A man arrested in Thailand is being held in connection with the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, law enforcement officials said today. Federal officials familiar with the case, who spoke with the Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the man was being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges.
On a sex tour, I'll wager
A source close to the case identified the suspect as one-time resident of Conyers, Ga., and said he was a school teacher. The source said that authorities had been focusing on him for some time and that Patsy Ramsey had been made aware prior to her death on June 24 that his arrest was being pursued. The girl was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the familys home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996.
Law enforcement officials from Boulder were flying to Bangkok to present Thai authorities with documents in the slaying of the 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant, officials in Washington said. They asked to remain anonymous pending an announcement in Colorado.
The girls parents, Patsy and John Ramsey, had been under an "umbrella of suspicion" in JonBenets death. The Ramseys said an intruder killed their daughter. A grand jury investigation in Boulder ended with no indictments, and no arrests had been made in the case. Patsy Ramsey died in July.
In 2003, U.S. District Judge Julie Carnes in Atlanta concluded that the evidence she reviewed suggested an intruder killed JonBenet. That opinion came with the judges decision to dismiss a libel and slander lawsuit against the Ramseys by a freelance journalist, who the Ramseys had named as a suspect in their daughters murder. The Boulder district attorney at the time said she agreed with Carnes declaration.
Well, this will push World War III off the front pages for a while. If this is the guy, hope they fry him.
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I'll donate my Kning Cooker.
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d'oh! .."King" Cooker..
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Sex Offender Treatment & Rehabilitation Kit
Contents:
one (1) great millstone
one (1) length of rope
Other required materials:
one (1) large body of water
boat or dock (optional)
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So, how about getting the prosecutor who hounded the Ramseys and the talking heads who all but accused the Ramseys to make a very very public statement and apology. Nah, ain't going to happen. Anymore than the FBI officials who leaked to the Atlanta papers the name of the wrong guy in the Olympic bombing.
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The Boulder Police screwed this up from the start. They tried to force the evidence to fit the suspect they had in hand, rather than examining all the evidence in had and seeing what suspect fit it. It had all the signs of a railroading, and that's been my position the whole time. And after listening to Mark Furhman's commentary I was sure of it (Furhman inst a racist cop despite the OJ trial -its his work that ended up bringing the Kennedy cousin Skakel to trial for murder after 20+ years)
That's why the grand jury failed to return an indictment - they were only presented shoveled shit that tried to frame up the Ramseys.
The shame is that because of the initial Boulder PD detective's and DA's refusal to run an unbiased investigation, this guy has been walking around free for nearly a decade, and Patsy Ramsey went to her grave before they got the bastard. The case didn't move until there were new detectives and a new DA in 2002.
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Man, what is it with my hometown (Conyers, GA)? We've been on national news several times already for being such a (formerly) small town. First was our b'ball coach (who was black) giving back our State championship trophy when he found out that one of our players flunked one class (no pass/no play) and played less than 1 minute in 1 championship game (we would've won it anyways w/o him) (even back then the MSM was "shocked" that someone could be so honest. No one else knew of the kid's flunking and we could've kept the title, but Coach Stroud did the honorable thing and gave it back). Then, we got national attention for being home of "the Lady who sees Mary" (crackpot in my book, who claims Mary, mother of Jesus visits her on the 13th of every month and has a HUGE following. She makes "pronouncements" afterwards). Third, Conyers got put on the map for being the hotbed for teen STD's/Orgies on some crackpot PBS "special." And, now this. Jeebus, it's amazing I came out of there sane.
BTW, western Rockdale County (east of Atlanta), wherein resides the City of Conyers, is "represented" (at least, formerly was) by Cynthia McKinney. PSHAW!
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The first commenter to the linked article is right: the number of planets is four terrestrial planets, four jovian planets, and a bunch of asteroids. Pluto never should have been a planet in the first place and having Charon doesn't make it one. We'll have none of these nouveau riche planets, please.
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I would suggest we name a planet after our famous environmental guru, Al Gore, but Uranus is already taken.
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There ought to be a law: Celestial bodies shall not be named after television characters.
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Classes of planets :
Failed Star : Jupiter
Ringy Thingy : Saturn
Caddywhumpus : Uranus
Blue Gas : Neptune
Blue Water turning Green : Earth
Hot Sucker Under Pressure : Venus
Little Red Planet - Little Green Men : Mars
Hot Sucker Under No Pressure : Mercury
Special Planet with a Mini-Me : Pluto and Charon
Superhero Planet with Unacceptable Name : 2003-UB313 (Xena)
Biggest amongst a Buncha Rox : Ceres
All them other faraway Goodies : Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, etc...
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is Jupiter a 'failed' star
No, failed is a very harsh word. Jupiter has changed its life course and will be a success in it's new endeavor. Olde Fat Planet held back.
A South Korean aid group claimed Wednesday that massive floods in North Korea last month left about 54,700 people dead or missing and some 2.5 million homeless. The figure is by far the highest toll reported from floods that hit the impoverished communist country in mid-July. The Seoul-based private aid agency Good Friends claimed it has 'many sources' inside North Korea but didn't say where it obtained the information, which could not be independently confirmed because the North tightly controls media and information.
Good Friends' previous reports of activities inside the isolated country have been confirmed by South Korean government sources, although some of the aid group's figures have been disputed. North Korea's official media have reported that 'hundreds' were killed in the floods, without giving specific numbers. Choson Sinbo, a newspaper published by a pro-North Korean association linked to the North, said this month that the floods killed at least 549 people and left 295 others missing. Officials with South Korea's Red Cross and Unification Ministry, North Korea's economic cooperation office in Beijing and other agencies could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
Representatives of Good Friends refused to elaborate on their report, saying they feared their sources would face government reprisal. The agency said the floods destroyed more than 230 bridges and inundated hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland, further straining the North's ability to feed its population.
North Korea has relied on foreign food handouts since the mid-1990s, when famine caused by natural disasters and decades of mismanagement is believed to have killed up to 2 million people. 'Food prices are skyrocketing as food distribution has become nearly impossible' due to the floods, the agency said.
The agency also claimed the North, to curb possible unrest, prevented those left homeless from traveling. A South Korean citizens' group said last week that North Korea had requested help from the South to cope with the devastation from the floods.
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PRISTINA, Serbia - Kosovos biggest challenge this year will be keeping Serb minority areas peaceful and staving off any threat of partition, the new United Nations governor for the southern Serbian province said on Tuesday. Joachim Ruecker, a German diplomat, was confirmed on Monday as the sixth chief of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in seven years. He expects to be the last, as the West mulls granting Kosovo the independence its Albanian majority demands.
In his first news conference after his appointment was announced on Monday, Ruecker stressed that Belgrades idea of partitioning the province and annexing the northern, Serb-majority part to Serbia, is out of the question. UNMIK and KFOR (the NATO-led Kosovo Force) have increased their presence in the north and I think that was the most important development in recent months, Ruecker said. We cannot and we do not accept partition as an option.
Even if 90% of the people want it ...
Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 following NATO bombing that expelled Serb forces to end what Western powers said was deliberate killing of civilians in fighting an ethnic Albanian rebel insurgency.
But they've no reason to seek independence, the ungrateful curs ...
About 100,000 Serbs stayed on while up to twice as many fled revenge attacks after the war. Most live in a northern triangle of territory supported and serviced from Belgrade. Ninety percent of Kosovos 2 million people are ethnic Albanians. UN-brokered talks are under way to determine whether Kosovo will remain part of Serbia, as sought by the government in Belgrade, or becomes independent. The talks, which started in February, are expected to conclude by year-end.
Hah. Just wait til Carla del Ponte hears of this ...
Ruecker, 55, takes up his duties on September 1. He said his focus would be on building stable institutions, increasing the participation of minorities in political life and promoting economic development. He added that he expected to be Kosovos last UN governor.
The European Union is expected to assume a supervisory role if, as expected, Kosovo is granted conditional independence.
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Over 600,000 Christians have been ethnically cleansed from occupied Iraq, while the West insisted on protecting Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Muslims want the West out of the Islamic junk states, as they want to come here. Crappy deal.
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Well, I do remember having to escort convoy Serbs around these areas. I tend hand to them now after seeing what the other side did to me for stopping the mess.
Meanwhile - Nerds in Paradise. Astronomers meet in Prague...
IAU Planet Definition Committee The IAU has been the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919.
The various IAU Working Groups normally handle this process, and their decisions primarily affect the professional astronomers. But from time to time the IAU takes decisions and makes recommendations on issues concerning astronomical matters affecting other sciences or the public. Such decisions and recommendations are not enforceable by any national or international law; rather they establish conventions that are meant to help our understanding of astronomical objects and processes. Hence, IAU recommendations should rest on well-established scientific facts and have a broad consensus in the community concerned. Ron Ekers, President of the IAU
"The boundary between (major) planet and minor planet has never been defined and the recent discovery of other Trans-Neptunian
Objects (TNOs), including some larger than Pluto, triggered the IAU to form a working group on Definition of a Planet from its Division III members. While there was general agreement on all the scientific issues related to Solar System dynamics and physical properties of planets, the IAU Division III Working Group could not agree on aspects that were related to social and cultural issues, such as the status of Pluto. In order to include these broader aspects, the IAU Executive Committee (EC) formed a new committee whose membership had backgrounds in history, science publishing, writing and education as well as in planetary science. Terms of Reference
The Planet Definition Committee of the IAU Executive Committee was charged with:
(i) discussing the broader social implications of any new definition of a planet and recommending a course of action that balances
the scientific facts with the need for social acceptance of any change;
(ii) addressing the status of Pluto, and of the newly discovered TNOs in the light of recommendation (i);
(iii) considering whether the current naming procedures for planets and minor planets have exacerbated the problem of defining a
planet and recommending whether revisions are needed; and
(iv) attempting to frame these recommendations as a resolution, or resolutions, that could be put before the Prague GA in August
2006 for possible adoption.
And you all thought the US congress got wordy.... My my my...
--------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution 5 for GA-XXVI: Definition of a Planet
Contemporary observations are changing our understanding of the Solar System, and it is important that our nomenclature for objects reflect
our current understanding. This applies, in particular, to the designation planets. The word planet originally described wanderers that
were known only as moving lights in the sky. Recent discoveries force us to create a new definition, which we can make using currently
available scientific information. (Here we are not concerned with the upper boundary between planet and star.)
The IAU therefore resolves that planets and other Solar System bodies be defined in the following way:
(1) A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic
equilibrium (nearly round) shape1, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet.2
(2) We distinguish between the eight classical planets discovered before 1900, which move in nearly circular orbits close to the ecliptic
plane, and other planetary objects in orbit around the Sun. All of these other objects are smaller than Mercury. We recognize that Ceres
is a planet by the above scientific definition. For historical reasons, one may choose to distinguish Ceres from the classical planets by
referring to it as a dwarf planet.3
(3) We recognize Pluto to be a planet by the above scientific definition, as are one or more recently discovered large Trans-Neptunian
Objects. In contrast to the classical planets, these objects typically have highly inclined orbits with large eccentricities and orbital periods
in excess of 200 years. We designate this category of planetary objects, of which Pluto is the prototype, as a new class that we call
plutons.
(4) All non-planet objects orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as Small Solar System Bodies.4 1 This generally applies to objects with mass above 5×1020 kg and diameter greater than 800 km. An IAU process will be established
to evaluate planet candidates near this boundary. 2 For two or more objects comprising a multiple object system, the primary object is designated a planet if it independently satisfies the
conditions above. A secondary object satisfying these conditions is also designated a planet if the system barycentre resides outside the
primary. Secondary objects not satisfying these criteria are satellites. Under this definition, Plutos companion Charon is a planet, making
Pluto-Charon a double planet. 3 If Pallas, Vesta, and/or Hygeia are found to be in hydrostatic equilibrium, they are also planets, and may be referred to as dwarf
planets. 4 This class currently includes most of the Solar System asteroids, near-Earth objects (NEOs), Mars-, Jupiter- and Neptune-Trojan asteroids,
most Centaurs, most Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and comets. In the new nomenclature the concept minor planet is not used.
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Remember if it is settled, the ACLU will unsettle it. Pluto had no worries. It will always be a planet.
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Well, once it becomes the 38464th holiest site in Islam, its future will be secure. Imagine the seeting if it were downgraded. Eye-rolling, perhaps.
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Extraordinarily discouraging that the first item on reviewing a scientific definition is the "broader social implications" of a change. This group belongs in the same dustbin as religious and soviet scientific groups.
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I think the phrase "broader social implications" was a polite way of saying "if we try to tell six billion people that something isn't a 'planet' that they're used to calling a 'planet,' they won't go along with it and we might look silly. Therefore, we will construct our definition so that doesn't happen."
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if we try to tell six billion people that something isn't a 'planet' that they're used to calling a 'planet,' they won't go along with it and we might look silly. Therefore, we will construct our definition so that doesn't happen
LOL Mike.... Someone ought hire you as an interpreter for the Bureaucratesian tongue.
I'd guess the "send Elian home" people won't find the time here?....
Immigration activists around the country are taking up the cause of a single mother who invoked the ancient principle of sanctuary and took refuge in a Chicago church rather than submit to deportation to Mexico.
Elvira Arellano, 31, was holed up for a second day Wednesday at Aldalberto United Methodist Church with the support of the congregation's pastor. With her was her 7-year-old son, Saul, an American citizen.
Federal officials said there is no right to sanctuary in a church under U.S. law and nothing to prevent them from arresting her. But they would not say exactly what they planned to do, or when.
The protest raised the spectacle of agents barging into a church and dragging her out.
"She is the face of the movement," said Emma Lozano, executive director of the Chicago immigration-rights group Centro Sin Fronteras, who was at the church with Arellano.
In Phoenix, Martin Manteca of Mi Familia Vota said Hispanic activist groups were organizing a vigil in her support. Lozano said an event also was scheduled in Detroit.
Arellano also has attracted attention from political officials including Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who has voiced his support. And Dolores Huerta, a leader in the effort to organize the nation's farm workers, plans to come to Chicago to show her support, according to Huerta's daughter, Alicia.
A few dozen supporters gathered at the storefront church, sitting in the pews and praying for Arellano. But the doors were not barricaded, and there were no apparent efforts to fortify the church.
Arellano, who is president of United Latino Family, which lobbies for families that could be split by deportation, had been ordered to appear at the immigration office in Chicago at 9 a.m. Tuesday, but instead went to the church, where she is an active member.
She said that if authorities want her, they will have to come and get her.
"My son is a U.S. citizen," she told reporters. "He doesn't want me to go anywhere, so I'm going to stay with him."
Pastor Walter Coleman said his congregation offered Arellano refuge after praying about her plight. Coleman said he does not believe Arellano should have to choose between leaving her son behind or removing him from his home.
"She represents the voice of the undocumented, and we think it's our obligation, our responsibility, to make a stage for that voice to be heard," he said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said there is nothing preventing the U.S. government from arresting her at the church.
"Ms. Arellano willfully violated U.S. immigration laws and is now facing the consequences of her actions by failing to report to immigration authorities," said agency spokeswoman Gail Montenegro. "We will arrest and deport her as required by law at an appropriate time and place."
Legal experts agreed that the traditional doctrine that people are protected from arrest in a church is not recognized under U.S. law.
But Joel Fetzer, associate professor of political science at Pepperdine University in California, said: "If the government comes in, it's going to look very jack-booted fascistic. It would look very bad."
Churches and synagogues also tried to offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants escaping civil war in El Salvador during the 1980s, a civil disobedience activity known as the Sanctuary movement. Susan Gzesh, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago who assisted the churches and synagogues that offered sanctuary, said she does not believe federal authorities ever went into the churches to make arrests.
Arellano illegally crossed into the United States in 1997 and was deported shortly afterward. She returned within days, living for three years in Oregon before moving to Chicago in 2000. Arrested two years later at O'Hare Airport, where she was working as a cleaning woman, she was convicted of working under a false Social Security number and ordered to appear at the immigration office in Chicago.
Activists said her desire to come here to work and provide a better life for herself and her son illustrates why they believe the nation's immigration laws must be changed.
"She is a leader in the movement who has made the issue of family unity the key issue in the question of the undocumented," her pastor said. "That is the most sympathetic issue there is."
Others are not so sure.
"I don't think the immigration debate should be focused on a woman who ... disregards an order," said Carlina Tapia-Ruano, a Chicago lawyer and president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Tapia-Ruano said she worries that Arellano's story will be used by extremists on both sides of the issue and cited as an example "of how illegals come here to be in flagrant disregard of our laws, and I don't think that's true."
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A hero of another color in Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" has some people again balking at the whitewashing of a black character in a Hollywood film. This time it's the character of Marine Sgt. Thomas, one of two former Marines who help rescue New York Port Authority Officers Will Jimeno and John McLoughlin from beneath 20 feet of twisted metal, broken concrete and sparking debris in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. In the film, white actor William Mapother -- who's Tom Cruise's cousin and who played Ethan Rom in the first season of "Lost" and Quecreek miner John "Flathead" Phillippi in ABC's "The Pennsylvania Miners' Story" -- plays Sgt. Thomas.
His part in the movie was much smaller than that of Staff Sgt. David Karnes, mostly because no one knew who he was.
Last week, the real Sgt. Thomas -- a black, former Marine named Jason Thomas of Columbus, Ohio -- came forward and told his story. "Someone needed help. It didn't matter who," Thomas told the Associated Press. "I didn't even have a plan. But I have all this training as a Marine, and all I could think was, 'My city is in need.' "
Thank you, Marine
So, instead of heading to class at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York that fateful morning, he headed toward the devastation. At ground zero, he ran into another ex-Marine and Connecticut accountant, Staff Sgt. David Karnes, and the two decided to search for survivors. Eventually they found Jimeno and McLoughlin. Karnes, who couldn't reach Manhattan's 911 from his cell phone at ground zero, called his sister in Munhall, Joy Karnes. She helped relay information to New York emergency services that helped them pinpoint the trapped men's location.
Film producer Michael Shamberg apologized to Thomas for the racial inaccuracy in the film, saying they realized the mistake only after production had already begun, the Associated Press reported. That apology comes a bit late for Paradise Gray, 42, of Wilkinsburg who sent out e-mails to hundreds of thousands via African-American list serves and Internet groups, such as the Luv4Self Network yesterday calling for a boycott of the film. "You want to apologize to me?" Mr. Gray says. "Stop it." Black men so rarely are portrayed or presented as heroes in popular culture and the media that when the opportunity to do so arises, they should be, he says.
Well, what do you expect from a bunch of right-wing Repub........oh, wait
"It's so natural for Hollywood to assume that every hero is a white man," Mr. Gray wrote in his e-mail. "Hollywood has always changed facts and edited history. From Charlton Heston as Moses and Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. They are only continuing their tradition of whitewashing our history."
Uh, Mr. Grey? Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemy dynasty, put in charge of Egypt by Alexander the Great. They were Greek.
He also criticized the black community for not speaking out more. The Jewish community's mantra is "never forget" while the black community's mantra is "forgive and forget," he said. The black community should speak up every time this happens.
Backlash against Oliver Stone in ......Hello?
Six years ago, there was a similar controversy surrounding color-blind casting in the film "Pay It Forward." Kevin Spacey's white burn victim in the movie actually was a black Vietnam veteran in the book.
Though disappointed his character in the "World Trade Center" movie wasn't black, Thomas, who lived on Long Island during the attacks and now works as an officer in Ohio's Supreme Court, told the Associated Press he's not upset. "I don't want to shed any negativity on what they were trying to show," he said.
The movie is much bigger than him, Thomas told the New Pittsburgh Courier, and it's the people who lost their lives who need to remembered.
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Regardless of this new "Race Scandal"(Tm), kudos to Mr. Thomas!
I knew the story of David Karnes, but not his; probably more than the Marine background, this rescue effort was the mark of a truly great character. And, yes, even from a lily-white middleclass geek like me's point of view, I'd prefer young black boys/girls to have more positive msm role-models than mtv's materialistical and angry pimps or booty-shaking hos...
Re "From Charlton Heston as Moses and Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. They are only continuing their tradition of whitewashing our history" :
- yup, Cleopatra was greek, and I've read that she was blonde, and thus Defender-Scimitar worthy (while she's always portrayed as dark skinned and black haired).
- and... Uh??? From the quote, Moses was supposed to be... black??? Someone here has listened to much to Isaac Hayes, methinks.
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If memory serves there are a number of African American directors and Oprah is considered the biggest mover and shaker on most lists. Perhaps instead of whining about movies after the fact they should be trying to get folks to make movies they approve of.
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Paradise - what a lovely name for a thin-skinned ass
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the black community's mantra is "forgive and forget,"
*snort*
Here in Cincinnati, the racial superiority groups (oddly all the ones in the city are black) have never forgiven the cops for shooting back. One of the "young black men" they count as "murdered by cops" jumped into a patrol car, shot the officer, and was killed after the car crashed and she was able to clear her weapon and return fire.
Thomas deserves all the credit and acclaim he can get. These whiners are doing their best to sully his time in the spotlight.
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Well since the three firefighters who found the American flag and raised it on the WTC flagpole were white and the statue has only one white guy to comemorate it, I'd say they still owe us one white stand-in.
HT to Drudge
Illinois Senator Barack Obama warns citizens at his 50th Town Hall meeting about gas guzzling, WPSD-TV reports. It was among many points made to the standing room only audience at the Metropolis Community Center. Obama spoke on everything from DC politics to global warming.
He says part of the blame for the world's higher temperatures rests on gas guzzling vehicles. Obama says consumers can make the difference by switching to higher mileage hybrids.
Today the Senator said, "It would save more energy, do more for the environment and create better world security than all the drilling we could do in Alaska."
"After the meeting... Obama left in a GMC Envoy after admitting to favoring SUV's himself," claimed local News Channel 6. link may move....
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But he like SUV's, again like yesterday Congess, what a bunch of hypocritical assholes.
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Blame, blame, blame.... why do these donks always have to phueching have something or someone to "blame." By the way, the name "Obama" is a bit too close to "Osama" for my liking.
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Obama claims Christianity but this is an interesting tidbit: Barack Obama, Man of Faith Since his mother was a secular humanist -- and between the lines, sounds like an atheist -- and his stepfather was a Moslem (the late Barack Obama Sr., a Moslem-raised but non-religious Kenyan economist, deserted his family when his son was only two years old), how would that shape the faith of someone who, according to Falsani, is unapologetic in saying he has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ?
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Thanks Ed. An Kenyan (Afrikan) economist? Now there's a success story in the making.
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The WPSD-TV report has a disclaimer (from an Obama aide) saying that the story is misleading since Obama regularly fills his tank with e85. According to the GM website, the Envoy is not e85-compatible, though.
Could it be that the Dems most recent shining star is (gasp!) lying?
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I find it more interesting his step father was also muslim. Was he African muslim or Nation of Islam? Was the senator brought up a muslim and what are his sympathies toward it? What led him to claim the Christian faith even though his politics is far left and secular humanist, like his mother.
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Oh. He must drive the 500 MPG, non polluting Envoy that spews out grass seed along the highways and it drives along lowering or raising the earth's temperature where appropriate.
I hear GM makes them just for liberal politicians...
I won't judge him about his Christianity. That's between him and God. Of course, it's some very telling "fruit" that he's so secular, humanist, and nanny state. The problem is, a lot of the Church has gone that way in this post modern, secular age. They've just substituted gov't for God in whom they rely on. Notice they do a LOT of things because they're "good" (based upon feelings), which is a Christian thing to do. However, they have the gov't doing it, not the Church, who should be doing it.
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But, on the hypocrisy front, fire away at him. In fact, God says something about that too in His Good Book.
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To #7
And I must say they do ride very comfortably.
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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
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PRISTINA, Serbia - Kosovos biggest challenge this year will be keeping Serb minority areas peaceful and staving off any threat of partition, the new United Nations governor for the southern Serbian province said on Tuesday. Joachim Ruecker, a German diplomat, was confirmed on Monday as the sixth chief of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) in seven years. He expects to be the last, as the West mulls granting Kosovo the independence its Albanian majority demands.
