The photojournalist claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter has filed court papers to establish paternity and obtain legal custody of the child.
After learning Smith's longtime attorney Howard K Stern, whom she wed in a 'spiritual ceremony' last Thursday, is also claiming to be the father of baby Dannilynn, Larry Birkhead yesterday decided to launch his paternity battle in California.
After learning Smith's longtime attorney Howard K Stern, whom she wed in a 'spiritual ceremony' last Thursday, is also claiming to be the father of baby Dannilynn, Larry Birkhead yesterday decided to launch his paternity battle in California.
Birkhead tells US TV show The Insider: "There's no doubt in my mind that I want to resolve this and that's the only way it's going to happen." Dannilynn was born in the Bahamas on September 7. Smith's 20-year-old son Daniel died three days later from a combination of anti-depressants and methadone in the hospital where his mother had given birth to his half-sister.
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I refuse to read this artical on priciple, but will render an opinion none-the-less. Give him an adequate stipend, but make him take custody. Anna's score is currently is 0-1.Let her finish breast feeding first. I'm not cruel.
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Welcome to the other side of the gold-digger scenario, honey.
The emotionally bankrupt young Daniel couldn't handle the family shame; he chose to drown himself regularly in a narcotic cocktail.
The final straw came when his slut whore of a mother took his name in a worthless attempt to show she cared for her children, two days later Daniel was found face down in a puddle of his own vomit.
A Belgian surveillance drone used by a European Union force crashed onto a street in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, killing a woman. We dont know if it was a technical fault or if it was shot down like the last one, said Lt. Col. Thierry Fusalba, a spokesman for the force, which was deployed to help a United Nations force secure elections in July. A drone was brought down by gunfire shortly before that round of voting. A runoff vote for president is set for Oct. 29. The force quickly removed the wreckage from the crash site, while a crowd of several hundred chanted anti-European slogans and hurled abuse at a convoy of United Nations vehicles that drove by. Many in the capital accuse both missions of bias toward the incumbent president, Joseph Kabila, over his challenger, Jean-Pierre Bemba.
MANAMA - Bahrains Shiite-led opposition demanded an independent inquiry Wednesday into the expulsion last month of an alleged British spy who claimed to have uncovered a plot to maintain Sunni domination of the Gulf kingdom.
"Mr. Bond, do take care that you don't upset the natives this time."
The largest party representing the archipelagos Shiite majority -- the Islamic National Accord Association -- said agreement needed to be reached with the opposition on the make-up of a neutral commission to investigate the allegations made by Salah Al Bandar.
We demand the formation of a neutral commission of inquiry because the affair is exceptional and the contents of the report are serious and threaten national unity, the association said. It should be chaired by an independent figure whose nomination should be agreed by both government and opposition, it said, adding: The regimes credibility is at stake.
Salah Al Bandar, who was expelled from Bahrain last month, said he had uncovered a secret organization operating within the Sunni-led government to deprive an essential part of the population of this country of their rights. This group aims to prevent people from participating in electing freely their representatives ... in order to transform the political opposition into a mere figure opposition and block any chance of alternation in the executive power, he said, alluding to parliamentary elections due later this year.
Prevent fair elections, keep the opposition weak and divided, and keep the current executives in power? Sounds like just about every other Arab state, doesn't it.
Bahrain, which was shaken by a wave of Shiite unrest in the 1990s, revived its elected parliament in 2002, although the opposition continues to object to the splitting of legislative power equally between the elected chamber and an appointed consultative council.
Minister of state Sheikh Ahmed bin Attiyatallah Al Khalifa, whom Bandar accused of heading the alleged secret organisation within the government, last month denounced the charges as a plot to undermine national unity (and) throw doubt on the elections and on certain political personalities.
"No, no, certainly not!"
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Panama's Health Ministry declared a national epidemic alert on Tuesday after a mystery illness killed at least six people and left others suffering with fever, diarrhea and partial paralysis.
Doctors do not know the cause but say the disease progresses rapidly to the renal system and causes neurological damage. Another six people may have died from it in the last month. "These symptoms are completely unusual, and have not been detected before in our country," Panama's health director, Cirilo Lawson, told Reuters.
Ten more people have been stricken but survived. Doctors in the central Panama and Cocle provinces are taking samples from the affected people and seeking advice from abroad.
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Doubt it's food poisoning, Chuch. Sounds like something spread by mosquitos, which Panama has in plenty (I speak from experience). There are a number of tropical fevers in the country, and I doubt the Panamanians sprayed as often as the military or Canal Zone government. I contracted one of those fevers in 1968, spent five days flat of my back semi-conscious, and lost 35 pounds. The medics never did give me a diagnosis... I was one of three people at Albrook AFB that had similar problems.
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Sorry, that should be "ChucK". PIMF.
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Mexico asked President Bush Monday to veto the proposed 700-mile border fence, saying it would endanger lives while doing little to halt illegal immigration. "The Mexican government strongly opposes the building of walls in the border area between Mexico and the United States," said Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox. He said Mexico's Foreign Ministry planned to send a diplomatic letter to Bush urging him to veto the bill, which passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. Senate on Friday.
The Senate also approved the first $1.2 billion down payment on the fence, which some experts say could cost as much as $9 billion. The plan entails running a barrier along mostly rural sections of the California and Texas borders and along nearly the entire length of Arizona.
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Homey doesn't think so. (sorry I lloked for a picture of homey and found only that they are making a Homey the Clown movie - no doubt proving yet again that what is hilarious in a 5 minute sketch isn't always funny for 90 minutes are greater.
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There's a phrase for this kind of behaviour;
"He's got more front than Sainsbury's!"
Which translated ;) means - chutzpah, bare faced cheek, gall, insolence, taking the biscuit. You get the idea...
As for not working, the Israeli fence seems to have cut down on undesirables moving through into Israel doesn't it? But illegal immigration also needs to be tackled at the demand side, and that surely means stopping firms hiring illegals (big fines would help here methinks).
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"Yeah, let us invade you, what are you, some kind of racist, or what?!?"
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It was reported this morning that ICE just raided a meat packing plant in Georgia, stripping out more than half of the 400 employees as illegals. The report didn't mention that production was affected, but I have my suspicions... However slowly and irregularly, people are being caught and shipped back, Tony(UK).
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illegal immigration also needs to be tackled at the demand side
I agree Tony.
yes we're finally getting the fence, but we do need to make it harder for illegals to move around freely, by enforcing ID checks at work sites, to rent homes, buy vehicles, get insurance just everything! I also would like to see ICE patrol our streets and communities and actually do something. Not have our police do the very frustrating catch and release program.
I had a patient last week that didn't want to go home. Stating that her boss turned her into immigration and that is what made her sick from stress. She was trying to get a restraining order on her boss. My "superiors" were actually trying to get this acomplished for her. Maddening.
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Hee! Is that photo of Canterbury?
Look more like the out works of Foryth County.
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TW, that wouldn't have been Gainesville, GA, would it? Home of the nation's largest concentration of chicken farms and (subsequently) hog and poultry processing plants ("from squeal to meal in 30 minutes!"). That town has turned from a small redneck town into a medium sized version of Mexico City almost overnight. I drove through there last year and almost all the signs/billboards along the main drag in town were in Spanish!
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Those who defend illegal immigration are immoral. They don't care about the fact that the people who cross the border get robbed, raped, and taken advantage of once they get here. All of the excuses as to why we need illegal immigration (economy would collapse without it; it's work that natives won't do; the brown folk south of the border won't do well unless we put them to work mowing my lawn on the cheap - are all the same justifications that were given for slavery.
IT WILL be war. That is how supporters of the left-wing Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, describe the head-to-head battle with the conservative Geraldo Alckmin, after narrowly failing to win an outright victory in Sunday's presidential elections. Mr Lula won 48.6 per cent of the votes, missing the 50 per cent plus one vote mark that would have secured the elections, while Mr Alckmin came second with 41.6 per cent. Polls predicted he would get 38 per cent - leaving the 29 October final vote wide open. "This is really a defeat for Lula. His attitude until now was 'I don't need to do anything, I'm going to win' but now he has to fight," said Franklin Martins, a political analyst. Analysts believe Mr Lula's once substantial lead evaporated as a result of a recent political scandal that led to the dismissal of his campaign manager and Workers' party (PT) president, Ricardo Berzoini, following an alleged smear campaign against rival candidates - an affair that the broadly anti-Lula press re-ignited this weekend by running photos of the supposed $800,000 (£424,000) in cash intended to buy the incriminating dossier.
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I read the article but couldn't find where the other 10% went. I presume to splinter candidates, but would they be more likely to be pro-Lula or pro-Alckmin?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his ailing ally, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is recovering slowly from intestinal surgery but told him recently that he was prepared to die. ``Fidel told me when I went to visit him in Havana: 'Chavez, I already lived my epoch, I can die. I'm free to die, not you. You are a slave of life, don't let them kill you,''' Chavez said during a campaign rally in his home state of Barinas.
Chavez, who is up for re-election Dec. 3, also told the crowd that Castro's health is progressing two months after he temporarily turned power over to his younger brother Raul. ``Fidel's recovery is advancing, according to the report with details that I received last night,'' Chavez said. ``It will be a slow recovery because of the type of illness, which was serious at one moment.'' Chavez did not say who sent him the report.
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Hugo should save the dramma for his momma.
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Hey, I've been ready for him to die for years. Don't that count?
President Hugo Chavez called US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld a "dog of war" on Tuesday, saying the defense chief had no business suggesting neighboring countries were concerned about Venezuela's arms purchases. Chavez said it was disingenuous for Rumsfeld to say he knew of no country that was threatening Venezuela, insisting that the US was a threat.
The Venezuelan leader called on Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to clarify whether he shared Rumsfeld's worries about Venezuela's recent military acquisitions, including helicopters, fighter jets and assault rifles. "If this man is saying that my neighbors are worried because the weapons that Venezuela is acquiring could go to the leftist guerrillas, I need to know, President Uribe, if you have some type of worry regarding this," Chavez said. "It should be you who says it, not the dog of war." In his televised speech, Chavez also chuckled as he called Rumsfeld "little dog" and "Mr. Dog."
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I wonder if Manuel Noriega will think he is funny when they are cellmates.
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Hugo, that's a BIG DOG to you. And, you know the saying, " If you can't hang with the big dogs, get off the damn porch."
There was a Venezuelan poster came through the 'burg the other day - and was not very happy with our Hugo. Wonder what he/she thinks about this latest carefully crafted diplomatic response?
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You have to admit that "dog of war' is much catchier than "dog of transformation". "Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of transformation" only strikes terror into our military. Hugo blusters a good game but he is no match for the 1000 Fighting Styles of Rumsfeld.
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Hugo has got to get some N.Korean writing help with his message. I'm sure a boat or two of oil would be good for a first season draft pick and an option on a creative writer.
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I wish I had a dog of war. I've got Cookie, who's not particularly warlike, except when a bunny comes into the yard, and even then she just barks at it.
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Whahahhaha... an old bitch he certainly is Hugo.
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"I wish I had a dog of war. I've got Cookie, who's not particularly warlike, except when a bunny comes into the yard, and even then she just barks at it."
Well Mike, at least Cookie doesn't feign courage like my dog, Sandy. She'll charge right at 'em, until she gets within about 6 feet, then turn tail and run for home. Dog of war? Not hardly.
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We've got a 30lb rat terrior that believes she's a 90lb Doberman. She'll take on anything, including my daughter's Brittany Spaniel. Sometimes I think she's nuts.
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Had the fascinating experience of going to cousin's wedding reception and being the only person (not otherwise occupied with wedding party or small children) who could speak Spanish with the Jehovah's Witness parents of the Bride. From Venezuela. Tidbits: Chavez is for the poor people, etc. He is providing energy assistance for the poor in New York. His sister is an Evangelical who leads Bible studies. Be interesting to see if her brother repents.
For a Testido de Jehova', the father of the bride was quite interested in politics.
(Once a week I actually have the time to sit down and enjoy the Burg. Glad to be back.)
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Exasperated Georgians crowded at the capital's airport in disbelief Tuesday after Russia cut all travel links with the former Soviet republic in retaliation for detaining four of its military officers for espionage.
Moscow refused international pressure to lift the suspension of road, rail, air, maritime and postal links, saying Tbilisi deeply insulted it by arresting the officers. Georgia released the men Monday and they were permitted to return to Russia. ``One must not feed off Russia and insult it. The Georgian leadership must understand this,'' Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
That's a pretty clear warning, and I suspect the next one will be delivered at the tip of a lance. For whatever reason the Russers are really upset.
The punitive measures, which dealt a painful blow to economically struggling Georgia, mark the first time Russia has used such pressure against a former Soviet state. They reflect the Kremlin's irritation over Georgia's pro-Western policies and NATO ambitions and signal a struggle for influence with Washington in Moscow's former Soviet backyard.
The European Union said the Russian retaliation was disproportionate and appealed for calm. Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, whose country holds the EU presidency, said both sides had overreacted and warned against any ``more acute measures.'' ``We stressed that in this situation, even if being provoked, one shouldn't become provoked,'' Tuomioja told Finnish broadcaster YLE from Tbilisi after meeting President Mikhail Saakashvili.
The Finns know this dance better than just about anyone.
The Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe urged Russia to respond to the officers' release by restoring travel and postal links. The State Department said Monday it encouraged Russia and Georgia to take steps to ``de-escalate tensions in the days and weeks ahead.''
Without naming any countries, Lavrov suggested the West was encouraging Saakashvili in what he called ``absolutely, consistently anti-Russian actions,'' and criticized the United States for blocking adoption of a Russian-proposed U.N. Security Council statement expressing grave concern at Georgia's actions. ``We have warned ... third countries of the extreme danger of flirting with the Saakashvili regime, the extreme danger of indulging the policies the regime has pursued in relation to Russia, to its own people and to the conflicts that persist on its territory,'' he said.
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Adopting a consistently anti-Russian stance while being totally economically dependent on Russia seems a bit silly.
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Actually, the USA is Georgia's #1 export customer (then Turkey and Russia). The wineries are especially hurting because of a Russian import ban. So consider buying a few bottles. It's pretty good, especially if you like it sweeter than the stuff from northern Europe. Try Tamada, Old Tbilisi and Telavi labels.
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When Shanghais party boss was detained in an anticorruption probe last week, Chinese were rattled by news of the first purge of a high-ranking Communist Party leader since 1995. But the investigations scope and its ultimate goals are wider, as the partys two most powerful officials aim to shake up the leadership and wipe out resistance to their policy agenda, party officials and analysts say.
The investigation, the largest of its kind since China first pursued market-style changes to its economy more than a quarter-century ago, was planned and supervised by Zeng Qinghong, Chinas vice president and the day-to-day manager of Communist Party affairs, people informed about the operation said.
They said Mr. Zeng had used the investigation to force provincial leaders to heed Beijings economic directives, sideline officials loyal to the former top leader, Jiang Zemin, and strengthen Mr. Zengs own hand as well as that of his current master, President Hu Jintao.
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Foreign investors are about to get royally screwed. Several days ago, a central government edict required Ebay to sell a 1/3 interest in its Paypal unit to a Chinese company to continue operating in China. Basically, the provincial governments have been ignoring imbecilic (and simultaneously arrogant) central government edicts (which are ultimately responsible for China being one of East Asia's poorest nations) for years now. This is bad for China's economy, and bad for the foreign investors who will have wasted money putting up large operations in China. But it is ultimately good for China's neighbors, whose economies will become more competitive relative to China. If Hu sticks at it, a weaker China will result - something that should cause military planners everywhere to heave a sigh of relief.
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Corrupt local officials plundering the citizenry is an old story in China. The Emperor's men trying to control the provinces is an equally old story.
Shanghai is the economic center of China in so many ways...imagine NYC, LA, and Houston all rolled up into one unit.
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gromky: Corrupt local officials plundering the citizenry is an old story in China. The Emperor's men trying to control the provinces is an equally old story.
It actually goes both ways, but China's history writers - in the interests of national unity - typically focus on the idea of a benevolent emperor. The reality is a little more complex - central government officials looted the national treasury while demanding more and more from the provinces. The Great Leap Forward, which caused the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, involved central government officials demanding the entire grain harvests for certain areas, meaning that they starved to death. Say what you will about corrupt local officials, but their edicts have never starved tens of millions of Chinese to death, individually or collectively.
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gromky: Corrupt local officials plundering the citizenry is an old story in China. The Emperor's men trying to control the provinces is an equally old story.
It actually goes both ways, but China's history writers - in the interests of national unity* - typically focus on the idea of a benevolent emperor. The reality is a little more complex - central government officials looted the national treasury while demanding more and more from the provinces. The Great Leap Forward, which caused the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese, involved central government officials demanding the entire grain harvests for certain areas, meaning that they starved to death. Say what you will about corrupt local officials, but their edicts have never starved tens of millions of Chinese to death, individually or collectively. Why was this so? Because local officials have to live where they govern. Officials in Beijing don't really care about the kind of damage they do to the locals - they neither know the people impacted nor have to see the results of their depredations.
* Chinese histories always praise the central government.
"Free-market", "enterprise-driven", "market-style", the "three representations", any-damned-fucking-thing but the dreaded "C" word.
It's CAPITALISM you stupid megalomaniac Mandarin fucks. C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-M with a capital "C" you idiotic moron shits. Go cram your imbecilic communist autocracy with (honey glazed) walnuts.
Airbus parent EADS confirmed Tuesday that the flagship A380 superjumbo jet will be delayed by a further year, and Virgin Atlantic and Emirates the A380's biggest customers both said they were examining their options as a result. European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. said the delays will shave a total of $6.1 billion off the company's operating profit.
EADS, which had confirmed last month that the A380 would be held up again but did not give details, also said it would launch a restructuring plan designed to cut costs and improve productivity at Airbus and would investigate possible management responsibility for the delays. The third round of delays, announced by the airlines on Tuesday, add up to a total setback of about two years compared with the original delivery dates.
Air France and Lufthansa said earlier Tuesday that their jets were delayed by another year, while Dubai-based Emirates the biggest customer for the A380 announced a slightly shorter delivery holdup but indicated that the future of its bumper 45-plane order could be in doubt. "Emirates has been advised by Airbus of a further 10-month delay to its A380 program, which means that our first aircraft will now arrive in August 2008," Chief Executive Tim Clark said in an e-mailed statement. "This is a very serious issue for Emirates and the company is now reviewing all its options," he added.
Emirates had warned last month that its 45-plane order, worth about $13 billion at list prices, was "up in the air." Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. also said the delay could affect its order for six superjumbos. Virgin Atlantic reiterated Tuesday that it had received tentative information from Airbus on the new delays, but declined to give details.
Germany's Lufthansa said it will receive its first A380 between May and September 2009, and Air France said its first delivery is now set for early in the second quarter of 2009. But both European carriers appeared to rule out cancellations.
Because their governments won't let them right now; that would start a rush to the door.
While Air France "can only regret" the latest delays, the airline said in a statement, they will have no impact on its growth strategy. "We're still convinced that the A380 is a success story and the A380 is a growth aircraft," Lufthansa spokeswoman Stefanie Stotz said.
Emirates, which had originally been scheduled to take delivery of an A380 this month, will receive the first plane 22 months late. Air France had initially booked its first plane for spring-summer 2007, while Lufthansa had expected to take its first delivery in the last quarter of next year.
In recent days, Airbus has been informing A380 customers of the latest delays as it tries to gauge the likely compensation bill.
In June, the plane maker slashed the number of scheduled deliveries in 2007 to nine from 25 as it announced the 555-seater A380's second six-month delay and a $2.5 billion profit warning. EADS shares plunged 26 percent the next day. The crisis led to the sacking of Airbus boss Gustav Humbert and EADS co-CEO Noel Forgeard who remains under investigation by market authorities after it emerged that he exercised stock options to make a profit of $3.2 million just weeks before ordering an internal probe into the delays.
EADS is tightening its control over Airbus and is expected to buy BAE Systems PLC's 20 percent stake in the plane maker. BAE shareholders vote Wednesday on a management recommendation to go ahead with the $3.5 billion sale.
Shares in EADS, which had fallen recently in anticipation of big new delays, closed 1.1 percent higher at $28.85 in Paris after the announcements by Emirates and Lufthansa.
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..For all practical purposes, this is a grim setback to the program. I simply cannot imagine any airline today being willing to wait an extra year for their planes, and the comments from Emirates and Virgin, I think, back that up. If Boeing plays its cards right and doesn't get cocky, this could leave them not just as the #1 builder of large passenger jet aircraft, but the only one.
Mike
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The real crusher will come if one of the major freight carriers cancels. No doubt the freighter version would have been the profit margin for this project. I believe Emirates has already dropped the 5 A380Fs they had on order in favor of the new 747-800F.
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In today's Seattle papers, the Boeing brass are being quoted as "privately happy" and there are supposedly internal pictures floating around the hallowed halls of the 'Lazy B Ranch' of their 747-LCF with three rows of PAX windows: imagine a triple-decker that fits in the same footprint as today's 747 fleet. (I know I sound like a broken record, but BCAC builds damn fine commercial airplanes).
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This is the same EADS that won the US Army contract for light utility helicopters??? Great, our soldiers will be dependant on an aircraft company that cant perform as advertised. The Army needs to recompete the LUH, light helicopter contract, or leave all the aircraft at Ft Rucker where no soldiers could be at risk. I know A380's are a totally different aircraft but corperate bull%&$t transends a company.
Boeing should be toasting the good news.
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José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and British prime minister Tony Blair are to discuss the ETA peace process during talks on Tuesday. Blair is in Madrid for a two-day summit with Zapatero, to discuss a range of issues. But Spanish media have speculated Blair will offer his moral support at a time when negotiations with ETA are at a low point.
Legacy-building for Tony, Bill Clinton style?
Blair has a legacy to build ...
In recent weeks, hopes of ending ETA's terrorist campaign have appeared near to collapse. Last week, three masked ETA men, brandishing pistols staged a show of force, stating: "The struggle is not in the past; it is in the present and the future." Street violence by ETA supporters in the Basque Country has also been on the rise in recent weeks. And despite police operations against ETA's extortion networks, the Basque business community claim they are still subject to threats.
After the ETA's announcement of a ceasefire, the British premier sent Zapatero a report offering his advice on some lessons learned from peace process with the IRA. Blair told Zapatero to "keep a reserve channel" open to talk to ETA, reported the Spanish daily El Pais. During five years of talks, Blair said he always kept lines of communication open with the IRA and political arm, Sinn Fein, even when the peace process was at its lowest ebb.
But in Spain, the main conservative opposition Popular Party has withdrawn its support and is against dialogue with ETA until it gives up its arms. The Association for the Victims of Terrorism, the biggest group of ETA victims and relatives, also opposes the Government stance on opening talks with ETA.
A radical activist on a mission to "out" conservative homosexual lawmakers and Capitol Hill staffers held on to information about Rep. Mark Foley's relationships with underage male pages, suggesting the story would break at the time of mid-term elections.
Blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit points to a campaign by two activists who had Foley on their "target list" of 20 people and shared the information with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Foley abruptly resigned Friday as reports surfaced of inappropriate e-mails with a male page. Later, ABC News released online instant messages of more salacious exchanges. Foley has issued a statement saying he checked himself into an alcohol rehabilitation program at an undisclosed location.
In July 2004, the homosexual newspaper Washington Blade reported the two activists, Mike Rogers and John Aravosis, were "loosely heading an ongoing outing campaign on the Hill" ahead of the Senate vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment, which would bar same-sex marriage.
Among nearly 20 names on the "target list" provided to the Blade were Foley and Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland
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The end result is the gay agenda may take a bigger hit than the Republicans. And Gay equals Democrats in the mind of most Americans so they may not weather this very well either.
They should have outed or stopped this bastard a year ago and innoculated themselves instead of trying to gain points right before the election.
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So does this mean that these guys are accessories to any wrongdoings commited while they were 'waiting until mid-term elections' before stopping Foley?
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Fixed it, sort of. Please don't paste html tables into comments. Fred has a secret factory of nanobots that assembles the Burg and they choke on tables and button thingies.
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Tables be one thing, and I've found that out the hard way - losing a ton of text along with the table when I got derailed to RA, but RD put a submit button in his post?
Information compiled from the Washington Post, Congressional Sex Scandals in History, and other sources.
10. Sen. Daniel Inouye. The 82-year-old Hawaii Democrat was accused in the 1990s by numerous women of sexual harassment. Democrats cast doubt on the allegations and the Senate Ethics Committee dropped its investigation.
9. Former Rep. Gus Savage. The Illinois Democrat was accused of fondling a Peace Corps volunteer in 1989 while on a trip to Africa. The House Ethics Committee decided against disciplinary action in 1990.
8. Rep. Barney Frank. The outspoken Massachusetts Democrat hired a male prostitute who ran a prostitution service from Franks residence in the 1980s. Only two Democrats in the House of Representatives voted to censure him in 1990.
7. Former Sen. Brock Adams. The late Washington Democrat was forced to stop campaigning after numerous accusations of drugging, assault and rape, the first surfacing in 1988.
6. Former Rep. Fred Richmond. This New York Democrat was arrested in 1978 for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old. He remained in Congress and won re-electionbefore eventually resigning in 1982 after pleading guilty to tax evasion and drug possession.
5. Former Rep. John Young. The late Texas Democrat increased the salary of a staffer after she gave in to his sexual advances. The congressman won re-election in 1976 but lost two years later.
4. Former Rep. Wayne Hays. The late Ohio Democrat hired an unqualified secretary reportedly for sexual acts. Although he resigned from Congress, the Democratic House leadership stalled in removing him from the Administration Committee in 1976.
3. Former Rep. Gerry Studds. He was censured for sexual relationship with underage male page in 1983. Massachusetts voters returned him to office for six more terms.
2. Former Rep. Mel Reynolds. The Illinois Democrat was convicted of 12 counts of sexual assault with a 16-year-old. President Bill Clinton pardoned him before leaving office.
1. Sen. Teddy Kennedy. The liberal Massachusetts senator testified in defense of nephew accused of rape, invoking his family history to win over the jury in 1991.
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Where's Wilbur Mills? Chasing a stripper around on stage at a Boston strip joint while hammmered and falling face first in the orchestra pit gotta get him in there.
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The post about Kennedy is bullshit. What it should have said is that the fat, drunk oaf convinced his nephew to go out after he was already in bed, which lead the nephew, whom I went to college with and was a good friend, to get completely railroaded. The nephew in question is also one of the only members of the entire clan to have a real job, not living off of the government tit or working for some "foundation". He is a doctor.
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Ya know I really don't care how many Donks are/were involved in a sexual scandal. Foley is a pig of the umth degree and no matter how we read the rap sheet on Ted, Barney, and friends is going to make him look any cleaner to me. I fully expect the good people of Florida to shake this off and send a Republican back to congress so as to send a clear message to the Donks.
Washington -- In 1995, male House pages were warned to steer clear of a freshman Republican from Florida, who was already learning the names of the teens, dashing off notes, letters and e-mail to them and asking them to join him for ice cream, according to a former page. Mark Beck-Heyman, now a graduate student in clinical psychology at George Washington University, and more than a dozen other former House pages said in interviews and via e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley was known to be extraordinarily friendly in a way that made some of them uncomfortable.
Beck-Heyman, who is now a Democrat, said the attention was "weird," and he provided a handwritten letter that Foley had sent him after the page left Washington to return home to California, suggesting that they get together during the Republican National Convention in San Diego in 1996.
Interesting that he kept a letter from a "weird" congressman all these years
The e-mail exchanges that have become public in recent days are between Foley and male former pages. None of those interviewed said they had received a sexual or suggestive overture from him during their time on Capitol Hill. Yet many of them said they were uneasy about Foley's actions and felt awkward complaining to anyone about them.
Foley was popular with many of the pages. The teenagers come from all over the nation to serve at the Capitol. Their schedules are tightly controlled. They travel with adult chaperones and their computers are monitored. So when they do receive extra one-on-one attention, it is a big deal.
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GOP Leader Rebuts Hastert on Foley
Reynolds: Speaker Knew of E-Mails in Spring but enjoyed the T-bones at Mortons and the ice cream and said nothing.
By Jonathan Weisman and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 1, 2006; Page A01
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So he's also a predator on top (as it were) of being a pervert. That pretty well fits the profile of many politicians. Most of them are just ethical perverts instead of sexual ones.
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Why any parent would send their kid down to that letch pit is beyond me. I mean, really? What's Ted Kennedy gonna teach my kid? How to drink and get away with murder?
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This scandel is losing it's legs. It's like the second out of the secong inning. A fly ball to the warning track.
Who among us believes that mother Islam will be still till election day ? Right, real news is just around the corner.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The lawyer for former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., met with representatives of the media Friday evening to answer questions about Foley's state of mind. David Roth, with the law firm of Roth and Duncan, said he had not been acting as a lawyer in the last few days but rather as a friend and counselor to the embattled congressman from Florida. "Mark blames no one but himself," Roth said, adding that he hoped and prayed everyone can remember the dedicated public servant that Foley was. "Mark offers no excuses but I am confident when all the facts and events of his life are revealed that most if not all your questions will be answered," he said.
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What could he possibly reveal that would make it understandable for him to use his office to prey on underage boys?
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I don't suppose he'll ever see the inside of a jail or lose him govmint retirement benefits? Nah. Stupid question.
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..His excuse apparently is that he was molested by a clergyman when he was a teen. The comments I've heard so far seem to indicate that NO one is buying that one.
Mike
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I suppose like a lot of 'them' he'll pick up a lobbying job for some wankers. Probably NAMBLA.
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If he had any honor he'd take responsiblity for acting like a monster and not make excuses.
I think we should have a special penalty for pedaphiles and make it even harsher for people in positions of authority using said positions for this sort of thing.
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JMHO, but the gay groups are acting like the women's groups did during the Monica scandal; allowing themselves to be used by politicians who are hurting their goals - not helping them. Long after Foley is forgotten, the damage to the gay community will live on. But they can't see it. They are too full of hubris and revenge to understand that it is their own cause they are cannibalizing.
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Foley could have kept his seat if: Upon meeting suitable male youngster at the "Page/Pervert Mixer", says:
"Pardon me, but would you mind if I pushed in your stool"? (at) heh-heh
Right after Mark Foley was revealed to have had inappropriate e-mail conversations with a 16-year-old page, he resigned and checked into rehab. Now, what did Democrats know, and when did they know it?
Yes, you read that right: the Democrats. It's of course clear that Foley, a Republican representative from Florida, resigned for good cause. We don't defend him or his inexcusable behavior - good riddance. But it didn't take long at all after Foley's resignation for the Democrats to call for an investigation of the entire Republican leadership in the House, charging that GOP stalwarts knew early on that Foley, as they like to say in the rehab business, had a "problem."
Democrats have begun losing their once-significant lead in the polls, and a mere five weeks remain until the midterm elections. Is this scandal the Democrats' own "October Surprise," meant to throw the GOP into a tailspin shortly before the vote?
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This could be huge. I don't defend Foley in the least and feel he's a disgrace to Congress for his actions. But if this is something like a set-up, or even with-held until the point the Democrats needed it, it could blow up in the Democrats faces big time.
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Interesting. It looks to me like someone transcribed the e-mails in order to release them without showing where they've been and who else read them. Perhaps the e-mail had been forwarded so many times the original had been lost.
Foley, being a U.S. Congressman, would be using government issued computer at work. That would mean it would be running MicroSoft Office with Outlook. Likely he would use the same system at home, most government employees do so they can work at home. That includes persons from the "opposition".
I'll bet someone with computer savy was worried about any revealing meta-tags Microsoft is known to embed in their products showing where this mail has been. And just when it was first discovered. Just guessing, Foley is indeed a scumbag, but something else smells about this.
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This guy's a foul disgrace and I'm glad he's gone. Having said that, I've never seen a more shameless and transparent attempt at exploiting this than has been done by scumbag Pelosi. As far as I'm concerned, she's worse than a child molester, becuase her actions do great harm to the entire country, not just one constituency.
How will the country endure a "Speaker Pelosi"? The thought is too horrible to contemplate. We cannot allow it to happen. Republicans, get off your asses and see that it doesn't.
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The entire page system is beginning to look like a circle jerk. Time to clean house there. All closets open, all queers out in the street. Come on Barney get moving.
The Indian government called an emergency meeting of health officials today Tuesday to try to control an outbreak of dengue fever that has infected about 500 people in northern India, overwhelming Delhis hospitals and exposing serious flaws in the public health system.
Delhi authorities were spraying high-risk areas with insecticide to kill the mosquitoes that carry the disease, but as the death toll rose to 14, doctors associations criticized the government for a belated and ineffective response.
There was chaos at Delhis leading public hospital, the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, where doctors were forced to turn away suspected dengue cases because of a scarcity of beds and blood. People were being treated in corridors and in tents erected outside the building, and television reporters filming undercover within the building said the shortage of doctors on the dengue wards was so acute that patients were helping administer intravenous saline drips to each other.
The hospital was itself struggling to contain an outbreak of the disease, attributed to mosquitoes breeding in stagnant pools of water on the surrounding campus. One doctor died last week from the fever, and 19 medical students and staff members have fallen ill.
The inability of the government to cope with what is a relatively routine, annual phenomenon throws into harsh relief the crisis within Indias medical system, illustrating how ill-equipped it is to meet basic public health needs.
The rampant spread of the disease also offers a snapshot of the poor sanitation systems in the capital. After each years monsoon season, Delhi is full of stagnating pools of water that offer ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes, and open sewers run through the city.
We have failed miserably to get rid of the mosquito which carries this disease, said Dr. Sanjiv Malik, national president of the Indian Medical Association, pointing out that public health officials had expected a resurgence of the disease this year because it flares up every three or four years.
The government failed to cover the open drains and sewage channels, Dr. Malik said. They havent fumigated properly, and public awareness campaigns are beginning only now, when the outbreak is under way. All this should have happened months ago.
Known as brain fever, dengue fever is transmitted by the female Aedes mosquito. Symptoms include high temperatures, joint pains, vomiting and headaches. Severe cases can be fatal, and there is no vaccine or specific treatment.
The outbreak this year is unusually serious; a year ago, 217 cases of dengue had been registered in northern India, less than half the current figure. Officials warn that the outbreak will continue until mid-November, when the mosquito breeding period ends.
The city authorities threatened to fine people who fail to clean up potential breeding areas, warning that mosquitoes were able to breed inside the water cooling systems that are used as a cheap alternative to air conditioners by large numbers of the capitals middle classes.
There was widespread dismay at the reports of unhygienic conditions in one of the countrys best medical institutes. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi said it issued 27 notices to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in the past two months asking it to control mosquito breeding on its campus, the Hindustan Times reported.
City officials were out in the hundreds at the beginning of the week, working on the public holiday marking Gandhis birthday, to spray large swaths of the capital. We have also started random checks of homes, offices and places where there could be stagnant water, a municipal health official, N.K. Yadav, told local media.
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This is a dismally ignorant report. The high mortality rate means it is Dengue Hemoraghic Fever, which results from infection by a second of three strains of Dengue after having been infected by another.
Dengue is spreading primarily because the mosquito vectors are adapting to urban environments and rapidly spreading their range. Singapore which has arguably the best mosquito control regime in any tropical region has had surging levels of Dengue. Recent research shows that the mosquito lavae can survive for weeks in a dry place and only need a couple of days of water to result in a Dengue carrying mosquito.
There is a small risk for dengue outbreaks in the continental United States. Two competent mosquito vectors, Ae. aegypti and Aedes albopictus, are present and, under certain circumstances, each could transmit dengue viruses. This type of transmission has been detected six times in the last 25 years in south Texas (1980 -2004) and has been associated with dengue epidemics in northern Mexico by Aedes aegypti and in Hawaii (2001-02) due to Ae. albopictus. Moreover, numerous viruses are introduced annually by travelers returning from tropical areas where dengue viruses are endemic. From 1977 to 2004, a total of 3,806 suspected cases of imported dengue were reported in the United States. Although some specimens collected were not adequate for laboratory diagnosis, 864 (23%) cases were confirmed as dengue. Many more cases probably go unreported each year because surveillance in the United States is passive and relies on physicians to recognize the disease, inquire about the patient's travel history, obtain proper diagnostic samples, and report the case. These data suggest that states in southern and southeastern United States, where Ae. aegypti is found, are at risk for dengue transmission and sporadic outbreaks.
October 4, 2006: While most UUV (unmanned Underwater Vehicle) and USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle) development is going on in the United States, work on robotic submarine vessels has been popular much longer in Europe. UUVs (also called ROV, or Remotely Operated Vehicles), have been popular as a key component in clearing modern naval mines. This was because bottom mines (which lay on the ocean floor in shallow coastal waters) became better, and more common, after World War II. There was much anxiety in Europe over the possible use of bottom mines by the Soviet Union. Without effective mine clearing systems, most European nations faced disaster if their ports were successfully mined, and shut down. So the remotely controlled mini-sub was developed. This was the ideal system for positively identifying bottom mines, and then assisting in destroying the mines (usually with an explosive charge.)
Decades of work with these UUVs has resulted in a generation of very reliable and capable vehicles. A good example is the Double Eagle Mk III, which is used by Holland , France, Sweden and Belgium. This is a 1,300 pound, ten foot long, box like UUV that can operate at up to a thousand feet down. The Double Eagle's batteries last for ten hours, and the UUV can operate up to four kilometers from the ship where the operator is. The UUV carries color camera and sonar, and can deliver an explosive charge right next to a bottom mine, then back away before the mine is destroyed. The first version of the Double Eagle appeared in the late 1980s, but even with the end of the Cold War, work continued, as did sales. The current version of the UUV (Mk III) can also operate robotically (on its own), and costs about three million dollars each (with control equipment for the ship.)
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The biggest problem I imagine with UUVs is communications, with limitations for how far the control crew can be separated from the underwater unit. The obvious way around this is with buoys, that can stay in the general area of the UUVs, but receive commo from far away with an "air" antenna.
This can really matter, because some of the naval mines in use today can be nuclear mines, and four kilometers just isn't enough safety distance.
A more practical reason is that UUVs have such a vast area to search for bottom mines that it will take a LOT of them to do a relatively small area, like a sea lane. So by spacing out several self-propelled commo buoys, a single command ship could sweep a lot wider path than on its own.
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Another solution to communication problems is to make the vehicles more autonomous - capable of independent operation and navigation. Turn 'em loose like a pack of hounds, when they're done they come back home. If they find something interesting or need help, they can put up a wire and talk to a satellite like subs today.
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D *** ng it, the HISTORY CHANNEL, etc said they were SPACE ALIENS and SECRET EARTH BASES ON LAND-SEA IN COLLUSION WID THE USG-USDOD - how else can could the hyperpower USA have so much hi-tech???
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Of course it's true, Joe. The US has it all. Alien tech, Mach6 Aurora craft, the worx. Hell, we all know our guys in Iraq have X-ray helmets that lets our boyz see thru the wymyns clothing. Purdy good reason to "insurge" 'n stuff, lol.
Nasa has set up its own venture capital fund to invest in businesses with technology that could help it on its mission to Mars.
The agency is putting $75m (£40m) into Red Planet Capital, a new fund to look for innovative solutions to problems such as how to improve the efficiency of solar power for a space flight and how to preserve medicines for use in space.
Graham Burnette, one of the Red Planet's three fund managers, said: "A manned mission to Mars presents problems that go far beyond what has been done before, even by going to the moon and back. For example, in the Apollo missions, the imperative with a sick crew member was to stabilise him and get him home, but that is not an option when a Mars mission could take a year or two years."
Two years ago, President George Bush told Nasa to plan a return to the moon by 2020 and to aim for a manned flight to Mars.
Nasa's mission directors have so far identified eight problem areas, including communications, advanced materials and energy, and charged Red Planet with finding technologies for a new generation of spacesuits for recycling water, and for artificially intelligent robots.
Mr Burnette said: "It is a different approach to venture capital, looking across what is being developed in the commercial markets for things that could solve specific problems for the space program."
The aim is to find companies whose technologies could also represent significant breakthroughs on Earth, as well as in the heavens. For example, in man-machine systems, Red Capital says "a market exists for the development of lightweight, autonomous, innovative capabilities in all aspects of life, particularly in support of the elderly and handicapped, but also in many industrial and hazardous situations. Potential examples include exoskeletons for strength enhancement, autonomous capability for safety and greater range, multispectral vision enhancement, miniature sensors and retinal sensors."
The three fund managers - Mr Burnette, Peter Banks and Jacques Vallee - have been working together since 1988. Before founding Red Capital, they had been responsible for the flotation of 17 companies on Nasdaq. Nasa said its investment of $75m over five years will be accompanied by "strategic direction and technical input" to the fund, which began canvassing for business plans over the summer. Investee companies can expect funding of $3m-$5m, "with initial startup funding as low as $250,000, and indirect access to some of Nasa's expertise."
Red Capital will operate on a not-for-profit basis, with headquarters in Washington and Mountain View, California. Its managers say several initial investments are already under consideration, and a first deal could be signed in months.
If you think 'breast is best' for your child's intelligence then think again, say scientists · Study finds mother's milk has little or no effect on IQ
· Baby's brainpower 'more a matter of inheritance' Duh.
Breastfeeding your baby has little or no effect on its intelligence, the largest study ever conducted on the issue reveals today.
For almost 80 years research has found that children who are breastfed have higher IQs than those fed formula or cow's milk, leading to the belief that breast milk confers intelligence. But the new study suggests the reason could be simpler: breast-fed babies are smarter because their mothers are more intelligent. Higher levels of education and stimulating home environments also have an effect.
The study, conducted by the Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh, analysed data from 5,475 children and 3,161 mothers in in the US, collated from the US national longitudinal study of youth, 1979. The researchers looked at numerous factors including whether a child was breastfed, the home environment, socio-economic status and maternal intelligence, race and education.
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Wow, it took them only eighty years to epply somthing a student in stics is supposed to have assimilated before the Cristmas holidays in first years: eliminate structural effects.
As an illustration: one day someone told me that women had more car accidents than men but these were on avergae less lethal and the person inferred that men were more prone to reckless driving. I instantly replied: "You can't infer that before you have studied the structure of their travel: women tend to travel in cities (for shopping) while on highways you will see more often than not that it is a man who is driving and the speed involved make accidents lethal. Only after you have removed the structure effect can you derive valid conclusions"
Of course I was immediately catalogued as a male chauvinist for what it was merely a thought coming from my statistician reptilian brain
TEHERAN - Irans conservative-controlled parliament is to debate a bill that would make digital fingerprinting compulsory for all US citizens seeking to enter the country, lawmakers said on Tuesday. According to the bill, which is expected to be voted on in the next days, all US citizens should be controlled and subjected to digital fingerprinting when they enter Iran, said lawmaker Kazem Jalali in a debate broadcast on state radio.
Good idea. Send us a copy.
This law comes in response to the American practice of taking digital fingerprints of sportsmen, political officials and other Iranians, sometimes with an insulting attitude, he added. Until now, only US journalists have been subjected to digital fingerprinting on arrival in Teheran.
According to Jalali, the bill is also a reaction to the law voted on Saturday by the US Congress for sanctions against foreign countries, which assist in Irans nuclear programme and supply sophisticated missile technology.
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Steve, I agree. I would like max info avaiable on Americans entering Cuba, North Korea, Syria, Pakistan ...
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Believe it or not... there are a lot of Americans that would love to go to Iran. I am one of them but I refuse to go under the present circumstances... 'hey momma didn't raise any fools'...
They have some good back country skiing over there... long live the Powder Hounds...
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Their main income generator, or "job" for them is to provoke someone into reacting violently, and then filing for damages... remember, most of the adults in this disgusting clan are qualified as lawyers. This latest little caper might fall rather flat for several reasons (aside from the total basic sliminess of it all)... one of them being that the Amish are very strictly non-violent, and are not given to responding violently to any sort of provocation. The second thing is (as reported in several different news sources) that tradionally, Amish funerals and other religious services are held in private homes. On private property... there are no public church buildings or venues involved. Nothing for the Phelps clan to batten onto, like a particularly thirsty tick.
Don't think Patriot Riders will be be needed, in this case.
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I have had enough! Blitzen dear Lord, and lots of it should these vermin protestors come. Let bolts from the heavens smite them all. Let your wrath be upon them and your steadfast mercy be upon the peaceful Amish families who grieve.
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Some radio guy offered them an hour on the air if they'd pull the protest. Too bad. It's getting close to huntin season in PA and lots would enjoy some early targets of opportunity.
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I heard on the radio news that the Amish forgive him.
I can't. I can't fathom forgiving the bastard. I hate what he did, and I hate him.
The Amish make me feel that I am a human of a lesser breed. There is a lesson here, but I can't reach it, I can't grasp it, I can't incorporate it into my soul. All I have is sorrow beyond words and the hate of him who brought it.
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Well you wouldn't be the first person to have a hard time comprehending the concept of Christian forgiveness, wxjames. I've had trouble wrapping my pea brain around that one since 1981, the year I became a Christian.
Not that I have even grasped the tip of the iceberg, but one thing that helps me comprehend it is this: How much did God have to forgive me for? Knowing he forgives me for so much, how can I do any less?
This doesn't fully grasp it of course. This kind of forgiveness is incomprehensible to the average joe, and only partly comprehensible by the average Christian.
Interesting side note that's more back on topic: Jesus forgave the most horrible of crimes, and even forgave the men that nailed him to the cross. It's not recorded however, that he ever forgave the religious hypocrites of his day, who presumed to speak for God while preaching their hatred and disdain for the 'unwashed' masses. So-called 'pastor' Phelps should take note of that. Let's just say, I wouldn't want to be him.
There was a movie in the alternative theater. Can't remember the name. Was about a bus that drives off the road killing the children. The ambulance chasing lawyer tries to sign up the parents as clients to soothe their wounds with cash (as well as his own pockets). On the sidelines, his drug addicted daughter who just wants cash from him is spiralling downward. He loves her and wants to to something, anything to help her, but she really just wants his cash so she can get high.
My point is that it was a good movie. Typical alternative flick -but what I got out it was how it was a mistake to let grief be overtaken by greed and revenge. It was very realistic and you could see how those who were able to forgive and move on were so much better off than those who allowed themselves to wallow in greed and anger hoping cash (or drugs) could somehow ease the pain.
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You got a cite for that? I have never heard anybody, right or left, say a good word for Phelps.
Agreed, Angie. I have never heard anybody say anything nice about Phelps. Like I say, I can only hope that one day this slimeball is found dead of a heart attack, slumped over his AIDS infected underage transvestite boy toy.
Notice how rarely Phelps himself ever shows up at these filthy "protests"? You have to think that this maggot knows just how valuable of a target he has become. Whoever offs this disgusting turd should get probation and 15 minutes of community service with time waived for pulling the trigger.
Also note, Phelps' pestiferous minions never go to gay rallies and protest. They'd have their asses heads handed to them in a heartbeat. Instead, these living shits target the most emtionally vulnerable of all, grieving widows and families. Their cowardice knows no limits.
Lastly, in a nod to this board's many Christians, I must finally concede that Phelps has ZERO to do with Christianity. The targeting of Amish victims proves this for once and all. The Amish are such unobtrusive and peaceable folk that there is no possible way to logically construe any connection between them and America's sufferings.
Phelps is almost unique in his twisted and vile personality. How he is able to persuade anyone over to his viewpoint only goes to show just how many hateful morons still exist in our country. I hope Phelps dies slowly. Veeeeeeery slowly.
That is a fair complaint. But perhaps what was meant was that the left takes a certain morbid delight in the dead soldiers. There was much made to do about flag draped coffins on the covers of magazines, crosses placed to represent the number of dead in protests, headlines about passing 1,000 or 2,000 etc. That would be ok if they weren't using the dead in much the same way that Phelps is; to call attention to themselves rather than to show respect or genuine concern.
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All of the horrendous killings over this past week are so senseless. To top it off with these idiots just makes for more snarlyness.
George Harrison's 'Give Me Love' helped me
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http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/emicat/georgeharrison/audio/gharrison_001_give-me-love_100.wax
Give me loveGive me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope Help me cope,
with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soulOM M M M M My Lord . . .
PLEASE take hold of my hand,
that I might understand you
Won't you please
Oh won't you Give me love Give me love
Give me peace on earth Give me light
Give me life Keep me free from birth
Give me hope Help me cope,
with this heavy load
Trying to,
touch and reach you with,
heart and soulOM M M M My Lord . . .
Won't you please
Oh won't you Give me love Give me love
Give me peace on earth Give me light
Give me life Keep me free from birth
Give me hope Help me cope,
with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul
Give me love Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope Help me cope,
with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soulOM M M M M My Lord . . .
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Out of all my limited spiritual beliefs, Widows and orphans, the taking care of them, is a must do event and non-negotiable. This fuckstick Phelps attacks them both at their most vulnerable time. Unforgivable, forever. I'm in Kentucky, we don't use 2X4's, we have the smooth polished oak of a Loui slugger in the gun rack just for guys like him!
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Well said, 49 Pan. You don't sound too limited to me. The scripture agrees with you.
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." ---James 1:27
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Jesus said, "by their fruits shall you know them". The fruits of Phelps' "church" are judgmental hate and bigotry. There is no LOVE from Phelps and his "church", and love is one of the foundations of Christian faith. There is also no forgiveness, which is ESSENTIAL for Christian faith. I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of Phelps or any of his "congregation" when they stand before God in judgment.
It's been a rough week: the shootings in Bailey, CO, the shooting in Pennsylvania, and an uptick in US deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan. Phelps is doing nothing to make life easier for those who have lost loved ones, only inflicting more pain on the entire nation. Talk about a bus going over the cliff! Phelps and his congregation are a walking disaster.
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Phelps and his followera are an example of what happens if you let hate and greed dominate your life.
Hatred does horrible things to people.
Look how twisted Islam is by ints inherent hate - how they justify killing innocents, sawing heads off of people, trying to commit genocide, etc.
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And in their willingness to forgive that wacko and Phelps, see at the example of Christian love the Amish demonstrate for the rest of us poor sinners. It was this in the early Christians that ultimately converted Rome. I wish I had their courage.
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#35 op: "I wouldn't want to be in the shoes of Phelps or any of his "congregation" when they stand before God in judgment."
me neither, but i'd sure like ringside seats! :-D
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So would I. Of a great many disgusting characters currently strutting and fretting upon the news boards, the Phelps "ticks" are the most purely loathsome.
And they do it all for publicity. Does anyone remember the next to final scene in the miniseries "Merlin" where everyone turned their backs on the evil witch Maeve, refusing to belive in her? And she lost all her power and withered away? I wish we could do so to the horrible Phelps-spawn, but the fact that we are even posting comments about them proves that they do still have some horrible loathly power, sick, mercenary f**ks that they are. (Waving from across the room) Hi, Barbara!
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Jesus said, "by their fruits shall you know them".
low-hanging fruit.... perhaps from a signpost
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As someone who gew up in PA, I am in complete admiration of the Amish.
They are asking for nothing other than space and respect for their lifestyle.
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Hannity filleted that satanic shrieking bitch. Even Colmes joined in. Hell freezes over
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As a (non-practicing) "man of the cloth" (ie I am an ordained minister and that stays with you for life in most cases unless you renounce it) I can say candidly that the Baptists should immediately and forthwith disavow, disbar, excommunicate, and denounce this reprehensible excuse for a minister human being and his cult church as the charlatans, frauds, lying evil bastards and pieces of offal that they are.
And the media should include that announcement in its reports every single time they report on this so-called "church".
My temper is such that these wastes of skin people should be grateful I've never encountered them as there would be blood on the pavement.
#48
FOTSGreg - I'm Roman Catholic, and I've NEVER, for a second, assumed these pariahs espouse any tenet that I would recognize as Christian, much less Baptist. Your point is well taken, but I assure you, among the informed, your worthy reputation isn't besmirched...now, James Earl Carter,...maybe :-)
just teasing
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Hi, #39 Mom! *waves back* :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
10/04/2006 23:06 Comments ||
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me neither, but i'd sure like ringside seats!
Hands down, lead pipe cinch, dead nuts, spot on, ahead by ten lengths at the wire, winning entry for Snark of the Day Award! Barbara, you go girl!!! Take a bow!
#51
Thanks, Zen, but I thunk #42 Broad beat me. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
10/04/2006 23:26 Comments ||
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thunk think
damned left-handed typing :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
10/04/2006 23:27 Comments ||
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I went to the Hannity and Colmes website. Holy Moley. That was the most obnoxious thing I've had to endure for some time. I'm not sure if I clicked on my beloved Dennis Miller or if it took me there, but I didn't get taken to the Westboro clip. First, I had to endure ads - ok, I know it's about the money - BUT they got me all excited about my beloved Dennis and then, just before the climax, they CUT DENNIS OFF!!??
Then they made me watch a commercial and then they bait and switched me to something else they wanted me to watch. Where is the F'n end to the Dennis segment!!!!!
I don't know whose in charge of their web videos but he/she needs to be fired for being totally out of touch.
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If we lose Tom Wolfe, well, we lose Tom Wolfe. Next
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in the name of Thy Only Son, Christ Jesus." Writes Wolfe: "Anyone who introduced an event that way in San Francisco or New York would risk arrest for a hate crime. New York writers really must cross the Hudson River, and writers in Los Angeles really must go as far as the San Joaquin Valley. Most of the meaning of America lies in between the coasts, I'm afraid."
#3
Wolfe has been saying the same thing for the last 20 years or more. Why was this news item posted?! And "lotp" obviously doesn't know Tom Wolfe's work. Wolfe loves most Americana, especially NASCAR, although he treats all its subcultures with an almost clinical and foreign perspective. He is the ultimate 'intellectual, aspiring literati' and yet he detests the literary world and mocks the elitist insularity and distain for middle America
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It was posted because this is election season and Wolfe is influential in certain circles.
"Hate crime" is one of the stronger claims I've seen made for public prayer of that sort -- which I agree is sometimes insensitive at best, but which doesn't rise to the level of any crime IMO.
Wolfe appeared to me to be overtly setting the stage for a direct equivalence between that prayer and, say, public execution in Islamic countries of those who are apostate.
(And yes, I've read most of Wolfe's works. It's not his views that are new here -- it's the language he chose to use and the fact that his language encourages journalists and others to adopt a very dangerous theme.)
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"Wolfe loves most Americana, especially NASCAR, although he treats all its subcultures with an almost clinical and foreign perspective"
Yeah, that's the problem. He looks at it as 'Americana', rather than Americanism. "Oh, look at the cute little rednecks! How quaint. Aren't they adorable?"
Anyone who introduced an event that way in San Francisco or New York would risk arrest for a hate crime.
Wolfe appeared to me to be overtly setting the stage for a direct equivalence between that prayer and, say, public execution in Islamic countries of those who are apostate.
Well, I haven't read any Wolfe, but are you sure that's not hyperbole? That he's not getting in a dig at SF and NY?
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He is indeed getting a dig in vs SF and NY, and no, he does not exaggerate.
Thats Wolfes style, at his best he is a virtuouso architect of complex structures of ironies and hypocrisies; the best part is that these are all "found" art, observed from life, not made up. We do live in a very strange world.
Rantburg would be a wonderful source of material for Wolfe.
Oil tumbled $2 on Tuesday to below $60 a barrel, sinking to the lowest level since February and prompting OPEC's president to call on the exporter group to deepen supply cuts.
We believe that the market is slightly oversupplied," OPEC President Edmund Daukoru told Reuters...
Prices fell for a second day, pressured by ample fuel stockpiles in top consumer the United States and no public evidence of other OPEC members joining Nigeria and Venezuela in cutting output. "We believe that the market is slightly oversupplied," OPEC President Edmund Daukoru, who is also Nigeria's top oil official, told Reuters.
It's purely a coincidence that the Dow Industrial Average closed at its highest ever mark and that gold closed 4% down over the last three days.
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I believe we have a difference of opinion as to the meaning of the word "tumble"...
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Article: Oil tumbled $2 on Tuesday to below $60 a barrel, sinking to the lowest level since February and prompting OPEC's president to call on the exporter group to deepen supply cuts.
High oil prices tend to lead to low oil prices for two reasons. First, consumption falls as conservation measures and efforts at substitution begin. Second, oil producers get used to high oil revenues because government expenditures skyrocket as prices go through the roof, and have trouble spending less, as oil prices start to come down due to point number one. This means that to maintain revenues in a climate of falling prices, they pump more oil instead of less - thus accelerating the fall in oil prices even further, and requiring yet even more oil production to make up the additional loss of revenues. (Of course, if the price goes low enough, consumers start using too much oil, and the price skyrockets yet again, as consumption overwhelms supply).
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This tells the tale without the baloney & hype dished out by financial reporters.
"We believe the market is slightly oversupplied" is about the same as saying: "This commodity's price has fallen since yesterday."
I have great confidence in this prediction: "The price of oil will fluctuate."
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.
The photojournalist claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter has filed court papers to establish paternity and obtain legal custody of the child. 
MANAMA - Bahrains Shiite-led opposition demanded an independent inquiry Wednesday into the expulsion last month of an alleged British spy who claimed to have uncovered a plot to maintain Sunni domination of the Gulf kingdom.
Panama's Health Ministry declared a national epidemic alert on Tuesday after a mystery illness killed at least six people and left others suffering with fever, diarrhea and partial paralysis.
Mexico asked President Bush Monday to veto the proposed 700-mile border fence, saying it would endanger lives while doing little to halt illegal immigration. "The Mexican government strongly opposes the building of walls in the border area between Mexico and the United States," said Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox. He said Mexico's Foreign Ministry planned to send a diplomatic letter to Bush urging him to veto the bill, which passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. Senate on Friday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that his ailing ally, Cuban leader Fidel Castro, is recovering slowly from intestinal surgery but told him recently that he was prepared to die. ``Fidel told me when I went to visit him in Havana: 'Chavez, I already lived my epoch, I can die. I'm free to die, not you. You are a slave of life, don't let them kill you,''' Chavez said during a campaign rally in his home state of Barinas. 
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Exasperated Georgians crowded at the capital's airport in disbelief Tuesday after Russia cut all travel links with the former Soviet republic in retaliation for detaining four of its military officers for espionage.
Airbus parent EADS confirmed Tuesday that the flagship A380 superjumbo jet will be delayed by a further year, and Virgin Atlantic and Emirates the A380's biggest customers both said they were examining their options as a result. European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. said the delays will shave a total of $6.1 billion off the company's operating profit. 
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The lawyer for former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., met with representatives of the media Friday evening to answer questions about Foley's state of mind. David Roth, with the law firm of Roth and Duncan, said he had not been acting as a lawyer in the last few days but rather as a friend and counselor to the embattled congressman from Florida. "Mark blames no one but himself," Roth said, adding that he hoped and prayed everyone can remember the dedicated public servant that Foley was. "Mark offers no excuses but I am confident when all the facts and events of his life are revealed that most if not all your questions will be answered," he said.
Right after Mark Foley was revealed to have had inappropriate e-mail conversations with a 16-year-old page, he resigned and checked into rehab. Now, what did Democrats know, and when did they know it?
If you think 'breast is best' for your child's intelligence then think again, say scientists
Oil tumbled $2 on Tuesday to below $60 a barrel, sinking to the lowest level since February and prompting OPEC's president to call on the exporter group to deepen supply cuts. 
