Report: Pope's Condition Worsens
Thursday, March 31, 2005
VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II's medical condition has worsened, the Italian news agency Apcom reported Thursday night, citing unidentified sources. The Vatican had no immediate comment on the report.
Apcom said doctors had to intervene because of a "worrying lowering of pressure."
The news agency also said the pope reportedly had a high fever.
A Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said he was unaware of such a worsening in the pontiff's health and that at least a few hours ago, the pope's situation was "regular."
Not a Catholic, but posted this as today seems to be a day where a lot of "transitions" could be going on... This, with Terri Schindler's passing, and Prince Albert also is now acting as Regent for Prince Ranier in Monaco. Eerie...
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Hannity reports Pope given last rites... Pope's spokesman tries to play down pproblem.... Says Pope given antibiotics for urinary tract infection...
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3's - Cochrane, Schiavo, and the Pope? As a Catholic I hope his suffering someday ends, by his choice and God's
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CNN reporting last rites given. VATICAN CITY (CNN) -- Pope John Paul II was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church late Thursday night as his health deteriorated, a Vatican source has told CNN.
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he helped bring down the Soviet Union - that's a legacy to be proud of on its' own, shared with a few courageous brave people who should also be noted. RWR, Thatcher, Lech, others
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Song of the Brightness of Water
By Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II; translated from the Polish.
The speaker is the woman at the well (John 4)
From this depth--I came only to draw water
in a jug--so long ago, this brightness
still clings to my eyes--the perception I found,
and so much empty space, my own,
relfected in the well.
Yet it is good. I can never take all of You
into me. Stay then as a mirror in the well.
Leaves and flowers remain, and each astonished
gaze
brings them down
to my eyes transfixed more by light
than by sorrow.
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I am not a religious person at all, but I have the greatest respect for Pope John Paul II. He lived out his principles with the greatest courage and success. The free Poland of today is his legacy.
One good thing that will come of this: the Pope, like Terri Schiavo, had to be fed through a tube. In his case, though, he could rest assured that his friends, doctors, and associates would do everything humanly possible to ensure his survival. This contrast should be emphasized as we prepare our case against legalized murder. I think John Paul would approve whole-heartedly.
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We might have had differences with the Pope, for example how the Vatican dealt with priest child abuse issue, but on the bottom line, Pope John Paul II is a very principled and moral man. He has taken the weight of his suffering with courage and grace. He has been a bright light to millions of his followers, and us non-Catholics, too. Definitely a man of God.
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As a Catholic - I can say the pedophile clearance isn't over. Believe it. Painful. Necessary
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Let him die on his own out of all do respect
Which is how poor Terri should have died!
Andrea Jackson
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Frank I responded to you onthe article on Terri's death.
Andrea Jackson
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One of Scotland's national treasures, the 5-foot sword wielded by William Wallace, the rebel leader portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film "Braveheart," left its homeland for the first time in more than 700 years Wednesday. The double-handed weapon that belonged to Wallace will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at New York's Grand Central Station during Tartan Day celebrations, which begin later this week. I've never seen so much plaid in my life...
This year marks the 700th anniversary of the execution of Wallace, who led the Scots in their battle to free themselves from English rule and whose story was brought to the screen by Mel Gibson in the 1995 film "Braveheart." "This is an historic moment. It is the first time in 700 years that a relic of this importance has left these shores," said Colin O'Brien, a Scottish official accompanying the sword to the United States. The 6-pound weapon will be returned to its home at the National Wallace Monument in Stirling, Scotland, after the celebrations. Wallace's sword was kept at Dumbarton Castle for 600 years. "You can borrow my sword, but you'll never borrow my freedom!"
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'Bout damn time!
The Irish usually get all the press.
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Scientists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History [Pittsburgh, PA] have discovered fossils of a mouse-size mammal that dug and burrowed in search of tasty insects during the Jurassic Age, 150 million years ago. The extinct species has been dubbed Popeye. Its tastes appeared to favor termites, not spinach as its cartoon namesake. But like the famous Sailor Man, this creature has massive forearms, an adaptation that helped it dig. Zhe-Xi Luo and John Wible, curators of vertebrate paleontology and mammals, respectively, announce the find in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science. The formal name for the species is Fruitafossor windscheffeli, which refers to the location of the fossil find -- Fruita, Colo. -- and to the retired submariner and museum volunteer, Wally Windscheffel, who found it. Wible said Popeye, which has similarities to today's armadillo, is far different from other mammals that coexisted with the dinosaurs, suggesting that these prehistoric mammals were a more diverse group than prevously suspected.
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I wasa watchin Popeye show this am... (with no sound of course) I can't remembers the name of the little dawg like character with magikal powers of finding and moveing.... weird stuff for a BW cartoon.
DRUDGE: HT --- We all need a good laugh after Terri's passing
KETTERING, Ohio (AP) - A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way - first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint. Ohio, not Florida
Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over at a gas station just after midnight Tuesday. "I asked if she needed help, and she just leaned back in the seat, hollered a little, and I looked down and there was the baby's head," said station co-owner Lloyd Goff, who was alerted to the emergency at pump No. 7 by a customer. Pump number 7 for luck?
Goff said Coleman "threw her leg over the steering wheel, groaned once, and the rest of the baby came out. She caught that baby, put it to her chest, gave me a look, like, 'I gotta go,' closed the door, put the van in gear and away she went." Dang! Farm girl takin' a 5 minute break! Back to the planting..
A customer at the gas station in suburban Dayton tried to give police a heads-up about Coleman's situation, but a mix-up involving the license plate number had them thinking the van was stolen. At first I thought these were Pinellas County, Florida cops...
As officers went looking for her, Coleman headed for the hospital, naked below the waist and with the baby boy in her arm. His umbilical cord was still attached. "I kept pulling over, making sure (the baby) was all right, breathing," she said. Yikes! and no helicopters covering this police chase?
Meanwhile, police had straightened out the license plate issue. But another caller mistakenly reported someone trying to throw a baby from a van. Coleman said she noticed several cruisers following her before one cut her off. With guns drawn, officers ordered her out of the van with her hands up. Are you sure this wasn't Pinellas Co., Florida Sherrifs?
"I opened the door and said, 'I just had a baby' and just let them see everything," she said. Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming. Coleman was discharged Wednesday. Her 6-pound, 8-ounce son, Richard Lee Coleman Jr., remained in intensive care. Born during a high speed chase, I hope the kid is OK...
He's got some stories to tell when he gets to first grade...
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Coleman said she noticed several cruisers following her before one cut her off. With guns drawn, officers ordered her out of the van with her hands up.
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I compare this to the birth of BigEric 4+ years ago...
My wife calmly tells me, "I think I'm in labor"...We calmly drive to the hospital (1 mile). She is admitted ...BigEric is born 9 hrs later... I realize I was very lucky...
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BTW MacN: Big Eric born Wed evening, both BigEric & my wife dischgarged Fri morning (1-1/2 days). My wife insisted on cooking lunch(in spite of me & her mother saying "TAKE it EASY")...
Gotta give it to many new moms. If no complications, they are super-resilliant!
RENTON -- Police searched last night for a white sport utility vehicle that struck an elderly woman and drove away.
Another of those rogue SUVs, roaming the streets hunting their human prey
A woman, in her 80s, was crossing the street in the 600 block of Shelton Avenue Northeast when the SUV hit her around 7:20 p.m., said Renton police Officer Jon Schuldt. She suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Valley Medical Center. A witness told police the white SUV had a rack on top and was driven by a woman, Schuldt said.
That's just what the SUV wants you to think
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A witness told police the white SUV had a rack on top and was driven by a woman, Schuldt said.
And she was probably talking on a cell phone at the time.....
Aid efforts to earthquake-ravaged Sumatra are being hampered by the level of destruction, amid reports that the situation is worse than expected on the hardest hit island of Nias. Many of the roads on the island are impassable and the only link to the airport is cut restricting the delivery of urgently needed foreign aid, which is now starting to arrive on the island 48 hours after the quake struck. Australian military aircraft have begun flying additional medics and supplies to the region as the island's only hospital was all but destroyed. Little or no electricity and fuel is forcing doctors to tend to the injured, many suffering compression and crush injuries, without power. "Reports that I've had in now overnight are, I must admit, pretty bad," Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told Australia's ABC Radio Thursday. "There's no doubt about this being a significant humanitarian crisis and the Indonesians have deployed resources very quickly, but we're obviously ready to provide additional assistance if it's needed and it may very well be needed," Downer said.
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was expected to arrive on the devastated island today. Indonesia "welcomes and is open to all kinds of assistance, including help from foreign troops, to assist in the disaster zone," a spokesman for the President told The Associated Press.
Seems like only a month or two ago they were demanding the infidels get the hell out, that they could take it from there...
Hugh Riminton, who is on Nias, reports that the smell of decomposing bodies now hangs over the main town, Gunungsitoli, which has been all but obliterated. In the absence of machinery residents are using their hands to dig through the debris to seach for survivors. For those left alive, it is becoming a battle just to survive.
Helicopters from the Singapore Air Force landed in a sports stadium in Gunungsitoli, but a crowd looted supplies soon after they were unloaded. This prompted the U.N.'s operations officer to order no more landings in the stadium. Three Chinook helicopters ferried out the most critically injured people Wednesday morning, although more casualties continued to arrive for evacuation. In Washington, U.S. officials said the USNS Mercy hospital ship has been ordered to remain in the Indonesia area to help with earthquake relief. It is expected to reach Nias in about six days from its current station near East Timor. Indonesian officials estimate that, overall, at least 1000 people are dead following the quake but expect that toll could rise to 2000. Monday's epicenter was about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of the December 26 quake which triggered devasstating tsunami waves and left an estimated 300,000 people either dwad or missing. Multiple smaller quakes followed Monday's tremors, including two others of 6.0 magnitude or higher. Both of those occurred in the early hours after the initial quake, which itself was considered an aftershock of December 26. Although many towns and villages on Nias were badly damaged, a feared tsunami did not materialize.
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Already the UN is giving orders to people doing the work who haven't accepted their authority. What has the UN brought to the table on Nias, besides a roll of blue duct tape?
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as I recall the ingrates raised stinky over.. Christian aid workers, our Armed Service personal carrying/arms, limited contact with suffering people and locations, travel w/'Indonesia minders'...etc.
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The recent earthquake hit Nias, an island off the coast of Banda Aceh, and to the South. These people are almost all Christians (about 95%).See, e.g., comments at this link.
To be accurate, Indonesia has always emphasized that the concern about prolonged, and especially armed, aid workers had to do with the fact that Banda Aceh (where the aid happens to be needed) is a restricted war zone. See, e.g., update and recap at this link. The government has always expressed that any deadline was only a guideline, and could be modified as needed.
Indonesia has been waging war against separatist Acehnese rebels for decades. Many of the rebels, but not all, are sympathetic to the islamofascists. Thankfully, the current President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (âSBYâ), has made headway and the chances for a resolution of the separatist issues are the best ever since the conflict broke out. Peace in Banda Aceh will greatly weaken its potential usefulness to the islamofascists in the area.
After multiple centuries of brutal colonial rule, Indonesia finally won independence from Western Whites in late 1949. That was just about 55 years ago. Many Indonesians, especially before the West assisted Banda Aceh after it was hit by the tsunami (12/26/04), were very leery of foreign involvement in Indonesia. That is because of the history of colonial rule, exploitation and brutality. Our help has softened those views tremendously.
Imagine, if you would, a huge and devastating hurricane wiping out most of the villages and towns of Virginia and killing about half of the coastal dwelling population -- say in 1838, which was about 55 years after we won our independence. Now, imagine the British and the French (with genuine sincerity) coming in with a bunch of troops and aid workers for a prolonged period of time. We would have been a bit leery, too, even though grateful. Indonesians arenât that different.
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Let me oblige cingold's newly independent Indonesians by not feigning concern. Flip me off once shame on you, flip me off twice, shame on me. Let Kofi do it.
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I think this is a rare opportunity to pass along our new humane methods. It sounds like these folk have lives not worth living. We should blockade it and actively deny all aid including water and food. Imagine how good we will fill when they start to die.
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Badanov: it may be that they don't care about the population in the affected area, if they're christian or revolting against the central government.
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Bad was doing a little "schiavo transferral"
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Cingold's right.
One item I noticed in this morning's paper: the island has unusual levels of religious tolerance for Indonesia. Only segregation seems to be among the corpses: morgue for Buddhists in the Buddhist temple, Christians in Santa Maria church, etc. A muslim risked his neck to recover the body of a Christian neighbor.
Los Angeles, Alta California - Tensions along the Mexico/USA border in Arizona are at an all time high and increasing as April 1st, the day the Minutemen vigilantes are to commence their operations against Mexican immigrants, approaches. Not since the Mexican-American War or the General Francisco Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916 have US/Mexico relations been so grave. Currently, the Minutemen vigilantes, a ragtag group of Americans, plan to congregate in Tombstone, Arizona on April Fools Day for a month long operation to patrol the border, and this can have serious implications on USA security concerns regarding its southern border.
There is no question that the USA needs Mexico to help secure its southern border against the infiltration of dangerous terrorists bent on destroying Washington D.C. and/or New York City with nuclear or biological weapons. The redneck border vigilantes are not helping one iota in this matter but instead are being counterproductive by going after defenseless Mexican migrant workers that pose absolutely no security threat to the USA. It is a known fact that many of the immigrants that cross the border are from Indigenous tribes in Mexico. These migrations have been occurring since prior to the Europeans arriving on the continent. In fact, present day Mexico City (Tenochtitlan) was founded when the Mexicas (Aztecs) migrated south from Aztlan which was located north of the present Mexico/USA border line. The ignorant vigilantes most probably do not have the education to know this fact and are acting out of their deep-seated ethnocentrism, xenophobia and bigotry.
The Minutemen and its leadership have proven themselves to be nothing less than a gang of anti-Mexican racists and their actions have the potential of alienating Mexico, its government and the millions of Americans of Mexican descent on this side of the border. This gang hopefully will meet up with the Maras Salvatruchas as has been reported on the Internet during the past few days. We ask, does the USA need more world enemies, especially a neighbor next door? Is it not true that the leaders of Venezuela, Cuba and other South American countries would like nothing less than a friendlier and more cooperative Mexico? Should peace loving Americans allow riffraff like the Minutemen vigilantes to dictate its foreign policy towards Mexico, Central and South America?
Also, there is no question that within the ranks of the Minutemen are good well-intentioned but naive Americans under the spell and lies of its leadership. On the other hand there are extremely violent and criminal elements as well. In a May 2000 conference in Sierra Vista, Arizona organized by these same characters under the pretext of having some "Fun in the Sun" and which was attended by extremists from across the USA, a proposal was made in the open by some of the participants. The proposal was to place military land mines at strategic places along the border pathways in the desert used by Mexican immigrants. In the days prior, during and after the Sierra Vista "Fun in the Sun" conference, many ambushes of Mexican immigrants took place in the area. One notorious incident took place on Friday May 12th near the border with Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico. In this incident, one of many, two Anglo vigilantes on horseback and armed with high power hunting rifles shot and critically wounded an undocumented Mexican worker attempting to cross the border. Twenty year old Miguel Angel Palofox Aguerrin of Guasave, Sinaloa and four companions were ambushed by, what is believe to be, two attendees of the Sierra Vista conference. Many observers believe that the same thing will occur, with far more dire consequences, during the month long April vigilantism planned by the nefarious Minutemen... This is from the 'La Voz de Aztlan' website, and incredibly racist, anti-semite wacko group, that, like MEChA wants to break off the US southwest and either "return" it to Mexico, or turn it into a separate, Hispanic, non-white country. They are always good for a laugh.
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Tensions along the Mexico/USA border in Arizona are at an all time high...
Not like sending the US Cavalry across the border in pursuit of Apaches featuring shoot outs with the Federales. Nope. Tensions are at an all time high now. We ask, does the USA need more world enemies, especially a neighbor next door?
Looking around, I don't think the Enemies of the USA[tm] are doing so well in the world at this moment. The question is, can Mexico afford to make the USA an enemy.
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The nerve of them Yanquis actually trying to enforce their border! Who do we think we are?
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that reads like something the PLO would put out about Israel.
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Oh, I strongly recommend the Aztlan website, it is a hoot. It's loaded with anti-semitic rants, raves and conspiracy theories, is terribly upset with any perceived anti-Hispanic racism, while at the same time is utterly racist itself.
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Anyone catch Lou Dobbs last night? The Mexican-American advocate was an unresponsive, brainwashed imbecile--it was a pleasure to watch Dobbs verbally shred him.
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The border patrol has pulled at least 100 out of our area(So Calif) to beef up the Southern Arizona border area.So I guess we are exposed,for the next 30 days,at least.
Venezuela is having problems with the loyalty of its armed forces. The current government is run by a former army officer Hugo Chavez. Normally, that would not be a problem. But Chavez sees himself as another Fidel Castro. That is, the rebel Castro before he proclaimed himself a hard core communist. Chavez wants social revolution in Venezuela, but many, perhaps a majority, of Venezuelans don't want to be another Cuba. While Venezuela's oil wealth has not been distributed equally, it has created a large middle class. This includes the military. Many of the troops are nervous about Chavez, and his social programs. Even some of Chavez's military decisions have caused unease among officers and troops. For example, Chavez is now buying military equipment from Russia. This includes helicopters (nine Mi-17s and one Mi-26) for the navy. The navy considers these helicopters unsuitable for naval use. The sailors are correct, but the price is cheap, and Chavez wants to make a political point.
The army is unhappy about the cozy relationship between Chavez and leftist rebel groups in neighboring Colombia. Venezuelan troops have been operating more aggressively along the Colombian border. This is officially a crackdown on the smugglers who always have operated there. But the Venezuelan troops are accused to of really going after the Colombian rebels, or supporting them. Take your pick. No one is sure exactly what is going on.
To top it all off, Chavez is now organizing a new army, one loyal to him personally. This is part of his plan create "Bolivarian Circles of Venezuela Frontline Defense for National Democratic Revolution." These are political clubs all over the country, particularly in poor areas, where Chavez has the most support. Chavez expects to have 2.2 million members, who will be the backbone of the "democratic revolution unfolding in Venezuela." What upsets the armed forces is Chavezs decision to pass out infantry weapons to these political clubs, so that his new political clubs can use force to "defend the revolution." There are believed to be Cuban advisors involved in this effort. This sort of mass organization has been used before in Latin America, by both leftist and rightist dictators (pro-fascist Juan Peron of Argentina, and communist Fidel Castro of Cuba.) But by passing out guns to his most dedicated followers, Chavez is angering the military, making the middle class even more nervous, and setting the stage for a bloody civil war.
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...50 BMG...
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All successful revolutions are built by the middle classes. The rich can usually buy what they want, and the poor are too uneducated, unskilled and busy to do it.
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So, does the bona-fide Venezuelan military have the stones to stop this tin pot dictator - while he can still be stopped? Forming a private army certainly should be the wake-up call to anyone truly dense enough to think he's not a dictator in the making.
Go ahead, gentlemen, remove this wart from Venezuela's nose - now! You know you'll get all the support you need from you know where and you know who. That's right - the Venezuelans. He stole the election - you'll have tons of support. Just do it.
Russia is keeping at least one of its nuclear powered "battlecruisers" in service for a while, perhaps up to another twenty years. The Admiral Nakhimov, a Kirov class, 24,500 ton, warship, has begun a twenty month stay in the Severodvinsk shipyards, where the ship will receive new electronics, new missiles and other upgrades. The Admiral Nakhimov entered service in 1988, right at the end of the Cold War, and it's electronics are ancient by current standards, despite a 1994 upgrade. Four Kirovs were built, but only the Admiral Nakhimov and Pyotr Velikhiy, which entered service in 1998, are still in working order. The Kirovs, in addition to their nuclear power plants, carry twenty Shipwreck anti-ship missiles and three different type of anti-aircraft missile systems (and over 250 missiles). There are also anti-submarine torpedo launchers, and 30mm cannon for anti-missile and close in defense. The crew of 720 has plenty of space, as the ship is 780 feet long and 90 feet wide. The Kirovs are fitted with additional (quite comfortable) staterooms for senior officers, so that the ship can operate as the flagship of a task force. While the upgrade can be seen mainly as a way to keep shipbuilding technicians employed, and maintain a formidable looking Russian warship in commission, a Kirov on the high seas is a warship to be reckoned with. The high speed Shipwreck anti-ship missiles have a range of 550 kilometers, and carry a 1,600 pound warhead. This missile was built to cripple an American aircraft carrier, but it would outright destroy any lesser vessels.
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It's still a death-trap for all who sail in her, should she ever be in harm's way.
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I think the Russians refer to ships as "he" or "him".
I'm curious what happened to the other two: Admiral Ushakov (ex-Kirov) and Admiral Lazarev (ex-Frunze). Scrapped or simply rusting away somewhere? I don't imagine they were sold...
Admiral Nakhimov is the ex-Kalinin and Pyotr Veikhiy is the ex-Yuri Andropov (LOL!).
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Ushakov has been inactive in Murmansk since a propulsion accident in late 1990 but has been kept in good condition. These ships are expensive to man and maintain and spend little time at sea. Lazarev, which is due for a refit, may have been scrapped in 1995.
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These are the largest surface warships, apart from aircraft carriers, to have been built since the Second World War...
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I toured a russian cruiser in the black sea back in Sep. '96. We were up there for the 300th anniversary of the russian navy. One of the biggest things I noticed lacking was DC gear. It was nowhere to be seen. Go on a western ship and every inch available is storing some kind of DC gear.
The officers had to pretty much do anything that required thought. The enlisted were all conscripts and not motivated or educated enough to run the equipment. They told us that the captain had to stay on the bridge as long as the ship was U/W - to the point of sleeping on the bridge. I thought that was a bad idea - poor judgement from fatigue.
That was almost 10 yrs ago but I doubt not much has changed. I wasn't impressed and came away with no doubt they would not be an effective fighting force.
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When does the bidding war between China and India start?
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I think I remember reading that both the Lexington at Coral Sea and the Yorktown at Midway could have been saved if damage control had been half as good as it was later in the war. Also, it always seemed as if American carriers were able to take a lot more punishement than the Japanese ones while on paper they were just as vulnerable.
In the Falklands, the loss of several British ships was directly linked to poor DC.
DC can really make the difference in the outcome of a battle.
And the Russians were supposed to go to war with minimal DC? Interesting concept.
That reminds me of a story (perhaps legend) that circulated in the submarine force in the late '80's. Back then, doctrine for attacking a Moskva carrier was to use two MK-48 torpedos. Admiral Crowe - Chariman of the Joint Chiefs in the Perestroika/Glasnost era - was invited to visit the Russian Northern (?) fleet. He toured a Moskva carrier. When Crowe, a submariner, returned, he changed the doctrine overnight. From now on, only one '48 for the Moskva. Why? A lack of DC equipment and poor water-tight compartmenalization. Torpedos are expensive after all. An admiral is a sailor is a spy. LOL.
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I the Soviet doctrine was to get close (preferably during "peacetime"), then launch everything you have to try to swamp the defenses. After that, who cares about the now weaponless ship, or the people on board her? Kind of the same way their ground units were to be "expended" in combat.
March 31, 2005: China is apparently planning an "out-of-the-blue" (OOTB) attack on Taiwan, that will initially consist mainly of missiles and warplanes. What this means is that, during what appears to be peacetime maneuvers, the troops involved will suddenly move against a nearby nation and invade. This tactic was developed by Russia during the Cold War, but never used. They prepared for it by holding large scale training exercises twice a year, near the border with West Germany. The Russian troops were all ready to practice, or go to war. An OOTB attack could be ordered by having the troops to cross the border and attack NATO forces, who would have insufficient warning to deal with the sudden offensive. NATO finally caught on to this plan, and put the troops on alert during the Russian field exercises. The OOTB was most noticeably used, and successfully at that, when the Russian trained Egyptian army surprised the Israelis and recaptured the Suez canal in 1973.
If everyone is on to OOTB attacks, how does China expect to get away with it? Especially when it would involve an amphibious operation involving at least ten hours time at sea for the ships of the amphibious force. The exact details are kept secret, but the plan involves using over 600 ballistic missiles, and several hundred warplanes, which China has stationed within range of Taiwan. Within an hour, the missiles could hit Taiwanese anti-aircraft missile launchers, radars, airbases, ships in harbor and army barracks and combat vehicles. Launch the attack in the pre-dawn hours, and you catch most of the troops in their barracks, and the ships, warplanes and tanks lined up and vulnerable. Amphibious troops would already be on their ships, for an amphibious exercises, escorted by numerous warships. As the amphibious fleet headed for Taiwan, hundreds of Chinese warplanes would return to hit whatever targets had been missed.
Taiwanese commanders have responded with plans to keep warships at sea and some aircraft in the air at all times during Chinese exercises. Even 900 ballistic missiles, which the Chinese will have in place during the next few years, would not be sufficient to shut down the Taiwanese armed forces. But if the missiles, and air strikes soon thereafter, could do enough damage to prevent the first wave of amphibious ships from getting hit bad, Taiwan would be in big trouble. In fact, if the Chinese could get control of the air over Taiwan for a day or so, three Chinese airborne divisions could be dropped on Taiwan as well.
Taiwan has always expected assistance from the U.S. Navy and Air Force. But without advance warning to get a carrier or two into the area, and a few hundred U.S. Air Force planes alerted for movement to Taiwan, Japan and Guam, the American assistance would be too late. Thus, for Taiwan, an OOTB attack, which the Chinese appear to be preparing to carry out, is something to worry about.
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So what happens when Taiwan (ROC) blows the pre-installed bombs in the 3 Gorges Dam and 1/4 of China washes into the ocean?
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I just don't see this happening. If China were to do this - their entire economy would go belly up. I don't think they are willing to risk that.
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Sam, to the contrary. The addition of the Taiwanese currency reserves and its industrial base postpone the Chinese economic collapse, perhaps for as long as a decade or more.
The Chinese will attack. It's only a matter of when. Combined with enough maskirovka, this scenario may be a winner.
And I remain unconvinced that Taiwan would have the will to fight to the bitter end. It's possible that after this conflict it would appear that Saddam put up more of a fight. I don't expect the Taiwanese equivalent of "We shall fight them on the beaches..."
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There is a possibility that this could work, if it all indeed happens "out of the blue", and Taiwan falls fast enough, in a week or so. The disruption to the Chinese economy would then be transient, and the US could do little about a fait accompli.
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China will get Taiwans government moolah only if a Taiwan government hands it over willingly, or if China gets the US to agree to take it away from a Taiwan government-in-exile. There will be lots of refugees.
More important are the private assets of Taiwanese. These are mostly going to stay where they are. A lot of this investment is in China already.
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CS: The addition of the Taiwanese currency reserves and its industrial base postpone the Chinese economic collapse, perhaps for as long as a decade or more.
With or without an invasion, I doubt that any Chinese economic collapse is going to happen. The major issues with China's economy occurred after the Communists adopted Marxist collectivist policies. Now that they've switched to relatively free markets, China's economy will grow rapidly, regardless of whether it trades with foreigners. Like the US, China has a relatively self-sufficient continental-sized economy. Whatever happens with respect to the outside world, China's economy is likely to boom for decades - that's the beauty of adopting a (mostly) free market economy - a country's success isn't dependent on outsiders. (There's this myth that Cuba has been impoverished by the US trade embargo. But the reality is that Cuba has been free to trade with the rest of the world for ages. It's Castro's economic policies that have crippled Cuba, not Uncle Sam's trade sanctions).
What do the Chinese have to gain by lobbing HE at Taiwan?
It seems to me the smart play in an OOTB attack would be the air companent only, massive amounts of fixed wing air superiorty fighters to suppress the Taiwan air force and to provide cover for an air borne assault attack on airports and seaports, with missiles held in reserve if an airborne insertion fails.
The Chinese are not knuckleheads. They want the island intact, not smoking and smouldering with a pissed off poplace.
It's fun to game these things out, I agree, but the idea of a massive HE or even nuke attack just makes zero sense.
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Chinese trade with who after the attack? We would shut down all trade by moral necessity (sorry AlGore and BillC). Think Japan and SK are going to practice total realpolitik?
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The missile-borne HE would presumably be aimed at Taiwans air defenses, airfields, and naval facilities, not the population. Ballistic missiles are harder to intercept than aircraft, and it makes sense to make them the first wave - defense suppression - for this reason.
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The Chinese may be counting on realpolitik in fact. With a fait accompli, and so much investment hostage, it would be difficult to sustain an embargo.
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FG: Chinese trade with who after the attack? We would shut down all trade by moral necessity (sorry AlGore and BillC). Think Japan and SK are going to practice total realpolitik?
The Chinese, like Uncle Sam, don't *need* to trade with anyone. It's more efficient, but the *need* isn't there. That's a feature of continental-sized economies - they are self-sufficient.
As regards a total trade embargo, even if it were effective - which it isn't - it's unlikely to happen. Note that no one in the region really wants to fight an all-out war with a nuclear-armed China, which is what could follow an embargo. The Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia was initiated after an American embargo of critical resources against Japan was initiated. The Japanese campaign was a pure resource grab - starting with the oil fields of Dutch-held Batavia (now Indonesia). No neighbor of China is going to acquiesce in an embargo - Uncle Sam is far away, whereas China is right next door.
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they would be wise to wait for another dem president. Taking the Chinese apart would be a bad lesson for the PRC to learn. I think an isolated China would take a big step backwards - where's the capital to pay for things internally? Their economy is a step from the debt brink.
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"Saving Face" usually trumpets business opportunities in Asia.
As long as Taiwan stays below the threshold of declaring independence, I don't see an invasion. If they do, I see trouble.
So what if Chinese economy gets seriously hurt? They hurt themselves so much more in the "Culture Revolution". Unless serious destructions occurred on the mainland, they'd be back in a few years.
Embargos? Yeah right. Expect the Security Council to issue a strong "This was not very nice and please don't do it again".
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FG: I think an isolated China would take a big step backwards - where's the capital to pay for things internally?
A free economy doesn't *need* foreign capital. All that does is dilute existing returns and channel it into unproductive investments. Japan is the supreme example of excess capital formation - over a decade later, they are still dealing with the fallout from that bursting of that bubble. Something similar happened in the US in the late '90's with regard to stock prices, and is happening with regard to property prices today.
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FG: I think an isolated China would take a big step backwards - where's the capital to pay for things internally?
I think reporters tend to emphasize this angle because it is in accord with their one-world ideology. The reality is that countries are independent economic actors. They can trade or not trade - but what happens to their economies is a function of how they manage their economies, not what outsiders do or do not do. In this respect, countries are no different from individual people - they and they alone, are responsible for their destinies.
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Well, you may be right ZF, But the loss of that Panama canal operation concession and the Canadian oil importing Co should be the first actions by the President, by force
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I expect a major propoganda campaign first. Jet li's Hero will be played all over the place, the theme being it's heroic not to fight back against the dictator because no matter how bad he is one China is more important.
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If there is a trade embargo against China they will nationalize foreign assets, thus a lot of western business leaders will fight against such an embargo.
I don't think China would be back in a few years, perhaps a decade or two before they are trusted again and anyone invests. I think you can count on someone else picking up the slack on the crappy plastic toys manufacturing. It's the high tech out of Taiwan we'll all miss. I don't see Tiawan going scorched Earth exactly but I do see a few hi tech plants being blasted out of spite.
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Trade's one thing, resupply of the posited 3 (LOL) para divisions plus the occupational army is another. Mines. Mo Mines and a few more mines. Plus the odd 688.
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Shipman: Trade's one thing, resupply of the posited 3 (LOL) para divisions plus the occupational army is another.
The paras will run out of ammo and get slaughtered. The Germans had great difficulty during the Crete campaign despite sending their elite forces against ill-prepared British and ANZAC forces. The Taiwanese have been preparing for an invasion for decades. I can't believe Chinese troops will fare remotely as well as the Germans.
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Its high-risk. If they think they can take over vs poor Taiwanese morale, maybe they might risk it. The number of troops landed may not matter that much in such a case. The question is whether Taiwan will fight.
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Thr threat from Taiwan is an alibi the Chicoms have used for decades to deny democratic economic civil, and natural rights to the masses. The tactic described here is a key realistic premise as to why the Leftist-Socialist dominated Global anti-American community is harshly, obscenely critical of post-Clinton America and Dubya - 9-11 and the WOT is ultim about COMMUNIST WORLD ORDER, not Radical Islam although we will still have to fight the Islamists and alleged "rogue", PC Commies like NK and CUba, etal.! WE ARE IN A WORLD WAR THREE/FOUR, FOR THE VERY SURVIVAL AND EXISTENCE OF AMERICA AND DEMOCRACY AS WE KNOW IT -WE AMERICANS EITHER ACCEPT UNILATERAL AND UNCONDITIONAL SUBORNMENT TO COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM AND COMMIE-SOCIALIST OWG, OR WE WILL BE MILITARILY ATTACKED AND DESTROYED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY! The Failed/Angry Left > a Fascist is still a [hated/criminal]Fascist, but a Communist is a Fascist whose still an [innocent] Communist and for Communism!? IN case of de facto war, the Commies intend for America's volunteer army to overstretched and run out of beans and bullets before they run out of bodies.
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Zhang Fei, you keep railing on about continental scale economies and no need for foreign capital. I call bullshit. China doesn't have truly free internal markets and it certainly doesn't have free capital markets. The freeish parts of the Chinese economy, the ones that are growing rapidly, are heavily bound up in trade with foreigners. Regarding the foreign capital: it's not just (or primarily) the size of the flows that matters. It's the economic discipline that comes from making market based decisions.
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Do you think that WalMart would continue to try and sell things with Made in China labels after something a Chinese sneak attack? There are lots of other places with cheap labor: India, Indochina, Caribbean, etc. China's economy is fueled by exports to the US. With no US market, even if they nationalize the factories, to whom do they intend to sell?
On a different note, what happens if the four Taiwanese subs happen to sink an oil tanker or two in a Chinese port? China has lots of subs, but not enough destroyers to keep that from happening.
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CS: Zhang Fei, you keep railing on about continental scale economies and no need for foreign capital. I call bullshit. China doesn't have truly free internal markets and it certainly doesn't have free capital markets. The freeish parts of the Chinese economy, the ones that are growing rapidly, are heavily bound up in trade with foreigners. Regarding the foreign capital: it's not just (or primarily) the size of the flows that matters. It's the economic discipline that comes from making market based decisions.
What you're missing is the fact that by these criteria, there are no free markets in East Asia, including in Hong Kong, which allows all kinds of price-fixing cartels (in real estate, banking, retail, et al) to function without regulation. At this stage in China's growth, the key factor is relatively clean and efficient government. Compared to the Latin American and many of the East Asian countries, China's government is pretty clean. It isn't an accident, for example, that China has among the cheapest long distance rates to the US in East Asia - it means that government rake-offs are thin or non-existent.
Another important factor is the lack of labor regulation. Labor costs are extremely low in China, not simply because wage costs are low, but because there are very few regulations governing an employer's right to hire and fire. This is very similar to what exists in other East Asian countries that have grown rapidly in the past few decades.
Infrastructure is another important factor. China is building highways, power stations and other critical infrastructure at a rapid clip. This means that investors - domestic or otherwise - don't have to build their own roads or generators to put up a new plant. A lot of developing countries score extremely badly on this score, because of a combination of corruption and rank incompetence. China is the exception.
The reality is that China is awash in domestic capital. This is why China is seeing a supersized version of the real estate boom we are seeing stateside. For example, a three-bedroom apartment in one of China's industrial boomtowns is selling for 450,000 yuan, the equivalent of 40 years' average salary in that city (whose massive expanse resembles LA County rather than New York City).
The reality is this - China doesn't depend on the goodwill of foreign investors any more than Uncle Sam depends on the goodwill of foreign buyers of Treasury bonds. This interdependence garbage is just a load of one-world crap. Note that Japan was Uncle Sam's largest customer for oil and scrap metal before WWII. Didn't exactly prevent Japan from overrunning all of East Asia.
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my worry is the instant "Axis". China, NK, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venesuala all throw tantrums within the same month while our EU buddies stick their heads in the sand. With Carter to thank for China running the canal its a mess.
A Slovenian TV programme that tried to prove top models were brainless bimbos was scrapped after a beauty queen turned out to have a higher IQ than a nuclear physicist.
If you read this far, you should click on the link so that you can...uh...appreciate the rest of the story.
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Yeah, yeah, but can she cook?
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Matt, after seing the photo, your remark should rate as the most irrelevant question of this week.
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Dont go scaring her now TGA !
She's a perfectly amicable lady , at least on an intellectual level . Looks far too serious for a roughneck like myself .. twenty years ago though .....
New subject...
This multi-language thing is funny... My wife, who is Russian has a friend who is ethnic Russian, but born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She speaks Uzbek.
On a New Years eve, My wife and I, and her and a date went to a local spot... There happened to be people from Tajikistan there sitting behind us. Uzbak and Tajik are close enough that they are mutually understandable. She got the giggles because she could understand the conversation...She later said they were making crude jokes about relatives who weren't there...
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"Iris, who previously admitted one of her ambitions was to have sex with one guy and three other girls, was Slovenia's Miss Universe contestant in 2002."
You gotta love a smart woman whose mind is truly liberated.
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looks like Jamie Lee Curtis (less rack), that's still a good thang
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ROME (AP) - A Vatican cardinal denounced the death Thursday of Terri Schiavo, saying that removing the feeding tube that kept her alive was ``an attack against God.''
Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Vatican's office for sainthood, said that ``an attack against life is an attack against God, who is the author of life.''
The Florida woman suffered severe brain damage after a heart attack 15 years ago. The feeding tube that had been keeping her alive was removed with a judge's approval on March 18.
I guess they don't realize the chimp=Bush thing is so 2004...
Belgium's interior minister was left red-faced after it emerged that photos comparing US President George W. Bush to a chimpanzee had been used in a police training manual. "I hadn't seen these photos and I think they are in bad taste," the minister, Patrick Dewael, told the Flemish-language daily Het Laatste Nieuws, which first reported the story. "They're much less classy than the urinal stickers....
The pictures in question -- reprinted by the newspaper -- showed a series of the US leader's facial expressions next to shots of a chimpanzee making apparently similar faces. They were intended to show off their mad Photoshop skillz help trainee police officers in the western city of Bruges to recognize the importance of body language in dealing with the public. Bush is shown in poses ranging from pensive to finger-waving debating mode. The pictures are all the more embarrassing for Dewael since their mad skillz really suck he had signed a letter calling on Belgian municipal authorities and other police chiefs to use the manual. But he was at pains to insist he did not know about the pictures. "This collage was not an initiative of the interior ministry," he said, adding that he intended to ask Bruges authorities to withdraw the controversial pages from the manual.
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The European Union head office said Thursday it will seek to impose additional sanctions of up to 15 percent on U.S. products to punish Washington for failing to repeal an antidumping law ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization. The law, known as the Byrd amendment, allows American companies to receive proceeds from antidumping duties levied on foreign rivals. It was approved in 2000 and in four annual distributions, over $1 billion has been distributed to such industries as steel and metal producers and food and household items. I'd be inclined to raise the anti-dumping duties by another 15%, but that's just me.
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The law, known as the Byrd amendment,
Sen. Byrd has half of West Virginia named after him; is he going for a world record or something?
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Related note: Washington State passed a multi-year tax break deal for aerospace companies to stay / relocate to the state; it was worded like that to woo Boeing and the 7E7 (now 787). Airbus is looking to build a plant in the US, presumably to build USAF tankers, and WA is in the running with 3 locations. The $64,000 question is; will EADS (Airbus) take the subsidies, or withdraw their complaint in the WTO regarding Boeing and subsidies?? Can't have it both ways and i cannot see them NOT taking any tax deals.
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I have to say the EU is in the right on this matter. WTO allows anti-dumping levies, but giving the money to domestic producers is clearly a subsidy and IMO a dumb idea (pork barreling of the worst kind).
Otherwise the EU is a major food exporter and has problems with over-production in many areas. There is no doubt they could be selfsufficient in food (excepting things like bananas).
Foreign companies in certain industries are being fined by the US Trade Commission (? I may have the org name wrong), because they were considered to be "dumping" their goods (ie. selling below cost) in the US market.
And part of the money received from the fine payments is being handed to the US companies.
(Probably the plaintiffs in the original anti-dumping lawsuit, rather than every US company in the given industry, but I am not sure as I am not an informed expert on this).
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Every time I read the headline, I initially see AntiChrist, instead of Anarchist. I wonder why that is, lol! And I'm an atheist, to boot, heh. Moments of Weirdness in Pattern Matching, I guess.
If American forces aren't pulling out of Iraq in a year, a draft will be needed to meet manpower requirements, military analysts warned Wednesday.
With recruitment lagging and no end in sight for U.S. forces in Iraq, the "breaking point" for the nation's all-volunteer military will be mid-2006, agreed Lawrence Korb, a draft opponent and assistant defense secretary in the Reagan administration, and Phillip Carter, a conscription advocate and former Army captain.
"America's all-volunteer military simply cannot deploy and sustain enough troops to succeed in places like Iraq while still deterring threats elsewhere in the world," Carter concluded in the March issue of "Washington Monthly." Korb is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, and a senior adviser to the Center for Defense Information. Carter is attorney who writes on military affairs for Slate.com and other media. They debated at a symposium on the draft Wednesday...
WASHINGTON - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger will plead guilty to taking classified material from the National Archives, a misdemeanor, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Berger is expected to appear in federal court in Washington on Friday, said Justice spokesman Bryan Sierra.
The former Clinton administration official previously acknowledged he removed from the National Archives copies of documents about the government's anti-terror efforts and notes that he took on those documents. He said he was reviewing the materials to help determine which Clinton administration documents to provide to the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
He called the episode "an honest mistake," and denied criminal wrongdoing.
Yeah, shove some classified papers down your breetches, thats a mistake--especially if an bent staple pokes 'something'
Berger and his lawyer, Lanny Breuer, have said Berger knowingly removed the handwritten notes by placing them in his jacket and pants and inadvertently took copies of actual classified documents in a leather portfolio. He returned most of the documents, but some still are missing.
Some are missing? The dog ate 'em...
The charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.
The materials related to a 2000 report on how government reacted to the terror threat prior to the millennium celebrations.
Berger stepped down as an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign last July after The Associated Press reported that the Justice Department was investigating the matter.
Many Democrats, including former President Clinton, suggested politics were behind disclosure of the probe only days before the release of the Sept. 11 commission report, which Republicans feared would be a blow to President Bush's re-election campaign.
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LOL - all of you! I'm still amazed a Clinton official got caught and punished, even if it took extra time and effort (and a serious loss of WTF? on Sandy's part), it seems a bit satisfying
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First, it is good to be concerned about Mrs. Clinton, for she is coming down the pike. It is pointless to be afraid, but good to be concerned. Why? Because we live in a more or less 50-50 nation; because Mrs. Clinton is smarter than her husband and has become a better campaigner on the ground; because her warmth and humor seem less oily; because she has struck out a new rhetorically (though not legislatively) moderate course; because you donââ¬t play every card right the way sheââ¬s been playing every card right the past five years unless you have real talent; because unlike her husband she has found it possible to grow more emotionally mature; because the presidency is the bright sharp focus of everything she does each day; because she is not going to get seriously dinged in the 2008 primaries but will likely face challengers who make her look even more moderate and stable; and because in 2008 we will have millions of 18- to 24-year-old voters who have no memory of her as the harridan of the East Wing and the nutty professor of HillaryCare.
The Hillary those young adults remember will be the senator--chuckling with a throaty chuckle, bantering amiably with Lindsey Graham, maternal and moderate and strong. Add to that this: Half the MSM will be for her, and the other half will be afraid of the half that is for her. (You think journalists are afraid of the right? Journalists are afraid of each other.) And on top of all that, Itââ¬s time for a woman. Almost every young woman in America, every tough old suburban momma, every unmarried urban high-heel-wearing, briefcase-toting corporate lawyer will be saying it. Theyââ¬ll be working for, rooting for, giving to the woman.
I am of course exaggerating, but not by much.
Can a Republican beat her? Sure. Sheââ¬ll have to make mistakes, and she will. And he (it will be a he; itââ¬s not Condi, because the presidency is not an entry-level political office) will have to be someone who stands for big, serious and solidly conservative things, and really means it, which will mark a nice contrast with Mrs. Clinton, who believes only in herself. He will also have to be able to do the delicate dance of running against a woman without seeming scared, patronizing, nervous or macho. It isnââ¬t going to be easy. But itââ¬s doable.
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I'll play the odds on history. The Zero Factor is still in play. If it does happen, no Dem candidate will be able to take the executive office for the next couple of elections.
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I lost all respect for Peggy Noonan - she needs a year or two break and a humility injection.
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it will be a he; itââ¬â¢s not Condi, because the presidency is not an entry-level political office
Unlike the Senate, apparently.
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Peggy has dropped off a few pegs.
Hilderbest has already turned off most self-respecting men with her screeching shouts. She can run, but she cannot hide from her socialist record.
How many hair styles has she had over the past decade? It would be interesting to see an political advertisement showing her various positions on issues coupled with her varying make-overs.
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The Senate has frequently been an entry level position. The prseidency has not. Post-founding father exceptions? Eisenhower, Hoover, Grant, all gained fame in military victories; Hoover in the humanitarian reconstruction efforts after WWI. Pays to lead an army to victory.
Tommy Franks for President.
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because in 2008 we will have millions of 18- to 24-year-old voters who have no memory of her
Right. That same bloc of young idealistic liberal voters that propelled John Kerry to his landslide presidential victory. What? John Kerry lost?
Frankly, regardless of who the Democratic candidate is, the electoral college math is strongly against them at this point in time. However, Ms. Noonan is correct on one point. The electorate is closely divided, so the GOP cannot afford a subpar campaign performance by the eventual nominee.
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because in 2008 we will have millions of 18- to 24-year-old voters who have no memory of her
Like all the 18-24 year olds who were supposed afraid of the upcoming draft in '04. With all the money and "Rock the Vote" BS the MSM dished out, the % of 18-24 year old kids who voted remained the same. A dismal 20-30% IIRC. Point is, the kids just don't care and you can't make 'um. So dems, continue to waste money and effort on this age group. It ain't gonna matter on election day.
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because in 2008 we will have millions of 18- to 24-year-old voters who have no memory of her
But the bloggers will be there to provide them with those memories. Where do you think the voters of that age group get their news, it's off the web, not on network news or the dead tree edition of the MSM. If Kerry thought the Swiftboat Vets were rough, wait till the HildaBeast starts running. Plus unless the Republicians nominate a child-molesting Satan worshiper, the blue-staters will crawl naked over broken glass to vote against her. That includes the women voters. Blowjob Bill may have been able to fool the voters, but she ain't him.
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Until we get to the point where women (who by the way, are 50% of the US voting strength) would want to vote for a female candidate, why should I, waste mine!
We wouldn't do this to a dog. As you consider the excess and tyranny of the courts, and their callous inaction, keep in mind that:
A conscious [cognitively disabled] person would feel it just as you or I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the pangs of hunger and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of water! Death by dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an extremely agonizing death. See link to A "Painless" Death?.
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) - Nearly two weeks after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected, her parents endured two more legal setbacks in their fight to keep her alive when the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals court refused to intervene.
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The case has spent seven years winding its way through the courts, with the Schindlers repeatedly on the losing end. The nation's high court on Wednesday declined to intervene for the sixth time. Hours earlier in an 9-2 ruling, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta declined to grant a new hearing in the case - the fourth time since last week that it ruled against the Schindlers. One of the appeals court judges rebuked the White House and lawmakers Wednesday for acting "in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers' blueprint for the governance of a free people - our Constitution." Ah, what about that ironclad rule of law that the actions of the legislature are entitled to a presumption of constitutionality? Just doesn't fit Judge Birch and Judge Greer's ideas of how to run things . . . "Any further action by our court or the district court would be improper," wrote Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr., appointed by President Bush's father.
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Her parents doubt she had any end-of-life wishes and say she laughs, tries to speak and responds to them when they visit the hospice.But, who cares. Welcome to the brave new world..
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26 national disability rights organizations have adopted a position in support of Terri Schiavo's right to continue to receive food and water. The evidence that Ms. Schiavo would refuse tube feeding is so unclear and conflicted that it does not satisfy legal standards. The lower court in Florida can pretend otherwise, and the Florida appellate courts can refuse to question the lower court judge, but it serves society poorly to give guardians such an unfettered right to kill.
Disabled activists stage a protest calling for continued care and feeding of Terri Schiavo during a protest at the Thompson Center Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. Hat tip: (AFP/Getty Images/Scott Olson, and Yahoo)
A protester in a wheelchair argues with police . . . Hat tip: (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, and Yahoo)
IT IS A GRIEVOUS INJURY TO OUR SOCIETY, AND TO THE SOCIAL COMPACT OF GOVERNMENT, THAT THE STATE HAS ABANDONED THIS WOMAN -- LEAVING HER TO DIE A SLOW AND TORTUROUS DEATH IN THE UNCARING HANDS OF HER BRUTAL HUSBAND. Every nay saying Florida legislator should be thrown out of office.
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she just died - her parents were denied access. Michael Schiavo, his atty and Judge Greer shoulod be treated like the subhuman shit they are
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Just before Schiavo's feeding tube was removed, rumors were that the Senate Republicans were going wobbly on the "Constitutional Option." If this is true, and they fail to at least fight this battle, I will do everything I can to punish them at the ballot box. They will have shown that they are no different from Democrats.
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Mel Gibson put it best. This is a modern day crucifiction. I think the Bible verses below explains a lot.
Matthew 25:40-46
40âThe King will reply, âI tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.â
41âThen he will say to those on his left, âDepart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.â
44âThey also will answer, âLord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?â
45âHe will reply, âI tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.â
46âThen they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.â
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cingold : I posted "Judge" Birch's tantrum against W and the Congress yesterday on RB... Seems little Stan needs a "time-out" and to go sit in the corner.
"The tragic events that have afflicted Mrs. Schiavo and that have been compounded by the resulting passionate inter-family struggle and media focus certainly qualify as âhard facts.â And, while the members of her family and the members of Congress have acted in a way that is both fervent and sincere, the time has come for dispassionate discharge of duty."
Dispassionate Discharge also happens when congress impeaches and convicts federal judges as well...
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eL... What this says to me is that Judge Tjoflat, under normal circumstances should be high on the list when W gets an opening...Unfortunately he is 75.
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I lived in a southern state on the coast for awhile . . . swamp judges--pheff! The "good ol' boy" network is alive and well in those parts, and Terri's case proves how much they miss slavery. "Why that little woman wouldnt want to live--besides her husband is her ruler. If we start backing women, what will happen to our power structure? Let her die boys! Stand by Michael Schiavo, or we'll be next."
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"ALL PARTY'S INVOLVED IN THIS FIASCO SHOULD BE ASHAMED" Hopefully this can be the final word. An anticipated death should at the very least be afforded a bit of dignity and privacy. What an unmitigated disaster.
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Pinellas County Sherrif Coats calls "Judge" Greer to give him the news.
"We kep' her dry, your honor. Arrested more than 20!"
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ex-lib, I don't believe the "good-ole-boy" network had any influence on this tragic case and I can't see how this could possibly relate to reinstatement of slavery. Her husband was her "ruler" because of Florida law on guardianship. This particular law is not specific to the south. I am an 8th generation Southerner and I can tell you the attitude that men rule women is not prevalent and hasn't been for a long time. Obviously you had a bad experience where you lived and I won't deny the existance of the attitude you describe, but it is not prevalent. I am very much saddened by Mrs. Schivao's horrible death but neither I nor you truly know her wishes on being kept alive. Is Mr. Schiavo a scumbag? It appears so and his denying Terry's parents admission to her room during her last hour confirms it. To blame this situation on "the good-ole-boy" network and the judges' wishes to return to slavery is totally off the wall.
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Ex-lib, you should be able to figure out by now how I felt about the case in question.
You might also stop and think about how many times I've read "god damn the Bushes for not doing anything." Or "I'm not voting for another Christian Conservative because they tried to save her" (even though it was unsuccessful). Apparently they have a low threshold as to what constitutes theocratic tyrrany: all you have to do is NOT starve someone to death. As a result they'll go back to voting for the sorts of people who drive tanks through churches and deport eight-year-old kids to Communist countries.
I think blaming this on "southerners," especially when this is another of those counties in Florida which doesn't really have that many southerners left, is wrong.
If you really want to know more about the legal background of the situation, look at this:
http://www.lisamcpherson.org/
that happened in Pinella county.
And that particular cult isn't a Southern tradition.
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To blame this situation on âthe good-ole-boyâ network and the judgesâ wishes to return to slavery is totally off the wall.
I think people are just looking for a place to land. How could something like the state sanctioned and enforced torturous death of Terri Schiavo through starvation and thirst happen in the United States of America? It must be because of the state, the culture, the county . . . Or, at least weâd like those factors to be the explanation for this barbarism. Nobody really likes the answers suggested by Stanley Milgramâs studies on the Obedience to Authority.
Knowing ex-lib pretty well, I am absolutely certain that she isnât really taking a swipe at the South (remember, the South will ârise againâ -- ;) -- nobody would want to mess with them). Rather, I think the pith of her comments, and focus of her sentiments, is found here:
If _ what will happen to our power structure? Let her die boys!
The real tyrants in this whole situation are wearing black robes, sitting on their kesters and making pronouncements that impact everybody else. Hint: Iâm always a bit cautious around people who want to put on costumes and airs, and have everybody treat them with honor and respect, on pain of contempt. These despots (and not just in the South) do want society subservient to them and their rulings -- i.e., to be their slaves, paying their salaries with our tax dollars, and just accepting anything they hand down as a ruling. These despots (and not just in the South) do have a âgood-ole-boyâ network -- and they do punish anybody who crosses or confronts them, and they do back each other up.
That said; I respect the judiciary. It is an indispensable branch of government, and deserves enforcement of its rulings. Nonetheless, every branch of government must be held back from the corruption of power through the effective checks and balances set up by the founders. It is time for the people of this country to employ the mechanisms afforded by the nationâs founders, pass laws that require humane treatment of the disabled and support life, liberty and happiness, and remove from public office those who would follow in the steps of the star chambers. Impeach the ba*t#&ds!
Thanks for the picture, it is worth a thousand words. Birch's opinion is just like how he looks . . . One great big, SELF-RIGHTEOUS, heaping, stinking pile of garbage.
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Sorry guys, but I'm sticking to my take on the effects of culture, and how they affected the outcome of this case and the attitudes displayed by the judges.
(No, Deacon Blues, I'm not off the wall. My slavery comment has to do with male attitudes of superiority I have seen in the South, especially as they pertain to women. I believe those attitudes are a throwback to earlier times which allowed for a culturally/socially-sanctioned domination of an underclass--which used to be the slaves. Anonymous Coward, I have no idea who you are, so whatever. cingold, yeah, the black robes ARE who I'm talking about, in addition to the Sheriff's department, those on the board at the hospice, etc.)
An interesting piece on the "good ol' boy" network of corruption in Florida (from Rush Limbaugh) as it pertains to the Schiavo case. "Felos and the Death Industry Own Michael Schiavo -- Conflicts of interest" ...story
BTW: Not all southerners are part of the "good ol' boy" phenomenon, but the fact that there are those bitching at me over something EVERYBODY in the South already knows (i.e., the "good ol' boys"), is proof positive of what I'm talking about. Good grief.
Anyway, I'm not blaming the incident on culture, I was observing it's impact. So shut up. My people were from Georgia.
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An interesting piece on the "good ol' boy" network of corruption in Florida (from Rush Limbaugh) as it pertains to the Schiavo case. "Felos and the Death Industry Own Michael Schiavo -- Conflicts of interest" ...story
FWIW -- to me -- this seems like corruption, pure and simple. I don't know that it's worse in the South, even if it is more storied there. IMO these behind the scenes dealings and conflicts go on in every judicial district in the country, and (rarely, but) AT TIMES SOME PEOPLE (usually the less socially powerful or pleasing) DO LITERALLY DIE, AS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE, FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF THOSE OTHER PEOPLE (usually the more socially powerful and pleasing) FAVORED BY DECISION MAKERS, i.e., judges.
It is not without some forethought and experience with these matters that the founders of this nation enshrined in the Constitution the right to a jury trial -- in both civil and criminal cases. The synergistically combined intelligence of a group of average people puts even the IQ of Iris Mulej to shame.
Over the course of this Terri Schiavo case, I have often found myself wondering how things would have turned out if a jury had been requested to find facts in the case. Granted, a limited role in an equity/probate case, but (I think) still vitally important. Itâs clear to me, anyway, that Judge Greer erred grievously in both finding the facts and in applying the law, perhaps because of the inherent conflicts of all the hats he was trying to wear simultaneously. Or, then, maybe heâs just an a##h0!3 who had his ego on the line, and a point to make at Terriâs expense -- heâs the judge!
A rising United Nations star who played a key role in organising the Iraqi elections has been accused of running an office in which favouritism, misuse of funds and sexual harassment were rife. Carina Perelli, the outspoken Uruguayan director of the UN electoral assistance division and the youngest woman at her level in the organisation, had won praise for her work in setting up the Iraqi elections on dangerous trips to Baghdad. However, a confidential review by external management consultants has questioned her "basic integrity".
Ms Perelli, 48, who holds the high UN rank of D2, allegedly boasted: "There's nothing they can do to me. I'm the youngest D2, a woman from a developing country." Ms Perelli, a political scientist, has run the 18-member electoral assistance unit for nine years and directed elections in troublespots such as Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, East Timor, Colombia, Liberia and Haiti.
The report, by the Swiss consulting company Mannett S.A.R.L., found the work environment in Ms Perelli's unit to be "offensive" and "abusive". "Those interviewed indicated that a constant sexual innuendo is part of the 'fabric' of the division," it said. "They referred to a steady stream of sexual jokes, references and behaviours within the division which the director believes are 'conducive to collegiality'." Such behaviour included "unwelcome advances/sexually suggestive behaviours", "unwelcome sharing of sexual behaviours and exploits" and even references to a "dominatrix" in an office exam. Staff also complained of "references to and inquiries into the most intimate details of the sex lives of staff members", including public humiliation with respect to their responses to those inquiries".
The report accused Ms Perelli and some other officials of using at least one political affairs officer and some secretaries to run personal errands. It also raised concern about the "perceived misuse" of UN funds for travel. The consultants cite concern about "frequent, unjustifiable mission travel to Latin American destinations in particular". The review criticised Ms Perelli's "inner circle" that appears to be based on the "personal affinities of the director rather than on competence or experience". The report said that the "syndrome is so pronounced" that it raises "serious questions around the director's judgment, ethics and basic professionalism". The study was commissioned by Sir Kieran Prendergast, the UN's British Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, who oversees Ms Perelli's unit.
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Interesting that the Times (of London) which has a similar role as the newspaper of record to the NYT has turned against the UN.
Poor Mahathir. As they say," 'tis often best to say nothing and be though a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
The US dollar is facing an imminent collapse and the global economy will suffer a "catastrophe" when it is rejected as the currency for trade, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said in remarks published yesterday.
Mahathir, who famously ignored International Monetary Fund (IMF) advice and instead chose to peg his country's ringgit to the US dollar during the Asian financial crisis, said a standard gold currency was now the best alternative for world trade. The dollar was retaining some value because of fears of a global economic catastrophe if it was rejected, he told a conference of some 650 chief executives from 30 countries at a conference in Kota Kinabalu on Borneo island on Tuesday, The Star newspaper reported.
"But the catastrophe will come one day because even the most powerful country in the world cannot repay loans amounting to US$7 trillion," Mahathir said.
The former premier said he believed central banks worldwide were reducing their US dollar reserves and he suspected that Malaysia was also switching to other currencies.
Telling reporters that he was giving his personal views, he warned that "unless [the Americans] change their president and have a more responsible president who will try to reduce the deficit, they will have serious trouble with the US currency."
Mahathir told the CEOs it was doubtful that the sliding dollar could regain its old strength as the administration of US President George W. Bush did not consider deficits worth reducing.
The huge deficit meant that the dollar had no backing but it continued to be used internationally because some people still accepted payments in dollars.
"But there will come a time when we will switch away from the dollar and we have suggested the use of gold for international trade," he said.
Meanwhile, if companies did not want to be "short-changed" they should insist on payments in alternative currencies such as the euro or be paid in US dollars but at euro-equivalent value, he said.
Mahathir, who was widely condemned internationally for imposing capital controls and pegging the ringgit to the dollar during the Asian financial collapse 1998, has since won plaudits for his handling of the crisis. He created a stir in January when he joined a chorus of calls for Malaysia to review the currency peg of 3.8 to the dollar given the US unit's decline in value.
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Mahathir came up with the "Look East" policy at a time when Japan was riding high and appeared poised to overtake the US, despite having less than half the population. Now that the Japanese economy has endured over a decade of rolling recessions, we don't hear so much about that any more.
Note also that when Singapore seceded from Malaya in 1965, creating Singapore and Malaysia as separate nations, both countries had roughly the same GDP per capita. Today, Singapore's GDP per capita is $22,000 and Malaysia's is $4,335. And for some reason, Mahathir is lionized wherever he goes.
I suspect the "for some reason" has to do with MM always being good for an anti-American quote or two. Makes the mainstream reporter feel all warm and cuddly seeing one of the oppressed brown brothers raging against the tyrannizing, baby-killing, global-warming machine that is Amerikkka.
Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's hi-tech security system. The car, a Mercedes S-class, was protected by a fingerprint recognition system.
We've all seen this in the movies and laughed
Accountant K Kumaran's ordeal began when he was run down by four men in a small car as he was about to get into his Mercedes in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. The gang, armed with long machetes, demanded the keys to his car. It is worth around $75,000 second-hand on the local market, where prices are high because of import duties. The attackers forced Mr Kumaran to put his finger on the security panel to start the vehicle, bundled him into the back seat and drove off. But having stripped the car, the thieves became frustrated when they wanted to restart it. They found they again could not bypass the immobiliser, which needs the owner's fingerprint to disarm it.
"Hah, you fools! Don't you know you need my finger to start........Hey, stop looking at me like that!"
They stripped Mr Kumaran naked and left him by the side of the road - but not before cutting off the end of his index finger with a machete.
That's gonna leave a mark
Police believe the gang is responsible for a series of thefts in the area.
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I don't think I'd want an retna-scan-auto-ignition either.
Jane Fonda regrets her visit to a North Vietnamese gun site in 1972, the has-been actress and fitness guru said in an interview with CBS television show "60 Minutes" to be aired Sunday.
The actress defended her trip to Vietnam in 1972, which won her the nickname "Hanoi Jane." But she said her visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site used to shoot down U.S. pilots was a "betrayal" of the U.S. military.
"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal," she said, calling the act, "The largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine." Wow, it only took her 33 years to figure that out....
But she said she did not regret visiting Hanoi, or being photographed with American prisoners of war there.
"There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs," she said. "Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. ... It's not something that I will apologize for."
Three decades on, Vietnam continues to be a divisive issue for Americans. During last year's election campaign, some Republican supporters of President Bush called his Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry, "Hanoi John" for protesting the Vietnam War after fighting in it and receiving five medals for combat duty. I thought it was only three....
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Article: "There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs," she said. "Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. ... Itâs not something that I will apologize for."
She regrets the bad PR but not her views. I don't really see what's so newsworthy about this - she sees it as nothing more than a PR blunder.
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If this is CBS's idea of how to shed its image of liberal bias, they need to think again. I wouldn't watch that traitor even if she confessed to treason and impaled herself on a sword.
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was this her Vagina apologizing? Sounds to me like she was talking out her ass. Wow! The wondrous tricks her orifices can do!
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But she does not regret actively supporting and giving aid and comfort the enemy of the United States does she.
How many G.I. died because she convinced the North to continue after their defeat?
I bet its far, far, more then have died so far freeing the Iraqi people.
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Desert Blondie, Hanoi John "won" 3 Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and a Silver Star.
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Sorry but she tried to impale herslf on a sword I would disarm her. I don't want her to suicide, I want her in the electric chair. Not merely for treason but for helping the Vietnamese and Cambodian genociders to win the war. She has a lot of Vietnamese and Cambodian blood on her hands. She is a criminal against humankind.
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Okay, I'd give her the sword, but I wouldn't watch it on CBS.
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I would suggest she simply be stomped within an inch of her life with emphasis on the face and large mouth. After that we repo all her cash and possessions earned here and put it toward viet vets charities. Finally we deport her unceremoniously to some god forsaken third world backwater, like vietnam! At that point the rehabilitation would be complete.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — An explosion late Wednesday rocked a plant that makes duct tape, shooting a fireball into the air and shaking homes a mile away. One employee was killed, officials said. On the plus side, there is a lot of temporary repair materials nearby
The blast at the Intertape Polymer Group plant happened shortly before 11 p.m., said Bradley Anderson, Columbia fire chief. Firefighters contained the blaze less than an hour after the explosion, although a small fire continued to burn two hours after the blast, Anderson said. The identity of the dead worker was not immediately released, but it appeared he was on a boiler in the plant when it exploded. Anderson said. Emergency officials asked residents living near the plant to stay inside and turn off their ventilation systems because of thick smoke, authorities said. and use duct tape around the windows and doors to help seal them
Intertape Polymer Group has its headquarters in Montreal and has 12 other plants in the United States, according to its Web site. Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side and binds the universe together.
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Steam is about 1600 times the volume of the water it came from, so even duct tape won't fix that boiler!
Well, maybe it will, but you should use at least two layers...
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call me picky, but it drives me crazy when people call it "duck tape" and insist that's what it is. I ask: "for what? broken ducks?"
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C D E D B D ducks?
M R not ducks!
O S M R! C D E D B D wings?
L I B! M R ducks!
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Frank, perhaps a visit to the fashions at this site will tell you why Duck Tape brand duct tape is the one high schoolers everywhere ask for. No wonder we think it's duck tape, the commercial product most often found at crime scenes.
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C D E D B D ducks?
What's that? "Twiki" from Buck Rogers asking about some birds he just saw?
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Mrs. Davis, that site frightens me. There's an entire page of uses for Duck Tape on animals. It includes this bit that the Marquis de Sade would be proud of:
"I use Duck(r) Tape to tape the teats on my dairy cows. It keeps the teats from getting bruised..."
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RC--You gotta say it out loud! ("See dee itty bitty ducks?")
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Civile, si ergo
Fortis buses inero
Novile, deus es trux
Vatis inem ? Causan dux
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well if the dead worker was standing on the boiler at the time of the explosion they prob don't know who it was
ZIMBABWEANS were last night holding elections that President Robert Mugabe insists will tighten his party's 25-year grip on power. Meanwhile, two British journalists were arrested in Zimbabwe today while interviewing voters and charged with violating the country's media laws, a police spokesman said. Toby John Harden, 37, and Julian Paul Simmonds, 46, who were working for the British Sunday Telegraph, were arrested near a polling station in the small town of Norton, 40km west of the capital, said police spokesman Wayne Bvudzhijena. "We have arrested two British nationals .. they are being charged under AIPPA (media law) for practising without accreditation," Mr Bvudzhijena said.
This year's campaign was surprisingly free of the bloodshed that marred past polls in 2000 and 2002 — but Western observers are certain the election will be just as corrupt. Thousands of people were queueing at polling stations to vote in an election that will be closely watched to see whether it is free and fair. The main Opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said its supporters had been intimidated and the vote would definitely be rigged by Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). The MDC said one of its candidates, Siyabonga Malandu of Isinza constituency in Matabeleland Province, had disappeared in the south of Zimbabwe after an attack by government supporters yesterday. Police in the capital, Harare, said they had not yet received any missing persons report.
"He's not missing, we know right where he is."
Mugabe has promised a big ZANU-PF win against the weakened Opposition in what he says will be a fair poll, but both the U.S. and Europe have dismissed the election as a farce. Mugabe is vying for a two-thirds parliamentary majority — but the MDC hopes a shock is in store for the 81-year-old dictator. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai went to a Harare school to vote and sounded confident of victory, even though he asserted that "this is not going to be a free and fair election". "The people will speak today and I am hoping that the outcome will be an MDC victory," he said. On the eve of the vote, Mugabe predicted a big victory for his party and ruled out the formation of a unity government if the MDC performed strongly. "Once we have fought in an election, a party has lost and we have won," he said. "We expect that party to respect the result." Mugabe, who led his country to independence from British rule in 1980, has vowed to "bury" the Opposition, accusing them of colluding with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to recolonise the country.
When Bob sez he's gonna "bury" you, he isn't using a figure of speech
But the Opposition responded that the election was not about Britain, but rather about providing food and jobs for starving Zimbabweans. Their living standards have dropped drastically since 2000, when Mugabe launched land reforms in which thousands of white-owned farms were seized and distributed to his friends and family blacks.
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"...If the Pentagon wants to get transformation right, it should scale back funding for some of its most prized high-tech programs and put the cash back into one of its greatest assets: the fighting men and women of the U.S. Army and Marines..." "Yesiree, backinmyday, a soldier with a rusty broken bayonet was *expected* to take on an enemy Division and whup it, even if he was outnumbered five hundred thousand to one! Just needs tougher boot camp is all!"
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I didn't see anything about plans to incorporate the Zionist Death Ray into our military. Mounted on satelites would be cool. Code name: The Wrath of Allan.
Oh, and the Earth Quake generator too. Where does that fit in?
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Should've added that folks like the Brookings Institute people favor 'investment' in troops, because they're a relatively cheap and fungible asset to acquire, maintain, and (especially) demobilise compared to weapon systems. Troops also don't have political-turf support either.
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They didn't want to reduce the F-22 buy to double digits. I guess they've cut that one back as far as they can already.
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New weaponry lasts decades. Troops are lost when their enlistment periods run out. That's the reality. New weaponry takes years, perhaps decades, to get operational. Fresh troops can be trained up in several months. Brookings, the liberal think-tank usually described as moderate by the New York Times, is doing its usual schtick.
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The development cycle for remotely operated and unmanned equipment is (much) shorter, in large part becuase the safety and reliability criteria are lower.
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Brookings pronouncements on American National Security issues should be taken with the same sincerity as Vicente Fox's - they're on the other side IMO
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Nearly three-quarters of faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities describe themselves as liberals, and at elite schools, the proportion is 87 percent, a survey has found.
What's more, half say they are Democrats and 51 percent indicate they seldom or never attend church, according to the survey, published in the March issue of the online political journal Forum.
"You would expect the majority of English literature and sociology professors to be liberals, but our survey found that 66 percent of those in physics and 64 percent of those in chemistry are liberals," said S. Robert Lichter, a communications professor at George Mason University and an author of the study.
In English literature, 88 percent are liberals and 3 percent are conservative, the survey found.
"And in sociology, 59 percent said they are Democrats and 0 percent said they are Republicans," said Mr. Lichter, who also heads the Center for Media and Public Affairs.
In addition, more than two-thirds of faculty members surveyed say they either strongly (44 percent) or somewhat agree (23 percent) that a "homosexual lifestyle" is acceptable. About 84 percent say they support abortion rights.
The survey, based on data from the 1999 North American Academic Study Survey, questioned 1,643 teachers at 183 four-year higher-education institutions nationwide.
It also found that 15 percent of college faculty members overall consider themselves conservative and 11 percent say they are Republicans. Fewer than a third (31 percent) describe themselves as regular churchgoers.
The findings were compiled by Mr. Lichter, in collaboration with Stanley Rothman and Neil Nevitte. Mr. Rothman, the study's director, is a retired political science professor at Smith College. Mr. Nevitte is a political science professor at the University of Toronto.
Said Mr. Lichter: "This is the richest lure of information on faculty ideology in 20 years. And this is the first study that statistically proves bias [against conservatives] in the hiring and promotion of faculty members."
Mr. Rothman agreed. He said the survey "clearly showed" that faculty members who are "conservative, religious and female are less likely to get good jobs" on college campuses and be promoted than other women.
"Republicans get worse jobs than Democrats," Mr. Lichter said.
The ideological shift to the left among college faculty has become much more pronounced in the past 20 years. In a 1984 survey by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 39 percent of faculty said they were liberals.
Peter Sprigg, senior director of policy studies for the Family Research Council, said the study proves that "American academia is overwhelmingly dominated by liberal secularists."
He said it's time they engage in real "diversity" and hire faculty members who reflect the values and "conservatism of Americans at large."
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Study finds liberals dominate faculties
The sun rises in the east.
You die after 13 days without food and water.
The thigh bone's connected to the hip bone.
Grant is buried in Grant's tomb...
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Nearly three-quarters of faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities describe themselves as liberals, and at elite schools, the proportion is 87 percent, a survey has found.
It would be nice if we could be told something that we don't know...
An item on the Snohomish (WA) School District's Web site refers to the football team's "SnoHo" traditions. And "Snoho Mojo" is both a headline in the school yearbook and the name of a local espresso stand.
But when Snohomish High senior Justin Patrick wore a T-shirt to school last month with the lettering "SNOHOS" across the front, it led to his suspension from school.
School officials say "Snohos" contains a slang term for prostitutes and is derogatory toward women.
"As a woman, I am sure that you can appreciate our desire in Snohomish to maintain respect for all members of our community, especially our young women, and to not allow the abbreviated form of our school name to be used to reference them as 'ho's,' " said district spokeswoman Shannon Parthemer, in response to an e-mail query about the suspension.
Patrick and four friends say Snohos is their name for their tight group of friends and was coined four years ago when they started filming videos for fun.
"We tried Snohomians, but that was too long," said Kyle Butcher.
Another friend, Mac Stach, said they never considered the term derogatory.
Until Patrick was sent to the office last month for not having a calculator in math class, he and his friends say no one had objected to the shirts that Butcher said they wear to school "all the time."
Vice Principal Robynn Harrington told Patrick the shirt "didn't seem appropriate" for school and that he needed to cover it up. Patrick said that when he protested, Harrington called in another vice principal to confirm that the shirt violated the school dress code, which prohibits any display of words, pictures or references to alcohol, tobacco, weapons, guns or sexual innuendo.
Frustrated, Patrick said he walked out of the office and returned to class. When he was called back by a security officer the next period and was again told to cover up the shirt, Patrick said he lost his temper and used "a few choice words."
He got a one-day suspension for dress-code violation and sexual harassment and a second day for "gross insubordination."
Patrick's father, Barry Patrick, regrets that his son lost his temper with a school official. But he also can't believe his son was suspended for adding an "s" to a common abbreviation.
He showed administrators photocopies of the 2004 yearbook, where the word "Snoho" appears several times and one headline refers to students as "Snohomies."
Legal experts say while students enjoy broad protections for political speech, schools may restrict dress or behavior that disrupts the educational environment.
Stewart Jay, a constitutional-law scholar at the University of Washington, said courts generally defer to school administrators when it comes to determining what's offensive or indecent. But he said calling a word derogatory when it isn't aimed at any particular individual falls into a legal "gray area."
In a show of solidarity, all four boys yesterday wore their "SNOHOS" shirts to school. Two were told to cover up the lettering, and they did. The other two boys' shirts went unnoticed, they said.
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I don't know but I been told,
Eskimo...
Oh, you know...
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Dar---'Tis an arctic myth.
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LOL - you owe me a new keyboard A/P!!!
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C'mon, Paul! 10,000 drill sergeants can't be wrong! ;-)
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Betcha there's no Ho-ho's in the vending machines, either.
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe praised former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as a "man-woman" who could resolve issues but said Tony Blair was a "disaster" for his country.
Addressing supporters in Harare at a campaign rally, Mugabe recounted that he had held a "man-to-man" talk with Thatcher in 1983 to discuss the arrest of 13 British air force officers on suspicion of destroying the country's aircrafts.
"We sat down in 1983 in New Delhi, and we had a man-to-man talk. Thatcher was a man-woman," Mugabe said.
Damm, and here I thought Bob and me would never agree on anything. Maggie had a set of brass ones, that's for sure.
In contrast, Mugabe said he viewed current Prime Minister Blair as "the greatest disaster that Britain has ever had".
You mean his support for the EU and his liberal domestic policy?
With some 400 British companies investing in Zimbabwe, Mugabe said "Blair does recognise that after South Africa, we are the second largest country with British investment." "So why ruin the basis of that investment by stupid political disposition showing," he said.
Oh, it's because Tony recognises you for the thug you are. Somehow I don't think you'd like Lady Thatcher's views on that subject.
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I don't recall the incident in 1983, but I bet Maggie told him to release them or else. The Falklands War was fresh in everyone's memory at that time.
Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose condition ignited a protracted legal struggle, died today at a Florida hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed under a court order. Representatives of both sides in a dispute over her fate confirmed the death shortly before 10 a.m. EST. The death of Schiavo, 41, ended the court battle that had pitted her husband, who wanted to take her off artificial life support, against her parents and siblings, who sought to keep her alive at all costs.
But the death appeared unlikely to quell the broader controversy fueled by the Schiavo case, one that set right-to-life, antiabortion and conservative religious groups -- with backing from President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress -- against advocates of a "right to die" when the brain no longer functions. Schiavo's death, at the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., came 15 years after she suffered cardiac arrest, experienced a loss of oxygen to the brain and slipped into a coma as a result of an eating disorder. She later emerged from the coma, but she never regained consciousness and remained in what doctors said was a "persistent vegetative state." snip RIP, Terri. You're in a far better place.
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RIP Miss Terri. You should't have had to go through tjis, and it was unconscionable that your true loved ones were thrown out of your room in you last hours.
May "Judge" Greer, Ambulance-Chaser Felos, and Michael Schiavo rot in HELL
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judge greer.....may you suffer everything possible in this world, and the next. I hope your life on this earth is made unbearable. judge greer, you're a no-good piece of shit, a half-assed judge who's willing to MURDER this woman without her consent. FUCK YOU judge greer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wish it was just a Michael Schiavo / Judge Greer / Ambulance-Chaser Felos problem, but it's not. It's a "culture that doesn't respect life" problem. It's a culture that will kill innocents that can't speak up for themselves -- out of convenience. It's a culture that has to debate "partial-birth" abortion. It's a culture that will kill unborn children and call it "pro-choice". Terri Schiavo's death today is just one of many hundreds today that demonstrate our culture's growing inhumanity.
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We Americans will go to no end to aid the helpless, fight injustice and tyranny, and make this world a better and safer place. The Gruesome Threesome that BigEd alludes to are definitely evil incarnate, IMHO. But they are just the symptoms of a bigger problem. We in the US have some serious work to do at home when we are confronted with the fact that the government was not looking out for the rights of this helpless woman. We are not the Netherlands, when it comes to euthansia, at least I hope that we are not. This war of values at home has equal or greater stakes than that of Afghanistan or Iraq.
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that had pitted her husband, who wanted to take her off artificial life support, against her parents and siblings, who sought to keep her alive at all costs.
She was never on life support! This should say:
that pitted her husband (who was living with another woman and had two children from her) and state Judge who wanted to kill her , against her parents who wanted to keep her alive and give her the treatment and therapy which her husband refused to give her.
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$250 million was shunted toward the media by the pro-death groups for the promotion of their agenda over the last 10 years alone. And the media cooperated.
The facts (that the media is still covering up): Terri DID NOT suffer a heart attack, she DID regain consciousness, she WAS NOT in a persistent vegetative state, and IT'S NOT a right/left issue--plenty of atheists, agnostics, disabled groups, Democrats, and even Moslems were protesting--and don't forget civil rights activist Jesse Jackson (who will now and forever be considered less than shit by the the majority of Dems) who came out at the Schindler's request in support of Terri, and called this pro-death fiasco what it was--immoral and inhumane.
Welcome to the United States of the Netherlands--unless WE THE PEOPLE reign in the judciary through our representatives in the legislature.
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The poor girl's ordeal is finally over....now lets see if anyone gets arrested, violated any laws etc. I CANNOT imagine being married to her
husband! Does anyone have the answer as to why the Pope can receive a nasal tube for feeding?.
Nobody takes his tube away!
Andrea Jackson
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WaPo: Terri Schiavo, 41, Dies in Fla. Hospice
They misspelled "was murdered."
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Andrea,
Because he (the pope) doesn't have a slimeball spouse (and slimeball lawyer and slimier Judge) who would deny him basic tests, treatment and therapy once the money had been awarded?
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This is a September Eleven of ethic.
I will not forget, I will not forgive.
An Innocent starved and dehydrated to death.
A human being killed in the way we don't kill even animals.
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Every judge involved in this, including SCOTUS should be arrested, tried, convicted and then executed for murder, along with Michael Schiavo and his attorney. Everyone of them plotted and assisted in the murder of this woman and who kept out the DCF agents need to be convicted and executed as well. Then they can all the "euphoric joy" that Terri did.
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Let me try that again without my brain skipping words.
Every judge involved in this, including SCOTUS should be arrested, tried, convicted and then executed for murder, along with Michael Schiavo and his attorney. Everyone of them plotted and assisted in the murder of this woman and the police who kept out the DCF agents need to be convicted and executed as well. Then they can all experience the "euphoric joy" that Terri did.
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What the hell kind of system is this where Scott Peterson and John Couey continue to breathe our air while an innocent woman is left to starve to death?
They should have just given Michael Schiavo a gun. It would have been more merciful and I'm sure he'd been been only too happy to use it on her. Bastard.
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with this line buried... Schiavo, a registered nurse who works at the Pinellas County Jail, now lives with another woman and has two children with her.
Then there is this..an pro Schiavo editorial... Editorial
As sheriff of Pinellas County, Everett Rice gave Michael Schiavo a job.
As a state legislator, Rice opposed a bill that would have blocked the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
To Rice, the two acts are unrelated. But to some people who are using the Web to try to stop Terri Schiavo's death, they are just some of the evidence of "conspiracy, collusion and coverup."
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Rice said he and Judge Greer are friends, and he acknowledged making a TV ad and was on the hospice board several years ago, as an honorary member because he was sheriff.
Rice was one of eight Republicans in the state House who voted against a bill that would have prevented the withholding of food and water to incapacitated patients who did not make their intentions clear beforehand.
"I tried to vote my conscience and not necessarily do what's popular," Rice said. "I wasn't counting votes. I think the Republicans might have misread this thing."
This editorial tries to defend Everett, and even says, "How could someone think there is anything suspicious..."
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Korora--John Couey is the guy who kidnapped, molested, and murdered 9-YO Jessica Lunsford in Florida a couple weeks ago.
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It's hard to count all the lies in this piece. As CF pointed out, Terri Schiavo was not on life support, a feeding tube is no different functionally from hand-feeding a person (say, a baby) who cannot do it alone. The feeding tube is not like a heart-lung machine or dialysis or even a pace-maker: it does not replace the function of a bodily organ.
The bigger, and more telling lie, is the WaPo's characterization of Terri's advocates as "right-to-life, antiabortion and conservative religious groups -- with backing from President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress" with no mention of the disability rights groups, Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson or the atheist/agnostic groups who opposed this barbarous murder.
The pro-death forces have their own religious agenda, as espoused by media-based cults like Scientology and the so-called New Age movement. The latter, the declared faith of scumbag murder advocate Delos, is practically the state religion of the Hollywood/Madison Avenue Cultural Axis. That is what is really happening here, the death cults are an off-shoot of media culture and its commercially driven judgments of what constitutes a worthwhile life.
Damn these savages and their media shills for all time. They have killed their victim, but they have planted the seeds of their own destruction in the process.
Never forgive.
Never forget.
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The bigger, and more telling lie, is the WaPo's characterization of Terri's advocates as "right-to-life, antiabortion and conservative religious groups --
I would not be considered "pro-life", though, I consider myself a {gasp} Conservative Republican, and as most RB folks know I have been louder than anyone else on this blog in the last few week.
If you are considering a new puppy, I understand the Washington Post is very good for housebreaking...
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The death cult has fully subverted the legal system in this country; since lawyers, like their media colleagues, tend to be narcissistic, amoral, power-seeking beasts; but the possibility still exists that Greer, M. Schiavo, Delos and all the other killers can someday be held to account before a special tribunal based on the Nuremberg model.
I am quite serious. We are headed for a new dark age, or worse, if we do not fight this demonic power-grab with every means at our disposal.
One thing in our favor: The adherents of the death cult are by their very nature arrogant and therefore over-confident.
In particular, as this WaPo propaganda release demonstrates, they do not understand the deep and profoundly broad nature of the opposition. Control of the media and the legal profession is a great asset for them but they are not invincible, and their hubris will be their undoing.
Attack them at every possible point, in the legal system, in the media, in the legislatures, in every possible venue of public commentary. Turn them into the hated pariah class of American society. Publicize their links to authoritarian religious cults and their wealth and arrogance. Above all, remember this at the ballot box and fight the media/death cult candidates at every turn.
Finally, there is no reason for the political left to have a monopoly on civil disobedience. The media cult itself has enshrined this as a virtual right over the last 40 years. Its brainwashed masses of adherents recognize it as such, just ask any left-conformist college student. This is a weakness, and it should be turned against them.
Something like 50 demonstrators were arrested over the course of this ordeal for symbolically trying to take water to Terri. What if 1000 well-organized and disciplined people had tried it at the same time, for real?
What would Greer's police goon squad (accesssories to murder themselves now) have done? Open fire?
Left-conformists routinely engineer demonstrations to present the authorities with this choice of surrender or lethal force. This, too, has been promoted and enshrined by the media culture and it can now be turned against them.
The problem with using civil disobedience, such as was effective in forcing social change in the 1960s, is that: (1) the the MSM won't cover the civil disobedience in a flattering light, (2) the radical Leftists (new pseudonym is now âprogressivesâ) being confronted are willing to do damage in response, and (3) the courts and legislatures have been willing to allow and sustain civil and criminal RICO cases against the conservative leadership that promotes the civil disobedience -- effectively financially ruining those conservative leaders. I know people who have been put in jail for years over this kind of stuff. They lost houses, marriages, etc. It gets pretty harsh.
I don't disagree with what you are saying, I just think the ballot box and the legislature have to be the way to force change -- through changes in the law/amendments to constitutions, AND THE IMPEACHMENT OF ARROGANT JUDGES.
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A.C. offers a plan. Before Terri's case went to the top of the news, rumors were that the Republican senators were going wobbly on the Constitutional Option. The Republicans must fight the battle to end judicial filibusters - even if they loose. They will be punished at the ballot box if they shrink from the fight. Terri's case shines a bright light on the over reach of the judicvial branch, and the importance of appointing judges who respect life.
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agreed AC and SR - return the 3 branch gov't to 3 equal branches.
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Cingold, I respect your view and I am aware of the difficulties. As practiced by the left in recent years, media-approved civil disobedience is really no such thing. It is an assertion of power and privilege by a ruling elite, the institutional media themselves, by emphasizing the special license they grant to their adherents.
To the lefty elitist participants, it is a game, an ostentatious display of allegiance and a declaration of status, membership in a powerful and privileged group. Above all, lefty protestors know that there will be no serious consequences for their illegal actions.
As practiced many years ago by Ghandi and King, among others, civil disobedience was something else entirely. It was deadly serious and very risky. Ghandi was repeatedly imprisoned, King was arrested several times, his followers were spat upon, beaten, knocked down by fire-hoses and attacked by vicious dogs. Some were killed.
A new campaign against the legally entrenched death cult would involve similar risks.
It has similar stakes.
Indeed, to Jesse Jackson and a significant minority of other Black leaders, they are the same.
The campaign should be prosecuted with the same courage and steadfastness: if corrupt death cult judges imprison one leader, another can take his place. If New Age thugs murder a demonstrator, 10,000 should march the next day and dare the thugs to show their faces.
If the murder collaborationist authorities confiscate an activist's property, then he or she should live as Ghandi did and continue to speak out.
As for the MSM, they cannot ignore the mass arrest of thousands or the masscre of unarmed demonstrators by death cult police or media-incited mobs. They may distort it, and demonize the participants, but we have New Media to get the word out now.
I know this is asking for a lot, but it is worth it.
Civilization itself hangs in the balance.
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Barbara -Right you are MURDERED! denied her religious rights 7 amendment. They said on the
news that her hussband is receiving death threat's
via telephone from blocked call's or pay phone's across the U.S.
Andrea Jackson
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Crazy Fool- a friend just called from Boston as she told me that a bucket of shit was thrown on Mr. Schiavo home and his car***
May the blue bird of happiness lay it on him -real thick!
He is receiving death threat's from across the U.S. via telephone- blocked and pay phone call's.
Andrea
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lebensunwerten Lebens.
Life unworthy of life.
Father, forgive them, for they know exactly what they've done.
I am just so sad about this.
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the fact that Terri livedfor 13 days w/o food or water shows see was probably in a pvs. had she been in a minimally conscious state, she would have died sooner
obviously, that doesn't change the morality; however, it does show that one of Judge Greer's findings was probably true
A number of Hispanic state lawmakers are going to Cochise County on Friday to confront armed civilian volunteers from the newly formed Minuteman Project and spread the message that immigrants are good for the country.
Rep. Ben Miranda, DPhoenix, said there is a need to present some balance in what is happening in southern Arizona. The Minuteman volunteers intend to start patrolling Friday along a 40-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border and report sightings of illegal crossings to U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Miranda said all the publicity so far has been about how these volunteers are needed to keep the border safe. But, he said, immigrants also contribute to the economy and provide needed services.
"Part of being there is to make sure our message is out there," he said.
That, said Miranda, means showing up at any news conferences or events called by the patrols.
And Miranda said he intends to be very visible.
"So long as it's a daytime meeting — and there's no (Ku Klux Klan) hoods out there — I intend to get right in the middle of things," he said. "I intend to demonstrate by my actions that we will not be intimidated."
Miranda said Wednesday he didn't know yet how many other lawmakers would join him. The lawmakers will be accompanied by immigrants rights groups, who have vowed to monitor the Minuteman Project.
The lawmakers' border trip prompted Gov. Janet Napolitano on Wednesday to urge calm to p revent confrontations.
"People are entitled to exercise their First Amendment rights and entitled to assemble," she said. "That's why you can't stop the Minutemen from coming even though, from a law enforcement perspective, it's worrisome to have untrained people, potentially armed, performing what should be a law enforcement function."
The governor said those who want to keep an eye on the Minuteman Project also have the same rights to assemble.
"Everybody's just going to have to keep calm heads this weekend and over the coming weeks and we'll get through that," Napolitano said.
But the governor said she has no plans to send more Arizona Department of Public Safety officers to the area. She said if Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever "needs additional help we will make that assistance available."
A Senate panel Wednesday dealt a major setback to efforts to further restrict state-funded services to those not here legally.
The Committee on Higher Education rejected a Housepassed bill that would require students who are illegal entrants to pay the higher tuition charged by universities and community colleges for out-of-state residents.
Wednesday's 3-3 vote on HB2264 came even after proponents agreed to weaken the measure to permit in-state tuition to at least some of those who were brought across the border — albeit illegally — at least four years earlier. Rep. Chuck Gray, R-Mesa, called it "an attempt at fairness."
Wednesday's vote angered Kathy McKee.
She is the organizer of Proposition 200, approved by voters in November, which denies public benefits to illegal entrants.
Attorney General Terry Goddard concluded, though, that does not cover all state programs and subsidies.
McKee said there is no excuse to spend taxpayer dollars on higher education for those who have no legal right to be in this country — even on students who may have been brought here years ago by their parents.
"If children aren't the responsibility of their parents and their parents' decisions (to cross the border illegally) why are they the responsibility of taxpayers like me?" she asked.
"We've already given illegals — against our will — a free education K-12 because the Supreme Court says we have to," McKee pointed out. "Why do we have to subsidize them to get a higher education, too?"
Sen. Victor Soltero, D-Tucson, said he doesn't condone people crossing the border illegally.
"At the same time, the people that are here are providing a service to this country," he said. Soltero said they pay taxes and Social Security, though most will never collect.
"It really concerns me that people will enjoy the good things, the good services that immigrants provide and, on the other hand, saying that immigrants are only a drain on our country," Soltero said. "And, if you will glance at the Left Ring of our three ring circus!..."
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"...rejected a House passed bill that would require students who are illegal entrants to pay the higher tuition charged by universities and community colleges for out-of-state residents."This is absolute bulls%$t,why the hell should someone in this country illeagly pay lower tuiton fees than a legal out of state resident.They shouldn't even be allowed to enroll.
"Soltero said they pay taxes and Social Security, though most will never collect."
Agin,bulls#%t,if they were paying taxes and Social Security,then they would be documented aliens.By definition they would be legal residents.The 2 main reasons to hire illegals is (1)lower wages(thus ripping-off American workers)(2)Employers don't pay taxes,insurance or Social Security on illegal workers,saving thousand of dollars a year.That is one of the biggest reasons to hire illegals(agin ripping-off Americans)..com can I please borrow your clue bat,I have a couple of Az.asshats that need whacking.I won't break it,I promise.
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What will it take to get it through the thick skulls of people like Miranda? The problem is not immigrants, the problem is ILLEGAL immigrants. Pretty freaking simple if you ask me.
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Miranda understands perfectly well. His ilk are pushing for open borders and amnesty to get illegals in and capable of voting for them. His Raza-clan supporters disgust me and should be subject to revocation of their citizenship and deportation to their country of loyalty - Mexico
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Oh, they understand the difference, but want to actively discourage others from understanding. If they had to rely on citizens' votes, or even the (illegal) ones of legal residents, they wouldn't be elected.
"Sen. Victor Soltero, D-Tucson"
He doesn't represent My part of Tucson. Even if he did, he wouldn't represent Me.
CNSNews.com) - A black conservative Wednesday criticized Rev. Jesse Jackson for his "late" support in the Terri Schiavo case. Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND (Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny), accused Jackson of "exploiting Terri Schiavo for personal gain."
"For Jackson to insert himself in this case in the final hours of Terri's life is the height of desperation. He is using this case to get himself back in the news, just as he has done in the Michael Jackson molestation case," Peterson said in a statement.
You don't want to get between Jesse and a TV camera
"Jesse Jackson is an opportunist and has no interest in helping Terri. He is exploiting her plight to push the liberal Democrat's agenda for socialized health care," added Peterson, who pointed out that Jackson used to be pro-life then changed his stance on abortion to "gain favor with the Democratic Party."
"Until Jesse Jackson repents for condoning the culture of death and the killing of millions of black babies in the black women's womb he cannot be trusted," concluded Peterson.
Say it, brother!
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KARACHI: A District and Sessions Judge of Shikarpur, Abdul Wahab Abbasi, whom bandits had kidnapped on December 3, 2004 and released him after about two months, told the Kawish Television Network on Wednesday that bandits freed him after his family paid them Rs two million ransom. He said his family arranged the money by selling jewellery and land. The police had claimed that the bandits freed District and Sessions Judges Abdul Wahab Abbasi and Farooq Ali Channa after they pressured the bandits. The bandits had kidnapped three judges near Shikarpur.
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LUCKNOW: Twenty-five people died and six lost their eyesight after drinking home-brewed liquor in northern India in the past three days, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. Thirty-two people were in hospital and the death toll could rise after villagers from Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh state drank a toxic mix of methyl alcohol and tannery waste.
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methyl alcohol and tannery waste
a pure unadulterated pleasure hit for the taste buds
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Years ago they had a dog race across the eastern coast of Chukotka (across from western Alaska). The Alaskan teams took 1 gal cans of ban-ice (Methanol) for dog food cookers. Some local Russian chaps stole the ban-ice, drank it, went blind, and died. If the tannery waste did not get the lads from India, the methanol sure did. **gaaaaakkk**
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Plus I bet it leaves one hell of a hangover--if you live to the next morning.
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Hmmm.... Dread, urban legend has it that its the impurities (methyl) what's give you the bad uglies in the morn. So drink lots of water and have an oxygen cylinder by your bed for waking up.
President Robert Mugabe branded opposition supporters as traitors in comments broadcast repeatedly on state radio yesterday, raising fears of new political violence two days before parliamentary elections. "All those who will vote for the (Movement for Democratic Change) are traitors," the radio quoted Mugabe as saying to a ruling ZANU-PF party rally Monday at Mutoko, 140 kilometres northeast of Harare.
"You know what happens to traitors in Zim-bob-we!"
Similar comments by the president in the past have encouraged the ruling party and its youth militia to take violent action against opposition supporters and candidates. MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai did not respond to the comments during a brief speech yesterday to several thousand supporters gathered in a field at Buhera village, in his home region about 200 kilometres south of Harare. Mugabe's comments came in the wake of a call by Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo on Sunday for a "nonviolent mass popular uprising" if the ruling party wins the election by fraud.
I'd say that's pretty much a given by this point...
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Israel's ambassador to Ethiopia was in a critical condition yesterday after shooting himself in the head in an apparent suicide bid. The envoy, Doron Grossman, is "in a very bad state" and has been evacuated to Israel for treatment after being discovered seriously wounded in his apartment at Addis Ababa's Hilton Hotel when he did not turn up for work, a diplomatic source said. "He shot himself in the head in his room in the Hilton where he stays. It wasn't an assassination, we think he tried to commit suicide." Grossman, who is single and 48, took up his post in Ethiopia three years ago and was due to be sent this week to South Africa.
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Well, at least he didn't shoot himself twice. Someone's learning.
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.
Venezuela is having problems with the loyalty of its armed forces. The current government is run by a former army officer Hugo Chavez. Normally, that would not be a problem. But Chavez sees himself as another Fidel Castro. That is, the rebel Castro before he proclaimed himself a hard core communist. Chavez wants social revolution in Venezuela, but many, perhaps a majority, of Venezuelans don't want to be another Cuba. While Venezuela's oil wealth has not been distributed equally, it has created a large middle class. This includes the military. Many of the troops are nervous about Chavez, and his social programs. Even some of Chavez's military decisions have caused unease among officers and troops. For example, Chavez is now buying military equipment from Russia. This includes helicopters (nine Mi-17s and one Mi-26) for the navy. The navy considers these helicopters unsuitable for naval use. The sailors are correct, but the price is cheap, and Chavez wants to make a political point. 
KARACHI: A District and Sessions Judge of Shikarpur, Abdul Wahab Abbasi, whom bandits had kidnapped on December 3, 2004 and released him after about two months, told the Kawish Television Network on Wednesday that bandits freed him after his family paid them Rs two million ransom. He said his family arranged the money by selling jewellery and land. The police had claimed that the bandits freed District and Sessions Judges Abdul Wahab Abbasi and Farooq Ali Channa after they pressured the bandits. The bandits had kidnapped three judges near Shikarpur.
LUCKNOW: Twenty-five people died and six lost their eyesight after drinking home-brewed liquor in northern India in the past three days, a senior police officer said on Wednesday. Thirty-two people were in hospital and the death toll could rise after villagers from Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh state drank a toxic mix of methyl alcohol and tannery waste.
