SWITZERLAND is to auction off its old and unusable Mirage III fighter jets, for a starting price of 3,000 Swiss francs ($3268 [AU, ~= $2,400 US]) each, the Defence ministry said. The 13 French-made combat aircraft will be sold to the highest bidder at an auction on November 26 in the central Swiss canton of Nidwald, the ministry said. Twenty-three of the army's Mirage IIIs were put out to pasture at the end of last year, after 35 years of loyal service, because they were no longer airworthy. Ten of the needle-nosed jets were snapped up by museums and the army has decided to auction off the rest following a surge of interest in the vintage aircraft, the ministry said. Next month's auction will provide a a second chance for would-be owners of ageing 15m bombers, who missed the boat when the Swiss army pensioned off another 29 Mirage IIIs in 1999.
It would be a cheap shot to ask if the Indian air force is interested, wouldn't it?
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Sorry, but this sounds like major incompetence on the part of the crew. Fire their asses.
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I seem to remember that the autopilot on the 747-400 does have a visual indicator. If the flight crew didn't even bother to take notice or to check after the jet didn't do what they expected it to do, well....maybe they'd be better off flying small cargo planes...
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I don't know nuttin' about pilotin' no jets, but surely on approach to a mountainy, wind-sheary airport is not the place to leave the driving to the autopilot? I thought they were only for the hours-of-boredom parts of the trip, not for the moments-of-terror parts.
Boeing is American. It is a big government contractor, if not the biggest. Bush is the head of government. Therefore, it is Bushes fault. Since Boeing used to be Washington State during the original Mt. Helen eruption, it is also Bushes fault that this volcano will erupt again. Even if Kerry is elected, the current steaming and venting was on Bushes watch and he did nothing. But for comfort, Kerry has a plan, which is also Bushes fault since if Bush had been elected, Kerry would not have been able to enable his plan. Now do you see?
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Police in Rio de Janeiro killed the city's most-wanted drug lord yesterday and occupied the slum where he had been hiding to prevent an outbreak of gang violence. The death of Irapuan Davi Lopes, known as Gangan, who ran the drug trade in five big favelas (slums), came a day after authorities responded to media criticism of Rio's high murder rate by pledging to "confront drug trafficking head-on." Police said Gangan, 34, resisted an attempt to arrest him and opened fire on officers who gunned him down early yesterday in the hillside San Carlos slum not far from the city centre.
"Go screw, coppers! You'll never take me alive!"
"Hokay Davi, we'll do it your way." [BANG!]
"Accck! ... Rosebud!"
Alvaro Lins, head of Rio investigative police, said police had been after Gangan for a year. "He was a priority due to his high position in the drug trade... his death disrupts the organisation within his faction," Mr Lins said. Gangan was a member of a criminal organisation known as the Third Command. Following the shootout, police troops occupied the slum and blocked access, fearing drug traffickers would incite residents to stage violent protests. Authorities believe Gangan was behind an attack on the Rio mayor's office in 2002 when gunmen fired assault rifles into the building during the night in an apparent show of force.
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Now this is a War on Drugs I could really get behind.
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Leftist Zapatista rebels announced Wednesday they will voluntarily withdraw seven squatter settlements from an endangered jungle nature reserve, a move that may mark the end a decade-long standoff with authorities. The rebels' insistence on allowing farmers to move into the Montes Azules nature reserve and clear plots there had placed the leftist movement on a collision course with environmentalists trying to defend what little remained of the rain forest. While the rebels said they would not leave the reserve entirely, their decision to withdraw from the most isolated of their settlements may stem the steady invasion and deforestation of the Lacandon jungle, the largest remaining swath of rain forest in North America.
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"the largest remaining swath of rain forest in North America."
Isn't Mexico part of N.A.?
Guess this guy has never been to the Pacific Northwest.
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Xactly. Big, big forest and lotsa rain. That's why it is called NorthWet.
Maybe they meant Tropical Rainforest. Pacific Northwest has Temperate Rainforest.
The problem with Tropical Rainforest in Mexico is that there is not much of it. Most of it is located through Central American countries, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costarica and Panama.
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The rebels' insistence on allowing farmers to move into the Montes Azules nature reserve and clear plots there had placed the leftist movement on a collision course with environmentalists trying to defend what little remained of the rain forest.
Rats. This could've been a good "pop-corn moment", that is, had anyone in the US MSM been covering it.
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I'm not sure, but this might be where the Monarch butterflies migrate to for the winter. Last winter there weren't enough trees, and it rained a lot. As a result, well more than 50% died; concern was loudly voiced that the butterflies might soon become extinct. However, Darwin's observation that all creatures have significantly more offspring than -- in general -- the environment can support holds true for Monarchs as well. By the end of the summer their numbers were observed to be at historical levels. Ain't Nature grand!
Breast implants are becoming more and more popular with a surprising group of Shanghai citizens -- men. The Shanghai Daily said Wednesday that most of the male patients seeking implants in China's financial hub wanted to impress women, or clients, or in some cases their boss. The implants are similar to those used by women, but they are shaped differently and are stiffer. Doctors warn that the surgery has certain risks and people with allergies or heart problems should find another way to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, the newspaper said. "To be frank, surgery is unnecessary," Liu Chunlong, from the Shanghai Ren'ai Hospital, was quoted as saying. "Physical exercise can create the same effect and it is safer." He said the hospital had received 40 patients this year and operated on 10, compared with just two or three such operations last year. He said many of the patients had psychological problems.
Yeah. I'd say men who want breast implants might be described as having psychological problems...
I think they had their eye on this fashion statement (scroll to the picture of the day).
Thanks a heap, Steve. I just put it up...
"They ascribe the unhappiness in their lives to their weak muscles," he was quoted as saying. "The surgery, in some instances, serves as psychological therapy."
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These are pectoral implants. Also being done in this country. Goes to show that men can be just as narcissistic as women.
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The brother of a woman who was shot dead along with her son by her estranged husband has criticised the police response to the tragedy. East Berkshire coroner Peter Bedford recorded verdicts of unlawful killing on Julia and William Pemberton who were gunned down at their Berkshire home. He said police could not have prevented their deaths. But after Wednesday's verdict, Frank Mullane condemned the six-hour delay before officers entered the house. The hearing was told Alan Pemberton, 48, killed his wife and 16-year-old son, before turning the gun on himself. Earlier, the coroner was told Mrs Pemberton pleaded with a police operator that she had "about one minute before I die" as she hid in a downstairs cupboard while her husband rampaged through their home in Hermitage, Berkshire. However, despite receiving the call at 7.11pm, police did not enter the property until 1.53am the following day. Yes, a full six hours and 42 minutes after the 999 call. Why even bother calling the police? Just call the morgue and tell them how you want your funeral.
Mr Mullane called for the police response to firearm incidents to be looked at. He also said his sister should have had more protection from her husband. But Thames Valley Police superintendent Jim Trotman said: "I am confident that Thames Valley Police offered Julia Pemberton advice and support which we felt was appropriate at the time." I'm sure that "advice and support" made her last few minutes of life so much better. "Hey, I'm about to be murdered now, but thanks for your kind words and sympathy." How sickening.
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I heard they have a problem in England that folks will occasionally dial 911 for the emergency services because they saw that on TV. Is that true? If so why not use both numbers.
This case is sad, but if the guy killed them, then killed himself, it means they were dead. They would still have been dead if the bobbies arrived ten minutes later. Bad public relations yes, but if the cops were actually saving a life or stopping a crime somewhere I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
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rj--I am so flabbergasted by your comment, it's hard to know where to start. Do you seriously think a nearly SEVEN HOUR reponse time is appropriate for a report of a violent break in? If emergency services are responding to another call and can't be there in 10 minutes, should they just assume everybody's dead and take their time?
Did your read the 999 transcript associated with the article? There are gunshots audible on the tape--the woman claims she hears her son crying out in pain--the operator tells her officers are on the way--and finally the woman's psycho ex-husband finds her. Go read the transcript and tell me again this is just "bad public relations"!
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I should correct what I wrote--it's not a seven hour reponse time, but it took that long before the officers had the means/courage/conviction to enter the house. Until that moment, they were apparently little more than spectators. They sure did a good job of ensuring anyone who may have been wounded had ample time to bleed to death. I expect they also ensured any concerned neighbors, relatives, or Good Samaritans in general were prevented from entering and helping the victims, too.
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For the love of god, people! These cops are busy. They have to drink their tea and eat their crumpets and complain about US foreign policy and bad mouth Blair. Seriously, cut them some slack!
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Tony Martin? He's got nothin to do with this! its Bush's fault! its a big bush conspiracy! Mike Moore told me so. Lets just blame everything on Bush!!! (extreme sarcasm)
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It's the UK where 99% of the cops are not armed. Unarmed cops are not going to enter a building where an armed person is. The armed ones are are always second guessed regardless of the outcome. If they didn't enter it was the decision of some micromanaging supeior oficer. The outcome is messed up but we in the US have had similar situations. Here they do something about it. IN the UK they paper it over and tell people they are wrong for questioning it.
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The armed ones are are always second guessed regardless of the outcome.
Damn straight!
After years of whining about the Cincinnati police "killing young black boys" while citing 17 cases -- 15 of which were self-defense or the defense of others -- the Cincinnati police bought tasers and got all the required training. The result?
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Better to make appointments with British Bobbies and crazy ex-husbands so everyone can converge at the same time. Tea time is blocked out.
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It is very understandable why it took 7 hours to respond.All the officers were out in the country installing cameras to catch those dastardly fox hunters.
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It is very understandable why it took 7 hours to respond.All the officers were out in the country installing cameras to catch those dastardly fox hunters.
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It is very understandable why it took 7 hours to respond.All the officers were out in the country installing cameras to catch those dastardly fox hunters.
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I apologize for multiple posts.When I hit Publish earlier I got 502 page not found message,so I resubmitted.I'll figure this "internets" thing out one of these days.
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"Maudette?"
"Yes, Herbert?"
"There's a category 4 tempest in this teapot!"
"Don't worry, dear. It's imported. From Europe."
A spelling row threatens to overshadow the signing of the first European constitution in Rome later this month. The EU agreed in the 1990s that the single currency, the euro, should be spelt the same way everywhere. But two new EU members who joined in May, Latvia and Hungary, have said they plan to stick to their own spelling.
Oh, horrors!
Lithuania and Slovenia, two other newcomers, have accepted a compromise to use their own spelling at home, but not in translations of EU documents.
EURO SPELLINGS
evro - in Slovenian
euras - in Lithuanian
eiro - in Latvian
euroo - in Hungarian
Only Greece - which has its own alphabet - was exempt from the 1990s agreement on spellings. The issue was never raised during lengthy membership talks with the former communist countries. It only emerged in the last few weeks, as translators prepared the final text of the constitution - proving that for small countries with a history of foreign domination, language remains a sensitive political issue that could fuel euroscepticism. "We're not going to spoil the constitution because of an accent, but we don't like other people telling us how to spell things in our own language," a Hungarian diplomat told the BBC.
"So piss off, or we're adopting the zloty!"
"In the Soviet Union, our language was endangered, so any changes are regarded with suspicion, " a Latvian diplomat added. On 29 October, Latvia and Hungary will be among the 25 nations signing the European constitution in Rome, but they want to add a separate declaration to safeguard their own spelling of the word "euro". A compromise solution, they argue, can be found later. After all, neither country is expected to adopt the euro as their currency before the end of the decade.
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I thought the whole point of the EU was to present one face, a solidarity to the rest of the infidel (that's us guys) world.
France's highest court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that a former Italian left-wing militant and convicted murderer who escaped prison in the 1980s can be extradited. Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli called the ruling concerning Cesare Battisti "another step ahead" and expressed satisfaction with the court's decision, the ANSA news agency said. However, the fugitive-turned-writer — who remains in hiding — said through his new lawyer that his fight to stay in France is not over.
"Vous'll never extradite me alive, gendarmes!"
Even if Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin signs the extradition order, Battisti can appeal to the Council of State. Battisti's new mouthpiece lawyer, Eric Turcon, suggested that his client would do so. Battisti is a former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism who escaped from an Italian prison in 1981.
Armed Proletarians for Communism, huh? One of the biggies...
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France harbored a US murderer too for a couple decades. A political activist in New York murdered his girlfriend, stuffed her in a trunk, and stored her in a closet in his apartment. When the body was discovered because of the stink, he ran off to France. It was very difficult, like pulling French teeth, to extradite him back to the USA.
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John Kerry: 85.15%
President Bush: 14.29%
Neither man. It was a draw: 0.56%
NOTE: Since we can't blind the stupid masses with bullshit but can perhaps baffle them with some primo boston brahman bullshit This is not a scientific poll. The results above are for information purposes only, and should not be confused with the results of the personal scientific polls conducted by Dan Rather CBS News.
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Are these people for real? Do they have anything better to do than spam online polling sites (DU lists scores of them!)? Do more than a handful of these hominoids have jobs, families, mortgages?
Even more disturbing: the MSM jokers are doing their own version of poll-spinning. Perhaps they should get real jobs (and a life) as well.
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Amazingly, ABC News' poll was the most balanced, at 42-41-13 with a 4.5% margin of error ...
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As long as they have to be real legitimate live registered people to vote on 11/2... at this point, that's all I'm concerned with. I want to see what America is today - with a simple honest up or down vote on Bush.
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There's so much MSM spinning going on, and DU/Kos/527 + Guardian spamming going on, that I'm increasingly of the view that this election will not be close, for two reasons (in addition to the usual reasons that Kerry's a fool and Nader's on the ballot in FL and other crucial states):
-- I hear more and more about "silent majority" moderate, even liberal, closet Bush supporters who have not publicized their inclination out of fear of reprisals from business associates and neighbors. These are especially prominent among middle-aged Jews in the blue states-- the kind of Lieberman centrists whom the Mikey/Howie/Jimmuh party has pushed out;
-- that plurality of voters who are still undecided and who will almost certainly make up their minds during the last 48 hours. These types are not political junkies or ideologues, and they and vote almost always on gut issues concerning either their pocketbook or the candidates' "character"-- both of which should favor Bush.
Increasingly, this election campaign's resembling the Calif governor race: Bustamante vs Schwarzenegger. Two days before the election, The LA Times reported these two were tied.
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Agreed. I keep wishing the election was tomorrow, so we could just get on with the important things like clearing out Fallujah. And I also agree that the election will define what America is today -- an adult that can face reality and do what needs to be done, or an immature fool who would retreat into some tranzi make-believe world in which evil can be legislated away.
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Agreed with #5, I should point out. I wish I was as confident as you are in #6, lex, but I can see Kerry coming out on top. I don't think it will happen, but even the fact that he is getting serious consideration is appalling to me.
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If the silent pro-Bush majority do make themselves heard on nov 2, then I think you'll see the fragmentation of the Dems into either a small minority party inclined to the left or else a centrist party that souljahs Mikey and his ilk and reaches across the aisle to McCain, Rudy, Arnie et al.
Oh, and the continued meltdown of the incompetent MSM.
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I suspect "YouLove" is a porn spammer. Not that I went to its link, but its posting the same thing over and over and over and over.
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See Marine intelligence website. Hijacked terrorist videos. Typ in numbers from 8 to 23, to pick your terrorist:
http://www.marinestoday.com/test3.php?action=personal&cam=17
Kerry's action was churlish and repulsive, and he is rightly paying a very high price for it, as he should. His defenders are attempting to cover for this incredible lapse in taste and are doing no good to themselves in the process. A simple apology from Kerry (and Cahill and Elizabeth Edwards) will quell the controversy, and it is owed.
The low blow was all of a piece with the Dems' approach to this election — the screeching about Bush "lies," the charges of being AWOL from the Texas ANG, the denigration of Bush's intellect and Cheney's honesty, Michael Moore, the union goons, the breakins, who can keep up with it all? And the capper's going to come in 19 days or so, when the dead rise from their graves to vote Democrat. It's dirty campaigning by dirty people.
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Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman took the unusual step of praising President Bush while chiding John Kerry during a campaign stop in Florida Wednesday. Lieberman, with just three weeks left before the election, praised Bush strongly for his support of Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mid-East. "We are dealing with a president who's had a record of strong, consistent support for Israel. You can't say otherwise," Lieberman told an audience of 600 near Delray Beach, Fla, the Palm Beach Post reported in editions Thursday. Lieberman also added that any criticism of Bush vis-Ã -vis Israel would be "unjustified."
After the speech, the paper said Lieberman spoke to reporters and suggested that "Bush appears to have made inroads with Jewish voters, who voted Democratic by an estimated 4-to-1 margin in 2000." But Lieberman indicated Kerry's support among Jews may be softer, and he chided the Democratic nominee for not coming out more strongly for Israel. "And I think John Kerry, to reassure people, has to himself be explicit" rather than having surrogates deliver the message, the Post quoted Lieberman as saying.
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I'm feeling that Joe-mentum.
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Bush/Rove needs to target every Lieberman Dem, and not just jewish ones, in FL, OH, PA and MI and give them the Koch pitch: hate Bush if you wish, oppose him on every domestic issue but vote for him because he's dead right and Kerry's dead wrong on the one issue that turmps all others.
What Happened in Kerry's Vietnam Battles? Nightline speaks to witnesses of disputed firefights
...Nightline traveled to Vietnam and found a number of witnesses who have never been heard from before, and who have no particular ax to grind for or against Kerry. Only one of them, in fact, even knew who Kerry is. The witnesses, all Vietnamese, are still living in the same villages where the fighting took place more than 35 years ago. A Nightline producer visited them and recorded their accounts of that day. The accounts were subsequently translated by a team of ABC News translators.
... Less than a kilometer upriver is Nha Vi, a small hamlet. Vo Van Tam, now 54, was a local Viet Cong commander during the war. According to him, the area was a hotbed of guerrilla activity. They had recently been reinforced by a 12-man unit, supplied with small arms and one B-40 rocket launcher. He said the reinforcements had been dispatched from provincial headquarters specifically to target the Swift boats. According to Vo, there were at least 20 Viet Cong soldiers at Nha Vi there that day. "There were 12 soldiers from the provincial level and eight from the district level," he said.
His wife, Vo Thi Vi, 54, said Feb. 28, 1969, is a day that the villagers of Nha Vi hamlet will never forget. "Everything was destroyed," she said. "There's no houses left. They leveled everything. There was no leaves left. The fighting was very fierce."
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This is just so lame! I can't believe that they think this will do anything other than heat up the debate. Those want to believe this type of thing, are already voting for Kerry. Anyone else with a brain will just think Nighline has become lamer than lame.
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I wonder what the "interview fee" offered by ABC was... A bonus for those who "were there", perhaps? Another bonus for those whose stories of events went a particular way?
"Okay, everybody who was there raise your hand."
[all hands are raised; $1 bills dispensed]
"Awright, heh, now everybody who saw the brave round-eye attack the 'bad guys' (you)..."
[everyone who understood lousy translation raise their hands; $5 bills dispensed]
"Everyone who wants the 'truth' to get out..."
[everyone, even slow guys figure out the game...; $10 bills dispensed]
"Now everyone who wants to be a fire truck..."
[everyone, absolutely everyone...; $20 bills dispensed]
Eventually, even the most dense local will "get it" and realize what the guy with the ca$h wants to hear. American greenbacks will get you whatever you want. An attack by brave Martian Purple People Eaters? No sweat, Mr H, this guy over here...
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The MSM increasingly inhabit their own parallel universe. I'm beginning to suspect the polling numbers, too, are out of whack with the reality.
Remember the California gubernatorial "dead heat" (as per the LA Times just before the election)? Arnold won by 17.
MSM also said Jeb Bush was up by about 6 points; he won by 13. Three other elected Rep governors also beat the MSM spread, and handily.
The crucial fact here is that an increasing number of quiet, non-ideological, non-politics junkie types have departed from the Dem reservation and are looking for sane alternatives to a corrupt, intellectually bankrupt, morally challenged national Dem party. These folks may not admit it to their neighbors or colleagues or even their siblings and parents, but they will pull the R lever on 11/2.
Bush by at least 6 points. Electorally and nationally, this ain't gonna be close.
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Gosh Lex, I hope you are right. Well said, by the way. Stephen Green had a spot on rant about how they are turning us into a bananna republic in their quest for power.
It's funny, cause I was thinking about this, earlier this afternoon, before I read his rant - but for the first time ever, I'm not even going to study who I should vote for - I'm just pulling a straight Republican Ticket...all the way down the line. This will be a first for me.
They'll send a crew to (pardon my French) fucking Vietnam to "discredit" the SwiftVets, but won't bother to fucking interview ANY of the guys that served with Bush in the ANG?!
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The crew was probably already on their way to do a report on Bangkok's night-life, and got diverted...
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RCâ¦.right on! It's so freaking unreal that they don't realize how stupid it makes them look!!!! I'm beginning to think that they are just really stupid - period.
I don't know if you've seen the two new swift boat ads...but they are RADIOACTIVE! You can find them over at LGF if you scroll down. The old geezer at the end, with a big o'l Medal of Honor draped around his neck , says in his old, but still powerful voice, "John Kerry can't be trusted." It packs a wallop that sticks with you.
And this ...this lame-o, kindergarten, bunch of nothing, is what Nighline plans to put up against it? This is what they are going to stake their reputations on? A couple of people with conflicting stories, who don't really remember, and who John Kerry was shooting at? It's just so insane!!
Are they really this desperate?? It's becoming almost painful to watch them embarrass themselves in such a humiliating fashion - it's like watching a crazy person pee themselves and begin to smear poop all over themselves - it's too grotesque and embarrassing to watch!!
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I'll trust the 200 some in Unfit for Command over a former enemy with an ax to grind, under a communist regime that may have been bribed to script another "documentary". Ya sure I believe what Charlie says, ya right man. And of course ABC is above reporach? Cut me a break.
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2b:
Are they really this desperate??
Well, yeah.
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I visited Vietnam early this year (spent ~2 months around SE Asia). There is so much communist propaganda in the streets. They'll lie about anything they can think of to get your money (and they'll make up any kind of story about the past to make the USA look bad). I can easily imagine these people (especially if VC) lying for money. They do it all the time. That's one of the terrible things communism does to people's morality.
It was the worst travel experience of my life. I do NOT recommend traveling there, despite what all sorts of people may claim about it being a good tourist destination. I loved the rest of SE Asia. Been to all continents. Vietnam is the worst place I've ever seen.
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" #7 Waitminnit. They'll send a crew to (pardon my French) fucking Vietnam to "discredit" the SwiftVets, but won't bother to fucking interview ANY of the guys that served with Bush in the ANG?!"
They've interviewed people in the ANG, who were in that unit, and the reason why they won't interview anyone who served with him is because there IS no one who actually served with him. Kind of hard to find someone to serve with you when you don't bother serving. Isn't that kind of the whole point of that particular controversy?
According to two Mercer Island men, signs supporting President Bush are an endangered species. Within days of going up in the affluent neighborhood, the signs disappear. So there the men were this week, camped in the dark woods with lawn chairs and a video camera, waiting for the thieves to strike. It only took three hours. At about 10 p.m. Tuesday, a 25-year-old Mercer Island man walked to a grassy area along the 6700 block of Island Crest Way and began to pull up Bush signs installed by the two men, police said.
The amateur detectives burst out of the woods and confronted the man, who was apologetic. The men detained him until police arrived. The man was arrested and released on suspicion of third-degree theft, a misdemeanor, said Mercer Island police Sgt. Lance Davenport. The two Bush supporters said they set up the stakeout after 60 of their signs were stolen on the island last week. One of the men, who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals by Kerry supporters, said the anti-Bush sentiment in the neighborhood is extreme and angry. "They're entirely within their rights to protect their investment and make sure their views are protected," said Ross Marzolf, executive director of the King County Republican Party, which gave the men new signs.
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I-10, 1976, Askew Billboard, C-20 white cargo van, 11 pm, Poulan.
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screw the misdemeanor arrest. .22 with a scope, baybeee
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"disregard that" - Frank G's Attorney
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are there any honorable dems left? my wife reg for the first for this election (she is brazilian and just became a citizen last year and wanted to vote for GW), she said she signed up with a person in front of wallmart...this was in august and she has not recieved a sample ballot..i asked her was this person supporting kerry..and well of couse the person did...well we went to the post office and had to fill out another last week!
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I went onto a liberal-leaning website yesterday and read all sorts of claims about how the Republicans were going to steal the election. I just scratched my head. They are completely blind to the crap coming from the Democrats or they agree with it.
I think the Democrats are hitting rock bottom (as the Republicans did during the Clinton bashing frenzy) and they'll need some cold water in the face to realize they have a problem.
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I gotta hand it to those guys; I wouldn't have simply confronted the guy - I'd have beat the little Lefty silly.
(as the Republicans did during the Clinton bashing frenzy)
Ol' Bubba gave the GOP plenty of reasons for bashing him, some from a legal standpoint. GWB, on the other hand, is just doing what needs to be done, and the Lefties hate him simply because they don't agree with what he's doing.
Lynne V. Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney, accused John F. Kerry on Wednesday night of "a cheap and tawdry political trick" and said he "is not a good man" after he brought up their daughter's homosexuality at the final presidential debate. Mary Cheney, one of the vice president's two daughters and an official of the Bush-Cheney campaign, has been open about her lesbian status.
The candidates were asked if they believe homosexuality is a choice, and President Bush did not mention Mary Cheney. Then Kerry said, "If you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." Lynne Cheney issued her post-debate rebuke to a cheering crowd outside Pittsburgh. "The only thing I can conclude is he is not a good man. I'm speaking as a mom," she said. "What a cheap and tawdry political trick."
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Senator Horseface is indeed a very small man indeed. I hope somehow tha this wakes some people up about this election. This coupled with the Tennesse picture have cemented in my mind why this man is Unfit for CIC.
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Sullivan's not worth reading anymore. He's about as calm and steady as a chihuahua
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i thought sully was persuasive on this one. I have more trouble with how nervous he is on Iraq - not that the things he says are wrong, but id like to see more from him on the battles in Samarra, Babil province, and Ramadi, in addition to the Baghdad bombings.
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look everybodys entitled to his obsessions. If and when i do my own blog theyll be alot more on religious pluralism in Israel than any of you will be able to stand ;) That said, i find his discussions of gay issues at least more interesting than most. And his overall stance on foreign policy is VERY good, and one of the closest to my own out there. Even if Im not quite as nervous on Iraq.
If anything the area i disagree with him most on his economics, where hes a lot more conservative than I am. Which, paradoxically, makes him more upset with CERTAIN ASPECTS of Bush policy than I am.
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I'm sick of homophobes and homos, pomo homos, homo hoboes. Fine, marry, live in peace, cut your lawn, be good neighbors, observe the law. But I really don't want to hear about it anymore.
I can understand why Sully's lost all perspective-- if I had a terminal illness I'd be inclined to let it all out, all day, with no effort at ordering and judging the various outrages du jour. But the fact remains that winning the war is vastly more important than Abu Ghraib, the deficit, gay marriage, and all the other issues combined. Focus. Prioritize. Order and judge.
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Oh, and how about a little steadfastness? You know, sticking it out?
The deeper problem I have with Sullivan is that he manifestly lacks those martial virtues that make all the difference in the long run: patience, calm determination, an unwillingness to be distracted by one's own discomfort, the constant effort to separate noise from true signals. Grace under pressure and all that.
If anything, this deeply ingrained martial outlook, these soldierly virtues, are what distinguishes the red from the blue these days. No wonder I'm so much more comfortable with military people than with my own kind, or what I used to think were my kind....
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LH,
id like to see more from [Sullivan] on the battles in Samarra, Babil province, and Ramadi, in addition to the Baghdad bombings
The opposite for me. In fact one of the reasons to visit Rantburg, or strategypage.com or command-post.org or belmontclub, is that these folks unlike Sully can actually distinguish between noise and signals, feints and real strikes, scratches and body blows. Sullivan is the last person I would want to hear discursing about the twists and turns of a war. He's far too elated when things go well and far too disconsolate when they hit a snag.
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I was sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for Kerry to finish the statement, for extra effect..."Yes, she's a lesbian, she even does '69'..."! His statement was below the belt!
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU OCT 14, 2004 10:58:04 ET XXXXX
KERRY/EDWARDS ELECTION DIRECTIVE: CHARGE VOTER INTIMIDATION, EVEN IF NONE EXISTS what a surprise! Lawyer heaven!
**World Exclusive**
The Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee are advising election operatives to declare voter intimidation -- even if none exists, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.
A 66-page mobilization plan to be issued by the Kerry/Edwards campaign and the Democratic National Committee states: "If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike.'"
[HIGHLIGHT OF ELECTION DAY MANUAL, NOVEMBER 2004. CLICK FOR IMAGE .JPG FILE]
The provocative Dem battle plan is to be distributed in dozens of states, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
One top DNC official confirmed the manual's authenticity, but claimed the notion of crying wolf on any voter intimidation is "absurd."
"We all know the Republicans are going to try to steal the election by scaring people and confusing people," the top DNC source explained.
Developing...
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I see the Donks prefer to be the first to "scare and confuse" people.
Bastards. I have no doubt the press will ignore this story and play up the false claims, but will voters pay any attention?
(Oh, and this just confirms my belief that we're going to see violence if Bush wins.)
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"We all know the Republicans are going to try to steal the election." No we ALL don't know that the Republicans are trying to steal the election. If they are please count me in! Bad sign that they now believe their own rhetoric. I see a lot of meds in their future.
Edited for brevity.
The District's Democratic leaders yesterday ridiculed Sen. Mark Dayton's decision to close his Capitol Hill office until after the Nov. 2 election because of terrorism fears. "I'm just literally scratching my head," D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams said in response to Mr. Dayton's Tuesday announcement. "I'm trying to figure out what frequency the senator is on."
Calling the Minnesota Democrat's decision a "very strange aberration," the mayor said that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and others concur that there isn't any new information to prompt Mr. Dayton's statement about "an unacceptably great risk to safety" prior to Election Day. Republicans accused Mr. Dayton of "caving in" to terrorists, while Democratic congressional leaders had no comment yesterday. Mrs. Norton accused Mr. Dayton of fear-mongering. The senator's decision to close his office in the Russell Senate Office Building leaves an "unmistakable impression that security at the Capitol is so inadequate that self-help by members [of Congress] is necessary and that others should stay away," Mrs. Norton said in a statement yesterday. "We have an obligation to avoid creating an atmosphere of fear among residents and visitors," the District's Democratic delegate said. Mr. Dayton, who has been an outspoken critic of the Bush administration for failing to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks, closed his Capitol Hill office on Tuesday citing confidential security threats he could not disclose.
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More likely he sent his staffers home in order to work on his re-election campaign.
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It's a neat little political ploy to claim you feel compelled to leave based on classified information. Nobody can prove or disprove it. But it appears to be backfiring if his own party refuses to join in the chorus of "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
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lol - ZF
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Could Democrat Dayton be responding to inside information on left-axis plans for election day and post-election violence? With leftist gangs openly planning mob violence in response to a Bush victory, and actually committing violence in many instances, it seems at least possible.
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On Capitol Hill in true-blue Washington DC? (Which has, I believe, only one vote in the electoral college.) Not likely, AC. More violence is likely in the Twin Cities...or at the customer service line at Tarzhay.
Recognizing the global impact of the 2004 presidential election, the left-wing Guardian newspaper of London is encouraging non-American readers to directly participate in the campaign through a "democratic toolkit" that links them to an individual voter in a key Ohio county. "The result of the U.S. election will affect the lives of millions around the world, but those of us outside the 50 states have had no say in it — until now," says the paper.
Through a "unique scheme," Guardian readers are matched with American voters, giving foreigners the chance "to write a personal letter, citizen to citizen, explaining why this election matters to you, and which issues you think ought to matter to the U.S. electorate. It may even be a chance to persuade somebody to use their vote at all."
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I have signed up for over 30 addresses so far, using several email addresses. I plan to create a dozen more hotmail and Yahoo addresses and use those as well.
The Guardian says it will not give the same OH voter name/address to more than one emailer. So I figure I can take maybe 50-100 out of the line of fire.
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Interesting -- their script doesn't recognize proxy addresses as being the same as the default address. So if you have an account which presents multiple user names (but resolves to the same place on the server) you can get multiple OH voters out of their line of sight that way, too.
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Psst -- owning your own domain opens up the possibility of INFINITE email addresses.
It's tempting, but I don't have the time to do it.
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The Guardian acknowledges, "Anybody might be justifiably angered by the idea of a foreigner trying to interfere in their democratic process. But..."
"But what the hell! We're enlightened liberal journalists, and that makes us special!"
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You'd think the privacy activists would be outraged.
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It's weird watching the media self-destruct. They must live in such a tight cocoon that they are clueless as to the effect of what they are doing.
I know they are still reaching and confusing millions for this election - and they are certainly giving it their last gasp. Since 9-11, only 3 years, they gone from being respected to having a status equal to the Enquirer.
In the mean time - the rest of us have established sources of information that do not include them. Their reputation is shot - nobody takes them seriously and they look like a bunch of old stuffs with a big giant pole up their behinds.
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It is rather amusing that they're promising they won't sell or give out your e-mail address, whilst handing out the e-mail addresses of (apparently) everybody in Ohio.
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I wonder what sort of reception these Brits will get from the local constabulary when they show up in suburban Dayton to try to influence the outcome of an American election.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis ||
10/14/2004 11:38 Comments ||
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No offense to our Brit friends, but our ancestors kicked your meddlesome asses out of here about 225 years ago.
Don't make us come over there.
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Not saying how or who, there are as of now over 100 signups per hour from single source, automated that are going to dump the names on the floor. He could run them faster but it would look suspicious and give away the machines he was using.
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10/14/2004 11:34 Comments ||
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Here's a pic of Theresa's ass for comparison:
Posted by: Dar ||
10/14/2004 11:41 Comments ||
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well THK is, in essence a money bag lady for left wing causes; however, for her age (somewhere in the 60s), she is pretty good looking; she admits to using botox
Hmmm,I think we'll need bigger chairs when we get in the White House.
Thong?Thong?The First Lady wears thongs?No wonder George can't talk straight.(Apologies to First Family)
We both had two kids,but look at those hips.It's not fair.And my idiot husband can't even say my name after her frigging husband goes all Oprah before the nation.
Oh,you said she has CLASS.My bad.
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A group of Vietnam War-era prisoners of war featured in a new documentary criticizing John Kerry have teamed up with former Navy Swift boat veterans to condemn the Democratic nominee's military service and antiwar activities during the final days of the election campaign. The anti-Kerry Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has spent more than $10 million trying to discredit Kerry's war record, recently changed its name to Swift Vets and POWs for Truth to bring into its fold dozens of Vietnam War-era prisoners of war opposed to Kerry's candidacy. Many of those POWs are interviewed in the documentary, "Stolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal."
The documentary - which is expected to air as early as next week in prime time on the 62 stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. - has been widely condemned by Democrats and some watchdog groups for its one-sided, anti-Kerry message. The Swift boat veterans are helping promote the documentary.
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"..but we feel this is a widely discredited group who is doing the dirty work of President Bush. ... "
My ass. MOH, PH owners. POW's . Ya they are a despicable lot aren't they Donk Boys.
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They quote Bud Day, holy shit, he's the man. Anyone want to read about a real hard core warrior, read about Day.
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Jarhead -
COL Day was here at Shaw AFB on Oct 1st - it was a sight to see the guys who flew missions during OIF come to absolute ramrod attention when COL Day would speak to them.
Mike
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Bud Day on board means their sh*t is cooked - that guy is an honest-to-God hero. I've met him and shook his hand. An awesome warrior.
The Kerry campaign will have jack sh*t to say about Bud Day's criticisms. But watch the looney left attack him anyway - they have no respect for the military and for his heroism and service; they have no clue how important our history is to us, no clue as to how respect, man to man, really works.
They will and it sickens me. True life experiences mean next to nothing in many circles nowadays. It's really tragic people go to the lengths they do to attack good people. It appears to be done out of fear, jealousy, and insecurity. Losers.
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Losers, yes. But its not because of fear, jealousy and insecurity. They just don't care. Warrior honor and achievement are the stuff of fairytales to them, like witches and elves.
If anything, they see a man like the Colonel and wonder why he hasn't just evaporated, like the Neanderthal. Which only proves their stupidity, but that's another argument altogether. Fortunately, we're outbreeding them, and soon enough there will be so few that their opinions won't matter.
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With Bud Day on the attack, I wonder if any of the other Misty's will speak out. Some pretty illustrious company there if my memory serves me, including Dick Rutan, right?
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the facts are simple. kerry recieved one shrapnel wound when he fired an M203 grenade launcher into a tree 10 yards away. WHAT AN IDIOT. and another minor shrapnel wound when he stupidly tossed a fragmentation grenade into a basket of rice while inspecting a fishing boat.
We cannot let this guy take the the presidency!
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I'm honored to say that I have met Colonel Day several times. A real gentleman. I strongly recommend his book 'Return With Honor', (ASIN: 0912173165). Quoting a reviewer at Amazon.com:
"Bud Day, a man exemplifying what America should be., March 23, 1999
Reviewer: robert.bowers@ae.ge.com (Cincinnati, Ohio) - I bought and read this book after hearing Col. Day speak at the U.S. Air Force Museum. I knew he could only highlight his POW experience in the hour and a half he had to speak. This book is a true testimony of the faith and courage it takes to resist torture, terror, starvation and captivity while maintaining one's dignity and honor under the worst circumstances imaginable. One cannot read this book without feeling immense pride in America's fighting men."
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"To defend Kerry, the campaign is running ads with military figures praising Kerry and his war service, Wade said."
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I have a brother who works at Wright-Pat AFB, when I was just in middle school he turned me on to the Col Day story. I was immensley in awe of his service as you can well imagine. Some kids grew up idolizing sports heros etc, I had a picture of Audie Murphy's head stone from Arlington on my dresser at age 13 - to me, these MOH, PH, DSC/NCross, S.Star recipients are the ones I always wanted to meet.
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I guess its a good thing you went into the Marines then, Jarhead. It would've been so sad if you had instead become a major league baseball player ;-P
It's a tough decision for John Kerry at the debate tonight. Which does he mention first - Vietnam, or the Red Sox?
My guess is, the Red Sox, right after he thanks the debate moderator, Bob Schieffer, whose day job is working as Dan Rather's parrot. It doesn't matter how many times Kerry bollixes something about the Red Sox - ``Manny Ortez,'' Eddie Yost, the lame ``joke'' he tried to get off Friday night - Liveshot always circles back around to the Olde Towne Team. His butler must have told him the team is very popular with the help.
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*snicker* I bet they were shocked when O'Reily went to the feds. They should have known he would come out swinging. They probably hoped he would pay her off and they would get the money and then expose the coverup.
That said, I think O'Reilly is in deep do-do if she has tapes of him telling lurid fantasies. That's the problem of being a conservative - people hold you to a higher standard. If O'Reilly was a dem - she'd be a Jesabel, Judas, greedy, grubbing whore. But he's a conservative so - despite the fact that she said, "thank you sir, may I have another" - she will still be portrayed as the little shattered teacup - forced to endure the long sex talks so that she apparently could capture her humiliation on tape for the lawyers.
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The No Spin Zone appears to be jinxing all over the place.
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I read the report in Drudge yesterday and there was a lot more to it. Yhis woman never went to anyone with her charges before she and her lawyer tried to extort 60 million dollars from Fox and O'Reilly. This smells worse than a Bulgarian buss driver's two week old odereaters.
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In NYS, as I recall, you must tell the other party, either by a distinctive tone or verbally, that you are recording them. The tapes may not even be admissible.
It is apparent that Defendantsâ outrageous monetary demand is motivated by their greed and also by Morelliâs political connections. Morelli, his firm, and his wife, Arlene, are known supporters of and contributors to the Democratic Party, contributing to the campaigns of U.S. Senators John Kerry, John Edwards, Tom Daschle, and Charles Schumer, among others. He perceives Fox and OâReilly as politically conservative and supporters of the Republican Party. If he does not receive his share of $60 million, he would like nothing more than to embarrass and tarnish the reputations of Fox and OâReilly.
The extortion attempt is timed to cause the maximum disruption and damage to Fox and OâReilly. Fox News coverage and OâReillyâs program in particular have consistently drawn higher ratings during election periods, and the upcoming, tightly-contested Presidential election between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush has been drawing record-setting ratings for The OâReilly Factor and Fox News Channel programming. In fact, Fox News Channel is the most highly rated cable news network in the United States and has continued to increase its lead over CNN in recent years. Its expectation has been that viewership, and thus revenues, will continue to increase, particularly as the electorate becomes even more involved with the presidential race.
By sending the September 29, 2004 demand letter and threatening to bring suit within âfive business daysâ over alleged harassment that allegedly commenced more than two years earlier in May 2002, Mackris and Morelli have sought to extract maximum leverage against Fox and OâReilly right before the presidential election.
Defendants have not acted in good faith. Instead, they have sought to extort âblood moneyâ by threatening to destroy OâReilly, his family and his career, and to embarrass and severely injure Foxâs reputation and financial interests. Accordingly, judicial intervention is required.
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Read the indictment. It talks about âmoralsâ and âconservative valuesâ and also mentions President Bush. I donât have to know anything else about the case to see that this is politically motivated. Also the Lawyer (sic) said he wanted to âTake down OâRielly and Fox News Channel.â Plus the woman was doing the morning show tour? Sounds like she wanted to be first to âtellâ the story and make everything else seem like spin. All this two weeks before the election? I smell a conspiracy here and I aint had my morning kool aid yet.
O'Reilly is smug and disingenuous.
The lawyer Morelli, is a Kerry shill.
And Mackris should have stayed at CNN if O'Reilly behaviour was so bad.
This "treat me nice" BS statement in the indictment at thesmokinggun.com shows she does not understand the male sexual drive. O'Reilly's predelictions, though not dangerous like a child molestor, is just as persistent in his head, and this Mackris woman should have been aware of this.
I don't excuse O'Reilly's behaviour, if this is true, I just know, being a male, that Mackris' assumptions that O'Reilly could cease was naive, because he lacked the ability, apparently, to have any self-control.
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The thing that strikes me as odd is that this kind of behavior flies directly in the face of the kinds of things O'Reilly says in his book about how to conduct yourself, specifically how to protect yourself. It doesn't make sense. Is he that big of a hypocrite? Could be, but I would guess behavior as blatant as being claimed here would not be new. Allegations like this would have surfaced previously as O'Reilly's career was on the rise. One thing it may do is crowd Skerry off the air. The president has to be covered, the opposing candidate does not.
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Don't watch OReilly much anymore but I have seen complaints that he has been too "soft" on Kerry and Rather recently.
I can't help but wonder if his doing that (in Rather's) case was in anticipation of getting the same easy treatment when this story came out.
Just wild speculation on my part, but what the heck.
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After reading the Smoking Gun material, I can't take the women seriously for one simple reason. She has been successful in a a shark eat shark industry, based in NYC, pushing and shoving for stories and content against other sharks... and she suffers from "embarrassment" due to alledged "provocotive" conversations? And she is trying to portray herself as some innocent little journalism major, just off the farm from Iowa?
Sorry, doesn't pass the smell test. I have never worked with a New York business person who could be "offended" in the way she is describing.
It looks to me like it can not be argued the Bill wasn't "Looking out for her" if you look at her career track. If Bill was saying all of the alleged comments, well I think he will take responsibility... However, the story behind this story should be much more interesting.
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If there's tapes, he's done. If no tapes, he wins
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I have to wonder one thing: if it's true that O'Reilly indeed was reciting all that crap over the phone, why? The guy has his own show, he's well-known, and he's likely paid very well. Why upset all that?
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If there are tapes I don't think O'Reily is the only one speaking.
As another poster listed:
"Morelli, his firm, and his wife, Arlene, are known supporters of and contributors to the Democratic Party, contributing to the campaigns of U.S. Senators John Kerry, John Edwards, Tom Daschle, and Charles Schumer, among others"
The above list of radical Dems has every reason wanting O'Reilly off the air.
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Nobody has ever spoken to me inappropriately for very long. It could be that I've led a very sheltered life (could be? - ed.) But easy ways to break off such a conversation need not be more complicated than, "I'm sorry, I have urgent work to do"; if at home, "Whoops! The curling iron is starting to smell funny. Gotta go!"; or simply, "Why?" (Real conversation from my briefly unmarried youth: "Wanna go to bed?" "Why?" The lad never did answer, just quietly went away.) In a situation like this, it seems to me that O'Reilly could have been put in his place very simply and politely. That this woman chose not to do so marks her either as setting him up or even more naive than I am, which I'm told is not very unlikely.
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I'm sure that some of the ladies here have much better stories than mine. And I have no doubt that some of you gentlemen have been stopped in your tracks at least once in your lives.
During the second presidential debate, John Kerry said: "I ask each of you just to look into your hearts, look into your guts. Gut-check time. Was this really going to war as a last resort?"
How about this for "gut-check time": When you close your eyes, can you see the Democrats defending America? Because I can't see it. These are the people who are obsessed with getting the French to like us. They call terrorism a "nuisance," like prostitution and other petty crimes. ("Hundreds of Children Killed in Chechnya by Nuisance," "British Civilian Beheaded by Annoyance," "9-11: What a Hassle!") They babble about nonexistent civil liberties violations under the Patriot Act. If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team.
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The sad part is that even if someone were to do full-auto drive by on a Bush-Cheny campain headquarters the media would blame Bush.
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Apparently the media line on the "Bush voters are retarded" poster is that it's a Republican trick, so, yeah, a drive-by would be blamed on Republicans.
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Here in East Tennessee people are really steamed about the "retarded" add. Both Democrats and Republicans. NOBODY here believes it was a Republican trick because we all know the source.
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Be forwarned and be forarmed! Two more weeks before the fun begins! I am wondering if anyone is interested in running a pool to pick the state(s) that will have the first recount? I would have bet on Florida again but Michigan or Arizona are looking like front runners, with Colorado in a close second.
A newspaper editor who is not a registered Democrat, has found himself on the Democrats' e-mail list. The following letter was blasted out nationwide following tonight's third debate between the presidential candidates.
We need your help one last time. So far the debates have been two clear wins for John Kerry. And your actions after the debate have been absolutely crucial in keeping the Republican spin machine in check.
Tonight is the final debate between John Kerry and George W. Bush, the one where the post-debate spin will solidify and last until Election Day. If you have not taken action before, now is the time to do it!
There are four critical things you can do to help beat the Republican spin machine after tonight's final debate.
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Global Corssing will match every dollar that that other guys gives you! Write a message to Instapundit and advise him you don't like how he has disenfranchised Terrence's Army by not having a poll to vote on! If Terrence told us to go there, there must be a InstaPoll!1!!
How is e-mailing The Puppy Blender going to do anything but multiply the GodAwful assinine lameness of McAwful's pleas to do 'something'???
Anyone who runs his own Blog can smell and recognize cut and paste (Hellllllo: Remember then Lt. Bush's memo?) three counties away.
As for Terry's claim that Insta-polls are 'accurate and informative'. How can they possibly be when thousand are Freeped and deluged to ridiculous proportions in a matter of minutes???
That must be why CNN and others re-set these polls continuously. Until a more believeable and closer percentage can be laid out before the public three days later.
Now. how long would it take to forward this letter (With a proper introduction and close, of course) to Drudge, LGF, Glenn, Michelle Malkin and Powerline?
Jack.
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"If you feel John Kerry laid out a plan to make America stronger put it in your letter. If you feel George Bush failed to defend his four years of failure, put it in your letter."
Talk about a skewed statement!Nope no spin here.
Prince Norodom Sihamoni was named Cambodia's new king Thursday, succeeding his father, Norodom Sihanouk, who stunned the country last week by announcing his abdication because of ill health. Sihamoni, a former ballet dancer and cultural ambassador who has spent much of his life abroad, was approved by a nine-member Throne Council after about a half-hour meeting, the panel said in a statement signed by its chairman and acting head of state, Chea Sim.
Sounds like just the man they need... for whatever it is the king of Cambodia does these days.
The council's vote was unanimous, two palace officials said on condition of anonymity. The Throne Council "has chosen Samdech Norodom Sihamoni as the king of the Kingdom of Cambodia," said the statement by the panel, which includes Prime Minister Hun Sen. Samdech is an honorific. Sihamoni — previously the holder of a sinecure job that kept him fed and didn't require any work an ambassador to the U.N. cultural agency in Paris — previously showed no interest in the throne, but the 81-year- old Sihanouk, 81, had made it clear he wanted Sihamoni to succeed him.
"It'll keep the lad out of trouble..."
Sihamoni is currently with Sihanouk in Beijing, where the monarch has been receiving medical treatment, and is expected to return to Cambodia with him Wednesday. A coronation is planned for Oct. 29, according to Prince Norodom Ranariddh, Sihamoni's half brother and head of the National Assembly. Hours before the Throne Council convened, Ranariddh told reporters that Sihamoni would be king "from this afternoon," calling it "a new page in the history of the monarchy."
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Despite lurid charges of sexual harassment, Bill O'Reilly hasn't lost a single newspaper client for his column, and the man who heads the syndicate that distributes the column says he stands behind the top-rated host of "The O'Reilly Factor."
"I'm behind him 100 percent," Creators Syndicate President Rick Newcombe told Editor & Publisher (E&P). "I think this is politically motivated. Bill is a lightning rod for criticism because he has strong views and can be very critical of the other side. He's a big target."
Andrea Mackris, an associate producer on O'Reilly's Fox News Channel show, filed a lawsuit accusing O'Reilly of speaking to her against her will about sex, vibrators and more after O'Reilly had filed a lawsuit charging her and her attorneys with extortion.
Speaking to her against her will? I don't think I've ever heard that phrase before...
She quotes O'Reilly as threatening any women who complained about his advances and as saying that Fox News head Roger Ailes would retaliate against enemies of the cable channel.
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Get e-mail from e-Bay and Pay Pal and Citibank and a dozen others, wanting you to "update your account information?" Don't do it. Mike Wendland tells you why.
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EFL - hoping that the Swedes bring a large breasted Swedish support crew
Sometime next year, San Diego may become a far-flung submarine base for ... Sweden? The U.S. Navy, searching for an ultra-quiet sub for anti-submarine warfare training, has asked the Swedish government to send one for an extended deployment that could last several years. "The Swedish navy is considering the U.S. Navy's request for a submarine asset," said spokeswoman Lt. Pauline Pimentel. "Both navies are looking forward to a decision in the upcoming months."
If approved, the Swedes would deploy a Gotland-class submarine and its crew of 23 to San Diego. The newly created Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Command, based here, would use the foreign sub to train warships and sonar crews to locate and track non-nuclear submarines used by many nations. The Navy is trying to improve its anti-submarine tactics because many naval planners anticipate future battles will be in shallow, constricted off-shore littoral waters where small, quiet submarines might lurk.
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Remember, the Swedes last year put their military on 9-5 duty because of budget problems. This takes an expensive asset off their payroll and onto ours. And we get to play with one of the most advanced subs in the world.
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There was an instance in WWII of a British sub with a Dutch crew, operating out of Freemantle, Australia under U.S. command, sinking a German blockade runner in Japanese-controlled waters, so I suppose anything's possible.
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A 9-to-5 military? This is just like that old Loony Tunes cartoon where the coyote and sheepdog punch their timecards in and out each day. How bizarre.
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Former President George H.W. Bush called filmmaker Michael Moore a "slimeball" for what he described as lies told about the Bush family in "Fahrenheit 9/11." Bush sat down for an interview last week with WCSH-TV before leaving for Houston. The interview aired Wednesday evening. Bush didn't hold back when asked his opinion of Moore, one of the nation's best-known leftist activists. "Total ass, slimeball," Bush said. It's "outrageous, his lies about my family."
Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" attacked President George W. Bush's handling of the war on terrorists, his decision to go to war in Iraq and the Bush family's ties to the Saudi royal family. The movie claimed high-ranking Saudi nationals were allowed to flee the United States immediately after the attacks at a time when American airspace had been closed to commercial traffic. The Sept. 11th commission found there was no evidence of Saudi flights before national airspace reopened on Sept. 13th, 2001, and no evidence of political intervention.
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I am sure he saw him that way for a long time now and I AGREE. I would add few other choice words to describe Moore but I know he jones on being calle names.
MICHAEL Jackson is calling for a ban on the rapper Eminem's latest video, which ridicules the pop legend over his plastic surgery and allegations of child abuse.
I saw a couple excerpts from this the other night on the teevee. It was hilarious, and I'm not close to being an Eminem fan...
Eminem's video for Just Lose It shows him dressed as Jackson in bed with several children and contains scenes in which the pop star's allegedly surgically altered nose falls off and his hair catches fire - a reference to a real accident in 1984 while he was filming a Pepsi commercial. The "Jacko" character's flaming hair is put out when his head is stuck down a toilet.
Utterly sophomoric. I laughed my ass off...
A Jackson figure is also vomited on by Eminem, dressed as himself.
I missed that part, thankfully...
Jackson, who faces trial in the US in January on charges of child molestation, conspiracy and administering alcohol to an under-age companion, called a Los Angeles radio station to express his outrage at the "demeaning, disrespectful and terrible" portrayal. A source said he was "very upset and is going crazy over it".
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I'm simply baffled at how Jackson can behave soooo out of the norm and not expect to be ridiculed!
-he looks like no one else on the planet
-he thinks its "sweet" for a 40+ year old man to sleep with children (even if there's no hanky panky..which I tend to doubt)
-he continually acts bizarre
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I've tried hard to come up with the name of someone on the face of this planet who is weirder than Jackson. Not counting mass murderers who are on death row or how have alredy been executed. No luck so far. Any votes?
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I've wondered why Jackson doesn't just bite the bullet and go the Tycho Brahe route. It'd be classier than his current relic.
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I've tried hard to come up with the name of someone on the face of this planet who is weirder than Jackson.
Kim Jong Il -- but only because he has a lot more enablers for his dysfunction than Jacko could ever afford.
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Eminem has always made fun of other public figures and stereotypes, and even gotten serious issues through his music.
The problem is he's the epitome of White Trash.
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If a black rapper made this video, BET would have no problem with it. The only problem they have with the "Just Lose It" video is Eminem's skin tone. Eminem has been fighting this kind of racism since he started rapping. I'm sure he'll just reference BET pulling this video in one of his mixtapes, and get the last laugh like always.
America's mainline Protestant churches are in trouble. One sign is shrinking membership. Another is turning their political policymaking over to fringe leftists whose deepest instinct is to blame America and pummel Israel whenever possible.
The latest disgrace is the Presbyterian Church's plan for selective divestment in Israel--ending the church's investment in multinational companies that the church believes bear particular responsibility for the sufferings of the Palestinian people. For example, the Presbyterians say they may divest themselves of Caterpillar stock, because bulldozers made by that company are used to level Palestinian homes in Israel's antiterrorism campaign. Of course, these bulldozers can also be used to move debris after Palestinian suicide bombers have finished blowing up another round of women, children, and other civilian bystanders in Israel.
How do the Presbyterians go about adopting stances like this? Apparently they cast a stern moral glance around the world, look for possible abuses in China, North Korea, and Iran, and seeing nothing disturbing there, decide to focus once again on Israel. The conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) released a measured and devastating report on the human-rights efforts of mainline churches and groups--the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Episcopal Church, and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), plus the reliably leftist National Council of Churches and World Council of Churches. The report, covering the years 2000 to 2003, found that of 197 human-rights criticisms by mainline churches and groups, 37 percent were aimed at Israel and 32 percent at the United States.
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Proving they don't really care about human rights. Human rights is just a cover story for advancing their lame ideology.
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We were Episcopalians, then when they placed politics above religion we became Presbyterians and now we just aren't going to church. We were looking for a new church - but this whole disinvestiment thing really turned me off. They won't need or get the chance to disinvest our money.
I'd like to go to church - but if they aren't going to make Christianity their focus, what's the point?
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Herein lies the chief reason why my particular church (an ELCA church) has few attendees on Sunday and rarely ever a fullhouse outside of Christmas and Easter. On any given Sunday, the demographics of those who do attend skew heavily to the gray-side. Meanwhile across town, Willow Creek Community Church needs overflow parking, Harvest Bible Chapel has offshoots in three or four different communities in the Chicago area, and so on.
As a Catholic, I invite you to come back to the mother Church - the Catholic Church has changed - and it is very welcoming of converts - after all, the Church began with Converts, like Paul. And converts have helped change the Church recently as well. Most parishes are starting their RCIA programs up around this time of year if you wish to convert.
Or...
Find a good small-community independant protestant church - some of those store-front Baptist/Bible churches are pretty bad, but some are quite excellent - keep trying one until you find a good one. They are highly dependant upon having a good pastor, so when they are good, they are very good. Ask around.
Actor-director Mel Gibson has donated $10 million to two Los Angeles hospitals, The Hollywood Reporter said Wednesday. The paper said Gibson -- whose The Passion of the Christ grossed $370 million at the U.S. box office this year -- donated $5 million each to the Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The money is intended to reimburse the hospitals for providing healthcare for children from foreign countries who cannot receive care at home because it is either unavailable or unaffordable. Plans call for Healing the Children -- an organization that serves kids with serious yet treatable medical problems -- to help identify children whose care will be paid for by Gibson's donation.
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Nice to see that Mel puts up, you can't fake being decent, at least not well. Wonder how much Martin Sheen or Susan Sarandon have donated to like causes.
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Liberal traitors don't donate their money, they donate OUR money. Just as few Democrats tip well, compared to Republicans who understand what it is to actually work.
Crude oil pushed back through the $54 threshold on Thursday after a pipeline explosion in Mexico stirred supply fears, but it eased slightly in the early afternoon. A continuing strike in Africa's largest producer, Nigeria, also affected prices as traders waited anxiously for key U.S. crude and heating oil inventory data due to be issued later Thursday. Oil for November delivery went as high as $54.17 per barrel during trade in the Asian morning on the New York Mercantile Exchange's after-hours dealing system, up by 53 cents from its final price of $53.64 in New York on Wednesday. By early afternoon, November crude had slipped back to $53.95 per barrel, still up by 31 cents from Wednesday. While oil prices are more than 60 percent higher than a year ago, they are still around $27 below the peak inflation-adjusted price reached in 1981.
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Of course refining capacity hasn't changed for nearly a decade in the US, so the amount of oil that can be imported is still a finite factor. Its the competition with growing demand by other consumers countries that will keep the price rising till other known oil reserves become economical to tap again.
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My "commodities" guy says that speculators are behind a big portion of the price rise. Apparently the costs of speculating, fees, whatever, are lower for oil than for just about any other commodity.
Gas at the pump last night was $2.189 for 87 octane.
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This is just election jitters. Besides, everyone says this is "So horrible!", but how much would you be paying at the pump if it was the high prices of Carters Administration? Counting inflation, around $5-$6 dollars I think. Really isn't as bad as it's made out to be.
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The "shameless attempt to profit from a national tragedy" by selling coins purportedly made of silver recovered from Ground Zero was halted on Wednesday, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said. Spitzer said he won a court order to temporarily stop the sale of the Sept. 11 commemorative coins because the company selling them made false claims aimed at duping buyers. Advertisements claimed falsely that the coins -- which depict the proposed new "Freedom Tower" on one side and a Manhattan skyline including the World Trade Center Twin Towers on the other -- were made with pure silver and implied they could be used as real money, Spitzer said. "This product has been promoted with claims that are false, misleading or unsubstantiated," Spitzer said in a statement. "It is a shameless attempt to profit from a national tragedy."
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My favorite is still Send in Now For Your Four Free State Quarters! Include $2.00 handling charge and SASE.
Four descendants of a German woman whose possessions were confiscated by the Nazis in the 1930s sued actress Elizabeth Taylor in federal court Wednesday to recover a valuable Vincent van Gogh painting. Taylor failed to review the ownership history of "View of the Asylum of Saint-Remy" before acquiring it more than 40 years ago, according to the lawsuit. The descendants of the late Margarete Mauthner are seeking restitution and the painting, which has been appraised between $10 million to $15 million.
The plaintiffs are Andrew J. Orkin of Canada and three South African residents, F. Mark Orkin, Sarah-Rose Josepha Adler and A. Heinrich Zille. Andrew Orkin said in a phone interview that he, F. Mark Orkin and Adler are the great-grandchildren of Mauthner, who died in 1947 in South Africa at age 84.
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Finland is the world's most competitive economy, followed by the United States, Sweden, Taiwan, Denmark and Norway, according to a Global Competitiveness Report released on Wednesday. The annual report by the World Economic Forum ranks countries according to economic growth prospects based on technological progress, the quality of public institutions and the macroeconomic environment. Finland, home to mobile phone giant Nokia, captured first place for the third consecutive year for the best growth prospects, the Geneva-based WEC said in its survey of 104 countries. It said Finland was "very well managed" at the macroeconomic level, praised the country for the high quality of its public institutions and said its private sector readily adopted new technologies and nurtured innovation.
The United States held second place, as it did in 2003. The WEC said US "technological supremacy" was offset by weaker performance related to its public institutions and the stability of the macroeconomic environment. Augusto Lopez-Claros, chief economist and director of the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Program, said the United States had a "huge pipeline of innovation" but that its large fiscal and current account deficits were worrying. However, the WEC ranked the United States first on a separate business competitiveness index. The rest in the link.
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And Finland absorbs how many million illegal immigrants to its economy every year? A mono-culture like Finland should make for a "very well managed" country at the macro level.
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So, we come in second because our government is so damn inefficient and the LLL/MSM choke on their spit when you mention privatization. Go figure.
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A computer chip that is implanted under the skin won US approval for use in helping doctors quickly access a patient's medical history. The VeriChip, sold by Applied Digital Solutions Inc., is placed in the upper arm in a painless procedure that takes minutes, the company said. Shares of Applied Digital jumped 68 per cent to US$3.57 on the Nasdaq.
About the size of a grain of rice, the chip contains a patient's identification number that corresponds to health information in a computer database. A handheld scanner can retrieve the patient's number from the chip, which emits radio waves when activated. Proponents hope doctors will use the technology to find vital information about someone who is unconscious or having trouble communicating. The database could include details such as medication use, allergies and major health problems. The chip implants have been used for years for various purposes such as identifying lost pets. But Applied Digital was not allowed to market the chips for medical use in the United States until the company received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. The FDA ruled in 2002 that it would not regulate financial, security or other uses of the chips.
Privacy advocates have voiced worry about the speedy transfer of sensitive medical information via computer. Applied Digital said the data would be kept secure. Shares of Digital Angel Corp., which licenses the VeriChip technology to Applied Digital, rose nearly 29 per cent to US$3.49 on the American Stock Exchange.
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Screw that,they can give me a card for my wallet.
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If docs need my ID, they can look at my driver's license and Soc. Sec. card. This sounds like another scheme that will cost society more to implement than it will receive in benefits and a needless invasion of private space.
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The mark of the beast. No thanks. Expect the EU to require the implantation in the near future.
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.
Police in Rio de Janeiro killed the city's most-wanted drug lord yesterday and occupied the slum where he had been hiding to prevent an outbreak of gang violence. The death of Irapuan Davi Lopes, known as Gangan, who ran the drug trade in five big favelas (slums), came a day after authorities responded to media criticism of Rio's high murder rate by pledging to "confront drug trafficking head-on." Police said Gangan, 34, resisted an attempt to arrest him and opened fire on officers who gunned him down early yesterday in the hillside San Carlos slum not far from the city centre.
