A reindeer injured an elderly couple in the wilds of Finnish Lapland, in a rare attack that caused injuries needing hospital treatment, officials said Monday.
A male reindeer suddenly appeared from a forest and attacked a man who was hiking Sunday with his partner near Kittila, about 620 miles north of Helsinki. The buck butted the man to the ground and kicked him before turning on the woman who was talking to her son on a mobile phone, Kittila fire chief Jorma Ojala said. The son alerted rescue workers who arrived in helicopters and flew the couple to hospital. You're out in the wilds enjoying nature, when you hear some broad yakking on her cell phone. Yeah, I can understand his rage.
The man and woman were not named, and officials declined to give further details. We can say [giggle] no more.
A researcher at the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute said the attack came during the peak rutting season when up to 30 female reindeer may be on heat in the territory of one buck. "Every year in the rutting season, buck reindeer are very possessive about their harems," Maybe he wanted to add to it?
said Mauri Nieminen, a reindeer expert at the institute. "If a person goes into an area between the reindeer and his females, the buck can easily turn on him or her." Sounds like someone from farther south. "Keep away from my wimmin, or you'll besmirch the family's honor."
"Normally, reindeer pose no danger at all," Nieminen added. Especial the Moderate ones.
In Finland, unlike in neighboring Sweden and Norway, there are no wild reindeer. They are domesticated, but are allowed to roam the wilds of Lapland where herders seasonally track them down for branding and slaughter.
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Reindeer in the rut stink, I mean STINK to high heaven. When I was up north, a guy shot a caribou and left it. I went up there and decided to butcher it and use the meat for the dogs. I opened the abdominal cavity with my knife to start the process, and HOLY Schitskis! The musk aroma was overpowering. The dog I had with me wanted to have nothing to do with it. So we left the carcass for the foxes and ravens, who did not have the aroma hangups that we did.
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Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82. Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.
As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency Control, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of Kaos. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: "Would you believe ... ?" It became a national catchphrase. Smart was also prone to spilling things on the desk or person of his boss - the chief (actor Edward Platt). Smart's apologetic "Sorry about that, chief" also entered the American lexicon. The spy gadgets, which aped those of the Bond movies, were a popular feature, especially the pre-cell-phone telephone in a shoe.
"Get Smart" twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor.
He was born Donald James Yarmy in New York City on April 13, 1926, Tufeld said, although some sources say 1923 or 1927. The actor's father was a Hungarian Jew who ran a few small restaurants in the Bronx.
In 1941, he dropped out of school to join the Marines, lying about his age. In Guadalcanal he survived the deadly blackwater fever and was returned to the States to become a drill instructor, acquiring the clipped delivery that served him well as a comedian. A drill instructor?
Back then, it was normal for an actor to be a patriot and do his duty.
EFL: Naomi Campbell has spoken out in support of Kate Moss, who has lost three modeling contracts and is being investigated by London police on allegations that she used cocaine. "Kate Moss is my friend ... I think it's like everybody is being bad to her," the 35-year-old supermodel told a news conference Sunday in the Colombian capital where she was judging a modeling competition. "It's not the first time it has happened in the world ... it's really like a vendetta," said Campbell, who has said that she nearly self- destructed from her use of cocaine.
"I mean, what's newsworthy about a model being hooked on (snort) coke?"
Pictures published in a British tabloid appeared to show Moss using cocaine.
You mean the one with her face in the pile of white powder?
Yep, that one.
Moss, 31, issued a statement last week apologizing to "all the people I have let down." "I take full responsibility for my actions," she said. Her statement stopped short of specifying whether she had used cocaine.
"I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!"
Campbell said it was wrong to blame the modeling industry for drug abuse and eating disorders among young women. She agreed to take part in a program run by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Colombia to raise awareness about human trafficking.
And who knows more about human trafficking than the UN?
Campbell said she wanted to help in "providing a safe environment for models and preventing exploitation of human beings."
Like I said, we can't make this shit up
More than a dozen Colombian models from the Elite modeling agency recently attended a U.N. course in Bogota on how to spread the message about the risks of being lured abroad and sexually exploited.
Well, avoiding UN diplomats, aid workers and peacekeepers would be my first step
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it's really like a vendetta
No my pretty friend, a vendetta is something else entirely.
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All I want to know is, where can I get a grant to study the Sexual Exploitation of Drug Addled Supermodels?
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More than a dozen Colombian models from the Elite modeling agency recently attended a U.N. course in Bogota on how to spread the message about the risks of being lured abroad and sexually exploited.
If there's anybody who knows about being lured abroad and sexually exploiting, it's the UN.
Will the UN be handiong out the 976 number for the Elite modeling agency?
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Campbell said it was wrong to blame the modeling industry for drug abuse and eating disorders among young women.
But how else will young women get the chance to date drugged out ancient rock stars?
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Put some dried beef bones in a large plastic garbage bag. Then lie on top of it for five minues. You have no completed the sex with supermodels simulation.
The the wry-voiced comedian starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart."
His friend and former agent, Bruce Tufeld, said Adams died of a lung infection last night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He says the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health.
As the inept Agent 86 of the super-secret federal agency CONTROL, Adams captured TV viewers with his antics in combatting the evil agents of CHAOS. When his explanations failed to convince the villains or his boss, he tried another tack: "Would you believe...?" It became a national catchphrase.
Get Smart twice won the Emmy for best comedy series with three Emmys for Adams as comedy actor.
Adams married and divorced three times and had seven children.
He also served as the voice for the popular cartoon series, "Inspector Gadget." In 1980, he appeared as Maxwell Smart in a feature movie, "The Nude Bomb," about a madman whose bomb destroyed people's clothing.
Oh, the memories. The Chief, Larabee, the Cone of Silence, Hymie the robot, all the subtle jabs at LBJ, the shoe phone, the invisible wall and the laboratory with all their stupid inventions.
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What a brilliant entertainer. Don Adams rules.
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"...nothing special to had served in the military and be patriotic" - try doin' that now. with half of the LeftLooney policrats, treason-crats and wafflers labeling our warriors as baby-killers while AL SHARPTON laments how over 50% of America's young people are unable to support themselves cuz they are denied from joining the military. RIP, DON, YOU AND THE CHIEF AND GILLIGAN, etal characters and stars SHALL BE REMEMBERED AND BELOVED.
It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying 'toxic dart' guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
"No comment"
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly.
Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped.
"I heard it from a guy who's sister heard it from her hairdresser who is dating a guy who mops floors at Seaworld"
'My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,' he said. 'The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?'
"Deadly Dolphins Darted Drowned Divers, Film at 11"
Usually dolphins were controlled via signals transmitted through a neck harness. 'The question is, were these dolphins made secure before Katrina struck?' said Sheridan.
"Or did the dolphins learn to wrap tinfoil around their heads?"
The mystery surfaced when a separate group of dolphins was washed from a commercial oceanarium on the Mississippi coast during Katrina. Eight were found with the navy's help, but the dolphins were not returned until US navy scientists had examined them. Sheridan is convinced the scientists were keen to ensure the dolphins were not the navy's, understood to be kept in training ponds in a sound in Louisiana, close to Lake Pontchartrain, whose waters devastated New Orleans.
The navy launched the classified Cetacean Intelligence Mission in San Diego in 1989, where dolphins, fitted with harnesses and small electrodes planted under their skin, were taught to patrol and protect Trident submarines in harbour and stationary warships at sea. Criticism from animal rights groups ensured the use of dolphins became more secretive. But the project gained impetus after the Yemen terror attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Dolphins have also been used to detect mines near an Iraqi port.
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Looks like somebody's been checking on our "respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry". Doncha hate when that happens?
We find, however, that Sheridan has made sport of gullible reporters in the past. In 2003, he was confident that he and a team of divers he advised had located the site where English aviator Amy Johnson died, after her plane went into the sea off Kent in 1941. The Guardian carried that item too. Not surprisingly, there has been little news about Johnson's plane since the announcement.
He also appears to have been confident, back in 1998, that a group of US Navy killer dolphins had come to grief off the French Mediterranean coast when they got loose and their handlers detonated a "radio-controlled explosion of their signal collars, so that no one could find out their missions."
And I like their headline better: Dolphin assassins menace Gulf of Mexico
BTW, we discussed this yesterday, and I pointed out that there aren't any naval bases in Louisiana on the Lake Ponchatrain side of the river, as far as I can tell...
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there aren't any naval bases in Louisiana on the Lake Ponchatrain side of the river,
Heh heh. He feeds reporters a wild story that sounds like it might be true, but leaves details that, if fact checked, would show it to be totally false. He's counting on them not to check and turn out to look stupid. I bow to the master.
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He feeds reporters a wild story that sounds like it might be true, but leaves details that, if fact checked, would show it to be totally false. He's counting on them not to check and turn out to look stupid.
I dunno. That seems like setting up a feeding station in front of your hunting blind: just not sporting. Reporters, as a rule, are about as bright as the common planaria.
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like setting up a feeding station in front of your hunting blind: just not sporting
It's not like we're talking about game animals here. I look at it as chumming for carp.
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THE animal kingdom's most famous gay couple has split up. Silo and Roy, the cohabiting penguins of Central Park Zoo, are no longer an item. The pair rose to prominence six years ago when they came out with their same-sex relationship.
Exactly how did they "come out", they put an announcement in the Village Voice?
Since then, they have successfully hatched and raised an adoptive chick (after an uncertain start that involved trying to incubate a rock). They blazed a trail for six other gay penguin couples at the zoo.
But the affair ended when Scrappy, a new female penguin, moved into the neighbourhood and caught Silo's eye. "Silo and Roy stopped spending as much time together or building a nest," John Rowden, the zoo's head curator, told The New York Post. Silo promptly moved in with Scrappy, building a new nest with her. Zookeepers are at a loss to explain Silo's sudden conversion.
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Scrappy, a new female penguin, moved into the neighborhood and caught Silo's eye.
Scrappy (L) and Silo
(Gothamist Blog)
Sung to "Whatever Lola Wants"
From "Damn Yankees"
(Since is is almost playoff time)
Whatever Scrappy wants
Scrappy gets
And little bird, little Scrappy wants you
Make up your mind to end the gay life
Recline yourself, resign yourself, Roy's through
I always get what I aim for
And your birdy soul is what I came for
Whatever Scrappy wants
Scrappy gets,
Your gay life's through
Don't you know you can't win?
You're no exception to the rule,
I'm irresistible, you fool, give in!...Give in!...Give in!
Hello, Silo
It's me
He swims so far
-hold on-that's you
Aaah-haaaaaa
Poo poo pa doop
Peek-a-boo
Yoo-hoo
I always get what I aim for
And you birdy soul is what I came for
...Scrappy wants
...Scrappy gets
...You'll never win
I'm irresistible, you fool,
Give in...Give in...Give in.
RIYADH - Two Saudi men were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia on Sunday after they were convicted of killing compatriots, the interior ministry announced.
Fares bin Abdul Karim Al Anzi was found guilty of fatally shooting Turki bin Najr Al Metairi after a fight and was beheaded in Riyadh, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. Abdullah bin Saad Al Dossari was beheaded in the Muslim holy city of Mecca after he was convicted of shooting to death Abdullah bin Obaid Al Dossari following a row, the ministry said in a separate statement.
"Mom, can we go to the beheadings? Pleeeee-ase?"
The executions brought to 68 the number of beheadings announced by Saudi authorities since the beginning of the year.
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FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AP) -- An epidemic of dengue fever has killed two people in the French Caribbean island of Martinique this month, and more than 6,000 have been infected, medical authorities said Monday. Since mid-September, the rate of new cases has increased to almost 1,000 a week, said Jacques Rosine, a doctor at the Antilles-Guyane Inter-Regional Epidemiology Center in Martinique. "The epidemic is not calming down. It is gaining ground," he said. More than 60 people have been hospitalized, three of them with a severe form of the disease, which often causes internal bleeding.
"On the bright side, we've slashed prices on all our hotel rooms"
The disease -- characterized by high fever, chills, headaches, aching joints, bright red rashes and prostration -- is common in tropical areas and endemic to parts of Asia and the Caribbean. There is no vaccine and the only treatment is bed rest, fluids and fever-reducing medication.
I think the same treatment has been given to the Martinique Tourist Board
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Dengue is bad shit. Didn't it used to be restricted to the Pacific islands?
Many of my male relatives got a dose and every one ended up with a pretty good kidney stone problem at about 50...... who knows.
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Dengue are mosquito-borne diseases, from a family of viruses, is now endemic to Mexico, and trying to make its way North. It can unpredictably go from the ordinary form, that will make you sick with strange symptoms (nicknamed "breakbone fever") for up to a month; to a deadly hemorrhagic form that behaves like ebola.
Infection from one strain conveys no protection from the others. In Mexico it has been noted that people will develop the hemorrhagic form mostly with their second dengue infection. But otherwise very little is known about much of its particulars.
Noteworthy: unless doctors are familiar with, or have been notified of its symptomology, they may not consider it as a cause for illness. This is important in areas bordering, but not in, dengue notification zones.
Erotic film about Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia Timoshenko ready to hit movie theaters
Russia movie-makers finished the production of the sarcastic movie, in which they ridiculed the President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, and Ukrainian Prime Minister, Julia Timoshenko.
The new movie is called Julia. It is an erotic motion picture about an influential man and an influential woman, whose hair is braided in peasant's style. Aleksey Mitrofanov, one of the leaders of the Russian Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia, took part in writing the scenario for the film.
"They call each other Julia and Mikhail, but they do not mention their last names throughout the film. We decided not to include full names in the film to avoid scandals," Mr. Mitrofanov said.
The actor and the actress, who play the main parts in the new movie, bear a striking resemblance to Ukrainian Prime Minister Julia Timoshenko and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Julia's part is played by actress Elena Bond, who once won the Miss Moscow title, the Komsomolskaya Pravda wrote.
There is a pool scene in the film: when Mikhail and Julia enjoy themselves in the pool, Mikhail strokes Julia on the head and incidentally pulls her plait off. When the Georgian president looks at the fake hair, he sadly realizes that Ukraine has pulled his leg again.
The characters' conversation about President Bush became the main intrigue of the film. Julia tries to find out from Mikhail, what was that thing that Bush had told him during his visit to Georgia. Being afraid of bugs that could be possibly placed in the office, Mikhail tells her that he would talk about it only in a helicopter, and the next scene takes place there. In the helicopter, Julia asks Mikhail to perform oral sex on her. It turns out during the process that there was a bug on the fly of Mikhail's trousers.
Polish and Japanese promoters have already evinced interest in the new film. However, it seems that it will be State Duma deputies, who will have a chance to see the film first.
From the Beijing headquarters of MiniTruth:
China said Sunday it is imposing new regulations to control content on its news Web sites and will allow the posting of only "healthy and civilized" news. The move is part of China's ongoing efforts to police the country's 100-million Internet population. Only the United States, with 135 million users, has more.
The new rules take effect immediately and will "standardize the management of news and information" in the country, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday. Sites should only post news on current events and politics, according to the new regulations issued by the Ministry of Information Industry and China's cabinet, the State Council. The subjects that would be acceptable under those categories was not clear.
Only "healthy and civilized news and information that is beneficial to the improvement of the quality of the nation, beneficial to its economic development and conducive to social progress" will be allowed, Xinhua said. "The sites are prohibited from spreading news and information that goes against state security and public interest," it added.
While the communist government encourages Internet use for education and business, it also blocks material it deems subversive or pornographic. Online dissidents who post items critical of the government, or those expressing opinions in chatrooms, are regularly arrested and charged under vaguely worded state security laws. Earlier this month, a French media watchdog group said e-mail account information provided by Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) helped lead to the conviction and 10-year prison sentence of a Chinese journalist who had written about media restrictions in an e-mail.
As part of the wider effort to curb potential dissent, the government has also closed thousands of cybercafes â the main entry to the Web for many Chinese unable to afford a computer at home. Authorities in Shanghai have installed surveillance cameras and begun requiring visitors to Internet cafes to register with their official identity cards. The government also recently threatened to shut down unregistered Web sites and blogs, the online diaries in which users post their thoughts for others to read. Mr. Hu, tear down this firewall!
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Please move to page 3 China.
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Only heathy and civilized news on Page 3
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Is news about AIDS-infected blood or avian flu healthy?
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WARSAW, Poland - Voters in Poland's parliamentary elections shunned the nation's scandal-prone government of ex-communists to embrace two center-right parties that have promised tax cuts and clean government, partial results showed Monday. The conservative Law and Justice Party had nearly 27 percent of vote in Sunday's parliamentary election with 60 percent of ballots counted. The free-market Civic Platform had 24.
The two parties, made up of former activists in the Solidarity movement, say they will form a coalition enabling them to claim more than 270 seats in parliament's 460-member lower house.
The returns showed around 11 percent support for the governing Democratic Left Alliance, a dramatic fall from the 41 percent that swept them to power four years ago. The populist Self-Defense Party, with just over 12 percent of votes, was set to become the third largest force in parliament. Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, 56, said he had a mandate to become prime minister. He said that his party had agreed with Civic Platform that the job would be filled by the largest party.
As in Germany's election a week ago, Polish voters appeared to balk at the prospect of drastic cuts to welfare benefits by giving the strongest backing to Law and Justice, a party that blends the idea of free markets with concern for social equality. It opposes Civic Platform's calls for a flat income tax of 15 percent. But the campaign failed to captivate a largely apathetic electorate, with turnout â at just 39 percent â the lowest for a parliamentary election in post-communist Poland.
Law and Justice favors cutting income tax, but would keep high earners paying a greater portion of their income, and enact tax breaks for large families. It has vowed to tackle Polish unemployment, which stands at 17.8 percent despite strong growth. The party also favors the death penalty â prohibited by Poland's EU membership â and promises to crack down on corruption and purge ex-communists from top positions in government.
The new government also must decide what to do with Poland's deployment of 1,500 troops in Iraq. They are scheduled to come home after the current troop rotation expires Dec. 31; the new leading parties have said they will stick to that unless a new agreement is reached with the United States to keep them longer. The two parties were to hold talks on ministerial positions later this week.
Kaczynski indicated in an interview published Monday that he envisions Jan Rokita, a leader of Civic Platform, as deputy prime minister and maybe as foreign minister too. One reservation, however, may be that Rokita's English is not good enough for that post. "I know Rokita is learning this language intensively, but a foreign minister should really be very proficient in it," Kaczynski said in an interview with the daily Rzeszpospolita. "I heard he was making quick progress. Of course, if he prefers a different ministry, I'm open to debate."
Vote tallies were likely to change somewhat, as Warsaw, with some 1.5 million residents, was lagging behind in the count, said the head of the elections commission, Ferdynand Rymarz. Formation of a government is certain to be complicated by the fact that Kaczynski's identical twin brother, Lech, is running in next month's presidential election.
To avoid having lookalike leaders occupy the county's two top political positions, Jaroslaw Kaczynski repeated his promise that he would not take the prime minister's post if his brother, Warsaw's mayor, wins his race. The prime minister wields most executive powers. The president can veto and suggest legislation, represents Poland abroad, and is commander of the armed forces.
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Poland, Ukrane, Hungry are the new hope and potential power centers of Europe. Keep the socialism down and the free trade up and they will beat out the rest of europe on the economic stage.
Boring, the belgians? Well, perhaps, but they do have excellent beer and good chocolate, Jacques Brel was a great singer, and I love Jean Ray's novels.
Matthew Campbell, Paris
THE French like to tell rude jokes about Belgians, but this time the laugh is on them. To escape their punitive tax regime, the Gallic elite are fleeing to the flat country mocked in France for its dismal weather and enjoyment of chips.
âBoring Brusselsâ is the bolthole of choice for French tax exiles, and Belgium is laughing all the way to the bank. Having flown the draconian French tax coop, well-endowed industrialists are helping to balance Belgian books with their taxes.
âIt means less money for the French government,â said Claude Taittinger of the champagne-making family, who blamed a wealth tax introduced in 1981 by François Mitterrand, the late Socialist president, for forcing his family to sell out to an American hotel chain.
For members of the champagne clan who were also paying the âsolidarity tax on wealthâ, which targets those with assets above £500,000 regardless of earnings, it meant an annual tax bill greater than their income. âSome members of the family had to sell shares in the company each year just to pay their tax bills,â said Claude Taittinger. âIt was unbearable.â
Some of the family moved to Switzerland and Britain. Jean Taittinger, who like Claude is a son of Pierre Taittinger, the companyâs founder, went with his family to Belgium.
Jokes aside â French humour has traditionally cast the Belgians in the role reserved by snobby Britons for the Irish â Belgium has the advantage of speaking French and being only 85 minutes from Paris by train; and although its tax rate of 53.5% on income above £26,200 is higher than Britainâs, it does not impose a wealth tax.
âAny Frenchman who wants to make money goes to Britain or America these days,â said Claude. âIn France, it is virtually impossible to build up a fortune any more.â
This flight of the most successful does not bode well for France, whose government is accused of concealing the impact of emigration by putting the amount of capital leaving the country at just £1.3 billion a year, when unofficial estimates put it closer to £55 billion.
To lure back some of the money, Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, has pledged tax reform and a top rate of 60%. But he has dismissed the idea of ditching the wealth tax. As the extremely wealthy leave at the rate of about one a day, however, it is left to others to foot the bill.
Thanks to rising property prices, a Breton farmer with an attractive holding on the coast or a middle-class Parisian family with a two-bedroom flat and no mortgage are as vulnerable to the wealth tax as a Taittinger.
Anne-Marie, Claudeâs niece, one of the most recent victims seeking refuge in Brussels, celebrated her acquisition of Belgian nationality with a champagne reception. If all the tax exiles were to do likewise, life for the French community there would be an endless party.
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what else can the frogs do to commit suicide slowly?
Become enemies of Americans.
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Hmm, that's "quickly."
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Belgian jokes have fallen out of fashion lately (or perhaps it is because I no longer listen French MSM) and most of them were definitely not funny, except for this one:
"How do you sink a Belgian submarine? You knock at the door"
The Belgians are far too busy manufacturing racist jokes between Flemish and Wallonians for retaliating but they came with this one: "How do you kill a French? Shoot above the head, in his complex of superiority"
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âAny Frenchman who wants to make money goes to Britain or America these days,â said Claude. âIn France, it is virtually impossible to build up a fortune any more.â
And the Dims still want to raise taxes in this country. Amazing!
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I may be misreading the article, but it sounded like the tax was, in some cases, in excess of 100% of income, since there were people who supposedly were liquidating principal to keep up on their "wealth taxes".
For some reason, I thought Charles Aznavour was dead. Is there a French equivalent of the old game "Dead or Canadian"?
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I believe they treat capital gains as current income. Thus if your house goes up in value, you must pay tax on the increase -- and if you can't come up with the cash, you might have to sell that house to pay the tax.
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You're reading it right Mitch, wealth taxes just tally up your net worth and take a percentage of that every year. For those with high net worths relative to their incomes that can force annual liquidations to meet tax obligations.
Sadly such things aren't completely foreign to us here in the US. E.g., the state where my parents live still authorizes the collection of an "intangibles tax" whereby one's non-real property assets are valued annually and a percentage of the value is collected as tax.
Naturally they're not called liberal peace activists.
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. --Four peace activists who spilled human blood on an American flag to protest the war in Iraq were convicted Monday of damaging governmental property, but escaped the most serious charge against them. Too bad...
The four members of Catholic Worker, a social justice organization, were acquitted of conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States, said group spokesman Tarik Abdelazim. They also were convicted of entering a military recruiting station for unlawful purposes. Looks like they'll get some justice now!
The defendants -- Daniel Burns, 45; Peter DeMott, 58; and sisters Teresa Grady, 39; and Clare Grady, 46 -- splattered their blood on the windows and walls, posters, pictures and an American flag at an Army and Marine Corps recruiting station near Ithaca, about 65 miles south of Syracuse. Real class acts...
The Ithaca residents were arrested March 17, 2003. Dubbed "the St. Patrick's Four," the group said that under international law they were not guilty of a crime, and compared their actions to those of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Susan B. Anthony. Talk about an overinflated sense of self worth!
"That blood was already on the flag," Clare Grady testified. "We just made it visible." I'm not Perry Mason, but I don't see that being a statement my lawyer would advise me to make...
A previous trial in Tompkins County Court ended when the jury deadlocked. The U.S. District Court jury deliberated about eight hours over two days. Nice knowing y'all...
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Most of his work seems to be in promoting contrived made for the media semi violent/destructive protest thingies combined with a little infantile jabs at the rest of society. Real great stuff which is surely having a positive impact on society. Phukwits.
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Any group that uses "Worker" in it's title pretty much tells you where they stand. Far-left, anti-war, anti-globalization, etc. A quick read on their group shows them to be a socialist catholic group started in the thirties.
"In The Long Loneliness, Dorothy spelled out the way in which distributism was at the heart of the Catholic Worker program: "As Peter pointed out, ours was a long-range program, looking for ownership by the workers of the means of production, the abolition of the assembly line, decentralized factories, the restoration of crafts and ownership of property.This meant, of course, an accent on the agrarian and rural aspects of oureconomy and a changing emphasis from the city to the land"
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Don't forget the phrase "social justice", Steve. That one sets of alarm bells in my mind.
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No offense to Catholic RBers, but what is it about Catholic "peace activists" and blood? Remember the Berrigan brothers?
Oh yes. I was in Catholic grade school during the 60's. These nuts were held up as saints and peace workers at the time. Guess the nuns will be sad that their indoctrination obviously failed on me. Or as thay might say "I failed them" I divested myself of that guilt long ago..
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revolutionary theology was big in the 60's and led many in RC to actively support communist insurgencies in South and Central America. More Communist than Catholic
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Growing Up Gotti's gotta suck...
NEW YORK --A federal judge agreed Monday to free the son of late mob boss John Gotti on $7 million bond pending any retrial on racketeering charges. Chump change for the son of a mob boss.
Under bail conditions approved by U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, John A. "Junior" Gotti will be released but remain under house arrest in his own home on Long Island. "Martha, may I borrow that cute ankle bracelet of yours?"
Gotti, 41, remained in custody while paperwork was being finalized. His lawyers said he could be home as early as Tuesday.
The judge granted the bail request, secured by property that includes his sister's home, despite warnings by prosecutors that Gotti could try to tamper with witnesses if set free. Could? It's a freakin' mob tradition!
Scheindlin predicted the scion of the Gambino organized crime family -- who has been jailed since 1999 -- would never take the risk. Judge, would you like to predict tonight's Chiefs / Broncos game for me?
"It strikes me that nobody is that stupid," the judge said. From what I hear, Junior is that stupid.
Last week, a jury failed to reach a verdict on racketeering charges against Gotti, who was accused in an alleged plot to kidnap Curtis Sliwa, a WABC-AM host and founder of the Guardian Angels crime-fighting group, in retaliation for his on-air rants against the senior Gotti. More crushing of dissent in Bush's AmeriKKKa. I wonder how many jurors were 'reached'?
Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek a second trial for Gotti, who faced a sentence of up to 30 years in prison if convicted. Sounds like if he keeps his nose clean, he'll walk. I don't know if the feds want to waste anymore $$ chasing Jr; I'd just wait for him to screw up again.
EFL
I hear that John Kerry loyalists are kicking themselves for cooperating last year with filmmaker Steve Rosenbaum on "Inside the Bubble," a potentially devastating behind-the-scenes look at the Massachusetts senator's failed presidential campaign. Popcorn request?
I'm also told that Hillary Clinton partisans are licking their chops to see the film, which "could end up being the silver bullet that kills Kerry's presidential chances for 2008," says a Lowdown spy.
It features, among other not-ready-for-prime-time moments, Clinton scowling and rolling her eyes over an apparent Kerry gaffe during a presidential debate; Kerry pretending to interview himself and babbling in Italian while waiting for a real interview to begin; Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) cursing at reporters during a campaign stop, and Kerry message guru Robert Shrum confidently declaring a few days before the 2004 election: "Zogby [a prominent pollster] just announced who's gonna win. Us!" Whoops!
NEW ORLEANS â After five days managing near riots, medical horrors and unspeakable living conditions inside the Superdome, Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron prepared to hand over the dead to representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Following days of internationally reported murders, rapes and gang violence inside the stadium, the doctor from FEMA â Beron doesn't remember his name â came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.
"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalled the doctor saying. The real total? Six, Beron said. Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron, who personally oversaw the handoff of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop melting bags of ice.
State health department officials in charge of body recovery put the official death count at the Dome at 10, but Beron said the other four bodies were found in the street near the Dome, not inside it. Both sources said no one had been murdered inside the stadium. At the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, just four bodies have been recovered, despite reports of heaps of dead piled inside the building. Only one of the dead appeared to have been murdered, said health and law-enforcement officials.
That the nation's frontline emergency-management officials believed the body count would resemble that of a bloody battle in a war is but one of scores of examples of myths about the Dome and the Convention Center treated as fact by evacuees, the news media and even some of the city's top officials, including the mayor and police superintendent.
The vast majority of reported atrocities committed by evacuees â mass murders, rapes and beatings â have turned out to be false, or at least unsupported by any evidence, according to key military, law-enforcement, medical and civilian officials in positions to know.
"I think 99 percent of it is [expletive]," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who played a key role in security and humanitarian work inside the Dome. "Don't get me wrong â bad things happened. But I didn't see any killing and raping and cutting of throats or anything ... 99 percent of the people in the Dome were very well-behaved."
Dr. Louis Cataldie, the state Health and Human Services Department administrator overseeing the body-recovery operation, said his teams were inundated with false reports. Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan said authorities have only confirmed four murders in the entire city in the aftermath of Katrina â making it a typical week in a city that anticipated more than 200 homicides this year.
"I had the impression that at least 40 or 50 murders had occurred at the two sites," he said. "It's unfortunate we saw these kinds of stories saying crime had taken place on a massive scale when that wasn't the case. And they [national media outlets] have done nothing to follow up on any of these cases; they just accepted what people [on the street] told them. ... It's not consistent with the highest standards of journalism."
As floodwaters forced tens of thousands of evacuees into the Dome and Convention Center, news of unspeakable acts poured out of the nation's media: People firing at helicopters trying to save them; women, children and even babies raped with abandon; people murdered for food and water; a 7-year-old raped and killed at the Convention Center.
Police, according to their chief, Eddie Compass, found themselves in multiple shootouts inside both shelters, and were forced to race toward muzzle flashes through the dark to disarm the criminals; snipers fired at doctors and soldiers from downtown high-rises.
In interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Compass reported rapes of "babies," and Mayor Ray Nagin spoke of "hundreds of armed gang members killing and raping people" inside the Dome. Other unidentified evacuees told of children stepping over so many bodies "we couldn't count." The picture that emerged was one of the impoverished, overwhelmingly African-American masses of flood victims resorting to utter depravity, randomly attacking each other, as well as the police trying to protect them and the rescue workers trying to save them. The mayor told Winfrey the crowd has descended to an "almost animalistic state."
Four weeks after the storm, few of the widely reported atrocities have been backed with evidence. The piles of murdered bodies never materialized, and soldiers, police officers and rescue personnel on the front lines assert that, while anarchy reigned at times and people suffered indignities, most of the worst crimes reported at the time never happened. "The information I had at the time, I thought it was credible," Compass said, admitting his earlier statements were false. Asked the source of the information, Compass said he didn't remember.
Nagin frankly acknowledged he doesn't know the extent of the mayhem that occurred inside the Superdome and the Convention Center â and may never. "I'm having a hard time getting a good body count," he said.
Compass conceded that rumor had overtaken, and often crippled, authorities' response to reported lawlessness, sending badly needed resources to situations that turned out not to exist.
Military, law-enforcement and medical workers agree that the flood of evacuees â about 30,000 at the Dome and an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 at the Convention Center â overwhelmed their security personnel. The 400 to 500 soldiers in the Dome could have been easily overrun by increasingly agitated crowds in the Dome, but that never happened, said Col. James Knotts, a midlevel commander there. While the Convention Center saw plenty of mischief, including massive looting and isolated gunfire, and many inside cowered in fear, the hordes of evacuees for the most part did not resort to violence.
"Everything was embellished, everything was exaggerated," said Deputy Police Superintendent Warren Riley. "If one guy said he saw six bodies, then another guy the same six, and another guy saw them â then that became 18." Inside the Superdome, where National Guardsmen performed rigorous security checks before allowing anyone inside, only one shooting has been verified â and even that shooting, injuring Louisiana Guardsman Chris Watt of the 527th Engineer Battalion, has been widely misreported, said Maj. David Baldwin, who led the team of soldiers who arrested the alleged assailant.
Watt had indeed been attacked inside one of the Dome's locker rooms, where he entered with another soldier. In the darkness, as they walked through about six inches of water, Watt's attacker hit him with a metal rod, a piece of a cot. But the bullet that penetrated Watt's leg came from his own gun â he accidentally shot himself during the commotion. The attacker was sent to jail, Baldwin said.
Inside the Convention Center, Jimmie Fore, vice president of the state authority that runs the center, stayed in the building with a core group of 35 employees until Thursday. He said thugs hot-wired 75 forklifts and electric carts and looted food and booze, but he said he never saw any violent crimes committed, nor did any of his employees. Some, however, did report seeing armed men roaming the building, and Fore said he heard gunshots in the distance on about six occasions.
Rumors of rampant violence at the Convention Center prompted Louisiana National Guard Col. Jacques Thibodeaux to put together a 1,000-man force of soldiers and police in full battle gear to secure the center around noon on Friday. It took only 20 minutes to take control, and soldiers met no resistance, Thibodeaux said. They found no evidence, witnesses or victims of any murders, rapes or beatings, Thibodeaux said.
One widely circulated story, told to The Times-Picayune by a slew of evacuees and two Arkansas National Guardsman, held that "30 or 40 bodies" were stored in a Convention Center freezer. But a formal Arkansas Guard review of the matter later found that no soldier had actually seen the corpses, and that the information came from rumors in the food line for military, police and rescue workers in front of Harrah's Casino, said Col. John Edwards of the Arkansas National Guard, who conducted the review.
Reports of dozens of rapes at both facilities â many allegedly involving small children â may forever remain a question mark. Rape is a notoriously underreported crime under ideal circumstances, and tracking down evidence at this point, with evacuees spread all over the country, will be nearly impossible. The same goes for reports of armed robberies at both sites. While numerous people told The Times-Picayune that they had witnessed rapes, in particular the rape of two young girls in the Superdome ladies' room and the killing of one of them, police and military officials say they know nothing of such an incident.
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Now we can't let facts get in the way of perception can we? I mean all this has to be blamed on Bush and the Neocons. The MSM is creeping ever so closely to the old Pravda and current KCNA model of reporting: 99% heresay and 1% fact.
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There is no doubt that the situations in the Super Dome and the Convention Center were not pleasant. But I doubt that even if there had been adequate supplies stockpiled by the City, Parish or State governments it would of been a pleasant place to be. But as bad as Katrina was it pales in comparision to a simple heat wave in dare I say France
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Its long past the 'screaming fire in a croweded theater' moment. Its time for Congressional hearings, not to abridge free speech, but to protect its integrity which appearently is something the commercial distributers are not concerned with. Its like 'debasing' the currancy. Keep on sneaking base metal in for the coin's original gold or silver till it no longer had value. The same goes with commerical entertainment rags and broadcast which represent their product as something it is not. Interesting how movies and televison programs always insert that little disclosure that 'while the events portrayed in the program are based upon real events, the dialogue and characters are fictional.' Now why do they do that? Surely the system can accommodate a similar requirement at the beginning of any 'entertainment' programming or publication. Those who do not insert said statement must be able to uphold any challenge of 'truth' in the execution of their product. Remember the free press right was established in colonial America by the case of the Royal Governor of New York versus Peter Zenger which established TRUTH as a defense.
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How should the left react when confronted with facts that don't support their narrative?
1. Say the right-wing spin-machine is continuing to play the âBlame-gameâ while now callously down playing the atrocities.
2. Say the racist media was all along attempting to portray the poor masses as less then human.
3. Claim the reports were impossible to document at the time and because the victims are now spread out the truth may never be completely verified.
4. Spin this as another âsilver-liningâ story similar to the reaction when confronted with the lower then speculated 10K body count.
5. Insist on an âindependentâ dog-n-pony show as the only way to completely find the truth and keep the grand standing circus alive.
6. Refuse to accept the facts and continue to exploit this tragedy as a way to push ahead a more Socialist agenda.
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I didn't see all the rape reports, but I had friends in the Super Dome who said that they were scared for their lives from hoodlum gangs that were terrorizing everyone.
Whites in particular were targeted by many of these groups, and my friends took their chances with the water rather than stay in the hellhole that the superdome became. That's fact, not conjecture.
However, while they said the terror from these gangs was ever present they didn't give any super-extreme reports like the ones I read in the above article.
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Ship - Salt Lake City is way too far inland for a hurricane, but the city did get hit by a large, particularly nasty tornado a couple of years ago.
And yes, your conjecture is just about right. :-D
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As I recall, good Mormon housewives are supposed to keep a year's supplies of staples on hand at all times (flour, salt, sugar, not coffee, etc). If there actually are troubled times, the Saints may well become the majority of the U.S. population as a result.
A basketball-loving New York historian is set to inherit the mantle of Simon Wiesenthal, who died last week, as the world's leading Nazi-hunter.
Efraim Zuroff is putting cash bounties on the heads of fugitives accused of war crimes in an attempt to bring them rapidly to justice. The founder of the Jerusalem branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, and a close friend of the man after whom it was named, Mr Zuroff is the brains behind "Operation Last Chance", a final attempt to flush out Nazi war criminals before they die or are too old or infirm to stand trial.
"I like to think of myself as Simon's successor," Mr Zuroff told The Independent on Sunday. "I like to think that's what he would have wanted."
The pair met in 1978 in Los Angeles at the premiere of the Wiesenthal-inspired film The Boys From Brazil. "I was just so struck by him," said Mr Zuroff. "He was this lonely fighter for justice, with incredible wit and perseverance in his crusade. It was a surreal, amazing encounter."
The meeting prompted Mr Zuroff, 57, to ditch his academic career and become a full-time Nazi hunter. His approach is radically different to that adopted by Wiesenthal, who died in Vienna aged 96, but Mr Zuroff sees it as the most effective way of continuing his legacy.
Operating on a shoestring in a cramped Vienna office, Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, tracked down more than 1,100 fugitive Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann, who was responsible for the death of millions of Jews. Wiesenthal kept track of sightings of former Nazis by sticking drawing pins in a map hung above his desk, and relied on a network of informants and personal contacts.
But with time running out, Mr Zuroff has decided to throw money at the problem. Since many of Germany's high-profile cases have been solved, his attention is on eastern Europe and the Baltic states, where many locals collaborated with the Nazis, believing it would bring them independence. Aided by a Miami-based Jewish charitable foundation, Mr Zuroff descends on east European capitals, holds high-profile press conferences, buys advertising space in newspapers and on billboards, sets up local hotlines and offers rewards of around £100,000 for tips that lead to prosecution.
The initiative, which Mr Zuroff says is working "extremely well", has spread to nine countries, including Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Romania, and was extended to Germany last year. It has thrown up the names of 380 suspects, some 79 of whom are under investigation by local prosecutors.
"The truth is we have maybe five or six years left to get these former Nazis before they're all dead," admitted Mr Zuroff. "That's why I find the term 'truth warrior' more accurate than Nazi hunter." When there are no more Nazis left to hunt, Mr Zuroff says he will turn his efforts to rebutting historical revisionism and Holocaust denial.
Despite Mr Zuroff's work, the 50-year-long crusade of Simon Wiesenthal, who survived 12 concentration camps and Nazi prisons, and lost 89 members of his family, will remain unequalled.
AT LARGE: THE TWO MAIN TARGETS
* Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man. Brunner is estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of 130,000 Jews. He was last seen on a street in Damascus in 1992, and was believed to be living in a guarded apartment in the Syrian capital. He would now be aged 92.
* Aribert Heim, 91, "the butcher of Mauthausen". A former concentration camp doctor who injected petrol into Jewish prisoners and amputated body parts without painkillers, he is believed to live among the many German pensioners on the Costa Blanca in Spain. There is a £95,000 bounty on his head.
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Mossad mails Brunner exploding packages every once in a while. He lost an eye to one a while back.
Shame it didn't kill him.
Now I know it's true... Singer says for U.S. 'not to be part of the Kyoto treaty is unforgivable' This wouldn't be happening under President's Gore or Kerry...
Despite statements to the contrary from the director of the National Hurricane Center, Barbra Streisand is declaring a "global warming emergency." "We are in a global warming emergency state and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense," the singer, actress and liberal activist told Diane Sawyer of ABC News. "There could be more droughts, dust bowls. You know, it's amazing to hear these facts, I mean, the Andes have no ice caps on the mountains in winter. The glaciers are melting. I mean, for the United States not to be part of the Kyoto treaty is unforgivable," Streisand, an oceanside resident of Malibu, Calif., added. She obviously knows nothing about the Soviet/Yakusa Woodpecker Grid or Halliburton's Earthquake/Tsunami Division.
"Thank goodness the 'experts' are finally weighing in on this issue. I feel much better now," sarcastically writes one Internet messageboard poster in reaction to Streisand's remarks. Wasn't me.
Streisand's comments go against the belief of meteorology expert Max Mayfield, head of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes," Mayfield told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Subcommittee on Disaster Prevention and Prediction. "The current period of heightened activity could last another 10 to 20 years or more. This increased activity is due to natural cycles of hurricane activity, driven by the Atlantic Ocean itself along with the atmosphere above it." Hurricane forecaster William Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, also said the recent onslaught of storms "is very much natural." But what do they know? Have they ever won an Oscar? A Grammy? Graduated from a New York City High School?
The theory of global warming has made recent headlines in connection with the recent hurricanes, as some have tried to make the connection between storm intensity and alleged climate change. Earlier this summer, a study by Swiss and German scientists suggested any heat-up on Earth was being caused not by and man-made activity, but by the sun itself. Global Warming caused by the sun? That can't be right.
"The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures," said Dr. Sami Solanki, director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany. "The sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently, in the last 100 to 150 years." Keep up the good work, Babs. We're counting on you.
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Since the Kyoto Accord taxes Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and since as you exhale you ARE a "Carbon Dioxide Emitter" impose a tax on Streisand's exhalations.
In other words, charge her with violating the Kyoto Accords every time she opens her mouth and exhales. A penny a breath should be fair.
(No charge for inhaling, just don't breathe out)
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Redneck Jim---That was the key to ending pollution with the Nonbreather Campaign in Pogo comic strip in the sixties, heh.
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"We are in a global warming emergency state and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense," the singer, actress and liberal activist told Diane Sawyer of ABC News.
What ABC left out: "AWK!!! Babsy wants a cracker! AWK!!"
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I for one am really tired of having Babs inflicted upon me with her drama queen sense of self-importance. On this issue alone one could, I am quite sure, gently beat her about the skull with the fact that she alone consumes more than enough and is therefore a large part of the problem she bemoans. I would be lost on her I'm sure. All the same, there should be no free ride for celebrity activist ilk in the media. Even if the Q and A gutting was only an exercise the record needs to be made. MSM can't though since she is part of the family so to speak and certain forms of domestic warfare are not publically aired by the MSM.
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Years ago, a neighbor boy who was retarded, perhaps six years old but still in diapers, would occasionally hop down the sidewalk, with one thumb in mouth and the other hand down his diapers, clutching himself, while shouting "Emergency! Emergency!" over and over again.
Why Barbara Streisand reminds me of him, I have no idea.
Zimbabwean government supporters who are trying to force remaining white farmers off their land have seized five more white-owned farms. Armed agents of the secret service, militia and police seized two farms in eastern Nyazura and three in Chipinge, farming officials said. Two farmers were taken to hospital after beatings. About 500 idjit white farmers remain, from the 4,500 in 2000.
Last week, the justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, said that all farm title deeds would be cancelled and that white farmers must seek compensation from Britain, the former colonial ruler.
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It's been, what, over 30 years since Britain counted Zimbabwe as a colony?
Much easier to blame them, though, than admit Mugabe's following in the footsteps of Pol Pot.
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I find it hard to believe any white farmers are foolish enough to still be there.
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Simple answer, set up a "Minute Man" system so any farmer who has the "Militia" show up on his farm has about 100-200 heavily armed "Supporters" arrive shortly.
But the "Supporters MUST be prepared to kill ALL the "Militia present or it's just a wasted exercise.
Show up, do nothing, and they're in worse shape than before.
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Last week, the justice minister, Patrick Chinamasa, said that all farm title deeds would be cancelled and that white farmers must seek compensation from Britain, the former colonial ruler.
And, Mr. Chinamasa continued, all white residents of Zimbwabwe must wear their underwear on the outside of their pants. We must see all that is going on....
Paraphrased from, "Bananas", the 1971 Woody Allen movie that made fun of Castro...
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Thanks Bob. Less competition for my crop sellin if you ever gets a whitey over here to plant somes for me. Can I at least go over and rip out all the pipe to sell to the junkman like I did when you first gimme my place?
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#4, Pappy, and
#9, Shipman, that would be the Republic of Enkeldoorn.
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.
RIYADH - Two Saudi men were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia on Sunday after they were convicted of killing compatriots, the interior ministry announced.
FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AP) -- An epidemic of dengue fever has killed two people in the French Caribbean island of Martinique this month, and more than 6,000 have been infected, medical authorities said Monday. Since mid-September, the rate of new cases has increased to almost 1,000 a week, said Jacques Rosine, a doctor at the Antilles-Guyane Inter-Regional Epidemiology Center in Martinique. "The epidemic is not calming down. It is gaining ground," he said. More than 60 people have been hospitalized, three of them with a severe form of the disease, which often causes internal bleeding. 
