An 18-year-old actor who said he was inspired by the TV-series "Jackass" donned a heavy white costume on Sunday and lay down on a highway through the Norwegian town of Askim. One motorist narrowly managed to avoid hitting him, but a second couldnât stop and ran over the teenager. He died instantly, and two colleagues filming the stunt face criminal charges.
The teenager and two colleagues, aged 23 and 28, had been performing in a childrenâs theater in Sweden and were on their way home to Oslo when they decided to stop and take a break in Askim Sunday evening. Suddenly, according to the two colleagues, the 18-year-old donned one of their costumes based on the Moomin characters of Finland (called Mummitroll in Norway) and asked them to film him. He then proceeded to lie down in the eastbound lane of the busy E-18 highway near the Sekkelsten intersection, an area marked as having a high accident risk and where the speed limit is reduced to 70kph (about 40mph).
The driver of the first car that approached swerved over the center line to avoid hitting him, and came to a screeching halt. The 18-year-old wouldnât give up the stunt, and with his colleagues still filming, he continued to lie in the road.
The next driver, who came along just 20 seconds later, was unable to swerve or stop quickly enough and ran over the 18-year-old. His colleagues kept filming. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose....
Now they face charges for failing to force their colleague off the road and for thus endangering both his and othersâ lives. Both told police later that the stunt wasnât planned. The driver of the car that hit the teenager was in shock Sunday night. Police who have reviewed the film of the stunt were also shaken by what they saw. It was impossible for them to know whether the teenager had other motives for lying down on the busy highway.
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The two phrases, 'inspired by the TV-series "Jackass"' and 'with his colleagues still filming,' continue to bother me. Obviously, when it comes to idiotic behavior, this youth was the force multiplier.
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Clearly these kids had not done a lot of driving. I did things on my bike as a kid (assuming cars could see me) that I would never do today (knowing how many idiots drive).
And what would have happened if a car swerved over the center line and hit another car? Or if the car swerved off the road and hit the camera team. This is just plain moronic. I don't think Jackass should be blamed at all, these kids were idiots and if not this, it would have been something else.
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It takes a unique idiot to admit that he is "inspired" by a show called Jackass. There was a movie called Dumb and Dumber; I think we have now found Dumbest.
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Darwin Award, anyone?
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at least he came pre-packaged for the coroner, which is nice....
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Search efforts continue to recover the body of a man who died during a bar competition over the weekend.Crews have been searching the Rock River for three days and still havenât found the body of 52-year-old Doral Gates. Search boats are currently in the water but still havenât found his body. Should have waited a half-an-hour after the double-order of curley fries.
Fire crews in Beloit continue to search for the body of a 52-year-old man who died on Saturday after participating in a belly flop competition. Friends of the victim continue to pay their respects along the bridge where the belly flop competition took place, and roses mark the spot where Gates is believed to have lost his life.
Meanwhile, while the search for his Gateâs body continues, attention is also turning towards Diamond Jimâs who held the belly flop competition. Some people say they are angry that the bar would let a man who was intoxicated jump off a bridge to win a contest especially since there were no safety measures in place, and this man is looking to file a criminal complaint against the bar for negligence. Which man, did they psychically interview the dead guy? Is it the 2nd place finsher just complained because he didnât win the case of Bud Lite?
We could not reach the owner of Diamond Jimâs, but the Beloit sheriff says they plan to meet with the city of Beloit to determine if the bar violated conditions in their liquor license and if anything criminal. I guess thatâs better than having a hair-rock band burn your bar to the ground with many of the customers still inside.
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I had a friend who got the nickname "Steel balls" due to the way he plunged from the starting plot at the swimming pool.
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Noooooo, of course not! It's djinns! Everybody know this, you silly ignorant infidels. My djinn is named Herr Blickenstorfer. His magic is especially potent in regards to investments.
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Its going to one hell of an interesting 12 months. The post cold war realignment of interests and alliances continues. As the centre of gravity of the EU moves East, the UK looks to the West.
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The EU SupraNation was originally an idealistic belief that the common political,social,cultural heritage of Europe was greater than differ between individual countries.As the Euro elites have wandered ever further into intellectual fantasy-lands,the elites have come to believe they must have the EU both to impose their theories on the masses and to successfully fight American economic,political and social theories.To date the elites and the "people" have had an informal understanding-the people will go along w/whatever the elites say,so long as the people get a decent job,that's not too time-consuming,adequate health care,assured retirement coverage,etc.Now,w/various European economies in the tank(and no longer able to blame Cold War military budgets for any problems),the people are being told they can't get the benefits they were promised.This is the brewing Euro crisis.If the elites are no longer able to deliver,the people will stop listening and revolt against the elites.
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I don't think Kim will allow foreigners to distribute aid in his country. It will have to be transferred to his trucks as all good things must seem to come from him for him to continue the farce. He must be afraid that the flag spinning automatons in his army might lack in enthusiasm, if they find a Made-in-America stamp on any of the distributed pup tents.
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so then do not send anything....if it is not delivered by ngo's them kimmy will skim off what he wants..as usual...i say cut off all contact-aid and let china deal with it...encourage japan and taiwan to take protective meauses upto nuclear armment to defend themselves....if china really wants nkor a leverage then she must also deal with the consquences of an unchecked in nkor in the region.
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Dan, I think that is Cheney, Armitage and Bolton are probably insuring that the five other parties are aware that the US position is very close to what you have described. My only addition would be to explain to all concerned that if pressed we plan to bend the NPT over the hood of our car (ala the French, Russians and Germans) and proliferate nukes to Taiwan, Japan and possibly South Korea.
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North Korea, meanwhile, lauded the "heroic deaths" of four people killed after running into collapsing or burning buildings after the explosion to retrieve portraits of leader Kim Jong Il and his late father, national founder Kim Il Sung.
Gonna be real fun for S. Korea, rebuilding this loony-bin when it collapses...
For a true account of a sniper duel, check out the exploits of a Chinese Australian sniper, Billy Sing, during WWI, against Turkish troops during the Gallipolli campaign:
The next attempt by the Turks to clear their left flank of the unrelenting Australian sniper was more formidable. Reports of these efforts came to light later, from accounts by Turkish prisoners, as well as translated extracts from diaries removed from the bodies of their dead.
The Turks sent for their own champion near the centre of the front line. Already decorated by the sultan for his proficiency, the Turkish sniper -whom the Australians called "Abdul the Terrible" - probably relished the challenge. Abdul brought with him a determination which matched Billy Singâs. The Turkâs hunt to locate his Anzac counterpartâs position took on the professional vigour of a forensic scientist. Each fresh description of yet another sniping victim would see Abdul quickly sent to the spot. Here he would thoughtfully examine the crime scene. There was an inexplicable ability by the Turks to separate the indiscriminate good fortune of some of the Anzac shooters from the true craftsmanship of the sniper Sing. Accordingly, the only reports passed on to Abdul were those confidently assessed as having been the work of the deadly and unseen Australian rifleman.
Reconstructing each fatal shot, the Turk determined the bulletâs angle of trajectory from the entry and exit wounds. And he studied the exact position and stance of the latest victim at the moment of impact, as recounted by those who stood nearby. With each calculation, the Turkish sniper drew with his eye a line which ended at an area of the Australian trenches on Harris Ridge. Eventually a pattern began to emerge. His gaze consistently returned to fix on one specific location, a small rise on the heights at Chathamâs Post. At last he had found the lair of the too-efficient Australian killer.
Mirroring Billy Singâs pre-sniping preparations, the Turk selected a suitable sight. In the darkness of each night, he built his own position. When it was finished, Abdul - like his Australian adversary - took up his post each morning well before dawn. Many days were spent simply watching and waiting. Despite tempting targets which appeared from time to time, the Turkish sniper held his fire. He knew that his quarry would not be among these unwise Australians. An opportunist shot might give him away.
Eventually, however, his persistence paid off. He returned to the Turkish trenches late one evening, certain that he had found his rival and that the new day would see him finally end Singâs winning streak. The next morning, Billy and his spotter took up their position. As Sing settled himself in, the observer began his dayâs first semi-alert yawning frontal sweep with the telescope. Almost immediately the manâs movement abruptly ceased and he whispered to his sniper that he already had a target. Sing took the telescope and, glancing towards a point indicated by his spotter, he stared ahead - in the face and rifle-muzzle of Abdul the Terrible.
Carefully taking up his rifle, Sing made a final check that nothing would betray their position; then gently eased the loophole cover back and cautiously pushed the weapon forward. The Turk also saw Sing and began his own firing sequence. As he settled the rifle into his shoulder, Abdul drew in a breath and steadily sighted it on Sing. At that moment, a bullet struck the Turk between the eyes.
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It is one of the ironies about WWI that for a time on the western front it was a snipers war. The common image of WWI is that the Maxim and Vickers guns were the great killers when the fact is that most of the battlefield casualities were caused by the artilley of both sides
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#1,right you are.I read a book on WW1,Euorpe,awhile back in wich the German High Command figured it would take 10 soldiers to sieze evry meter of ground during the swing through Belgaim.The bodies were stacked so high British soldiers had to knock over the piles in order to keep shooting.
EFL - the head-baggy issue continues to cause chaos. Can we get Kofi to make a call on this one? Capt Hook is running amok in London and gets a 9 month VISA extension, while the Western World confronts the lady with the sock on her mellon. What gives?
A Womenâs Premier League soccer game was called off on Sunday after a player was told she could not take the field unless she removed her Muslim headscarf. A referee refused to start the game between South Melbourne Womenâs Soccer Club and Keilor Park WSC until South Melbourne player Afifa Saad took off her hijab.
"He said âYou canât play with it on. Is there something wrong with your head?â I said âNo, Iâm Muslimâ," Ms Saad told Channel Nine yesterday. Rewind and review that exchange several times.
The sports fanatic, in her fourth season with South Melbourne, always plays in a white Muslim scarf and long track pants under her team shorts. It was the first time she had been asked to remove her hijab. When she refused, teammates and the opposition team supported her. "She was crying when it happened. Her teammates rallied around her, which was great to see... they stood behind her and said we will not play now," South Melbourne coach Alex Alexopoulos said. The referee later said Ms Saad, 21, could take the field if she changed the colour of her scarf to match her uniform. Then, after consulting the Victorian Soccer Federation, he agreed Ms Saad could play, but by then the game had been delayed for more than 15 minutes, which meant it had to be postponed. "She is very distraught, very upset," Mr Alexopoulos said.
Embarrassed Victorian Soccer Federation officials moved quickly to rule out any suggestion that the referee - an experienced official of more than 12 yearsâ standing - had discriminated against the player, but agreed that she deserved an apology.
The organisation said it had begun an inquiry into the controversy and expected to produce a report within a week.
Mr Bambridge said the sportâs global controlling body, FIFA, regarded such headwear as acceptable as long as it was not deemed to be dangerous to other players by containing pins or other implements. He said South Melbourne would not forfeit the points and the match would be replayed. The referee could be subject to disciplinary action once the federation had determined what had taken place, he said.
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Young Ibn told his father, "they mock me father, they mock my robe and they mock the prophet. They say he is fake".
"Fake!" cried Ibns' father. He turns to his cousin, a man ready to avenge. "Begin then revenge."
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Depends on whether you mean the sword or the mine.
Mike
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heh. Now if it was rugby, I'd let her keep it on. Just makes the other team want to hit her harder.
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Damn right - good for binding in the scrum as well.
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LOL! everyone. Nice string of comments.
If her father or brother or uncle is going to beat the living sh-t out of her if she doesn't wear the nonsense, I can understand it. Let that be known to everyone--let it be public knowledge. And let them know also, that all Islamic pseudo-men need to die.
But I can't stand the idea of some silly, oppressed, repressed, female Muslim man-worshipper holding herself up to be some kind of "holy" thing in comparison to her other ("slutty") team members in their shorts and t-shirts.
And they go along with it, because why? . . . Oh yeah. It's very important for US to be "culturally" sensitive--but not for them to be.
What's next?? "Barney is my god, and in reverence for him I must don the purple and green body costume?" People are stupid to let this continue--the Islamoidz are laughing all the way to the bank.
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Howard, look at the picture. I think she is actually wearing flash gear. It should work fine for a head ball.
Ex-lib, if you want to don the colors of Barney, they might just make you the goalie. :-)
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Can't get the picture I'm afraid - page won't load damn it.. I imagine it to be a filmy membrane thus avoiding any unpredictability in the flight of the ball from a header. It could bamboozle a goalie if it was any kind of Wazibilly turban.
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It could bamboozle a goalie if it was any kind of Wazibilly turban.
LOL. It worries me that I understand exactly what you're saying.
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch let down his hair during a business conference in Los Angeles this past weekend, warning of rough times ahead. "There is going to be real trouble coming in Europe I think," Murdoch said, noting the large Muslim communities living in France. Just what kind of trouble is that, Rupee?
He sees terrorist breeding grounds in France, offered a blunt critique of the European Union and voiced fears about Saudi Arabia and China, according to Australiaâs Financial Review. Oh, you mean like Eurabia?
Despite the ranking of his co-speakers, including Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences; Thomas Hughes, Deutsche Bankâs global head of asset management; Sharon Allen, chairman of Deloitteâs U.S. board of directors; and Jami Miscik, the CIAâs deputy director of intelligence, Murdochâs views held center stage. With his audience spellbound, Murdoch warned that he believes Europe, particularly France, has failed to properly assimilate large Muslim immigrant populations from Northern Africa and the Middle East, all of which makes Europe more vulnerable to another terrorist attack than the is the U.S. Read here for more lashings by Rupee at wood shed.
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Murdoch is right about Saudi Arabia: if they collapes and oil goes to $90 / barrel, the west will suffer but China and many Asian countries will be in a HUGE world of hurt.
People forget that democracy, prosperity and freedom aren't facts that get established once and for all - they can and have and will disappear if their foundations are sufficiently eroded and an outside influence attacks.
Hat tip LGF. EFL.
Note: This INDC Science Series is best appreciated if read aloud with an Australian or Queenâs English accent. Thank you.
Spring is in the air here in Washington, DC. The cherry blossoms have come and gone, the sun is shining, the air is thick with pollen and representatives of the IMF and World Bank are gathering, factors that all combine to form a perfect storm of seasonal moonbat migration in the downtown area of the District. As a research scientist dedicated to documenting the behaviors of the order Chiroptera, I considered this a miraculous opportunity, especially since my recent efforts to find these fascinating creatures had been met with rather disappointing results. Thereâs more, and pictures. Well, we know theyâre birdbrained.
Saw this earlier -- it's a whole new field of science!
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Fuck it. Every woman should have the right to choose. I really don't think you can begin to criticise the Arabs' misogynies whilst perpetrating your own. I think I'd be punching the pro-lifers, personally.
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Howard UK, I think I know where you are coming from, but check out this link from a feminists' group. These women think differently about the issue and what is choice.
someone - I think you need to post a comment on an existing article each day before you attempt to post an article -- at least until you are added to an exception list which gives you the Power Of God. I hear-tell you get free upgrades to First Class, Limos, all the Vegas Showgirls / Chippendales' Dancers, etc. you want, too. Something like that, anyway.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio The man who would be president takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - on whole wheat, strawberry jelly preferred to grape - twice a day on the campaign trail. He wears $15 reading glasses, off the rack at a CVS drug store. Before bedtime, he starts but rarely finishes movies like "Seabiscuit" and "The Blues Brothers" in his hotel suite. Come morning, he leaves $20 for the maid.
"Iâll get that back when I raise her taxes", he says
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Voters do not learn these tidbits about Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the all-but-crowned Democratic nominee for president, from his campaign Web site, his public speeches or his television advertisements. These and other details are the portfolio of the man literally behind the man, ready with a uncapped bottle of water whenever Kerryâs throat runs dry.
What ever Johnny wants, Johnny gets
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Meet Marvin Nicholson Jr., Chief of Stuff.
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"I canât help with policy, I donât do press," said Nicholson, 32, a former bartender and caddie who never voted before meeting Kerry in 1998. "When he wants that peanut butter and jelly sandwich, Iâm ready."
Well peanut butter and jelly sandwich served on a Scooby-Doo plate
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So Nicholson crisscrosses the country with a loaf of bread in his bag. He makes most of the sandwiches himself, sometimes supplementing with room service.To spend a day in Nicholsonâs shadow is to see the personal side of a candidate entering an increasingly scripted and sheltered phase of the campaign. Kerry, 59, is comfortable being catered to. He has his moods, and his myriad personal needs. A social loner, he iscontent to hang out with an aide half his age.
A social loner? Middle-aged social loners. All kinds of problems
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Nicholson rouses Kerry each morning with a phone call.Then, after a few minutes, he heads down the hall, picks up the newspapers outside Kerryâs door and brings them to him. He orders and delivers all of Kerryâs meals.
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He keeps little black books filled with the names and numbers of people Kerry meets, dials many of his telephone calls, helps select his neckties (and opening one-liners), collects gifts from well-wishers and transports Kerryâs leather briefcase, three hunter-green duffels and two navy suit bags.At night, he often stays by Kerryâs side until he is ready to turn in.
Helps him put on the jammies, I bet. I thought that was Nurse Fuzzy-Wuzzyâs job!
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If he sounds like a glorified valet, Nicholson is also Kerryâs ambassador, spreading smiles and remembering names for a candidate known to fumble them, reading his reactions for other aides. And, in an entourage of politicos and policy wonks, Nicholson is Kerryâs buddy, going long to catch the football whenever he feels like tossing it.
Kerry has some one who wonât complain if he doesnât throw straight.
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Every modern presidential candidate has a factotum, known as the "body man." They are typically ambitious Washington junkies, overqualified to schlep bags but eager to shake the high-powered hands in between.
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Nicholson, who earned a geography degree at the University of Western Ontario, and who aspired to the Weather Channel, seems a different breed.
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Rearedon Vancouver Island in Canada and in Toronto by an American mother - his father died when he was 9 - Nicholson carries dual citizenship. He befriended Kerry, a customer, while working at a windsurfing shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then caddied for him two summers on Nantucket.
Not even an American. I see! No American would put up with this BS
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He postponed Kerryâs offer of a Senate internship to caddie at Augusta National, home of the Masters, then landed in Washington the week before the 2000 election. By New Yearâs, he had become Kerryâs driver. They hit the campaign trail together last winter.
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Nicholsonâs role has evolved with the campaign. He is no longer the guy who gets the toothpaste. Instead, Nicholson, who earned $45,000 last year, is the guy who asks the guy to get the toothpaste. There are plenty of people around, now, to help lug Kerryâs Spanish guitar to his room at night and tote his fancy Serotta racing bicycle on and off the plane.
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But it is the towering Nicholson who anticipates Kerryâs needs as they make eye contact across the crowds. It is Nicholson who is ready with a fresh shirt after a rally in intense heat. When Kerry stays overnight at supportersâ homes, it is Nicholson who accompanies him. When Kerryâs wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, joins him on the road, Nicholsonâs routine hardly changes.
My Gawd Senator Pampered. Senator removed from real world.
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And it is Nicholson who decides what and when Kerry eats, no longer needing to ask about his cravings.
I wonât comment on this.
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"Can I have that prepared dry with peanut butter on the side?" he asked the other morning in Tampa, Florida, as he ordered two eggs over easy, bacon, whole-wheat toast and apple juice from room service.
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"Do you guys have any yogurt? Raspberry yogurt? Is it in, like, little containers? Could I get two containers?"
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For lunch and dinner, while the staff scarfs sandwiches and chips, Nicholson finds hot food for Kerry - a local specialty is nice, but a standby is soup and half chicken with three sides (corn, green beans, mashed potatoes).
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"Marvin takes care of everything," Milton Ferrell, Kerryâs Florida fundraiser, said as he introduced him to a donor at a reception that afternoon.
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For lunch and dinner, while the staff scarfs sandwiches and chips, Nicholson finds hot food for Kerry - a local specialty is nice, but a standby is soup and half chicken with three sides (corn, green beans, mashed potatoes).
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Bush has a Chief of Staff too (Andrew H. Card, Jr) and he pretty much does what this guy is doing. It says this guy has DUAL citizenship. Nothing news worthy here. However he did Caddie at the racists Augusta Nationals! Please don't go the way of DU: "We hate him and everything about him." I find it an interesting glimpse into Kerry's world but nothing that makes me like OR hate him personally.
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I'll guarantee you that he rigs Kerry's windsurfer before they go sailing. If Kerry is elected (please, no, not that), this guy could be the windsurfing Secret Service agent Teresa says they will need. Must be nice to have a valet.
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Dude, the article says "Chief of Stuff", not "Chief of Staff". It's a stupid pun. The guy isn't a Chief of Staff, he's a gofer. In The West Wing terms, he's not Leo, he's Charlie. A gentleman's gentleman, as it were. They even use the v-word in the article - valet. Wonder whether we'll get a profile of the much-speculated-upon butler as well?
Did I mention recently how much I despise the nobility? Bah.
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Sarge; respectfully - I don't hate him. But this makes me think he acts like a spoilt child.
I also don't visualize Andrew Card smearing the Skippy on the whole wheat for the president.
This Nicholson is more of a valet than a chief of staff.
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My bad. But isn't that what Card does too? He schedules things for the Prez and makes sure that all runs smoothly? I doubt he is slathering skippy for George but I be he does many of theings described in the article.
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Yes, Sarge, Andy Card is a jack-of-all-trades, but
it just strikes me funny.
If I were to become super-rich, I might have to hire a personal sandwich maker, but for now I can make sandwiches myself, and occasionally the wife will make me a sandwich, as I do for her. The life of us regular folks.
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He keeps little black books filled with the names and numbers of people Kerry meets
I wonder if someone could get ahold of these little black books? We might find out the names of those foreign leaders then! Or maybe find out there weren't any.
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AF Lady - The leaders would be in those "Little Black Books". Remember? He meets the leaders in the NY restaurants, and Nicholson would thus be jotting down the names.
He makin' a list
Checkin' it twice
Gonna' find out
Who's naughty and nice.
Hat tip to Drudge:
FOXâs global warming thriller THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW is turning into a political lightening rod. A rally featuring former VP and environmental advocate Al Gore will be held a couple of blocks away from the picâs May 24 preem in Gotham and hosted by MoveOn.org, DAILY VARIETY is reporting on Wednesday.
AlGore promoting it makes it official, this movie will sink faster than Howlin' Howard Dean.
Now if only we can get Al to hold the lightning rod during the storm ...
Helmed by director Roland Emmerich, DAY follows the onset of a new Ice Age just three days after the polar ice caps melt. With Emmerichâs penchant for onscreen destruction, the pic includes catastrophic tornadoes touching down in Los Angeles, giant fire-breathing monsters hail in Tokyo and the flooding and freezing of New York.
The message is this will happen because Bush didn't sign Kyoto.
VARIETY reporter Gabriel Snyder is planning to quote Gore: âTHE DAY AFTER TOMORROW presents us with a great opportunity to talk about the scientific realities of climate change. Millions of people will be coming out of theaters on Memorial Day weekend asking the question, âCould this really happen?â
"Did I really spend $10 to watch this turkey?"
I think we need to answer that question.â FOX spokeswoman Florence Grace said the pic âis meant to entertain audiences with a mix of spectacle and emotion. If it also increases awareness and inspires audiences to take an interest in some of the issues raised in the film, then all the better.â
"But best of all, we make a boat-load of money."
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Are they aware it's fiction?
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Ok, this clinches it. The dems are completely loony.
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A few climate experts have said recently that theory this movie is based on is junk science. Add to that the movie trailer looked lame and the movie could bomb. Add to that Clinton/Gore's 8 years of nada regarding Kyoto and alternative energy sources.
Dems would be wise to avoid getting to close to the movie.
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Look out guys, the Dems have had "witch doctors" working on the weather here in LA, to promote the movie. It was 102F/38C yesterday. But the problem is, Kerry is probably going to carry California anyway. There goes incompetent Terry McAuliffe messing up again.
He he he
PS : For non left-coasters - We have this thing called San'tana winds so we can have hot weather Nov-April occasionally.
I've seen 90Fs in January. The only thing is when they start up in March-April all the pollen blows off the desert and everyone's hay fever goes crazy. . . including mine. . .
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Btw do you guys know that historically the warm periods between ice ages have lasted only 2-3000 years (ice ages last about 100,000 years). 97% of the time the earth is in what we call "ice ages" kinda implies we should instead be calling this a "warm age"...
Anyway... we've currently been in a warm period for about 11,000 years and scientists aren't sure why. But, there is a growing belief among scientist that humans have actually succesfully delayed the coming of the ice age through organized farming starting about 9,000 years ago and later through industrialization. That's right the only thing keeping us from an ice age is polluting the environment... so get those SUVs running rantburgers we need to save the planet!
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I don't know if this is Drudge's wording or if it's actually in the plot, but I love the idea of the ice caps slowly melting with no effect on climate, and then - WHAMMO! - three days later we're in an ice age. I don't quite get how global warming provokes a global ice age, though. Must be nuance.
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One thing that the melting of the Greenland icecap would do is completely disrupt the Gulf Stream and plunge the climate of Northern Europe into a very different climate. I mean look at the map and see just how far north Scotland really is. The main thing keaping Northen Europe's climate as mild as it is, is the warm waters of the Gulf Stream.
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I usually like Roland Emmerich's stuff (think "Independence Day" and "Stargate"), but this film is so bogus on so many levels I wouldn't even watch it for free on TV.
It would be a more productive use of 2 hours to just watch oil paint dry.
If the Dems actually believe this ridiculous junk, or even say they do for political purposes, they're dumber and nuttier than I thought.
By the way, for those of you who don't know, the earth's average temperature for the last 100 years has warmed maybe 1 degree F, and most of that was before WWII.
From what I've read about this movie, it gives new meaning to the words "crock of shit."
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"I don't quite get how global warming provokes a global ice age, though. Must be nuance."
According to lefty pseudoscience druids eminent authorities, this works in much the same way that setting fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields would cause a global catastrophe akin to nuclear winter. Oh, wait a minute...
I'll pass. Al Gore...boooring. They should have got the unibomber. I might have been interested.
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DPA, We are in an ice age currently, and have been for that last million and a half years. Otherwise what you say is correct.
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Gee, DPA, I sure would like to buy a Cadillac Escalade!
They are gorgeous!
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BigED!!! Absolutely hilarious!! LOL!! You really made my day with that one.
I'm gonna go see it. I think it looks fun. It's a movie for cryin' out loud! Hey, pass the popcorn . . .
And I think somebody needs to tell the Dems that "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." Maybe we should all go to Al Gore's gig. He invented the ice age, after all. And I never did get to thank him for inventing the internet . . .
Now weâve truly heard it all. Rising gas prices are the latest John Kerry [related, bio] campaign theme, so naturally the senator was asked this week about his personal vehicle usage.
Kerry insisted, ``I donât own an SUV.ââ
When pressed about a Chevrolet Suburban, the mother of all SUVs, kept at the Heinz Kerry abode in Idaho, Kerry said: ``The family has it. I donât have it.ââ
Kerry has now closed the distance between nuance and flat-out deception.
And thatâs without mentioning the other gas-guzzlers this candidate and his family enjoy, all the while posturing about reducing the nationâs dependence on foreign oil and fuel efficiency.
At last count, there were eight ``familyââ cars and SUVs, including the 1995 Suburban (15 mpg highway, 12 mpg city), a 1993 Land Rover Defender (12 mpg highway, 10 mpg city), a 1989 Jeep Cherokee (20 mpg highway, 16 mpg city), a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee (20 mpg highway, 15 mpg city), a 2001 Audi Allroad (21 mpg highway, 15 mpg city), a 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser (25 mpg highway, 20 mpg city), a 1985 Dodge 600 Convertible (26 mpg highway, 23 mpg city), and a 2002 Chrysler 300M (26 mpg highway, 18 mpg city). Kerry, however, only owns up to the latter two.
Then thereâs the 2002 Harley Davidson (his), two powerboats (one his, one hers), a power inflatable 2001 Novurania (his), and a Gulfstream II private jet (hers).
President Kerry would have to open his own pipeline in Saudi Arabia just to meet family fuel demand.
Yet there he was yammering on to reporters Thursday about making a hybrid (powered by gas and electricity) his ``campaign car.ââ
Itâs probably not politically correct to refer to the senator as the head of the Heinz Kerry family.
But last we checked, he is a part of it, no?Kerryâs prevarication is trivial in the context of terrorism, the war in Iraq, the economy and all the serious issues this country - and its next president - will confront.
But if voters canât trust John Kerry to play it straight on the little things, how can they trust him on the big things?
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It sounds like Kerry himself needs to sign the Kyoto accords.
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There's more than enough to fault him for. But does anyone REALLY give a shit about this one?
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growler, about the SUV - I dont give a rats asp. But about deliberately lying and telling falsehoods for his own political gain --- I do give a shait about that.
Mr. Lincoln Gives a Press ConferenceâSeptember 1, 1864
Some thoughts to keep in mind as we surround Fallujah
Mr. Lincoln, you promised victory over our enemies, but as the recent attack on our capital itself by General Early proves, isnât it more accurate to say you cannot even protect us from assault in our own homes? Can you right now guarantee that we will not see another surprise attack on Washington?
Mr. President, we are now in the fourth year of what clearly has become a quagmire with no end in sight. Opposition to your conduct of the war is growing by the day. Do you attribute this present mess to your own failure to communicate?
Mr. Lincoln, will you please respond to charges that you used the attack on Fort Sumner as cover to wage a preplanned war to punish the South?
Mr. Lincoln, please. Almost every day now we hear of our soldiers being killed with little progress in either Virginia or Georgia. Can you tell us why General Sherman seems unwilling or unable to take Atlanta? And was it, in fact, a mistake to send General Sherman deep into the South, when the greater enemy, General Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, are still undefeated in near sight of our capital? If we cannot pacify Virginia, why in Godâs name are we in Georgia? Isnât Sherman diverting attention from the real enemy near our capital?
Mr. President, when exactly was the last time you visited a war hospital and have you spent any time recently at any of our national cemeteries?
With all due respect, Mr. President, may I ask why and how after months of searching and constant patrols, no one can find, much less capture Nathan Bedford Forrest, who as a result has become a folk hero to millions?
Mr. President, why after years of occupation are there still killings and assassinations in Missouri and Kentucky? Were not these areas supposed to have been pacified long ago?
Mr. Lincoln, would you please respond to General McClellanâs charges at the recent Chicago convention that with the establishment of the Emancipation Proclamation you misled this nation in the reasons you gave for this war. Is it not true, Mr. President, that you assured Americans that you have started this war to preserve the Union and protect federal property in the South? Yet now you claim that in fact our sons are dying to free slaves and provide equality to the Negro? What was the real reason, Mr. Lincoln, that you cooked up this war and got us into this mess, and why did you not tell us the full story when the shooting started?
Mr. Lincoln, are you aware of a small cabal of abolitionists in your War Department who in secret planned this disaster to further their own hidden support for the Negro and hoodwinked you into starting this war of northern aggression?
Given the illustrious war record of General McClellan and your own murky past as a soldier, isnât it wiser for the American people to turn over their armies to someone with some real experience with war?
Mr. President, Sir, do you not think it is high time now to apologize for this summerâs slaughter in Virginia, and the thousands of poor innocent boys who were butchered there due to the ignorance and incompetence of your generals, about whose shortcomings you most surely knew? Can we at least have from you an âIâm sorryâ to all the kin of the poor dead?
Mr. Lincoln: We have now seen a long train of failure. And after the removal of Generals McDowell, Hooker, Pope, and a score of others, isnât it clear that you have no clear idea how to defeat the enemy, much less the proper person to lead us out of this present and mostly unnecessary mess?
Isnât it also true Mr. President, that in light of the recent draft riots and attrition in the field, we have too few troops at the front? Why are we not committing another 40,500 soldiers now to ensure that we never see again anything like these recent weeks of constant Confederate aggression?
Rumors are flying, Mr. President, of general unhappiness in your cabinet, and of statements by Mr. Stanton and others that you are simply not qualified either in temperament or character to finish the warâand especially that you were obsessed with freeing the slaves and starting this war when the southern states wished only to leave in peace and posed no direct threat to the security of the United States? Why is it, Mr. President, that so many of your ex-friends and subordinates now speak so poorly about you?
Now that this war clearly has failed to reunite the Union and that you, Sir, will not be reelected as President of the United States, can you at last admit where you were in error and to the mistakes that led us to our present defeat?
Mr. Lincoln, do you not think it was naïve to assume that Northerners could impose by force Yankee-style democracy and culture on the traditional society of the South? Isnât this arrogance on our part to think we can force others to be like us?
What is it about you, Mr. Lincoln, that leads your opponents to such vitriol and invective, to such a degree that you appear as an ape in cartoons and a scoundrel and nave almost daily in public essays and opinion-pieces? And why do the Europeans especially seem to hate you, so much so that England threatens to intervene on the side of our enemies?
Now that it is clear that neither General Grant can take Richmond nor General Sherman Atlanta, have you thought of stopping the war and bringing our boys back home? When will you resign Mr. President?
Gentlemen of the Press. I have ordered General Sherman to take Atlanta. And when he succeeds, I think all your questions shall be answered.
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"If I were to read, much less answer all the attacks made on me, this office might as well as be closed for any other business.
I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said about me won't amount to anything.
If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." Abraham Lincoln
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If that idiot JB Hood hadn't skedadled off to Nashville I still be holding Willie T. off.
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"General Beauregard, I regret that I have not written sooner. You know how difficult it is to keep in touch when on the march. Hope to see you soon."
Gen. W.T. Sherman
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You can win the war and lose the peace. Dont cut and run like you did in 1876.
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a lot of historians would dispute that Ship. We werent losing militarily(in 1876, I mean), there was a failure of will in a North that was increasingly sympathetic to Southern racial views.
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It wasn't just Southern racial views gaining currency; it was generalized 'compassion fatigue' after 10 years and the Republicans selling out to gain Florida for Hayes over Tilden.
I was thinking of Honest Abe today when some twit on NPR breathlessly claimed that no American citizens had ever been denied Habeas Corpus. They were discussing Padilla and the Saudi goof held in the brig as 'enemy combatants'. The statement went unchallenged.
Of course, Abe suspended Habeas Corpus and locked up many 'Copperheads' (Southern sympathizers).
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Date: September 11, 2007
To: WoT Commander, John Weasely Clarke
CC: CINC, President John F'in Kerry
Subject: Insubordination to Idiots in Charge
You commenced your cowardly and contemptable persecution of me soon after the battle of Shiloh, and you have kept it up ever since. You did it because I reported to Richmond UN HQ facts, while you reported damned lies. You robbed me of my command in Kentucky, and gave it to one of your personal favorites -- men that I armed and equipped from the enemies of our country. In a spirit of revenge and spite, because I would not fawn upon you as others did, you drove me into West Tennessee Saudi in the winter of 1862 2006, with a second brigade I had organized, with improper arms and without sufficient ammunition, although I had made repeated applications for the same. You did it to ruin me and my career.
When in spite of all this I returned with my command, well equipped by captures, you began your work of spite and persecution, and have kept it up. And now this second brigade, organized and equipped without thanks to you or the government, a brigade which has won a reputation for successful fighting second to none in the army, taking advantage of your position as the commanding general in order to further humiliate me, you have taken these brave men from me.
I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.
You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them. And I will hold you personally responsible for any further indignities you try to inflict upon me.
You have threatened to arrest me for not obeying you orders promptly. I dare you to do it, and I say that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path, it will be at the peril of your life.
I will reduce Mekkah to rubble and take the oilfields forthwith. This required campaign has demanded your attention and action for far longer than a sane man should have to tolerate. Do not test my patience nor my love for freedom ever again.
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Shit. Change Shiloh to Teheran and Kentucky to Damascus. Apologies. Shit!
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JDB: The left likes the Constitution as long as you don't try to enforce the "mean" parts. Section 9, Clause 2 of the US Constitution:
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
The Constitution is silent on who may suspend habeas corpus, but then the if you gotta do it, it's probably got to be done in a hurry -- no time for deliberations. Bottom line: The US government has the power to suspend habeas corpus when attacked.
Relations between Arab countries and the United States seem to be at an all-time low Theyâve been there ever since 11 Sept 2001, but this article was dated 27 April 2004! I once listened to NPR for its news coverage, but they have very little of it to offer from one day to the next.
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NPR. Not. Particularly. Relevant.
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Radio without the commercials. Brought to you by a grant from ADM. ADM, a world leader in goodness, and by a grant from The Annonberg Foundation, "Is there nothing we don't know."
In todays segment, A gay man fights for his civil rights. "I love my daughter and want her to meet my main man."
He sues and wins, Mom is broke and the school district must pay and pay!
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The conference aims to draw up specific steps, with education being singled out as a key area for action. So we can expect to see results when the current Pre-K students graduate from the 12th grade - except for the guys that attend Madrasses.
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Senior members of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) have met their detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her home in Rangoon. All nine members of the NLD's decision-making Central Executive Committee were present. Vice-chairman, Tin Oo, was brought from house arrest to attend the three hour talks.
All the party leaders were taken into detention last May when Aung San Suu Kyi's convoy was attacked by a pro-junta gang during a political tour of northern Burma. The clash was the start of a major crackdown on the pro-democracy opposition.
The NLD has made repeated requests to the ruling junta for a meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the regime's plans to begin a national convention to draft a new constitution on May 17 and whether to attend the forum. The ruling junta is keen for as many political parties and ethnic groups as possible to attend the convention, which is the first step in its so-called "roadmap to saving the generals' butts democracy".
The AFP news agency says hopes were high until recently that Aung San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo would be freed before the convention began, but those prospects appear to have faded in recent days as the tense political atmosphere heightens in Rangoon. Aung San Suu Kyi was detained at an undisclosed location after a clash between her supporters and pro-junta demonstrators on May 30. She was admitted to hospital on September 17 for surgery and was transferred from there to house arrest on September 26. It is her third period of house arrest since the late 1980s.
No good way out for the generals.
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TEHRAN - Is Iran about to be invaded by little green men or are the Americans racing through the night sky in spaceships to spy on their arch-foe the Islamic Republic?
Flying saucer fever has gripped Iran after dozens of sightings in the last few days. Fanciful cartoons of alien spacecraft have adorned the front pages.
State television on Wednesday showed a sparkling white disc it said was filmed over Tehran on Tuesday night.
More colourful Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been spotted beaming out green, red, blue and purple rays over the northern cities of Tabriz and Ardebil and in the Caspian Sea province of Golestan, the official IRNA news agency reported.
JACK SCHAFFER: You know what happens to most people after seeing a UFO?
MULDER: They experience "missing time."
JACK SCHAFFER: Any number of "soft option kills" will do... nerve gas... low frequency infrasound beams... Hell, with high-powered microwaves, you can not only cut enemy communications, you can cook internal organs.
MULDER: But abductions?
JACK SCHAFFER: Donât know as much about them. Iâm just the pilot. You ever flown a flying saucer? Afterwards, sex seems trite.
Newspapers and agencies reported people rushing out into the streets in eight towns on Tuesday night to watch a bright extraterrestrial light dipping in and out of the clouds.
An airforce officer in the Revolutionary Guards was quoted in the reformist Vagha-ye Etefaghiyeh daily saying Iranâs Supreme National Security Council should investigate whether these visitors from afar had hostile intent.
MAN IN BLACK: Some alien encounters are hoaxes perpetrated by your government to manipulate the public. Some of these hoaxes are intentionally revealed to manipulate the truth-seekers who become discredited if they disclose the deliberately absurd deception.
MULDER: Similar things are said about the men in black. That they purposely dress and behave strangely so that if anyone tries to describe an encounter with them, they come off sounding like a lunatic.
But Saâdollah Nasiri-Qeydari, head of the Astronomical Society of Iran, told Reuters the stories were unfounded.
"In my opinion, flying saucers do not exist," he said, insisting his telescopes would have picked up invaders from outer space.
"The people who have seen these things are not experts - farmers, villagers and pilots," he added.
MAN IN BLACK: Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing?
He said what people reported was consistent with the planet Venus, whose intense light in its current position would be given different hues by being filtered through the atmosphere.
MAN IN BLACK: No other object as been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.
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I hope that these are Predators or Global Hawks. Either that, or anal probes are being liberally applied to the black turban crowd.
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Shhhhhhhhh Already!
Geez, first our joint US/IDF Death Ray and now this! Loose lips, um, feel good! Keep 'em, uh, right where they are! No more talking! You can hum, however, that's kinda different! mumble, mumble...
Iran has closed a German government-funded language institute in Tehran, the German embassy said, in what was seen as possible retaliation for a plaque put up in Berlin marking the killing of four Iranian Kurds in an attack officially blamed on the clerical regime.
"Officially, the reason given to us was that the centre did not have the necessary permits and the procedure to get them was still in progress," embassy spokeswoman Deike Potsel told AFP. But privately, other diplomatic sources said they did not rule out the possibility that the closure of the language institute was a tit-for-tat response to the unveiling of the Berlin plaque a week ago.
That plaque, in Berlinâs upmarket Charlottenburg district, marks a 1992 attack in the Mykonos restaurant, and carries the victimsâ names and the words: "Murdered by the then regime in Iran. They died fighting for freedom and human rights". A German court concluded in 1997 that the killers of the four were acting on Tehranâs orders, prompting the German government to recall its ambassador and the European Union (news - web sites) to suspend dialogue with the Islamic republic for a year.
The language institute, shut down on Thursday, was opened in 1996 but its permit expired in 2000. The embassy had been under the impression that there was a tacit agreement from authorities here that it could keep functioning. In retaliation for the placing of the plaque in Berlin, Tehranâs conservative-controlled city council has also decided to erect one of its own denouncing Germany for supplying chemical weapons to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), with whom Iran fought a bitter war from 1980-1988. And on Wednesday Germanyâs ambassador to Iran, Baron Paul von Maltzahn, was summoned to the foreign ministry to hear of Iranâs "strong objection" to the plaque and hear fresh denials of a state link to the murders. ....
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hmmm. look like iranian get purdy piss off at what piece of wood say on it. im wonder how they react if they ever read rantburg comments.
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Maybe they should expel all the German contractors andnuclear enginees. As my first ChEng used to say, Figure the f*#king odds.
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A plaque for a plaque, as they say. No History to look back on. No more plaques allowed either. Here in the uk, they commemorate people who have contributed in their lives to understanding, and celebrate the surroundings which they experienced at the time. Nothing to do with killing and dying, more a positive of living. Is this another great British export gone wrong, or did they think it up themselves?
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McDermott's probably not up for reelection, but his party can't be thrilled with the ammunition he's given their oponents.
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When asked about yesterday's Pledge incident, Mr. McDermott's spokesman, Mike DeCesare, said his boss "hesitated, unsure of what he should do because the words 'under God' are under court review." Mr. DeCesare confirmed that his boss did omit the words.
McDermott is an inconsequential treasonous moron.
Baghdad Jimmy. How does he keep winning his district?
If you remember back when Newt was speaker of the house and an 'american citizen' (in this case a democrat operative who was 'vacationing' directly from the Washington DC DNC office....) had 'accidentily' recorded a cell-phone conversation of Newt's in Florida.
It was Jim McDermott who 'leaked' (or directed them to leak) that private conversation to the press who twisted it around and had a general field day with it.
McDermott should have been censored / kicked out then.
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Jim McDermott (D-Baghdad) unfortunately does represent his district. I should know as he (unfortunately) is my representative. My neighbors are so far to the left that during the primary they wouldn't vote for Dean because he was too conservative (they were Kucinich folks)
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what do you expect with a town whose paper is the Seattle Dumb-As-A-Post Intelligencer
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BTW - my sympathies too, Hagan, just like Bezerkley and San Francisco and Santa Monica - beautiful towns unfortunately populated by a too-high percentage of morons....
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I love it! It will be like the "dueling stereo's" in college.
And Christian Churches...you need not stop at church bells, if the Moslem's can broadcast words..so can you!! Get those "Come to Jesus" lyrics blasting from your loud speakers. Jews...don't be left out here, time to blast out those Yentil tunes.
Oh sure, it will be as annoying as living in the dorms..but it's going to be just as fun.
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Perhaps we should take up playing "hava nagila" from loudspeakers.
I've been to Hamtramck, I didn't think there was anything else possible left that could make it a worse hell hole.
I guess I was wrong.
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I disagree, Hamtramck's my hometown.
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Anyone want to make a bet on the longevity of those loud speakers? Real simple: If this were a Christian group, they would be denied. Crosses have to be removed from cemeteries. Nativity scenes taken down at Christmas. Kids in school must sing Winter Solstice tunes instead of Christmas carols. If it's not OK for Christians who are still the majority, then it's not OK for Muslims. The ACLU should sue these bastards (City council) and tell them not to force the public to listen to these displays of religion. 5 times a day, every day? NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged the Security Council not to give up on the peace process in Western Sahara, saying member nations have two choices: to withdraw from the territory after 13 years and a cost of more than $600 million or to try again with negotiations.
Jeebus! That's a lot of money. What'd we get in return? Oh right, it's the UN.
Annan recommended that the 15-nation council extend the U.N. peacekeeping mandate in mineral-rich Western Sahara for 10 months to give the sides more time to work with each other. But a draft resolution circulated to council members Tuesday would only extend the mission for six months.
It's like the NBA, nothing important happens til the last five minutes anyway.
The plan, drafted by former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III, would give Western Sahara immediate self-government and schedule a referendum for within five years to decide if the desert territory on Africa's Atlantic coast should be independent or part of Morocco.
Wonder what the result of that election would be? Baker's usually smarter than this.
"It is my view and that of my personal envoy that the peace plan still constitutes the best political solution to the conflict," the secretary-general said in a report to the council.
Baker has been working for some seven years as Annan's personal envoy trying unsuccessfully to negotiate an end to the dispute between the Polisario Front rebel movement and Morocco, which both claim the region. The Polisario Front has accepted the plan, but Morocco has rejected it.
See self-government, above.
Annan said the Security Council had to choose whether to terminate the force or "to try once again to get the parties to work towards acceptance and implementation of the peace plan." The latest mandate for the peacekeeping force, which consists of nearly 230 U.N. military observers and troops, expires Friday.
Western Sahara's Spanish colonizers left the territory in 1975, and Morocco and Mauritania split it between them. Full-scale war broke out the following year, and Morocco took over the whole of Western Sahara after Mauritania pulled out in 1979. Some 200,000 local Saharawi people fled into exile and still live in UN-sponsored hellholes refugee camps in Algeria. The fighting, which pitted 15,000 Polisario guerrillas against Morocco's U.S.-equipped army, ended in 1991 with a U.N.-negotiated cease-fire that called for a referendum on the region's fate.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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.
