Their daily political cartoons will be missed. Follow the links in the article for more background on this pair and Allen Forkum's stated reasons quitting. You may also wish to bookmark John Cox's blog John Cox Art.
A volcano has erupted on a tiny island off the coast of Yemen, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air, a Canadian naval vessel near the island in the Red Sea reported Sunday. The Yemeni government asked NATO to assist in searching for survivors.
Ken Allan, a Navy Public Affairs with the Canadian Armed Forces, said a NATO fleet just outside the territorial waters of the island Jazirt Atta-Ir reported seeing a "catastrophic volcanic eruption." The 2-mile-long island is about 70 miles off the coast of Yemen. "At this time, the entire island is aglow with lava and magma as it pours down into the sea. We do not have confirmation of how many people were on this island at the time of the eruption," Allan said in an e-mail. "The lava is spewing hundreds of feet into the air, with the volcanic ash also (rising) a thousand feet in the air," Allan said.
The Canadian Armed Forces said they are trying to locate nine people believed to be at sea after the Yemen coast guard requested help. The NATO fleet was sailing toward the Suez Canal when it spotted the eruption. The government of Yemen asked NATO to assist in the search for survivors and the closet ship, the HMCS Toronto, is heading toward the island.
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To the ME what Sumatran-Indonesian quakes means to SW Pacific + Australia. Volcanism > Catalyst for local diaspora = upset of local "status quo"/balance of power???
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ALso, MORE FIREBALLS/Meteor streaks seen over Guam in as many days. COLLISION OF GALAXIES + "GALACTIC CENTRE" > D *** NG IT, JUST WTH STUFF IS COMING OUT OF THUS DURNED CENTRE ANYWAY - Universe giving birth??? *SCIENCE > DAWN Space Probe set to land on Texas-sized Asteroid. See MADONNA > "RAIN" and "JESSIE".
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Rather unusual to have 'catastrophic' eruptions in this area. It's a strongly volcanic area, but the events tend to be small and quiet. Actually, in geologic terms this may not have been all that big, but on such a small island, any eruption could be pretty catastrophic.
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HODEIDA, Yemen (AFP) At least four Yemeni soldiers were burned to death when a volcano erupted on a Red Sea island, sparking a major rescue operation on Monday for the rest of its garrison. Survivors evacuated to the Yemeni port city of Hodeida said the soldiers were killed outright when the volcano erupted on island of Jabal al-Tair, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) away. "Four of our comrades have died, burned by the lava," said one soldier who was among the evacuees. "They were killed immediately after the eruption of the volcano at 5:30 pm (1330 GMT) on Sunday," another soldier told AFP.
The Canadian navy said the frigate HMCS Toronto joined the rescue mission at the request of the Yemeni coast guard. The vessel had been on its way to the Suez Canal on a NATO deployment when it received the request for assistance, the navy said. The Yemeni coast guard said that around 50 soldiers were on the island at the time of eruption. Most of the garrison was evacuated by the coastguard and the last three soldiers still unaccounted for were picked up the Canadian navy on Monday morning. "Some of them were wounded and have been taken to hospital," a military commander said.
There had been considerable seismic activity around the island ahead of the eruption, the Yemeni defence ministry said on its website. It said that an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale had been recorded on Friday. The 1,200 metre-high (3,937 feet) volcano last erupted in the 19th century, Saba quoted geologists as saying.
The CNN news channel broadcast footage of the eruption, showing the volcano spewing lava and ash. "It was extremely brilliant and quite bright," Ken Allen, a Canadian Navy spokesman onboard the HMCS Toronto, told CNN. "The closer we got to the area, the brighter it got. We could actually see the lava spouting... up into the sky", he said, adding that small boats were launched from the frigate to search for survivors. The Saba news agency said that "all necessary measures have been taken to ... follow the course of the eruption," adding that a team of volcanologists had been dispatched to the area.
The four square kilometre (1.54 square mile) island has been garrisoned by the Yemeni authorities since the 1990s when a longstanding territorial dispute with Eritrea over the ownership of a series of islands in the Red Sea erupted into armed clashes. The Permanent Court of Arbritration in The Hague eventually found in Yemen's favour and awarded it sovereignty over the islands.
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I have been aboard HMCS Toronto. Godspeed her and her crew.
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RUMORMILLNEWS > Russia's military allegedly placed on high alert due to belief that Yemeni eruption was caused by a covert NUCLEAR BOMB DETONATION; + RIAN > Russ scientist claims Earth has good chance of getting hit by APOPHIS ASTEROID/COMET in Year 2029. D *** NG IT, ONE KILOMETER-SIZED PLUS ROCK DOTH NOT A TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROID MAKE.
The Bangladesh High Court on Sunday ordered former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia to be freed on bail and halted further prosecution of her on corruption charges.
It was not clear whether Khaleda would be freed immediately. The prosecutors office said it would appeal against the ruling and try to block her release from detention. Security forces arrested Khaleda and her son Arafat Rahman early this month for awarding a cargo handling contract to a firm in 2003 that her son favoured, overruling a state committees recommendation.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lodged the charges against Khaleda, her son and 11 other people a day before she was detained on Sept 3. Since then, she has been held at a house in the parliament compound. The court has granted bail to the former prime minister and halted the proceeding of the case under emergency power rules, Khaledas lawyer Rafiqul Huq told reporters.
Huq said: The court has accepted our point that an offence committed before imposition of state of emergency cannot be tried under emergency power rules. The court urged the interim government and the ACC to explain within six weeks why bringing the case under emergency power rules should not be declared unlawful.
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Jeebus will this criminal whore and her spawn not leave the pages? Why aren't they in jail, beaten with galvanized pipes?
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Maybe a nice power wash might open up those clogged tear ducts...
To quote Heinlein's "Citizen of the Galaxy", "incitement to riot is no excuse for starting a riot". The woman should be facing attempted assault with a deadly weapon (or its British equivalent), with whatever they can add on for attacking a fricking 10-year-old kid.
The kid should get a stern lecture, and pointedly told that a smart mouth can net him a severe beating. But facing charges from the police?
Has Britain gone insane?!
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Yes. But it's not a pathology so much as a deliberate choice.
Offload all responsibility for civic life, for adjusting to the demands of living with others and for self discipline (not to mention protection) to the Nanny State.
That way you won't have to make any personal efforts or bear any responsibility for choices.
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The money quote from the linked article about the 14 yr old:
Some people, apparently, do not have to watch everything they say. The less control the authorities have with Muslims, the more control they want to exercise over non-Muslims. This strange mix of powerful censorship of public debate, yet little control over public law and order, has by some been labeled anarcho-tyranny. The reason why European authorities are becoming increasingly totalitarian in their censorship efforts is to conceal the fact that they are no longer willing or able to uphold even the most basic security of their citizenry.
NEW DELHI, Sept 17:In a unique opportunity to share best practices between the elite soldiers of the Indian and British Armed Forces, Himalayan Warrior-a joint Indo-UK exercise comprising specialist high altitude training-got underway today in the Ladakh region of the Kashmir Himalayas.
According to an official spokesperson here, the 25-day exercise lasting till October 11, is the culmination of three years of intense interaction between the Royal Marines (RM) mountain leaders and the Indian Armys Gulmarg-based High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS). During the exercise-which includes a period of acclimatisation-emphasis will be given to survival and basic infantry skills in order to improve the ability to operate above 5,000 metres.
The manoeuvres, involving around 100 British soldiers, would include mock strikes on enemy hide-outs and hit-and-run raids by troops operating in small groups at extreme heights of more than 3,500 metres. The exercises would also involve heliborne operations with small units of troops being dropped at extreme heights and then going through survival endurance tests chased by well-armed pursuers.
The Royal Marines welcome the opportunity to train alongside the Indian Army in one of the most challenging environments in the world that will test their specialist high altitude and mountain leadership skills, the spokesperson observed.
The Royal Marines are the amphibious infantry of the British Armed Forces and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service. They are also the UKs amphibious force and specialists in mountain and Arctic warfare. A core component of the countrys Rapid Deployment Force, the Corps is able to operate independently in all types of terrain and is highly- trained as a commando force designed for quick deployment and combat in any terrain in the world.
The Indian airborne forces taking part in Exercise Himalayan Warrior are specially-trained high altitude warfare troops capable of operating independently in varied snow-bound mountainous regions. They are well-equipped and experienced for conduct of all types of operations in all environments.
Reflecting the growing cooperation in the global war against terror, the thrust of the exercise would be to fine-tune tactics against terrorists, the spokesperson said.
It was on British request that the Ladakh region was selected for the joint manoeuvres as the terrain has an uncanny resemblance to the rugged highlands in Afghanistan where US-led coalition forces are combating Taliban militia. Most of the participating Royal Marines, including 10 officers, have been drawn from contingents that have had an operational stint in Afghanistan.
The ongoing exercise will be only the second such joint manoeuvres held in the frontier region. Indian and US Special Forces held mountain warfare exercises last year in the same region-close to the heavily-militarised borders which India shares with Pakistan and China-raising eyebrows in Beijing.
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British troops are in a bit of a disadvantage. The highest point in Great Britain is Ben Nevis, a little over 5400 feet above sea level. According to Google Earth, my house is at 6227 feet above sea level. There's a reason the US put the Olympic Training Center here in Colorado Springs. Even I have trouble going to the top of Pikes Peak (14,110 ft). Those Royal Marines are looking to be OPERATING at altitudes from 11,400 to 16,400 feet above sea level. I hope they bring LOTS of oxygen bottles with them...
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which is why the Marine base in the Sierras between Sonora and Walker is great for high-altitude mtn training
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Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spur-of-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one scientist, whose team scrounged a rocket, slapped together a satellite and persuaded a dubious Kremlin to open the space age.
And that winking light that crowds around the globe gathered to watch in the night sky? Not Sputnik at all, as it turns out, but just the second stage of its booster rocket, according to Boris Chertok, one of the founders of the Soviet space program.
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So what?
They still did it, and did it first. Sometimes I your sour grapes are a bit obvious.
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This isn't news! The voices told me about this YEARS ago!
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One of the ideas I got by reading the whole thing was that this was largely the brainchild of one guy. The gummbamint didn't see the value until after the deed was done. Then they wanted another one success, right away. That put Laika in orbit.
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It was a good thing for humanity -- otherwise dreamers would still be doing the calculations for the first, perfect rocket.
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Bright Pebbles, did you read the whole article.
I didn't see it as having any sour grapes tone at all. It was just a neat retrospective on a small team that had a dream and made it happen despite big bureaucratic indifference.
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Kinda of a weird, Von Brauns Huntsville team did the same thing after the Vanguard CF, difference being Explorer I discovered the Van Allen Belt.
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It did help that the US announced a few years before that a satellite would be put into orbit in 1958 and then proceeded to develop a civilian rocket for it. Should have stuck a basketball onto a Redstone and launched in the early 1950's.
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Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."
Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.
Meanwhile, the United Nations special envoy was in Burma's new capital today seeking meetings with the ruling military junta. Ibrahim Gambari met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon yesterday. But he has yet to meet the country's senior generals as he attempts to halt violence against monks and pro-democracy activists. It is anticipated the meeting will happen tomorrow.
If at all. Leaving him to cool his heels is a gesture of contempt.
Heavily-armed troops and police flooded the streets of Rangoon during Mr Ibrahim's visit to prevent new protests. Mr Gambari met some of the country's military leaders in Naypyidaw yesterday and has returned there for further talks. But he did not meet senior general Than Shwe or his deputy Maung Aye - and they have issued no comment.
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I must've missed it. Where's the outcry, marches, protests, etc. over the harsh supression of dissent in Burma?
Where's Columbia University when you need them?
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Especially when the monks' whole strategy was:
1) intentionally protest, knowing that the junta will respond
2) get smacked down
3) army units disgusted that the junta attacked monks - revolt
4) army does all the fighting and dying, overthrows junta, monks & suu kyi collect all the credit.
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ah, but in this case the "brave" soldiers were simply murderers and the young monks,martyrs. Pretty typical if you ascribe to the doctrine that a military is essential.
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g: Especially when the monks' whole strategy was:
1) intentionally protest, knowing that the junta will respond
2) get smacked down
3) army units disgusted that the junta attacked monks - revolt
4) army does all the fighting and dying, overthrows junta, monks & suu kyi collect all the credit.
This strategy generally doesn't work unless the dictatorship is a US ally and is more or less US-influenced. Elsewhere, an armed revolt is usually necessary. In those places, Gandhi-like demonstrations are a waste of good men. At the same time, the crushing of such initiatives are a pre-condition for the realization that the existing dictatorship will have to be killed to the last man for its oppression to be lifted.
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I have been keeping my 'hug your enemy, Ghandi was right' friends informed of these happenings (since this news isn't on the Daily Show or MSM). As their champion of peace mascot, the Buddhist monk, is slaughtered without hesitation I expect to see a change of their basic presumption of paficism versus evil. One has already come around...
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ghandi's strategy worked well enough with the brits, even the colonial brits who had just fought WWII, but I really doubted it would have worked with, say, nazi Germany, to keep an european example, exactly like uncle Joe would have solved the paleostinian issue in about a month (or less). Strategies that need your adversary to be humane have a fatal flaw.
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Ain't that the truth.
Third World hellhole military government with lots of guns in a country the rest of the world pays little or no attention to vs. little bald guys in dresses with no guns?
Ya don't have to be psychic to see which way this was gonna turn out...
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Just in time for volcanic eruption in the Red Sea and other events - D *** NGED "CHUCK" TV SHOW! Good MADONNA FANS > know as wid the Red Sea eruption, Burma will upset the local status quo, TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE USA-WEST , i.e. INTENSIFIED/ESCALATORY STRATEGIC DENIAL OF US MILPOL ACCESS AS COMPARED TO PREVIOUS.
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At the same time, the crushing of such initiatives are a pre-condition for the realization that the existing dictatorship will have to be killed to the last man for its oppression to be lifted.
Assuming that the 9-11 atrocity was a "crushing of such initiatives" for us, when do we proceed to the subsequent phase?
Strategies that need your adversary to be humane have a fatal flaw.
We need to make Islam's reliance upon our humanity fatal.
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FREEREPUBLIC > VANITY: QUESTION ABOUT SEISMIC ACTIVITY. What does it mean? All-Around/
encompassing answer - It means God exists. It means God is showing his Hand in the affairs of mortal Nations + common Humanity, AND NOT ALWAYS WITH THE SAME "SIGN(S)" [See RED SEA/YEMEN ERUPTION]. *FR POSTER > RICHTER SCALE > at 9.0-magn plus, undulating gound waves are visible to naked eye [See Guam -1993 Quake].
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand." Mr Win, who spoke out as a Swedish diplomat predicted that the revolt has failed, said he fled when he was ordered to take part in a massacre of holy men. He has now reached the border with Thailand.
Reports from exiles along the frontier confirmed that hundreds of monks had simply "disappeared" as 20,000 troops swarmed around Rangoon yesterday to prevent further demonstrations by religious groups and civilians. Word reaching dissidents hiding out on the border suggested that as well as executions, some 2,000 monks are being held in the notorious Insein Prison or in university rooms which have been turned into cells.
There were reports that many were savagely beaten at a sports ground on the outskirts of Rangoon, where they were heard crying for help. Others who had failed to escape disguised as civilians were locked in their bloodstained temples. There, troops abandoned religious beliefs, propped their rifles against statues of Buddha and began cooking meals on stoves set up in shrines. In stark contrast, the streets of Rangoon and Mandalay - centres of the attempted saffron revolution last week - were virtually deserted.
A Swedish diplomat who visited Burma during the protests said last night that in her opinion the revolution has failed. Liselotte Agerlid, who is now in Thailand, said that the Burmese people now face possibly decades of repression. "The Burma revolt is over," she added. "The military regime won and a new generation has been violently repressed and violently denied democracy. The people in the street were young people, monks and civilians who were not participating during the 1988 revolt. Now the military has cracked down the revolt, and the result may very well be that the regime will enjoy another 20 years of silence, ruling by fear."
Mrs Agerlid said Rangoon is heavily guarded by soldiers. "There are extremely high numbers of soldiers in Rangoon's streets," she added. "Anyone can see it is absolutely impossible for any demonstration to gather, or for anyone to do anything. People are scared and the general assessment is that the fight is over. We were informed from one of the largest embassies in Burma that 40 monks in the Insein prison were beaten to death today and subsequently burned." The diplomat also said that three monasteries were raided yesterday afternoon and are now totally abandoned.
At his border hideout last night, 42-year-old Mr Win said he hopes to cross into Thailand and seek asylum at the Norwegian Embassy. The 42-year-old chief of military intelligence in Rangoon's northern region, added: "I decided to desert when I was ordered to raid two monasteries and force several hundred monks onto trucks. They were to be killed and their bodies dumped deep inside the jungle. I refused to participate in this."
With his teenage son, he made his escape from Rangoon, leaving behind his wife and two other sons. He had no fears for their safety because his brother is a powerful general who, he believes, will defend the family.
Mr Win's defection will raise a faint hope among tens of thousands of Burmese who have fled to villages along the Thai border. They will feel others in the army may follow him and turn on their ageing leaders, Senior General Than Shwe and his deputy, Vice Senior General Maung Aye.
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A well meaning fool sent me a fatuous internet petition against the "violence" in Burma. I expect he would join street protests against the United States were President Bush to decide to stop the "violence".
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The Swedish diplomat is only too glad to change back to the regular focus on the middle east and the Baalestinian trash. The Eurabian are much less concerned with SE Asia.
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REALCLEARPOLITICS > THE BATTLE FOR BURMA {Foreign Affairs]. May prove vital for democratic movements thru out SW ASIA + Thailand-Indonesia-Sumatra. Burma is becoming a de facto threat to its neighbors not just from drug trade, but also via alliance-ventures wid NORTH KOREA [read - WMDS, Missles]. Also a potens milpol flashpoint = point of competition/
conflict btwn local nations espec CHINA-INDIA.
Myanmars ruling junta, facing international condemnation over a violent crackdown on mass protests, on Sunday allowed a UN envoy to meet with detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
A security official said Ibrahim Gambari met her for more than an hour at a government guest house in Myanmars main city of Yangon. Gambari was dispatched by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to intervene after the junta unleashed a military campaign to shut down the demonstrations several days ago, leaving at least 13 dead and hundreds arrested.
He arrived in Myanmar on Saturday and traveled to the remote official capital of Naypyidaw, where the generals have sat out the crisis, for talks with the regimes number-one Senior General Than Shwe. Gambari was expected to convey worldwide outrage over the repression, which has seen live rounds, baton charges and tear gas used against monks, protesters and civilians alike.
The White House had led the international community in urging the regime to allow Gambari to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he last saw here in November 2006 and who is held in detention at her lakeside home in Yangon.
In dramatic scenes a week ago, the 62-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate stepped out of her home in tears to greet Buddhist monks who marched past the house where she has been confined for most of the past 18 years. The march was part of nationwide rallies, which erupted two weeks ago led by the revered Buddhist monks, and have evolved into the most potent challenge to the ruling junta for some two decades.
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Great.
This'll justify that inflated expense report...
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Whata fine choice the UN has to purportedly furthers Human Rights!
Professor Ibrahim Gambari, who some people claim is an intelligent man, used his 'intelligence' to defend the draconain policies of the Abacha regime while he was Nigeria's Permanent Representative at the United Nations. He was one of Abacha's equivalents of the "goebel" representing the infamous dictator with a vigor and a propensity that could only be found in fascist Italy of old. He was once quoted as saying, "Nigerians don't need democracy because democracy is not food. It is not their priority now." As more pressure mounted on the Abacha regime from all corners of the world, Professor Gambari became more notorious and ruthless in defending and deflecting attacks against Abacha dictatorship.
A bomb exploded outside army headquarters in the Thai capital on Sunday night, wounding two police officers, authorities said. The officers had been alerted that someone planted a suspicious package in a phone booth near the army compound, Police Col. Saranyu Prathumraj said. As the officers were attempting to diffuse the device, it went off and injured them, Saranyu said.
No one claimed responsibility for the bomb which exploded a day before Gen. Anupong Paochinda was set to replace outgoing army chief and coup leader Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin.
While the motive remained unclear, Thailand has been rocked by both political instability following a military coup in September 2006 which ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and a bloody Muslim insurgency in its southernmost provinces.
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There is a level of stupidity in which the idiot is oblivious to reason. Read my lips: any Muslim will admit that marriages of Muslim women to disbeliever (smart) men are illegal under sharia. Cult men may marry non-cult hags because Muhammed married a Christian woman that was given to her by an Ethiopian king. He also married a Jewish woman, after murdering both her father and husband.
What about George Galloway's marriage to a Paleo woman? She doesn't travel with the dhimmi when he prostrates himself before dictators.
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Christian men who want to marry to a muslim woman must convert, at least nominally. Muslim men can marry a christian woman, but even if she doesn't convert, kids will be muslim.
Lebanese christians demographics have been spiralling down since WWII, their share of the population has gone from a majority to a minority, and their birthrate is in the 1,4 vicinity, if I'm not mistaken (could be, though), so encouraging that kind of intermarriages can make sense from a political point of view, but from a community point of view, it's suicide.
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I saw much of the 60 Minutes interview with Justice Thomas last night. The host - I don't recall his name - had the expectable moments of liberal smarminess, but mostly was not TOO bad, and was consistently overwhelmed by Thomas. I really didn't know much about Thomas, and kind of believed the media line that he was a conservative 'affirmative action' appointment - an underqualified intellectual mediocrity who got the job because he was the best his group had to offer (who was politically accepatable.) I can't say I know any more about his academic credentials following the interview, but it was quite clear that he is no idiot (and we know for certain there are plenty of idiots who ARE academically 'superior'.) All-in-all, I give 60 Minutes a bit of credit for airing this - I think they may have figured to catch Thomas and embarrass him, but it didn't seem to work.
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the bitch Nina Tottenburg gave a horrible review of this book on the weekend public radio.
for her words from the confirmation hearings until now... her karma regarding him is so... soo... bad... she would need to be his footstool for hundreds of lives.
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Wow, a bad review from Nina. Well, isn't that a shock....
The next week three days before the Senate was to vote on Thomas's nomination the contents of Hill's confidential sworn statement were leaked to National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg and Newsday's Timothy Phelps.
Be nice, Nina. He made you famous. Why don't you be like Anita and disappear...
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It sets a higher minimum wage for state contractors. They'll make $11.30 an hour in the Baltimore-Washington area and $8.50 an hour in rural areas if the state contract is $100,000 or more and is awarded after Oct. 1. The state's minimum wage is $6.15.
Doesn't effect businesses that don't contract with the State government. This is why your tax bills go up. Non-competitive business practices. However, notice the classism between rural and city folk. Why isn't a "fair wage" a fair wage for all? [Four legs good, two legs better]
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Is it the reporters or the legislators who are confusing us? A law that bans smoking ban in bars and restaurants... Huh?
And it you don't attend school you aren't permitted to learn?
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"...we want to take the term 'working poor' out of the lexicon"
Well, it will certainly stop them from working. Not sure how effective it will be with the "poor" part of it, but I'm hoping the governor will keep us posted.
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Heck, while they are at it, why not make the minimum wage equal to the pay for a state legislator? Or the governor. In fact, go ahead and make the minimum wage equal to the pay of the highest paid executive in the state. That way, everyone will be rich.
/sarcasm
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"Must pay ..." and "Must hire and pay..." are, of course, vastly different things. I foresee lots of commuting to the nearest Wal-Mart in Virginia ... MD better beef up its Highway Trust Fund lobbying ...
Bishops from 13 Anglican and Episcopal groups in North America announced Friday that they had formed a partnership as the first step to creating a rival to the Episcopal Church, the American branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The announcement by the group, the Common Cause Partnership, marks a widening of the fissures within the Episcopal Church and in the greater communion over the churchs liberal stance on homosexuality.
Earlier in the week in New Orleans, the bishops of the Episcopal Church defied a directive by leaders of the Anglican Communion asking them to set up an alternate structure for conservative churches, to stop consecrating openly gay and lesbian bishops and to ban the blessing of same-sex unions.
At the end of a three-day meeting in Pittsburgh, the College of Bishops of the Common Cause Partnership announced a timeline for organization and a plan to appeal to individual archbishops in the global Communion for recognition as the true representative of Anglicanism in North America. Some Common Cause bishops attended the New Orleans meeting but left early. We declare clearly that we are taking this as a first step in the formation of the separate ecclesiastical structure in North America, the partnerships bishops said in a statement.
The Rev. Jan Nunley, a spokeswoman for the Episcopal Church, said such breakaway groups had tried to form at different times over the last 30 years, with little success. Every one of them has splintered into competing factions within a short time, Ms. Nunley sniffed said in an e-mail message. Based on that history, theres no reason to think this will play out any differently.
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"...gave Cardinal Ximenez of Spain leave to move without let or hindrance..."
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I like it. First, he's entirely correct about enviromental hypocricy of rich liberals and their lifestyles. Second, if these people are serious about fighting "global warming" then its high time they had a real discussion about how much its going to cost.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A volcano has erupted on a tiny island off the coast of Yemen, spewing lava and ash hundreds of feet into the air, a Canadian naval vessel near the island in the Red Sea reported Sunday. The Yemeni government asked NATO to assist in searching for survivors.
The Bangladesh High Court on Sunday ordered former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia to be freed on bail and halted further prosecution of her on corruption charges. 
Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spur-of-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one scientist, whose team scrounged a rocket, slapped together a satellite and persuaded a dubious Kremlin to open the space age.
Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand." 
Myanmars ruling junta, facing international condemnation over a violent crackdown on mass protests, on Sunday allowed a UN envoy to meet with detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Bishops from 13 Anglican and Episcopal groups in North America announced Friday that they had formed a partnership as the first step to creating a rival to the Episcopal Church, the American branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The announcement by the group, the Common Cause Partnership, marks a widening of the fissures within the Episcopal Church and in the greater communion over the churchs liberal stance on homosexuality. 
