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Enjoy! In not too long, looking at the way things are going, either there won't be Stonehenge, or it would be utilized for quite another type of spectacle.
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I was born in Salisbury on June 21st, 1949. During one part of my misspent youth, I briefly had a girlfriend who was into New Age stuff. She thought I must have some kind of humongous paranormal powers since I had been born within sight of Stonehenge on Midsummers Day. I mistakenly blurted out that I did not even believe in such powers and she lost interest in me and took up with some hippie with a fake afro. Too bad, because she had some very interesting attributes and powers herself, all of them completely natural.
A friend of mine, also a hard-core type, had an even flakier New Age girlfriend. She could reportedly "explore the full range of the natural sensory experience" which I think might better be described in terms of the chrome on a bumper hitch.
She once told my friend that she was leaving the following month and would be gone for a couple of weeks. The purpose was an organized trip by her spiritual group to Peru to meet some UFOs that were going to land at a harmonic convergence or node or something there. That was the word of their prophet anyway. My friend said ok, whatever. A few days later, she happened to be asking us about our general worldviews.
I mumbled some platitudes but my friend, less diplomatic than I, declared that the world was a dangerous place and you should watch your backside. His flaky girlfriend was horrified. Didn't he know that we create our own surroundings and that evil and pain are figments of our imaginations? She concluded by huffily declaring that he was out of touch with reality.
He said, "You're going to Peru to meet some space aliens and I'm out of touch with reality?" That romance didn't last much longer.
I eventually did figure out how to meet girls who weren't crazy and did, in fact, settle down.
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Wow AC, I thought I had whacked out old girlfriends. Like the one that kept cockroaches as pets. Really - had them in little tupperware containers everywhere in the apartment.
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AC, you just reminded me of the “Harmonic Convergence”. I tried telling everyone that harmonic and convergence didn't go well together, but no one believed me.
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GORT - I get cockroaches in my Tupperware containers too, if I don't snap the lids right, but they aren't pets.
Sierra Leone's special war tribunal, which is backed by the United Nations, has found three former junta leaders guilty on 11 counts of war crimes during civil war. The verdicts on Wednesday were the first delivered by the Sierra Leone court in prosecutions arising from a 1991-2002 civil war.
The tribunal was set up following the end of fighting in 2002 to prosecute the worst offenders in the conflict, which spilled into neighbouring Liberia. The court has indicted 12 people, including Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, who is charged with backing Sierra Leonean armed groups. The three defendants convicted on Wednesday in Freetown - Alex Tamba Brima, Brima Bazzy Kamara and Santigie Borbor Kanu - were indicted in 2003 as the alleged leaders of the military group, called the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which toppled Sierra Leone's government in a 1997 coup and then teamed up with armed groups to control the country, according to the indictment.
Peter Andersen, spokesman for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, said: "They were found guilty but not on all counts." He said no judgement was entered on two counts of sexual violence while the three were found not guilty on one count of physical violence. But the court found them guilty on 11 other counts that covered terrorising the civilian population, unlawful killings, rape, the use of child soldiers, abductions and forced labour, and looting. The men, all of whom pleaded not guilty, were due to be sentenced on July 16.
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The leaders of Bangladeshs main political parties are likely to lose their positions as a result of an anti-graft crackdown by the countrys emergency government, a minister said Wednesday. We are filing corruption cases as part of overall reforms. We are not doing it to settle scores, interim law minister Moinul Hosein told the private ATN television channel. The legal process we have initiated will not even allow many to stay as leaders because of their involvement in corruption, Hosein added. The ministers comments came amid flurry of reports that reformists in Bangladeshs two main parties have planned sweeping changes that may force out two former prime ministers as rival party heads.
Khaleda Zia, a two-time prime minister and the leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), reportedly faces a rebellion and would be asked to quit as party chief by a reformist group led by her partys secretary general. Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who was premier between 1996 and 2001 and the leader of Awami League, also faces similar rebellion, according to reports in newspapers.
The two have dominated the political landscape since 1991 after military dictator Hussain Mohammad Ershad was forced out. Sheikh Hasina has been charged with corruption in at least half a dozen cases by the military-backed government. Her bitter rival, Zia, is also under investigation for corruption. Zias elder son and heir apparent, Tareque Rahman, has also been arrested and charged with extortion.
Supporters barred from visiting Hasina: The government has barred party colleagues from visiting former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, a spokesman for the politician said on Wednesday. Police have not allowed anyone except Hasinas close relatives to enter her Dhaka residence since Tuesday evening. We are not allowed to go in, as if Sheikh Hasina is under house arrest, press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told Reuters.
A senior police officer said security around the residence of Hasina, top leader of the Awami League, and that of Begum Khaleda Zia, her bitter rival and head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), had been tightened following what he said had been visible commotions in their parties over proposed reforms. Groups of leaders and activists have been meeting separately over proposals for internal party reform in both parties.
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So Fabulous Moolah and Ed Asner's Evil Twin Sister are out? I say get 'em in a steel cage for a bike chain fight and we'll see who's queen of Bangladesh.
...but the 2014 Games have not been awarded to any city yet!
I know that you like sports, Putin said, bolstered by his success. Yu devote great attention to sports. You have probably heard that our city of Sochi is competing to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, and, if we win the right to host the games, I want to invite you and your family in advance to Sochi for the opening ceremony. I hope to see you there as honored guests. That is, of course, if we win the right
It's a good thing Putin was able to get that last phrase out. It made the offer somewhat less peculiar. I think the king was shocked any way. Probably no one had ever invited him to Garmisch-Partenkirchen when everyone knew that there only be snow in Sapporo that year.
Well, that's a long way off, the king mumbled. It is hard to get the Olympics. Sweden has tried for a long time to receive the right to host the Olympic Games, but so far without luck
Maybe the first step will be the holding of the Olympics in Russia, your neighbor, Putin smiled.
That is, the Olympics are getting closer to us, the king said, after a moment's reflection.
He finally caught on to the president's tone. With less than a month before the International Olympics Committee votes in Guatemala, it is obviously important to him to tell those around him as often as possible that the 2014 Olympics will be in Sochi. Maybe he thinks that the committee members will get used to the thought, thanks to the lightning speed of Russian information agencies, by the end of the month.
Absolutely right! the president intones, as though he were celebrating his victory over the king and Sochi's victory over Salzburg at the same time.
But first China, Carl XVI Gustaf said in conclusion.
Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima site of one of World War II's most horrific battles at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say has been hijacked by high-profile movies like Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima."
The new name, Iwo To, was adopted Monday by the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute in consultation with Japan's coast guard. Surviving islanders evacuated during the war praised the move, but others said it cheapens the memory of a brutal campaign that today is inextricably linked to the words Iwo Jima.
Retired Marine Maj. Gen. Fred Haynes, who was a 24-year-old captain in the regiment that raised the flag on Mount Suribachi, was surprised and upset by the news. "Frankly, I don't like it. That name is so much a part of our tradition, our legacy," said Haynes. Haynes, 87, heads the Combat Veterans of Iwo Jima, a group of about 600 veterans that travels to the island every year for a reunion. He is working on a book about the battle called "We Walk by Faith: The Story of Combat Team 28 and the Battle of Iwo Jima." He doesn't plan to change the name. "It was Iwo Jima to us when we took it," said Haynes. "We'll recognize whatever the Japanese want to call it but we'll stick to Iwo Jima."
Before the war, the isolated spit of land was called Iwo To pronounced "ee-woh-toh" by the 1,000 or so people who lived there. In Japanese, that name looks and means the same as Iwo Jima Sulfur Island but it has a different sound. The civilians were evacuated in 1944 as U.S. forces advanced across the Pacific. Some Japanese navy officers who moved in to fortify the island mistakenly called it Iwo Jima, and the name stuck. After the war, civilians weren't allowed to return and the island was put to exclusive military use by both the U.S. and Japan, cementing its identity.
Locals were never happy the name Iwo Jima took root. But the last straw came this year with the release of Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of Our Fathers," war films that only reinforced the misnomer. In March, Ogasawara, the municipality that administers Iwo To and neighboring islands, responded by adopting a resolution making Iwo To the official name. Ogasawara residents and descendants of Iwo To evacuees petitioned the central government to follow suit.
"Though we're happy for Iwo To, which has been forgotten by history, the islanders are extremely grieved every time they hear Iwo To referred to as Iwo Jima," the local Ogasawara newspaper quoted the resolution as saying of the Eastwood movies. The government agreed; an official map with the new name will be released on Sept. 1.
Still, Iwo Jima is the only name that clicks with most Japanese who aren't from the remote island chain, some 700 miles southeast of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean. Even some Japanese war veterans, like 84-year-old Kiyoshi Endo, who heads an association commemorating soldiers killed in the battle, feel uncomfortable about the switch. "Naval maps have long used the name Iwo Jima," Japan's Sankei newspaper quoted Endo as saying. "We should respect that history." Today Iwo To's only inhabitants are about 400 Japanese soldiers.
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For the US, it will always remain Iwo Jima. But, I think anyone who manages to survive there can call it anything they like, especially if that was the the historic Japanese name. It doesn't affect us or our memories and it makes them happy. Win-win.
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You need my approval before Vanuatu declares war
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In 2006, the New Economics Foundation and Friends of the Earth environmentalist group rated Vanuatu as the most happy place to live of 178 nations all over the world using the Happy Planet Index.[2]
Because of the modernities that soldiers in World War II brought with them when they came to the island, several cargo cults developed. Many died out, but the John Frum cult on Tanna is still large, and has adherents in the parliament.
A clutch of villages on Tanna are also known to worship Great Britain's Prince Phillip. Villagers believed in an ancient story about the pale-skinned son of a mountain spirit venturing across the seas to look for a powerful woman to marry. Prince Phillip, having visited the island with his new wife Queen Elizabeth, fitted the description exactly, and is therefore revered and even held as a god around the isle of Tanna.
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The USA should have kept Iwo Jima as its territory, spoils of war. But the name will endure as long as the stories of courage & honor are told to the generations to come.
A senior Stockholm politician is calling for a ban on arranged marriages and for social services to be allowed to investigate honour-related issues involving young people without first contacting their parents.
The proposals come from Ulf Kristersson, who holds the Social Affairs portfolio on Stockholm council, and Kickis Åhré Älgamo, who leads a Stockholm project that combats Stockholm's honour-related issues. The pair, writing in Dagens Nyheter, said it was "pure discrimination" for Sweden to allow arranged marriages in cases where such unions are part of the culture in the family's home countries. "Forced marriages are naturally not allowed in Sweden," they wrote.
They also called for the government and education authorities to ban schools from allowing pupils to use cultural or religious background as a reason to skip lessons such as physical education or sex education. They cited a recent doctoral thesis in which 27 percent of foreign-born girls interviewed were banned from some lessons. "Sorry, teach, no can do. I gotta note here from my imam."
The article's publication date comes eight years to the day after a 19-year-old Swedish girl, Pela Atroshi, was shot dead in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was said to have dishonoured her family by wanted to live in a western style.
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The article's publication date comes eight years to the day after a 19-year-old Swedish girl, Pela Atroshi, was shot dead in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was said to have dishonoured her family by wanted to live in a western style.
Allan is at the bar, and women are 2nd class people... It is written!
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Interesting: I'd read that honor killings were much less common amongst the Kurds compared to other Muslim countries. While less common, still happens.
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Aw come on, Islam has written it and who shall declare otherwise? Yeah, I know the Kurds and Ahmadiyya muslims are supposed to be so wonderful, caring and sending their mothers flowers and all that, but guess what? All of them subscribe to the Koran and that book wants all of us infidels DEAD.
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No, DEAD. I'll be triple damned in Hell if Islam will rule on my turf except over my DEAD body. Besides, life as a dhimmi is worse than death. Most certainly Western civilization would be DEAD. In my book, that means we're all DEAD. Arguing otherwise is nothing but hairsplitting.
After several years of largely neglecting its Muslim communitys financial needs, Belgium has taken a tangible step toward Muslims by officially recognizing 43 mosques in the country.
The decision paves the way for the mosque officials to be provided a monthly wage and housing by the state from now on. Belgiums Muslim community remained deprived of several financial privileges, although Islam was officially recognized as one of the religions in the country in 1974, along with six other religions.
Interior Minister of the Valon region Philippe Courard received a delegation from the Belgian Muslim Executive (EMB), the institution that officially represents the countrys more than 500,000 Muslims. Courard signed a governmental decree that will officially recognize 43 mosques, 26 of them belonging to the Turkish community. Speaking at the ceremony, Courard expressed his sadness over the fact that Islam for years wasnt granted some official rights granted to other religions, however he noted that this situation stemmed from the problems Muslims encountered in the field of official representation. He also said that nonetheless the current point they had reached was a very pleasing development, and underlined that Muslims were now to benefit from more rights. The minister also articulated his happiness over working in harmony with the EMB.
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Dumb and dumber. Bend over and kiss your ass good-bye.
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Some years ago, I thought Belgium will be first to fall under Khaliphate, with Islamists pulling some sort of a potential large scale casualty blackmail.
Well, Islamists won't have to lift a finger, the dhimmification is going so well that the populace will have no fortitude to resist, or rather it won't cross their minds at all that they should.
A woman falsely claimed there was a bomb on board a Turkish airliner on Wednesday to try to delay the flight so her husband could catch it, Turkeys Onur Air said on Wednesday. Both of them were arrested. Airline staff found out the bomb warning was a hoax in time to stop the plane from making an emergency landing in Ankara and it was able to continue to Istanbul as planned from the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, the airline said. We learned that the warning came from the wife of a passenger who was late for the airplane. We believe that the warning was made in order to delay the flight, said Onur Air spokesman Rauf Gerz. The police detained the passenger and his wife. They told us the warning was fake and that the plane could continue its flight.
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The amazing thing about this is that the great dissatisfaction is coming from left wing dhimmicrats mainly. They just have no grasp of elementary math. It escapes them that they have a slim margin in the House and virtually no margin in the Senate. They can't run anydamnthing. But these Buttheads just keep whining. Without a veto proof majority in both bodies, you lefties can't dictate anything. Even a suave, smooth operator like HorseAss Harry Reid can't make somethin' oughta nuttin'. So shut the f**k up until you have the votes.
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"a drunken mob of brigands, pederasts, and lawyers," as a noted romance writer once described their 19th century forbears in one of her historical bodice-rippers.
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The only thing keeping Congressional approval out of single digits is the fact that the Democrats don't have the votes to pass their surrender bills and massive tax increases to go along with their pathetic non-attempts to enforce existing immigration laws.
Newspapers - 22%
dropping with their creditability and readership, as their main market of elders dies drops off.
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Military - 69%
This is good news/bad news.
It's good for supporting those who allow us the privilege of ignoring the real nasties of the world and life.
It's bad news because it will become more and more tempting to allow those who built the viable republics in Germany and Japan an opportunity to clean house here of the crap that constitutes our ruling class.
It's bad news because an igit like Harry Reid doesn't understand you don't keep poking the eight hundred pound guerrilla with a stick just to make political points. History is not kind to that sort of behavior. Sic transit gloria mundi. I'll see you two Senate seats and bet the republic.
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I don't think the incompetence and resultant disapproval can be tied to the Democrats' lack of leadership.
I am not a truther by any means, but it is undeniable that the trend after 9/11 has been to insulate our government from external threats, and these have (intentionally/unintentionally?) included the citizens whom they serve.
The Capitol is a perfect metaphor for this trend. I used to live 5 blocks from the capitol building and pre-9/11 I could take a daily run across the grounds of the Capitol, including the huge veranda on the West side that looks out over the mall, monuments and into Virginia.
Now, the only people with which our lawmakers deign to have contact are those with appropriate credentials, that pass the security checks.
I've heard it remarked several times by people that they have never seen the Congress/Senate so out of touch with their base. I go to lawschool with several Republican Press Secretaries, one of whom I discussed the immigration policy debate with (pre COmprehensive Reform Bill). He asked who I was voting for in 2008, I told him no one at this point...mainly due to the handling of immigration. He told me w. a straight face that the Republican Congress had built a fence, and without missing a beat I explained that appropriating funds to build a fence is not the same as building a fence, and the average American is smart enough to know the difference. He sheepishly handed me a card and slinked away from our discussion.
The rot is endemic...but somehow the rot needs to be excised. I work as a contractor in the Government bureaucracy, though, and based on my observations the institutional inertia will not change without serious disruption.
To be clear: I am not advocating violent action by any means, but something must be done to save our Republic. Else, I will take my Law Degree and emigrate to freer climes.
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14% of 300 million is 42 million, if you're counting children, folks that have never voted, the aged, the infirm, the convicted felons, illegal aliens, and people from California. Of course, there's some overlap in those categories.
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"......if you're counting children, folks that have never voted, the aged, the infirm, the convicted felons, illegal aliens, and people from California."
Include the dead and you have the Democrat voter base.
(Xinhua) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Tuesday he has left the Republican Party to become an independent, a move that could clear the way for his possible bid for the White House. The Board of Elections said the change in voter registration is being processed now and will take effect after the November election. A spokesperson says the board received the request on Friday, days before the mayor's two-day trip to California, where he continuously attacked Washington and blamed partisan politics for much of the country's problems. "Any successful elected executive knows that real results are more important than partisan battles and that good ideas should take precedence over rigid adherence to any particular political ideology," Bloomberg said in a statement on his change in party affiliation.
Bloomberg has been sending mixed signals about his plans for months, saying he intends to return to the private sector after his mayoral term. But at the same time, he has relaunched his campaign website and toured some 20 U.S. cities in the past 18 months. But the 65-year-old mayor has been dodging questions about his intentions and insisted that the change in his voter registration does not mean he would run in the 2008 election.
The businessman-turned politician was a life-long Democrat before he switched to the Republican Party in 2001 for the mayoral race. If he decides to run, he could tap into his own fortune to fund a third party campaign without making fund-raising efforts.
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Any successful elected executive knows that real results are more important than partisan battles and that good ideas should take precedence over rigid adherence to any particular political ideology.
So you don't have any firmly held beliefs, eh Mike? Does that mean you no longer believe that all evil springs from the NRA? Are you suddenly "unopinionated" about the Second Amendment?
I didn't think so.
Let me translate this doublespeak for all of you: "Think what I tell you to think. If you don't, you're rigidly adhering to an ideology. Do what I tell you to do. If you don't, you're being partisan."
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I think Bloomy detected an empty Donk field, so he quickly shed his Trunk skin and will now slither into a Donk skin, or perhaps grow one.
He is of the party of the snake, whose motto seems to be 'Eat this apple, and throw away that ciggy before you leave New Jersey.'
Still not put off by the bile directed his way by some who feel that his candidacy cost Al Gore the White House in 2000, Ralph Nader indicated he might make yet another run for president. At the Take Back America conference at the Washington Hilton on Tuesday, Yeas & Nays asked whether he had any favorite candidates for the 2008 presidential election, to which he replied, I dont like to say who I favor, but if my name is on the ballot - I suppose you can guess.
The years haven't dimmed the vanity. Betcha Pat Buchanan's wondering if he should throw his hat in the ring, too. Harold Stassen's dead, so we're pretty sure - though not positive - he won't.
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Let 'em all run. In fact, MAKE 'em all run - every politician that qualifies. Make 'em stand up before the American people and state exactly what they believe, and why. Then weed out the POS posers, the liars, the people that believe only in gaining whatever power they can. Run 'em out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered. Hang 'em in effigy, and if that doesn't get their attention, do it in person. All the jackasses and 80% of the pachyderms are only good for laughs, anyway. I'm tired of laughing at a group of people that spend three trillion dollars a year of OUR money. I wish laughter was lethal, because that might be the only way we can clean up the cesspit without a second revolution.
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A new public relations effort by Israel's New York consulate wants the country known less for its conflict with the Palestinians or for its myriad holy sites than for its beautiful women in uniform. Or, more accurately, out of uniform.
A spread in the upcoming July issue of Maxim features a roster of Israeli models, all ex-soldiers, photographed wearing very little in the cause of their country. Headlined "Women of the Israel Defense Forces," the campaign has already been criticized as inappropriate in Israel.
The Maxim shoot presents Israeli models including Nivit Bash, who served in military intelligence though the only remnant of an army career evident in her photograph on the magazine's Web site is a military-style black cap that matches a minimal swimsuit.
Gal Gadot, a former Miss Israel and army fitness instructor, appears in a bikini and high heels sprawled provocatively on the ledge of a Tel Aviv high-rise. The photo also landed her on the cover of the New York Post below an equally provocative headline, "Piece in the Mideast."
The idea originated in the media office at Israel's consulate in New York, where research showed that Israel meant little to young American men. "Males that age have no feeling toward Israel one way or another, and we view that as a problem, so we came up with an idea that would be appealing to them," said David Dorfman, a media adviser at the consulate. Maxim's popularity with that demographic led to the partnership.
"Maxim was approached by the Israeli consulate to be a part of reshaping Israel's public image, specifically because of our unmatched mainstream reach to men aged 18 to 35," the magazine said in a statement. "We are pleased with the result of our work together."
The consulate and Maxim were set to launch the Israel-themed photo shoot at a glitzy event in Manhattan on Tuesday night.
But in Israel, the campaign drew an angry reaction from lawmaker Colette Avital, a former diplomat who served as Israel's consul-general in New York in the 1990s.
"We definitely have public relations problems, and I'm all for creative solutions," Avital told The Associated Press. "But there are enough beautiful and interesting things we can use to tap this demographic than to show a half-naked woman in a magazine of this kind, considered pornographic.
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Brilliant. Not only is this is social good in itself but it underlines what we are fighting for. As for the enemy, they have their goats to console them.
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I was in Israel three times. I can vouch for the fact that there were a LOT of good-looking girls in uniform over there. Word was to be very polite to them though because they knew how to handle any unwanted attention in a manner certain to make sure it didn't happen again.
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The one picture of the chick with the tatoo is scary and exciting at the same time.
Vicious rioting broke out Wednesday evening in several parts of Karachi and continued into the night in protest against long spells of power outages. Bank branches and fast food franchise outlets bore the brunt of the publics anger and Shahra-e-Faisals traffic also suffered.
Residents of the affected areas came out on to the streets and burnt tires and other materials. In some areas, the protesters broke traffic lights and damaged fast food restaurants by pelting them with stones. The police resorted to shelling and aerial firing to disperse the crowds.
The KESC operations director, Adnan Bashir, claimed that DHA staff had damaged the Main Korangi Cable while digging near the Defence police station, due to which power supply was cut off to Akhter Colony, Manzoor Colony, Kashmir Colony and other areas. Bashir said that the KESC staff was working to repair the damage and the electricity would be restored within eight to ten hours.
In Liaquatabad, the electricity was cut off since the afternoon, due to which, after sunset, residents came out on to the Shahrah-e-Pakistan and blocked the road. The riots spread from Teen Hatti to Dakkhana Chowk, from Dakkhana Chowk to Sindhi Hotel and from Ghareebabad to Liaquatabad no. 4, due to which these routes were blocked.
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The headline made me think it was just another Islamic power struggle.
A big article, and well-written. There is much, much more at the link. Incredible...
BOSTON - A CNN reporter gave $500 to John Kerry's campaign the same month he was embedded with the U.S. Army in Iraq. An assistant managing editor at Forbes magazine not only sent $2,000 to Republicans, but also volunteers as a director of an ExxonMobil-funded group that questions global warming. A junior editor at Dow Jones Newswires gave $1,036 to the liberal group MoveOn.org and keeps a blog listing "people I don't like," starting with George Bush, Pat Robertson, the Christian Coalition, the NRA and corporate America ("these are the people who are really in charge").
Whether you sample your news feed from ABC or CBS (or, yes, even NBC and MSNBC), whether you prefer Fox News Channel or National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal or The New Yorker, some of the journalists feeding you are also feeding cash to politicians, parties or political action committees.
MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.
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As the policy at the Times puts it: "Given the ease of Internet access to public records of campaign contributors, any political giving by a Times staff member would carry a great risk of feeding a false impression that the paper is taking sides."
Winston Churchill was at a high society party and approached a beautiful young socialite. He asked her, "Would you sleep with me for 500 pounds?" The young woman replied that she would certainly consider it. He then asked her if she would sleep with him for five shillings. She retorted, "What kind of woman do you think I am?"
As with the New York Times, the answer remains the same.
"We have already determined that, now we're merely haggling over the price."
Maybe I'll post an article tomorrow about how newspapers all across America are in extremely serious decline. This thread's link certainly illuminated just why.
Filmmaker Michael Moore's wish list for the 2008 presidential campaign includes a candidacy by Al Gore and truly universal health care plans from the current crop of Democratic candidates.
The liberal documentary maker, in Washington for the screening of his latest autobiographical film "Sicko," isn't endorsing anyone just yet. He's hoping Gore, the 2000 Democratic nominee, can be drawn into the race. Several of us agree on that, but only as an independent.
"He's right on the health care issue," he said Wednesday night. "He's right on the environment and he was right on the war." At least one Democratic presidential candidate, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, attended the showing along with several other members of Congress at the Uptown Theatre in Washington.
Moore said Democratic health care plans either lack specifics or fall short of his ideal. "What I've seen I don't like," he said. "So I'm waiting, like many Americans." Maybe Mikey should run.
Moore said the plan offered by candidate John Edwards - which is both detailed and far-reaching - "is not good because it supports putting our tax dollars into private, profit-making companies.
Barack Obama "hasn't given us a specific enough plan," he said, adding: Hillary Clinton "has to come forward with a plan."
His advice to the New York senator: "She needs to apologize for her votes for the war and she needs to say that she will not take money from the health industry and in fact support universal health care for everyone that does not involve the private profit making companies."
"Sicko" highlights the struggles of ordinary Americans - some with insurance coverage, others without - as they navigate the health care system. Moore compares the system with those of Canada, France and Britain, which have government-run programs. "This has been a difficult film to make because we're dealing with a lot of people who are sick and a lot of people who have died, and I don't want this system to kill any more of my fellow Americans," he said.
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Here's a plan, Mike. How about nobody has to pay to see your piece of shit movie? I mean, why support those evil profit making movie companies?
Fight Big Celluloid!
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Howdy! Well done Mr. Moore. Way to go! I also urge everyone to go to his website www.michaelmoore.com and just read the personal letters of just how "pissed off" the American soldiers in Iraq are at those people in the U.S.A. who support the Iraq war (hint...hint).
I'd also like to comment on yesterday's article about sewage flowing down the isles of a Continental Jet while on a Trans-Atlantic flight, especially on the comment Mr. Brock made about the incident.
Mr. Brock said, "I've never felt so offended in all my life. I felt like i had been physically abused and neglected. I was forced to sit next to human excrement for seven hours,"
But Mr. Brock, surely you must be knowing that as a pagan/polytheist, you don't use water to clean your excrement.
And surely you must be knowing that as a barbarian, you must have dry excrement sticking on your butt nearly 14 hours a day. So why are you complaining?
"To be told that we were supposed to monitor what comes out the other end of us was insulting," said Brock
But Mr. Brock "tis hypocrisy!" I mean you never monitor the feces that constantly sticks on your underwear everyday!
By the way, why don't you place a peeled orange in your underwear to smell good as your pagan forefathers did.
NOW HERE IS THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION:
Q. How did a nation that doesn't even know how to clean potty send a man to the moon?
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06/21/2007 14:58 Comments ||
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Reports say that he praises Cuban medicine, without mentioning the fact that their system treats many less ailments that the US system. So who really gets almost universal coverage?
I've had "socialized" medicine for the last 40 years, and it's not great. I have to wait three weeks to a month to see a physician's assistant, who then can give me a referral - sometime within the next two months - to see a specialist that can actually do something worthwhile. The only way to get seen immediately is to be sick enough to go to the emergency room, and even then it's a 4-hour or more wait (unless what you have is "life-threatening" - then you get seen more or less immediately). The military medical system, with all its problems, is still far better than the British or Canadian "Single-payer" or nationalized health service. Mickey moore needs to have both his kneecaps broken - repeatedly - and forced to use the British or Canadian system of "managed" (read - rationed) care for treatment. His kneecaps will "heal" before he's ever seen the first time.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
06/21/2007 21:16 Comments ||
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moore is just a rotund pied-piper leading masses of willfully ignorant moore-ons down the yellow brick road of delusions.
U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday accused the sales manager of an embroidery company of conspiring to falsely claim that American flag patches sold for military uniforms were made in the United States.
Brian Moritz was charged with conspiracy to have a false certification made to the federal government that hid the fact that the patches actually were manufactured in Thailand. His Pennsylvania company, Moritz Embroidery Works Inc., won a contract in 2004 to sell 3 million to 7.2 million shoulder patches to the U.S. Defense Department at 22 cents each.
The Buy American Act prohibits the department from purchasing clothing that has not been produced in the United States. The criminal charge alleges the flags were outsourced to Sheen Ray Embroidery Co., of Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Moritz company falsely certified that the patches were U.S.-made in order to collect payments under the contract, according to court papers. Moritz declined to comment Wednesday.
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Yup, a lot of this stuff goes on. A friend of mine's customer is on trial for the same thing right now, along with a bunch of other fraud stuff. There's big money to be made by falsely labeling foreign products "made in America".
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.
Sierra Leone's special war tribunal, which is backed by the United Nations, has found three former junta leaders guilty on 11 counts of war crimes during civil war. The verdicts on Wednesday were the first delivered by the Sierra Leone court in prosecutions arising from a 1991-2002 civil war.
The leaders of Bangladeshs main political parties are likely to lose their positions as a result of an anti-graft crackdown by the countrys emergency government, a minister said Wednesday. We are filing corruption cases as part of overall reforms. We are not doing it to settle scores, interim law minister Moinul Hosein told the private ATN television channel. The legal process we have initiated will not even allow many to stay as leaders because of their involvement in corruption, Hosein added. The ministers comments came amid flurry of reports that reformists in Bangladeshs two main parties have planned sweeping changes that may force out two former prime ministers as rival party heads.
Khaleda Zia, a two-time prime minister and the leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), reportedly faces a rebellion and would be asked to quit as party chief by a reformist group led by her partys secretary general. Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who was premier between 1996 and 2001 and the leader of Awami League, also faces similar rebellion, according to reports in newspapers.
The two have dominated the political landscape since 1991 after military dictator Hussain Mohammad Ershad was forced out. Sheikh Hasina has been charged with corruption in at least half a dozen cases by the military-backed government. Her bitter rival, Zia, is also under investigation for corruption. Zias elder son and heir apparent, Tareque Rahman, has also been arrested and charged with extortion.
After several years of largely neglecting its Muslim communitys financial needs, Belgium has taken a tangible step toward Muslims by officially recognizing 43 mosques in the country. 
Vicious rioting broke out Wednesday evening in several parts of Karachi and continued into the night in protest against long spells of power outages. Bank branches and fast food franchise outlets bore the brunt of the publics anger and Shahra-e-Faisals traffic also suffered.
Filmmaker Michael Moore's wish list for the 2008 presidential campaign includes a candidacy by Al Gore and truly universal health care plans from the current crop of Democratic candidates.
