And you thought the history debates here got a little rough....
A Russian businessman who founded a museum dedicated to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was beaten to death by a group of unidentified assailants in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, police officials said Friday.
Russian news agencies quoted police officials as saying on Friday that business tycoon Vasily Bukhtienko was attacked by three unidentified men on a tennis court in Volgograd, which was once known as Stalingrad.
The assistants reportedly attacked Bukhtienko with an electric shock devise before beating him up brutally. He later succumbed to his injuries sustained in the attack. Police said the motive for the attack is not yet clear. They were just trying to get him to confess to being a Trotskyite wrecker, or maybe a Czarist agitator.
Bukhtienko had set up a four-room museum dedicated to Stalin in 2005 near a memorial commemorating the 1942-43 Battle of Stalingrad. Apart from the museum, Bukhtienko reportedly owns several other business establishments, including the Cafe Stalingrad and several hotels. The cafe serves up a bitter brew for German tourists.
An estimated 700,000 people were killed in the Battle of Stalingrad, which ultimately led to the surrender of Germany's 6th Army on 2nd February, 1943. Many historians believe that the Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in World War II.
LOS Angeles police are hunting a mystery man who fled as they raided his apartment, leaving behind piles of bogus cash, high-tech counterfeiting equipment and weapons.
The Los Angeles Times quoted police officers as saying that the 33-year-old suspect escaped from his high-rise apartment via a back window in a scene reminiscent of the Bourne Identity action films.
"He escaped like Jason Bourne," Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief Mike Downing of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, told the Times.
After being given the slip, detectives discovered stacks of counterfeit $US100 bills totaling $US15,000, sophisticated counterfeiting equipment, a camera tripod and a cache of weapons including an AK-47 assault rifle.
Police also discovered multiple identification documents including passports under different aliases, leaving them wondering who exactly they are hunting, the Times reported.
The $US3400-a-month penthouse's balcony was also directly opposite the US Federal Reserve Building in downtown LA.
"The curiosity in this case is the strategic location in which he chose to operate," Deputy Chief Downing said.
The suspect has been named as Brian Alexik, a 33-year-old from New Jersey. A man described as an associate of Alexik was arrested on Thursday.
But police admit they do not know what Alexik's plan was.
"There were many levels of criminality," Deputy Chief Downing told the Times. "He's funding a criminal enterprise. He's dabbling in narcotics, he's manufacturing weapons parts. But what is it? Was there a bigger plan? What was his intent?
"We have a lot of questions for him when he is arrested."
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We have a lot of questions for him when he is arrested.
"Now Jason, this only goes two ways. Either you come in and let us make this right, or we're going to have to keep going until we're satisfied." (The Bourne Identity)
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Not a very good "Bourne" if the evidence didn't vanish in a fiery flash when He went out the window.
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How do you know he owned the place or it wasn't meant to be found? Maybe it's meant to frame someone? Maybe he was planning to attack the Immigration Rally (if it goes past the Federal Reserve)? Or maybe he was just your elite Underground/Criminal Hitman.
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A man has been convicted of fatally shooting a retired University of Arizona professor and setting his house on fire after a robbery.
A Pima County Superior Court jury reached its verdict against 35-year-old Marco Chavez on Thursday and now must decide whether he will get the death penalty.
Prosecutors say 76-year-old Mac Hadley came home on Nov. 15, 2006, to find his front door kicked in and was later shot in the face by the intruder. Bedroom linens were set on fire before authorities say Chavez fled the scene in Hadley's vehicle, which was stuffed with several items belonging to Hadley and his wife. He was arrested in Nogales before crossing the border.
Jurors found Chavez guilty of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say Hadley's blood was found on Chavez's shoes, his prints matched those on the door and some of Hadley's belongings were found in Chavez's possession.
Defense attorneys presented evidence Chavez is mentally ill and has end-stage liver disease. He contracted hepatitis at a young age.
Chavez has been convicted of burglary, possession of stolen property and theft in the past. 76-year-old Professor Mac Hadley was a Regents Professor of Chemistry for 40 years, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Medical Pharmacology, and Professor of BIO5. He was a major contributor to skin cancer research, and had developed a widely used treatment for the disease.
JAPAN plans to seek an international arrest warrant against anti-whaling Sea Shepherd chief Paul Watson over tense high-seas clashes, broadcaster NHK says.
Now is the time when we all point and laugh. Chief Watson has earnt it.
The Japan Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant in Tokyo against the Canadian national for allegedly instructing members of his militant environmental group to obstruct Japan's whaling mission, the public broadcaster said today.
Japan will seek his arrest through the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), NHK said.
The last ship of Japan's Antarctic whaling fleet sailed home this month with the smallest catch in years. Whalers blame the shortfall on high-seas clashes with the environmental group Sea Shepherd.
This season's confrontations in icy Antarctic waters saw the sinking of a Sea Shepherd vessel and the arrest of one of its activists, a New Zealander who faces trial in Japan.
Peter Bethune was indicted on April 2 for trespass, injuring a person, carrying a weapon, vandalism and obstructing commercial activities - charges that could see him jailed for up to 15 years.
Bethune, 45, was the captain of the Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil, a futuristic powerboat that sank after it was sliced in two in a collision with the whaling fleet's security ship Shonan Maru II in early January.
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Ady Gil, a futuristic powerboat that sank after it was sliced in two in a collision with the whaling fleet's security ship Shonan Maru II in early January.
Correction, was broken when the Activists Rammed a fiberglass hulled boat into a steel hulled ship. (Video doesn't support their lies)
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Georgia is one of the top 10 states in the country in deer-related auto accidents. Now, drivers can get some just desserts -- or dinner.
The Senate gave final passage to SB 474, which allows drivers to keep any bear or deer that they might run over. The so-called Road Kill Bill, carried by Sen. Don Thomas of Dalton, passed 47-0.
"This is hot of the grill," Thomas said, tongue planted firmly in cheek. "And I urge you to support it."
According to the bill, "Any person may take possession of native wildlife which has been killed by a motor vehicle."
That was not always the case -- at least with bears.
In the past, if someone hit and killed a bear, the Department of Natural Resources could take it to mount or place in a museum.
Thomas said drivers now have the option to keep their bears as long as they report the accident to DNR within 48 hours. They don't have to report a deer strike.
My car was hit by a deer, in the dark age before cell phones. The highway patrol found me within fifteen minutes, and took me straight to the shop to organize repairs and the insurance claim. The car was a Honda, purchased in Cincinnati. Perhaps the vehicles in Georgia are tougher.
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I hope they include a warning that bear meat is known to carry trichinosis, in fact is responsible for far more trichinosis outbreaks than are pigs these days.
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I'm surprised a state like GA didn't already have this on the books.
Many states, even blue ones, have allowed this for years.
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I hope they include a warning that bear meat is known to carry trichinosis, in fact is responsible for far more trichinosis outbreaks than are pigs these days.
Egypt's top Sunni cleric says it's OK for men and women to mingle in public places as long as they exhibit modesty. "There is no problem in mingling if a woman abides by the rules of Islam," Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said. "A woman is advised to wear clothes that are neither tight nor revealing."
Men also must be on their best behavior, he said, "since Islam demands that both men and women stay away from anything that might instigate them into falling prey to sinful behaviors."
Al-Arabiya reported Thursday Gomaa's siding with Muslim moderates comes as religious scholars in Saudi Arabia debate whether sex segregation is permissible in Islam. The Arab-language TV news network said his views appear to align with those of Sheik Ahmed al-Ghamdi, head of Mecca's branch of the religious police body known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, who recently sanctioned public interaction between men and woman. Such conduct is staunchly opposed by hard-line Muslim scholars who see it as leading to sin or immorality.
A Nigerian senator accused of marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl says he has done nothing wrong.
Ahmad Sani Yerima, 49, told the BBC that his fourth wife was not 13, but would not say how old she was. He denied breaking the law but said he would not respect any law that contradicted his religious beliefs.
"As a Muslim, as I always say, I consider God's law and that of his prophet above any other law"
The Nigerian senate ordered an investigation after complaints from women's groups but the senator said he did not care what the groups thought.
A spokesman for the Egyptian embassy in Nigeria has said the girl is still at school in Egypt.
"Nobody has complained to the embassy in respect of the girl," Mohammed Saber told the AFP news agency.
He said however that the embassy "will follow the issue" because it is illegal in Egypt to marry an underage girl.
Mr Sani was the governor of Zamfara state, where he oversaw the introduction of Sharia law - for the first time in a northern state - in 1999.
About three hours north of Port-au-Prince, the Artibonite Valley is the center of Haiti's rice production.
This season, farmer Charles Surfoad is storing his rice rather than selling it. He says food aid from the earthquake relief effort produced a glut that pushed down prices. If he sells now, he says he'll lose money.
Adverse effects
"Food aid is never good for us," he says. "As a farmer, I'm one of the first affected. You can't send that to a country where that's what they grow."
Surfoad says if he can't sell his rice, he won't have money to buy seeds for next season. And because he supplies about 50 neighbors with seeds, their next season will be affected, too.
The entire supply chain can be affected, from farmers to wholesalers to merchants selling rice in local markets, many of whom say business is down because people are receiving free rice from donors.
Food is one of the most urgent needs in a humanitarian crisis. But, these cases illustrate that when donors bring in food, those who make a living growing and selling food can suffer.
Impact of food aid
"There is a risk, definitely. And we are very aware of that," says Brooke Isham, director of the Food for Peace program at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). "And that is why we are always looking at the impact of food aid on local markets and whether it is depressing prices in local markets."
USAID, the UN World Food Program (WFP) and others monitor markets regularly. Etienne Labonde, head of WFP's program in Haiti, says, as of March, food aid did not cause major disruptions in Haiti's economy. "Maybe it's an impression, but it's not the facts at the moment," he says.
Whether impression or fact, Haitian President Rene Preval raised the issue when he came to Washington last month. He said food aid was indispensible right after the earthquake. But, "If we continue to send food and water from abroad," he said, "it will compete with national production of Haiti and with Haitian trade."
Scaling back
Donors have agreed to scale back. But experts say donors can help the needy and a nation's farmers at the same time if they buy food for humanitarian aid locally rather than importing it.
The European Union, Canada and the World Food Program buy locally when possible. But the United States, which is the largest provider, "is lagging a little bit behind the curve of good practice in food aid," says Marc Cohen with the advocacy group Oxfam.
U.S. food aid consists almost entirely of American grain. Cohen says that started in the 1950s, when the United States had "what were called, 'burdensome surpluses' of food. So, food aid was, first and foremost, a mechanism to get rid of those surpluses," he says.
Congress is considering legislation to allow U.S. food aid to be bought locally.
Meanwhile, in Haiti, many donor agencies are pursuing another strategy to avoid market disruption. They're creating jobs so Haitian people can buy their own food. Many of these jobs are aimed at helping farmers at the same time: improving agricultural canals, rural roads, and planting trees to prevent erosion, for example.
The question now is whether there will be enough jobs so Haitians can support themselves, or whether the country will again face the dilemma of food aid.
It's been known for a long time that food aid is almost always unecessary and damages the local economy.
A dollar a day work programs are a much better solution, but then the usual UN, Leftist and union suspects would start screaming about 'slave' wage exploitation.
With as many as 100,000 people expected to convene downtown Saturday to rally in support of immigrant rights, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck went out of his way to make clear that his officers are guided by a different set of rules than the controversial state law recently passed in neighboring Arizona.
"Because of the ongoing issues in Arizona, I wanted to make something perfectly clear," Beck said. "Special Order 40 is the mandate of this department. ...That is how I will police this city as long as I am the chief of police."
Beck was referring to the agency's long-standing policy that prohibits officers from initiating contact with someone solely to determine whether he or she is in the country legally. It has drawn the periodic ire of critics who argue for a tougher stance against undocumented immigrants.
Beck and other chiefs before him, however, have said the policy is an important tool, as it encourages illegal immigrants who witness crimes to assist police without fear of being deported. Did I miss something? I thought illegal immigration was a crime.
Arizona's tough new legislation makes it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally and requires police to check suspects for immigration paperwork.
The legislation also bars people from soliciting work or hiring day laborers off the street.
Anger over the law has inflamed passions on both sides of the immigration debate and caused LAPD officials to increase their predictions for the number of people expected to turnout for the annual demonstration.
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Beck and other chiefs before him, however, have said the policy is an important tool, as it encourages illegal immigrants who witness crimes to assist police without fear of being deported.
There you go Chief.
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What makes him think Arizona gives a rat's patoot about Los Angeles? Seems he thinks he's much more impotant important than he really is. Headline grabber.
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I'm pleased to see that Chief Beck won't be enforcing some other state's laws. Now if he would apply the same diligence to enforcing CALIFORNIA law, they might actually do some good, yes???
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I thought the Arizona law mirrored the federal law; basically a re-statement of the law of the land. So Chief Beck doesn't advocate upholding the law of the land? Gasp!
From 2000 to 2009, the Census Bureau estimates, there has been a domestic outflow of 1,509,000 people from California -- almost as many as the number of immigrants coming in. Population growth has not been above the national average and, for the first time in history, it appears that California will gain no House seats or electoral votes from the reapportionment following the 2010 Census.
From 2000 to 2009, some 848,000 people moved from other parts of the United States to Texas, about the same number as moved in from abroad. That inflow has continued in 2008-09, in which 143,000 Americans moved into Texas, more than double the number in any other state, at the same time as 98,000 were moving out of California. Texas is on the way to gain four additional House seats and electoral votes in the 2010 reapportionment.
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Referring to the post about illegals moving in and whites moving out of California, Y'all seem to think "Block Busting" is something new?
My Mother sold a paid for, two story, three bedroom, brick home in a very nice neighborhood(1974) when a Black family moved in a half block away.
We three sons thought she was crazy, but almost immediately the area turned to a black neighborhood,Now you will have to look hard for a white face, and property values have plummeted.
And the school across the street was closed, bulldozed and now sports Cheap apartments.
We thought she was a fool. now the whole neighborhood is slightly better than a slum.
I see the exact same thing happening in California and those who moved Are smarter than it looks at first,
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Major Japanese consultants on Friday entered into joint pacts with DMICDC and three State governments to develop eco-friendly infrastructure for the new cities planned in the USD 90 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC).
The DMIC, comprising six states -- Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh -- is being developed in collaboration with Japan as a manufacturing and trading hub.
Under the four Memorandums of Understanding (MoU), Japanese consultants will launch feasibility studies to set up the first set of smart communities' in Manesar-Bawal (Haryana), Dahej and Changodar (Gujarat) and Shendra (Maharashtra).
A host of Japanese companies like Hitachi, Mitsubishi Corporation, Toshiba, JGC, Itochu and Tokyo Electric Power Company will be part of the consortiums conducting the feasibility studies.
We have reached a stage where we can say this project will be taken to its conclusion,' Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said after the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Ltd (DMICDC), the three state governments and the Japanese consultants signed the MoUs.
The DMIC project was planned in 2006.
During the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama here in December, 2009, a MoU was signed between DMICDC and the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) to develop smart communities or eco cities in India.
This (DMIC) is perhaps the biggest infrastructure project taken up anywhere in the world,' Sharma said.
The first phase is expected to be completed by 2018.
Once the project is completed, it would generate huge employment opportunities, double India's industrial production and quadruple exports, the minister said.
Development of such cities assumes significance as increased economic growth is likely to put additional pressure on environmental resources.
A smart community is a city where the residents, business and government live and work in a sustainable manner through delivery of integrated, low carbon products and services, DMIC CEO and Managing Director Amitabh Kant said.
A total of 24 investment zones have been planned in the DMIC region, with seven likely to be completed in the first phase. The region has been projected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 13 per cent.
The development plan for the Ahmedabad-Dholera investment region in Gujarat has been completed, while the overall perspective plan for the entire region has also been approved.
Kant said to meet the power requirements of the region, power projects are being established in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.
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ION INDJUH, NEWS KERALA > INDIA TO FLUSH OUT NORTHEAST REBELS FROM BURMA [see Below]; + BURMA ARMY ATTACKED BY CEASEFIRE SHAN UNITED ARMY + HUNDREDS FLEE STATE OF WAR IN SHAN STATE.
* SAME IRRAWADDY: PLA DEPLOYS MORE TROOPS ALONG BURMA BORDER. Force equivalent of roughly FIVE PLA BRIGADES INCLUD AIR DEFENSE UNITS???
* NEWS KERALA > HAKEEMULLAH EVEN IFF ALIVE NOT IN CHARGE OF PAK TALIBAN [TTP]: US PENTAGON. The USDOD believes someone new is running the TTP for time being as BIG-CAMEL/BURQUA-IN-CHARGE, as Mehsud may also be personally seriously wounded or injured after surviving the UAV drone strike agz him???
Press freedom declined worldwide for an eighth consecutive year in 2009 and Venezuela was one of the countries where independent media were attacked, said Washington-based human rights advocate Freedom House. In a report, the organization claimed that that the biggest setbacks for press freedom in Latin America occurred in Mexico and Honduras, adding that independent media faced new challenges in Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
Governments such as China, Russia and Venezuela "have been systematically encroaching on what used to be the comparatively free environment of the Internet and news media," said the report, titled "Freedom of the Press 2010." Comparatively free in China and Russia?
Karin Karlekar, editor of the study, said that while press freedom expanded in the last years of the 20th century in many regions, it has contracted in the 21st century. "Unfortunately, the positive changes seen in previous decades have not been consolidated," she said.
The report identified 10 of the worst countries in terms of press freedom. They are, in alphabetical order, Belarus, Burma, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq called on Kuwait on Thursday to halt legal action against Iraqi Airways following Kuwaiti attempts to seize one of the carrier's planes in London in the latest row between the neighbouring countries.
A lawyer for the Kuwaiti authorities obtained a British High Court order to prevent the director general of Iraqi Airways, who is currently in London, from travelling and seized his passport, Iraq's transport ministry said in a statement.
Baghdad and Kuwait have been locked in a long-running dispute over billions of dollars in reparations from Iraq, including about $1.2 billion related to aircraft and parts that were seized during former dictator Saddam Hussein's 1990-91 invasion to Kuwait. The dispute is between Kuwait Airways Corp and Iraqi Airways, both of which are state owned.
Iraqi Airways made its first commercial flight on Sunday after 20 years, flying into London. Once the plane landed at Gatwick airport in London, a lawyer for the Kuwaiti authorities tried to seize the plane, but failed because it was leased from a Swedish firm, the ministry said in the statement.
The ministry is surprised at these provocative acts by the Kuwaiti authorities... whenever Iraqis are trying to open a new window to the world,' the transport ministry said. We urge our Arab brothers to pressure the Kuwaitis to stop such behaviour, which does not help both sides to forget the past and open a new page in bilateral relations.'
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We urge our Arab brothers to pressure the Kuwaitis to stop such behaviour
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Actually, you can already find the information on any chemical made, including carbonated beverages. It's called a Material Safety Data Sheet. They are required at any manufacturing plant.
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You've got it, Deacon.
I'd say it's poorly researched reporting, but the link goes directly to an EPA press release, so I suppose they're either trying to fool impress the rubes with their "worthiness" or they're just stupid.
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I'd go with "Stupid" except we already know they're a propaganda arm of the Dems, so I have to ask, "How do the Dem's Profit"?
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I saw this video a couple of days ago (I can't remember where). As has been said many times before ... "If you want to know what the liberal left thinks, just listen what they accuse others of" ...
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I look at those who are rabid foaming at the foul mouth and it isn't the Tea Party members or the Rantburgers. The trolls who come on here occasionally seem to be potty-mouthed. It tends to be the left who is preaching hatred and violence in the streets. If one questions some of these leftist-liberals and radicals, you get accused of being racist, uncaring, bigoted, and various other nasty names. It is difficult to have a rational, reasoned discussion of anything with them.
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"Potty-mouth liberals. ... But then they can't argue the facts or arguments so they have to resort to name-calling and hatred."
CF, it's like the old lawyers' saying, If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table.
The libs are pounding the table hatred. As usual.
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1969 - 500,000 troops in Vietnam, 40,000 mile interstate highway system under construction, and a man on the moon, all in the same year.
40 years later, we can't do any of those, let alone all three, because The Great Society sucks up all the revenue.
And Obama is going to make it much greater. I can hardly wait!
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What happened in that time was defense spending and entitlement spending swapped as a percentage of GDP.
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ION FREEREPUBLIC/TOPIX >POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS ASTEROUD [2005 YU55] SPOTTED PASSING EARTH ON APRIL 19th.
Next pass forecasted for NOVEMBER 8, 2011
* NOVEMBER 8th, 2011, or DECEMBER 8th, 2011 ALA "KAMALEN/CAMARIN" EVENT = GUAM-WESTPAC IMPACT [Old Dreams/Visions from 1960's-70's].
Again, by itself "KAMALEN" is NOT a big space rock, unless you live in or near its potens impact region - US-WORLD PERTS WILL ALL BUT IGNORE UNTIL THEY DISCOVER A SERIOUS DEFECT IN THEIR MATH + PATH CALCULATIONS.
"KAMALEN" IS NOT COMET APOPHIS 2029-2036, + GUAM-WESTPAC IS NOT THE MOON.
A lesson in Moonbat 101...
Opponents of Arizona's new anti-immigrant law are calling for a boycott of the state's products - including the popular Arizona Iced Tea.
The problem: Arizona Iced Tea is actually brewed in New York. Yeah, man. Like, that's what they want you to believe!
Online, misguided tea fans vowed to switch to Lipton or Snapple. I wonder if they're brewed in Arizona?
"Dear Arizona: If you don't change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea," Twittered Jody Beth in Los Angeles. Twitter for Twits...
*shudder* I knew there was a reason I haven't learnt to do that.
"It is the drink of fascists," wrote Travis Nichols in Chicago. Fascists, man! Fascists!!
The company did not return messages asking if they planned to set the public straight. My guess? Yes.
Founded in Brooklyn in 1992, the firm was based in Queens before moving into a new $35 million headquarters in Nassau County last year.
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Gorb, no. It is possible only in EU. You can't bake a French bread in Netherlands. Well, you can, but can't call it "French" bread, unless it comes from France. Feta cheese can come only from Greece. If you produce an identical cheese, you have to call it maybe fermented goat cheese.
I consider it certifiably insane. Hence I can't support your ***** notion. Pardon my French. ;-)
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Well, maybe after we get that VAT thingy installed. Then we can claim to be about as good as the Europeans and we can start sueing the crap out of each other for ***** stuff. I'm going to start looking around for someone named gorb that I can sue now.
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Ignorance works on both sides. I've read some comments where people said they were going to start drinking Arizona Iced Tea in support of Arizona. Bugwits.
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I had a big glass of Swedened ice tea yesterday. That must make me one of the cool kids.
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Boycotts are generally good indicators of desperation oftentimes followed by resignation and apathy. Nothing to see here. Move along now will you.
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"The AZ Iced Tea are laughing all the way to the bank."
You may be right, lex. I went to the grocery store this morning and what did I find right in the front of the store? A big bin of Arizona Tea. I've never noticed them doing that before - I'm betting it's connected with the so-called boycott (I'd rather call it an idiot-cott.)
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Hey, Barbara, don't hate on Arizona Ice Tea's packaging. They have the best one-gallon jugs, bar none. They're more solid and durable than anything you can buy from tupperware or rubbermaid. every six months or so I get a jug of Arizona green tea, drink it while grimacing - actual Arizona iced tea is nasty - and save the jug for mixing purposes.
Although I did have a visitor complain about how orange and odd-tasting my green tea was the other week. Is it my fault people assume that what's on the label is what's in the jug?
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Whatever floats your boat, Mitch. ;-p
I just dislike stuff that cutesy-poo or frou-frou.
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Glad I read this before I went to the store. I was going to buy a case. Any products produced in AZ I can support? Already planing my vacation to the grand canyon.
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#6 Nassau County? That would make it Long Island iced tea.
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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.
Egypt's top Sunni cleric says it's OK for men and women to mingle in public places as long as they exhibit modesty. "There is no problem in mingling if a woman abides by the rules of Islam," Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said. "A woman is advised to wear clothes that are neither tight nor revealing."
A Nigerian senator accused of marrying a 13-year-old Egyptian girl says he has done nothing wrong.
