Drug hitmen walked into a Guatemalan jail at visiting time on Sunday and murdered four policeman being held on charges of killing three Salvadoran politicians last week.
"Cleanup, cell block 5!"
"It is confirmed that the four bodies are them. It's a drug trafficking thing," police spokeswoman Maria Fernandez said.
Uh huh
The policemen, including the head of an anti-organized crime squad, were arrested on Thursday for the murders of three deputies from the Guatemala-based Central American parliament and their driver. The victims were found dead in a burned-out car near Guatemala City on Tuesday. Guatemalan officials said their murders were drug related.
Mr Fernandez said inmates at the Boqueron prison, 37 miles (60 km) from Guatemala City had taken police and other officials hostage.
While the hitmen stroll out of the jail and drive off
Relatives of other prisoners in the jail said on local radio that the prison guards let the attackers enter the jail at visiting time and that shots were heard soon after.
I'd be nervous if I was one of the guards right now.
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James Cameron finds grave of Jesus & Son
Titanic director rescripts Christianity
By Joe Fay
Published Monday 26th February 2007 10:55 GMT
Hollywood giant James Cameron has set himself his biggest challenge yet rewriting the bible after discovering that Jesus sired a son before being buried outside Jerusalem.
Cameron claims to have found the, now empty, tomb of one Jesua, son of Joseph. The sepulchre also apparently contained the bodies of Mary. As well as another Mary, Matthew and Jofa, and most spectacularly, Jonah, son of Jesua
Cameron will claim in a documentary on the Discovery Channel next month that Jesua is also known as Jesus yes that one and that this particular first century household is better know to Christians as The Holy Family.
This will be spectacular news as readers of the New Testament have tended to think that after rising from the dead, Jesus ascended to heaven where he is seated at the right hand of the father. The father in question being not Joseph, but God himself.
Equally shocking, at least to anyone who doesnt buy their reading matter in airports, will be the news that Jesus fathered a son, when he was supposed to have spent his short life performing miracles, redeeming sinful mankind and generally fulfilling his divine mission.
But dont worry, Cameron has the whole story well tied down.
Apparently the tomb was found 20 years ago, and it has taken this long to decipher the names and to confirm the identities using DNA analysis.
This timelag is just a blink of the eye in biblical terms, and is totally understandable given that Jesus was the son of God, and pinning down supreme beings to get a cheek swab is never easy.
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What good would DNA evidence be when you've got nothing to compare it to?
Did they get DNA off the shroud of Turin or perhaps a chunk of the cross? Doubtful with the number of people that have handled such artifacts over the centuries and the number of fakers and such. This is just silly stuff.
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If they do have some DNA perhaps they could combine it with a frog's to get the missing links and then on a hidden island off the coast of Costa Rica they could bring him back.
The second coming of Christ, thanks to DNA and Genintec.
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Sh*t like this done by Hollywood makes me wonder if we really wouldn't be better off without Hollywood. I know people say having our movies all over the world makes US a cultural superpower but does it really or does it just make the whole world think we are hores, Gays, muderers, criminals of one stripe or another and in general degenerates?
I personally would have no problem relocating all of Hollywood to Paris it was once the "cutural fasion" of the world let em have it again.
The focus of the legal fallout from the death of Anna Nicole Smith has shifted from Florida to the Bahamas, where the former model's ex-boyfriend, mother and partner planned to battle for custody of her daughter before the nation's Supreme Court.
Legal experts predict Larry Birkhead, the ex-boyfriend who claims to have fathered Smith's daughter, will face a difficult challenge persuading a Bahamian judge to award him custody because Howard K. Stern, the former model's partner, is listed on the birth certificate as the father. A hearing was scheduled for Monday.
"There is a very strong legal presumption that what is stated in that document is accurate," said Thomas A. E. Evans, a prominent Bahamas attorney.
Birkhead, a Los Angeles-based photographer, also must contend with a competing claim from Virgie Arthur, Smith's mother, who has claimed she could provide a more stable home for Dannielynn than Stern and should therefore be awarded custody of the girl who could inherit a fortune.
"We're ready to fight," a lawyer for the ex-boyfriend, Debra Opri, told reporters outside Nassau international airport shortly after arriving Sunday with her client.
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That Bahamas lawyer is a bonehead. In the real world, there WAS a strong legal presumption in the validity of Birth Certificates until DNA testing forced a custody law revolution. Parties want custody so that they can have a hand in succession benefits should the estate of AN Smith win the Marhall probate battle, which could be worth $500 million. Lawyers are fronting service in exchange for contingency booty. The child will graduate before the litigator war ends.
(FT) -- The dead-pan world of the Washington policy wonk looks set for a dash of Hollywood glamour with the nomination of actress Angelina Jolie to join one of the formerly most venerable think-tanks in the US.
The Council on Foreign Relations, whose members include former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, decided on Friday to accept the 32-year-old to be considered for a special five-year term designed to nurture the next generation of foreign policy makers.
Membership would allow Ms Jolie access to 40 academic fellows such as Joschka Fischer, the former German foreign minister, and Max Boot, a neoconservative military historian and to meet current world leaders. But would the academic "fellows" have access to her, is the question
The Council, which has offices in New York as well as Washington, does not require members to hold any particular academic qualifications. Ms Jolies formal education ended at a high school in Beverly Hills. Applicants must be nominated by one existing member and seconded with at least three supporting letters from others.
It is not clear who nominated Ms Jolie, but fellow Hollywood actors Michael Douglas and Richard Dreyfuss are life members of the Council, founded in 1921 as a non-partisan membership organisation to promote understanding of foreign policy and Americas role in the world.
Ms Jolie is no stranger to international affairs herself, having travelled to 20 countries as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2001.
She has also appeared twice at the World Economic Forums meetings in Davos, highlighting the role the private sector can play in empowering refugees, says the UNHCR.
Her arrival on the Washington beltway scene would mark another step by the actress into the off-screen political world that seems to be attracting more of her attention and that of many of her Hollywood colleagues.
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LUCIANNE > Angelina Jolie - A Beautiful Body amongst Geeks. Daddy's little Commie = Chicom supermodel > D *** ng it, make that ARMED/GUNS-TO-THE MAX BEAUTIFUL SUPERMODEL. Sign, iff only Sword-happy VIOLET BLUE had her sister's fashion sense.
(SomaliNet) A new anti-polio campaign began on Sunday in the Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia as medical staffs are visiting all the villages and districts of the region. The campaign is to eradicate the polio, one of the six fatal diseases that kill children. It will cover whole the region of lower Shabelle. In settlements of Afgoi, Wanlaweyn, Merca, Qoryoley, Sablale and Kutuwarey medical teams were seen giving preventive medicine to to children under the age of 5. People trained for the campaign were also involved in the prevention operations.
The anti polio campaign incorporated by UN World Health Organization (WHO) and United Childrens Fund (UNICEF) was designed to eliminate polio in southern Somalia. In Somalia thousands of children were paralyzed by the polio disease as the doctors advise parents to give their children the anti polio drugs.
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Clearly a violation of true Islam - when the Islamic Courts return to power this campaign will covert to an anti-polio-vaccine effort, like in the Talibanistan.
It will be kind of harsh on the kids, but crippled jihadis ought to be easier to spot and fight.
DAKAR - Senegals veteran President Abdoulaye Wade on Monday claimed he had won a second mandate in Sundays hotly-contested presidential vote in one of Africas most stable democracies. We have largely won in the first round. They are the first strong and unchanging trends, Cheikh Diallo, head of public relations for Wade told AFP Monday.
Macky Sall, Wades campaign manager and also the countrys Prime Minister said the octogenarian had garnered 57 percent of the votes according to partial and unofficial results. Wade largely surpassed the 50 percent mark needed to be elected in the first round, said Sall.
Macky Sall, Wades campaign manager and also the countrys Prime Minister said the octogenarian had garnered 57 percent of the votes according to partial and unofficial results. Wade largely surpassed the 50 percent mark needed to be elected in the first round, said Sall. No official results were published four hours after polling stations closed. Private radios streaming unofficial results as they were counted at polling stations, said with 35 percent of ballots counted, Wade had obtained 53 percent of the ballots.
The proclaimed victory based on unofficial partial results stoked tension in opposition ranks where many of his challengers, including a former prime minister he sacked two years ago, Idriss Seck, 47, have said only electoral fraud would make it possible for him to win in the first round. Even before the official closing time of polls, Wade supporters had driven around the streets of the capital blowing car and motorcycle horns in celebration.
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The 72-hour deadline for the 50 graft suspects to submit wealth statements ended yesterday with two former ministers including Mirza Abbas, an ex-lawmaker, a former bureaucrat and a ward commissioner being arrested on the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) premises. The intelligence men in plainclothes held former housing and public works minister and BNP leader Abbas, former civil aviation and tourism minister and senior Awami League (AL) leader Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, ex-BNP lawmaker Hafiz Ibrahim, ex-power secretary ANH Akhtar Hossain and DCC Commissioner MA Qayyum as the compound was swarming with journalists and onlookers.
Former BNP lawmaker from Narayanganj-4 Mohammad Giasuddin surrendered before the local Cognisance Court at around 10:00am. He was later sent to jail. The same day in Sylhet, city BNP President Ariful Haque Chowdhury whose name figures in the ACC list of 50 people suspected of corruption gave himself up to a court.
Meanwhile, Law Adviser Mainul Hosein yesterday said trial of the detained political bigwigs and others accused of graft will begin by March. Those who still remain untouched will be rounded up soon after the government finishes gathering information about their corruption, he added.
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Sounds...kinky.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his real mistress, Chinese media reported on Monday. Okay. Cut. Send in the stunt mistress...
"When the woman found out her husband had a mistress, she insisted on beating her up," the Beijing Youth Daily said, citing the advertisement posted on a popular online jobs forum on sina.com. Oh, boy! Cat fight! Cat fight!!
More than 10 people had applied for the job, the newspaper said. The "successful" candidate would be 35 and originally from northeastern China and would be paid 3,000 yuan ($400) per 10 minutes, it said. Hmmmm, that's pretty good money. I mean how hard could an middle aged Chinese lady hit?
Many Chinese businessmen keep mistresses in second homes, a trend banished after the Communists swept to power in 1949 but which has made a comeback with market reforms in recent decades. Did they put that in as part of the reform package?
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Never understood why the wives of cheating slimeballs always want to beat up the mistress. Seems it would be hugely unsatisfying to treat only the symptoms, rather than the disease.
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Lucky to have any - FREEREPUBLIC/LUCIANNE > INDIA has commonality wid CHINA > India is running out of women for men to marry. Besides earlier Net news about 40-47% of Indian women being POOR, ILLITERATE, AND LACKING KNOWLEDGE = GENDER/SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE-EDUCATION OF DISEASES SUCH AS AIDS, THERES ALSO NOT ENUFF OF THEM TO RENEW SOCIETY VV MARRIAGE + BIRTH. CHINA > Gender/Marriage Gap btwn Men + Women may become as high as 500Milyuuuhn, OR HIGHER. CHINA-INDIA > claims seems to be exclusive of regional lack of water, lack of food, lack of land, etc.
Finnish police used tear gas to evict two North Korean diplomatic couriers from a train after they refused to show their tickets or identify themselves. Police briefly held the two after they failed to cooperate with a ticket inspector on the Moscow-Helsinki train this month, said the Foreign Ministry's deputy chief of protocol, Tiina Myllyntausta, on Monday. "They locked themselves in the compartment and refused to come out. They were diplomatic couriers, but according to the police they didn't identify themselves at all," she said.
Then they weren't diplomatic couriers. They were "unidentified persons."
They refused to show any tickets, passports or other documents, she said. Police informed the ministry they used tear gas to evict the men. The two were detained for a couple of hours at a police station in Kouvola, 130 km (80 miles) northeast of Helsinki, and released once they were identified as diplomatic couriers. They continued their journey to Helsinki on the next train and took a passenger ferry from Helsinki to Stockholm, where North Korea has an embassy. Finland has launched an investigation into the incident at North Korea's request. Finnish border guards, customs police and the railway company will provide information.
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Ironic this is tried in a UN court when the UN was an accessory to the horrific crime.
The wiki entry sums it up well. I believe I saw a frontline special with video of the Dutch troops submitting after they had consulted with top UN officials about the situation.
The UN lured the poor bastards into a trap for the serbs. "UN safe zone" for genocidal murderers.
The United Nations had previously declared Srebrenica a UN protected "safe area", but they did not prevent the massacre, even though 400 armed Dutch peacekeepers were present at the time.[7] The massacre included several instances where preteen children and women were also killed.[8] The list of people missing or killed in Srebrenica compiled by the Federal Commission of Missing Persons so far includes 8,373 names.[9]
Airbus (EAD.PA) is considering extending its workweek to 40 hours from 35 hours without compensation as part of the European planemaker's restructuring plans, German magazine Focus reported. The reported proposal is likely to ring alarm bells in France, where a 35-hour work week was introduced by a Socialist government in 2000 and remains a potentially divisive issue ahead of April-June presidential and legislative elections. "Management apparently is talking to unions about longer hours: 40 instead of 35 per week are envisaged," Focus reported in its Monday edition.
French business leaders have strongly criticized the country's 35-hour work week, saying it has curbed growth and failed to stimulate employment as its authors had hoped. Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal has promised to review the 35-hour work week with the aim of "reducing negative consequences for workers and employees." Conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy says the 35-hour week should be retained but viewed as a minimum, not a maximum, with people free to work more or longer if they want.
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UPS is relooking the deal. This will cause strikes and be the deathbed for EADS. They will, of course, blame it on the unions.
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NS: I was just going on what my local paper's headline said on Saturday. Of course, it was actually a wire report by AP, so I guess I should've read the thing or at least had Morton's nearby.
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dittos #4, UPS has all the leverage it needs in that contract, a free hand to nix any deal for the nonexistent A380 freight hauler.
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And like posted yesterday, Airbus can (and will, IMHO) cnx the UPS A380F when it becomes obvious that the thing will fail. the PAX version is about 6 months behind in the failure stream, I think.
With the recent surge in 747-8 orders plus the UPS 'bridge' order of several ( 16?) 767-300F I think it is pretty safe to say that the A380 is DOA.
(Xinhua) -- Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and head of Our Ukraine, Viktor Baloga, signed an agreement on Saturday to form an opposition alliance in parliament.
The agreement is a strategic document which outlines principles for the two parties when they are in opposition or when they become parliamentary majority in the future, said Tymoshenko, quoted by Ukrainian National Information Agency. The agreement also laid out rules for joint action by the two parties in parliament. Under the agreement, a 12-member coordination committee will be formed as the leadership of the opposition bloc, said Tymoshenko.
Five main parties, including President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine, Tymoshenko's bloc, the Socialist Party, the Party of Regions and its ally the Communist Party, were elected into parliament in March 2006. The Party of Regions, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party formed a parliamentary majority in July last year, when Tymoshenko announced her party would form the opposition. Our Ukraine joined the opposition in November 2006.
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Italy's Romano Prodi is scrambling for support ahead of a vote of confidence this week which he must win to stay on as prime minister. Prodi resigned last week after suffering an embarrassing defeat over foreign policy in the upper house. Italy's president gave him a second chance on Saturday by asking Prodi to remain as premier and put his majority to the test in parliament.
Prodi needs to prove he has enough support in both chambers of parliament to keep his government afloat. While his fractious Catholics-to-communists coalition has a comfortable majority in the lower house, in the 315-seat Senate his bloc is effectively level with the opposition, forcing him to court outside senators for support.
Prodi appears to have won the backing of one extra senator, a Christian Democrat who served in Silvio Berlusconi's previous centre-right government as deputy prime minister. Barring defections, that would raise Prodi's support to 157 elected senators, against 156 for the opposition, with one independent still up for grabs. The Senate speaker, who hails from the centre left, traditionally does not take part in votes.
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I always thought "Italian Government" was an Oxymoron?
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(WAPO) -- NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- The Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent civil rights activist, is descended from a slave owned by relatives of the late senator and one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond, a genealogical study released Sunday reported.
"It was probably the most shocking thing of my life," Sharpton said of learning the findings, which were requested and published Sunday by the New York Daily News. He called a news conference to respond publicly to the report. "I couldn't describe to you the emotions I have had . . . everything from anger to outrage to reflection to some pride and glory."
Sharpton, 52, said he had suspected that his forebears may have been slaves but had never attempted to confirm that or find out any details.
"I had never really traced my family history, particularly on my father's side, since my parents separated when I was going on 10 years old," he said.
The newfound knowledge that his great-grandfather was a slave, Sharpton added, gave him a new perspective on his life.
"You think about the distance that you've come, you think about how brutal it was, you think about how life must have been like for him. And then you start wondering whether or not he would be proud or disappointed in what we have done," Sharpton said, with his eldest daughter, Dominique, 20, at his side.
The revelation was particularly stunning for the juxtaposition of the two men's public lives.
Sharpton, known for his fiery rhetoric and a tendency to intervene as an advocate in racially charged incidents, ran for president in 2004 on a ticket promoting racial justice. Thurmond made his own bid for the presidency in 1948, promising to preserve racial segregation, and in 1957 he filibustered for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill.
After his death in 2003, though, it became clear that Thurmond had a complicated history with issues of race. A 78-year-old retired schoolteacher, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, revealed that she was the offspring of his extramarital relationship with his family's black housekeeper.
"In the story of the Thurmonds and the Sharptons is the story of the shame and the glory of America," Sharpton said Sunday.
The genealogy study was produced by researchers for the Web site Ancestry.com. Daily News reporter Austin Fenner initially asked them to research his own roots. He then approached Sharpton and asked if he would permit an investigation of his family history as well, for use in a story. Sharpton agreed. Neither the Daily News nor Sharpton paid for the research.
The research was led by chief Ancestry.com genealogist Megan Smolenyak, who was also the lead researcher for the 1997 PBS series "Ancestors" and has written several books on the subject. She was assisted by researchers including Tony Burroughs, who has been honored by the National Genealogical Society. They used documents including census, marriage, death and military records over a three-week period to examine Sharpton's family roots.
They found that Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Strom Thurmond's distant cousin.
Coleman Sharpton was given as a gift to Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the late senator's great-great-grandfather, said Mike Ward, a spokesman for Ancestry.com. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.
Al Sharpton met Strom Thurmond once with his friend James Brown, the late singer, who knew Thurmond and wanted to pay him a visit while in Washington.
"I was not happy to visit him because of what he had been all his life," Sharpton said.
Sharpton said his family origins in Edgefield County, S.C., brought him nearer to his closest mentors, Brown and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who had lived nearby. Sharpton said he mused with Brown's family about whether their families might have a shared past.
"I told his daughters last night about this, and we all wondered whether some of James Brown's family might have been slaves with my great-grandfather," Sharpton said.
While some of Thurmond's relatives contacted by the Daily News expressed skepticism about the report, Doris Strom Costner, a cousin of the late senator, said Sharpton should be proud to know his family's connection to hers. "He's in a mighty good family," she said by telephone from Edgefield, S.C.
Asked how she feels to learn of evidence that her family owned slaves, she said: "I can't help it. I'm 74 years old, and I certainly can't help it. I don't feel one way or the other." Most white South Carolinians at the time owned slaves, she said.
Sharpton said he hoped the news of his roots would help heal the lingering wounds of slavery.
"If we open the scars just to leave them open, we've done a misdeed to both sides," Sharpton said. "We should open them and deal with them toward healing them so we can come together on some genuine level."
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Al Gore's Personal Energy Use Is His Own "Inconvenient Truth"
Gore's home uses more than 20 times the national average
Last night, Al Gore's global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore's mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average....
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore's extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore's mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
----------- Its possible the Gore Mansion is actually an office with many people working there full time but this would mitigate the problem rather than eliminating it.
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His house is something like 20 times the size of the average American dwelling as well... or am I thinking of the former honourable Senator Edwards?
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The current issue of Wired has an interesting article on someone who set up a backyard hydrogen fuel cell system that used solar power to generate hydrogen, then stored it in a home propane tank for when it was needed for conversion back to electricity.
With big improvements in solar cells, we are soon to reach the magical point where in much of the US, a home could generate its own power with off the shelf equipment, only needed grid energy for peak consumption.
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He buys environment credits to offset his usages. Did'nt you hear???
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He buys environment credits to offset his usages. Did'nt you hear???
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I thought of another possible excuse. Gore may claim that most of the electricity goes to operate security related equipment that the secret service requires him to have.
KUCINICH/SHARPTON 2008
Washington -- Dennis Kucinich registers at a meager 2 percent in early Democratic presidential polls, but the anti-war congressman from Cleveland hopes to change that in a hurry. His secret weapon? Screaming, raving lunatics!
While Howard Dean had "Dean- iacs" who fueled the surprise surge of his 2004 presidential campaign, Kucinich claims a cadre of 100,000 volunteers around the country who are eager to open their wallets and spread his message. Call them Kucinistas, if you will. How about Kookistas?
Lots of them are anti-war activists. There's a large contingent of former Ralph Nader-ites. Many say they don't particularly care if Kucinich wins: They're out to make a point. He's a loser, we're losers... it's a good fit.
"It's kind of quixotic, but I'm happy to be on board," says Richmond, Va., actor Scott Wichmann, who believes Kucinich's early, steadfast opposition to the Iraq war will win him votes. "If people say he's tilting at windmills, that's fine: I'll ride Sancho Panza next to him." The actor Scott Wichmann?
Kucinich's campaign has its highest number of supporters in California, the fund-raising hub of his 2004 effort, says Evan Moody, a former intern in Kucinich's congressional office who is orchestrating his nationwide volunteer effort. More than an eighth of the $8.2 million that Kucinich raised from individuals in 2004 came from California, according to PoliticalMoneyLine. 8.2 million! How much insanity is out there?
Since Kucinich announced his 2008 run in December, 20,000 people have signed up as volunteers on the Internet or at events Kucinich attended, Moody says. The 80,000 other names on his list carried over from Kucinich's prior congressional and presidential runs. Moody says he already had weeded out names from the earlier lists that were not deemed "potentially useful." E. Normous Johnson, Craven Moorehead, Breakinta Holmes, Heywood Jablome...
"An increase in the number of peace activists around the country has really helped the campaign," adds Marcos Rubinstein, who handles field operations for Kucinich in Dubuque, Iowa. "Now, people are coming out of the woodwork and saying, 'I support your guy.' " I also beleve in the tooth fairy. And I'd like to be a fire engine...
Kucinich placed behind John Kerry and John Edwards in Ohio's 2004 presidential primary, and a January poll of Ohio voters conducted by Quinnipiac University showed Kucinich with just 2 percent support in the state, well behind Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Edwards, Kerry and Al Gore. Yeah, but it was closer then it looked...
Burke said even Kucinich doubts he can become president. Burke hypothesized that the congressman is running to keep his name before the public in case he decides to run for another office, like U.S. Senate, and to have his views represented in the debates. Yes, I'm sure he'll do really well once he has to run out of his moonbat district.
But Kucinich volunteer Mike Hersh of Wheaton, Md., says Kucinich could vault into the top tier of Democratic candidates if he registers among the top three or four candidates in an early primary. He says that could happen if voters learn of Kucinich's steadfast opposition to the Iraq war and his stances on issues that affect the middle class, such as health care and trade. "He has the advantage of being able to say: 'I didn't change my position. I voted right the first time,' " says Hersh, a full-time activist and Web designer. Between the lines reading: Unemployed...
Kucinich spent the past week traveling the country to promote his presidential bid and spread his message on such matters as the need for universal health care and a Cabinet-level Department of Peace. He made recruiting trips to many college campuses. Hey, kids. Pretend it's 1968 and I'm Joe McCarthy. No, wait...Eugene McCarthy. That's it ! Him!
Jason Gagnon, an engineering graduate student from Dover, N.H., was impressed enough after watching Kucinich speak at the University of New Hampshire on Monday that he signed up as a volunteer. He also saw Obama, the senator from Illinois, speak at his school recently. He described Obama's audience as the " 'I'm liberal because I hate Bush' crowd" - while Kucinich's audience was "people who are going to be liberal no matter what." I am a whackjob, I always was a whackjob, I always will be a whackjob...
"Dennis' message is based on hope, not fear," said Gagnon. "When he is talking about what he believes in, it comes straight from the heart, which isn't common these days in politicians." He's the guy to vote for if you thought Jimmy Carter was too much of a warmonger...
Gagnon noted that in the 2006 elections, many longshot Democrats around the country, including New Hampshire's Carol Shea Porter and Paul Hodes, ousted established Republican members of Congress. "If New Hampshire can turn around congressional seats in such a surprising manner, I don't see why we can't cast Dennis into the national spotlight," Gagnon said. ...and I don't see why monkeys holding winning Powerball tickets won't fly outta my ass. Soon.
Roger Hankey, a home inspector who lives in Eden Prairie, Minn., says he backs Kucinich primarily because of his opposition to the war. Hankey is particularly impressed with Kucinich's plan to start a Department of Peace. "I am really tired of people scoffing," Hankey said of the bill Kucinich has introduced in every congressional session since 2001. Well, ya might wanna get used to it...
"He is espousing the views of Dr. Martin Luther King and wanting to implement those ideas on an international level, and I don't hear very many folks scoffing about the effectiveness of Dr. King." What about Ghandi? You forgot Ghandi.
"It's not just a matter of ending the war in Iraq, which he's been so good on and so ahead of the curve," added Alice Slater of New York City, who heads a group that promotes nuclear disarmament and says she donated the first Social Security check she ever received to Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign. Good investment. Looks like you're obviously in desperate need of Social Security...
"It's understanding that we can't be an empire anymore. It is not helping us. It's not making us secure." I think she should build a Big Giant Puppet of Dennis. Sounds like she's got plenty of time on her hands...
Slater, who watched Kucinich sing the labor standard "Sixteen Tons" at a January Rainbow/PUSH meeting, says she's not put off by the fact that Kucinich "doesn't make a good physical impression." Last week, Kucinich twirled with his arms aloft at a Nevada candidates forum, declaring himself to be the candidate with no corporate strings attached. Slater said: "My kids said to me, 'Alice, how can you vote for someone that looks like an elf?'And I'm thinking, you know, this is the year of the Hobbit. What's the difference what they look like? . . . Dennis is head and shoulders above people. He really gets what we have to do to move out of this terrible environment that we're in." Eat a lotta mushrooms a few years back, Alice? Ed Garza, an anti-war Vietnam veteran, is so impressed with Kucinich's stance against the war that he arranged to present him with an "Oscar for Peace" figurine Saturday in California. The mock Oscar is dressed in camouflage and is missing a leg. Wow. That's class...
Garza plans to present other peace Oscars today before Hollywood's glitterati assemble for the Academy Awards ceremony. Maybe Al Gore's still in town...
He says he's not worried about the congressman's electability and sees Kucinich as someone who is for the people, not the corporations. "All we can do is grass roots and try to get the word out and convince people to vote for him," says Garza, a volunteer for Kucinich in Orange County, "and that if you vote for him, he's electable." Like,...yeah, man. Did you say sumthin about grass, man?
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With people like these it's all about "Making a Point". They never stop to consider that the Point they are making is they live in a fantasy land.
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Kucinich's campaign has its highest number of supporters in California
Gawd what a revolting development. I shoud get extra combat pay for being point man this many years. Drive in San Francisco almost everyday with my American flag, and Wounded Warrior Patch on my PU truck rear window.
Translation (for sentient beings): "Ed Garza, who got an admin discharge from bootcamp in 1972 because he kept wettting his bunk at night, and now teaches Marxist Dialectics at a Cleveland-area community college..."
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 4, 2007
Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
[snip bill: hit the link to see it. AoS.]
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Amazing that we have to introduce a bill to have this right. The 2nd Amendment tells me everything I need to know....
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As George Will once wrote, "call for the police, an ambulance, and a pizza. See who gets there first." Hint: it won't be the police. Anyone who DOESN'T have firearms to protect their person, family and property is a damned fool.
Most here on RB know this but if there are any still unconvinced out there, ask any rank and file policeman whether he thinks you should have a firearm to protect yourself. Anyone thinking the answer will be "No" is in for an interesting experience.
If he gives you an honest answer, which most will, he'll tell you that anyone depending on the police to protect them is placing their faith in an extraordinarily weak reed. The police generally come after the fact, take records, and try to catch the perpetrator; it's a lucky accident if they happen to protect you from a crime while it's happening.
As Kipling noted, The Gods of the Copybook Headings are alive and well out there and teaching the same old lesson: prepare to take care of you and yours yourself because no one else rates that obligation nearly as highly as you do. As ever with their teachings, people fail to heed them at their serious peril.
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Left > Gubmint-Society has to absolutely and unilaterally prevent any and all causes of crime + circumstance while simul relying on Gubmint, and only Gubmint, to resolve and clean-up the messes, and doing so wid $$$ Gubmint can't = won't = will not have due to no more Private Sector(s) to produce the direct = indirect revenues that Gubmint needs.
Hat tip: InstaPundit. Edited for brevity. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 6, 2007
Mr. STEARNS (for himself and Mr. BOUCHER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State.
Full text at link, and more background on bill here.
This fine piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Clifford Stearns (R-FL) and co-sponsored by Rep. Frederick Boucher (D-VA) basically states:
If you have a CC permit issued from your home state, you can carry legally in any other state that issues CC permits, i.e. full reciprocity among states that issue CCLs.
Note however: A state that does not issue CC permits to its own residents will certainly not honor your state's permit.
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Let's hope this bill makes it through the Congressional swamps to become law. It's badly needed and long overdue.
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It's that time of year again...
An annual weekend kite-flying celebration of spring in eastern Pakistan resulted in the deaths of least 11 people and injuries to more than 500 others. When kites are outlawed, only outlaws will have kites.
The fatalities were caused by people being struck by stray bullets, from being sliced by razor-sharp kite wire and kite cords hitting electrical lines. Six of the dead were children.
The Hindu event known as Basant involves flying elaborate kites but has evolved to include firing guns into the air, Pakistan's Geo television network reported Monday. ...and what's a kite flying festival without gun sex?
The fatalities were caused by people being struck by stray bullets, from being sliced by razor-sharp kite wire and kite cords hitting electrical lines, officials said. Six of the dead were children, the report said. I've always said that no kite is complete unless it has razor sharp wire...
Other injuries were reported from falls by people trying to recover kites tangled in trees and on rooftops, Kuwait's Kuna news agency reported. I'll get it. It's just hung up on that power line...
The country's supreme court banned the Basant festival because of fatalities in previous years but the provincial Punjab government lifted the ban for the weekend, Kuna said. Police said they made more than 800 arrests on firearms and hooliganism during the weekend. Kite: check
Razor sharp wire : check
AK-47: check
Okay. Let's go to Basant...
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Reading the headline I thought -- "Kites... why do they hate Pakis?" But reading the article I can fully appreciate the kites point of view -- hell I even admire their kill ratio.
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Used kites for sale -- only been dropped once.
ok - so I stole it from some movie I can't remember the name though.
Lab mice with the mental retardation of Down syndrome got smarter after being fed a drug that strengthened brain circuits involved in learning and memory, researchers reported Sunday.
After receiving once-daily doses of pentylenetetrazole, or PTZ, for 17 days, the mice could recognize objects and navigate mazes as well as normal mice did, researchers said. The improvements lasted up to two months after the drug was discontinued, according to the report in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Scientists said the study opened a promising avenue for research in a field that had seen little success.
"These mice are essentially restored to normal, which I haven't seen before," said David Patterson, a Down syndrome researcher at the University of Denver, who was not involved in the study. "And the treatment seems to be long-lasting, which is a pretty surprising observation all by itself."
Senior study author Craig C. Garner, a Stanford School of Medicine professor, said his lab was preparing to conduct human trials of the drug, although he said it would take time to complete more preliminary studies and procure a supply of purified PTZ.
People with Down syndrome should not be given the drug until it has been studied further, he cautioned, because PTZ can induce seizures at high doses and might have other serious side effects.
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. The syndrome occurs in one of 660 births and usually causes cognitive deficits, cardiac problems and physical abnormalities, such as low muscle tone, short stature and an upward slant to the eyes. More than 300,000 Americans have Down syndrome, making it the leading cause of mental retardation. There is no approved drug to improve cognition in people with Down syndrome.
PTZ blocks a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid, researchers said. GABA, as it is called, passes messages between neurons along specific brain pathways. Normal brains have a balance of neurotransmitters that excite neurons and make learning possible, and of GABA, which slows neurons down so they do not become overly stimulated. It is believed that people with Down syndrome have too much GABA, inhibiting brain circuits involved in learning and memory.
The drug was used until 1982 to enhance cognition in the elderly and mentally impaired people, but was removed from the market by the Food and Drug Administration because studies showed no clear benefits. Garner said he believed the drug failed in part because the dosing schedule then was different from the one his team used in mice.
The mice were genetically altered to possess cognitive impairments similar to those of Down syndrome patients.
Tests compared the mental abilities of mice fed PTZ against healthy mice and untreated altered mice.
Researchers said the drug took effect after several days. Once established, the improvements were long-lasting, although after three months the circuits in the brain showed a decline in activity, Garner said.
Scientists also fed PTZ to normal mice, but the drug had no effect on the animals' mental skills.
Stanford graduate student Fabian Fernandez, who designed the experiment, said the 17-day dose in mice was equivalent to a two- to three-year daily regimen in people. If the drug worked in humans as it did in mice and there was no assurance it would PTZ could produce cognitive improvements lasting up to 10 years, he said.
Professor Lynn Nadel, a Down syndrome researcher at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the research, said: "These results are very encouraging that it will ultimately be possible to do something to improve outcomes in Down syndrome."
Fernandez said the effect of PTZ on the mice prompted his Stanford colleagues to tease him that he was recreating the popular 1966 book "Flowers for Algernon," in which a fictional mouse masters mazes after an experimental surgery, then reverts when the effect wears off. Fernandez said researchers almost referred to the book in their study, but decided against it because their mice fared better than Algernon.
The book was adapted into the 1968 movie "Charly," for which Cliff Robertson won a best actor Oscar.
The research was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and several foundations, including the Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation, which was started in Silicon Valley by parents of children with Down syndrome.
Patricia A. O'Brien White, a co-founder of the foundation, said medical advances since the 1980s had more than doubled the life span of people with Down syndrome, to 56, increasing the likelihood that they would outlive the parents who cared for them. A small gain in cognition would allow a significant number of people with Down syndrome to hold jobs and live independently, she said.
"Typically the message that parents receive when the child is born is that nothing can be done," White said. "I think this study offers a different perspective."
Putting him right up there with Mikey Moore.
LOS ANGELES - "An Inconvenient Truth," the documentary that turned former vice president Al Gore's power-point presentation on global warming into an engaging and entertaining film, won the Oscar Sunday night.
The best-documentary win was a triumph for Gore, who has kept a sense of humor about his loss in the 2000 election that was decided in George W. Bush's favor by a U.S. Supreme Court decision. "I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America," Gore says in the film, repeating a line he has used often.
Sunday, Gore used the Oscar win not to further his political career but to boost his campaign to find solutions for global warming and other environmental problems. "My fellow Americans," Gore said to laughter from the crowd. "People all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis. It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started with the possible will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it."
Earlier in the evening, Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio took the stage to unveil a series of efforts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took to make this year's awards more environmentally friendly.
Pressed by DiCaprio about any other major announcement he might like to make, the former vice president pulled out a statement. "My fellow Americans, I'm going to take this opportunity right here and now, to formally announce my intentions to ..." Gore said before the orchestra broke in and he walked off, arm-in-arm and laughing, with DiCaprio.
Backstage, Gore put speculation to rest, saying "I do not have plans to become a candidate for office again." Instead, Gore said he was dedicating all his efforts to pressuring governments to act on climate-crisis issues. "It is the overriding world challenge of our time," Gore said. "I really hope the decision by the academy to honor the work by director Davis Guggenheim and these producers will convince people who did not go see it before to see the movie and learn about the climate crisis and become a part of the solution."
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My prediction: "An Inconvenient Truth" will wind up on Wal Mart's bargain bin for $4.86 in less than a year.
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Stupis is as stupis does. We can expect him to take up the mantle where Jimmy Carter left off.
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I didn't watch the crap last night. Watched that "Dogfights" marathon on the History Channel.
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Is anyone surprised? I would have been surprised if he didn't win it.
I didn't watch it either. Something about professional liars patting each other on the back and telling themselves how relevant and great and oh-so-much-better they are then everyone else....
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Hollywood has long neglected to distinguish reality from fiction. But this strikes me as especially surreal, as if to willfully declare that fantasy is as valid as reality, and that there is no reason whatsoever to differentiate between the two.
Michael Moore has nothing to his credit beyond being a big fat loudmouthed slob, and you know they laugh at him as much as with him. Gore, however, was an inch away from the most powerful office in the world. Something about giving a real politician an award for an ideologically sound fantasy seriously creeps me out.
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I did not watch either and specifically because I could not stand to watch this nothing get a hand-job from monied half-wits. I put this supposed documentary on par with Nazi hygiene propaganda.
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"Hollywood has long neglected to distinguish reality from fiction. But this strikes me as especially surreal, as if to willfully declare that fantasy is as valid as reality, and that there is no reason whatsoever to differentiate between the two."
I look at it this way: Hollywood, along with the TV entertainment industry, serves the liberal establishment by training people to ignore any distinction between fantasy and reality, and to live 24/7/365 in a permanent, uncritical state of suspension of disbelief in which we will also passively absorb their political messages and internalize their norms. They're training us to be gullible.
How many hours, over the course of a lifetime, did the average person of a century ago spend in that state of suspension of disbelief, such as when attending a play at a theater? A hundred hours? 200? I doubt any more than that. Reality was all around them, only briefly escapable.
What about a person born today, or anytime in the last half-century? How many hours will they spend glued to the Idiot Box over their lifetime? 50,000 hours? 100,000? A quarter-million?
Maybe that's why so many among us are "stuck on stupid"...
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Somebody please tell me why Roving Mars wasn't nominated. It had my two favorite heroines of 2006 nominated too!
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I tried to bet my house on Al winning, but the bookies just laughed and laughed and laughed...
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I recall a comment here about a week ago "I just scraped four inches of Global Warming Off My Car This Morning,"
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the 2000 election that was decided in George W. Bush's favor by a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
How much longer do we have to listen to this 2000 election was stolen by (liberal) judges tripe? Recount after recount after recount in Florida proved that Bush won FL, when all the votes were counted. Jeebus, I think the last tally was 13 different recounts came to the same conclusion.
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This is why I don't watch thesa award shows anymore. They is no longer award artistic merit. They are simply another oportunity to make a political statement.
(See Dixie Chicks and the Grammys)
Al
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I recall a comment here about a week ago "I just scraped four inches of Global Warming Off My Car This Morning,"
Redneck Jim, that was my comment. And the very next day a 4 ft x 4 ft slab of Global Warming flew off the top of a panel truck and put a ginormous dent in the hood of my car on the Beltway. I was lucky it didn't try for my windshield and/or my noggin. I s'pose I've angered Gaia.
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The irony here is Hollywood is still in love with Al Gore and it was Al Gore not the Clintons they supported. They still side with AL but Hillary is out in the cold over Obama. I am really loving this. I think I'll buy a Prius, oh wait nevermind.
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"Putting him right up there with Mikey Moore"
Yea he's a loser.
But let's not confuse him with that other Mikki Moore, competent Nets big-man.
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Ditto, BA. I was a bit taken aback to see the re-emergence of this little gem of media distortion: SCOTUS decided the election, not votes. And did you notice the other howler? The Goracle has shown a "sense of humor" about 2000? WTF? Aside from some self-deprecating cracks on a few TV shows, what is that about? When one takes into the balance the unhinged, shameful vituperative rants in public appearances, directed against US policy and Bush, etc., how can he be described as having shown a sense of humor?
Hell, the only movies I saw all year were Clint's two Iwo Jima pieces, and I was (a) unsurprised but totally disappointed with "Flags" (b) very frustrated, perhaps even angry, with "Letters" for its obvious historical distortion within a vehicle that was supposedly breaking new ground WRT historical insight.
But now I'm pissed because I missed the "Dogfights" marathon - I am so oblivious to everything/anything on the idiot box that I didn't even know about it.
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Verlaine--If you have "On Demand", most of the "Dogfights" episodes are on there--and they're free!
I'm not surprised by Gore's sci-fi film winning. We all saw posting after posting on Rantburg about how the Dixie Chicks were canceling concerts and getting no air play, yet they cleaned up at the Grammys. Hollywood--just like D.C.--is its own universe.
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The Academy Awards is the most self-serving crock of shit I've ever seen. Who cares. Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is also self-serving. It has little to do with science. So now he is a scientist, climatologist, internet expert, ya da ya da ya da. Al Gore is part of the hot air problem. I assume the participants "car pooled?" Ellen Degeneras fawned over the "diversity" of the crowd. They are about as diverse and my underwear drawer--all the same. There is no diversity of thought in the crowd. I didn't see any conservatives getting awards (and I won't). No one got up and said we did a good thing by liberating Iraq and Afghanistan from tyrants. No one supported the military. The awards are just a bunch of democrap--wet dream of the liberal left for the most part.
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The only impressive thing that I saw was Helen Mirren's acceptance speech in which she gave high praise to Queen Elizabeth. It was quite patriotic. Of course if a US actor said something like that about our government or our country they would never work in Hollywood again.
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You guys who didn't watch are lucky. My wife got hold of the remote and wouldn't let go. OK, I'm henpecked. Gore was really, really bad. But even worse was the song played by Melissa Etheridge to introduce the whole "inconvenient truth" bit. While you were watching dogfights I was watching a dog named Melissa. On the screen behind her they kept flashing "green" messages about how you can do away with your car and hug trees instead of burning oil. Hey, I already ride a train. I'd like to see her do that schtick in China where they haven't yet learned about smokestack scrubbers but, of course, it's all George Bush's fault.
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Well, some of Al's fans are very, very happy...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore doesn't know if his climate change documentary will win an Oscar on Sunday night -- but he has Cuba's vote.
Sunday's Union of Young Communist's newspaper reported acting Cuban President Raul Castro "recognized the effort of the former vice president to denounce" global warming during a two-hour meeting with youth leaders on Friday.
Cuba's official and only television media showed Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" on prime time this month and an update by Gore, giving the one-time presidential contender more positive publicity than any other U.S. leader in decades.
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Non-believers/Neutrals must be legally, criminally, and publicly punished for tiny Earth's devastating failure to force the giant Sun = Universe into surrrender. FREEREPUBLIC/LUCIANNE/WORLDNEWS > SEND IN THE MARINES. WORLD OCEANS ARE PRODUCING TOO MUCH WATER VAPOR, THE NUMERO UNO GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS. TO SAVE HUMANITY, WE MUST D *** NG IT DESTROY OCEAN'S + FORESTS' ABILITY TO PRODUCE VITAL MAN-BREATHING OXYGEN, ERGO THE SUN MUST SURRENDER.
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My dream is Algore strapped to a hospital bed, loaded with giggle juice, and forced to explain On Camera, Recorders running, just exactly how does Global warming also exist ON MARS? (NASA reported It, I find NASA much more believable than any politician out to make himself famous)
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No, no, no - you gotta keep up. It's no longer 'Global Warming'. It's 'Global Climate Change'.
If it's -3 degrees and snowing - 'Global Climate Change'.
If it's sunny and 97 degrees - 'Global Climate Change'.
If it's sunny and just right - 'Global Climate Change' (Global Warming AND Global Cooling at the same time!)
DETROIT (AP) - Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan stressed religious unity Sunday during his final major speech, saying the world is at war because Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths are divided. The 73-year-old Farrakhan told the thousands at Detroit's Ford Field that Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad would embrace each other with love if they were on the stage behind him. Somehow I don't see it
"Our lips are full of praise, but our hearts are far removed from the prophets we all claim," he said. "That's why the world is in the shape that it's in."
The fiery orator spoke for the first time since ceding leadership of the movement last year because of illness. The speech at the home of the National Football League's Detroit Lions capped the Nation's three-day convention in the city where it was founded in 1930.
"My time is up," Farrakhan said in describing his exit from the leadership stage. "The Final Call can't last forever." Good riddance
The controversial figure said that he is leaving at a time of great conflict in the world and that he believes God is angry with leaders who are putting politics and greed above serving their fellow man.
The downtown venue was not filled to capacity, but seats on the field and in the lower levels were packed. There were empty seats in the upper levels of the stadium.
The Nation of Islam, which promotes black empowerment and nationalism, was rebuilt by Farrakhan in the late 1970s after W.D. Mohammed, the son of longtime leader Elijah Mohammed, moved his followers toward mainstream Islam. Farrakhan, who embraced W.D. Mohammed on stage in 2000 after years of discord, has credited his steps toward reconciliation to what he called a "near death" experience related to prostate cancer, which he began battling in 1991.
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The 73-year-old Farrakhan told the thousands at Detroit's Ford Field that Jesus Christ and the Prophet Muhammad would embrace each other with love if they were on the stage behind him.
Well, he's 1/3 right. Jesus would've embraced big Mo in love, but the reciprocal is NOT true. Finally, I'd note that as big as Louie's ego is, I sincerely doubt that neither Jesus nor big Mo would stand behind him on that stage.
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Only if Mohammed had a Dagger ready to Backstab Jesus Would he "Embrace" him.
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Jeebus, only apnews could spin Louie's speech like that. I heard just a clip of audio from it this morning on AM radio, and it was BDS full-tilt, with a side of "da man" comin' to git him. Ya know, everyone's out to assassinate him, that's why Louie will die of cancer, lol.
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Good riddance, you sleazy white-hating bastard. Do us all a favor and die soon. It's a pity that tramp you had for a mother didn't succeed in either of her coathanger attempts to abort you. She must have suspected what type of foul animal she was about to let loose on the world and even her jaded conscience couldn't handle that without some effort to stop it. If the DNA that eventually became you had been flushed down the toilet before birth the world would have been much better off.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Drug hitmen walked into a Guatemalan jail at visiting time on Sunday and murdered four policeman being held on charges of killing three Salvadoran politicians last week. 
The focus of the legal fallout from the death of Anna Nicole Smith has shifted from Florida to the Bahamas, where the former model's ex-boyfriend, mother and partner planned to battle for custody of her daughter before the nation's Supreme Court.
(FT) -- The dead-pan world of the Washington policy wonk looks set for a dash of Hollywood glamour with the nomination of actress Angelina Jolie to join one of the 
DAKAR - Senegals veteran 
Finnish police used tear gas to evict two North Korean diplomatic couriers from a train after they refused to show their tickets or identify themselves. Police briefly held the two after they failed to cooperate with a ticket inspector on the Moscow-Helsinki train this month, said the Foreign Ministry's deputy chief of protocol, Tiina Myllyntausta, on Monday. "They locked themselves in the compartment and refused to come out. They were diplomatic couriers, but according to the police they didn't identify themselves at all," she said.
Airbus (EAD.PA) is considering extending its workweek to 40 hours from 35 hours without compensation as part of the European planemaker's restructuring plans, German magazine Focus reported. The reported proposal is likely to ring alarm bells in France, where a 35-hour work week was introduced by a Socialist government in 2000 and remains a potentially divisive issue ahead of April-June presidential and legislative elections. "Management apparently is talking to unions about longer hours: 40 instead of 35 per week are envisaged," Focus reported in its Monday edition.
(Xinhua) -- Ukrainian opposition leader 
Italy's Romano Prodi is scrambling for support ahead of a vote of confidence this week which he must win to stay on as prime minister. Prodi resigned last week after suffering an embarrassing defeat over foreign policy in the upper house. Italy's president gave him a second chance on Saturday by asking Prodi to remain as premier and put his majority to the test in parliament.
(WAPO) -- NEW YORK, Feb. 25 -- The Rev. Al Sharpton, the prominent civil rights activist, is descended from a slave owned by relatives of the late senator and one-time segregationist Strom Thurmond, a genealogical study released Sunday reported.
