A NEW survey reveals Virgin Atlantic has the most attractive flight attendants with 53 percent of those surveyed picking Virgin's "red hotties.
According to the survey of 1000 people by the Business Travel and Meetings Show (BTMS), Virgin Atlantic scooped the pool for the most attractive cabin crew.
Businesstraveler.com reported the survey results and noted Singapore Airlines' cabin crew received 18 percent of votes for the top spot, while 12 percent gave Etihad's the thumbs up.
Emirates' staff came in fourth with 11 per cent, followed by Aer Lingus with six per cent.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] A man suspected of trading in male sexual organs was on Tuesday arrested at the Kakamega provincial hospital mortuary. "I'd like to buy some pee-pees, please..."
Ick. Do you know where those things have been?
The 58-year-old man is said to have walked to the mortuary and approached a cleaner who he told he was looking for human organs for use in witchcraft. He allegedly tried to sweet-talk the cleaner that it would be easy to obtain the organs from the place without arousing suspicion.
Cleaner Niven Muchesia said he was shocked by what the man, who was carrying a black bag, had told him but decided to invite him to an office to get further details.
"I immediately informed the officer in charge of the facility who called the security officers," said Mr Muchesia.
When security officers arrived, the man, who was trying to negotiate a price for the organs, panicked and asked to be forgiven.
The incident disrupted normal operations with people milling around the mortuary to see the man.
The suspect was escorted to the Kakamega police station for questioning.
No, not going to touch that one with a ten foot pole. And you, dear Reader, can just stop thinking whatever just popped into your mind.
The divisional police chief, Mr Joseph Omijah, said the man, from Lubao market in Kakamega Central district, could have been acting on behalf somebody else. He said the police were searching for other suspects based on information provided by the man.
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What did he name his shop, Wally World?
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Scientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano looks set to erupt and threatening to spew-out a pall of dust that would dwarf last year's event. Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after evaluating an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano.
Pall Einarsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, says the area around Bardarbunga is showing signs of increased activity, which provides "good reason to worry". He told the country's national TV station that a low number of seismometer measuring devices in the area is making it more difficult to determine the scale and likely outcome of the current shifts.
But he said there was "every reason to worry" as the sustained earthquake tremors to the north east of the remote volcano range are the strongest recorded in recent times and there was "no doubt" the lava was rising.
Respected volcano watcher JĂłn FrĂmann, said on his volcano watch blog: "After the Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in the year 2010 it seems that geologists in Iceland take earthquake swarms more seriously then they did before."
He explained the Icelandic Met Office had on Sunday warned of the increased risk of a eruption in north-west side of Vatnajökull glacier due to the high earthquake activity in the area, and added: "It is clear that only time is going to tell us if there is going to be a eruption in this area soon or not."
The last recorded eruption of Bardarbunga was in 1910, although volcanologists believe its last major eruption occurred in 1477 when it produced a large ash and pumice fallout. It also produced the largest known lava flow during the past 10,000 years on earth.
It is the second largest volcano on Iceland and is directly above the mantle plume of molten rock. By comparison, Bardarbunga dwarves the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which shutdown most of Europe's airspace last year after its ash cloud drifted across the continent's skies. Hello more cold weather and climate disruption! 2011 is shaping up to be a really interesting year.
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Hell is there anything SUVs can't do? After all, didn't some bozo blame the Tsunami on Global Warming?
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Fimbulvetr?
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"The last one was named Eyjafjallajökull. We're naming this one 'Bob' so the American network news anchors don't hurt or embarrass themselves too much"
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Dang, learned how to pronounce "Eyjafjallajökull" before we went to Iceland this summer. Unfortunately, the volcano and glaciers were under cloud when we were there. However, we got a good look at the results of the flooding resulting from the volcano melting glacial ice. It was impressive.
But what do you expect when your country straddles the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
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Little known is that the finalists for "World Language" was a tossup between English and Icelandic.
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I knew that MA in Esperanto was a nonstarter
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"only time will tell".
I like that. You can take stuff like that to the bank.
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Amish Rumspringa, perhaps?
No sect does revenge like the Amish, and especially here in Southern Maryland!
It's RUMSPRINGA, By Golly!
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The perfect rectangle – which is around the size of Wales – was noticed on the search giant's underwater exploration tool by an aeronautical engineer who claims it looks like an "aerial map" of a city.
Spaceport which sank flush to the bottom of the ocean perfectly square with no erosion in 11,000 years? Those Athenians were bad-ass to fight them off. Eagerly awaiting the H-Channel story and movie staring T. Cruise.
"You can be my mer-man anytime Foogledom-Qxty"
"Fangle-dum, you can be mine"
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The problem with the Atlantis theory as relates to this pattern on the sea floor is that the "city" would have to cover hundreds of square miles with city blocks 20 miles long. My guess is that it is something else. Sonophone array maybe or the result of some research project at some point in the past or trawlers dragging bottom.
Is that location a known anchorage for ships?
Those squares are 20 miles long. Seems a bit much for a city block.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Tunisia's Senate was called on Wednesday to grant wide powers to the interim president struggling to restore order to the country following the overthrow of ex-leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
An interesting development for a democratic people's revolution...
Caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi told the upper house ahead of a vote on the measure to follow the lead of the lower house of parliament which on Monday authorized interim president Foued Mebaza to rule by decree.
"We are coming under social pressure because of the demands of the people for improvements to their situation," he told the upper chamber session attended by 86 of the 126 elected members.
"But it has to be taken into account that the state is not yet capable of responding to all these demands. We do not have a magic wand."
If the measure is approved, Mebaza will be empowered to sidestep a parliament made up mostly of followers of Ben Ali to decide key issues by decree, relating notably to the transition to democracy and the holding of elections within six months.
The transitional government has banned Ben Ali's ruling party, the Constitutional Democratic Assembly, and accused loyalists of the former leader ousted on January 14 of attempting to foment unrest so as to block the transition to democracy.
Mass protests sparked partly by poverty and unemployment erupted across the country last month, resulting in Ben Ali's fleeing the country. Pockets of unrest remain and police, closely associated with the hated Ben Ali regime, have played no role in restoring law and order.
On Tuesday the government called up reservists to bolster the army which has been carrying out security duties to help keep order.
Some 234 people have been killed during the unrest in Tunisia and 510 have been injured, an official source told AFP on Tuesday. The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society last week had put the corpse count at 219.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Hena's body bears "heavy wounds" all over, the High Court said yesterday quoting a fresh autopsy report submitted to it. This is the girl who was whipped to death after being raped.
The death of Hena was homicidal in nature, the HC further said quoting the post-mortem report by Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
An HC bench comprised of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Sheikh Md Zakir Hossain made the remarks after receiving the fresh autopsy report.
Fifteen-year-old rape victim Hena Akter from Noria upazial in Shariatpur was allegedly whipped to death recently following a fatwa given at a local arbitration.
Meanwile, police yesterday nabbed Mahbub Khan, the alleged rapist and main accused in the case for murder of Hena, at Savar on the outskirts of the capital.
Acting on a tip-off, Shariatpur police nabbed Mahbub around 11:00am, Shahidur Rahman, Shariatpur superintendent of police said when contacted.
"We will produce him before court tomorrow (Thursday)," the SP added.
The HC bench had earlier issued a suo moto rule on the authorities for a fresh autopsy of the victim's body.
The court said there is a vast difference between the DMCH autopsy report and the one made earlier by Shariatpur Sadar Hospital. It however did not disclose details of the reports.
According to Shariatpur hospital's report, there was no injury on Hena's body.
The HC received it on February 7.
Both the autopsy reports cannot be true. One report must be true and another must be untrue, court told Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain after the Supreme Court Registrar's office placed the DMCH report before it.
The HC yesterday asked Hena's father Darbesh Khan and her cousin Minu Begum to appear before it this morning for giving their statements.
It also ordered the local administration of Shariatpur to arrange conveyance of Darbesh and Minu.
On February 7, the bench summoned eight persons to appear before it at 10:30am today. They include the officer-in-charge of Noria Police Station, Sub-inspector Aslam Uddin, who prepared the inquest report; doctors Nirmal Chandra Das, Rajesh Majumder, and Hosne Ara Begum, who prepared the first post-mortem report; Sultan Ahmed and a senior nurse,who attended Hena; and arbitrator Idris Sheikh, local union parishad member.
The body of Hena was exhumed on Monday night for the fresh post-mortem in compliance with an HC order.
The Daily Star had earlier reported that the police inquest and first autopsy found no mark of injury on Hena's body.
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The Daily Star had earlier reported that the police inquest and first autopsy found no mark of injury on Hena's body.
I'll bet they never considered the idea that she'd be exhumed. Anybody involved in this cover-up ought to die of the same non-wounds as Hena did.
Our stay in Salt Lake City amounted to only two days, and therefore we had no time to make the customary inquisition into the workings of
polygamy and get up the usual statistics and deductions preparatory to calling the attention of the nation at large once more to the matter.
I had the will to do it. With the gushing self-sufficiency of youth I was feverish to plunge in headlong and achieve a great reform here--until I saw the Mormon women. Then I was touched. My heart was wiser than my head. It warmed toward these poor, ungainly and pathetically "homely" creatures, and as I turned to hide the generous moisture in my eyes, I
said, "No--the man that marries one of them has done an act of Christian charity which entitles him to the kindly applause of mankind, not their harsh censure--and the man that marries sixty of them has done a deed of open-handed generosity so sublime that the nations should stand uncovered
in his presence and worship in silence."
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(KUNA) -- The need to shift economies onto a lower carbon route was highlighted by the UK's Prince Charles at opening of Low Carbon Prosperity Summit at the European Parliament here on Wednesday. He emphasized the need "to move away from the conventional economic model of growth which is based on the production of high carbon intensity products". Never having held a job, Prince Chuck is an obvious authority in... something or other.
"Success will be in building low-carbon industries that provide not only substantial economic opportunity, but also a means to ensure Europe's competitiveness," said the Prince of Wales. "I mean, look at all the low carbon industries that are leading the world to new prosperity!"
He stressed the need to achieve a "green economy" which would "rely on more productive processing of waste, the construction of new, zero-carbon buildings " and also upon "achieving stringent energy efficiency targets for our buildings, cars and household goods." Does that "green economy" produce anything besides regulations?
European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union President Herman Van Rompuy speaking at the conference all advocated using low-carbon technologies to build prosperity.
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Now ya know why rule by Royalty has been replaced by Democracy.
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When M'Lady hears about the royals, she keeps telling me, "That is the reason we left Olde England and its baggage behind.
And I tell her that I miss the Queen Mum. Why, she asks? Because she stood there with her people during the London Blitz bombing. Even Elizabeth was an ambulance driver. But Sonny Boy. He is just a babbling carbon sucking drone.
I miss the Queen Mum.
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North Korea is leading the world in Low Carbon Prosperity.
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It's easy to dismiss Prince charles as an inbred royal dolt. But it's a mistake to underestimate the power and influence he actually commands. Just take a look at the crowd he was with when he made these comments.
First there's European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek.
Back in his Solidarity days he was a strong proponent for the international "One Big Union" principle. Here is part of the statement he made before his meeting with Speaker Pelosi. In climate issue, Europe is a leader and we would like to save our planet, because we think it is very dangerous. And Americans are not very helpful.
Next there's European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
And back in his Maoist days he was a leader of the PCTP/MRPP. For those of you not familliar with that acronym, it stands for the Communist Party of the Portuguese Workers/Revolutionary Movement of the Portuguese Proletariat
Finally, there's European Union President Herman Van Rompuy.
Some may remember him from his Belgin days when he jacked up the Financial and energy sectors to create his "Renewable Energy Fund". However, He's probably known better for recently saying, 2009 is also the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of a financial crisis; the climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet."
So is the end game for these guys really about carbon emmissions? Or is it all about Red and Green?
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Wow, Depot Guy, nice web site you linked to at Red and Green. I'm going to bookmark it in my Commie-Pinko-Scoialist-OneWorld-transnationalist-internationalist-dog poop folder.
I had no idea such dog poop existed.
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You first Ponce. Shut off the gas and electric to Buckingham Palace.
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Not to Buckingham, where the Queen lives. But Clarence House in London and Highgrove House in Gloucestersire could do with thermostat lowering, no doubt. Also his two or three properties in Transylvania. (no joke - look it up)
[An Nahar] President Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday ordered the deployment of additional weaponry on the Kuril islands claimed by Japan, adding Russia needed to expand its presence on an "inseparable" part of its territory.
"The additional weapons which will be deployed there must be sufficient and modern to ensure the security of these islands which are an inseparable part of the Russian Federation," Medvedev said, quoted by Russian news agencies.
"We will make every necessary effort to strengthen our presence on the Kuril islands. This is our strategic region," he said at a meeting with Russia's ministers of defense and regional development.
His comments represented a drastic sharpening of Moscow's tone in the dispute with Tokyo after Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan called Medvedev's unprecedented visit to the islands in November an "unforgivable outrage".
"Ensure that all the necessary decisions are carried out, the deliveries (of weapons) are realized and all the necessary reorganizational measures are fulfilled," Medvedev told Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.
Serdyukov, who also angered Japan when he made an inspection visit to the islands at the weekend, replied that the defense ministry would review what additional arms were needed on the Kurils and would report back at the end of February.
"We will prepare a program by the end of the month. Now we understand what weapons need to be there. We will take a decision by the end of month," Serdyukov was quoted as saying.
The Kurils, which lie north of Japan's Hokkaido island, have been controlled by Moscow since they were seized by Soviet troops in 1945 but their status is a major problem in Moscow-Tokyo relations.
The dispute surrounds the southernmost four islands -- known in Russian as Iturup, Shikotan, Habomai and Kunashir -- which are still claimed by Tokyo and collectively known in Japan as the Northern Territories.
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Japan was lucky that they lost to the US in WW2. Kurile Islands? Spoils of war, sez Russia. Japan is not getting the Kurils back. They need to get over it.
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The queer thing is, apparently Japan fought with the Allies against Germany in the first world war, and was awarded with Germany's part of China as a result. (Trailing daughter #2 learnt that in her Japanese history class today. Not only is that not taught in American world history classes, but its not taught in history classes in Germany, either.)
Under the terms being negotiated, the New York Stock Exchange — which began in 1792 when brokers gathered beneath a buttonwood tree in Lower Manhattan to trade five securities of the new nation — would still have a headquarters in Manhattan. But the Deutsche Börse would own as much as 60 percent of the new company, which would be incorporated in the Netherlands.
AUSTIN —Legislation aimed at strengthening the rights of property owners in eminent domain cases in Texas won unanimous approval in the Senate on Wednesday.
The measure, which goes to the House, passed the Senate in similar form two years ago, but fell victim to an impasse in the House that killed scores of bills in the final days of the last legislative session.
Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, author of the proposal, said his aim is to “restore balance” in the eminent domain process where a government agency or other entity takes private property for a public purpose and compensates the landowner.
Despite previous changes in the law, Estes said the “deck of cards is still stacked against private property owners” because the eminent domain process “does not always properly recognize the true value of a private landowner’s interest.”
Among the various provisions in the bill is language that would allow the original landowner to repurchase his property if no progress toward public use of the land occurs within 10 years of when it is acquired by the governmental entity.
“Sometimes land is condemned under the eminent domain process and then never used,” Estes explained.
The senator said his bill and similar measures in recent years were prompted by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2005 that sanctioned the use of eminent domain for economic development projects.
Texas voters in November 2009 approved a constitutional amendment that limits eminent domain powers by prohibiting government agencies from seizing private property and turning it over to a private developer to increase the local tax base.
The UN leader said that Germany, as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the next two years, has taken on more responsibility for international security and the promotion of human rights.
"We are hoping for stronger German support," he told the German news agency DPA.
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Anything using radio waves is easily jammed. There used to be cordless phones which interfere with household WiFi, for example.
OTOH, amateur radio operators are legally allowed to use extremely strong signals on the WiFi bands, that can easily link WiFi routers ten or more miles apart.
If things in the US really get that bad, I strongly suspect people will be made aware by columns of smoke.
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Does anyone have experience with this method? If you have a local amateur radio club, ask your questions there. The radio frequencies necessary depend on where your other party is. True "short wave" transmissions often cannot be picked up unless you are farther than 100 miles from the transmitter. Amateurs maintain hundreds, perhaps thousands of radio repeaters in the USA. Some are linked in statewide networks. Many can operate during power failures. Operators can reach each other from 0 to 150 miles away (or farther). Some of these networks can be reached through the internet. Cost of licensing is $14 for the test, and as little as $150 for a 2-meter transceiver, brand new, that runs off of a 12-volt battery. Besides amateur radio, there are also the FRS and GMRS systems available in the USA.
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My current copy of Trains magazine had an article on this topic I was hoping to post, but the most recent on the website is this.
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Doctor Steve: you do know that "watermelon" in this instance (used by AC) refers to "green on the outside, red on the inside", i.e.: Ecofascists/Commies, and not a racial thing?
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It's worse than that AH9418.
U.S. Crude Oil and Products Imports:
2005 - 13.714 Mbbl/day
2006 - 13.707 Mbbl/day
2007 - 13.468 Mbbl/day
2008 - 12.915 Mbbl/day
2009 - 11.691 Mbbl/day
Funny how cratering the economy and pocketbooks decreases the demand for oil.
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It's worse than that.. I was trying to get a figure for 'net imports.' According to this, the US exported 2.3 million barrels A DAY of crude & refined petro products for the first 11 months of last year.
[Straits Times] TWO people were killed and five injured in two blasts on Wednesday in eastern Myanmar, an area wracked by a decades-old ethnic insurgency, an official said.
Two bombs went off in the early evening in the border town of Myawaddy in Karen State, killing one man and one woman, said the official, who did not want to be named.
'The local authorities are still investigating the blasts,' the official said.
It was not immediately clear what type of devices were involved, but a local resident contacted by telephone said the kabooms were believed to have been caused by grenades accidentally detonated by border guard forces.
The incident came as politicians gathered at Myanmar's new parliament in the capital Naypyidaw following a widely criticised November election in which an army-backed party claimed a huge victory.
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[Straits Times] SEVERAL Malaysian states are planning a crackdown on 'immoral acts' during Valentine's Day as part of a campaign to encourage a sin-free lifestyle, an Islamic party leader on Wednesday.
Authorities in the northern states of Kedah, Penang and Kelantan as well as central Selangor state will carry out 'immorality checks' on Feb 14, said Nasrudin Hasan Tantawi, head of the Islamic party PAS's youth wing.
PAS is part of the opposition alliance that won control of the four states in 2008 elections. Its conservative stance has caused friction with its two partners including the liberal Chinese-based Democratic Action Party.
'We have identified spots in these states which are used by lovers and we are deploying local religious department officials as well as party members to stop such sinful acts like casual sex which violates Islam,' Mr Nasrudin told AFP.
He said authorities will take action against those caught in the dragnet, under Islamic laws that run in parallel with the civil justice system in Mohammedan-majority Malaysia.
'There have been campaigns promoting 'no panties' on Valentines Day and even free hotel room offers for unmarried couples. We must stop such practices here as these are sinful activities,' he added.
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The Mississippi Division of The Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of four, state-issued license plates to mark the 150th anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression.
The Mississippi SCV has had a state-issued specialty license plate since 2003 to raise money for restoration of Civil War-era flags. From 2003 through 2010, the license plate design featured a small Confederate battle flag.
The Department of Revenue allowed the group to revise the license plate this year for the first of the Civil War sesquicentennial designs. The 2011 plate, now on sale, depicts the Beauvoir mansion in Biloxi, Miss., the final home of Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president.
The SCV wants license plates to feature Civil War battles that took place in Mississippi. It proposes a Battle of Corinth design for 2012 and Siege of Vicksburg design for 2013. Stewart said the 2015 plate would be a tribute to Confederate veterans.
A license plate honoring General Nathan Bedford Forrest is slated for 2014. Forrest, a Tennessee native, is revered by some as a military genius and reviled by others for leading the 1864 massacre of black Union troops at Fort Pillow, Tenn.
Forrest was later a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard in Tennessee during the northern military occupation of the South after the war, leading a resistance movement against his former foes and their corrupt agents.
Almost needless to say, the usual suspects are having a hissy fit with the whole idea.
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The Mississippi Division of The Sons of Confederate Veterans wants to sponsor a series of four, state-issued license plates to mark the 150th anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression.
Let's see. Seceeding before Lincoln had even taken his oath (let's remember that whatever Lincoln's intentions abolition could not have taken place before 1894) then after seeing that the High South had not followed them they launch an unprovoked attack on Fort Sumter, and it was "Northern" agression. Something does not compute here.
A license plate honoring General Nathan Bedford Forrest is slated for 2014. Forrest, a Tennessee native, is revered by some as a military genius and reviled by others for leading the 1864 massacre of black Union troops at Fort Pillow, Tenn.
It wasn't the first and last time that Black troops were massacred by Confederates. I don't know if he tried to prevent it but it would have not been easy given the reaction of confederate soldiers to the sighht of Blacks in uniform.
BTW AFAIK Forrest created the Klan to fight carpet baggers, ended advocating its dissolution and by the end of his life advocating racial equality.
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Pure coincidence of course.
Not to mention -
Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights. Ratified 7/9/1868
Amendment 15 - Race No Bar to Vote. Ratified 2/3/1870
Ohfergawd's sake, get over it already. What do they want? To reestablish slavery?
Maybe this is just a general reaction to the general direction our government overlords are trying to take us in. If so, figure it out and just say it then.
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Frequently ignored in the story of Ft. Pillow is the fact that Forrest's troops killed white prisoners too. It was a massacre and a war crime pure and simple.
In my opinion, Gen. Forrest should have been hung as a war criminal, not celebrated.
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Gen. Forrest was a brilliant cavalry and guerrilla commander. He was also one of the most bigoted and hateful people of the south and should have been hung for war crimes and terrorism.
Gen. Lee or Gen. Jackson would have been a much better choice.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest did not organize the KKK. He was never a member but was an advisor. When the Klan turned violent he severed all ties and even published letters in the newspapers calling on them to stop. He was not on the battlefied when the Black soldiers were murdered and when informed about it he rode hard and fast back to Fort Pillow to put a stop to it. His 20 man personal bodyguard was compsed almost entirely of Black troops. He was tried for the Fort Pillow massacre but was found not guilty as he didn't order it, was not there when it started, and did his best to stop it.
The Liberal Headline was Missippi License Plates to Honor Former KKK Leader.
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P. S. Read his farewell address to his troops when he surrebdered them. He told them they were being treated well and they had been good soldiers so go home and be good citizens. He wasn't bigotted. The Black citizens called on him for help when they were being railroaded out of the elections.
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Yankee propaganda says Forrest ordered the "massacre of Ft. Pillow". History tells a much different story of a botched retreat after confederate snipers killed the union commander, a shitload of rum and whisky overtaken by confederate forces and drank during battle, and a whole lotta angst from local boys who's family farms had been sequestered to the service of union troops at Ft. Pillow. Go Hatchie Tigers! But the battle cry "remember Ft. Pillow" sure encouraged those brave yankee soldiers to burn, steal and murder their way across the South with the real war criminal Gen Sherman, the blue bastard.
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I'm inclined to give Sherman a break considering the state of the war and need to end it. At that point there was no reason to believe the South would ever stop fighting until brought to heel, at least in the mindset of the North. I'm no history expert either so feel free to correct my "ignorance" on the subject.
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I have lived in the South 40 years and find there is a push to either revise the history of the Civil War or erase it altogether. I live in east Tennessee where brother literally fought against brother. After Virginia, Tennessee had more battles than any other state. Unlike the North, the history of that war is all around us. The Civil War period is one of the most interesting periods in our history--maybe the most interesting period.
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In a related item today, Park Rangers executing a search warrant in Petersburg, VA called in local & state police for assistance after discovering a potentially 'live' Civil War artillery shell.
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.
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Scientists in Iceland are warning that another volcano looks set to erupt and threatening to spew-out a pall of dust that would dwarf last year's event. Geologists detected the high risk of a new eruption after evaluating an increased swarm of earthquakes around the island's second largest volcano.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Tunisia's Senate was called on Wednesday to grant wide powers to the interim president struggling to restore order to the country following the overthrow of ex-leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
(KUNA) -- The need to shift economies onto a lower carbon route was highlighted by the UK's Prince Charles at opening of Low Carbon Prosperity Summit at the European Parliament here on Wednesday. He emphasized the need "to move away from the conventional economic model of growth which is based on the production of high carbon intensity products".
[Straits Times] TWO people were killed and five injured in two blasts on Wednesday in eastern Myanmar, an area wracked by a decades-old ethnic insurgency, an official said.
[Straits Times] SEVERAL Malaysian states are planning a crackdown on 'immoral acts' during Valentine's Day as part of a campaign to encourage a sin-free lifestyle, an Islamic party leader on Wednesday.
