SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of gay sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.
The technique being developed by American researchers adjusts the hormonal balance in the brains of homosexual rams so that they are more inclined to mate with ewes. It raises the prospect that pregnant women could one day be offered a treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual. Experts say that, in theory, the straightening procedure on humans could be as simple as a hormone supplement for mothers-to-be, worn on the skin like an anti-smoking nicotine patch.
The research, at Oregon State University in the city of Corvallis and at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, has caused an outcry. Martina Navratilova, the lesbian tennis player who won Wimbledon nine times, and scientists and gay rights campaigners in Britain have called for the project to be abandoned.
Navratilova defended the right of sheep to be gay. She said: How can it be that in the year 2006 a major university would host such homophobic and cruel experiments? She said gay men and lesbians would be deeply offended by the social implications of the tests.
But the researchers argue that the work is valid, shedding light on the broad question of what determines sexual orientation. They insist the work is not aimed at curing homosexuality.
Approximately one ram in 10 prefers to mount other rams rather than mate with ewes, reducing its value to a farmer. Initially, the publicly funded project aimed to improve the productivity of herds. The scientists have been able to pinpoint the mechanisms influencing the desires of male-oriented rams by studying their brains. The animals skulls are cut open and electronic sensors are attached to their brains.
By varying the hormone levels, mainly by injecting hormones into the brain, they have had considerable success in altering the rams sexuality, with some previously gay animals becoming attracted to ewes.
Professor Charles Roselli, the Health and Science University biologist leading the research, defended the project. He said: In general, sexuality has been under-studied because of political concerns. People dont want science looking into what determines sexuality.
Its a touchy issue. In fact, several studies have shown that people who believe homosexuality is biologically based are less homophobic than people who think that this orientation is acquired.
The research is being peer-reviewed by a panel of scientists in America, demonstrating that it is being taken seriously by the academic community.
Potentially, the techniques could one day be adapted for human use, with doctors perhaps being able to offer parents pre-natal tests to determine the likely sexuality of offspring or a hormonal treatment to change the orientation of a child. Roselli has said he would be uncomfortable about parents choosing sexuality, but argues that it is up to policy makers to legislate on questions of ethics. I can understand the defenders of homosexuality would be homosexuals themselves, as they seek legitimacy and acceptance by decrying its innate nature, but why is the "scientific community" against the possible settling of this age-old dispute?
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...why is the "scientific community" against the possible settling of this age-old dispute?
Where do you get that idea? The only "scientist" quoted as being against the research (on the second page of the article, which you didn't post) is Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Bioethics at Glasgow Caledonian University. It's not clear he's really a scientist. He has his own precious little web site, but I couldn't find his vita.
Schuklenk entertains us by saying, It is typical of the US to ignore the global context in which this is taking place.
And thus we glimpse the heretofore-unsuspected global implications of the sex lives of Oregon sheep.
An offshoot of a winter storm system that crippled Denver and parts of the U.S. Midwest roared through southern Manitoba Saturday night and early Sunday morning, stranding motorists and clogging streets and highways with over 30 centimetres of heavy, wet snow. The storm closed the Trans-Canada Highway for several hours Sunday east of Winnipeg to the Ontario border due to poor visibility and bad road conditions.
Dozens of church services were cancelled and the Winnipeg Meals on Wheels cancelled meal deliveries for local seniors because many streets were impassable. Manitoba's Transportation Department issued an advisory Sunday that several rural highways were in poor driving condition and some Winnipeg emergency crews pleaded with motorists to stay off city streets so fire trucks and ambulances could get through, if needed. An army of snow plows headed out onto Winnipeg streets during the storm to tackle the large drifts of snow that mired vehicles and forced city transit buses to drop some routes and run at least 20 minutes behind schedule.
"All our neighbours are out with their snowblowers," laughed Christine Alongi, a spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Airports Authority who was snowed-in like many of her neighbours. "They've cleared the street and the driveways so we're able to move around. And a lot of people have four-wheel drives," she said.
With the help of specially-designed snow clearing equipment, Alongi said crews at the airport managed to keep up with the heavy snowfall, and all runways remained open. But she said extra time for de-icing aircraft resulted in a few delays for the airlines.
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Damn good thing the glowball is warmering - otherwise it might get cold in Canada and other parts North.
Oh, wait....
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It's now 41degF 5c at 6:00am here in Central Ontario ,and the Weather guy is calling for a high of 47F 8c all week.
So Mr Algore, what is your problem?
Besides, 30cm of snow is like piffle. Wait until you get 12 inches.
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Well yawl be safe, make sure you 12 or 14 stone of tire chains handy.
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I'm a lot further south than Canada, and the high today so far is 42F. At least it's bright and sunny! There's still five feet of snow on both the north and south sides of my house, and the back lawn is buried under anywhere from 2" to 3'. They're now telling us we "may" have another storm this coming weekend...
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Hope you've got some form of non-electric backup heat, A Fireplace or some such.
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Weather bands and gusty winds here in Guam - once humanity learns how to control the dynamics of Terra Firma, means we have only One Milyuhn-plus Earth-sized planets left to go/control before Earth = Radical Enviros can order the giant Sun to surrender from "positions of strength/
parity??? Iff we fail, Earth can always continue to litigate [Global/OWG ACLU?]and try the Sun in absentia.
Robert Mugabe's government has moved to close Zimbabwe's remaining independent press by stripping newspaper owner Trevor Ncube of his citizenship. The action against the publisher comes as Mr Mugabe, 82 and president for 26 years, pushes for an extension to his term of office by a further two years. Frustrated by unprecedented resistance from within his Zanu-PF party, he appears to be trying to silence all of his critics.
Yesterday an outspoken opponent, Lovemore Madhuku, accused the police of failing to investigate a fire at his home, which he said was arson. "It is very clear that the government is trying to silence all critical voices, including Trevor Ncube and his newspapers, and me. We are all opposed to Mugabe's attempts to extend his rule to 2010," said Madhuku, a law lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe.
Senior government officials said Mr Ncube, the publisher of two weeklies, the Zimbabwe Independent and the Standard, was not entitled to Zimbabwean citizenship because his father was Zambian. Zimbabwe's strict media laws require newspapers to be owned by Zimbabwean citizens. If the Mugabe government succeeds in withdrawing Mr Ncube's citizenship, it is expected to swiftly close his two papers, which are staunch critics of Mr Mugabe's policies.
Mr Ncube told the Guardian yesterday that he would go to court to retain his citizenship: "I am a Zimbabwean. I was born and bred in Zimbabwe and I have no other citizenship."
"I am confident the courts will uphold my rights," he said. He publishes Zimbabwe's last remaining privately owned newspapers. The government has closed down the Daily News and three other papers since 2003.
Mr Ncube's father was from Zambia but held Zimbabwean citizenship by the time his son was born, according to court papers. A year ago the government seized Mr Ncube's passport but the courts ordered that it be returned to him.
Despite numerous arrests and threats of violence, the Zimbabwe Independent and the Standard have continued to expose corruption and human rights abuses. Most recently Mr Ncube's newspapers were the only publications to reveal that Mr Mugabe's efforts to extend his rule until 2010 were rejected at the Zanu-PF party conference in mid-December.
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Joseph Kabila, the newly-elected president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has named Antoine Gizenga, the 81-year-old opposition veteran, as the country's new prime minister. Kabila announced the decision through a presidential decree read on state television on Saturday.
The nomination of Gizenga, leader of the Socialist-leaning Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU), has been widely expected since Kabila was sworn in on December 6 as the country's first democratically elected president in more than 40 years. Gizenga, who came third in the first round of a presidential election in July, signed an agreement with Kabila's political coalition ahead of an October runoff, promising his support in exchange for a guarantee that the post of prime minister would go to a member of his party. "PALU is extremely pleased," Godefroid Mayobo, Gizenga's spokesman, told Reuters shortly after the announcement. "We have finally come back to where we were when we were pushed aside."
Gizenga served as deputy to Patrice Lumumba, Congo's first prime minister, who was assassinated in early 1961 months after the vast, mineral-rich country spanning central Africa achieved independence from Belgium the previous year. He later headed a rebel government of Lumumba's supporters in Kisangani in the country's northeast, following a coup led by Mobutu Sese Seko. First arrested, then driven into exile for nearly three decades, Gizenga has not had a job an official government post since 1960. Until the 2006 elections, his PALU party had never held a parliamentary seat, having refused to take part in a series of undemocratic elections in Mobutu's dictatorship, during which the country's politics was largely reduced to kleptocracy.
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I'm still waiting for Moises Tshombe to make a comeback...
Not quite ready for either the accordion lady or the vulture, but things might start happening.
Despite claims by Mugabe to the contrary, the Zanu-PF conference held on 15-17 December failed to endorse the veteran leader's proposal to lengthen his rule from 2008 to 2010. The Zanu-PF chairman, John Nkomo, confirmed that the conference did not pass the measure, referring it instead to the party's central committee.
Zanu-PF insiders say the stiff resistance within the party to Mugabe's proposal is the first sign of the vulnerability of the 82-year-old leader, who has been in power for 26 years. It is the first time a party conference has failed to adopt a resolution supported by Mugabe, who will succeed in amending the constitution only if his proposal is passed by the central committee.
'The committee is notorious for using nit-picking protocols to delay resolutions if there is resistance,' said a source close to the party's leadership, who did not want to be named. 'Mugabe may get it passed, but he will have to fight for it.'
The party's rebuke to Mugabe exposes growing dissatisfaction with his continued rule. The two major factions within Zanu-PF vying to succeed Mugabe are led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and former Speaker of the House Emmerson Mnangagwa. The bitter foes have set aside their differences to oppose Mugabe.
'Neither side wants to see Mugabe extend his rule. They want elections in 2008,' said John Makumbe, political science lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe. 'They united against Mugabe at the party conference and they found that the owl has no horns. That is a Shona saying meaning that they found Mugabe to be a paper tiger. Mugabe is going to have a difficult time keeping his party in line in the coming year.'
And he's 82 years old. Just play those odds for a while ...
Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's rapidly declining economy has shrunk by nearly 50 per cent since the year 2000. Inflation is the world's highest at 1,100 per cent, unemployment is estimated at 80 per cent and life expectancy has fallen to 34 years for women, the world's lowest.
Mugabe has also alienated his strongest ally, South African President Thabo Mbeki, and leaders from other neighbouring countries who do not welcome his continued rule, according to reports in South Africa. An estimated three million Zimbabweans - a quarter of the country's population of 12 million - have fled to South Africa and Zimbabwe's collapse has slowed economic growth across southern Africa.
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Not quite ready for either the accordion lady or the vulture, but things might start happening.
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I just hope that he has an accident in the shower, slips, falls, and is stabbed 138 times with barbed and rusty knives starting with his extremities and working their way inward.
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Can he take a bath with a toaster? Or maybe ride in a car with no brakes, the gas pedal stuck full open, and the steering link disabled? Or ride in an old, Soviet-built, no-maintenance aircraft over an ocean? Or heck, just fall down a stairwell - about 300 feet. I'm ok with any of these.
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It's not the hospital workers, it's the familyies of the patients that are not using the alcohol gel. They are bringing crud in and (even worse) taking possibly resistant crud out to the general population.
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First, UK dhimmis forced Christian children to eat meat from animals that were bled to death the Muslim way.
First, Mohammedans are not the only people to kill livestock through exsanguination, jews do it, and it is quite a common practice amongst Mexicans.
Second, there is nothing wrong with the meat from an animal killed this way, hell, I kill my goats like this when I slaughter them for meat. Sure, sure, there's some general bleating and such while the cut is being made, but it's over damn quick.
Anyone that gets upset or light headed by this practice/technique, obviously hasn't spent much time close to where their food actually comes from. Get over it! There are plenty of reasons to dislike Mohammedans, their manner of killing livestock ain't one of them.
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Does this mean muslims won't hijack airliners or set off car bombs if we add ethanol to the fuel? Will muslims in the midwest refuse to drive because ethanol is routinely added to fuel, esp in the winter? Nah, didn't think so. Another case of muslim situational non-ethics. Kick them and their patient relatives to the curb and tell them to get their imams to chant koranic incantations and wave chicken bones.
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Once the nanny-staters have their way we'll all be eating nothing but tofu and sprouts.
Nah, PBMcL, it seems that they found sprouts caused cancer at one time. So, nothing but tofu for you!
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The industry points out that if breast milk were covered by the rules, it too would be classed as junk food.
There are times when I wonder whether our homegrown cultural Marxism - a bastard atheist child of Puritanism - is no better than what the Orcs are offering.
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The total number of sets of regulations to which British citizens are subject as the result of E.U. membership may be in excess of 200,000, with an average 2,500 new sets of regulations being added each year.
The mind boggles. It simply boggles.
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IIRC, about 75-80% of all laws passed in member States are in fact EU regulations (originated from the non-elected Commission) transposed into national legislation.
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What in the world is driving this, anyway? Is it an urge to some sort of vague "orderliness"? And obsession with abstract notions of "fairness"? A neurotic need for security or certainty? Laziness? Fear that if not tied down in masses of red tape, the Hun might go berzerkers again?
All of the above?
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It is a plot by the EU leaders and elite to wear down and make slaves of the member state's population. Simple, but effective if cloaked in PC speak and "earth friendly" talk.
Governement of the bureaucrats/technocracy by the bureaucrats/technocracy for the bureaucrats/technocracy.
This is part of the trend born between WWI and WWII and which has come into full existence after 1945, an (essentially socialist/social-democrat) ideology whose nature is post-democratic, the people seen as dangerous because they elect populists who go to war, and post-nationalistic (the new identity being the "European man", nationalism being seen as the root of the 1870-1945 european civil war).
Thus, importants things are left to the Enlightened Elites, outside the democratic frame, and outside the traditional western frame of Nation-State, an "obselete" institution eaten away from the top by the EE, and from below by migrants who don't identify with it.
Again, see Fonte for the brilliant definition of "Transnational progressism".
But, being technocrats, they can only produce what they know to produce, in order to justify their "sovereignty", IE administrative complexity, anal-retentive nanny-State regulations, commissions, rapports,...
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Thanks for the links, A5089; I had read Fonte's essay before, but it's well worth re-reading. I hadn't seen the article about Bukovsky. Looks interesting.
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What in the world is driving this, anyway? Is it an urge to some sort of vague "orderliness"? And obsession with abstract notions of "fairness"? A neurotic need for security or certainty? Laziness? Fear that if not tied down in masses of red tape, the Hun might go berzerkers again?
Simpler than that, job security, revenge and maybe it's just plain fun to destroy things you don't understand.
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Nuther reason why the anti-US Lefts won't $$$ support the Anarchist, Alternatist, or "Liberal/Libertarian" agendas, etc. anymore, regardless of PC rhetoric to the contrary.
Satire maybe. But then again being French, who knows?
SOME 600 people gathered in the western French city of Nantes to protest the new year's arrival today
Lashed by rain, the organisers said even the weather was against 2007, as they milled about under banners reading "No to 2007!" and "Now is better!"
"The world will come to understand that it must stop this mad course towards the future and we demand the governments of the world and the United Nations declare a moratorium to stop this December 31 the future," said one of the organisers.
The tension mounted as the minutes ticked away, but the arrival of midnight and 2007 did nothing to dampen their enthusiasm as they began to chant "No to 2008!".
Organisers vowed to resist pressure from watchmakers and calendar printers to hold the event for a third time on December 31, 2007, on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.
Blue-and-gold EU flags fluttered and fireworks thundered in Romania and Bulgaria at midnight, as the two Balkan nations became the latest countries to join the European Union. "It was hard, but we arrived at the end of the road. It is the road of our future. It is the road of our joy," Romanian President Traian Basescu said, prompting cheers from a crowd of tens of thousands of revelers packed into University Square. "We arrived in Europe. Welcome to Europe," Basescu said from a stage, where he was joined by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn and government ministers.
Foreign ministers of Germany, Denmark, Austria and Hungary, also attending, wished Romanian citizens a Happy New Year. Officials were flying later Monday to Bulgaria for celebrations there. Romania and Bulgaria bring 30 million new members to the union, and expand the number of member nations in the bloc to 27.
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"Romania and Bulgaria join the European Union"
Geez, after all those years in slavery to the Soviets, you get a few years of freedom and then what do you do?
Sell yourselves into slavery again.
GFL. You're gonna need it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Ordinary Americans paid their respects to Gerald R. Ford on Sunday, walking slowly by his flag-covered casket in the Capitol and remembering how the 38th president likely sacrificed his career by granting the pardon he thought right for the nation.
Visitors walked past the casket and military honor guard, in the center of the Rotunda that Ford so often traversed as a member of Congress. Some mourners also were greeted in the afternoon by two of the late president's sons, first Jack and then Steven. "Thank you for coming on behalf of the family," Jack told people as they filed in. "Sorry for your loss," some responded.
Jack Ford spent about an hour in the Rotunda in early afternoon, while Steven was there for roughly the hour before nightfall, sometimes sitting off to the side watching people file by and occasionally getting up to exchange pleasantries with some of them.
According to the funeral schedule, Ford was to lie in state for public viewing through Monday. On Tuesday morning, his remains will rest outside the Senate chamber on their way before the funeral service at Washington National Cathedral. President Bush and his wife, Laura, planned to view the casket upon their return to Washington on Monday after spending the holiday at their Texas ranch. Bush will deliver a eulogy at the cathedral service.
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remembering how the 38th president likely sacrificed his career by granting the pardon he thought right for the nation
No disrespect to President Ford, but the media was ready to hang him for granting that pardon, the Democrats cut him off at the knees at every opportunity, and now they're both laying out platitudes for the guy?
Jordan King Complains of Israeli Odors It's the Jooos fault!
JERUSALEM (AP) - Jordanian King Abdullah II has complained of bovine odors coming from the Israeli side of the frontier along the countries' shared southern border, Israel's environment minister said Monday.
Speaking to Israel Radio, Gideon Ezra said the smells, from a livestock quarantine facility, were blown across the frontier toward the king's palace in the town of Aqaba, on the Red Sea next to the Israeli town of Eilat. Jordanian officials contacted Israel last week and requested the odors be neutralized, Ezra said.
Jordan and Israel, enemies for decades, signed a peace agreement in 1994 and now enjoy close ties.
In response to the Jordanian complaint, Israel has ordered the owners of the facility - where imported livestock is held in quarantine before being released to farmers - to clean up large amounts of animal waste that had built up at the site, Environment Ministry spokesman Sharon Achdut said.
Ezra said that upon receiving the complaint, Israeli officials immediately spread "deodorants" around the site to offset the smell affecting Abdullah's palace, and that a thorough clean-up would begin within days. "I think that when we get a request from Jordan, just as when we make a request of Jordan, it's one country's duty to do as much as possible for the other," Ezra said.
An official from the Jordanian Royal Palace said the complaint was relayed to the Israeli Environment Ministry through Jordan's ambassador in Tel Aviv.
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Yeah, I get that (overwhelming) odor every time I drive through Clayton, NM, but I don't ask the city to clean it up on my account. Omaha, Nebraska, has some stockyards that are a bit ripe, too. It goes with having large number of cattle in one place. Some people are way too sensitive.
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We call those nutrients. They are not waste unless wasted.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Over a thousand Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha in emergency wards on Sunday after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled animals. note to self: send more Japanese Seppuku trainers
At least 1,413 people referred to as "amateur butchers" by the Turkish media were treated at hospitals across the country, most suffering cuts to their hands and legs, the Anatolia news agency reported. LOL! YCMTSU!
Four people were severely injured, crushed under the weight of large animals that fell on top of them, the agency reported. Another person was hurt when a crane used to lift an animal tumbled onto him, the agency said. poor fluffy camels
Three other people suffered heart attacks and died while trying to restrain animals, CNN-Turk television reported. duh! eid enthusiasts and pushmepullyouse-s is bad juju
Muslims sacrifice infidels, cows, sheep, goats, bulls, and 'possums during the four-day religious holiday, a ritual commemorating the biblical account of God's provision of a ram for Abraham to sacrifice as he was about to slay his son. They share the meat with friends, family and neighbors and give part of it to the poor. file under allen's snackbar
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I grew up in Louisiana during the 1950's and '60's. I can remember slaughtering cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys by the dozens. I NEVER injured myself, nor did any member of my family. "Amateur butchers" does a disservice to those like me. These people are complete, total idiots who have never had much to do with animals. Does islam destroy brain tissue or something????
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They were probably drunk from New Year's Eve celebrations.
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#6 OP - I remember as a very young child (under 6) standing right beside my grandmother, along with my brother, while she chopped the head off Sunday dinner a live chicken with an axe. Then she flung it up under a galvanized bucket until it stopped flapping so it wouldn't run around the yard and ruin her flowers.
My brother and I always fought over whose turn it was to sit in the bucket until the chicken died....
:-D
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I've wrung the head off many a chicken and then plucked all the feathers after dunking in boiling water and then having fried chicken for Sunday Dinner. Here's an EID recipe:
5lbs goat meat, washed and cut into bite-sized pieces.
4tbls canola oil
2tbls butter
3 green papayas, diced
1 pound breadfruit, diced
2 medium onions, diced
1 bouquet garni (parsley, thyme, and a bay leaf in a bag)
1 or 2 Habanero peppers
1 1/2 tbls flour
1tbls gravy browning
2 tomatos, chopped
3tbls tomato ketchup
2 chicken bouillon cubes
salt and freshley ground black pepper
Season meat with salt and pepper and set aside for 1/2 hour. In a large pot over medium heat brown meat in oil. Add water to cover and simmer gently for 2 hours.
Remove from heat and set aside. In a Saute' pan melt the butter and saute' papaya, breadfruit, and onions. Add this mixture to the goat, return to pot under medium heat and simmer. Add the bouquet garni and habaneros. In a small bowl, mix the flour with enough water to whisk into a smooth paste. Stir in the gravy browning, and add the mixture into the goat along with the tomatos, ketchup, and bouillon cubes. Simmer until meat is tender. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
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Add water to cover and simmer gently for 2 hours.
Remove from heat and set aside. In a Saute' pan melt the butter and saute' papaya, breadfruit, and onions. Add this mixture to the goat, return to pot under medium heat and simmer. Add the bouquet garni and habaneros. In a small bowl, mix the flour with enough water to whisk into a smooth paste. Stir in the gravy browning, and add the mixture into the goat along with the tomatos, ketchup, and bouillon cubes. Simmer until meat is tender. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
wot no Jack or Colonel Lee sweetning up the branch in that recipe Deacon!
Allan seems to be trying to send the Indos a message. Wonder what it is?
RADIO contact has been lost with an Indonesian passenger plane flying from Surabaya on Java island to Manado on Sulawesi.
The plane is carrying 96 passengers and six crew on board, a transport ministry official told Elshinta news radio.
Rescue boats scoured the sea on Sunday where an Indonesian ferry sank during a violent storm, picking up scores of exhausted survivors from choppy waters, but at least 400 more remained missing, officials and media reports said. Almost two days after the ship went down in the Java Sea, helicopters dropped food and water to a group of around 30 survivors drifting in a life raft after heavy waves prevented rescuers from approaching them, Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa said. "Pictures from the air showed they were all alive and waving for help," he said
Survivors told harrowing stories of the minutes before the Senopati Nusantara capsized around midnight Friday, as well as the struggle to stay alive in the hours that followed. By late Sunday, authorities had found 177 survivors, either clinging to wood, packed into life rafts or on beaches after swimming ashore, Antara quoted transport department official Soeharto as saying. Radjasa said at least 157 survivors had been found. It was not immediately possible to explain the discrepancy, though Indonesian government agencies and officials often give differing death tolls during disasters due to poor communication and coordination. Ships also recovered at least 66 bodies, said Soeharto. The ferry is believed to have had 638 people on board, Radjasa said earlier.
Weeks of seasonal rains and high winds in Indonesia have caused several deadly floods, landslides and maritime accidents. Antara reported a cargo ship carrying 11 people sunk off Bali island on Sunday and two survivors had swam to shore. The rest were missing.
Witnesses said the Senopati Nusantara ferry shook violently and veered to one side after being pounded for more than 10 hours by 16-foot waves. Witnesses reported seeing lifeboats with more survivors, and said most people had donned life jackets. Indonesia's tropical waters are warm, randing from 72-84 degrees, and people have been known to survive days at sea. "I don't want to speculate on how long people can survive floating on the sea. We only hope they can survive," said Karolus Sangaji, a search and rescue worker.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of gay sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans. 
An offshoot of a winter storm system that crippled Denver and parts of the U.S. Midwest roared through southern Manitoba Saturday night and early Sunday morning, stranding motorists and clogging streets and highways with over 30 centimetres of heavy, wet snow. The storm closed the Trans-Canada Highway for several hours Sunday east of Winnipeg to the Ontario border due to poor visibility and bad road conditions. 
Joseph Kabila, the newly-elected president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has named Antoine Gizenga, the 81-year-old opposition veteran, as the country's new prime minister. Kabila announced the decision through a presidential decree read on state television on Saturday. 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ordinary Americans paid their respects to Gerald R. Ford on Sunday, walking slowly by his flag-covered casket in the Capitol and remembering how the 38th president likely sacrificed his career by granting the pardon he thought right for the nation.
Rescue boats scoured the sea on Sunday where an Indonesian ferry sank during a violent storm, picking up scores of exhausted survivors from choppy waters, but at least 400 more remained missing, officials and media reports said. Almost two days after the ship went down in the Java Sea, helicopters dropped food and water to a group of around 30 survivors drifting in a life raft after heavy waves prevented rescuers from approaching them, Transport Minister Hatta Radjasa said. "Pictures from the air showed they were all alive and waving for help," he said 
