Army Reserve Capt. Dawn McCracken-Bruce spent nine months in Iraq and Kuwait. Husband Scott took their sons, Dominic, 4, and Tyson, 2, to see Santa Claus at the Mall at Robinson so they could tell him what they wanted for Christmas -- their mom -- and that's when she showed up and surprised them. After the emotional reunion, she got a surprise herself when the band from alma mater Chartiers Valley High School played the national anthem. With viddy.
Venezuelan president makes comments after US leader criticises his links with Iran and Cuba in a newspaper interview
On the eve of his first official overseas trip since being diagnosed with cancer, Hugo Chávez has launched a blistering attack on Barack Obama, describing the US president as a "clown" and an "embarrassment".
"Focus on governing your country, which you've turned into a disaster," the Venezuelan president told state TV on Monday. Chávez touched down in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, on Tuesday for a summit of Mercosur, South America's leading trade bloc.
Chávez's comments followed a rare and strongly worded interview with Obama published by the Caracas-based El Universal newspaper. The American president criticised Venezuela's business and political links with Iran and Cuba, and raised concerns at what he called threats to the country's democracy.
"We are concerned about the government's actions, which have restricted the universal rights of the Venezuelan people, threatened basic democratic values and failed to contribute to the security in the region," Obama said in the written interview.
"It seems to me that the ties between Venezuela's government and Iran and Cuba have not served the interests of Venezuela and its people."
Referring to Iran, Obama added: "Sooner or later, Venezuela's people will have to decide what possible advantage there is in having relations with a country that violates fundamental human rights and is isolated from most of the world."
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Not the final movie, but a work print of the movie before its computer graphics had been added. While not giving away any trade secrets, the work print was regarded as interesting for how it showed such productions are made.
Yet in the final analysis, those who had pirate copies of the movie were more likely to purchase the final print, because it was more a behind-the-scenes type edit, but without the annoying and pretentious commentary.
Unless, of course, they also downloaded a finished version of the movie, which also became widely available for download, as they always do.
[An Nahar] Another Saab story... I'll be in my room.
Saab cars filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a Swedish district court told Agence La Belle France Presse, bringing to an end two years of efforts to rescue the iconic brand.
The final desperate efforts to organize help in China were obstructed by General Motors over licenses.
"They were here this morning and submitted the documents requesting bankruptcy," a clerk at the Vaenersborg district court told AFP, adding that the court was currently examining the request.
A statement on the court's website said three Saab companies had filed for bankruptcy: SAAB Automobile Aktiebolag, Saab Automobile Tools AB och Saab Automobile Powertrain.
"The court aims to handle the request and appoint a liquidator rapidly," the statement said.
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Maybe 2 car companies for the price of one minus the screwed up unions that bankrupted them.
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My '97 900S still turns heads and runs great. My only negativeissue is a cable not hydralic clutch - usefull only for mercilessly working out leg muscles.
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About time someone got inside his bubble and told him the truth. Wat an air head. Well, no. Air would imply there was something in there. Vacuum head is more like it.
[Dawn] A couple was killed in an honor-related incident in Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... on Saturday.
The incident happened in Shararkot area of Pales tehsil when one Mohammad Habib with the help of his accomplices first rubbed out Kamalud-den at his shop and later on killed his daughter at home.
The local people told news hounds that the FIR of the incident was yet to be lodged.
In a similar incident earlier this month Fazalur Rehman, who had recently returned from Soddy Arabia, first rubbed out his neighbour, Noorul Haq, in the nearby fields and later killed his wife at home in Dobair area.
The Kohistan is highly backward and conservative district where women are deprived of even basic human rights ...which often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... .
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A malfunction at an Isfahan refinery caused a leakage of cooling water from its generators - the latest in a string of mysterious mishaps in Iran in the past few months. A power outage was created as a result and a state of emergency was declared at the refinery, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported.
According to the report, one person was injured and taken to hospital. Various eye-witnesses reported seeing flames and thick smoke covering the area. The report stated that workers burned off the excess oil and gas in pipes to prevent a blast in the site. Traffic to the site was blocked and all phone lines were disconnected to prevent an explosion.
The Isfahan refinery is the second largest in Iran. A local oil company official said that the situation was under control and that the malfunction would be repaired within several hours. He denied that a fire had broken out.
A senior employee at the refinery denied there was a blast, explaining that the flames and smoke seen in the area were caused due to the burning of excess materials in the pipes. He explained that power had been cut off due to safety reasons.
Iran ranks second in the world in work accidents.
Heh. He said "work accidents".
Last week, a blast at a steel factory in Yazd left at least 18 dead.
How many of those accidents are not in the least accidental?
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Michael Ledeen believes that these incidents are acts of sabotage by the internal opposition, who have been radicalized by the suppression of peaceful demonstrations.
The same RIAA that makes examples out of ordinary folks by suing them for millions of dollars for file sharing? Turns out someone there's been pirating full seasons of Dexter. Nine million dollars worth. Whoops!
That number--$150,000 for each of the 60 episodes illegally downloaded on the RIAA HQ ISP (OK?)--comes compliments of YouHaveDownloaded which logged the BitTorrent activity of some 50 million users and revealed that not only are the major movie studios pirating their own movies, but the RIAA is downloading pirated TV shows. Lots of 'em.
Again, this is the same RIAA that has been shaking down a Minnesota mother of four for $1.5 million over 24 songs she shared on Kazaa. And it turns out, they're being generous in that case! Since the statutory damages cited by its own guidelines are much higher:
... copyright holders can sue you for up to $150,000 in statutory damages for each of their copyrighted works that you illegally copy or distribute.
So let's see, $150k per episode times 60 episodes comes out to roughly... $9,000,000, checks payable to CBS.
Look, the RIAA's method of "enforcing" copyright law by suing people to oblivion is unfair. But to layer hypocrisy on top of that unfairness is just gross. How about you get your own house in order before you target your next Minnesota mom? Remind me again why large government agencies are good for us?
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.
A couple was killed in an honor-related incident in 
The same RIAA that makes examples out of ordinary folks by suing them for millions of dollars for file sharing? Turns out someone there's been pirating full seasons of Dexter. Nine million dollars worth. Whoops!
