Federal officials said today they have zeroed in on restaurant tomatoes as the cause of a recent nationwide Salmonella outbreak.
If it's not spinach it's tomatoes. I consider all salads suspect. I'm having ice cream instead.
At a press conference, Christopher Braden, MD, chief of outbreak response and surveillance in the foodborne disease branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said 183 Americans from 21 states were sickened in the outbreak. Two Canadians also fell ill. Twenty two (12%) patients were hospitalized, which Braden said was typical for a Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium outbreak.
The organism typically causes fever and nonbloody flux diarrhea that resolves in a week. The CDC detected the outbreak 2 weeks ago through PulseNet, an electronic network for sharing molecular fingerprinting (pulsed-field gel electrophoresis) data. At the same time, states were noticing clusters of patients who had the same strain and genetic fingerprint. The CDC said cases in the outbreak have been reported since Sep 1. Most of the states affected are in the eastern half of the nation.
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Ice cream is a good calcium source, after all. Strengthens the teeth and bones, calms the jitters.
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I blame two things: the organic craze and the use of illiterate "migrants" for labor. Organic idiots get in a hurry and use poorly-composted manure as fertilizer; the migrants, whether in the field, the plant, or the restaurant, don't understand the need for hygiene.
Granted, a hell of a lot of native-born Americans don't understand the need for hygiene, either, but at least they can read the "employees must wash their hands" signs.
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"Lave Sus Manos" and his orchestra
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Cue theme music for "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!"
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people on Saturday marched in Caracas to support opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, whose populist campaign has focused on reducing crime and redistributing oil wealth.
Rosales, governor of the oil-rich Zulia state, trails leftist President Hugo Chavez by around 20 percentage points in most private polls ahead of the December 3 election.
Opposition sympathizers donning Venezuela's signature red, yellow and blue patriotic colors joined the march, which spanned some 12 miles across most of the capital city. "Rosales is our last hope to prevent this country from becoming another Cuba," said 53-year-old engineer Antonio Romero, who marched with his family carrying Venezuelan flags.
Rosales promises to end Chavez's confrontation with the Bush administration, redistribute bountiful oil revenues and reduce soaring crime rates throughout Venezuela. Opposition leaders also accuse the Chavez government of drawing up blacklists to intimidate voters and requiring public employees to join pro-Chavez campaign activities.
"Enough of being afraid in this country," said Angela Barrera, 28, a graphic designer whose face was painted with the colors of the Venezuelan flag. "On December 3, what will be heard is the voice of the people who want a future."
The Rosales campaign has told voters it will end Chavez's generous energy assistance programs to other countries, including one that distributes subsidized heating oil to poor U.S. residents through Venezuelan-owned energy company Citgo.
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Australia would be "foolish" not to consider using nuclear energy, given its vast reserves of uranium, Prime Minister John Howard said Saturday, giving his strongest hint yet the government planned to kick-start an atomic energy industry. "Nuclear power is potentially the cleanest and greenest of them all," Howard said in a speech to the Queensland state branch of his Liberal Party. "And we would be foolish, from the national interest point of view, with our vast resources of uranium, to say that we are not going to consider nuclear power," he said.
Australia is one of the world's biggest producers of uranium, the ore used to fire nuclear reactors, but has only one reactor, a small medical facility. Nuclear issues have been contentious in Australia for years because many people are worried about the dangers of radiation and how to dispose of nuclear waste. But Howard said growing concern about global warming caused by the burning of greenhouse gas-producing fossil fuels to make electricity was causing people to rethink their opposition to nuclear energy.
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Australia (mostly from Queensland) is also the world's biggest coal exporter, which is the subtext of this. Queenslanders see nuclear energy as harming their coal exports.
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America should be building them as well. Surely with today's more modern and hopefully safer designs we could use ample electric power to curb our need of oil.
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Sounds like a win-win situation, sell the valuable coal and keep the more valuable Uranium.
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use ample electric power to curb our need of oil.
We do not have an energy problem, we have a petroleum ownership problem.
We use NO oil to generate electric power. Oil is used to fuel transport, cars, planes, trains, and ships.
Electricity comes from coal, uranium and hydro. Thus the Queensland conflict to which phil_b alludes. Otherwise known as competition. The government has no place in this competition except to assure that commons externalities are included in the costing appropriately. Let the market decide if nuclear makes sense, not government. Just make nuclear pay and provide for saftey and water and coal for pollution and reclamation.
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So? Can't the electricity from the nuclear plant be used to reduce the coal to oil to power automobiles? (Or, electricity from the coal-fired power plant...) Win/win, surely?
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NS - I'm not sure which country you're writing about. In the US, natural gas is used to produce
18.7 percent of all production. Nearly all power plants built over the past 15 years are fueled by natural gas.
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Natural gas can also be used to propel vehicles, this is the tie-in between electricity production and oil importation. Electricity can be used on railroads.
Currently the "market" in the US, near-sighted as always, has decided to import as much oil as it can pay for. The "commons externality" of US military resources and battle deaths to protect and stabilize major oil-producing regions (most of whose residents hate us and want to see us destroyed) is of no concern to the "market."
---- To Hell with this "market."
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You are way off the mark if you think we're in Iraq primarily because of the oil we import, although that is one of several interacting issues which present during this massive geopolitical realignment that's underway.
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Given their proximity to the world's largest Muslim population, in Indonesia, it might be foolish for Australia not to consider nuclear weapons as well.
For now, they can depend on the American "nuclear umbrella" but what if the worst happens: the Dems win and are able to consolidate moonbat rule in America?
Imagine Dennis Kucinich as "Secretary of Peace," as some have suggested. The umbrella will be shredded by a chorus of Kumbaya policy-makers and peacenik media indoctrination.
Can the US really go the way of Helengrad (formerly New Zealand)? Best not to take a chance: Cobble up some nukes of your own, cobbers. The RAAF's trusty F-111s are an ideal platform for these, and F-18s can light up the jihadis at shorter range.
In any case, I would give the Oz boffins about 12 hours to put together a working thermo-nuke if the PM gives the go ahead.
Germany's plans to put the EU constitution back on track early next year have been dealt a blow by the country's constitutional court in Karlsruhe.
The court on Tuesday (31 October) said it would not rule on whether the EU charter was compatible with the German constitution until after a final decision had been taken on the overall fate of the document, which has been on political ice since it was rejected by French and Dutch voters last year.
German constitutional judge Siegfried Bros, who is dealing with the EU constitution, said that a decision on the issue was "currently not a priority."
He added, according to German daily Die Welt, that as the EU constitutional process is still under discussion since the two 'no' referendums last year, the issue is not urgent.
Should the text stay as it is, said Mr Bros, he would "resume work on the constitutional complaint" adding "there is definitely sufficient time" to deal with the issue before 2009.
The statements are a setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel who had recently put the EU constitution back on the bloc's political agenda by outlining a roadmap under which the document would be on its political feet by the European elections in mid 2009.
Berlin had been hoping for a decision by the federal constitutional court in early 2007 which would have coincided with the country's six-month stint at the EU helm.
Instead, Mrs Merkel will be leading the constitutional revival efforts although Germany has not yet technically finished ratification.
The German parliament ratified the constitution by an overwhelming majority in 2005 (569 of 603 votes) but president Horst Koehler refused to sign off the ratification process until the federal court had taken a decision on a complaint by centre-right MP Peter Gauweiler that the EU treaty was taking too much power from the national parliament.
The MP filed a legal complaint in 2005 that the EU constitution will take power away from the German parliament. He argued it oversteps the boundaries that the German constitution provides for the integration of state institutions in the EU. He also said that the German parliament cannot give more rights to the EU than it has itself.
Hailing the court's decision on Tuesday, Mr Gauweiler said "the EU constitution has in all probability also failed in Germany."
Currently 14 member states have passed the EU charter which needs all 25 member states to ratify it before it can come into force.
With Germany and France making statements on the constitution, the issue has slowly moved up the political agenda once more.
However, each new pronouncement raises as many questions as it does answers. France's Nicolas Sarkozy recently suggested the constitution should be pared down to a mini treaty, raising questions for those who have already ratified the document.
Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet told the Irish Times that countries that have already ratified the constitution should not have to ratify a second version of the document.
"For the future, our first preference is that we should avoid the situation that all those (...) countries have to ratify 'Constitutional Treaty Volume II' or something like this," he said according to Thursday's newspaper.
Power cuts have struck several countries in western Europe, leaving millions of people without electricity. Power companies said the outage started in Germany with a surge in demand prompted by cold weather, and then spread to other parts of Europe. Some five million people in France lost power, mainly in the east of the country and including parts of Paris.
"We weren't very far from a European blackout," a senior director with French power company RTE said.
Pierre Bornard told the French news agency AFP that two German high-voltage transmission lines failed, causing problems across western Europe. This triggered a "house of cards" style system breakdown, he said. Automatic security systems cut supplies to some customers to avoid a complete blackout. Italy, Belgium and Spain were also affected by the power cuts.
Most electricity supplies were restored within two hours of the outage, and so far no injuries or accidents have been reported. Fire brigades in France said they had to answer several calls from people stuck in lifts. High speed rail links were also disrupted. Well, it's one way to help meet those Kyoto targets.
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Electricity distribution systems are demand driven. Fail to keep up with demand and the system crashes. What the eco-dimwhits don't grasp is that you can't increase the wind or sunshine on demand.
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Uhh, it's fun, but glass houses, gentlemen.
It wasn't just a few months ago that an area the size of Missouri, centered on St. Louis, was without power for about a week because of storms.
You probably didn't hear about it, because it wasn't NY.
Nope, those are predatory nasty American imperialist chains.
And in any case, it's the GOVERNMENT's responsibility to make sure they have power. Been that way since the days of feudal manor lords and we see no reason to change it now.
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I'm sure Germany' policy of cutting back on their nuclear power plants to replace them with windmills and all will help improve the system' sustainability...
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But Mizzou, the problem in St Louis was due to weather damaging the system and not due to over loading it.
I also was under the impression that the incident on the east coast was due to equipment failure instead of supply issues.
Now the blackouts in California were self inflicted due to stupidity.
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Power companies said the outage started in Germany with a surge in demand prompted by cold weather, and then spread to other parts of Europe.
Funny...no one in the "global warming is our doom" community has tried to spin this fact in their favor. Oops...excuse me "climate change is our doom".
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The last big east coast blackout was caused by the shady way the energy brokers were stressing the transmission lines to keep competition's power off the grid.
There should have been criminal charges. Look in a back issue of the Industrial Physicist mag for the full analysis.
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Now the blackouts in California were self inflicted due to stupidity.
Idiotic power purchasing policy had something to do with it, getting raped by predatory suppliers *cough* Enron-Duke-Dynegy *cough* who handily conspired to take critical generation sites offline during peak demand cycles in order to drive up prices also had something to do with it. People died because of their greed.
Newly discovered tapes have revealed how the energy corporation Enron shut down at least one power plant on false pretences, deliberately aggravating California's crippling 2001 blackouts with the aim of raising prices.
'Nuff said.
Look in a back issue of the Industrial Physicist mag for the full analysis.
A delightful little tech rag; It ran a superb debunking of the Powerline - Childhood Lukemia theory. I really must renew my subscription. One of the better free science publications there is.
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More proof that we're losing the war in Iraq, where unreliable power is invariably cited as proof of insurgent strength.
Oh, Europe.
Maybe the insurgents are branching out.
See, I told you so.
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The power outages in Buffalo, NY a few weeks ago (that would be in Western NY, on Lake Erie near the Niagara Falls) were due to an unexpected and heavy snowfall breaking all the trees, the limbs of which brought down the power lines. The power plant continued supplying energy, such that my darling in-laws (in Lackawanna, southwest of the city) had their lights turn back on after only a few hours; my parents, however, in the hardest hit suburb of Amherst, were without power for an entire week. The authorities are still removing downed tree limbs, and plan to dump the debris at the closed Bethleham Steel plant, which apparently will produce enough wood chips to fill the football stadium.
Imagine the scene: two billionaires are bidding at an auction in Paris for the worlds most famous painting. The Russian oil tycoon loses his nerve at £189m and the auctioneer bangs his gavel. The Mona Lisa has been sold to a grinning Chinese textile baron. Frances humiliation is complete.
We are in 2013. The states coffers are empty and the French have been reduced to selling off their family treasures to make ends meet.
The Day that France went Bankrupt, a novel by Philippe Jaffré, a former Treasury director, could serve as a warning about the dangers of big government to Ségolène Royal, the darling of the opinion polls concerning next years presidential election.
In Jaffrés book, Royals victory sets in motion a chain of events that leads to France going broke and suffering the indignity of having to beg for help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which imposes draconian economic conditions.
The culprit in all this is Frances public debt. It has grown to 66% of GDP, compared with 43% in Britain, as a result of the cost of maintaining the countrys bloated bureaucracy and lavish social welfare system.
It will impose a heavy burden on the next generation. No wonder the other recent addition to the doom-laden library of French declinism as the dark days to come doctrine is known was called Our Children will Hate Us.
So attached are the French to the fat of their state, however, that few politicians would dare to suggest trimming it, particularly with the elections approaching.
On the contrary, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius, two Socialist rivals of Royal, have been promising to increase spending on welfare as the battle for the Socialist party nomination, to be decided in a vote next week, reaches its climax.
Royal has also vowed to defend the welfare system. Although the public adores her, she is under a cloud of suspicion in the Socialist camp for voicing admiration for Tony Blair, whose relatively moderate policies are anathema to most French Socialists.
Even Nicolas Sarkozy, the most likely candidate from the centre-right, has gone quiet on reform. He likes presenting himself as the candidate of rupture with the past, but the painful spectacle of Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, failing to get even a modest employment reform past the barricades of angry student protesters may have put him off.
All of which fuels the declinologist gloom: beyond a parable about the perils of public spending, some see in Jaffrés book an illustration of the growing belief that France can advance only through serious upheavals.
In the novel, Royal is thrust into an uncomfortable coalition with the Greens after they end up scoring well in parliamentary elections. She makes a bold stab at reform after appointing Strauss-Kahn as prime minister but is forced to retreat after protests and strikes, a familiar pattern in French politics. She resorts to the standard French political reflex of spending her way out of trouble; by the time Sarkozy wins power in 2012, half of the states revenues go on servicing the debt, which has risen to 180% of GDP.
The crisis is triggered when Standard & Poors, the debt rating agency, relegates French debt to the status of junk bonds. The banks are no longer prepared to lend France any more money. In short, France is broke.
The stock market closes and so do the banks. In the resulting chaos, thousands of French tourists are left stranded around the world when their credit cards stop working.
Once the boss on the European block, France goes cap in hand to its European Union neighbours for help and the Germans are not alone in experiencing intense feelings of schadenfreude at the spectacle of French officials grovelling. Some countries, including Britain, decline to contribute to the bail-out, arguing that France has only itself to blame. Others will come to the rescue only if an austerity package is implemented under the supervision of the IMF.
The IMF seems to take perverse pleasure in making the terms particularly harsh. In the first year of the adjustment, production plummets and unemployment rises. The growing poverty fortifies the far right and gives rise to a radical new Socialist party. It does not stop the relocation of the Mona Lisa to Shanghai.
Sarkozy, in particular, has every reason to hope that fiction remains fiction. The last straw for his character in the book is when, at the end of a state visit to America, he is prevented from taking off in his plane back to Paris. A judge acting on behalf of a creditor has ordered the seizure of French assets, including the presidential Airbus.
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All I can say is... ouch! French Rantburgers, have I mentioned how nice Nevada is? Not only do we have extremely limited taxes, but hookers, assault weapons, and slot machines too.
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Oh! They're talking financially bankrupt. I wondered, because morally and culturally, the French went bankrupt decades ago.
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What's funny is that jaffré is a pure System man; for him to speak that way shows something is changing. And by the way, a less-publicized book written by an ex-fiancial inspector (high ranking civil servants for life) said that given current trends, and using Argentina as a benchmark, bankruptcy woudl be circa 2010, not 2012. There was also a recent fiction book, which had a modicum of success in libertarian-conservative ranks, about the crash of the french System... and Claude Reichman had a book about a metaphorical collapse of the bureaucracy/technocracy, in which the bloated french State collapses, and nobody notice, or cares, except the insiders and profiteers, as Reagan joked about.
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If France goes under to debt, does that drag the entire EU system down with it ? Like the electrical grid ? Maybe they ought to pay some attention to the 7 million loafers they've got in banilues who do nothing but torch cars as a hobby. Deporting these leaches may do wonders for the treasury.
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I thought the whole rationale for the Euro was so that the French could ride the coattails of the stronger German economy and delay collapse until the whole of the Euro economies could no longer sustain governmental financial commitments. Too bad German unification placed a huge burden on the German economy.
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Maybe they ought to pay some attention to the 7 million loafers they've got in banilues who do nothing but torch cars as a hobby
You might like to know that a conservative forum member said a RG (police intelligence) friend told him there was actually 18 millions muslims in France, not the official 6 millions (this was the official number back in the 80's, there's NO way this has not changed since, not with 300 000 to 500 000 immigrants coming in each year).
LOTS of salt, of course.
But even the conservative officious number of muslims in France (I won't say "french muslims", that's an oxymoron) is 8-10 millions.
But the 18 millions might be true, who knows, and would explain MUCH (basically, France would had put herself in an impossible situation, thanks to her Enlightened Elites and the EUrabia).
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I think the correct estimate is 8-9 million Moslems of North African origin in France. Plus at least 400,000 converts. If you look at stats for first names of babies in France over the last few years the Moslems are nowhere near 30% of the population -- 15% and rowing fast seems a good guess though. This is all assuming that there is accurate information about what's happening in the lawless medinas suburbs.
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Maybe they ought to pay some attention to the 7 million loafers they've got in banilues who do nothing but torch cars as a hobby. Deporting these leaches may do wonders for the treasury.
That would require logique, something that may well have perished in France along with René Descartes. France's stubborn efforts to triangulate against America with its EAD (European Arab Dialogue) will likely be the death of it. Idiots.
Airbus plans to increase spending on a proposed long-range jet made of lightweight carbon by 20 percent to $12 billion, said two people with direct knowledge of the proposal.
Because throwing good money after bad always works.
A new design for the A350 plane will be presented to Airbus parent company European Aeronautic, Defence & Space on Tuesday, said the sources, who declined to be identified before an announcement. The A350 is Airbus' sixth attempt to create a competitor for Boeing's 787, which has won 402 orders.
"They really don't have a choice about doing it, if they want to be competitive with Boeing over the long term," said Phil Finnegan, an analyst at Teal Group, a consulting company in Fairfax, Va. "The big issue is, do they have the engineering talent to deal with the launch of the A350 as they're dealing with the problems of the A380?"
In July, Airbus said the A350 would cost $10 billion. The new concept would be made 50 percent from carbon fiber to reduce weight and save on fuel, airlines' biggest expense after labor, the sources said. Boeing's plane, known as the Dreamliner, is 50 percent carbon fiber by weight, and 20 percent more fuel efficient than planes it replaces, according to Boeing.
The new A350 XWB wouldn't enter service until at least 2013, a year later than previously planned and five years after the 787 is expected to fly.
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What will they do when faced with Boeing's blended wing solution?
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Anyone else get the feeling that Boeing is acquiring a taste for European lunches? Funny how us capitalist wage slaves just keep whupping ass on these socialist utopians.
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I wonder where they will get the $12 billion. It certainly won't be coming from profits generated by the A380 - there won't be any. Borrowing it from banks seems unlikely since banks will want to see a large number of pre-orders for the A350 to demonstrate the financial viability of the plane, but airlines will be reluctant to trust Airbus's ability to deliver a newly developed plane on schedule again after the A380 fiasco. That only leaves government funding which has been the source of acrimonious WTO disputes with the U.S. This should be interesting.
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What will they do when faced with Boeing's blended wing solution?
As cool as this concept is, I doubt it will ever be built. I hope I am wrong, but I just can't see it. Too many issues related to passenger psychology.
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Too many issues related to passenger psychology.
While I understand your point, MD, if 600-800 passengers (instead of only 500) can be fit into a craft which occupies the same traditional 80 meter box required for compatibility with existing jet ramps and docking facilities, the airlines will have no choice. People will just have to get used to a whole new appearance to their aircraft. Here is a good link on blended wing technology.
A Turkish prosecutor slapped criminal charges against two converts to Christianity earlier this month, accusing them of "insulting Turkishness," inciting hatred against Islam and secretly compiling data on private citizens for a local Bible correspondence course. Hakan Tastan, 37, and Turan Topal, 46, joined the ranks of 97 other Turkish citizens hauled into court in the last 16 months over alleged violations of the countrys controversial Article 301 restricting freedom of speech. .... If convicted, the accused men could be sentenced from six months up to three years in prison. ....
Citing articles 301, 216 and 135 of the Turkish penal code, the indictment accused the defendants of approaching grade school children and high school students in Silivri and attempting to convert them to Christianity. According to the written charges, the three plaintiffs, identified as 23-year-old Fatih Kose, 16-year-old Alper and Oguz, 17, claimed the two Christians had called Islam a "primitive and fabricated religion" and had described Turks as a "cursed people." ....
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There is pox on all of their house. The Moslems are further removed from preaching because all of us know they are out of order and not to be trusted with dispensing law.
But the Swedes have no interest in their historical dead. Reminds them that they were the aggressors on this one, I suspect. And furthermore they lost that war. But it's sad they don't even care about the fallen.
Despite the fact that Sweden is no longer interested in its fallen soldiers we in Poland intend to erect a monument to them, said Ziabka.
News agency PAP reported that the Swedish soldiers will not be forgotten on All Saints Day Polish farmers plan to light candles on the mass graves as a mark of respect.
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But the Swedes have no interest in their historical dead. Reminds them that they were the aggressors on this one, I suspect. And furthermore they lost that war. But it's sad they don't even care about the fallen.
They don't even care about their future; why should they care about their past?
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The Swedes would care if their royal family sent a representitive to Poland as part of a rememberance ceremony.
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Not the same "royal family" -- the current one is "royal" because Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's generals managed to get elected crown prince of Sweden. His wife was a former lover of Napoléon.
Hence the Swedish royal family is really a French republican family.
Six weeks after a class 12 student, Shamima Akhter, was strangulated to death by local militants after she refused to marry Hizbul Mujahideen militant Manzoor Ahmad alias Furkan, the same group of militants attacked her house late Saturday evening in Manglogi village in Udhampur district killing four other members of her family in cold blood.
After committing the gruesome murders, the suspected militants escaped without being challenged by the nearby security picket.
According to police, militants struck around 10.30 pm on Saturday night just when all the family members were preparing to go to sleep. Militants pumped more than one dozen bullets killing 55-year-old farmer Ahad Bhat, father of Shamima, his wife Fatima (50), daughter Mobina (25) and niece Shahida (30).
A senior police officer from Gool police station, who visited the spot, told The Pioneer over telephone that 12 empty cases of bullets were recovered from inside the house of Ahad Bhat. All four deceased had been shot in their abdomen and chest. The killings have unnerved the local people even though there is a security picket in the area.
Ramban Senior Superintendent of Police Basant K Rath told The Pioneer, "local militants belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen were annoyed with Ahad Bhat ever since he solemnised the court marriage of his youngest daughter with Farooq Ahmed, on September 18, 2006 against their wishes".
Three days after her marriage, Shamima was kidnapped and then killed on September 21 by local militants belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen when she was returning from Government Higher Secondary School, Sangaldhan.
Police recovered her body on September 24 from Surenda village in Gool. She had been strangled to avenge her refusal of the marriage proposal. "We are further investigating the reasons behind the provocation, and a police team is visiting the village," the SP added.
Security forces in the area have launched a massive search and cordon operations to nab the culprits. No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for the murders.
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Religion of Peace and severely disfunctional males (with tiny penises)
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After committing the gruesome murders, the suspected militants escaped without being challenged by the nearby security picket.
Guess whose side law enforcement is on?
The article merely details what all of have to look forward to should sharia law arrive in the West. Welcome to the Religion of Getting A Piece.
The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft's Web browser is here, introducing the masses to features available for years in rival products.
Only they don't seem to work quite as well.
My initial thought to Microsoft Corp.'s game of catch-up was "no big deal." But after trying out version 7 of Internet Explorer, the first major release since 2001, I found a number of improvements to like. Normally, those might provide enough reason to switch to IE7 except rivals like Mozilla's Firefox have been pushing forward with new tools as well.
Firefox is okay, but since I write data entry pages, I'm stuck with either IE or Opera. Data entry pages are pretty useless when the buttons don't work.
The most noticeable change in IE is a redesign that replaces menus like "file" and "edit" with task-oriented buttons for printing, searching and the like. Just as Google Inc.'s novel, folder-less approach to e-mail took getting used to, Microsoft's new interface initially will seem odd. But in no time, I started questioning the old ways why, for instance, was "print" under "file" and not "view"?
My guess would be for consistency's sake. Even if you have controls in an illogical order, once users are used to them there moving them confuses people. And you do print a file. You don't print a view.
IE7 also introduces a built-in search box and tabbed browsing, which reduces clutter by opening multiple Web pages in a single window. That'll come as new to the 90 percent of Internet users who don't use Firefox and Opera, which already sport both features.
The tabs also behave differently than they do in Opera and Firefox. A file that should open in a new tab opens a new instance of the browser, which itself is capable of lugging multiple tabs around.
The new Microsoft browser also carries security improvements, including warnings when Web visitors try to go to known "phishing" sites that try to steal passwords.
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I miss Mosaic.
Mozilla has this weird animal name scheme for stuff. There's Firefox, and a mail thingy called Thunderbird. How long before there's a Moonbat?
The browser which crashes your computer and burns the HDD when you try to open a conservative website!
Btw, I'm not at all a tech-savvy guy, I used Mozilla/Firefox for quite a while, excellent browsers, especially with all the extensions, the only thing I didn't like was that the saved webpages have their "html" names, but for a little over a year (IIRC), I've been using Maxthon, which I really like.
I've tried Opera after having it promoted here, nice too, but in fact, since I'm stuck in my habits, I only use it to download the odd webpage IE (and thus Maxthon) won't save on my PC, like some php forum threads.
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If your buttons don't work - its most likely due to the webpage designer using some non-standard 'extension' (read Internet Explorer) then the browser.
Of course the best thing about standards is that there are so many of them!
Tired of having the Sulzbergers destroy his stock value.
A major shareholder of The New York Times Co. has stepped up efforts to weaken the control of the company by the Sulzberger family, arguing that the corporate structure doesn't fairly represent the interests of other investors.
The value of Times Co. stock has fallen by more than half from its 2002 peak.
The company's difficulties have helped lead a local group to consider making a bid to buy the Boston Globe, which has underperformed other units of the Times Co. The group is led by Jack Welch, former General Electric Co. chairman, and Jack Connors, cofounder of the advertising firm Hill Holliday.
Such family control is common at several other major media companies and was established in part to shield news organizations from financial pressures. But Times Co., which owns The Boston Globe, and its peers are struggling because of the Internet. The inability to meet Wall Street expectations has led to several sales and breakups within the industry
In a report commissioned by Morgan Stanley Investment Management and recently delivered to Times Co. directors, Stephen Davis , a financial columnist and principal of Davis Global Advisors Inc., sharply criticizes the structure that gives control to the Sulzberger family trust. This structure has led to ineffective governance, poor financial performance, and a lack of accountability by Times Co. management, the report said.
The exchange of letters, first reported in yesterday's New York Times, is the latest development in Elmasry's campaign to eliminate the special class of shares that maintain the Sulzberger family's control. It comes at a time when the newspaper industry struggles with shrinking revenues and profits as readership moves online, and faces new competitors, such as Google Inc.
The value of Times Co. stock has fallen by more than half from its 2002 peak, and the company's difficulties have helped lead a local group to consider making a bid to buy the Globe, which has underperformed other units of the Times Co. The group is led by Jack Welch, former General Electric Co. chairman, and Jack Connors, cofounder of the advertising firm Hill Holliday. They couldn't be reached yesterday.
Posted by: regular joe ||
11/05/2006 9:16 Comments ||
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Condensation,
"I don't want your Family to own it, I want MY family to own it, Gimme"
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
11/05/2006 9:25 Comments ||
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Regardless, by law the operators have a fiduciary responsibility to the stockholders. I smell a lot of expensive and well paid torte lawyers about to land a whale. Sic a dog on a dog works in my book.
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What's amazing is the the NYT can't do better with all the intellectual talent at its disposal. I mean, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Frank Rich --- that's got to be 100 IQ points right there. For that matter, why don't they just hand the management of the company over to Paul Krugman? He did a great job advising that energy company down in Houston.
Posted by: Matt ||
11/05/2006 10:50 Comments ||
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Now that, Matt, is professional grade snark. If I could write like that, I wouldn't serve tea. ;-)
Posted by: Fred ||
11/05/2006 00:00 ||
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The left seems gleeful and joyous over this mans fall. What they don't understand is that Christians are neither surprised or particularly dismayed by this. The whole Christian church is based on the idea that every man is a sinner, so he just reinforces what they already knew.
Haggart will be welcomed back into the fold as a flawed member, like every other member. While he will not be given a position of authority in the church, he will simply be recognized as flawed individual, like every other person sitting next to them in the pews.
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Frank G & Anon sum it up well. While I disagree with what he did, he IS just one man! We are all sinners, in need of a savior. And, I consider myself an Evangelical, and I've never heard this guy's name. He may have headed up that group years ago, but appears that he was a shepherd/pastor of a local "megachurch" since then.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), four of Arizonas six national forests, Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott and Tonto have been involved in marijuana plant eradication since 2004. The majority of those eradications occurred on two sites in Coconino National Forest, for a total of 19,982 plants and 13 sites in Tonto National Forest for a total of 132,047 plants. From 2004 through Oct. 23, 2006, a total of 18 sites and 155,591 plants have been eradicated in the program.
Last Wednesday a hiker in Tonto National Forest in the Mt. Peeley/Deer Creek/201 Road area found and reported the site as an abandoned pot farm. On Sunday, forest service law enforcement officers were performing a marijuana eradication operation at the site when they encountered four armed suspects. One of the suspects pointed a loaded rifle at one of the law enforcement officers, who responded by firing at the suspect three times.
One of the suspects pointed a loaded rifle at one of the law enforcement officers, who responded by firing at the suspect three times
On Tuesday, the USDA, Southwest Region, reported the suspect, a 20-year old Hispanic male illegal alien, was in stable condition in a local hospital and cooperating with authorities.
That's too bad. He should be in the boneyard.
The other three armed suspects fled, launching an air and land search operation involving the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Public Safety, Maricopa and Gila County Sheriffs Offices, which included at least three helicopters. Gila County Sheriffs Office detained one possible suspect, also identified as an illegal alien, until forest service authorities picked him up for questioning.
The eradication operation, where the shooting incident occurred, involved 3,100 plants, covering approximately four acres. However, more plants have since been discovered and the operation continues.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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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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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Federal officials said today they have zeroed in on restaurant tomatoes as the cause of a recent nationwide Salmonella outbreak. 
Australia would be "foolish" not to consider using nuclear energy, given its vast reserves of uranium, Prime Minister John Howard said Saturday, giving his strongest hint yet the government planned to kick-start an atomic energy industry. "Nuclear power is potentially the cleanest and greenest of them all," Howard said in a speech to the Queensland state branch of his Liberal Party. "And we would be foolish, from the national interest point of view, with our vast resources of uranium, to say that we are not going to consider nuclear power," he said. 
Germany's plans to put the EU constitution back on track early next year have been dealt a blow by the country's constitutional court in Karlsruhe.
Six weeks after a class 12 student, Shamima Akhter, was strangulated to death by local militants after she refused to marry Hizbul Mujahideen militant Manzoor Ahmad alias Furkan, the same group of militants attacked her house late Saturday evening in Manglogi village in Udhampur district killing four other members of her family in cold blood.
The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft's Web browser is here, introducing the masses to features available for years in rival products.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), four of Arizonas six national forests, Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott and Tonto have been involved in marijuana plant eradication since 2004. The majority of those eradications occurred on two sites in Coconino National Forest, for a total of 19,982 plants and 13 sites in Tonto National Forest for a total of 132,047 plants. From 2004 through Oct. 23, 2006, a total of 18 sites and 155,591 plants have been eradicated in the program.
