge in Saudi. People driving through the desert tend to go very fast through the wasteland between cities - so they usually unable to stop in time when they encounter camel herds crossing the highway. The car clips the legs out from under 'em and then that huge mass comes smashing through the windshield crushing / decapitating the occupants. I have, or used to, a set of pix of just such a collision, but it would break Mucky's heart, not to mention turn the weak stomachs out there, so I won't hunt them up to post. These are staple stories for the Saudi newspapers.
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Closer to home the Amish buggy horses produce the same effect, so take the warnings to drive carefully in Pennsylvania and Ohio seriously.
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That's why you should drive an El Camino! When you hit a critter like a deer it just flies over the cab and lands in the bed, so you don't even have to stop to pick it up for dinner.
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Another big difference is that, unlike deer, moose are very aggressive animals. They will attack cars.
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Moose are formidable when hit with anything short of a deuce-and-a-half. So are elk and mule deer. I've avoided hitting anything larger than a badger or raccoon, but even those aren't "safe" to hit. I hit a 20-pound 'coon a couple of months ago, and had to replace the tire. Friend of mine hit an elk with a "Hummer". Luckily he hit it so that the carcass only rolled onto the right side of the vehicle. The right front leg went all the way through the passenger-side seat.
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The good news is that moose are easily distracted by ping pong balls, cheap and easy to obtain.
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You wanna distract a moose? Toss out a top hat; it'll spend *HOURS* trying to pull a rabbit out.
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Also, in Sweden people probably drive cute little econoboxes as they do in most of Europe - not very safe in a collision with an animal that is almost half the weight of the car itself. The big-ass pickups and SUV's with brushguards favored by Alaskans probably result in a much lower death rate than the 4/5 cited in comment #1. I was on the Kenai Peninsula for about 4 months a few years back, which has a large population of moose. There is a sign on the highway going east out of Soldotna with the daily tally of moose carnage. It was only April by the time I left - well before tourist season - and there were already well over 100 collisions! Didn't hear of anyone getting killed by hitting a moose, but was 2 vehicles behind a van that nailed one...trashed the van, glass everywhere, and a gigantic dead moose sprawled across both lanes.
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I swear Kangaroos are the worst. Their natural response is to flee by suddenly jumping in a different direction, making them impossible to avoid if they decide to jump in your direction. I once hit three in half an hour. Had a big steel bullbar on the vehicle which wasn't even dented, but they can make an expensive mess of the front end of a regular car.
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I find anti-war/america anarchist protesters just as difficult. Being anarchists, and slightly slow due to "issues" they never move in the same direction, making it hard to get your quota
/not really, mods....don't ban me
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This link is to the UK Independent, who asked some notable British personalities their opinions on the Iron Lady's legacy. It makes for interesting reading.
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Thatcher. Best wishes and thanks from the free peoples of the world.
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Some of the comments are hilarious: "We coulda 'ad a welfare state, we could, but thanks to this b-tch we've got the strongest economy in Europe. Curses!"
Happy Birthday, Lady Thatcher, and many more.
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BARRANCO YOPAL, Venezuela -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered a U.S.-based Christian missionary group working with indigenous tribes to leave the country Wednesday, accusing the organization of "imperialist infiltration" and links to the CIA.
Chavez said missionaries of the New Tribes Mission, based in Sanford, Fla., were no longer welcome during a ceremony in a remote Indian village where he presented property titles to several indigenous groups.
"The New Tribes are leaving Venezuela. This is an irreversible decision that I have made," Chavez said. "We don't want the New Tribes here. Enough colonialism!"
He accused the missionaries of building luxurious camps next to poor Indian villages and circumventing Venezuelan customs authorities as they freely flew in and out on private planes.
The group is involved in "true imperialist infiltration, the CIA, they take away sensitive, strategic information," Chavez said, without elaborating. "And on top of that, exploiting the Indians."
"We don't want to abuse them, we're simply going to give them a period of time (to) pack up their things because they are leaving," Chavez said to applause from hundreds of Indians who sat under tents in Barranco Yopal, a remote village on Venezuela's southern plains.
Nita Zelenak, a New Tribes representative reached by phone, declined to comment on Venezuela's decision or say how many missionaries are working in the country.
The New Tribes Mission specializes in evangelism among indigenous groups in the world's remotest places. The organization says it has 3,200 workers and operations in 17 nations across Latin America, Southeast Asia and West Africa.
During the ceremony, Chavez granted 15 property titles for more than 1.65 million acres to the Cuiba, Yuaruro, Warao and Karina tribes. The documents recognize collective ownership of ancestral lands by communities with some 3,000 people.
"Previously, the indigenous people of Venezuela were removed from our lands. This is historic. It is a joyful day," said Librado Moraleda, a 52-year-old Warao from a remote village in the Orinoco River Delta.
Moraleda received a land title and government pledges of $27,000 to build homes and plant cassava and plantains.
Chavez says he is leading a "revolution" for the poor and that defending the rights of Venezuelan's 300,000 indigenous people is a priority.
But poverty remains severe in many Indian communities, and some said they need more help beyond land titles.
"We want the government to help us with hunger, with credit," said Yuaruro Indian Pedro Mendez, 26. He said his community had asked for an electrical generator and loans to help plant more crops.
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This is an irreversible decision that I have made
Just don't call him a dictator.
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Is anyone really suprised one of the Corner Stones of Socialism is Aitheism. Just ask our neighborhood LLL's, ACLU, ect.... Hugo is just trying to get his people worshipping the one true god Hugo Chavez, Kinda like the one true god in Nork land Kim Jong Il's father and the Prince Kim Jong Il himself. Socialism is just one of those ideas that on paper make sence but when they hit reality and Human Nature they just dont fly and you get Stalin, Mou Sa Tung, Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez, ect..... ya know everyone is equally poor exept of course the leadership and thier family which for some reason live like kings.
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C-Low - Let's hold on there, son. It's very simple: Stupid is as stupid does. Atheism has nothing to do with it- you need to get a massive grip on reality.
People seeking power at all costs, indeed, seldom have time for anything but a mirror, but equally true is that religion is used for personal gain all the time. Get religion out of the equation - it's a false test. Some of the best friends you have on this planet are, like me, atheists. I support your right to believe as you see fit - as long as you stay out of everyone else's business. The Islamists fail precisely this test, in a spectacularly bloody barbaric brutal fashion, thus they are forfeit, IMHO. Don't stoop to their level.
The biggest lie in the entire history of mankind is, "If you're not like me, you're [bad, broken, wrong, damned, etc - choose one]."
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However, it's an absolute requirement that socialist dictatorships break the links people have to their faith. If you're building a state where the state is everything, you can't have people thinking independently, and you can't allow a competing organization to provide for the needs (material or spiritual) of the people.
Not all athiests are socialists. But all hard-core socialists are virulent athiests.
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I stand by my post, Doc. Don't make me come over there, lol.
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Hugo has made his law: now let him enforce it. Don't be surprised if these people simply don't obey. Sure, he'll kill a bunch of them, but if they are true believers they will continue all the same.
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The expulsion of these missionaries has nothing to do with their religion and everything to do with being Americans. It is another exercise in drawing attention to the "external enemy".
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he'll plant weapons as an excuse for killing them. Hugo needs to die soon, preferably by his own hand - hint hint
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Perhaps there's and idle Syrian who could give him some tips.
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...Wondering why we've not heard anything about the expulsion of ALL Christian missionaries from Cuba earlier this year.
Oh, sorry - Castro would never do anything wrong.
Mike
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There's a big difference between those honest men and women who've figured out atheism for themselves, then live cheerfully with the results (my adored great uncle Bill came back from fighting WWII in Germany stripped of his belief in God, and is one of the most interesting men I know.) The problem comes when dictators use their -ism of choice to forcibly separate the peepul from their moral foundations rooted in the community's historic religion. This generally follows on the permanent removal of the thinking class of the society: teachers, priests/ministers, village elders...After which the Party becomes the religion, and the Fearless Leader the replacement god. But that is an ersatz atheism, and not at all the real, proud thing itself.
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A healthy economy and growth in Mexico might be the best answer to stemming the flow of illegal immigration in the long-run. But the levels of education, poverty, corruption still mean that we're talking about completely different universes.
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Hmmm....2 percent of a million is 20K. 3 percent of a thousand is 30. Yep 3 percent certain is bigger than 2 percent.
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It would be wonderful if Mexico were to grow faster. Their economy would provide more jobs to the citizenry, who wouldn't feel the need to cross the northern border... some up north might even prefer to go back home to better opportunities!
CAMP ESSAYONS, South Korea â The 2nd Infantry Division has vacated this facility and this month will leave another nearby base â Camp Kyle, in Uijeongbu City, officials said.
The divisionâs Special Troops Battalion commander, Lt. Col. Bridget Rourke, said the last troops left Essayons at the end of September. Closing ceremonies for the nearby camps Sears and Kyle will be held Oct. 12 and 25, respectively, Area I officials said... Might mean something to those who passed through.
ANKARA - Turkey braced Thursday for a possibly prolonged battle against bird flu after tests confirmed that the virus found in a northwestern village was caused by a lethal strain that has killed more than 60 people in Asia. The news of the test result was broken in Brussels by the European Union's health and consumer protection commissioner Markos Kyprianou, who said that the tests indicated "a direct relationship with viruses recently found in Russia, Mongolia, and China." He said the virus was likely to have also spread into Romania.
Confirmed: The EU has banned all bird and poultry products from Romania after tests confirmed the presence of a strain of bird flu there. Duck samples tested positive for the H5 virus, contradicting earlier findings. But there is no evidence yet that the strain is the serious H5N1 variety, which has killed 60 people in Asia. Further tests will be carried out.
In Ankara, government officials confirmed the virus was the highly dangerous H5N1 strain, but stressed that Turkey had already enacted "worst-case scenario" measures since the disease was first detected in a farm in the northwestern province of Balikesir last week.
"We received the results of the tests. It is the H5N1 strain," agriculture ministry spokesman Faruk Demirel told AFP. "From the very beginning we acted in line with the worst-case scenario, assuming that it was the H5N1," he said. "That's why thousands of fowl were slaughtered."
Turkish Health Minister Recep Akdag said the rapid reaction had allowed the virus to be contained, and urged Turks, who have run out to pharmacies to buy flu vaccines, not to panic. "The well-prepared and timely intervention of the agriculture ministry has brought the bird flu case ... under control," Akdag told reporters here. "Naturally, our country has to be cautious, careful and ready (for a possible pandemic), but there is nothing beyond that at the moment," he said.
The virus was found in a turkey farm in the village of Kiziksa and is believed to have been brought by migratory birds attracted to a nearby nature reserve during their journey south to Africa. A senior agriculture official said the examination of other suspicious cases reported by citizens had turned out to be negative. He warned, however, that Turkey would remain under protracted threat because it is situated on a major route for migratory birds. "All the routes of migratory birds carry risk for us," Beytullah Okay told NTV television. "We cannot change the route of those birds ... They will continue to pass from our country."
Avian influenza primarily affects birds, but scientists have warned that millions of people around the world could die if the virulent H5N1 form of the virus crosses with human flu strains to become highly contagious among people. Officials said earlier Thursday they had nearly completed a cull of poultry in Kiziksa. Some 8,500 animals -- turkeys, chicken, ducks, geese and pigeons -- have been gassed in a three-kilometre (1.9-mile) quarantine zone around the village, where the authorities started to disinfect large swathes of land. Turkey says no human cases have been reported so far.
The health ministry has ordered fresh stocks on the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu in a bid to prevent a flu pandemic. The ministry has contacted the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche for an import of one million boxes of the drug, Turan Buzgan, responsible for the ministry's basic health services department, told the Milliyet daily Thursday. "We have reached a preliminary agreement for the initial purchase of some 500,000 doses," Buzgan said. Panic has gripped Turks since the outbreak in Kiziksa, with many rushing off to buy Tamiflu, considered to be the most effective drug against bird flu. A total of 28,000 boxes -- out of an estimated 55,000 available in the country -- were sold since the weekend.
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The anguish among New York Times staffers over the paper's handling of the Judith Miller saga has mounted in recent days, much to the consternation of its top executives.
"Of course I'm concerned by the very palpable frustration in the newsroom," Executive Editor Bill Keller said yesterday. "I share it. It's excruciating to have a story and not be able to tell it, and annoying to be nibbled at by the blogs and to watch preposterous speculation congeal into conventional wisdom."
As Miller, who served 85 days in jail in the CIA leak case, finished her grand jury testimony yesterday, she returns to a newspaper that has been torn by anger and confusion, not just over her conduct and dealings with Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, but over the way the paper has handled a story in which it has played a central role.
"A lot of the reporters have really been wondering and doubting their editors," said Adam Clymer, a former Times political editor and chief Washington correspondent. "It wasn't that they knew the defense of Judy was wrong, but they didn't have a sense of what was being defended. . . . People all over the paper think the Times should have been covering the story harder."
George Freeman, the Times Co.'s assistant general counsel, met with the Washington bureau last week to address staff complaints. "There was so much rumor and untruth and speculation going around," Freeman said. "I wouldn't characterize it as people being unhappy. People had a lot of questions and concerns. I hope to some degree I assuaged the concerns."
The Times has a team of journalists working on a major piece on the subject, under the supervision of Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman, but has maintained it was impossible to publish such an article until Miller no longer faced legal liability from special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and could cooperate with the paper's reporters. That stance -- challenged by critics who note there is no legal bar to a witness discussing her own grand jury testimony -- has left a vacuum.
"Within the Times, there's a great deal of concern about how this is going to reflect on the Times as an institution and therefore on them," said Alex Jones, a former Times reporter and now a Harvard media analyst. "Everybody wants a clean breast." He said of the editors: "Why they decided they could not speak, I really do not understand."
But Keller said yesterday that the paper was hamstrung by Miller declining, on the advice of her lawyers, to discuss what she told the grand jury. "It's very hard to disentangle the story of Judy's ordeal from the story of her testimony. It's hard to appraise, or even relate, the paper's handling of this case without some sense of what happened during those encounters with her source. I know it's hard because we've tried.
"And despite the understandable yearning for a simple parable, this is a complicated narrative involving a large cast of editors, lawyers and other officials of the paper, and involving imperfect human memories and differing points of view. We'll do our best to tell that story. And I hope we will do it justice."
Miller never wrote an article about the 2003 efforts of White House officials to disclose that Valerie Plame, wife of administration critic Joe Wilson, was a CIA operative. NBC's Tim Russert, Washington Post reporters Glenn Kessler and Walter Pincus, and Time's Matthew Cooper all testified in the case under waivers of confidentiality from their sources.
But Miller refused to accept a waiver from her source, Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, because she did not consider it voluntary. Miller left an Alexandria jail two weeks ago, agreeing to testify after Libby wrote her a letter and assured her by telephone that he was voluntarily releasing her from her pledge of confidentiality. That, in turn, made many journalists, inside and outside the Times, wonder why she had gone to jail in the first place.
"It isn't clear to me, and it isn't clear to people at the paper, exactly why the waiver wasn't acceptable in its earlier form when other people found ways to find it acceptable," Clymer said.
Interviews with nearly a dozen Times staffers, all of whom refused to be identified because they did not want to openly challenge their bosses, provided a mixed picture. Some said the newsroom is more demoralized now than during the 2003 debacle over Jayson Blair's serial fabrications, because top editors were deceived by Blair but in this case have embraced Miller's handling of the controversy and level of disclosure. The Blair revelations sparked a staff revolt against the autocratic management style of executive editor Howell Raines, who was ousted and replaced by Keller, a former managing editor.
While some staffers say Keller and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. have allowed their passionate defense of Miller to cloud their journalistic judgment in pursuing the story, others, who respect Keller's more collegial management style, give them the benefit of the doubt for delaying a definitive account.
Miller has long been a lightning rod for her coverage -- some of which turned out to be wrong -- of whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before and soon after the U.S. invasion. But Clymer said some of the animosity stems from her tenure as a deputy Washington bureau chief in the late 1980s, when he said Miller tried to force several reporters to leave the bureau.
"Judy is a very aggressive, hard-driving reporter," Clymer said. "She often demands that people do things, and bruises feelings. People in the Washington bureau tried unsuccessfully to persuade editors that her reporting about weapons of mass destruction was wrong."
Some media analysts intensified their criticism when the Times got scooped online, first on the story of Miller's release from jail and again on her discovery of additional, earlier notes of a conversation with Libby, which triggered yesterday's second appearance before the grand jury.
Jay Rosen, a New York University journalism professor, said on his PressThink blog that the Times "has lost the capacity to tell the truth about itself in this story. . . . What we don't know is why the Times has gone into editorial default."
American Journalism Review Editor Rem Rieder wrote on his magazine's Web site that the longer the Times waits, "it begins to look like there's something to hide. And credibility accrues to those nasty theories that Miller really went to jail to salvage her reputation in the wake of the botched WMD coverage."
Times columnist Frank Rich said in a CNN interview that he has been "frustrated" by the situation: "I think the Times, now that she has testified, has to be transparent about what happened, why her situation was different from Matt Cooper's, and indeed ultimately about her grand jury testimony, which, as I understand it legally, she's free to disclose, or will be presumably after Mr. Fitzgerald is finished with her." More pain, please, I can't quite feel it yet.
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Miller never wrote an article about the 2003 efforts of White House officials to disclose that Valerie Plame, wife of administration critic Joe Wilson, was a CIA operative.
From everything I've read about this, and that includes the NYT et al, the White House was not trying to disclose that Valerie Plame-Wilson was a CIA operative. That was disclosed way back in the 90s and was the reason she was called home from Russia. She was not a CIA operative at the time, merely a CIA employee and that fact was common knowledge.
Andrew C. McCarthy writing for NRO: In Section 422 (of Title 50, U.S. Code), it provides that an accused leaker is in the clear if, sometime before the leak, "the United States ha[s] publicly acknowledged or revealed" the covert agent's "intelligence relationship to the United States[.]"
As it happens, the media organizations informed the court that long before the Novak revelation (which, as noted above, did not disclose Plame's classified relationship with the CIA), Plame's cover was blown not once but twice. The media based this contention on reporting by the indefatigable Bill Gertz - an old-school, "let's find out what really happened" kind of journalist. Gertz's relevant article was published a year ago in the Washington Times.
THE MEDIA TELLS THE COURT: PLAME'S COVER WAS BLOWN IN THE MID-1990s
As the media alleged to the judges (in Footnote 7, page 8, of their brief), Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a spy in Moscow. Of course, the press and its attorneys were smart enough not to argue that such a disclosure would trigger the defense prescribed in Section 422 because it was evidently made by a foreign-intelligence operative, not by a U.S. agency as the statute literally requires.
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That, in turn, made many journalists, inside and outside the Times, wonder why she had gone to jail in the first place.
The end result was the prosecutor agreeing to limit the scope of his questioning.
Ouch
The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained a copy of sworn testimony given by Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers in 1990 in which she said that she âwouldnât belong to the Federalist Societyâ â a conservative and libertarian lawyersâ organization â because it was âpolitically charged.â
But Bush's Supreme Court nominee did not include in that category the NAACP and other liberal groups, the transcript reveals!
Word of the testimony circulated late last week, roiling conservatives and setting off a scramble among lawyers to obtain the actual testimony. Sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT that conservatives demanded that the White House and its allies release copies of the testimony, but their demands were ignored.
A source close to the Bush administration says, "the process requires the White House to prepare documents to turn over to the Senate Judiciary Committee and only after the committee has had the courtesy of receiving them are such docs made public."
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Miers testified in a voting rights lawsuit claiming the Dallas City Council had too few black and Hispanic members.
The DRUDGE REPORT can now reveal that not only did Harriet Miers testify that she would not join the âpolitically chargedâ Federalist Society -- she testified that she had joined a liberal organization â the Democratic Progressive Voters League.
[According to the Handbook of Texas Online [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/wed1.html], the Democratic Progressive Voters League is a Dallas political organization closely associated with the Democratic Party.]
Miers was also asked whether she considered âthe NAACP [to be] in the category of organizationsâ that she considered to be âpolitically charged.â
Her answer: âNo, I donât.â
In 1987, the NAACP launched a campaign to defeat the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court; In 1989, the group organized the Silent March; over 100,000 protested U.S. Supreme Court decisions the group claimed "reversed many of the gains made against discrimination."
[The Internal Revenue Service has threatened to revoke the NAACP's tax-exempt status after the civil rights group's chairman, Julian Bond, condemned Bush administration policies on education, the economy and the war in Iraq, during a speech last summer.]
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Now presented here for the first time, the testimony.
REDIRECT EXAMINATION
BY MS. JULIAN: . . . . .
Q. Ms. Miers, are you a member of any predominantly minority organizations, such as the NAACP, Black Chamber of Commerce, Urban League or any other predominantly minority organizations?
A. Women minorities?
Q. Well, maybe predominantly racial and ethnic minorities?
A. No.
Q. . . . . In your capacity as an at-large member do you think being involved in such organizations might assist you in having a perspective that â bring a perspective to your job that you donât have?
A. I attend meetings designed to give me that input. However, I have tried to avoid memberships in organization s that were politically charged with one viewpoint or the other. For example, I wouldnât belong to the Federalist Society any more than â I just feel like itâs better to not be involved in organizations that seem to color your view one way or the other for people who are examining you. I did join the Progressive Voters League here in Dallas during the campaign as part of the campaign.
Q. Are you active in the PVL now, do you intend to be?
A. No, I am not.
Q. Do you think the NAACP and Black Chamber of Commerce are in the category of organizations you were talking about?
A. No, I donât. . . . .
Transcript of Trial, Roy Williams et al. v. City of Dallas, No. CA-3-88-152-R, pages V-46 to V-47 (U.S. Dist. Ct., N.D. Tex. Sept. 11, 1989).
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Really, the country is not falling apart, lotp. You must live inside the Beltway. This will be forgotten in 6 months, except as yet another episode in MSM generated hysteria that led to it's irrelevance.
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I'm beginning to think the "blogosphere" has looked into the abyss of the MSM and the chattering classes, and the abyss has looked back into them...
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Let me get this straight. The Conservatives are all upset because the Court uses the rationale of preumbra to justify coming up with things the Constitution was 'meant' to say. However, looking over the same document, I have to conclude that Conservatives are using preumbra in defining who is or who isn't qualified to take a SCOTUS seat. Let's see, conservatives are better than liberals because -
1 - they'll spend less?
2 - they'll balance the budget?
3 - they'll interpret the Constitution by original intent?
Am I missing something here? Heh!
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Soldiers doing physical training at this base were fired upon Thursday morning, and a fellow soldier was arrested a short time later. No one was hurt in the shooting and no charges had been filed as of midday, but the soldier arrested by military police had been found with a handgun that was not military-issue, Fort Campbell spokeswoman Cathy Gramling said. Five shots were fired at the soldiers as they exercised near the 1st and 2nd Brigade headquarters, Gramling said. It was not immediately known whether the arrested soldier belonged to the unit that had been shot at.
Could be anything from a guy pissed at being passed over, someone sleeping around with someone's wife, etc.
The soldier's name was not immediately released. Fort Campbell officials declined further comment.
Now, if he turns out to be a member of the ROP...
Fort Campbell, a sprawling military base on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line, is home to the 101st Airborne Division as well as Special Forces. More than 20,000 troops from Fort Campbell are in the process of deploying to Iraq.
Maybe he really doesn't want to go
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âMaybe he did not want to go?â If he didn't want to go I wonder why he volunteered for the Army and then volunteered for airborne duty? He may be a ROP convert or someone boinked his wife. But why do this on base? The capture rate for perps on a military installation is real close to 100%. Itâs like a gated community with armed guards. Once a round was fired they would have locked the place down. Never been to Campbell, maybe itâs a open base?
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Back in 1995 Fort Bragg sniper (Sgt. William Kreutzer) kills one and injures 18 soldiers as they prepare for a four-mile run.
I don't think that was an issue about deployment. When you have several hundred thousand people in an organization, you're going to have a few bad apples.
EFL from IHT. Hard to believe we've so few friends in Europe a Swede has to stick up for rationality. I hoe Blair's got a good explanation for why he did this.
Beyond the headlines, a critically important battle for control of the Internet is being played out.
On the one side is the United States, which wants to retain supervision of the Internet and has managed to get the reluctant support of most of the global Internet community, which sees America as the least bad of the possible ultimate guardians of the system.
On the other side is a collection of states keen on getting as much as control as possible in order to curtail the Internet's power to undermine their regimes. With the theocracy of Iran as the standard-bearer, this group brings together Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba and Venezuela. North Korea is probably keen to join in as well.
The European Union seems to be in the middle, wavering back and forth - and in its wavering it has recently come down with a position that has brought it enthusiastic applause from Tehran, Beijing and Havana.
This is not where Europe should be on these issues. The Internet is vital to our future, and we Europeans should be as keen as anyone to preserve the essence of a system that has worked amazingly well. If that entails leaving some ultimate safeguard powers in the hands of the United States, that's certainly better than having theocrats or autocrats around the world getting their hands on the levers of control.
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There's another way of looking at this. A separate internet could be a form of competition. In a competetive market, consumers emerge the winners. OTOH, this could go the way of Internet Relay Chat; a finite number of users split amongst hundreds of networks, creating smaller communities. Not a good thing.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations is looking at everything in its search for cheap temporary space -- islands, cruise ships, and even large tents. And Brooklyn is definitely still in the running.
U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Louis Frederick Reuter IV, who took charge of the U.N.'s renovation and relocation four weeks ago, said the world body is scrambling to find temporary headquarters following the New York State legislature's refusal to give the go-ahead for a new building.
"We're looking at everything," Reuter said, adding that Brooklyn hadn't been ruled out. "We'll go anywhere if we can afford it. We're looking at boats, barges, islands, tents. We're looking at nonprofit space. We're looking at cheap space."
I hear the Department of Sanitation has a few surplus garbage scows...
Heh, should have given them the carrier America and then blown it up...
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Plenty of office space in Mogadishu. Cheap too from what I hear...
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10/13/2005 10:43 Comments ||
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I don't have the link, but Donald Trump did some congressional testimony a little while back that was absolutely hilarious. He had a a meeting with Kofi and tried to tell Kofi how to do a rehab in New York. While the UN was budgeting $3 billion, the Donald said it should only take $300 million, or $600 tops. He then told Kofi not to have a temp space but do the rehab in place, and told him that on any temp move, the UN would be taken to the cleaners.
The Donald later had a conversation with the UN official in charge of the whole rehab operation. Trump came away thinking -- and saying -- that said official was a blithering idiot.
I have the testimony as an mp3 file. Hilarious. E-mail me if you want it.
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Trump was the one who didn't "get it".
The very idea was to only spend $300 Million in the first place and *steal* the other $2.7 Billion.
Unless they get astounding bribes their attitude is "why should we do anything?"
The funny part is I'm not kidding or exaggerating.
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Gee, no mention of Islam. Not one word. Wonder why, since the outbreaks of a disease that could've been utterly eradicated outside of Disease Lab cryostorage, is concentrated among MuzzyWuzzies. Gosh, go figure.
Gotta love the UN's Third World voting blocks, such as the Group of 77 - a block of rapacious thugs and dictator "member states" which is bent of looting the successful economies of the world. It's a misnomer, now, since there are currently 132 members of the "Give me my free aid!" coalition. Crooks know a good scam when they see it... They've got their gig down pat. I'll bet a month's wages that every nation with a polio problem is a member... I might go so far as to suggest that such situations might be facilitated, if not engineered, to increase the NGO and foreign "aid" handout game. What're a few thousand crippled or dead kids to a dictator? Dat be grease for the rails of the gravy train, baby...
We should put 4 or 5 on the UNSC to speed things up.
Hmmmm. Nothing about disappearing penises... Guess that one's been cleared up, though you'd think they'd trumpet such an achievement from the highest mount.
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Ya know the muzzie-wuzzies figgered it out? That we wuz loading up their polio vaccine with sterilization drugs? THAT'S why fewer folks were vaccinated - they CAUGHT us! (/sarcasm) How 16th century!
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A landslide triggered by rain killed at least six Indian soldiers on a rescue mission in Kashmir, an ary officer said on Wednesday. The rockslide wiped out part of a patrol walking along a track, Indian Army Colonel Hemant Juneja said.
The incident happened on Tuesday in Kupwara, one of the worst-hit areas in Indian Kashmir, where officials say more than 1,200 people have died. "We have fanned these foot patrol parties in different directions to provide relief and rescue operations in inaccessible areas," Juneja said. Many villages in India's only mainly Muslim state can be reached only by foot or primitive dirt tracks, which become inaccessible even at the best of times.
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President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday urged the nation to unite and face the post-earthquake situation with courage, as it was time to join hands for the rehabilitation of those who had lost their loved ones and homes.
"We are a bold and courageous nation. I appreciate the spirit of the people who volunteered to help their countrymen in this hour of need," the president said in his address to the nation, appreciating the role of political parties and those in opposition. The president said it was not a time to criticise. "We need to demonstrate unity and the courage to move forward," the president said, urging the nation not to let a defeatist approach overcome them. "Our action must be seen. I appreciate the people for their courage, confidence, unity and support for the victims of this disaster."
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An earthquake of 5.6 magnitude jolted Lahore, Islamabad, Sialkot, Mansehra, Gujranwala, Peshawar, Swat, Abbottabad, Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Northern Areas and other cities on Thursday at about 1:23am, a preliminary report from the US Geological Survey said.
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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
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President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday urged the nation to unite and face the post-earthquake situation with courage, as it was time to join hands for the rehabilitation of those who had lost their loved ones and homes.
An earthquake of 5.6 magnitude jolted Lahore, Islamabad, Sialkot, Mansehra, Gujranwala, Peshawar, Swat, Abbottabad, Muzaffarabad, Kotli, Northern Areas and other cities on Thursday at about 1:23am, a preliminary report from the US Geological Survey said.
