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Police in Casselberry [Florida] arrested a drunk driver who knocked over 17 street signs on Monday night. It's hard to believe why anyone would intentionally drive over as many stop signs and streets signs as possible. Crews worked through the morning Tuesday, and most of the day, replacing 17 sings destroyed by 26-year-old Phillip Strange, who Casselberry police said recklessly drove his Jeep the night before. According to the incident report, Strange repeatedly told police officers he was drunk. He also said he was paid $45 to knock over the signs. "We're talking 17 signs at more than $200. You can do the math to see how much it's costing the city and taxpayers to get this put back in place," said Public Works supervisor Juan Maldonado. It was an expensive joy ride that left signs on practically every sidewalk and front yard in a 10-block radius. Strange was charged with driving under the influence, criminal mischief, and driving with a suspended license. Can't they tack on some more charges for reckless endangerment or something? A destroyed or missing stop sign can easily cause a fatal crash.
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Dammit--sorry--this is Page 3 material.
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Other than the $400 damage he did on his uninsured vehicle, the dare was a real cash windfall for him.
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A few years back three teen agers were sentenced to 15 years in prison for causing the death of three other teen agers. For kicks the perps puuled up a STOP sign and laid it on the ground.
the victims breezed into the intersection and were T-boned by an 8 ton truck. For this act of manslaughter the idiots could have gotten up to 50 years behind bars.
The idiot who hired the jeep and driver to knock over those signs should be charged as well.
WORLE, England, July 13 (UPI) -- The honeymoon began Wednesday for a 31-year-old deaf organist who married his first girlfriend, a 70-year-old retired engineer and grandmother in England. Simon Martin and Edna Townsend were married Saturday after a 30-month relationship, and set out for Cornwall Wednesday for a 2-week honeymoon. Martin, who has been profoundly deaf since the age of 9, is an accomplished organ player and also restores the instruments. He told the Daily Mail he had been a lifelong bachelor. "I've never had a relationship before. Before my life was all about music," he said.
Guess he got tired of playing his own organ. (rimshot)
Townsend, a grandmother of three, had already had a long relationship with a younger man and lived with the man, who was 10 years her junior, until he died at the age of 52.
Wore him out, did she?
"I had heard quite a lot about this extraordinary young man and it really was love at first sight," she said.
Ewwwwwwwwwwww
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Armed bandits in Brazil robbed a vehicle carrying more than 400 breast implants, officials said on Tuesday.
"It happened last week, but we only learned about it recently as our clients started complaining. It is the hottest period of the year in terms of implant sales," said Margaret Figueiredo, director of silicone implant manufacturer Silimed. A spokesman for the state Postal Service confirmed that assailants, apparently men, robbed the postal van with implants on Thursday night in Rio de Janeiro. Each Silimed breast implant costs nearly $400.
The popularity of Brazil's plastic surgery pioneer and trendsetter Ivo Pitanguy, whose clients include celebrities like Sophia Loren, has made the tropical country one of the leading international nip and tuck venues. Sophia Loren is a little bit over-the-hill to be the top celeb endorser for cosmetic surgery, don't you think?
Figueiredo explained demand is the highest in July, during the southern hemisphere winter, as women schedule surgery during the winter school holidays, which precede the beach season. Figueiredo said the implants, each bearing an individual number, could now only be sold for clandestine surgeries. Back-alley boobjobs?
Horrific stories abound in Brazil about the illegal operations that can cause gangrene and death. Jeepers creepers, where'd you get those green, seeping peepers? Yuck.
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Sophia Loren is could endorse anything. she is still drop dead gorgeous, and a happy Italian grandmother, to boot. If only I could hate her, darn it!
Connecticut Tuesday joined a growing effort to weed out marijuana-flavored candy from store shelves when its attorney general said he would sponsor a statewide ban on "Pot Suckers" lollipops.
Five other states have either banned or are considering a ban on the candy, causing New Jersey distributor ICUP to suspend further sales of the green candy as of June 28. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said the candy was being sold in novelty stores in large malls throughout the state, marketed with slogans such as "Every lick is like taking a hit." Cotton-candy mouth?
The candy, which is flavored with hemp essential oil, does not contain THC, the hallucinogenic compound in marijuana, but Blumenthal called it "a gateway product" that "glamorizes drugs for children." The candy has been banned by the Chicago City Council and in Suffolk County, New York. The New York City Council and the states of Michigan, New Jersey and Georgia are considering legislation to ban them. It's a nationwide epidemic, apparently.
ICUP president Steve Trachtenberg said reaction to the Pot Suckers "borders on ridiculous." "Is it a novelty? Yes. Was it meant to encourage kids to use drugs? Absolutely not," he said, noting that more than 70 percent of U.S. candy consumption is by adults. Dope-flavored candy has nothing to do with the dope itself. Nope. Not a thing. Nothing to see here.
Trachtenberg said that in addition to suspending distribution of Pot Suckers because of the backlash, his company has put on hold plans for related items, including a hemp-flavored chocolate candy Buzz Bar. Other marijuana-flavored candy products have found their way to the market place in recent months including "Kronic Kandy," made in the Netherlands and sold in the Atlanta area, and items from the Mary Jane Candy Company including "Ganja Pops" and "Icky Sticky Nuggets." Amazing. This never would have happened in the 80s. Am I really so ancient and out of touch at the ripe old age of 32? Apparently so.
Already too much monkey-brained humans, why add some more relatives? Check also the "In the other side" bit at the bottom of the page...
SCIENTISTS have been warned that their latest experiments may accidently produce monkeys with brains more human than animal.
In cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects. Critics argue that if these fetuses are allowed to develop into self-aware subjects, science will be thrown into an ethical nightmare. An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be predicted and may in fact produce subjects with a 'super-animal' intelligence.
The high-powered committee of animal behaviourists, lawyers, philosophers, bio-ethicists and neuro-scientists was established four years ago to examine the growing numbers of human/monkey experiments.
These procedures, known as 'human-primate chimeras', involve the combination of human and monkey cells, tissue and DNA to observe any effect and examine the possibility that such combination could actually exist. Chimeras are mythical monsters from Greek literature, which combined various bodyparts from lions, goats nd snakes.
This team will soon publish its conclusions in leading journal Science. In the report the committee will address such unsettling questions as whether introducing human cells into non-human primate brains could cause "significant physical or biochemical changes that make the brain more human-like" and how those changes could be detected.
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I'm thinking quagmire. Imagine the fallout in Moonbat cirles... The support and counseling programs they'll have to start, the hyper-funded studies, the debate over simian rights... Will they allow the Death Penalty for stealing bananas?
Yep. Quagmire. Or else Charleton Heston will make a comeback.
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Maybe the libs are on to something when they talk about SmirkyMcChimpHitler....
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BrerRabbit and .com can pat themselves on the back all they want, but I beat them with the Planet of the Apes reference by a whole 19 minutes. Plus mine was to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
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RC - LOL! You call that a prior reference! Ha! Ya just can't take it, c'mon admit it, you got scooped, lol!
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All this has already been tried and tried again and every time it fails, look at what happened to the one that escaped...how was it called ? Oh yes, Howard Dean.
No way to go here.
EFL.We may not have to nuke it after all. They may do it for us. MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Some of Islam's historic sites in Mecca, possibly including a home of the Prophet Mohammad, are under threat from Saudi real estate developers and Wahhabi Muslims who view them as promoting idolatry. Loons and greedheads destroy Mecca. Alk runners blamed. Film at eleven...
Sami Angawi, an expert on the region's Islamic architecture, said 1,400-year-old buildings from the early Islamic period risk being demolished to make way for high rise towers for Muslims flocking to perform the annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest city."We are witnessing now the last few moments of the history of Mecca," Angawi told Reuters. "Its layers of history are being bulldozed for a parking lot," he added. We have a faster solution. But you might not like it...
Angawi estimated that over the past 50 years at least 300 historical buildings had been leveled in Mecca and Medina, another Muslim holy city containing the prophet's tomb. Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia's dominant doctrine which promotes a strict narrow interpretation of Islam, was largely to blame, he said. Not Muslim Enough comes to Mecca...
"They (Wahhabis) have not allowed preservation of old buildings, especially those related to the prophet. They fear other Muslims will come to see these buildings as blessed and this could lead to polytheism and idolatry." Mo Pissed Here. 4,678,987,897,543rd Holiest Place in Islam.
The Washington-based Saudi Institute, an independent news gathering group, says most Islamic landmarks have been destroyed since Saudi Arabia was founded in 1932. It cited a 1994 edict by the kingdom's senior council of religious scholars which ruled that preserving historical buildings might lead to polytheism. Wow. Sounds worse then Guantanamo.
Angawi, who founded the Haj Research Center in 1975 to study and preserve Mecca and Medina's rich history, claims to have identified a home of the Prophet Mohammad. But he is reluctant to publicize its location fearing it would be demolished like DAR al Arqam -- the first school in Islam where the prophet taught. Angawi's views were echoed elsewhere. ...and they get pissed at us for looking at a Koran wrong?
In London, Geoffrey King, Islamic art and archeology specialist at the School of Oriental and African and Studies, said the fate of Islamic historic sites in Saudi Arabia was "depressing."
"The religious authorities have failed to appreciate the significance of these buildings to Muslims and scholars worldwide," said King, who taught for several years in the kingdom and stressed many young Saudis agreed with him. Yes, yes. We agree with you...INFIDEL!
Followers of Wahhabism say Muslims should focus on Mecca's Grand Mosque, which contains the Kaaba -- an ancient structure that more than 4 million Muslims visit each year as part of haj and umra pilgrimages. Which reminds me. I have to get my over/under stampede bet in early this year.
Real estate firms see massive demand for new accommodation to house up to 20 million pilgrims expected to visit Islam's holiest city annually over the coming years as authorities relax entry restrictions for pilgrims."The infrastructure at the moment cannot cope. New hotels, apartments and services are badly needed," the director of a leading real estate company said, estimating that developers are spending around 50 billion riyals ($13 billion) on projects in the city. Cha-ching. Sorry, Mo. Don't send down a plague or nothing. Business is business...
Dominating these is the 10 billion riyal Jabal Omar scheme. Covering a 230,000 square yard area adjacent to the Grand Mosque, the seven-year project consists of several towers containing hotels, apartments, shops and restaurants. Angawi said these developments will dwarf Mecca's Grand Mosque and are a sign of crass commercialization."Mecca is being treated like a bad copy of any city when it is a sanctuary. The house of God is being commercialized and these developments are disrespectful and totally out of proportion." But the Jabal Omar Development Company, the firm behind the project, said it was changing Mecca for the better, not least in demolishing more than 1,000 poorly built homes that clung precariously to the hillsides around the Grand Mosque. Their version of "It's for...the children"?
The firm said around 70,000 residents from 29 different nationalities used to live on the Jabal Omar site before selling up and moving into better quality housing elsewhere.
The residents of a similar neighborhood close by seemed to be equally eager to attract developers. Ali Hussein, a 38-year-old originally from Myanmar, lives in a cramped house deep within a network of unpaved, rubbish-strewn alleyways. "The people that moved away now live in nice homes," he said as a stray cat skipped over a puddle of sewage nearby. "This is a very poor area. We hope another investor will come," said Amin Rafie, a local community ombudsman, adding that residents would likely be offered a handsome price for their disheveled homes in Saudi Arabia's oil-driven real estate boom. 1 bedroom hovel, bathroom in street, no electric, no gas. GREAT VIEW OF KAABA! 2 million dollars US.
But Angawi wasn't convinced of the developers' motives. "We have to accommodate these new pilgrims, but do we have to do it in towers and skyscrapers? Making money seems to be the bottom line here," he said. "We are destroying physical links to our past and turning our religion and history into a legend," he said. Profit before Islam. I am, like, so very, very shocked!
Ah, this is just precious. The Hardcores vs the Touchy-Feelys. We can sympathize a bit.
Now if they were only aware of the infidels running around the Empty Quater in their 4WDs finding all those ancient artifacts - and shipping them home pronto... Remember, they're VERY concerned about what comes IN, but they don't pay much attention to what goes OUT, lol! If they knew, well, they'd pop another vein or two, lol! I'll have to send this to some folks...
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It cited a 1994 edict by the kingdom's senior council of religious scholars which ruled that preserving historical buildings might lead to polytheism.
So we can go ahead and knock down the Al'Aqsa Mosque?
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Welcome to Meccalandâ¢! Here have a Prophetpop...
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Let's see here: preservation of old buildings, especially those related to the prophet: BAD the Kaaba -- an ancient structure that more than 4 million Muslims visit each year as part of haj and umra pilgrimages: GOOD
Oh I see, it's the kaaba itself that leads to polytheism and idolatry...
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Am I reading this right? The 20th century and the 12th century are about to clash in Mecca? Can we have popcorn?
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Popcorn it is, extra butter anyone?
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If youre going to establish butter popping outlet, a non-historical use in this district, you need to first submit your plans to this council, to make sure that no alterations will be made that will infringe on the historical charecter and appearance of the neighborhood
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I wonder if they'll use Cat 'dozers to destroy The Profit's old haunts...
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Here is an interesting article on the same subject.
The money quote:
"But that's only half the story. Crusade-besotted pan-Arab pan-Muslims, who were so outraged over the (non)events at the Baghdad Museum during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, should ask themselves: How much respect has the Wahhabi sect of Islam shown to Muslim monuments? It's a question that Al-Jazeeraites don't ever ask.
After the Dayton Accords in Bosnia and in postconflict Kosovo, reconstruction aid poured in from Saudi Arabia. Much of it went into Wahhabi proselytizing, bullying, converting and bribing of destitute Muslims. An austere desert sect, Wahhabism cannot abide what it considers idolatry, frippery, or nostalgia for objects in religious places. When forced by locals to renovate rather than supplant, the Saudis obliterated all historical highlights, interior decoration, turquoise tiling and the like in local mosques, ripping out and whitewashing everywhere. Like the Serbs and Croats, they forcibly purged what they considered alien--only they did so within the precincts of their own religion. In Kosovo's cemeteries, weeping villagers often witnessed Saudi bulldozers destroying the marble headstones of their Albanian forefathers from the 14th and 15th centuries. U.N. observers considered it an intra-Muslim dispute beyond their ken.
So much for the Saudis abroad. What about the holy soil of Saudi Arabia, in Mecca and Medina--terrain that Osama bin Laden so fiercely declared as threatened by the proximity of American infidel bases? As it happens, there the Saudi record is even worse, with the Bin Laden family in the forefront of razing and building contracts.
During the Ottoman centuries, Mecca and Medina became highly cosmopolitan, with many world Muslims of varied sects choosing to settle and die there. Their descendants often came to visit their ancestors' tombs. That sacred ground was the common heritage of all Muslims. It became Saudi property when the Wahhabis took over in the 1920s and, ever since, they have systematically destroyed all such sites, including the tombs of the Prophet's own family and companions. This always involved digging deep under the foundations to remove all fragments of bones. In Mecca, in the 1970s, they even tore down the dwelling of Mohammed's mother. A McDonald's has replaced it. To many eyes, even the Kaaba's Great Mosque of Mohammed has been utterly destroyed by total renovation.
Few Muslims dare to say such things publicly, of course, least of all Al-Jazeera correspondents. The monuments, though, or what remains of them, speak volumes."
I juat love the McDonalds touch.
French teachers and researchers in Japan sued outspoken Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara on Wednesday for calling French a "failed language", demanding compensation and a public apology.
In a suit filed at the Tokyo District Court, the 21 plaintiffs, many of whom run language schools or teach French, said Ishihara's remarks had disgraced them. According to the suit, Ishihara said last October: "I have to say it is no surprise that French is disqualified as an international language because French is a language which cannot count numbers." The governor made his remarks at a gathering in support of a new university in Tokyo, apparently to explain that there was no point to pursuing French, said plaintiff Brendan Marcus, who teaches at a private French school in Tokyo.
"For someone of his public stance, it's quite unacceptable," Marcus said.
"When you know how many French scientists and mathematicians throughout history have made important contributions, (his remarks are) not appropriate."
The plaintiffs are demanding a written apology in a newspaper and 500,000 yen each in compensation.
Ishihara, a nationalist long known for making contentious remarks, has in the past drawn ire for his comments on China, Chinese and Korean residents of Japan, and older women.
An official at the Tokyo metropolitan government declined to comment, saying they had not received details of the lawsuit.
Numbers in French can be a mouthful at times, such as the word for 80, which translates into "four 20s", or 70, which is "60 plus 10".
Japanese, however, has an unusual and sometimes awkward system for counting large numbers in which 1 million is expressed as "100 ten-thousands". Different words are also used for counting depending on such factors as whether the object is an animal, a book, or something long and thin.
"If you try, you can find that every language has its difficulties," Marcus said. "But people should be encouraged to do what they can with any language."
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I could be wrong, but I suspect this restaurant probably had few Japanese customers before they put out that sign. My feeling is that every foreign customer will be repelled by this sign and just move on to the next restaurant.
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China has repeatedly asked Japan to "take history as a mirror" and "correctly" view history
I suspect that Chinese communism has killed more Chinese than Japan ever did.
Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Polish prosecutors received the refusal in a letter from the Israeli Justice Ministry saying "there was no basis whatsoever to extradite" Solomon Morel, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, prosecutor Ewa Koj told The Associated Press.
Morel commanded a communist-run camp for German prisoners in southern Poland in 1945 after Soviet troops had occupied the country. Polish authorities accuse him of genocide by seeking to exterminate German prisoners by starving them to death, depriving them of medical care as well as carrying out torture and sanctioning torture by his subordinates.
Polish prosecutors charge that Morel is responsible for the deaths of at least 1,500 prisoners in the Swietochlowice camp.
Koj, a prosecutor with the government-run National Remembrance Institute in Katowice, said the Israeli ministry argued that the statute of limitations against Morel had run out. The institute investigates communist and Nazi-era crimes.
Koj quoted the letter as saying: "In light of the facts, there appears to be no basis to charge Mr. Morel with serious crimes let alone crimes of 'genocide' or 'crimes against the Polish nation.' If anything, it would seem to us that Mr. Morel and his family were clearly victims of crimes of genocide committed by the Nazis and the Polish collaborators.
Koj criticized Israel's decision, saying: "How can a statute of limitations run out on crimes against humanity?"
"There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli, or any other nationality," she added.
Israel, which has no extradition treaty with Poland, in 1998 refused an extradition request based on charges of torture; the current request broadened the charges to genocide, for which there is no statute of limitations in Polish law.
Polish historians generally agree that the communist government imprisoned 100,000 Germans, mostly civilians deemed threats to the state after World War II. At least 15,000 died due to ill treatment, and the rest were freed by 1950.
Morel left Poland for Israel in 1994, after accusations against him surfaced.
Alexandre Vinokourov won Wednesday's 11th Stage of the Tour de France after a thrilling duel with Santiago Botero over the closing kilometres. The pair were first and second respectively over the top of the massive 2645m Col du Galibier - the highest point on this year's Tour. But Phonak's Botero closed a 36-second gap on his T-Mobile rival on the descent and it came down to a sprint. Lance Armstrong finished a minute back but retains the leader's yellow jersey. Looks like his lead is 38 seconds.
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Joe Barton is throwing his weight around, opening an inquiry into global warming by scrutinizing the methods and funding of key researchers.
Environmentalists and scientists, who have long tarred the Ennis Republican as an apologist for polluters, now call Mr. Barton a bully, as well â one who has blinded himself to the downside of greenhouse gas emissions.
His response: "Tough luck."
"It's the real world. I have to report every dime that I raise and who I get it from," he said.
As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he's sent letters demanding financial records and other information from the National Science Foundation and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose reports on global warming have shaped policies and treaties.
Three climatologists who authored a seminal 1998 analysis of ancient tree rings, ocean sediment and polar ice have been asked to provide details on funding sources, methods, computer code and data.
Their paper in the journal Nature depicted an alarming warming spike and was a turning point in the debate over climate change. But as Mr. Barton points out, some of their data and methods â though not their central conclusions â have been attacked in other peer-reviewed journals.
"Let's just get the facts," said Mr. Barton, who doesn't dispute that ambient temperatures have risen worldwide in the last 50 to 100 years. "I think that's proven. But there is a growing body of scientific evidence that a lot of this is just a naturally recurring cycle."
Mr. Barton gave his targets two weeks to comply. Monday is the deadline. He said he's considering hearings in the fall.
News of his letters has riled scientists and environmentalists.
"If you're anywhere on the political spectrum between Vladimir Putin and the Queen of England, you understand that global warming is happening and it's caused by our use of fossil fuels," said Sierra Club global warming analyst Brendan Bell, accusing the chairman of falling for "junk science."
Dr. John Holdren, an environmental expert who runs the science, technology and public policy program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, said Mr. Barton's letters "are clearly intended to frighten and tie up the scientists involved."
Even if the Nature paper had some flaws, he added, studies of glaciers and other indicators support the conclusion that the 1990s were the warmest decade in 1,000 years, and the last half-century was the warmest in the last 6,000.
"The science is very clear," he said.
A central target of the letters, Dr. Michael Mann, a University of Virginia professor, said he is working to comply with Mr. Barton's request for records. He said he's "confident that when members of Congress take a look at the science, they will join with the consensus of the world's scientists that the Earth is indeed warming" and that human activity is largely to blame.
Even President Bush has apparently bought into that consensus. In Europe for the G-8 summit last week, he defended the U.S. refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gases, saying it would harm the U.S. economy. But he made no fuss over the premise that manmade emissions have caused warming. "It is a significant, long-term issue that we've got to deal with," he said.
The Barton letters drew a scathing rebuke from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a member of the energy committee and the senior Democrat on the House Government Reform panel. He called them "a transparent effort to bully and harass climate-change experts who have reached conclusions with which you disagree," rather than a "serious attempt to understand the science of global warming."
Mr. Barton called Mr. Waxman's letter a "cheap political shot." And he blamed the attacks on "radical environmentalists who keep trying to intimidate the Congress or the committee or me." Once again, the vice squad raids the whorehouse, and the ladies protest "restraint of trade".
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Even if the Nature paper had some flaws, he added, studies of glaciers and other indicators support the conclusion that the 1990s were the warmest decade in 1,000 years, and the last half-century was the warmest in the last 6,000.
1,000 years.... 6,000 years.... Perhaps I'm a bit dense but that sounds like a -er- cycle to me.....
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Hush fools! 9 out of 10 Doctors who smoke recommend Camels for it's smoothe scientific blend of Turkish and American tobaccos.
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squeal little piggies.
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Yeah, and the same people were shrilly screeching that we were heading for another Ice Age just 30 years ago. You can't get funding unless there's a catastrophy, so these people manufacture catastrophies. I appreciate George Bush's attitude: "we can't change it, so lets start thinking about how we can adapt to live with it". And according to the latest, ALL the "global warming" that's occurred in the last 100 years hasn't made it as warm as the Mideival Warm Period. Anything to the contrary is a figment of someone's imagination.
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The medieval Warm Period. Wasn't that when the best wines were made in Britain? The good old days.
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That's right, Mrs. D and as a direct result, they wrote some of the best literature.
A team of Senate and House Democrats today are planning to introduce legislation today aimed at significantly increasing size of the U.S. Army.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services (SASC) airland subcommittee, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), a SASC member, and Reps. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.), both members of the House Armed Services committee, are pressing for the passage of the United States Army Relief Act.
The legislation seeks to raise the cap of the Armyâs end strength, said an aide to Tauscher.
The Army already is working on increasing its troop levels by 30,000. Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter Schoomaker, has said on numerous occasions that it costs about $1.2 billion a year for every 10,000 people added to the Army.
Both the House and the Senate have called for an increase in troop levels in their 2006 defense authorization bill and it is likely that troop levels will be increased when the conferees meet. This sounds fishy. The only reason I can see the dems pushing this through, is they hope the republicans will pass it, since it seems pro-military, and then slam the republicans and Bush for not meeting the quota.
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The Dems are looking to increase the size of the army without adding any funding. This means that funding will have to be removed from the equipment or maintenance budget to pay for increased manpower. If a Democrat is for it, you can bet it will be bad for the nation's defenses. Note that Lieberman is no moderate, despite the media's BS about that topic - he scores consistently in the high 70's in the ratings compiled by the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action, whereas even a RINO like McCain scores in the 30's.
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What, are they going to propose reinstating the draft *again* (and then try to blame it on the Republicans like they did last year)? The army is barely able to recruit enough soldiers as it is--where, praytell, are these additional GIs supposed to come from?
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Dar,
You know if it wasn't for the eeeevil republicans and their war for ooooill, the army would be having soldiers out the ying-yang, 'cause we are in the worst economy since the great depression! (/sarcasm)
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Something very fishy about this. I'm guessing that Hitlery is trying to shore up her national defense credentials. Having a bigger Army would not be a bad thing, but it would get expensive.
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Destined for Haiti and Liberia. To be trained at the new Army training center in Groton Conn.
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Not a bad idea wrt op tempo. Though I'd have to see the science behind the initiative. Hopefully someday we'll have another R'burg summit and I can meet some of you guys and tell you the tales of manpower issues I've seen in my time. Though I greatly dis-like the hidabeast and I know this is just for show, in the end the Corps does need three full size MEF's. I can't speak intelligently on the other branches but my assumption is that they are roughly in the same boat.
Plamegate special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had told top White House advisor Karl Rove that he's not a target of his investigation into who leaked the identity of CIA analyst Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak. And Fitzgerald has also asked the top Bush aide not to discuss the case in public.
Speaking to National Review Online's Byron York late Tuesday, Rove attorney Robert Luskin said Fitzgerald "has told Rove he is not a 'target' of the investigation" - despite media reports suggesting otherwise. Fitzgerald has also made it clear, however, that virtually anyone whose conduct falls within the scope of the investigation, including Rove, is considered a "subject" of the probe, Luskin told York. "'Target' is something we all understand, a very alarming term," he added.
For two days straight, the White House press corps has obsessed over Rove's supposed guilt, pummeling Bush spokesman Scott McClellan with dozens of questions about the top Bush aide's role in the cse. Former Reagan Justice Department official Mark Levin told York last night that Luskin's revelation made a big difference. "He is not a target, which is quite different from a subject," Levin said on his WABC radio show. "I know what a target is . . . the prosecutors are chasing you."
"If he's not a target, what the hell is the media up to" by making Rove the focus of their questions, Levin asked? Luskin also told York that Rove has not spoken publicly, "because Fitzgerald specifically asked him not to."
I think we need to start a pool, who is the target? Additional clues:
Robert Novak: Plame Source 'No Partisan Gunslinger'
The Washington press corps and their Democratic friends have been too busy this week chasing down Karl Rove to notice that columnist Robert Novak has offered a tantalizing clue about the identity of just who it was who leaked Valerie Plame's name to him back in July 2003.
And judging from Novak's revelation - it wasn't Karl Rove.
Apparently it's been a while since any of the big media's newshounds bothered to read Novak's follow-up column on the Plame case on Oct. 1, 2003, where he talked about the man (woman?) who spilled Plame's name and thereby, according to Dems, committed the crime of the century.
"During a long conversation with a senior administration official," he wrote, "I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger."
No partisan gunslinger?
Even fans of Mr. Rove would be hard-presseed to deny he's a "partisan gunslinger" - just the kind of person Novak says his leaker wasn't.
Could Novak have been lying to protect Mr. Rove? Perhaps. But by the time he wrote the above words, the Plame leak was already under investigation by the Justice Department, a develpoment that would have guaranteed that he'd have to repeat that falsehood under oath.
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No partisan gunslinger?
Well, there is a 'senior official' who's no longer in the adminsitration.
Anyone besides me been hoping that this is just another Rovian plot trapping the Dems to get in a national hissy fit only to discover that the object of their scorn is one of their own?
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Maryland's next Senate race is shaping up to be two black men running for Paul Sarbanes' seat: for the Dems, Kweisi Mfume; for the GOP, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.
Steele is scheduled to attend a fundraising dinner this month hosted by Karl Rove. The Dems have "issued a call" for Steele to refuse Rove's support. Heh. The silly season is upon us.
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It's pretty obvious that the media is mostly hoping/praying (if librulz are allowed to pray!) that they can use this to "get Rove," and prove that they are still the "power behind the throne" in Washington. IF they lose this, as I believe they will, even Republican Senators are going to start being a bit less impressed by the "Mainstream Media."
Their focus on "getting Rove" rather than finding what really happened is obvious if one even attempts to be objective:
IF Plame were "outed," and that's certainly not clearly the case; then it was the result of Novak's column, and the relevant leaker(s) was Novak's source. This whole "feeding frenzy" is over an email from Cooper describing his conversation with Rove. There is absolutely NOTHING, other than MSM fantasy, to suggest that Cooper's source is Rove's source. It's amazing that I've seen virtually no recognition of that simple "leap of faith" in all of the discussion of this topic.
Of course, IF the information that Rove provided Cooper was classified material then Rove MAY have done something wrong, but it's certainly not the same as the leak to Novak that produced the alleged "public outing."
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Well, this is interesting, from The Corner: ...it appears Joe Wilson has issued a statement IN DEFENSE OF Judith Miller. Which is odd on its face, because if Wilson is so concerned about finding out who revealed the name of his wife -- who Wilson claims was somehow placed in personal jeopardy by the revelation -- shouldn't he want her to testify and reveal who told her what?
Here are Wilson's words: "The sentencing of Judith Miller to jail for refusing to disclose her sources is the direct result of the culture of unaccountability that infects the Bush White House from top to bottom....Thus has Ms Miller joined my wife, Valerie, and her twenty years of service to this nation as collateral damage in the smear campaign launched when I had the temerity to challenge the President on his assertion that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium yellowcake from Africa."
This makes no sense. Judy Miller's jailing is the direct result of an effort to find out who revealed his wife's name. But there is at least one way in which it might make sense -- if Wilson is himself the original source.
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Oh, look, Judy! Joe Wilson's on your side! I believe he used to be famous once. I'll have my secretary call the Washington desk and see if that's true and, if so, why.
It should be any day now. But according to what Martha told me over the weekend, it really wasn't all that bad. She preferred it over that blasted ankle bracelet. Oh, well. Stiff upper lip! Ta-ta!
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This is gonna kill the schmucks like Blob Buckle and Screwgy Estrogen. Buckle was peddling this crap just this morning on Fox Dayside and "demanding" Rove resign, lol! Why Fox bothers to bring on such shills, I dunno. I usually turn it off and fire up WinAmp when one of those loser "operatives" comes on. They lose me for 3 or 4 hours every time.
HILLARY CLINTON made headlines earlier this week when she compared President George W. Bush to Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, freckle-faced mascot whose signature statement is "What, me worry?" As political put-downs go, this hardly ranks as the most egregious, even in the modern era of politics. Fellow Democratic Senator Harry Reid called Bush both a liar and a loser earlier this year, and later only grudgingly offered to retract the latter. The American left, exemplified by MoveOn.org, has compared Bush to Adolf Hitler--unfavorably. Howard Dean has spent his entire term as Democratic party chairman issuing insults to and about Republicans, explicitly declaring that they have never done an honest day's work in their lives and that the GOP is entirely comprised of unfriendly white Christians. Even as an insult to Bush's physical looks, Sen. Clinton's comparison pales to the usual references to chimpanzees that the Left has beaten to death. Snip
SENATOR CLINTON'S SPEECH provides its own Mad magazine moments. For instance, in the portion of her speech that made the Alfred E. Neuman comparison, she argued that Bush's tax cuts had damaged the economy. Checking with the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, however, you find only one quarter during Bush's presidency where the national GDP has registered a decline, and that was in the third quarter of 2001, which included 9/11. In the past two years, GDP growth has not dipped below an annualized rate of 3.3 percent in any one quarter. Five of the eight quarters had better than 4 percent growth. At the same time, prices have only increased by 3 percent in one of those quarters, meaning that real growth has taken place since Bush got his economic plan through Congress. All those "Tax cuts for the Rich" didn't help, nosiree.
If that's damage, no wonder Alfred E. doesn't worry.
Hillary wasn't done giving us her mad moments in her Aspen Ideas Festival speech (and don't think Mad wouldn't have a field day with the concept of an Ideas Festival, either). Later in her remarks, she delivered this eye-popping economic analysis for the Colorado audience: "Ours will be the last generation to rely so exclusively on fossil fuels." She added that the "ups and downs of the global oil market cost the U.S. economy $7 trillion last year . . . almost enough to pay off our entire national debt."
Seven trillion dollars? That would surprise most economists, as well as Mad magazine readers who learned both to question authority and check sources, since the entire American GDP for 2004 amounted to $11.735 trillion according to the BEA; $1.5 trillion came from imports of goods. Energy goods (both domestic and imported) only accounted for $250 billion, making it extremely unlikely that price fluctuations in a single import commodity market could have generated anywhere near the kind of economic damage Senator Clinton cited. More moronic democratic crap coming to a MSM outlet near you!
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The old Alfred E Neuman put down. When Mark Neuman was the Congressman from the 1st district in Wisconsin the Dems here all continually used the same line towrds him. Seems they didn't like him much because he was basically a self made millionaire. And a former teacher. And you know how they can eat their own.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is of the view that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice should attend the Asean Regional Forum (ARF) in Myanmar end of this month to show her commitment to the region. Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said Rice's excuse for not attending the ARF to focus on peace efforts in West Asia was not good enough...
Syed Hamid said over the past two decades and without factoring in the situation then, Rice had not failed to attend the ARF and Asean's Post Ministerial Conference (PMC). He said Rice's decision was not a good move as it did not show that the US still viewed Asean as an important region from the economic, political and security aspects. Asked whether Rice's move was the US act of snubbing at Asean, Syed Hamid said: "You cannot help such perception to be considered because it has never happened before".
On the US' wish that Asean pressures Myanmar to restore democracy in the country, he said Asean still held to the principle of non-interference in member nations' domestic affairs...
"Myanmar's position in Asean must be determined by Asean members and not by other nations".
The Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board on Wednesday rejected the Archaeological Survey of Indiaâs contentions and declared the Taj Mahal as Waqf property. The ASI plans to appeal the order in the high court.
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Oh, that is prime fuel to start a war on. India vs Pakistan IV?
The Waqf board is an Indian muslim organization.
Members are supporters of the Congress party (the current Indian Gov't) so they will probably get away with this seizure.
Muslims are a cherished vote bank in India.
Muslims are accorded special rights. They are entitled to a subsidy from the Indian gov't for the haj pilgrimage. They are allowed to have their own laws for marriage, divorce, inheritance rights etc. The ones in Kashmir are accorded even more rights. No other Indian citizen can own land there. There can thus be no settlement that would change the demographic character (muslim majority) of Kashmir. The Deoband madrassa (taliban was deobandi) is given funds by the Indian gov't.
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The Taj Mahal is actually a Moslem mausoleum.
Now, given that currently popular Wahhabi-esque thinking is opposed to such frivolities (Muslims are supposed to be buried in unmarked graves as per strict Sunni interpretation), one could entertain the (probably unlikely) worry that a radical faction could take over and insist on destroying it.
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Many Hindus believe the Taj Mahal is built on top of a Vedic temple. There is a lot of UNislamic art in and around the central building, things that look a lot more like Hindu symbols.
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Would not surprise me. Razing temples and building mosques is an old islamic practice.
Most chilling is something I read in "Among the believers" by the nobel laureate VS Naipaul.
In excavating the surroundings of the oldest mosque in Pakistan, a layer of human bones was found.
The very first mosque in the Indian subcontinent was built on top of the bones of the slaughtered hindus and budhists.
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john - now why am I not surprised? :-(
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For some reason I got the impression the Taj Mahal was built by a Muslim leader for his love, or something along those lines.
While I have not cracked the cover of one of these are they really any worse than any other of the numerous pieces of fantasy written and published each year? IMO anything that actually gets kids to read something besides the latest cheat book for Grand Theft Auto is a plus
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No. They are pretty standard in terms of writing. Rowling does a good job on keeping track of a pretty complex plot and plenty of characters, but does wander off into far too many digressions, takes shortcuts and uses a lot of deux ex machinae. The first book is by far the best, most tightly written and least prone to wandering off. As for the moral issues in these books, I must say that it would take a true nit-picking fanatic crank to find something to complain about. I think the Pope has never read the things.
My daughter (8) has read them all along with a lot of others.
On the whole I would say C.S.Lewis ("Narnia" series) and Baum ("Oz") wrote with a bigger vocabulary and often with better and always tighter plots - though both could let their standards slip; both phoned in a couple of their books too.
Morally, they are not merely ok, they are excellent. Overcoming adversity, dealing with depression, taking responsibility for yourself, judging people based on their charecter, etc are all themes in the book. And, special for RBers, grim resolve in a long and difficult fight against evil, an evil some would look away from.
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in fairness to the pope, he doesnt so much say he condemns the books, as approves of what the critic is doing. It really seems he is taking her word for it re the books.
You're probably right, but it certainly reinforces the notion that one should be careful in criticizing book one has not read and movies one has not seen.
As for me, I don't think any writer has so successfully revealed the evil inherent in the Nietzschean "will to power" (Voldemort = Zarathustra?) to such a broad audience.
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Rowling is probably the most talented writer alive in the world today. I read one of her books, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," when I had surgery last year. Think about it: How many people can write 734 pages in a prose style interesting enough to not only tell the story, but to make the average 12-year-old reader eager to buy the next installment?
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I'm on the Potter roll - awaiting the latest via Amazon. Good stories
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It's all BS read Penrod for vocabulary then Sister Carrie for insight.
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F*ck off ya olde fart. Pr0N should be read before it is viewed! Every boy-man should have read parts of Tropic of Cancer 19 time over.
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I read all the books and found them to be pretty clear about the Good v. Evil concept. The text of the letter didn't read to me as if the then cardinal had actually read the book written by the critic.
My take on his reservations are that he isn't ready to promote them as Catholic books for the same reason that JRR Tolkien's books are not Catholic books despite the fact that JRR Tolkien was an observant Catholic. These type of books are excellent through and through yet cause some minority of readers to cease bathing, cultivate hemp plants in their UV lighted closets and congregate with other asocial males shaking hit-dice in the basement until they beleive that they believe themselves to be 7th level majic-users of the half-dwaven variety.
My three kids of reading age have continued to shower regularly so I am convinced that it is OK for them to read the next installment. Note to parents - Rowlings has iced a couple of major charecters in the last two chronicles so the books may not be the best medicine for depressed adolescents.
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Hundreds of armed men surrounded a primary school and nearby houses in northern Kenya before opening fire killing at least 56, a local MP says. One mother told of how the gunmen killed her two children and beheaded her husband while she watched.
Tuesday's early morning raid in the village of Turbi - populated mainly by the Gabra - is blamed on the rival Borana from across the Ethiopia border. The two groups have feuded over water and pasture in the semi-arid region. Cross-border raids for livestock are common in the area but correspondents say this is one of the most deadly such attacks in Kenya's history.
It's a range war
Police say they have killed 10 of the raiders and the others are being pursued near the Kenya-Ethiopia border. There have been reports of a revenge attack in the area, leaving at least 10 Boranas dead.
Former Kenyan Foreign Minister Bonaya Godana, who has been touring the scene of the attack, told the AFP news agency that many of the victims were shot dead while getting ready to go to school. "The situation is very sad on the ground, everybody is mourning the dead," he told AFP. "As of this morning, 56 of our people have been confirmed dead and of them are 22 schoolchildren, and most of them died in their school uniforms." Police say that at least 61 people have been killed. Many of the worst injured have been taken to Marsabit district hospital.
Grandmother Darare Bathacha told Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper that she survived by crawling under a bed as the killers murdered her son, Ukur Boru, 40, his wife, Kabane Ukur and their nursery school age son. Another survivor Okille Hukha, 46, ran into the bush but his wife and four children were all killed. Galgalo Hukka, 28, told the newspaper that he fled from Turbi when the raiders struck at about 0600 local time "killing indiscriminately and looting household property and livestock". "They caused havoc until 12pm and even when we left the town at 1pm, they had only retreated to some 800 metres away from the town. They were armed with rifles, hand grenades, machetes and spears," he said.
Sounds like Kenya needs a Second Amendment. And an NRA.
James Galgalo of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission in Marsabit, the nearest town to Turbi, told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme that he believed the raiders were seeking revenge for earlier attacks. "There have been clashes all around here in the past three months between the Gabra and Borana," he said. "They are massacring people - from what we saw they used a lot of spears and knives." Kenya's media say dozens have been killed in clashes between the two ethnic groups this year.
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I don't want to let this one go. At least as many killed here as in Britain. While I'd be the first to argue we go after the jihadis first and foremost, this deserves equal attention, as children were murdered. I know about 12 people on mission there now (in Kenya) and this disturbs me deeply. How can you get the locals to stop this eye for an eye stuff?
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Looks like Steve answered my question...guns and NRA, lol!
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That doesn't stop it, unfortunately. That just makes it a fight instead of a massacre.
How long did it take the Hatfields and the McCoys to stop their feud? And why did they do so? (This isn't a rhetorical question. I honestly don't know, but I assume at least one Rantburger does!)
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While the area is rife with forever-feuding tribes, this event does relate to Islamism.
The Borana are pastoralist and have become overwhelmingly Moslem in the last half-century. The Borana in the Isiolo district are considered radical Moslems. There are 4m Borana, mostly in Ethiopia.
The Gabra are also pastoralist but an animist minority who long ago abandoned their language for Borana. There's only about 40,000 of them, all in Kenya. Although often considered part of the Borana tribal collection, they are quite a distinct ethnic and cultural group, with limited penetration of Islam.
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How long did it take the Hatfields and the McCoys to stop their feud?Hatfield and McCoy feud lasted from 1863 to 1891.
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1880-1890 though you can pick an earlier comencement if you want. This link connects it, like lots of Wild West violence, to the residual effects of the Civil War. 13 died. I read the link to say the reason it ended was they ran out of McCoys and public opinion turned against the Hatfields. Some were executed under law.
TW,
Got to disagree with you here. Hatfields and McCoys are chicken feed compared to what goes on in the turd world. Have you seen Rwanda? My 19 year old daughter couldn't believe something like that had happened during her life time and was amazed that no one had seen fit to bring it to her attention. We had a talk about the facts of life. If you're going to be slaughtered like that, you deserve the chance to go down fighting, and not just resisting.There is going to be a campaign to make the right to bear arms a human right that the UN recognizes. Seems like a good idea to me and this is an example of why. At least you can start shooting back and reduce the number of innocents killed.
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Agreed, Mrs. D! At least give them a fightin' chance!
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At least 120 people were killed and hundreds injured in Pakistan on Wednesday when a passenger train crashed into another at a station and a third train then plowed into the wreckage, police said. "So far, we have taken out at least 120 bodies," police official Shabbir Billo told Reuters from near the scene of the crash near Ghotki, a small town in southern Sindh province.
An express train coming from the eastern city of Lahore rammed into the rear of a train stopped at a station for repairs, the private Geo television station said. A third train then plowed into the derailed carriages, police said. Nineteen carriages were derailed in all, police said.
Police said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash but a technical fault was suspected. A Reuters photographer said he saw about 50 blood-soaked bodies lying near the scene of the crash.
Rescue workers and police were trying to recover bodies from the wreckage. Many injured people were being given treatment at the site while others were searching for missing friends or relatives, he said.
Various opponents of the government, including nationalist tribesmen, have attacked railway lines in southern Pakistan but a senior police official said he believed a technical fault was to blame. "In my view it was a technical mistake," Ghotki police chief Agha Mohammad Tahir told the private Geo television station.
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Two comments:
- as they say: Inshallah!
- I've seen how they operate trains in India: men stand along the tracks every few miles, next to small cement cabin, and hold a tiny red or green flag up to signal the train. In case of problems they have to make a phone call elsewhere or send a boy running I suppose. Pakistan's railroads are probably in a worst state of mis-management.
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I've read that Pakistan doesn't even have a rail line to Islamabad.
There has been zero investment since the end of the Raj.
While India has approximately doubled the amount of track since independence, Indian Railways is grossly mismanaged. It is a huge employment bank leaving almost nothing from budget for safety improvements.
The current Indian railways minister is an idiot called Lalloo who, given his track record as chief minister in running Bihar state into the ground, will destroy the Indian railways if left to his own devices. He faces several criminal charges.
He attended a cabinet meeting where he opined that the problem with Bihar was not his idiot wife, the current chief minister (iliterate woman with nine children) but the lack of ability to print money.
He asked his fellow cabinet ministers for this authority. If only he could print money, all would be well.
The Indian PM and finance minsters (both Harvard educated economists) refused to answer, moving on to other matters. The Indian PM Singh then wrote a memo to all ministers stating that their presence was no longer necessary at cabinet meetings. They could instead send their civil service deputies.
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Ah hell, why not, it's Wednesday.
Harmonize with me Frank!
Trouble ahead ...oh lady in red
take my advice, you'd be better off dead
switchman sleeping, train a hundred and two is
on the wrong track and headed for you,
Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed,
trouble ahead, trouble behind
and you know that notion just crossed my mind.
Trouble with you is the trouble with me
got two good eyes but ya still don't see,
comin' round the bend, you know it's the end
though the fireman screams and the engine just gleems,
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Somebody gonna e-mail this article to Ms. Hilly so she can retract her economic statements at the Alfred E. Newman festival?
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NPR described the additional revenue as a "windfall", like Alan Greenspan happened to find $100 billion under his sofa cushions. For the MSM, the objective is to avoid conceding the reality of the Laffer Curve.
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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.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Some of Islam's historic sites in Mecca, possibly including a home of the Prophet Mohammad, are under threat from Saudi real estate developers and Wahhabi Muslims who view them as promoting idolatry.
