A man [in police custody] who called a police surgeon a f***ing Paki was advised yesterday by a judge: Next time call him a fat bastard and dont say anything about his colour.
The judge gave the unusual advice after describing the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute the man for a racially aggravated offence as a nonsense ... Judge Paul Darlow told the court that the case should never have been brought and suggested that Dr Jhetam [the police surgeon] should have let the insults roll off his back.
The judge said: I wonder what this is doing in the Crown Court. This was a single sentence to a man who should not have taken it so seriously. He is a man of some considerable standing in society and I cannot see that it caused him any distress or hurt.
It should not have caused a problem in this case.
To charge it in the first place rather than, say, let it go by with a caution strikes me as rather odd. We let people hit each other and break into peoples homes and they are not charged. There is at least one Britisher who is still in possession of sense.
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That's real good, asshole. GO ahead and phuque with the guy with a knife in his hand and you're laying on the table wearing a curtain. Might just wake up singing soprano.
I'll bet you piss off the dentist when you sit down in his chair too, don'cha?
Detectives from Scotland Yard are to return to Moscow to make further inquiries in their investigation into the death of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, Russia's chief prosecutor said yesterday. Yuri Chaika said he had received a new application on Monday from British detectives requesting permission to fly back to Moscow. Russia will dispatch its own team of investigators to London, he said.
Scotland Yard would not confirm whether detectives will return to Russia. "Our position is that we're keeping an open mind," a spokeswoman said. "Going back was always an option."
The latest request to the Russian authorities suggests that Scotland Yard's last highly publicised visit to Moscow in December may have left many questions unanswered. Detectives made little secret of their frustration during their two-week visit. Russian officials seized control of a key part of the inquiry, and told the team that Russian suspects would not be extradited back to the UK.
The detectives met two witnesses - businessmen Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB agent - who met Litvinenko on November 1, the day he was fatally poisoned with a huge dose of radioactive polonium-210. But they were not allowed to ask them direct questions.
Yesterday Mr Chaika said his investigators were keen to quiz Boris Berezovsky - the millionaire arch-critic of Russia's president, Vladimir Putin - and Akhmed Zakayev, the Chechen separatist leader, who are both London-based. He also said Russian investigators intended to question Leonid Nevzlin, former co-owner of the Russian firm Yukos, broken up by the Kremlin. Mr Nevzlin lives in Israel.
A true rogue's gallery.
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I'm not sure how the following relates to the cited article:
Russias top prosecutor has told Scotland Yard that it must let the Kremlins investigators question critics of President Putin living in Britain before British detectives can return to Moscow to finish investigating the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Yuri Chaika delivered his ultimatum as he revealed that detectives have asked to visit Moscow again to question a number of suspects about the murder of the former spy...The chief prosecutor made it clear that there was no chance that British police would be allowed to return to Moscow before his team have finished their work in Britain.
The Russians have asked to question up to 100 people. A number are reluctant and have asked British police for firm assurances about their safety...Last night Alex Goldfarb, a close friend of the tycoon, said that Mr Berezovsky believed that the Russian investigation was a farce and he was fearful that he could be poisoned while being questioned.
As he has asylum here, he does not have to meet the Russian officers.
All of this is an exercise in obstruction, Mr Goldfarb said. He will speak if the security is provided if the British guarantee there is no polonium.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro has long prided himself on Cuba's doctors and free public health care system, but that system seems to have let him down after he fell ill in July , U.S.-based doctors said on Tuesday.
Health care in the socialist paradise let El Jefe down?
I'll be the first to mix up a pitcher of mojitos when the old goat kicks, but Israel's vaunted medicos let Ariel Sharon down as well in his hour of need. It sux to get old and sick. Now stabilize already, Fidelito.
Based on a report in Tuesday's edition of Spain's El Pais newspaper, the doctors -- who have no first-hand knowledge of Castro's condition -- said Castro had received questionable or even botched care at the hands of health experts on his communist-ruled island. "It's not a good story. Too bad they didn't send him to Miami for surgery," said Dr. Charles Gerson, a clinical professor of medicine in the gastroenterology division of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.
Ouch, ouch, ouch. Even Miami's big public hospital, Jackson Memorial, would have provided far better care than anything Castro would have received in Havana.
According to two medical sources cited by El Pais, the veteran revolutionary was in "very serious" condition after three failed operations on his large intestine for diverticulitis, or pouch-like bulges in the intestine, complicated by infection.
Ahah! Sepsis! Sacrificing a goat works every time, almost...
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In Total Parenteral Nutrition, infected IV catheters, unbalanced fluid & electrolytes, unbalanced nutrition, leaving a key nutrient out, can kill in so many different ways.
'0 bejeebus saints preserveus....there be sh*tty pus and pusy sh*t divert'culating everywhere.. 0 my gawd there's sum Castro Gastro and Extra Thrombi too.....
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Mojitos, cuba libres, and daiquiris.....gonna be a hell of a party when The Bearded One dies!
I'm just wondering if some of what he's enjoying suffering isn't deliberate, though. There seem to be too many screw ups. One of the docs getting revenge for a family member, perhaps?
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Lol, and here we have more news of "cubans being worried about the well-being of el commandate", or the "secrecy about the health of the great men of the world". He's toast, he has been since the first incident, he's only taking his time to rot away from gut cancer. Goodbye, fidel, you'll leave many an hollyweird lefty orphelin when you go... thanks karl marx God the Forces of Progress everywhere have hugo to replace you.
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U.S. medical experts were also puzzled by El Pais' report that Castro had undergone a third operation to implant a Korean-made prosthesis, possibly an artificial stretch of bowel, after a second failed operation to clean and drain an infected area and perform a colostomy.
Some of the lesser known exports. I guess there is more coming from Korea than Hyundais, and Computer screens...
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BigEd: ...The flexible inner member is located within the outer member and the expandable member or members are located between the inner member and the outer support structure. The expandable members are expanded and contracted, or inflated and deflated to provide a pumping action that pumps the material through the organ. The prosthesis may also include valves or sphincters at the entrance and/or exit points of the organ where material moves into and out of the prosthesis. An implantable pump unit may be included for inflating and deflating the expandable members according to a desired sequence.....
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sounds like a sex aid for our San Francisco constituency
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You know how the left keeps touting Cuba's superiority to the U.S. because even though they have concentration camps, they have, like, a better health care system, m-a-a-a-a-a-a-n?
Heard much from those folks on this subject lately?
Right.
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sounds like a sex aid for our San Francisco constituency
heh thats it Frank, el quebracho Castro needed an ASS ectomy all along!
Low domestic birth rates and rising immigration from the former Soviet republics have produced an explosive growth in Russia's Muslim community. At the same time Russia's overall population is in crisis. Short life spans and low birth rates among ethnic Russians mean the population is declining by 700,000 people a year.
And that's accelerating as the low birth rate will be lower in the future, and the death rate will increase due to rampant alcoholism, tuberculosis and HIV.
The return of long-denied religious freedoms in Russia has seen Islam flourish. As a result, many ethnic Russians fear their country is losing its national identity.
There are around 25 million Muslims in Russia today, a rise of 40 per cent since 1989.
By 2020, with the continued growth rate, Muslims will account for one-fifth of the entire population. Their numbers continue to grow, fed by immigration from largely Muslim, former Soviet republics in the North Caucasus and Central Asia.
Islamic leaders have said that Russia is a haven for Muslim immigrants, keen to work and build on their growing community, and they discount the rise of hostile nationalist sentiment. "Some irresponsible politicians want to achieve electoral success by creating nationalist waves," said Damir Gizatullin, from the Council of Muftis. "When they say Russia is for Russians, it's a mistaken path that could lead to the break-up of the Russian Federation."
Many ethnic Russians are terrified at the prospect of becoming a minority in their own country.
But not enough to stop aborting 60% of fetuses conceived by Russian woman, and not enough to build a society in which child-bearing and children have a viable future.
"History is a fight between races and religions," Alexander Belov, from the Movement Against Illegal Immigration, said. "It's the law of nature ... people are used to being with people like themselves, speaking the language their mothers taught them."
The Orthodox Church, restored since the Soviet collapse, remains dominant in Russia. But with the rise of Islam, coupled with the negative growth in Russia's ethnic Slav population, dramatic change is under way. If the trend continues, the Muslim population could outnumber ethnic Russians within 30 years.
Russia will end up either majority Muslim or majority Chinese. The Slavic population will collapse because they don't see themselves having any sort of future.
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If the ethnic Russian population is declining by 700,000 per year, it's been in a state of collapse for some time. It is as if that culture is committing suicide. Russia will vanish.
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Muslims are overbreeding everywhere while they are ethnic cleansing their home countries. Even our media is cultivating sympathy for our mortal enemy. Last I heard, less than 28% of Americans distrust Muslims. The figure should be 90%.
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MARK STEYN and others are already convinced that despite the breakup of the former USSR, UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES NOW, NOT TOMORROW OR LATER, Russia vv its declining demography will likely in LT be unable to escape becoming a Muslim-majority nation, NO MATTER WHAT IT DOES. Russian Christians will flee to America or what remains of Christian Europe. *WOT > as much a war for the shifting of historical global dominance from the USA-Western Europe to lessor, aggressive "Young Turk" nations, USA-Euros includ "Asia MInor/ME" to Central- and ultimately East-South Asia, from the so-called FIRST WORLD to SECOND OR THIRD, FROM NORTHERN HEMISPHERE TO SOUTHERN, WEstern Democracy includ Democratic SOcilaism to Asian Communism-Socialism, etc. AND REGARDLESS OF THE MERITS.
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I heard an interview with Mark Steyn on the radio the other day about his book on demographics and the West and its values. Basically his premise is what we have been talking about on the Burg for years.
The Russians are doomed, all right. The Chinese will take over Siberia, and the Muzzies will overrun the rest. And who, pray tell, will safeguard ex-USSR nuclear weapons?
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Islamic leaders have said that Russia is a haven for Muslim immigrants, keen to work and build on their growing community, and they discount the rise of hostile nationalist sentiment. "Some irresponsible politicians want to achieve electoral success by creating nationalist waves," said Damir Gizatullin, from the Council of Muftis. "When they say Russia is for Russians, it's a mistaken path that could lead to the break-up of the Russian Federation."
Islamist everywhere tell their men to keep their women at home and produce offspring as much as possible without working!!!!
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Significant chunks of "Russia" were historically Muslim between the Mongol invasions & early modernity, from the middle Ukraine & middle Volga eastwards. The Cossackifaction of the eastern steppe is a relatively recent phenomenon, roughly contemporaneous with the settling of the North American colonies.
How much is this a Muslim wave, and how much is it the receding of an earlier European demographic wave?
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"Many ethnic Russians are terrified at the prospect of becoming a minority in their own country."
And well they should be. Anyone see "Children of Men"? Picture that, except with all the Mohammedans having babies. That's pretty much it.
When any society trashes its children, through abortion, infanticide, HIV, alcoholism, or by catering to one's own wants and needs exclusively, their indigenous population will disappear. 1+1=2.
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg (help·info) (born August 4, 1912, exact date of death is disputed) was a Swedish diplomat and a member of the influential Wallenberg family. In the later stages of World War II, he worked tirelessly and at great personal risk to save many thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust. He was later arrested by the Soviets who suspected him of being a spy; the circumstances of his death while in their custody are still a matter of great controversy. . . .
According to the Israeli organization Yad Vashem, Wallenberg is credited with personally saving the lives of many thousands of Hungarian Jews. Using nothing much more than a typewriter and a lot of nerve.
One story credits him with either threatening or persuading a German general to ignore orders from Adolf Hitler to destroy the ghettos and kill the remaining inhabitants in the last desperate days before Budapest's liberation. If true, the number of people saved by Wallenberg's actions would rise to about 100,000. When the Russians finally took over, they found 97,000 Jews living in Budapest's two ghettos. In total, roughly 204,000 of the pre-war population of about 800,000 Hungarian Jews survived.
Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet Red Army on January 17, 1945 as they entered Budapest, probably on suspicion of being a spy for the United States. To this day, the U.S. government refuses to either confirm or deny this. He was taken to the Lubyanka in Moscow with his driver Langfelder. Wallenberg was then transferred to Lefortovo prison in another part of Moscow for two more years.
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One of those rare times that Scandinavian humanitarianism actually did more good than harm.
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In the late '70's the single block of 16th Street running past the old Soviet embassy was named Raoul Wallenberg Way. I walked past on the way to work for about 6 months and used to flip them off every morning. I like to imagine the pictures are in somebody's files somewhere.
DRESDEN, Germany - EU justice chiefs took aim at violent video games on Tuesday, agreeing to share information across the bloc on which games to outlaw and how, but leaving the final decision on bans with states themselves.
The executive European Commission said it would also draw up plans in coming weeks to harmonise national penalties on retailers caught selling such products to under-age children. These terrible things contribute to violence and sooner or later that leads to police intervention, Germanys Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said of violent video games, after EU justice ministers discussed them at a meeting in Dresden.
No more Battlefield 2 for you, Anon5089!
Germany, which holds the EUs rotating presidency, will draw up a comparative list of violent games banning procedures throughout the bloc in a move that Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries said would help to share best practices.
But the EUs justice and security commissioner said it would not lead to harmonised EU-wide bans. Each member state will decide which video games are violent and so to be banned. Its not a decision to be taken in Brussels, Franco Frattini told a news conference.
Unless the member states fail to do as they're told.
Frattini said he would however make a proposal to the blocs justice ministers in the first half of this year to harmonise sanctions on retailers selling violent video games to children younger than the label allows.
As I was just saying ...
He said current controls in the blocs 27 states were insufficient and that too often retailers were not checking the age of young people buying games which should not be sold to under 16-year olds.
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Yasss, it's video games inciting the yoots to riot in Paris, rape in Oslo, and blow up trains in London and Madrid.
And goodness, violent video games might even give native yoots the idea that, like, fighting back is an option. Can't have that.
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Will they ban The Sims too? Teens like drowning their sims when they get involved in unhappy love affairs.
I think I know where this is coming from, actually. Germany bans all uses of the swastika, for reasons we can all understand. However, this has caused fianacial hardship to some [board] wargame companies. The Australian Design Group, publisher of the monster game World in Flames, tried exporting their game to Germany. They were all confiscated because one counter had a swastika on it.
Or consider how Europe is restricting chemical research by trying to force all reagents to be 'safe'.
Grow up!
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So.... are they gonna ban computers and internet for the allowance of free thought and ideas too? Can't have those serfs making tooo much trouble with their childish ideas. Like democracy.
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Do the muslim mooks even play video games?
I'd assume there was a fartwa against anything fun.
For years the ones about killing Jews and killing Israelis have been big sellers, bigjim-ky. Particularly popular are the ones aimed at elementary school children.
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Hmmm,
A bunch of stories come out on how well American soldiers are adapting to the hi-tech military and some of the "credit" is given to video games and the next thing you know the EU wants to ban violent video games-w/them defining violent.
Nah,just a coincidence.
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US Senator Barack Obama launched a presidential campaign that could make him the first black to occupy the White House, and he immediately tried to turn his political inexperience into an asset with voters seeking change.
The freshman Illinois senator - and top contender for the Democratic nomination - said Tuesday the past six years have left the country in a precarious place, and he promoted himself as the standard-bearer for a new kind of politics. "Our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, commonsense way," Obama said in a video posted on his Web site. "Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first."
Obama, whose father was Kenyan, filed paperwork forming a presidential exploratory committee that allows him to raise money and put together a campaign structure. He is expected to announce his candidacy on Feb. 10 in Springfield, Illinois, where he can tout his experience in the state legislature and tap into the legacy of hometown hero, President Abraham Lincoln.
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Met him during one of his Baghdad visits. Nice enough guy, but no sale. Might make a nice minor cabinet secretary to some older (though perhaps equally unimpressive) Dem prez. Only fear is that the WH's silence and the media's hysteria will leave a 2008 landscape where a truly disastrous choice by the electorate is plausible.
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Is it possible that America will kill a guy named Hussein one day, then vote for a guy named Hussein less then two years later?
I have to think the subconscious comes into play here.
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THE VIEW > Babs Walters? = the Amer people know its always better to be on top, not the bottom = below those making decisions, and that once in higher income/position Amers prefer to stay that way. The ladies + many in audience applauded in consensus. Iff one believes THE VIEW to be of the Left, then these comments show that the Left is well-aware that it no longer stands for social improvement/justice nor "progress", but for ELITISM = POWER. IMO the ladies all but officially admitted that Leftism = anti-Bushism is about Power, AND NOTHING ELSE. CAN "TALK THE TALK", BUT DON'T "WALK THE WALK" OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, RQUALISM, OR PROGRESS, ETC. BUT THAT THEY "GET THEIRS". Its about selfishly taking what they can get at the expense of others, any and all ways they can get it.
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There's something about that dude that unsettles me. I don't trust him, I don't think I ever will. He has a look and attitude that make me think he is bullshitting us about his real objectives. I can't help but suspect he is a ringer for the muslims or something, trying to come in under the radar.
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Bigjim-He's a ringer all right, but for the Illinois political machine (includes both Dems and Reps). I also fear that the timing may be "right" for him as it was for Carter in 1976. God save us.
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The image of Big Brother personified. An empty suit with little or no real experience being hyped as a solution to every or any problem. It's all about show and power, nothing about substance. What better definition of the Donk party?
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Wait till he has to debate Rudy or Newt. Only the complete idiots will think Obama still has a brain. But complete idiots always vote donky, so little change there.
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If Mitt Romney is having the problems that currently plague him being a Mormon, the truth about Obama's religious past and present (he was raised Muslim and atheist and he's a Clinton/Carter kumbaya false Christian) will be the kiss of death in the general election (although it may help him in the Dem primaries, dominated as they are by anti-Christian bigots).
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I don't know what to make of him yet. I saw him on camera talking about race issues some time ago; he seemed to find a moderate "sweet spot" that could prove very persuasive to the electorate and very devastating to the Pubs in 08. At times, he has a silver tongue. That said, I don't know what his core principles are.
I still think most Americans want to "check the gears" and make sure the candidate is sound. This is not meant as an accusation against him, just as a query: I wonder if he might be rattled easily. He might really shine in a debate, but what if he hit a rough spot in the spotlight? Could he weather it? I think of that off-record exchange between him and Maurren Dowd, and then I think of the types of challenges that face a president, and I begin to have doubts about his composure. He certainly has star quality and a silver tongue. I would love to see some rigorous debates.
I was trying to picture who he would run against. Pubs better pick someone with star quality, too, who can reach that same slice of the moderate electorate, or they risk losing their last bastion of power in the government.
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I would put money on this guy having a public blow up. And, I would put money on the Clintons having something to do with it. The Republicans aren't going to sink this guy, the Clintons are. Unless he's really positioning for a VP spot. A Clinton/Hussein ticket could be trouble.
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I dunno. Because they didn't want to go to prison for 20 years?
Questions still linger about what really happened two weeks ago when a National Guard observation team was forced by four armed men to retreat from its post east of Sasabe. Federal lawmakers have joined their state counterparts in demanding answers about the Jan. 3 incident. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking what the agency has learned and how it will handle future hostile confrontations.
Last week, Arizona lawmakers asked for an explanation as to why National Guard troops fled their observation post. Rep. Warde Nichols, R-Gilbert, who chairs the House Committee on Property Rights and Homeland Security, has scheduled a Jan. 29 meeting at which the committee will question Maj. Gen. David Rataczak, the state Guard commander. "I've heard two or three different stories of what happened at the border," Nichols said . "We want to get to the bottom of what happened and not stay in the realm of 'he said, she said.' "
Among the questions that loom is whether the Guard troops had ammunition in their rifles, who the armed men were and what the Guard is allowed to do when confronted, he said. Border Patrol officials have scoffed at reports that the troops didn't have ammunition in their rifles. The only National Guard troops without loaded weapons are those working in administrative positions and helping with construction of fences and vehicle barriers, and repairing roads, said Gustavo Soto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. "They've had rifles and ammunition since day one," Soto said.
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The Border Patrol continues to investigate the confrontation and has asked Mexican authorities to do the same, Martinez said.
The Mexican authorities that arent involved in Narcotics smuggling, human trafficking, or gang warfare should be a big help in getting to the bottom of all this. Of course, locating those individuals may take some time.
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I've seen proposed elsewhere that this is a good example of why States need to create true militias independent of the National Guard. Members of such a militia could not, in peacetime, be NG members or Reservists, so they could not be put on active duty or otherwise seized by the federal government or on order of the President.
This would guarantee individual States a reaction force against natural disasters, the ability to (armed) patrol that State's international border, and through deputization to the State Police, the ability of the militia to both arrest, and to use firearms to prevent criminal activities with the same protections as those given to the State Police.
A militia of that sort would be paramilitary, but not equipped or trained by US military rules, making it even more difficult for them to be co-opted by the feds.
Their Commander in Chief would be the governor, and their funding would come exclusively from the State legislature.
Before, when State budgets were small, this was not cost effective. However today, most States could easily afford such a security force.
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Because they didn't want to go to prison for 20 years?
EGGzactly! If GW ever wants to regain my confidence on his handling of the immigration/border security issue, he'll pardon the two border guards immediately. If not, we can expect more of this from the guards on the border.
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No pardon is necessary iff their standing orders included option of retreat, usually becuz ROE's > another Agency [non-USDOD-Guard]calls the ball.
* "Sad state of our justice system" - Amer legal system > Case-by-Case basis = the Innocent have thier day in court, NOT POLITIX-PCorrectness. WOT/9-11 > even "PC" has reached a "critical mass/event horizon" as much as Amer's enemies tolerance of Americana's continuing success and upwardly expansion. E.G. THE VIEW > the ladies there have all but officially announced or verified that contemporary Leftism = Left-based ideos stands for nuthin' except SELFISH POWER, BENEFITS FOR A FEW = NEPOTISM/SPEC INTERESTS, + SUBSTITUTION OF RULING ELITES, and BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. The Rights and Interests of "the People/Masses" exists now only as a feel-good elex-time "Talking Point(s)", "...full of sound and fury signifying nothing" to those whom argue for same.
A small, non-toxic molecule may soon be available as an inexpensive treatment for many forms of cancer, including lung, breast and brain tumours, say University of Alberta researchers. But there's a catch: the drug isn't patented, and pharmaceutical companies may not be interested in funding further research if the treatment won't make them a profit.
In findings that "astounded" the researchers, the molecule known as DCA was shown to shrink lung, breast and brain tumours in both animal and human tissue experiments. "You typically get this eureka type of feeling. It's the most exciting thing a scientist can get," Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, a professor at the University of Alberta department of medicine and a key study author, told CTV News.
The study was published Tuesday in the journal Cancer Cell.
If you have access to Science Direct you can read the full text here.
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..Something doesn't sound right here, and it's probably just because I don't understand how things work - but let me ask anyways. If this is so simple and so inexpensive (as compared to other cancer treatments) why doesn't somebody say, "Okay, scr*w the drug companies - here's our prospectus, we need investors!" ...?
Mike
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When dissolved in your gas tank (full tank only, please) it gives an incredible 80 mpg!. When applied to your cell phone it eliminates dropped calls! When....
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Because it's not patented. No company wants to spend the (as high as) hundreds of millions of dollars to get gov approval and then see some other outfit who didn't underwrite the trials come in and undersell them.
Though nothing prevents doctors from prescribing it for cancer, I am not so sure they want to take on the liability of prescribing an unapproved medication if something goes wrong with a patient.
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The Nutraceutical companies will run with this. Look for bottles of the stuff in your GNC store and on the vitamin shelves of your grocery store. If it affects mitochondria positively, expect the bodybuilders to pick up on it, followed by the sports guys -- football, basketball, baseball -- first the professionals then eventually the high school junior varsity. Shoot, I was taking creatin (which also boosts mitochondrial activity) for a while to enable me to exercise, back in the early days of my damned chronic fatigue.
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TW do your genes have a similarity or resemblance as to be essentially equal or interchangeable with Mrs. Davis?
I think we humans share some 99% of our DNA in common, and I do share that much with the formidable Mrs. Davis. More than that, alas, no. Mr. Davis (and later Mrs. Davis, after a lamentable incident now receding into the mists of Rantburg history... but which apparently involved two of our more persistant trolls and a miscegenation which pains me to think about) is/are amongst the earliest Rantburg posters. I came along somewhat later, and dare make no claim in this company to being formidable. ;-)
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Intresting comments on the role of patents in the development of penicillin and the oral polio vaccine. If this is real, it will get to market, and quickly.
Airbus is launching the A330 Freighter version to compete with Boeing.
"C'mon, Fidel! You can do this! Live, dammit, live!"
::mumble::
"What?"
::mumble:
"Oopsie, wrong story. My bad."
The Linked article has all the info as well as a cool graphic comparing the A330 to the 767 and 777 freighters. There is a potential spill over here with the Airbus / Northrop-Grumman team for the next USAF Tanker; the A330 is the baseline aircraft for this team.
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Actually, I quite like flying the Jetblue Airbus aircraft. They are clean, comfortable, and I enjoy the individual DirecTV in my seat. I don't wish AB ill, I just wish they were less Gallic. Mon dieu.
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I suspect that the orders for the A330 are begining to slow to a trickle. Launching the freighter will keep the prouction line flowing until the USAF chooses a tanker.
The question is why buy the A330F when A300-600/A310-300 conversions are available for a fraction of the price?
Forty of the nation's Baptist groups have united to counter what they're calling the "negative" image of the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention.
Led by former President Jimmy Carter and backed by Bill Clinton both of whom left the Southern Baptist churches they were raised in the "New Baptist Covenant" will hold its first convocation in Atlanta next January and plans to address issues of poverty, AIDS and other social ills.
Absent from the group are leaders of the nation's largest Baptist denomination, the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention.
Southern Baptist pastors and leaders yesterday disputed the notion that Southern Baptists have an image problem, criticized the effort as politically motivated and pointed to Carter and Clinton's stance on issues such as abortion as evidence of how out of touch the group is with views of mainstream Baptists.
"I think Carter and Clinton want to keep Baptist as an identity, but they want to do so by gutting what most Southern Baptists believe in, such as authority of Scripture and the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord," said Kevin Shrum, pastor of Inglewood Baptist Church in Nashville.
"My question is: Are they going to produce literature, start a seminary, do world or local missions or, from what it appears to me, is this just a front for political activity for churches and individuals who agree with their positions?"
But Nashville-based Baptist Center for Ethics executive director Robert Parham, an organizer of the effort, said the goal of the group was to showcase the often-eclipsed views of "Golden Rule Baptists," Baptists who are neither conservative nor liberal but espouse the biblical teaching of "treating others as we would like to be treated."
"Baptists are more than Southern Baptists, who are more Southern than Baptist, more exclusive than inclusive, more negative than positive, yet Southern Baptists too often define what it means to be Baptist" said Parham, a longtime critic of the Southern Baptist Convention.
"Regrettably, the word Baptist has become synonymous with an anti-everything posture. Anti-women, anti-public education, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-Disney. The perception that the Southern Baptist Convention represents all Baptists is one reason we met in Atlanta to plan a celebratory gathering that will reshape public opinion about Baptists."
Organizers include leaders of the nation's major Baptist organizations and denominations, including the predominantly black National Baptist Convention, USA; the National Missionary Baptist Convention; the North American Baptist Fellowship; and groups in Canada, Bolivia, Brazil and elsewhere.
Collectively, the groups say, they represent some 20 million Baptists. The majority belong to the Baptist World Alliance, a group that Southern Baptists voted to leave in 2004, citing differences over the international group's tolerance for homosexuality and support for women in the clergy, among other reasons.
In his announcement last week, Carter said the new group plans to devote efforts to promoting a unified voice on "traditional Baptist values, including sharing of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and its implications for public and private morality."
Baptist pastors like the Rev. Billie Friel say that's fine with him, but he won't be attending.
"I wish them well," said Friel, pastor of the 2,000-member First Baptist Church in Mt. Juliet. "But I think we as Southern Baptists do aid the hungry and the poor. We have special offerings throughout the year and we have never forsaken the opportunity to minister."
As for negative images of the Southern Baptist Convention, said Friel, "if someone does have a negative picture, I think it's because of lack of information, because the good that is being done by Southern Baptists far outweighs the negative."
Ircel Harrison, the Murfreesboro-based state coordinator of a Southern Baptist breakaway group the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship said he believed an emphasis on social issues by the new group was an important reminder for all Baptists.
"Carter has made a real effort to find ways for Baptists to recover their identity as a people who are concerned about folks in all socioeconomic situations," Harrison said. "By and large, Baptist have become pretty affluent across the board. Sometimes we forget where we came from."
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship expected a number of its locally affiliated churches were interested in attending the Atlanta conference, he said.
Organizers of the new group said Southern Baptists would be welcome to join, and pointed out that while national Southern Baptist leaders were not part of the effort, many individuals and state representatives are.
But Richard Land, a prominent voice of Southern Baptists as the head of the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, said that the majority of Southern Baptists will find this group too liberal, noting that most Southern Baptists did not vote for Clinton or Carter. "I suspect that Mr. Carter and Mr. Clinton are upset about that," Land said.
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The kumbaya "Christianity" of Carter, Clinton, and Obama is faux-Christianity.
It is "liberation theology", more honestly known as Marxism hiding behind a Bible. It is nothing less than a particularly evil and insidious form of Gramscianism.
Real Christianity isn't doctrinaire jerks like Phelps, but neither is it calculating relativist politicos like these.
Carrot AND stick, not carrot OR stick.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures closed with a more than 3% loss Tuesday after Saudi Arabia's oil minister said major oil producers need not cut production further, disappointing hopes that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries would intervene to prop up prices.
Crude for February delivery closed down $1.78, or 3.4%, at $51.21 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract struck a 20-month intraday low of $50.55.
A big chunk of OPEC oil costs less than $10 a barrel to pump and deliver. Another big chunk runs under $20 a barrel. Can't really expect $60 prices to continue.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi told reporters at an oil conference in India that the market is "significantly healthier" now than it was in October, when OPEC agreed to cut output by 1.2 million barrels a day, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
OPEC decided on a second output cut at a meeting in December but deferred that cut --another 500,000 barrels a day -- until February. Data suggest, however, that individual OPEC members have been lax in implementing the agreed-on cuts, further weighing on oil prices.
"Certainly the prospect of colder weather and short-covering prompted some buying last Friday," John Kilduff, an analyst at Fimat USA, said in a note to clients. And "al-Naimi's comments that OPEC's current measures are 'working well' and that there is 'no need to panic' are just as certainly working on sellers ... as well."
But "OPEC will probably still come forth with some action or at least some lip service to stem the slide in prices," he said. Meanwhile, the presidents of Venezuela and Iran both called for a coordinated effort by OPEC to reduce the amount of oil on the market.
Oh that will work well.
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I don't believe that the can cut production. I think they have come to rely so heavily on their oil money that they have forsaken every other industry in their countries. Except missiles and terror of course.
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Right, big-jim. A lot of oil producers are cash flow guys. They need the flow of money to keep themselves propped up, whatever the price of oil. They have little cash reserves.
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Except that oil has a very high price elasticity. Cut total production and the price of the remaining oil is greater than the total before.
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"Iran desperately needs oil revenue. Chavez and Ahmadinejad are touring the world announcing anti-American initiatives and kicking out foreign investors because in the past these were good ways to rile up the oil markets.
The world is awash in oil right now. Saudi Arabia intends to collapse the price and cause a great deal of damage to their enemies in Iran, and they won't have to fire a shot. As a bonus, Chavez in Venezuela will also be gravely damaged. I believe this is all political strategy, and I believe the Bush Administration is coordinating it with the Saudis to eliminate two threats at once."
Lou Minatti
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This fall in oil prices may be related to events about to befall Iranian oil production in the very near future...
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures closed with a more than 3% loss Tuesday after Saudi Arabia's oil minister said major oil producers need not cut production further, disappointing hopes that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries would intervene to prop up prices.
