Frank Frazetta, the great painter of fantasy book covers, has died. The artist, most closely associated with Robert E. Howard's "Conan the Barbarian" character, was the subject of the 2003 documentary "Frazetta: Painting With Fire."
After a series of strokes, Frazetta trained himself to paint using his left hand. His signature work often featured bare-chested "sword and sorcery" heroes, helpless women and fantasy creatures. His paintings often sell in the million-dollar range. Frazetta was 82.
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I think the MOlly Hatchet covers were by Boris. Generally speaking I vastly preferred Frazetta as his illustrations had action while Boris tended to paint fantasy figures that appeared to be posing.
Dang. I think God made Alicia Keys to carry on for her. :-)
Lena Horne, 92, an electrifying performer who shattered racial boundaries by changing the way Hollywood presented black women and who enjoyed a six-decade singing career on stage, television and in films, died Sunday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Ms. Horne, considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, came to the attention of Hollywood in 1942. She was the first black woman to sign a meaningful long-term contract with a major studio, a contract that said she would never have to play a maid.
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Forgive me if I am wrong, but this lady is described as being black, she does not look black to me.
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Re#5: It's the 19th century one drop of blood thing. Uberliberals have carried it over to the 21st century for their own political victimization purposes.
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Uh, uh, D *** NG IT, does this mean we're NOT talking about EUCALYPTUS TREES???
Gut nuthin.
* ION TOPIX > HEZBOLLAH: ISRAEL WILL NOT ENDURE NEW WAR.
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* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > PAKISTAN MILITANT GROUPS OUT IN THE OPEN [includng GOVT-BANNED GROUP(S) e.g. LeT whom repor is simply proseltyzing + oper in the field SAMEO SAMEO but under the Banner or Label of another Group, NOT ITS OWN].
"In October 2008 the Association of Lebanese Industrialists petitioned to the Lebanese ministry of Economy to request protected status from the European Commission for hummus as a uniquely Lebanese food, similar to the Protected Geographical Status rights held over regional food items by various European Union countries.
"Fadi Abboud (president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association), stated that "Israelis have usurped several Lebanese and oriental products".
"As a response, food critic Janna Gur wrote: "The success of certain brands of Israeli hummus abroad may have been what brought about Abboud's anger", leading him to claim that Israel has been "stealing" their country's national dishes, like hummus, falafel, tabbouleh and baba ghanouj.
"In response, Shooky Galili, an Israeli journalist specializing in food who writes a blog dedicated to hummus), said that "trying to make a copyright claim over hummus is like claiming for the rights to bread or wine. Hummus is a centuries old Arab dishnobody owns it, it belongs to the region."
You have to admit, the various names do have a sort of 'Star Wars' sound to them.
A woman faces a "guard of dishonour" of furious old soldiers over accusations that she perfomed a sex act at a war memorial.
Wendy Lewis is accused of outraging public decency after CCTV operators spotted her at the cenotaph on Blackpool prom.
She admits urinating on the plinth but denies giving an unnamed man oral sex. Now members of the town's British Legion intend to confront her wearing their medals when she next appears in court.
Lewis, 32, who lives in Blackpool, was arrested by two officers sent to the cenotaph after being alerted by CCTV operators.
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Deport the witch to London with all the other loonie toons. Blackpool is for pensioners, veterans, and children on holiday. Let's keep it clean and well swept of rubbish please.
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A segment of Western Society has torn down respect for history. This is the result.
I was watching Forrest Gump with the soon to be step kids and it is a sweet movie but at the point where he hands over his Congressional Medal of Honor to Jenny even the 12 year old realized that was a bad idea. The medal is important and represents something important. She'd just lose it or sell it. (or toss it over the White House Fence I thought).
[Iran Press TV Latest] Two more Labor Members of Parliament (MP) have urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down after an inconclusive election stripped the party of its majority in parliament.
On Saturday, John Mann became the first backbench MP to call publicly for Brown to quit, insisting that his continued presence in the Downing Street was undermining the prospects of a Labor-Liberal Democrat coalition.
The center-right Conservatives, now enjoying the largest representatives in parliament, were holding talks with the smaller, opposition Liberal Democrats on Sunday in an effort to form a new government.
Brown must remain as the prime minister pending the formation of a new government. He has said that Labor will open talks with the Liberal Democrats if they fail to seal a deal with the Conservative Party .
The beleaguered Labor Party leader's hopes of retaining premiership were further dashed by a Sunday newspaper poll indicating that nearly two-thirds of Britons believe Brown should have already stepped down.
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Nick Clegg is making David Cameron sweat as the pair edge towards a deal that would put the Conservative leader in Downing Street.
Both sides will resume talks today. Their negotiating teams spent nearly six hours at the Cabinet Office yesterday, trying to thrash out an agreement, but Liberal Democrat sources suggested that it might be Thursday before Mr Cameron could think about walking into No 10.
William Hague, who led the talks for the Tories, and Danny Alexander, his Lib Dem counterpart, tried to reassure the markets by announcing that cutting the deficit would be at the heart of any agreed programme for government. There were no details about how such a programme would look.
Tory sources suggested that a deal short of full coalition but with agreement on a range of legislation was within reach today. Liberal Democrats, however, described this as optimistic'. A senior source said: It's more important to get this right than to be hasty. But we need to reach a deal before the public turns against the process.'
Yesterday afternoon Mr Clegg increased the pressure on Mr Cameron by sitting down for 70 minutes in the Foreign Office with Gordon Brown. The Prime Minister, who had said previously that his rivals should take as much time as they needed to try to find agreement, offered the Lib Dems a full referendum on proportional representation. He reminded Mr Clegg that the overlap between their parties was much greater than that between the Lib Dems and the Tories.
But Mr Clegg did not appear to bite. Later he sat down with Mr Cameron on neutral territory' in Portcullis House, the MPs' office block, for their first face-to-face talks of the day.
Both leaders came under pressure from party members over voting reform, the key Lib Dem issue. Senior Tories warned Mr Cameron to steer clear of it or risk a mutiny. Lib Dems warned Mr Clegg that he would break the party if he helped the Tory leader into power.
Mr Cameron spent much of the afternoon holding an open office' to try to calm alarm at what he might give away in negotiations. He will address his MPs today.
At least 11 people died in a methane explosion at Russia's largest underground coal mine on Saturday while rescue workers desperately trying to reach 54 miners trapped underground also became trapped after a second blast tore through the Raspadskaya mine in Siberia .
Another 24 workers were injured in the blast in the Kemerovo region, while around 300 miners emerged alive, according to Valery Korchagin, a regional emergency official.
Itar-Tass, the state news agency reported that after the second blast contact with 20 rescuers had been lost and their fate was unknown. A source at Raspadskaya, the company that owns the mine, told reporters that 74 people were still underground 54 miners and their rescuers.
The second blast destroyed the main air shaft and caused more injuries, and there was a risk of more explosions, Aman Tuleyev, the Governor of Kemerovo, 190 miles east of Moscow, told reporters.
The mine in the city of Mezhdurechensk had reserves of about 450 million tons of coal and produced 8.9 million tons in 2007, according to the Raspadskaya company. It says that the pit is the largest underground mine in Russia.
South Korea's defense minister confirmed Monday that traces of an explosive chemical substance used to make torpedoes were found in the wreckage of a naval ship that sank near the border with North Korea.
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China has suffered another multiple stabbing when a man went on the rampage killing eight people including his wife and daughter.
In the latest of a series of attacks that have raised concerns over the stability of Chinese society, Zhou Yezhong killed his wife and child, four neighbours and a migrant worker during the attack on Saturday evening before being arrested by police two hours later.
No motive has yet been given for the killings in the southeastern province of Jiangxi which come after five stabbing attacks in as many weeks against schoolchildren that have deeply unnerved parents in China.
The knife attacks have put China's government under pressure to increase security at schools and have pointed up the tensions and divisions in China caused by the ending of the social security net, official corruption and rising wealth inequalities.
A week ago China suffered three school attacks on consecutive days. On April 30 a farmer armed with a hammer injured five children and a teacher at a primary school in the eastern province of Shandong before setting himself on fire.
The previous day, an unemployed man slashed 29 children and three adults at a kindergarten in the eastern city of Taixing.
That attack came a day after a 33-year-old teacher placed on sick leave for mental problems injured 15 students and a teacher in a knife attack at a primary school in southern China's Guangdong province.
On the same day, authorities in Fujian province in the southeast announced they had executed a former doctor for stabbing to death eight children and injuring five others in a fit of rage on March 23 after he broke up with his girlfriend.
They don't mess around with long appeals processes, do they?
The killings sparked a wave of introspection in China's internet chat-rooms where citizens blamed the failure of China's justice and social security systems to address the needs of the disgruntled and disenfranchised.
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These are people who have been totally screwed over by society, and are looking to get revenge by disgusting society in the most horrid way possible. It doesn't help that a lot of middle/upper class/educated people look on the common folk (laobaixing) with contempt - they're peasants, and French nobility looked at the peasants the same way. They are there to work, to be taxed at ruinous rates, and to shut up.
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There is NO, I repeat, NO justification for what these sick, nasty, and downright evil bastards are doing. I mean, stabbing kids? Because you're poor? Get the f*** outta here! This is one of the worst things I've ever heard outside of murder/cannabalism.
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Things in China are different. For example, a man was totally screwed by the government. In revenge, he went into a police station and murdered six officers with a knife. He was hailed as a hero before he was executed.
In Asia, you're not an individual, you're a part of a collective. Different thinking.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The International Monetary Fund has approved a 30-billion-euro ($40 billion) rescue loan for the debt-ridden Greece.
"The IMF executive board has concluded its discussion on Greece and approved a three-year stand-by arrangement for a total amount of SDR 26.4 billion (30 billion euros)," the IMF said in a statement on Sunday.
Greece will also get another 100 billion dollars in aid from the European Union.
The combined bailout package is the largest ever in history. Greece must commit to a radical austerity program in exchange for the financial aid.
The Greek parliament's approval of spending cuts and wage freezes has sparked violent protests in the capital Athens.
The country is in urgent need of funds to make debt payments due in ten days.
Worries that Greece's difficulties may spread to other countries have rattled investors around the world. Global financial markets have dropped sharply in recent days and attributed to the financial troubles in Greece.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish local authorities ordered Saturday the closure of the country's first nudist beach only six days after it was opened, citing architectural reasons.
Technical inspections at the Adaburnu-Golmar hotel, which overlooks the Aegean Sea said that one of the terraces is not built according to the architectural standards specified in the design.
The hotel, the authorities declared, will not be reopened until this "mistake" is redressed. The hotel owner said he hoped to get things sorted out by Wednesday.
Adaburnu-Golmar is the first naturist hotel in the predominantly-Muslim country and is exclusively for foreigners.
The opening of the hotel, located near the famous southwestern resort of Marmaris, was regarded as a sort of revolution since this is the first time Turkey officially allows people to swim naked.
However, the hotel administration stressed that nudity is only allowed inside the hotel premises and not on the public beaches nearby. The hotel provides shuttle buses to the private nudist beach.
Tourism is one of the most important sources of national income in Turkey and most of the tourists come from Western countries. Turkey offers summer tourism along its beaches on the Mediterranean and the Black Sea as well as winter tourism in the mountains where skiing is very popular. Skiing competitions take place on regular basis on the Alma Dagh Mountains near the capital Ankara.
Since Turkey decided to float the lira, the value of the local currency against the US dollar dropped sharply, which made the country a cheap destination for tourists from all over Europe, especially the UK and Germany.
In 2002, around 14 million tourists entered Turkey and the revenue from tourism alone amounted to 10 billion US dollars. In 2005, the number rose to 21 million with a revenue of 16 billion.
As far foreign investment in Turkey is concerned, tourism ranks second after the automotive industry.
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architectural reasons
Dang! Too many lurid references to post here.
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AN explosion of violence in Greece against austerity measures to save it from bankruptcy gave the country an almost revolutionary air last week, as if the people, with their rocks and political slogans, had risen up to overthrow corrupt and incompetent leaders.
The burnt-out shell of Marfin Egnatia bank in central Athens became a shrine to the dead -- three employees, including a pregnant woman, killed when the building was set alight by protesters on Wednesday.
"The people who did this should be hung upside down in the square," said a middle-aged woman placing a bunch of flowers at the marble threshold.
By the weekend, however, when the tear gas had lifted, Europe was left to confront a reality even more momentous than the mayhem convulsing its southern frontier.
Financial experts concur that Greece's woes may push the world back into recession just when people thought the worst of the crisis was over. Political leaders, meanwhile, are facing the possibility that their vision of Europe will come under threat, dooming to failure any future efforts to promote further integration.
The level of concern became apparent on Friday when an official from the European Central Bank went on the record to deny that Europe was "breaking apart" as leaders met in Brussels for an emergency summit. They agreed a package of measures to defend the beleaguered single currency, but this may not be enough to end the turmoil.
The survival of the European Union's present structure could be at stake, according to Lüder Gerken, director of the Centre for European Policy, a German think tank, who said "the struggle will be to preserve the EU as it exists".
Today, on the 60th anniversary of the conception of the European community, the gloom will be intensified by the release of a report by Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, the former Spanish prime minister. He predicts that Europe could end up as "an insignificant peninsula on the Asian continent".
Part of the problem is the sputtering demise of the "Franco-German motor", the impetus behind Europe's grandest schemes. Another is public disgruntlement with Europe's governing elite.
Germany, once the EU's most enthusiastic champion, has emerged at the forefront of the backlash against European ideals, preferring to focus on national interests.
After paying for reunification with the east, fiscally prudent Germans are horrified at being told they must bail out the profligate Greeks. Thomas Klau, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, spoke of a "fundamental change" in the way Germans think.
"The almost instinctively Europhile discourse looks a thing of the past," he said. "Any argument for further integration will have to be fought for very hard."
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The WSJ has some of this weekend's developments;BRUSSELSThe European Union agreed on an audacious 750 billion ($955 billion) bailout plan in an effort to stanch a burgeoning sovereign debt crisis that began in Greece but now threatens the stability of financial markets world-wide...The measures discussed in Brussels make clear how far the crisis is stretching the founding principles of the common currency. Those principles emphasize that each euro-zone country is committed to managing its own fiscal affairs...The EU treaties contain a so-called no-bailout clause, which forbids the bloc or any member to "be liable for or assume the commitments of" another EU country. The treaties bar the European Central Bank from lending to countries or buying their debt directly. To get around these obstacles, European officials appear to be relying on vaguer parts of the treaties, or on novel interpretations.
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Money: meet black hole. Jump on in. Room for all the money.
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Too bad these two sentences weren't in the same article:
To get around these obstacles, European officials appear to be relying on vaguer parts of the treaties, or on novel interpretations.
Casue and effect: Another is public disgruntlement with Europe's governing elite.
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So, EU suggests cutting back on spending and the Greeks go crazy, kill three people, and insist that no changes are needed. They'll kill to keep their free-spending way of life. Meanwhile, EU elites ignore those pesky treaties to do what they know is best, because they're the best and know what's best. Always.
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Behold the result of outcome egalitarianism. Destroyed property and murdered pregnant girls.
Some individuals/groups/countries/civilizations/societies are less good at creating wealth or a standard of living than others. Get over it. Nothing humans can do will make the differences between individuals or societies go away except for violence and tyrrany. The result of efforts to make everyone's economic outcome equal will ALWAYS be worse than letting people rise or sink to their own standard of living based on their own skill level, work ethic, and smarts in whatever technological milieu exists at the time. Why hasn't the left figured that out? They seek to make everyone equal by tearing down the best, by spreading mediocrity instead of allowing people to achieve their best.
Trying to make everyone all the same to suit some leftist ideology or narrative will never, ever work. Read Federalist #10, or Hayek, or Friedman.
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Enough to make one wonder if the lights are going out. But the markets are pleased to have the appearance of being appeased, so everyone will be happy. Today. And then the hangover.
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Oh, the situation is grim NS. The only way to get out of the economic death spiral is to cut entitlements. And if you think a democratically elected government will commit political suicide I have some nice ocean front property in Nevada for ya.
I see this as the decade of massive economic turmoil and violence for the west. We'll see if it recovers.
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Prediction: Now - big show of resolve and unified action to deal with the crisis. In a few months when things calm down, France and Germany will quietly shove Greece out of the Euro zone.
BTW, headline would be better w. phrase 'Greek fire'
Not every illegal immigrant in the United States snuck across the border. A very large number, perhaps as many as 5.5 million, entered legally with visas and then never left.
But unlike the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border every year, very few visa violators are ever caught.
The Border Patrol's Tucson sector, the busiest in the nation, logged 112,488 apprehensions last fiscal year. In comparison, federal agents in Arizona tracked down and arrested 27 people who had overstayed their visas.
Visa violators represent nearly half of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. But they have been largely ignored amid a national clamor to secure the border, fueled in part by Arizona's tough new immigration law, the killing of a southern Arizona rancher and worries that cartel violence in Mexico could spill into this country, analysts and experts say.
"It's not that we have too much emphasis on the border. We still need enforcement on the border. The problem is not enough attention to the other issue," said Michael W. Cutler, a former senior agent with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which became Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In the past five years, the number of Border Patrol agents stationed along the U.S.-Mexico line has doubled, to more than 20,000 people. That's the highest level of staffing in the Border Patrol's 85-year history. And Arizona politicians including Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, and Democratic Reps. Gabrielle Giffords and Ann Kirkpatrick have called for deploying the National Guard to the border, too.
There has been no corresponding call to increase the search for those who overstay visas.
In 2003, Immigration and Customs Enforcement created a special unit to track down visa violators. Funding grew from $6.7 million the first year to $68.3 million in fiscal year 2009, according to testimony in March by Assistant Homeland Security Secretary for ICE John Morton to the House Homeland Security Committee.
Investigators analyze records of hundreds of thousands of potential violators based on data from various government databases that keep track of students, tourists and other people who enter the U.S. On average, the 272 investigators assigned to the unit arrest 1,400 visa violators a year, Morton said. ICE officials said the number of overstayers arrested each year has steadily risen, though they could not provide details.
Lon Weigand, assistant special agent in charge of ICE investigations in Phoenix, said most of the 27 visa violators in Arizona last year had overstayed tourist visas. ICE could not say whether that was up or down from previous years.
AsI recall, the 9/11 hijackers were in the country on legitimate visas.
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272 investigators assigned to the unit arrest 1,400 visa violators a year
That's 5.14 arrests per agent, per year.
Or one arrest every 71 days.
Our tax dollars at work.
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Visa violators represent nearly half of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. But they have been largely ignored amid a national clamor to secure the border
Ignored by the media and Left in an attempt to make ILLEGAL ALIEN enforcement a 'race' issue. The Arizona law applies equally to visa violators as well as border crossers. But the media and left (including Obumbles himself) want to protray it as only an anti-mexican law.
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When I was vainly trying to arrange a US visa for my Thai wife, we briefly considered sneaking across the Arizona border. In fact, a high-ranking immigration official (off the record) suggested it as the most effective method to get her into the country.
The only (legal) alternative was a 3-5 year wait and $30,000+.
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P.S. My Thai wife could not fathom the insanity of our immigration system. The only thing she could figure was that I DIDN'T WANT HER TO SEE THE USA AND WAS TRYING TO SABOTAGE THE VISA PROCESS.
President Obama plans to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to be the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, a source said late Sunday night. Kagan, 50, the former dean of Harvard Law School, would become the fourth woman to serve on the high court; if confirmed, it would mean that three women would serve on the nine-member court for the first time.
Kagan is the government's top appellate lawyer and representative at the Supreme Court. She was confirmed last year by the Senate in a 61 to 31 vote, and was the first woman confirmed to hold the job.
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never been a judge, few writings to parse, looks like Paul Blart, and more importantly opposed military recruiters and ROTC on campus based on "DADT" (she's a lesbian). Perfect. Expect her to rope-a-dope her answers to look middle-of-the-road on the surface. She's a lefty radical. Oppose her
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While she was Dean of the Harvard Law School she supported the ban on Military recruiters.
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Of course she's a lefty radical, she's nominated by Obama. She is also less left and less radical than we will get if she is not confirmed.
And she has not been a judge, unlike such wise (sarc) judges as David Souter, who gave us Kelo vs. New London.
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yep, she's so smart - evidently thinks that the military arbitrarilly and unilaterally created the DADT policy w/out civilian oversight from the then C-in-C...didn't she work for Clinton at one point? Moron.
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#6 Kagan was one of Clinton's Appeals Court nominees that never received an up-or-down vote. After Bush took office he nominated John Roberts for the post.
Forty million Filipinos are expected to turn up at polling stations to elect a successor to President Gloria Arroyo, whose near decade-long rule has been tarnished by allegations of corruption.
Mr Aquino's main rivals are former president Joseph Estrada, 73, and property magnate Manny Villar, 60.
Two major independent surveys gave Aquino voter support of between 39 and 42 percent, a two-to-one lead over his challengers that places him on course for the biggest win in Philippine election history.
The frontrunner is the only son of former president Corazon Aquino and her assassinated husband, Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, who are revered by many for spearheading the restoration of Philippine democracy in the 1980s.
Mr Villar is counting on a nationwide political machinery to help him pull off a shock win, while former movie star Mr Estrada retains strong support among the poor even after he was deposed as president in 2001 for being corrupt.
There are also fears a quick result could be jeopardised by cheating or technological problems.
The Philippines is using computers for the first time to tally the votes in a bid to minimise the risk of cheating and to quicken the counting process that took weeks when done manually.
But glitches discovered in the week before the election - memory cards to be used in the computers were found to be configured incorrectly - fuelled fears about the credibility of the vote.
Election officials insisted on Sunday they had been able to replace enough of the memory cards to ensure the vote could go ahead.
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Go figure. Fox should post the teachers name. The superintendant should fire the teacher. If it was some islamic icon thatthe teacher had removed, that teacher would be fired.
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I find liberal fuck-head teachers to be offensive.
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the teacher should be given the chose of resigning or explaining to the entire student body why she felt the flag was offensive and then answering their questions.
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It's a teaching moment and her answers would be enlightening to the entire PTA and student body and I'm sure with a little heads up some of the kids could come up with some pretty good questions.
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The teacher is employed by a school that waves an American Flag, which is overseen by a state that also waves the same. If this flag is offensive to her, she should quit. If not, she should be terminated and loose all capability to ever teach in any school system; Forever.
I would not want her to give personal opinions to my child or any other child!
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I suspect given the choice she would resign rather than face public humiliation over explaining her views. A public airing would be helpful as I believe she would be humiliated and her views along with her.
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.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Two more Labor Members of Parliament (MP) have urged British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down after an inconclusive election stripped the party of its majority in parliament. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] The International Monetary Fund has approved a 30-billion-euro ($40 billion) rescue loan for the debt-ridden Greece. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish local authorities ordered Saturday the closure of the country's first nudist beach only six days after it was opened, citing architectural reasons.
