Crime stinks. Now, authorities in Columbia, South Carolina, are hitting dopers and hookers in the nose. Deputies in Richland County are using skunk gel to stink-up condemned buildings that are used as dope dens. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says criminal activity has taken a nose dive in the areas where they've tried the synthetic skunk oil. The chemical is called Skunk Shot and was originally intended as a cat and dog repellent. Sheriff's Corporal Danny Brown has the unpleasant job of applying the skunk gel. He says it's the most awful thing he's ever smelled. He adds it gets even worse after a few days in the heat. "Skunk Shot" is probably more marketable than "Eau de Michael Moore".
"Come out with your hands up or we'll send in Pepe Le Peu!"
Groups of large women have been terrifying shop staff in South Africa's coastal town of Durban. Over the past two months armed women, operating in groups of between four and 10 have repeatedly robbed stores. According to South Africa's Mercury newspaper, the women are not only well built but well dressed.
"A syndicate has been identified... and we have made some arrests," South African police spokesman Michael Read told BBC News Online. [snip]
"The rather large women generally come in groups... and can be quite intimidating," Mr Read said. Fat women, why do they hate us?
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- A Costa Rican policeman assigned to guard the Chilean embassy took 11 people hostage inside the building Tuesday, officials said.
Police officials identified the officer only by his last name -- Jimenez. They said he had been wounded -- it was unclear how -- and suggested he may have shot himself by accident.
"I know that a policeman who was assigned to guard the embassy has taken hostages, but beyond that I have no details," Costa Rican Security Minister Rogelio Ramos told a local radio station.
It was not immediately known how Jimenez was armed. Authorities were trying to negotiate with him, but it was unclear what his demands were.
Foreign Minister Roberto Tovar said he had been in touch with Chilean Ambassador Guillermo Yunge, who was not in the embassy when the standoff began.
"It's incredible that a Costa Rican could have caused such an embarrassment to his country," Tovar said.
Presidential chief of staff Ricardo Toledo said 11 people were inside the building and apparently being held hostage. All are believed to be embassy employees, but there was no immediate information on their nationalities.
The police officer in charge of the embassy detail, Eliecer Leon, described Jimenez as "responsible, serious, the best officer we have had."
"We don't know what happened to him," Leon said. "We all make mistakes."
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BERLIN -- Walter Frentz, who followed Adolf Hitler's inner circle as a Luftwaffe cameraman during the final years of World War II and recorded some of the Nazi era's key events on film, has died, his son said Tuesday. He was 96.
Frentz died July 6 in the southern town of Ueberlingen, Hanns-Peter Frentz told The Associated Press.
Born Aug. 21, 1907, Frentz met Albert Speer, who would become Hitler's architect, during his time as a student in Berlin. Frentz started in film with a 1931 feature about kayaking in Austria and Yugoslavia, and in 1933 worked on a film for the Ufa company on an oceanliner's voyage to New York.
Through Speer, Frentz met Leni Riefenstahl, who made masterful propaganda films for the Nazis, including "Triumph of the Will" in 1934.
Frentz worked with Riefenstahl on that film and on "Victory of the Faith" in 1933, often using a hand-held camera.
In 1936, he worked with her again on "Olympia," Riefenstahl's famed meditation on muscle and movement at the Berlin Olympics. He also made a Nazi-commissioned film glorifying German workers, entitled "Haende am Werk" ("Hands at Work").
Lacking assignments, he joined the Luftwaffe -- the German air force -- in 1938 and was a cameraman as Hitler entered newly annexed Austria that year.
After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, setting off World War II, Frentz recorded the Nazi leader's victory parade in Warsaw. He also filmed Hitler entering Paris when France capitulated the next year.
In 1941 -- again through Speer -- he was assigned to Hitler's Wolf's Lair bunker in East Prussia, staying with the Nazi leader's inner circle until shortly before the end of the war.
He witnessed a massacre of civilians in present-day Belarus during a trip with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, and was sworn to silence on his return.
In March 1945, Frentz took the last pictures of Hitler before the dictator's April 30 suicide in his Berlin bunker. Fleeing Berlin on one of the last planes out, he was arrested by Nazi SS officers at Hitler's Obersalzberg complex in the Bavarian Alps, and part of his photo archive was confiscated.
Frentz, who had never joined the Nazi party, was held for several months after the war by U.S. forces at the Hammelburg prison camp. He gradually returned to film, working on a documentary titled "5,000 Years of Egypt" in 1953 and various films on nature parks in Germany and Europe.
Frentz was the subject of a 1992 documentary by director Juergen Stumpfhaus, "The Eye of the Third Reich."
He had lived in a retirement home in Ueberlingen since 1998, and is survived by his son and three stepchildren.
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Norway's hotel workers are pressing for a ban on pay-TV pornography to protect staff from sexual advances from over-excited guests. The main hotel and restaurant employee union says a growing number of its staff are facing such harassment. It says some guests, often NBA players businessmen, call the reception for extras - such as fresh towels - to lure female staff. "It can be very unpleasant to get called to a room to be met by a naked man," said a union official. "Some have found themselves in the presence of men watching X-rated movies and several have been accosted," Eli Ljunggren said. "We have received complaints from a number of our members who have found themselves in very uncomfortable situations while in the rooms." The Scandinavian country has some of the strictest pornography laws in the world. However, most Norwegian hotels broadcast erotic films for a special fee.
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The Scandinavian country has some of the strictest pornography laws in the world.
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Idiots. It should be obvious that "Cause" is not a contributor to "Effect".
Sexually explicite material doesn't lead to sexual advances or assaults. I know this because N.O.W. tells me so; porn causes men to objectify women, but rape does not have any sexual component.
As more proof, I also reference an analogous issue by the sage, Mr. Micheal Moore. In his classic movie, Bowling For Columbine, Professor Moore never insinuated that the culture of violence on American TV and movies contributes to a violent society, which means that the culture of violence on TV and movies cannot be a contributer to violence in American society.
A few years ago France decided to give workers a raise by cutting their hours. How very Phrench. And stupid. Somebody flunked math and economics class.
The government commanded most employers to shorten the workweek from 39 hours to 35 for exactly the same weekly pay. Idiot socialist wankers.
Many leftists, communists, and idiots (but I repeat myself) folks declared the French brilliant to figure out how to boost wage rates while making employers hire more people and thus lower the unemployment rate. But as everyone with good economic sense predicted, it didn't work out as planned. Employers didn't magically have extra payroll money. Unemployment remained stubbornly high. [Emphasis added.]
Yet Paris still clings to its dream of more for less, even as reality begins to reassert itself in a Bosch auto-parts factory near Lyon. Workers there recently were given an easy choice: work an extra hour each week without pay, in violation of the 35-hour rule, or the whole plant will pack up and move to the Czech Republic. Oops.
Ninety-eight percent of the French workers voted to work 36 hours instead of none. Ya' think? Maybe the average Phroggies aren't so dumb after all.
French President Jacques Chirac insists that the 35-hour law remains in force, even if workers decide they must work longer. How does that work, exactly? Is the Tooth Fairy involved?
Perhaps the French could repay themselves for having to work an hour more. What about requiring that everyone get a free lunch? Their 35-hour law proves they believe such things exist. Ouch!
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Americans have more than the Phrench (and most of the rest of socialist Europe) because we work more. Last week I put in 40+ hours at my part-time job, then about 15 hours more in my business (not much, I know, but it's the slow season), as well as about 16 hours toward volunteer work. Plus I did some work around the house. And this was a slow week, so I had time to relax and read the Sunday paper while I watched Mystery Sunday night.
My schedule would probably kill the average Euro. And I know people who work a whole lot more than I do.
And we won't even bring up the factory job I had about 20 years ago: midnight shift, 7 days on, 1 day off, 3-day weekend every 6 weeks. Guaranteed to be off Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (but worked all other holidays - for triple-time, of course). The wilting-violet Phrench would have melted the second night.
What a bunch of clueless idiot socialist losers.
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Lol! Easy, Barb! You're bound to give a bunch of folks an inferiority complex, and that includes quite a few LLL "What have you done for me lately?" Merkins, too! Lol!
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My schedule would probably kill the average Euro. And I know people who work a whole lot more than I do.
I agree. And yet we are always reminded of how people in third world countries work hard while Americans lay around doing nothing but collecting dough. Third worlders do work hard; so do we. It's the 36-hour work week that raises the question of who doesn't work so hard.
#6 Rasta Boys Dad: I was in graduate school (night school), plus Admin Officer and firefighter at my vol. fire dept, so I was pretty busy. Guess I was just too lazy to look for extra work for those extra days. ;-p
But seriously, I know people who make me look like a slacker. And I don't think I'm unusual; lots of people work and have businesses on the side they run on nights and weekends.
What the hell to the Phrench do with all that extra time (other than sit around and feel leisurely and self-important)? Particularly since they don't have much (any?) money to spend.
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#8 BH: LOL
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Keep up the good work, Barbara! Millions on welfare depend on you! ;-)
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D'oh! Shoulda looked at .com's link before I posted that. *sigh*
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Take a look at this ranking and tell me if you see anything unusual about it. Those of you really astute will notice a particular trend on that list ;-)
Hmmm, I wonder if there's a corelation between this story and that ranking. There's a footnote to this, but I'll save it for later.
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07/27/2004 14:26 Comments ||
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I haven't done the math, but I think this means that the entire French labor force could be replaced by three Koreans working part-time.
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"...the entire French labor force could be replaced by three Koreans working part-time."
I used to work for a small business owned by Samsung. You would be suprised.
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#14 Rafael: Just took a quick glance (I'm still at work). I noticed the top 11 were all in the U.S. No surprise there.
Is that what you meant, or is it something less obvious?
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This goes along the same line as Kerry's (formerly Hillary's) Universal Health Care Plan which will magically remain at the same level of quality even when the same funds is being spread thinner and thinner and thinner......
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Barbara, you got it. Not a European school in sight, besides the UK, and Spain at number 20.
Footnote: this does not mean that there are no European professors teaching economics at the top US schools. But it seems as though 'economics' and 'Europe' do not blend well. (Socialism has a lot to do with it)
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What a lying whore (sincere apologies to real whores).
If the same standard of truth that Moore applies to Bush was applied to any of his hit pieces (er, movies), then Moore would be laughed off the stage -- and O'Reilly missed the opportunity to nail him to the wall with it.
O'Reilly had sooooo many openings, such as the Germany / Japan attacked us in reference to the Taliban -- well so did OBL on 9/11, so the point goes *poof*. The whole thing is purest moral equivalency. Bottle it and sell it, Moore -- oh wait, that's precisely what he's doing. Sorry.
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Billy O' missed some opportunities I admit, but overall made Moore look like the chump he is - the best part, everyone watching got to see Moore for the douchebag he is.
Baring all for Canada
FOREIGN STRIPPERS MUST SUPPLY NUDE STAGE PHOTOS TO OFFICIALS
By TOM GODFREY, TORONTO SUN
IMMIGRATION OFFICERS are having to pore through naked pictures of hundreds of exotic dancers to keep impostors out of Canada. Foreign strippers planning to table dance in clubs here must now provide photos of themselves with no clothes on to qualify for a visa for Canada, immigration officials say.
Ok, so where do you apply for a job as a Titty Inspector?
"Stage photos during performances are required," said Sergio Mercado, of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico.
DVDs optional, but preferred.
MEMO TO VISA OFFICERS In a memo to fellow visa officers around the world, Mercado said if a dancer passes the no-clothes test, they may then require a police certificate or medical examination.
Or a performance at the next Immigration staff meeting.
The memo was obtained from access to information documents obtained by the Sun. The potential dancers have to prove they can dance in the nude, immigration lawyer Mendel Green said yesterday. "They can't be partially nude," he said. "If they don't have pictures in the nude, they are not going to wiggle their bottoms in Canada."
If you don't have a valid passport, no problem. Come from a terrorist supporting country, no problem. No nude photos, now we have a problem!
Immigration lawyer Richard Kurland said the women have to show nude pictures to ensure they're not abusing the system.
There's something deeply wrong with that sentence.
When it comes to Russia, the visa officers are looking for "headline performers" who can be paid up to $5,000 weekly and are often featured in ads of which they are expected to have copies.
Looking for girls with "really big headlines".
PHOTO SPREADS Officers at the Canadian Embassy in Moscow said most headliners have been subject of photo spreads after vying for "Miss Nude North America or Miss Nude Europe" contests.
I guess "Miss Nude Saudi Arabia" didn't make the cut.... oops, poor choice of words.
Immigration officer Dorothy Christie said once dancers arrive here they are usually placed in strip club lodgings and paid $60 every time they're on stage, $10 for a lapdance and $20 for a VIP room lapdance.
Then there are the optional performances....
Each week the women must pay $100 to an pimp agent and $50 for a off-duty vice cop driver as well as $10 nightly to a pimp DJ, the officer said. We now know why the war on terror is such an enigma to Canada.
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I think the US should follow Canada's lead and I volunteer to become the first Nude Photo Inspector of the US. I will work tirelessly night/day/weekends whatever it takes to review the thousands of pics of wannabe strippers. O Canada you really have sunk haven't you.
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I don't know, Ship. Mucky's an all-right guy. Visit his blog sometime. As to what kind of country has to import strippers, one with mostly hairy-legged moose-women ?
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.com, with all your whining about Canadian immigration policy, I'd thought this one would get an enthusiastic thumbs up from you, for once.
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Rafael - Lol! I don't whine, sonny. And this story IS too easy to have fun with, heh. Are you ordering the CD?
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Maybe Canada should require incoming terrorist to demonstrate their skills before entering Canada en route to the US border. Perhaps bomb making demonstratioins, kidnap videos (beheadings optional), marksmanship demos, valid pilot's licenses, etc. What happened? Canada used to be a fine upstanding country. Did Trudeau start the death spiral or did it come later?
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Thinking about it, the inevitable decline began when Trudeau's wife posed nude for Playboy. Just took a few years for those inspectors to work this into the guidelines.
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You're a nice guy .com up until someone disagrees with your POV. Then it's FOAD.
The fact is you are a whiner when it comes to this issue. "Friendship fence". Remember that? I agreed with you on certain aspects and you still managed to slip a knife in my back, albeit with a smile and a handshake. Fuck you.
I'm not whining, I'm repudiating the nonsense that people post, should the need arise. You simply can't take it. Oh, but you can certainly dish it out.
One final comment to you regarding Canadian immigration policy...take the log out of your own eye first, will ya?
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No sweat, Rafael. It doesn't matter that I disagree with you, it's only a problem when someone disagrees with me? Lol! Geez, can you get off the merry-go-round for a minute and think about what you said in this thread - first?
I don't (and NEVER HAVE) blame you personally for Kanada's Govts or Laws or Policies, now do I? No, you just pulled a Maple Leaf outta your ass and got pissed becuz you're a loyal Kanadian. Fine.
You made the whole thing personal. You picked the fight. The same, every word, can be said regards your Kanuckiness. Regards Immigration Law - I'm sure trying - and I assumed you were doing your civic duties, as well, in hopes of making the Govt work for us instead of against us. But the facts are there for anyone to see, and nothing I have said about Kanada is untrue. It wasn't personal until you made it so.
So there it is, IMO. If you want, "Fuck You" it is.
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No, you just pulled a Maple Leaf outta your ass and got pissed becuz you're a loyal Kanadian.
Re-read your comments one day and tell me how I'm supposed to react to them. I'm just firing the same shit back at you and you're getting all huffy about it.
There is only ONE thing you have ever said about Canadian immigration that is true: back in Saudi Arabia every Ahmed and his cousin had a Canadian passport if they wanted one. But that's all. No where have you made an effort to actually understand the process that actually gives them that passport. And this is from several years ago. Since 9-11 the whole process has changed significantly. Your point might not even be valid anymore.
If you want, "Fuck You" it is
If I want??? You don't read the stuff you post, do you.
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"Re-read your comments one day and tell me how I'm supposed to react to them."
Um, as an individual? You expect everyone else to take your critical points, such as the "take the log out of your own eye first, will ya?", and many of us DO. I do, for example. I will vote for those who don't have their heads up their asses regards immigration policy and law - on BOTH borders. Does that mean I can't criticize Kanada? No, of course, not. Does that mean you shouldn't take it personally? Yes. I have never said what you're implying: "My country right or wrong." I accept criticism of the US where it's accurate. I also point out problems elsewhere, just like you. What's unique about this? Nothing. It is you that can't take it. You are the guy who got his panties in a bunch over criticism of his Govt.
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE JULY 27, 2004 16:02:35 ET XXXXX
MICHAEL MOORE/O'REILLY SHOWDOWN AT CONVENTION
Tue Jul 27 2004 16:51:50 ET
FOX NEWS is planning to air a redhot interview between Bill O'Reilly and boxoffice sensation Michael Moore on Tuesday.
The DRUDGE REPORT has obtained an embargoed transcript of the session:
Moore: That's fair, we'll just stick to the issues
O'Reilly: The issues⊠alright good, now, one of the issues is you because you've been calling Bush a liar on weapons of mass destruction, the senate intelligence committee, Lord Butler's investigation in Britain, and now the 911 Commission have all come out and said there was no lying on the part of President Bush. Plus, Gladimir Putin has said his intelligence told Bush there were weapons of mass destruction. Wanna apologize to the president now or later?
M: He didn't tell the truth, he said there were weapons of mass destruction.
O: Yeah, but he didn't lie, he was misinformed by - all of those investigations come to the same conclusion, that's not a lie.
M: uh huh, so in other words if I told you right now that nothing was going on down here on the stageâŠ
. . . . . . It concludes :
M: Right, I would not sacrifice my child to secure Fallujah and you would?
O: I would sacrifice myself.
M: You wouldn't send another child, another parents child to Fallujah, would you? You would sacrifice your life to secure Fallujah?
O: I would.
M: Can we sign him up? Can we sign him up right now?
O: That's right.
M: Where's the recruiter?
O: You'd love to get rid of me.
M: No I don't want—I want you to live. I want you to live.
O: I appreciate that. Michael Moore everybody. There he isâŠ
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Jabba can't see what he can't see. He needs to fix his eyeglass perscription!
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Many of MM's verbal tricks and abuse of language and logic on display here. Note the "argument":
O: It wasn't a lie.
M: But it wasn't true.
Notice the sleight of hand here through the use of intentionally ambiguous phrasing. A less ambiguous sentence would have been "But it TURNED OUT not to be true." Of course MM can't reply in this way or the blatant deceptiveness of his argument would have been obvious.
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I hope that O'Reilly runs this again and again. It makes Moore seem like a child that won't change his opinion regardless of the facts of the case. The American people will see that. Moore is the one who lies and is the one who gives not a shit about our soldiers or the people of the world. I especially love his assertion that the people of Iraq could have just "risen up". What a damn fool. What an ignorant, arrogant fool.
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Notice how he CONTINUALLY harps on the death of patriotic volunteer soldiers as "killing children".
Each and every one of those MEN and WOMEN killed in Iraq were VOLUNTEERS who knew when they joined the service that they might get killed. It's what happens when you are a soldier. It's part of the job. When they joined the service, they stopped being "children" and took up the mantle of "men and women" just as all those men and women before them who chose military service. So what if they had fathers and mothers and children of their own... they were SOLDIERS (and God bless them.)
Jabba can suck vacuum. Children, my ass. They were MEN.
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If you want to piss Jabba off IGNORE HIM. He loves this attention negative or positive. If he asked that stupid question about 'sacrificing' childen I ask him the same question! Oh thats right jabba hasn't found another one of his species to mate with (THANK GOD).
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I read the entire dialogue...excuse me monologue. Michael Moore is either extremely stupid...a pathological liar...or he is an intensely evil person.
I personally beleive he's hiding behind (barn) door number 3.
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Moore is the lowest of the low, but I don't think O'Reilly handled it well. Instead of trying to defend the President's position on the WMD's, I would have gone on the offensive by asking Moore questions about Kedwards.
"Lard ass, what exactly does Lurch intend to do anout our presence in Iraq, and how is that different from what The President proposes to do."
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"Lord Hog-Hog, how many American workers have lost their jobs because of the actions of the plainitffs' bar, in which Edwards is a key player?"
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"Yes or no, rich boy, should we send troops to Sudan? Why there if not Iraq? If not there either, it doesn't matter to you how many black Africans are killed, does it? Maybe you should discuss that with Obama."
But O'Reilly's real error was not to be munching a double cheeseburger in front of Moore.
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Leigh> right on. These were men, not children, and they volunteered for this duty no one sent them anywhere to die arbitrarily. It's just part of the job - sacrifice, of which, mike fat fucking moore has no clue.
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It never fails to amaze me to watch the LLL moonbats as they struggle to keep a straight face regards patriotism and the issue of US casualties. They would cream their jeans if the number was 9000, instead of 900, yet they must pretend to care. They must pretend to believe that our troops are someone to be proud of, but the Govt isn't. It's the old story. I got it in Saudi Arabia, too: We love Americans and America, but we hate your Govt. When I explained that, as a democracy, the Govt represents Americans (as codified into election law) so you can't separate the two. Those who DO separate the two are outlaws. Full stop. The Saudis would stammer and change the subject - eye contact was "unavailable" after that point was made.
This is what the LLL moonbats really believe in and this is what the DNC is all about.
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JH / ALL - BTW, the Ranger Quartermaster website is having its "Summer Sale" - check it out. That's where you can get your 72 Virgins shirts, heh. You might wanna try one out, JH!
...At least three bloggers have been credentialed so far: Kevin Aylward of Wizbang; Michele Catalano from A Small Victory and The Command Post; and Scott from Slant Point.
The official letter that was sent to the bloggers said, "For the first time, bloggers will hold an on-site presence at the Republican Nationbal Convention called "Blogger's Corner."
..."Bloggers will be credentialed to move about all media areas with access to the Media Center and the news conference center for briefings."
I think this is great, even though Rantburg was not invited this time round, but who knows when the GOP convention rolls round in 2008? It's just nice that the GOP has given recognition to the tireless work and support given to them by dedicated bloggers to counter-balance the left wing spin of MSM.
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Great find rex, and kudos to the GOP. It's a good start. Would've like to have seen Rantburg get their due as well as a chance to have at Mr Hate America Moore.
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How may I get accredited? Does anyone have a link? I've volunteered for the convention, you see ...
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Don't worry, Ranburg will be there in force.
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Damn, some sucker have sloen my mee. I will lake drasic acshun.
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I'd contact Michele Catalano, #2, at www.asmallvictory.net and ask her what she did/whom she contacted at the Republican Party to be considered for credentialing. Her contact email address is available on her website.
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Rex-- probably resurrected one of the old cleavage/boobies shots.
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This is very cool and prescient. I'd bet it's pretty late to get accredited, now. But good luck, anyway! When they offer credentials to Charles Johnson, we'll know they "get it" and aren't afraid of plain truth-telling. In today's political climate, the wild-eyed frenzy this would generate would make such things like Gore's flaming tirade look trivial.
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"I do think we have a responsibility, as leaders, to stand up. I think there were people at that concert we had in New York who stepped over the line. I've said that. They don't speak for me. They speak for themselves. I will stand up and struggle, as others have, to try to get that right balance between violence and sex and things."
This is just too good to have to click to read "the rest of the story."
By Mark Steyn
(Filed: 27/07/2004)
There's a bumper sticker I see on a lot of Vermont cars these days: "BE PATRIOTIC — VOTE GEORGE BUSH OUT". The trouble is you can't vote Bush out, you have to vote the other fellow in. And convention week marks the point when Americans begin to get to know the challenger the way they know the incumbent. I find it hard to believe that getting to know John F Kerry can possibly work to his advantage.
He was in Wisconsin the other day, pretending to be a regular guy, and was asked what kind of hunting he preferred. "I'd have to say deer," said the senator. "I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach... That's hunting."
This caused huge hilarity among my New Hampshire neighbours. None of us has ever heard of anybody deer hunting by crawling around on his stomach, even in Massachusetts. The trick is to blend in with the woods and, given that John Kerry already looks like a forlorn tree in late fall, it's hard to see why he'd give up his natural advantage in order to hunt horizontally.
Possibly his weird Vietnam nostalgia is getting out of control. Still, if I come across a guy in the woods in deer season inching through the undergrowth with a mouthful of bear scat, at least I'll know who it is.
Conversely, if you're a 14-point buck and get shot in the toe this autumn, you'll know who to sue.
Crawling around on your stomach is a lousy way to hunt deer, but it's proved a smart way to campaign for president. For months now, George W Bush has been up there getting fired on from all directions. Meanwhile, down in the scrub, John Kerry was crawling forward on his stomach, a stealth candidate advancing slowly, off the radar, prone alone.
Sadly, the stealth candidacy has come to an end. This week the real John F Kerry has to stand up, and, judging from the way those Senate and House candidates in tight races are staying away from the convention, a lot of bigshot Democrats aren't too sure Americans are going to like what they see.
If I were a mad scientist hired by Bush svengali Karl Rove to construct the most unelectable Democratic presidential candidate possible, I'd start with a load of big-government one-size-fits-all dependency-culture domestic policies. Next I'd throw in a consistent two-decade voting-record aversion to American military power. Then make him the kind of fellow whose stump speeches are always butt-numbingly ponderous and go on way too long because someone told him that if you intone a platitude slowly and sonorously enough it sounds like the Kennedy inaugural address.
He'd probably be a senator because, in a business that attracts pompous blowhards, senators are the creme de la creme. A senator from Massachusetts, because that's as near as you can get to running Jacques Chirac while still meeting the citizenship eligibility requirements. He'd have to be an aristocratic Massachusetts senator, because there don't seem to be any other kinds, but he wouldn't be glamorously high-class, like Jack and Camelot, just aloof and condescending and affected. And every time he tries to talk a little guy talk, a little hunting or baseball, it doesn't come out quite right. And he's so nuanced he's running not only as America's most famous war hero but also as America's most famous anti-war protester.
No, scrub that last bit. No one would believe it.
But what do I know? My ne plus ultra of unelectability was chosen by Democratic primary voters this spring mainly because he was perceived to be "electable". I don't know where they got that idea from. Probably from the American media, who seem barely to recognise Kerry's principal defect — his boring self-righteousness — perhaps because it's also theirs. Nevertheless, if this week the senator gives the kind of speech he's given for the last year, Americans will flee in horror from the prospect of spending four years listening to this guy.
About 20 per cent of the electorate are Bush-haters, but another 20 per cent seem to be suffering from so-called "Bush fatigue", which is, more accurately, a weariness with the epic nature of politics since 9/11. They want a break. As Andrew Sullivan put it in the Sunday Times: "Much of the hard work has now been done. Nobody seriously believes that Bush will start another war. And in some ways Kerry may be better suited to the difficult task of nation building than Bush."
The notion that you can take a four-year intermission from the war is appealing, but a fantasy. Both Iran and North Korea are likely to come to the boil during the next presidential term, and nothing in either John Kerry's record or temperament suggests he's up to settling either of those crises in America's favour. So our hopes of avoiding Armageddon may rest on how effectively Kerry bores his candidacy into the ground.
The other day, he attended a glitzy fundraiser at which Whoopi Goldberg did a little riff comparing the Bush in the White House to her own, ah, pudenda.
The senator, in his own anatomical response, said these celebrities represented the "heart and soul of America".
Afterwards, asked about his apparent enthusiasm for the potty-mouthed has-beens, he replied thus: "When I talked about the heart and soul, I'm talking about the artistic expression. I'm talking about sort of the, I mean, I believe in the arts. I think that there's a great expression in it, and there's always this struggle. You know, does life imitate art or art imitate life? Which comes first? It's a little of both.
"I do think we have a responsibility, as leaders, to stand up. I think there were people at that concert we had in New York who stepped over the line. I've said that. They don't speak for me. They speak for themselves. I will stand up and struggle, as others have, to try to get that right balance between violence and sex and things."
If on Thursday John Kerry stands up and struggles to get the right balance between violence and sex and things, it should be a helluva speech. If, on the other hand, he sounds like he sounds at the end of that sound bite — as if the more he talks about standing up and struggling the more he's struggling to stay awake — he's done for.
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Afterwards, asked about his apparent enthusiasm for the potty-mouthed has-beens, he replied thus: "When I talked about the heart and soul, Iâm talking about the artistic expression. Iâm talking about sort of the, I mean, I believe in the arts. I think that thereâs a great expression in it, and thereâs always this struggle. You know, does life imitate art or art imitate life? Which comes first? Itâs a little of both.
"I do think we have a responsibility, as leaders, to stand up. I think there were people at that concert we had in New York who stepped over the line. Iâve said that. They donât speak for me. They speak for themselves. I will stand up and struggle, as others have, to try to get that right balance between violence and sex and things."
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"When I talked about the heart and soul, Iâm talking about the artistic expression..."
When he hangs it up, keep him the hell away from the NEA. We don't need to be funding any more art that is full of heart and soul but bereft of intelligence, morality and talent.
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Democrats, energized by their last first lady, get their first long look Tuesday at the multimillionaire heiress who would be their next one as they turn to John Kerry's outspoken wife and an aging liberal warrior to define the Massachusetts senator they would do well no to put in the White House. Teresa Heinz Kerry, widow of a Republican senator who inherited his family's ketchup fortune, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will offer the nation a more personal and family view of the party's candidate for president on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
Kerry was appearing Tuesday in the Navy town of Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, where he was calling for the Sept. 11 commission to continue working past its scheduled end date of Aug. 26 to ensure recommended reforms are put in place. Kerry is to arrive at the convention Wednesday as the question of whether he or Bush can best protect America from terrorists continues to dominate the political debate. His wife, Heinz Kerry, who drew attention this week by telling a reporter to "shove it" said in an interview broadcast Tuesday she would do it again, displaying the same unapologetic bluntness that Vice President Dick Cheney showed when he defended uttering a vulgarity to a Democratic senator last month. "If someone is really attacking your honor, or trying really to be dishonest, really to try to get you, I think most Americans, most people, would say, you know, defend yourself. And that's what I did," she said on CBS-TV's "The Early Show."
In the interview, which was taped Tuesday, Heinz Kerry also acknowledged her reluctance to see her second husband run for the White House. Her first husband, Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., was killed in a plane crash in 1991. "When you can see the faces of presidents when they go in and when they come out, it's a huge weight," she said. "A great honor, obviously, but a huge weight."
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The head of the largest union in the AFL-CIO created a minor stir when he told The Washington Post the labor movement is in crisis and might be more motivated to change if Kerry is not elected president. Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, later clarified his remarks, saying after the story appeared on the paperâs Web site that he is committed to helping Kerry win.
Yeah, kinda sucks when all you've got in your pocket are losers, don't it, Andy. Losers can suckup and make you feel important, but they can't really do much for you, can they?
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I am not a fan of Kerry, but his wife certainly was right to tell the journalist to shove it. I think she could have been a force for good had she picked a different secondary life-mate. He must have caught her on the rebound.
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Was she, SH? I watched the report linked to from Rantburg yesterday, and it looked to me as though she was denying saying the word "un-American" when she demonstrably just had - the journo's question was perfectly legitimate, but Teresa either can't remeber/care what she's just said in front of an audience, or she's a bad and blatant liar...
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BD, you may be right. I tuned out the story totally because I have a low opinion of journalists. It seemed to be a case of journalists being facinated with a journalist being told to lump it while in the act of jounalism.
Usually stories about her are jounalistic noise - i.e. they don't have enough juice to last very long. For instance, the regular media feigned disapproval for a couple of days when she called herself an "African American." Her statements won't change anyone's mind. They are just a sideshow like Arnold's "girly men" gag. Frankly, her treatment in the press is Arnoldesque.
Realistically, she is not dangerous, her money is. We shall see whether her money can be used to recast her traitor husband as a patriot.
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I am so phucking boored by this all. I can hardly wait so I can watch the news without having to endure this GD convention. I think the only thing they got going is she has the balls to say "shove it" to this hack.
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SH, I don't think it's really a big issue that she used the phrase "shove it" to a hack, but I do think it's significant that she denied using the phrase "un-American", when she just did. Why did she deny having done so? Partly because she appears to have 'issues' with the particular journalist and his "rag" (I think she called it that!). That she can seem so thin skinned in reaction to run-of-the-mill questioning, and get riled up so easily over something rather trivial, and also deny the facts so vehemently, suggests she's not first lady material. I don't know much at all about Teresa, to be honest, but this episode suggests she ain't no Nancy Reagan. Put it that way...
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Aw c'mon. Shit, she got caught spouting bullshit. She clearly lied. The reporter was dead fucking right. It's all there plain as day. Telling him to shove it when SHE was lying through her teeth is just fucking sad. She's a ding-dong loser and must be a pin-head Luddite to think that she wasn't recorded saying it. She would / will be entertaining as First Lady. The female comics are prolly drooling at the prospect.
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Kinda reminds me of that old Woody Allen movie (I forget the title) with a bunch of guys dressed up as sperm, acting a skit about an ejaculation. Costumes looked just like Kerry's getup here, except they weren't blue.
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Johnny Finky Winky, Teletubby!
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Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit links to yet another unPresidential photo of Kerry, on the same day the Kerry in a NASA suit photo was unveiled. This 2nd photo is pretty nasty, too. Reynolds says the camera does not love John Kerry. LOL. Understatement. http://www.time.com/time/election2004/photoessay/gatefold/7.html
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rex: gaah! My eyes! The camera really, really hates John Kerry. It looks like John Cleese doing a Python skit about shooting heroin.
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So here's John Kerry, on his hands and knees... smiling, such as he is able. Is this his means of 'winning back' our European allies?
The poster wondered if this would be analogous to the Dukakis Tank photo. I don't think the effect will be the same. There were two reasons that the tank photo could arguably have done in Dukakis: 1) the helmet looked really big on him, and 2) he looked absolutely miserable.
In this photo the French-looking candidate/presumptive nominee looks ridiculous, but he does appear to be having fun--well, it could be a grimace. (cheap shot: And where does the rest of that tubing disappear to?)
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I killed many who built kits on the living room sofa. It's in my blood.
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Here's a "representation" of Kerry's Band of Brothers. Ok, ok, I'm done-no more "wasting" of bandwidth, but Kerry is a tempting target for ridicule, I must say. Credit to ChronWatch.com for the following link: http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/cartoonarc/RealBros.htm
Incidently it's also ChronWatch that posted the article about "Who's smarter, Hollywood types or Bush and Cabinet"[appropos to airhead "soundbites" of acting "luminaries" attending Democrat Convention this week: http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=1991
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....So it's somewhat of a surprise that the paper [USA Today] that bills itself as "The Nation's Newspaper" would offer a forum to someone who believes the nation in question "is known for bringing sadness and misery to places around the globe." But this they are doing; left-wing agitprop filmmaker Michael Moore, who thus described the United States before a British audience, will be writing a series of columns from the Republican Nation Convention in New York for the paper's op-ed page.
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LOL but they killed a Coulter column today, per Drudge.
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Well, that's just great... I'm sure the RNC is going to cancel the buffet any minute now.
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This is beautiful. Karl Rove couldn't have designed a better way to energize teh Republican base. Hopefully Gore and Dean will be on the tube every night of the Republican Convention.
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I don't often blow my own trumpet, but⊠What if Narnia had Indymedia?
I moved this to "International" -- where else could it go? :-)
King Miraz Assassinated- Beruna Independent Media Center
A Paravelist goon impersonating the mythological King Peter has cravenly assassinated the rightful King Miraz on the orders of Caspian the Usurper. The evil Caspian, who fled when Miraz tried to bring him to justice for treason, organised a Paravelist/theocratic uprising against Miraz. He recruited specially trained performing animals and ventriloquists to impersonate talking beasts and four children to impersonate the mythological Four Sovreigns. The impostor Peter pretended to challenge Miraz to a duel(Caspian being too much of a coward) and then at the first opportunity stabbed Miraz in the back.
They then proceeded to slaughter Telmarines left and right. Schoolchildren have been kidnapped and no doubt brutalized and killed. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a madcap lot kidnap many, and at least one of Caspian's minions used dark sorcery to turn people into pigs and trees.
Said Glozelle, the late lamented Miraz's surviving lieutenant, "These Paravelists will deceive to get their nightmare society in place." And the Paravelist/Theocratic society is now in place. Justice is dead. Caspian is Jadis.
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Ex-general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has topped round one of Indonesia's first direct presidential election and faces incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in a September 20 run-off. The election commission announced the results of the July 5 poll hours after a blast on Monday at its Jakarta headquarters briefly halted final counting. Nobody was injured in the blast, caused by low-powered explosives. Police said they were investigating and would boost security for the run-off.
Yudhoyono, an outsider who rose to hot favourite after resigning as chief security minister from Megawati's cabinet during a row earlier this year, won 33.6 percent of the first round vote, the election commission said on Monday. Megawati, who has led the world's most populous Muslim nation for the past three years, came second with 26.6 percent in a race between five candidates, better than opinion polls had forecast.
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Iran's Supreme Court has quashed the death sentence passed on a woman who killed an intelligence officer she claims tried to rape her. Afsaneh Norouzi, 33, was arrested seven years ago after the Iranian officer was found stabbed to death on the holiday island of Kish in the Persian Gulf. The mother of three claimed she used the knife to defend herself - prompting support from women's rights groups.
A lower court will decide whether Mrs Norouzi is sentenced again or freed. "The Supreme Court has quashed the death sentence against Afsaneh Norouzi for some deficiencies in the case," her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, told the Reuters news agency. He said he was hopeful for her fate. "I welcome the ruling and see it as opening the way to accept what Afsaneh says: that she acted in legitimate self-defence."
Mrs Norouzi and her family were visiting the intelligence officer in Kish in 1997, when her husband was called away. She said she tried to defend herself with a knife when the officer attempted to rape her. A court in Kish eventually found her guilty of murder and condemned her to death - a sentence upheld by the Supreme Court last year. The BBC's Tehran correspondent Jim Muir said she was even told the verdict would be carried out - something that usually means execution is just days away.
But her case was taken up by reformist members of the Iranian Parliament and women's rights advocates. They argued that if Afsaneh Norouzi were put to death, Iranian women would no longer dare to defend their honour against sexual assault. The head of the judiciary finally ordered a review - again put before the Supreme Court, which this time quashed the death verdict. Now the local court in Kish must decide whether to hand down a reduced sentence, or to let Mrs Norouzi go free.
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Whew! I'll just bet that was one close call.
Oh, wait, she's gotta face the lower court which originally sentenced her to death again?
"Now the local court in Kish must decide whether to hand down a reduced sentence, or to let Mrs Norouzi go free."
If they opted for the DEATH sentence the first time, does anyone think they'll even consider letting her go free, which seems reasonable given the information in the article?
After Iraq, Iran is shaping up to be the next major crisis in the Middle East.
Comes as a surprise, huh?
The question is whether Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
Ummm... Lemme think... Yes. Next question.
"Iran has decided to resume research and development in the enrichment of uranium," sources who track Iranian activities claimed to News Online. "It now has time on its side to acquire the capability. It is racing forward."
The ayatollahs threw off the mask of sweet reason in the elections, didn't they? They don't even bother to pretend anymore.
"There has been a pattern of cheating the world and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and of trying to disguise its true intentions under the pretence of needing energy for civilian purposes. Iran wants to produce nuclear weapons," asserted the sources, who spoke on condition that they were not identified. Iran's case is that it needs nuclear power and has to make the fuel itself as it cannot rely on outside sources, as many countries do. It denies that it intends to make the bomb. It is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and therefore is committed not to do so.
And, boy howdy, that means they won't...
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israel has started a diplomatic offensive to win support for its view that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. If Israel becomes convinced that Iran is going down that road unstopped by the United Nations, it could one day take unilateral action, as it did when it bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor in 1981. The Israeli cabinet is reported to have been told that Iran could make a bomb by between 2007 and 2009.
I'd imagine they'll act prior to that, but not as soon as we've been expecting here...
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The question is whether Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
Only the Beeb could ask this with a straight face. F*cking idiots.
It denies that it intends to make the bomb. It is a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and therefore is committed not to do so.
ROTFLMAO! Oh those EUros, of course Iran's committed, it's an international treaty! LOL
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#2 The question is whether Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
No. The question is WHEN will they produce one that works?
The real question no one seems able to ask is; "Who will Iran give some of their bombs to, once they're fabricated."
Any sane person knows that Iran will share the joy with Hizbullah. After that happens, Hell's gate will yawn wide in the Middle East. Better to bomb Iran now and eliminate all uncertainty.
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A controversial book about the "honour killing" of a Jordanian woman has been withdrawn by publishers in Australia after the author was accused of fabricating the story. Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love was a best-seller in Australia. It is a first-hand account of a Muslim woman's death, murdered by her father over her relationship with a Christian. But an Australian newspaper says it has uncovered dozens of inconsistencies. The author stands by her story. ....
Over the weekend the Sydney Morning Herald alleged that the author had fabricated the story. The paper said an exhaustive investigation spanning three continents had uncovered a series of lies. It claimed the author had lived in Jordan only until she was three and that the central character in the book never existed. ... In a statement, Random House said it had requested evidence from the author that the book was a true representation of her life and experiences. Norma Khouri has strongly rejected the allegations. ...
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EFL:The Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday it is scrapping a hospital's troubled new computer system because of problems that have delayed surgeries, prompted congressional investigations and led to the resignation of several top officials.
With full benefits, I'm sure.
The agency is phasing out Bay Pines VA Medical Center's use of the computer system called the Core Financial and Logistics System, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi said in a statement. The system was in use at the hospital as a pilot project to see how it worked before it was expanded to the rest of the VA system nationwide.
I'll wager it's another case of building a unique computer system insted of buying a proven off-the-shelf system. Been there, argued against that, lost, proven right.
Principi said Bay Pines will return to its previous computer system in October. A committee of senior VA officials will make recommendations about the program's future, he said.
Yeah, you saw that one coming didn't you?
An agency spokesman said he could not say whether any money spent on the failed system would be recovered.
That would be "no". Like I said, been there, done that.
The total project was to have cost $472 million.
That'll buy a awful lot of proven software. Well, it would have.
The computer system was installed last fall at Bay Pines as the first test site. Bay Pines is the fifth busiest hospital in the VA system and officials later conceded they never should have tested the system there. Hospital employees were not fully trained in the system, and difficulty in using it led to suppliers not being paid, a shortage of surgical supplies and delays for some operations.
Five VA officials, including the hospital's chief of staff, have quit or been reassigned since February due to problems at Bay Pines.
Ah, reassigned to some other lucky hospital.
Congressional investigators found the company awarded the contract for the system, BearingPoint, was paid more than $200,000 as an incentive bonus for keeping the Bay Pines computer project on schedule even though employees were not properly trained to use it. BearingPoint officials declined to comment Tuesday.
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Didn't somebody tell them not to spill coffee into the keyboard?
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Hospital employees were not fully trained in the system, and difficulty in using it led to suppliers not being paid, a shortage of surgical supplies and delays for some operations.
That is precisely the sort of testing you want. It will show more of the weak points
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From my extensive patient experience, I would say that the IT system at the VA in Palo Alto, CA works great.
It is much better than Stanford Hospital's IT system, another place where I have extensive patient experience.
I was an IT Director for a semiconductor company that implemented an Oracle ERP system in 2000, so I understand the pain of large software implementations.
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They spend 492 MILLION dollars to develop a system of their own? How STUPID!
There are lots of existing systems out there which can fulfill the job or be esily adapted to fulfill the job for *much* less (lets say at about 10% of that price tops).
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Penguin - Is the PA system homebrew or off the shelf?
Here's the best system I've ever seen. It simply rocks and has an amazing feature list. Yeah, I happen to know the people who wrote it and sell it, but I have no financial stake. I was just around (in Bangkok) when it was being designed - they took over 2 years to design it - i.e. they did it right. No surprise: it's a helluvalot cheaper than homebrew and 10x more capable. I know (read: lusted after) the woman who runs the consortium that owns Bumrungrad Hospital in BKK and also know the guy who eventually became Prez of the Company. Hardcore pros.
The SpaceShipOne craft that cracked the commercial space flight barrier will be launched in September in a bid to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, pioneering aviation designer Burt Rutan announced Tuesday . The prize is being offered for the first privately developed, three-seat spacecraft to soar beyond an altitude of 62 miles and repeat the feat within two weeks.
SpaceShipOne flew to that altitude in a test flight last month from Mojave, Calif., after being carried to its launch altitude of 50,000 feet under the belly of a Rutan-designed airplane, the jet-powered White Knight.
Rutan said he plans a qualifying launch on Sept. 29 followed by the second flight as early as Oct. 4. At a news conference at Santa Monica Airport, Rutan said he plans to be capable of making three flights within the two-week period in case one flight fails to reach the required altitude. The pilot has not been selected.
Rutan said the first flight will carry only the pilot but he did not rule out passengers for the subsequent attempt. "I really do want to fly passengers in this ship," he said.
Backers of a Canadian effort called the Da Vinci Project announced that their spacecraft will roll out next week in Toronto and they intend to begin flying sometime in the fall. A total of 26 teams in seven countries are developing spacecraft to compete for the X Prize, which is sponsored by the privately funded X Prize Foundation in St. Louis.
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jeez.... this sucker looks worse that the shuttle.
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.
