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Could've been Amy Winehouse...nevermind, she's "in rehab"
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Pity if it fell on someone's head in, I don't know, Pakistan, Iran, Venezuela, where ever. It would be a tragedy - lawsuits, remorse, boo hoo hoo. (psst. hey, how long do you think we can get away with the 'falling space debris' trick before anyone catches on? In'shallah, right?)
Ethnic fighting killed at least 10 people in KenyaÂ’s Rift Valley and forced thousands from their homes on Friday, undermining hopes of ending weeks of unrest.
The violence, and a denial by opposition leader Raila Odinga that he would agree to serve as prime minister under President Mwai Kibaki, followed the first meeting between the two rivals since a disputed Dec. 27 election triggered a political crisis. “Nakuru town has been shut down ... My staff have carried three dead bodies and hundreds are injured in hospital,” Kenya Red Cross head Abbas Gullet said.
Paramilitary police were deployed on the outskirts of Nakuru, in KenyaÂ’s fertile Rift Valley, where houses burned and the sound of gunshots filled the air. Aerial pictures of surrounding villages showed smoke rising from a number of torched homesteads. About 700 people have died in violence since Kibaki was re-elected after polls observers said were flawed and Odinga and his Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) say were rigged.
Hopes for a solution had grown on Thursday after former UN boss Kofi Annan brought Odinga and Kibaki together for their first discussions on how to end the standoff. But their smiles and handshake were quickly followed by new accusations, with the opposition angered by Kibaki’s reference to himself as the country’s “duly-elected” leader.
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MULANDA, Uganda (Rooters) - Irene Njoki suspected things might go wrong long before Kenya's election results were announced, unleashing a wave of violence that has convulsed the country and shocked the world.
"They said, whoever won, we would have to leave," the heavily pregnant mother of two told Reuters in a camp for Kenyan refugees in eastern Uganda.
"A few days before, they burned some tires and then said: 'We will burn you like we are burning these'.
"It definitely seemed like it was planned," she added as she washed her family's one remaining set of clothes in the makeshift camp which had sprung up in the bush.
Within minutes of the December 30 declaration of President Mwai Kibaki's victory, rejected by his opponent Raila Odinga, Njoki's house had been set on fire and her family stoned.
Coming from Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe but living in Nambale, a town in predominantly Luo and opposition-supporting southwestern Kenya, her family spent the next few days hiding at a police station before fleeing across the border.
Nearly a month after Kibaki's contested victory was announced, the post-election violence that has killed about 700 people and displaced 250,000 continues, adding to the crisis in a country that once seemed a haven of stability.
More than 6,000 Kenyans, mainly Kikuyus, have fled to eastern Uganda. Some have moved into the tented settlement at Mulanda, 35km (22 miles) inside Uganda. Others have preferred to stay near the border to keep an eye on events or what is left of what they own.
Most, however, believe the violence that forced them to flee was not spontaneous.
"OUR TURN"
"It was definitely as if it had all been planned," said Stanley Kamau, a young Kibaki campaigner from the Kenyan border town of Busia.
"Before the elections they (the Luos) said: 'It is our turn'. They told us no matter what, they were going to take power," he said.
During campaigning, Kamau led many pro-Kibaki youth rallies and said he could not return to Kenya as Luo counterparts who had done the same for Odinga would be waiting for him if he tried to go home.
The government accused the opposition of orchestrating attacks on Kikuyus. Similar charges were made by independent groups monitoring the violence.
"We have evidence that (opposition) ODM politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violence," Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director for the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), said on Thursday.
After conducting research in and around the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, where some of the worst bloodshed took place, HRW said officials and elders incited and organized violence.
They spoke of war breaking out and organized youths into groups, which looted and burned down Kikuyu homes, HRW said.
SETTLING SCORES
Few Kenyan refugees in Uganda stayed long enough to witness some of the more sophisticated attacks reported to have involved providing transport and weapons for gangs.
They are, nonetheless, convinced that for many the elections were used as a way to settle old scores.
"They have used the elections to settle a grudge," said a Kikuyu refugee who asked to remain anonymous. "The Kikuyu became rich and bought land and now Luos are telling us to go back home to Central (Province) where we belong."
Although ethnic tensions and land issues have long been deeply divisive in Kenya, they have never blown up on the scale seen in the past few weeks.
As a result, Kenya was seen as a haven of stability and progress, surrounded by conflict and the chaos in Sudan, Somalia and countries in the Great Lakes region.
The burning to death of 30 people in a church and the sight of gangs armed with machetes attacking those from an opposing tribe have stirred memories of Rwanda's genocide in 1994, the bloodiest killing of recent times.
As the violence continues, both sides remain entrenched in their positions and have threatened one another with court action, despite a symbolic handshake at a meeting between Kibaki and Odinga on Thursday.
Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Nairobi earlier this week to try to negotiate a solution. However, for the refugees who experienced the violence, reconciliation was not a priority.
"Luo-Kikuyu relations may get better one day. But Kibaki shouldn't share power with Raila. Even though they say he stole the election, it must have been the will of God," said Njoki.
NAKURU, Kenya (Rooters) - Kenyan police battled on Saturday to stop clashes between tribal gangs wielding machetes, spears and bows and arrows that have killed at least 27 people in the western town of Nakuru in three days of bloodshed.
Burnt bodies piled up and gunshots rang out in the Rift Valley provincial capital, which had previously been spared the chaos that has killed some 700 people across Kenya since the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki December 27 polls.
What began as a political stand-off has evolved into a settling of scores between rival tribes in the east African nation, once one of the continent's most promising economies, whose peaceful image has been shattered by the bloodshed.
"There is nothing we can do. All those who are fanning the violence are staying comfortably in their luxury homes while we burn," said Nakuru resident Urunga Maina, who rushed his nephew to hospital after he was hacked by a machete-wielding mob.
"We are being used as sacrificial lambs," Maina told Reuters. "What matters is that the politicians take what they want. They don't care about the wananchi (ordinary people)."
The fighting has prompted the first army deployment since Kenya's crisis erupted and undermined hopes of a solution after Kibaki met his rival Raila Odinga on Thursday in their first talks since the troubles began. Odinga says the vote was rigged.
The latest clashes pitted members of Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe against Luos and Kalenjins who backed Odinga -- and looked to have largely caught the security forces in Nakuru unawares.
"It may have been triggered by the electoral result, but it has evolved into something else where there is gross and systematic abuse of the rights of citizens," said former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who is leading a mediation team.
More than 100 wounded were admitted at a Nakuru hospital, including one man with an arrow lodged in his head. A doctor there said he saw nine bodies, all with deep machete wounds.
CHARRED BODIES
At the Nakuru morgue, relatives wept as police unloaded another 16 charred corpses from a truck. Two more victims were stoned to death by gangs at the bus station before police fired shots to disperse people from the scene.
The authorities had imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew to try to contain pitched battles between tribal gangs, but hostile goblin youths armed with crude weapons set up several roadblocks around town.
Near the small Rift Valley town of Kipkelion, a gang of youths attacked a monastery sheltering more than 600 refugees.
"After mass I saw a big group of youths storming into the monastery compound armed with bows and arrows and stones and pangas (machetes)," Father Dominic Nkoyoyo told Reuters.
Police chased off the attackers without any injuries.
Two men were also hacked to death overnight in Naivasha, another Rift Valley town, police said.
Benson Waliaula, 36, a security guard at a bank in Nakuru, said he saw Kibaki supporters chase down one man and kill him.
"They tore his clothes off first then killed him with blows of a panga (machete). It took him some time to die. The police were just watching. There was nothing they could do," he said.
Morris Ouma, a 25-year-old trader, told Rooters he had taken part in the fighting. "I didn't feel good about it, but they are killing our people. What shall we do?" he asked.
The latest violence followed the first direct discussions between Kibaki and Odinga since the troubles began. Annan, who brokered those talks, flew to Eldoret and Molo in the Rift Valley on Saturday to visit camps for the displaced.
Thursday's meeting between the two rivals raised brief hopes of an end to the turmoil. But, hours later, Odinga's party angrily rejected Kibaki's description of himself as "duly elected" leader and accused him of undermining the mediation.
Zimbabwe's veteran President Robert Mugabe announced on Friday that the crisis-hit southern African country will stage a general election on March 29 when he will seek a sixth term in office.
A statement in the name of Mugabe, posted in a government gazette, said the elections would be held the day after the parliament in Harare is dissolved. The main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which has been negotiating with Mugabe's party over the framework for the elections, denounced the move as an ''act of madness'' but stopped short of calling a boycott.
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Anybody want to bet that Bob is now senile, and his cronies are propping him up and jockeying for power the way the 3rd Republic propped up Petain? (and JFM, if my comparison doesn't work, please set me straight).
President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused neighboring Colombia of plotting a military attack against his government with US support. "A military aggression against Venezuela is being prepared" by Colombia, Chavez said. He warned Colombia not to attempt "a provocation against Venezuela" and said his country would cut off all oil exports if there is a military strike.
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Someone should warn Hugo about the Gremlins the US sent to destroy him. They can take over people and control them you know, so remember Hugo, trust no one and they are ALL out to get you.
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Actually, it's not crying wolf. It's a preemptive projection. He'd like to meddle in Colombia affairs up to and including military involvemenmt, so he accuses the other side from the same. The oldest ruse there is.
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Good point. Thugs like Hugo need to have an enemy and need to have the people agree with him on who the enemy is. But at some point you have to have an enemy you can beat. He can't beat the US, so he's looking for someone more his size. While his pals in FARC would no doubt help him, he might just be surprised by the Columbians: they have a reasonably good military, and I'll bet a lot of Columbians would rally around Uribe.
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I bet Hugo would find Colombia has some help from some unexpected friends.
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Just the friends in S.A. would sink Hugo.
Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Columbia could squash that little turd. But not a peep out of any of them before this last stunt.
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Hugo must really be counting on those Cuban and Chinese "advisors" to bail him out once he starts a 2-front war with Colombia and Guyana.
Whoever is advising this lunatic is telling him only the things he wants to hear. He obviously has not learned anything from history or has forgotten little things like Kuwait, Panama, and Grenada (or he's buying into the tale that the US military is "overstretched" and helpless to do anything other than take care of Iraq and Afghanistan).
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Cut off oil exports? And lose more than 50% of the federal budget revenues (CIA World Factbook). I doubt there is a government anywhere, socialist or otherwise, that could cope with having its allowance chopped in half.
From a subscription newsletter - link goes to the source of the report
The European Commission is considering requiring companies that import carbon-intensive goods into the European Union to buy allowances on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), according to published reports and an industry source familiar with the proposal. I think it's called a "scheme" for good reason....
Under the proposal, energy-intensive industries bringing goods into the European Union would be treated on the same basis as EU companies covered by the ETS. Importers would be allocated carbon caps depending on the volume of imports and would be required to buy additional allowances for emissions in excess of the cap. 'Cause their economies aren't circling the drain fast enough now
Consideration of possible measures, which would be designed to counterbalance any competitive disadvantage experienced by European companies covered by the ETS, was "just starting," the spokeswoman said. Uh-huh. Haven't yet figured out how best to screw everybody concerned, while lining your own pockets?
Typical socialism. Create a problem, then 'counter-balance' it.
The European employers' federation BusinessEurope said ... it was "very nervous" about possible tariff obligations. Smart people
BusinessEurope senior adviser Folker Franz [said] that while the industry organization was happy that the Commission was considering measures to ensure the competitiveness of European firms since they can't actually compete with the EU millstone around their necks, tariff-style measures could "trigger retaliation." No, really? Hooda thunk that?
The idea of imposing carbon-related tariffs on countries considered to be not doing enough to combat climate change was put forward by former French president Jacques Chirac, ... no surprise there
... and has been taken up by his successor, Nicolas Sarkozy. Sark, Sark, Sark - where'd the reformer go?
Sarkozy said in October 2007 that the European Union should "examine the option of taxing products imported from countries that were smarter than we were do not respect the Kyoto Protocol," to eliminate "unfair competition" brought about by the additional cost on EU countries imposed by the ETS. Ummm, there's another way to eliminate that "unfair competition," Sark - GET RID OF YOUR EXCESSIVE TAXES. Just a thought....
Kyoto was designed to burden the U.S., not the EU. Since that didn't work they have to come up with something else ...
The proposals being discussed by the Commission, for example, would subject a company importing one metric ton of steel into the European Union to a border adjustment that would impose the same ETS obligation as on a company producing one ton of steel within EU borders. You misspelled "import tax," Sark. But then EUros usually do....
Read the report at the link, if you're a masochist (or have trouble falling asleep).
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It is as if making up the unions sovereignty is not enough. Gotta make another ponzi scheme to rape the already overtaxed people. I think they also need a hot air tax also.
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Actually, this scheme will backfire hilariously. Not only will the WTO rightfully classify this as protectionist, but it will open the EU up to penalties from both NA and China.
Most likely, the WTO will tell them to drop the scheme, and if they refuse, then the WTO will allow both NA and China to slap huge tariffs on EU products.
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Gaia knows that Chinese carbon is good.
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Please go ahead with this. Then slap punitive tariffs on carbon burning Euro autos. It's the best hope of reviving Midwest industries from 30 years of recession.
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The EU is concerned with the drop in the US dollar and the effect on their trade balance with the US. This is a smoke screen (ummm, CO2 screen) to place new tariffs on US goods.
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What about imported diamonds? Pure carbon, and energy intensive to mine. Just a thought. Carry this scheme through to the idiotic end. Give 'em hydrogen. No car-bon forrr yuuuuu.
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"But European governments are becoming increasingly frustrated that they are taking on huge burdens to meet those targets without similar efforts from countries such as the United States, China and India idiots for pandering to the environazisweenies."
They really need better editors and fact-checkers in the MSM.
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Let's see, how many scientists signed that paper challenging global warming orthodoxy?
Anybody else old enough to remember Keith Laumer's diplomat par excellence Jame Retief? This article reminds me of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne's weaponry, such as Serious Grimaces and Stern Memos.
Five Rantburg Comments in five minutes. The later I stay up, the more garrulous I get. Over and out.
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Umm folks, US-Europe trade is in the hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Let's not be too flip: if the EU overlords decide to slap a bunch of 'carbon' taxes on imports, global trade will slow, the world will slip into a global recession, and we'll be hurting.
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was in the hundreds of billions
If the other side decides to throw it all in the shitter, whut're ya gonna do?
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It's all threat and no action, any such "Carbon Tariff" will hurt them as much or more than it hurts us, it's just another TAX (For their Profit, not ours) just tax them double their tax until they give up.
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just tax them double their tax until they give up.
Just like the Little General said?
See Smoot-Hawley above.... AlGores's only good moment as far as I know, but then I haven't talked deeply with Tipper and the Commodore ain't talking.
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President Giorgio Napolitano will open talks on Friday to resolve Italy's political crisis after Prime Minister Romano Prodi's resignation and the end of his centre-left government.
While the centre-right is clamouring for snap elections after 20 months in opposition, observers say the President is unlikely to send voters back to the ballot box before Italy's electoral law is overhauled. Right-wing newspapers gloated over the demise of 68-year-old Prodi, the archrival of conservative flag bearer Silvio Berlusconi, both of them now former prime ministers twice over.
''The dream has come true,'' headlined Il Libero over a cartoon showing Prodi hanged by the Senate, where the Prime Minister lost a vote of confidence on Thursday, precipitating his resignation. Prodi ''leaves the country in tatters,'' the paper wrote.
The left-leaning press was more sympathetic; Ezio Mauro writing in the daily La Repubblica that the former economic professor's exit was a ''strange and unjust destiny for a politician who has twice defeated Berlusconi (and) twice cleaned up the public accounts.''
Berlusconi, now 71, and right-wing National Alliance leader Gianfranco Fini immediately called for fresh elections on news of the resignation.
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Now and only now the lefties are discovering what the rest of us understood over a decade ago. The idgits are so blinded by their own 'brilliance', they still don't grasp that if enough Donks in the Senate had gone along with the bill of impeachment based upon the facts, Al Gore would have been, as the seating President, running for the office in 2000 with all the sympathetic backlash that he would have carried the election. Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
#3
The Obama campaign should air this video every hour in South Carolina with the tagline...
“Do you really want this back in the White House again?”
#4
Sorry, Mike, can't do it. I saw enough of that criminal bastard back then. I got to the point where if he came on the TV or radio, I had to either turn it off or leave the room.
The only way I'd willingly watch that disgrace again was if he was announcing he was going to commit suicide immediately upon completion of his current speech. That I would watch him do--and hope that someone quickly came along afterward to follow up with a wooden stake through his heart and garlic in his mouth.
#6
They knew all right. That makes the whole sordid era even smellier. It was the ReThugLicans that drove Dick Nixon out of office... because they knew.
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The US District Court for the District of Idaho has found that copyright law protects a lawyer demand letter posted online by the recipient (Case No. MS-07-6236-EJL-MHW). The copyright decision, in pertinent part, has been made available by Dozier Internet Law, and is the first known court decision in the US to address the issue directly.
The Final Judgment calls into serious question the practice of posting lawyer cease and desist letters online, a common tactic used and touted by First Amendment groups to attack legal efforts at resolving everything from defamation to intellectual property disputes.
In September 2007, Dozier Internet Law, a law firm specializing exclusively in representing business interests on the web, was targeted online by "free speech" and "public participation" interests for asserting copyright ownership rights in a confidential cease and desist letter sent to a "scam reporting site".
The issue generated online buzz in the US with commentators such as Google's lead copyright counsel and Ralph Nader's Public Citizen attacking the practice as unlawful, and Dozier Internet Law responding. Bloggers from around the world soon joined the debate, reeling at the thought of losing a valuable counter-attack tool.
The Court, in its decision, found that a copyright had been adequately established in a lawyer's cease and desist letter. The unauthorized publication of the letter, therefore, can expose the publisher to liability.
Statutory damages under the US Copyright Act can be as much as $150,000 per occurrence plus attorneys' fees that can average $750,000 through trial. The publisher of the letter raised First Amendment and "fair use" arguments without success.
John W. Dozier, Jr., Esq., President of Dozier Internet Law, PC, was not surprised by the decision. "In today's world, anticipating how the Courts will view 'new age' arguments is not easy.
Dozier Internet Law has been using copyright protected cease and desist letters for years with great success in protecting our business clients and preventing an escalation of a situation. The publication of cease and desist letters is an easy way for scofflaws to generate online 'mobosphere' support for illegal activity and, until today, many businesses have been hesitant to take action to address some of the lawlessness online because of possible retaliation and attacks." So, now the lawyers can threaten you, but you can't prove they threatened you, because they copyrighted their threat letter.
#1
What next? Prohibition of the publishing of Court transcripts because the arguments of lawyers are copyrighted?
Should Judges now copyright their judgements?
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Nope. Next would be the prohibition on the publication or disclosure (or discussion) of the Constitution of the United States. Copyright(c) forever - U.S. Judicial System.
#3
It wasn't too long ago when the Internal Revenue Service tax code was not released to the public. After a law suit forced its release, it was soon discovered that it was full of mutually exclusive regulations.
So if you did something, you were wrong and could be fined, but you could also be fined if you *didn't* do that thing.
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"Prior to the 1998 IRS Reform and Restructuring Act, a taxpayer had no way to prove that the IRS had committed illegal or fraudulent accounting against them. IRS master files for each and every taxpayer were, and continue to be written, in a complex, technical code. Any illegal activity by the IRS could not be decoded. But the IRS was forced to release the code as a result of the 1998 Reform and Restructuring Act."
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I suspect it's real.
Begin rant: Frankly, I'd like to see all video games, game boys, ipods, and other sources of mental white noise self-destruct in ten seconds.
I recommend the book, "Last Child In the Woods". by Richard Louv. It discusses the effects of children caused by lack of exercise, free play, and lack of exposure to nature except for the Discovery Channel.
I grew up in Chicago, with a concrete backyard; but I played street hockey and running bases in the alley, swam at the pool, enjoyed the playground a block away, learned how to ride the El to the beach by the time I was 12, and learned how to weed other people's gardens for fun and profit. My dad took me to the forest preserve and taught me how to identify birds and wildflowers; and he showed me the proper way to catch a snake when I was three.
I consider myself blessed that our kids have lived less than a block from parks, forest preserves, empty lots, and mud pits for their childhood. I cannot, alas, get the two autistic younger kids outside much; so they have pet rabbits, I make them mow the lawn and help me in the garden, and I take them up to a friend's barn and have them pitch manure and groom horses.
Having them help in the garden has paid some dividends. The youngest has decided he likes to make pickles, so he gets his own bush cukes this summer.
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Well, mom, you're a good parent. You're doing what you need to do. It's not the video games' fault that other parents aren't doing the same.
This is just more nanny-state meddling, no different than taxing foods because they're presumed to be unhealthy or banning trans-fats.
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It's one state legislator and, of course, the MSM cheerfully carry her water. This is the mentality of the nanny tyrants. First we'll point it out, then we'll 'educate' you, then we'll make you criminals/tax evaders if you don't do what we want you to do.
Fortunately, it appears Congress has extended the internet tax abatement for now. Just move the purchase from your local Gamestop, mom and pop shop, to Amazon.
I wonder if the clownet knows how many households have videogames and are registered to vote. Betcha she thinks, in her small minded and bigoted world, games for only for kiddies.
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Let's just tax board games too. And books. Can't exercise while reading on a couch ya know. Let's also mandate exercise as well! You gotta get those kids in shape. If you don't do the mandated 15 hours a week your kid becomes a ward of the state.
#8
What's next obligatory exercise sessions at school and the work place? Kinda reminds you of the glorious days of communism in China and the USSR doesn't it?
#9
I salute you mom! Reminds me of this old Zager & Evans tune.
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to do
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs not nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long black tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
Guess it's time for the Judgement day
In the year 8510
God's gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man's gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do or say
Is in the pill you took today ....(fading
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Just want to point out that
1/ Fast computer games make you more intelligent.
2/ MMORPGs are massively social , and teach real world skills such as managing teams, running businesses etc.
3/ Training on compouter games has helped the army reduce training times on a lot of systems as people are already ok with the virtual metaphores.
Earlier this week, a high school in the US state of Georgia launched another unique initiative to boost the math and science grades of students.
Creekside High School near Atlanta offered students money to attend remedial classes in the two subjects for 15 weeks and a monetary bonus for maintaining a "B" grade average afterwards.
Discussion here: going on the assumption that this is a benefit, how would one go about taxing TV and Video Games? There would have to be a monitor on the TV, untamperable, which constantly reports what is being displayed on the screen. Orwelle implements this, then decides what is 'educational' and tax exempt, then all out taxes? Insulting and dangerous suggestion, great call neo-communist d party.
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i'm 29 , work and also play PC games. I'm not fat and in pretty good shape. S why should i have too pay a tax too play because someone fatass kids won't get off their asses and go outside and do something.
#13
Who cares, war tonight at update. NADC is going down along with the Viredian Entente and maybe them damn Nazis at Norden Verein.
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Whooooopsie, wrong window.
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I'm 60, I play Quake 1,2, and 3, doom, hexen, Wolfenstein (All 3,)Unreal, Baldurs Gate (3 versions) as well as Railroad Tycoon, Tycoon 2, Microsoft rail simulator, Sim City, and whatever else is new, (Got Icewind Dale, at a very good price, unopened, on standby waiting for boredom to set in.)
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While on the subject, yes I grew up "Country", to be exact, on a real working farm, learned to milk cows, slop hogs and ride horses (When they got tired of us kids they'd brush us off on a convenient low limb and go back to the barn) all before I was ten (I even made butter once with a hand churn, but it was simply to learn how, not a needed chore. ) fed and tended to a small flock of chickens(30), Gathered eggs, and drew water from a well by hand (No pump, electricity hadn't come our way just then)Grandpa had hunting dogs, but he took care of them, we also had a couple of peacocks (HUGE Purple eggs), a small guineau hen flock (10)(All brown eggs), and one huge cat.(Lucifer, same as the cat in peter pan)
I had an absolute Ball doing all this, and by growing up "Dirty" I've been relatively disease-free all these years. and a tremendous store of good memories.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
01/26/2008 19:40 Comments ||
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yep - I just got on the XBox360 this week. Son's a wiz. Playing Bioshock tonight. Also, I'll challenge anyone on Unreal Tourney '04. I have UT3 but my computer crashes - good reason to upgrade.
So, MOM, just like my own Mother, I'm glad you don't control my life. Your mileage may vary, but I will resist you or others like you, making lifestyle choices for me, whether through taxes, prohibitions, or monitoring. Worry about your own life. Leave mine alone
Posted by: Frank G ||
01/26/2008 20:11 Comments ||
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Where'd ya grow up, Redneck Jim? I grew up near Pratville.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
01/26/2008 20:17 Comments ||
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Robinsin Springs Deacon, we're sorta neighbors, t'other side of Prattville from you. (Figured that out a month or so ago)on the (Now)Deatsville Highway, box number has changed about eight times, First box 63 Deatsville, now it's in the 1900's but I don't live there anymore, still own 10 acres, may move back one year, unknown?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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By Tim Cocks
President Giorgio Napolitano will open talks on Friday to resolve Italy's political crisis after Prime Minister Romano Prodi's resignation and the end of his centre-left government.
